Sentences with phrase «given a turn at»

Jane Krakowski and Ana Gasteyer each are given a turn at stealing the spotlight with barn - burning musical numbers, while Fred Armisen, Ken Jeong, and David Alan Grier each make the most of comedic cameos.

Not exact matches

That's why I turned to my friend Michael Port when I was preparing for a big speech I gave this summer at World Domination Summit.

Put another way, if the government gives Canada Post the tools it needs to clean up its balance sheet and make a serious run at new markets, this Crown corporation may turn out to be an attractive buy a few years hence.

then if nothing on your ad page attracts the client within milliseconds, they turn the page again and you are done and over with, ready to be fish - wrapping paper, while if there are other ads on the page, or some article text, it gives the reader a reason to stop at that page, and then your ad has a higher visibility and ability to intrigue the customer, giving it several times the mental real estate and visibility than an ad costing thrice as much.

He gave the example of California passing a law allowing one to make a right - turn at a red light after stopping first.

It seems unlikely that, given those figures, any endeavor could turn a profit, but the park just might do it, at least as long as it operates without competition.

But on reading editor - at - large Kimberly Weisul's moving profiles of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans turned entrepreneur, it's hard to escape the sense that they gave more than they got.

While munching on the epitome of comfort food (a tantalizing Mac»N' Cheeseburger) at Grub Burger Bar, Khorramian and Graf give us their three tips on what to do when an enterprise goes south, and how you can turn your vision into a reality.

However this turns out, at least you know that you gave saving your friendship with this person your best shot.

At Ultimate, the bottom line is about making sure the employees (and their families) are taken care of, which in turn gives us the confidence and freedom to take good care of our customers.»

Score's tied at 10 and he goes right to the bench, stands up on the bench, and just lets the Buckeyes fans behind him that were giving to Baker, he turns at them and says, «You like that one?

«The biggest turn - off is if someone says they are «best - of - breed» or something similar in their given profession,» says Monica Roy, recruiting manager at a Seattle - based marketing and tech consultancy POP.

The devices, which at first gave Barnes & Noble a horse in the e-book race, have turned out to be an albatross for the company, with losses of almost $ 70 million in the first nine months of the fiscal year, on sales of only $ 211 million.

Ideas to make your company more friendly to a broader range of talent can appear «radical» at first, but given a little thought, they turn out to be just good sense.

EASTWOOD: So I go in and it turns out he's in charge of production there so they cast... The next day after that the very next day I went, I was testing at a studio, standing and they gave me a page of dialogue, an absolute page, no other actor there and I had to run in and start talking to the camera.

So long as we're aware that social media doesn't turn into long - term happiness, we'll always withdraw from it — at least temporarily — to do things that will give us those long - term rewards.

«The apparent shift in her position could mark an important turning point given her status as one of the most prominent doves on the Committee,» Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said in a note.

«We are at the right place and I feel good about our ability to turn Bombardier around given these actions.»

It seemed so counterproductive to let everyone loose to do whatever they wanted, but I wasn't thinking about how my own startup team would never be able to make progress fast enough if I or my co-founder had to give orders and approval at every turn.

The move also comes as a number of retailers stake a claim in the growing «smart home» industry which centers on tech that does things like let people turn off the air conditioning remotely: Best Buy (bby) recently announced it was giving more floor space at 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo as well as Google Home.

If you give your employees significant responsibilities, you will be surprised at what they will achieve — and in turn, you'll win their loyalty and commitment.

Focusing on sitewide conversion design, instead of obsessing over tiny elements on individual landing pages, gives you better odds at turning strangers into leads, and leads into satisfied customers.

After that I will turn it over to Adam, who will give us a more detailed look at the numbers and forward guidance.

You will get 75 % of the monthly benefit if you elected Social Security at age 62 given you will be getting benefits for an additional 48 months before turning 66.

But given the stock market's recent erratic behavior and concerns about the impact a trade war could have on the economy, you may at least want to set aside some time to see where your retirement plans stand and how well they might hold up if the prospects for the market and the economy turn south.

A few months after this particular conference I was back in Sydney to speak at another conference, and after I spoke, Gerard Minack, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley Australia, gave his own presentation on the world economy and, more specifically, on the slow - turning battleship of expansion in the production of hard commodities.

For more than 30 years, giving your money to Bill Miller at Legg Mason was one of the most reliable ways to turn a profit.

... The showdown in Arizona has, at minimum, given Arpaio one more turn in the national spotlight.»

