Sentences with phrase «giving number up»

The goal is to get that annual giving number up.

Not exact matches

A laid off manufacturing worker who has given up hope of ever finding another job is not counted in the unemployment statistics, so an economy with a high number of discouraged workers could have a misleadingly low unemployment rate.

Even though that is a high number, don't give up hope if it is your dream to have a restaurant.

He tried to make up for it by scribbling his phone number on another business card, which happened to be the one a woman gave him right before he reached me.

While glassybaby is no stranger to charitable giving, donating 10 percent of all votive sales to worthy causes, the company has stepped up in response to Harvey by doubling this number.

After calculating and tallying up the maximum possible number of friends each person who downloaded it had at any given time, Facebook last week said the leak affected up to 87 million people, most of whom reside in the U.S.

Hawk's number one lesson for beginning entrepreneurs looking to license products: «Never, ever give up control of your brand,» he cautions.

If your startup is looking to bag some market share here, then you probably can't even keep up with the number of competitors given the phenomenal pace at which landscape is growing.

It put out a clarification statement after the report, giving two clues about the number: that daily users make up less than 50 percent of monthly users, and that there's a lot of room for growth.

In Ibiza, the unthinkable happened: The municipality of San Jose banned DJs from 16 beach clubs and started regulating the number of hotels and Airbnb listings available at any given time, in a pivot away from the island's up - all - night reputation.

Moreover, while prisoners were generally taken, particularly if they were in large numbers — whole companies or even battalions of soldiers giving themselves up, as sometimes happened — it was an unspoken rule that soldiers who resisted too long or too hard had given up any right to quarter.

A record number of Americans are giving up their citizenship, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

It is often the simple fixes (and fixers) that make all the difference in the world: the genius who came up with giving out numbers to deli customers rather than having them mob the counter; assigned seating in movie theaters; E-ZPass.

Give names, facts & numbers to back it up.

The numbers added up, Godfrey's vision was clear, and Branson gave him the green light.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen by a surprising 0.9 per cent in the month of December, while job numbers were up for a record - equalling 15th consecutive month nationwide, with economists giving positive assessments of the labour market.

One example of this would be a retail company whose owners need capital to increase the number of company - owned stores, yet who don't wish to give up significant ownership in the company.

Not only do warmer waters cause bleaching of the living coral polyps that make up the mass, by leading them to expel the algae that give them color, but they have also led to an explosion in the numbers of a creature called the crown - of - thorns starfish.

In any given attack, Necurs might wake up and deploy up to a million «bots,» or nodes; the total number of nodes under the controller's command is believed to be as high as 6 million.

Volatility in the Bitcoin market also bumps up the number of transactions, which — given the Bitcoin network's congested nature — increases transaction fees in unpredictable ways.

Johnson must now also give up his chairmanship of the Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, where he has spearheaded a number of changes that have angered some members but also significantly reduced the confounding choices and grievous oversights that once plagued the category.

Unlike medications, this category isn't regulated by the FDA, which gives companies broad leeway to say their product can treat any number of conditions without supplying the necessary evidence to back it up.

Some believe that the numbers simply do not add up to the hype, and that social media is given too much credit for what is going on.

I was able to size up a room pretty well, and the numbers they gave me were often low.

Kim's remarks made no commitment to give up the estimated 60 nuclear bombs and the unknown number of ICBMs he already has.

And it's hard to tell exactly what is driving up Americans» medical costs at any given time because of the sheer number of players involved and a lack of easily available pricing information.

«It doesn't give a single number but comes up with a range of fair market values.

«The only conceivable way our retirement saver would give up $ 2,300 in expected returns on his equity holdings is if his fund manager had an extraordinarily large number of trades.

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.

Traditionally, most attention in Canadian government support has been given to technology and product readiness, with scant attention being paid to the fact that without proper commercialization strengths a large number of Canadian start - ups have died or have been acquired for a pittance by foreign businesses which then proceeded to harvest the economic benefits for the innovations initially developed by Canadian companies.

Not to mention, I've read in several places that you should NEVER have to give up your as number to mystery shop!

Significant support is given to the local primary school and Talison Lithium employees are involved in a number of joint environmental and community based projects with the school including Clean - up Australia Day, National School's Tree Day and the annual biological monitoring of the Greenbushes Pool for the Waterwatch Ribbons of Blue project.

Iran's figures are a bit confusing, given that the numbers don't add up on the agreement text that OPEC published.

Industry representatives say they are doing the best they can, given the enormous numbers of homeowners lining up.

He said the numbers he used were not made up but were given to him by the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which received them from an «outside agency.»

The Saudis, the world's number one and cheapest producers, refused to scale back production or give up market share.

Dan Marcec, Equilar's director of content and communications, said the number was not surprising given that the majority of CEO pay is made up of stock grants and 2017 was a banner year for market performance: The S&P 500 index climbed nearly 20 percent.

«With stagnant job growth numbers this past year and a significant decrease in family - supporting jobs, giving up on her jobs plan is a sign the premier has given up on middle class families who are struggling to make ends meet.»

As for your Solo 401K numbers, it would appear that you'd be eligible to sock more away there, given that the max is $ 53K per year ($ 18K personal plus up to 20 % of your company's income as a base contribution up to an additional $ 35K), and more for your spouse if you count her as an employee of Financial Samurai.

It is also worth noting that Cambridge Angels encourages start - ups to reserve a reasonable number of shares for a stock option pool to help sign up the «key hires» needed to ensure your Management Team has the right mix of skills to give you the best chance of success in your chosen markets.

When I started out, I easily gave up my Social Security Number to any employer that asked for it, because of course, they needed it for tax forms.

Given this prairie windstorm, it's no surprise the Highwood Wildrose Riding Association was one of the first the party set up and that it has shown some of the strongest membership numbers in the province.

Dorsey first talked up the growth among consumers, without giving numbers, and called it «the fastest peer - to - peer» money transfer service out there.

If that math gives you a number that is higher than what the company is trading at, there is a very strong chance that the share prices will go up.

Given that natural selection has held up since Darwin's time and wonderfully explains what we see and do in the lab and things like why it's hard to treat viral infections and why there are an increasing number of antibiotic resistant bacteria, I don't expect it to change much in the next 10 years.

8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided all mankind, he set up boundaries for the peoples according to the number of the sons of Israel.

I am giving up on random numbers.

I'd have picked up a Number 4 at McDonald's every day if someone had given me some hope that I wouldn't bleed to death or have another bowl of Special K followed by a glass or two of gin a few minutes later on the way to work.

Unfortunately, in combating this false understanding of addiction, Hitchens errs to the other extreme by implying that the will remains untouched by addiction and asserting that if addicts are held merely accountable for their actions and blamed for the outcome of those actions, then «huge numbers of people will give up a bad habit even if it is difficult.»

The chief argument of this book up to this point represents the thinking of great numbers in the Western world and will presumably, therefore, be convincing to many readers who have given serious thought to the problem of the reconstruction of civilization in our time.