Sentences with phrase «go to conferences because»

It always saddens me when I hear legal organizations not supporting staff to go to conferences because, really, they are just shooting their own organizations in the proverbial foot, putting them further behind where the industry is heading.

Now we're down to the brass tacks: I don't go to conferences because I can not afford to go to conferences.

Not exact matches

She had irked some critics in May when she commented during a conference, «There can be 12 white, blue - eyed, blonde men in a room and they're going to be diverse too because they're going to bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.»

Are you just signing up for conferences because you think you should go but then not talking to anyone?

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

Early last week, UFC president Dana White announced McGregor had been pulled from the card of UFC 200 because McGregor refused to go to Las Vegas to promote the fight; typical pre-fight promotions like a press conference, filming a commercial, and other marketing events had been scheduled.

You know because you go to these conferences just like I do.

Because the last time that I went to the conference, I didn't see that.

Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at a conference in New York in November that the company's Asia operations were not going to be «profitable any time soon,» particularly because of how heavily Uber was subsidizing rides there.

But this year, half a dozen developers who had previously attended the conference told The Times that they did not plan to go because they objected to Facebook's policy changes.

They are going to be as common as conference rooms, because people are recognizing the value,» says Huffington.

«We are pretty much sure that we are going to further invest because we have that luxury,» Ms. Wu told analysts on a post-earnings conference call.

There have been times at conferences or big churches that I've been envious of the speaker, because he / she could get up from prayer, go to the platform, deliver the message, and go back into prayer.

I've engaged in all that, sat 2 - 3 times a week as you say, and went to the conferences, went to the prayer meetings, gave financially, engaged in all the work they want (because if you don't, you're in sin, or rebellion).

So here I am, the leader of a global prayer movement, invited to go and speak at all the biggest conferences in the world, and I'm having to stay home to change nappies and be primary carer, because my prayers for my wife aren't working.

In my case, retrospection from the sidelines prompted me to remember many instances in my earlier years when my wife had protested my making an extra trip or going to yet another conference, despite my weariness; I always pleaded the importance of the cause that engaged me, and it never occurred to me that I might have been so assiduous in these engagements because the invitations flattered my vanity.

Do they want grab and go food options because they don't have time to socialize and are running to multiple conferences?

It would be on brand for WVU to go 11 - 1 and get shut out of the Playoff because a.) the Big 12's strength of schedule fell apart, b.) they won't play a conference title game, and c.) some random terrible thing happens to them along the way.

The league went begging for a bid last March largely because its membership had voted to permit NCAA - ineligible Memphis State to take part in the conference tournament, and the Tigers went and won it.

Calhoun returned to Air Force to coach his alma mater after spending a year as offensive coordinator of the Houston Texans, in part because «I wanted to see, playing in a major conference (the Mountain West), if there were some years you could go to bowl games.»

Im sure in all those press conferences Wenger has said exactly what went wrong and am sure to the contrary that he has given the players a piece of his mind, just because you read otherwise up top and it gives you better ammunition to throw mud well it doesn't mean there is one ounce of truth in it all.

I chose not to go to a meeting two hours away just because there is no video conference availble.

I'm also more excited about the first Mayweather vs McGregor press conference because that's going to be much more competitive and entertaining than the actual fight.

my opinion (you know, the one you so adamantly disagree with) is that it would be better for the game because the 6 best teams in the conference would go to the playoffs.

In his post-game press conference on NBC, Romo mentioned that he managed to go 10 - 10 because he was able to figure out what the Eagles were running defensively.

In his pre-match press conference at Cobham, he said: «With only four games to go it's important to win, but it won't be easy because they are struggling to avoid relegation.

«I would still go to conferences, even without a scholarship, because I like to learn.

And it seems as we travel around to state and national conferences to talk to our many friends in the recreation field, more and more we hear about budgets being cut, staff let go and recreation programs being forced to turn their programs over to volunteer based organizations simply because they have no other choice.

Avella said there is more discussion among his Democratic colleagues in the Senate and that he stopped going to Democratic conference meetings in the Council because Quinn «would just do what she wanted.»

«LIRR riders unable to go into Penn Station this summer because of Amtrak's emergency repair work deserve a discounted fare for enduring the inconvenience of a disrupted commute,» Cuomo told reporters at a press conference at Penn Station.

