Sentences with phrase «going around the country»

And being able to go around the country and see the impact that my company and my work has done — teenage girls saying they love to play games because of me, and families saying, «we picked up a tabletop game because of [Geek & Sundry show] Tabletop,» and college kids who come up and say, «Hey, I'm really glad you made The Guild because I never knew I could say that I was a gamer until you made that» — that's why you need to be creative, whether it's on a large or small scale.

I've taken them around the country on a business trip, seven weeks, went around the country, saw all my customers.

«That's why the housing minister is going around the country, listening to social housing tenants.

Working for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith, Bernards was going around the country, much in the manner of an itinerant preacher, alerting people to a new thing under the sun, «the Jewish - Christian dialogue.»

There are a hundred random speaking tours with a thousand random speakers going around the country at any given time.

«Before we even got behind a lot of policy changes, what we did was we went around the country and just visited prisons and visited state legislatures and visited with district attorneys and police officers and survivors of crime, all these folks who have a stake in the system right now, and we tried to listen and amplify voices that may not have been heard as much,» he explains.

between this hearing by King and the anti-muslim protests going around the country, al qaeda and taliban are smiling at our recruitment for potential jihadis to join them.

«We need some new young faces,» she wrote, «and every time we go around the country I urge the Public Television stations to develop some of their own.

I'm going to give a card to everyone I meet as I go around the country doing games.

Seven, maybe eight years ago, somebody went around the country passing himself off as Wells.

The Big 12 would be great, certainly, but in the meantime, we're going to have a great time going around the country and seeing the turnout from fans.»

Lisa managed to turn her own experiences of mental illness into a triumph; not just for herself, but for hundreds of others, by going around the country giving talks, by helping sufferers, sometimes people with no other voice or outlet at all, to create and publish art, and by providing people who find conventional therapies have not worked for them with an alternative therapy, and a good support network.

But what the president said yesterday is right, he has to go around the country and rally support for it.»

It is the one they urge me to address as I go around the country talking with entrepreneurs, visiting factories.

«What we're picking up as we go around the country is the public — rightly or wrongly, and in a sense it doesn't matter whether they're right or wrong — think that Labour doesn't want to talk to them about immigration.

I don't have to go around the country to rediscover Ghana like somebody has been doing.

«That's his job, to go around the country... I would welcome the governor to come here to New York to assist us.»

The others, he says are only going around the country making promises they are fully aware they can not deliver.

I've gone around our country talking to working families.

H.H.: You know, when I was going around the country, on the Pink Bus, talking specifically to women, so often they would say «We've got one child, we'd really like to have another but we just can't afford it, what with our home's not big enough and the child care is too expensive», and there is then, they're working hard and then feel that is unfair on other people they they feel that they have bigger families that they would love to have if they were in a position to do that.

«The truth is that Leave campaigners plucked an imaginary figure from the air and went around the country misleading the British public.

Go around the country and ascertain things for yourself.

When I went around the country, there was one consistent ingredient in these preparations, and that was these marine fish.

Steve: You know, there is the traveling exhibit where the actual fossil remains of Lucy are going around the country and that's in New York for the next couple of weeks, and I actually went to see it Friday night and it's an amazing thing to see because those are really her bones, you know, and she is small.

«Which makes me wonder, could I have just gone around the country and not...

She was going around the country selling magazines and her friends were crazy.

Last summer, as I was winding down my eight years as president of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, I went around the country and met with 30 superintendents, asking them, «What can I do to support your efforts to implement 21st century education in your district?»

A: We in the Civil Rights Project went around the country to identify the best researchers who could say something about how you could spend this money usefully for poor kids.

As Nelson Smith, former executive director of the DC Public Charter School Board, puts it, «David went around the country vacuuming up best practices.»

But I also think, as you go around the country, to some extent school districts don't like the notion of funds leaving the traditional school system into a different sector.

The auto manufacturer went around the country doing things like a puppy kissing booth, a Kid Rock concert a SOCOM in South Florida and just tried to make people laugh.

However, understanding what is going around the country can also be beneficial.

She asked if I'd do her lighting for her, so I joined her going around the country taking photos of fantastic places; I got a real insider view of things...»

Through NAR Global's work with Global Alliances (partners outside the United States), and Global Business Councils (state / local associations inside the United States), we aim to keep an ongoing schedule of what's going around the country and even worldwide.

Not exact matches

Ultimately this is going to be a huge public - private partnership, and I think that's how the United States established, and many other countries around the world — is a public - private partnership.

You're going to see countries fail, this time around.

We're also going to have to figure out things like long - term care, which is something that isn't in the Health Care Act, which is just a huge mess around the country in terms of how we finance it and how we deliver it.

The suits are part of a group of at least four other cases with similar arguments in various courts around the country, and they make legal experts wary, particularly as the differences in opinion seem to indicate their destiny to go before the Supreme Court.

The FAA is «going to want a level of uniformity around the country in terms of the airspace that will probably run up against the many localities that see it as their rights to protect their citizens,» Michel said.

It seems clear why they would be reluctant to have camera - toting tourists running around the country, and they severely restrict the number of visitors, where they can go, and what kind of photos they can take.

However, «a number of participants reported that about their conversations with business leaders around the country and reported that trade policy has come a concern going forward for that growth.»

«We're a global company, we sell in 190 countries around the world, we do it from a local standpoint — we're going to keep globalizing.»

Starting this weekend, many states around the country will go on sales - tax holiday in an effort to ease the consumer burden of back - to - school shopping.

«And I'm going to be asking more people around the country — more inventors and entrepreneurs and visionaries — to sign up to serve.

Small - business owners around the country are casting their ballots as the race to the 2014 Midterm Election finish line comes to an end — and how Main Street votes could determine not just who will go to Washington, but also the outcome of key initiatives that affect all of our bottom lines.

Given that not everyone has the same air quality standards it's possible that cars with the «defeat device» installed don't violate the rules in all countries, which is something that regulators around the world are going to have to determine.

In this time of globalization and extreme competitiveness, one of the key industries we are going to have to focus on for prosperity is technology, and many other countries around the world have concluded the exact same thing.

Yeti Coolers, a go - to for sportsmen around throughout the country, is cutting ties with the NRA Foundation without explanation or prior notice.

At my current stage, and I think for many people, it's much more appealing to not go levered and diversify around the country now.

You're implying in your article that after taking trade measures against Mexico, the U.S. is going to just stand around and do nothing about other surplus countries.