Infinit Finance and Accounting is at the forefront of providing new answers to your complicated needs, and its experience with accounts receivable outsourcing gives it valuable insights that can provide novel solutions which in turn give stellar results.

Earnings / Macro Pulse: But if you look at a couple of key indicators we track: the «nominal surprise index» (this tracks a combination of the Citi US inflation surprise index and the economic surprise index - giving a view on how the inflation and general economic data is turning out vs expectations), and the «earnings revisions indicator» (this combines earnings revisions ratio and the rate of change in forward earnings).

Saving $ 1,000 for emergencies, at least to start, can give you a cushion so you don't have to turn to credit cards or loans right away if something unexpected comes up.

This will also give you added equity, at least until the housing market takes a downward turn.

Najib is grappling with a multi-billion-dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and popular anger over rising living costs, which have given momentum to the challenge from his 92 - year - old mentor - turned - foe, Mahathir.

The Ritz - Carlton Rewards ® Credit Card gives its users plenty of opportunities to earn rewards points, which can be turned into anything from stays at their properties, or room upgrades.

Drawing your levels in this manner gives you a better reference point to look for signals from since you are getting closer to the mean or average turning point price in the market, so it's basically a higher - probability level than a level that's further out but exactly at a bar high or low.

Telegram's move into crypto could give him another shot at a massive fortune, while potentially turning the chat app into a vast payment network protected from government interference.

At first glance it seems to be a Romney nightmare scenario: Which leads to Romney's nightmare scenario: If things don't turn around for Romney soon, those super PACs may give up on the task of electing Romney as president and turn to the task of encircling Obama's second term with a....

Salon: Who Obama should pick to replace Giglio With Rev. Louie Giglio bowing out of giving the benediction at President Obama's second inaugural after his anti-gay sermons came to light, the question turns to who should be selected in his stead.

Now it seems that you can't turn on a TV without there being a talent show somewhere, where there isn't someone giving thier life story and blubbing at every moment!

For at least a decade and a half before the appointment of Tietjen to the presidency of Concordia Seminary, some of its faculty had begun to turn away from such understandings — though without claiming that this turn meant giving up biblical inerrancy.

Given the rate at which the intensity is escalating, it is conceivable that a major turning point could be reached around the predicted time.

On several Sunday mornings, she refuses to smile or give eye contact and often converses with other church members while glancing over at me, turning down her mouth, or looking me up and down in a disapproving manner.

If there is a God and there is just as much for as against, But lets say there is a God and he made everything Including you and He gets to make the rules because lets face it hes a lot bigger then you, So unfortunately he only wants those who believe in him based on the information given, Lets look at the facts based on the Book,, Some of his own angels turned on him and they see him every day... That had to hurt, So he decides With man he only wants those with the faith to believe based on His book and faith found thru the holy spirit, If you refuse to believe then he cant use you, cant trust you, so he will choose to toss you aside, Hey I understand It ai nt fair, Your important, Your Smart, But unfortunately hes bigger then you and he has the Juice, You either play by the rules or wait and see what not believing leads too.

After her victory at the 2000 Games, Clark turned to Christ for the sense of «significance» that even her beloved sport couldn't give her.

Pell, we are told, turned to face the wall, making sure that «at no time was [Tyack] given the opportunity to see the front of him.»

Ours is indeed a consumeristic culture, the kind that too often turns people into commodities, and I believe Christians can speak into that culture in a unique, life - giving way — not only as it concerns sex - on - demand, but also as it concerns food - on - demand, celebrity - on - demand, stuff - on - demand, cheap - goods - on - demand, pornography - on - demand, entertainment - on - demand, comfort - on - demand, distraction - on - demand, information - on - demand, power - on - demand, energy - on - demand, and all those habits that tend to thrive at the expense of the dignity and value of our fellow human beings or our planet.

Peter did turn again and became a rock worthy of the name Jesus had given him, though, at least to Paul's way of thinking, he was still capable of hesitation and compromise (Gal 2:11 - 13).

From neither bodily nor congregational habitation do I see miraculous escape, either by comic recognition that will give the church a special knowing at a higher stage of development or by a romantic quest that turns the parish outward into God's undomesticated presence in the larger context.

In 1973 I gave the lectures (at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati) that would be published as The Broken Covenant in 1975, and would in turn project me into an intensive year of public speaking during the 1976 Bicentennial.

So I'm telling people to get ready for the return of Jesus Christ in October 2014, by turning to God through Jesus Christ and accepting that he is the only begotten Son of God who suffered for the sins of the world, and who will give to those who believe in him, when they are raised up at the last trump, his righteousness, so that they will no longer be sinners but sons of God.