Ivor Bulmer - Thomas, «Too big for his boots» Mocking Harold Wilson's claim that half his classmates were too poor for shoes, Bulmer - Thomas» quip at the 1949 Conservative conference implied Wilson was somewhat egotistical: «If ever he went to school without any boots it was because he was too big for them».

Jimmy: I think it becomes less difficult as time goes on, because I think the Democratic conference continues to refresh itself.

As for the Assembly Democratic conference, Heastie said: «We don't want to go home and then in September hear that school districts have to lay people off because they haven't received the funding from the budget because of the linkage of the teacher evaluation and the funding.»

«We believe it's going to be a game - changer for up to 800,000 New Yorkers who will no longer have to worry about whether they should get a weekly card or a daily card instead of a monthly card because they can't afford the up - front costs,» Johnson, a Chelsea Democrat, said at a City Hall news conference Tuesday afternoon.

But Jackson — who officially filed his campaign documents Tuesday — said he's going head to head with Alcantara for the 2018 vote because he's concerned about her choice to join the Independent Democratic Conference, (IDC) which caucuses with the Republicans.

A GOP source in Wednesday's meeting told CNN that despite anger towards Murkowski, the conference decided not to even take up the question of the Senate Energy Committee post because «there was a sense that she's resigned her leadership post, she lost her primary, she will probably lose her race, and she'll be gone.

«We want conference committees on this revenue bill and we want to get it done for the people of New York State because they're sick and tired of ceding this power to three men who go in a darkened room and come out and do nothing.»

«I doubt that it will, in my judgment, because in order for it to be put on the floor, since there is joint leadership, there has to be an agreement by the two leaders to put in on the floor for a vote, and that's going to be subject to a debate in the conferences.»

«Again, if President Buhari isn't avoiding «a rumble in the jungle - like» skirmish with Governor El - rufai he would have keep - off Kaduna because for the past 36 months, no single peoples oriented project has been commissioned.President Buhari has gone to many state and Commissioned projects but hasn't commission a single one initiated and completed by Governor El - rufai despite much hype by his spin doctors and unproductive local and international pay - as - you - go conferences.»

«Even though the state has no financial responsibility, I am going to fight for another $ 250 million for NYCHA residents because I want to say to this federal government and this city government: «It's time to lead,»» Cuomo said at a press conference outside the NYCHA complex he toured.

«We're going to use our success, and talk about it, because that's important in keeping our conference in the majority, and in increasing seats.»

Speaking at the AdWeek conference, Osborne continued: «Personally because I'm a Conservative who was in the Conservative cabinet I'm going to probably vote Conservative in that election... I'll certainly vote Conservative in that election.

During a press conference in Rochester, Collins seemed to take satisfaction at the concept of once again being the thorn in Cuomo's side, saying with a grin: «I know it's going to drive the governor absolutely crazy because we're calling him out for another unconstitutional move.»

Diane Abbott, speaking to Labour conference as a losing leadership candidate, won loud cheers and a standing ovation — enthusiastic amongst delegates but noticeably reluctant amongst MPs, perhaps because she revealed that she was going to add to the competition which so many of them are about to face in the shadow cabinet elections.

«Anything that we vote on is going to be because that's what the conference wants,» Heastie said.

You bypass the City Council, because you didn't need to go and have hearings and go through the legislative process,» Mr. Stringer said at an unrelated press conference.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, the shadow health secretary went on: «That motion has got my complete and full support and I hope the conference votes for that motion because we should have absolute zero tolerance when it comes to the quite disgusting and pitiful anti-Semitism that sadly we're sometimes seeing on social media these days, and indeed, as I believe if you look at the newspapers, I wasn't there... was at an event in Brighton last night.»

«This news conference is the first of many actions our groups are going to be taking in the months to come to really push this front and center, because we can no longer tolerate the current state of affairs,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union.

«Because of planetary protection and our desire to go back to Enceladus, go back to Titan, go back to the Saturn system, we must protect those bodies for future exploration,» Jim Green, director of NASA's planetary science division, said at a news conference on September 13.

«Before I went to the conference, I was somewhat intimidated by speaking to the media because I've always felt that they would think I was biased in my presentation of the facts.»