Sentences with phrase «got longer because»

My days got longer because I was chasing the sun.

The chains are getting longer because China's capital allocation machinery is broken.

Not exact matches

«I felt like it was a never - ending treadmill, and a lot of important emails I would actually end up never getting to because they would take a long time to respond to and I would just end up procrastinating.»

Not because I'm rude, but because the first step in the long road to getting paid is identifying real pain points and creating practical solutions that someone's willing to pay you to provide.

«DACA is dead because the Democrats didn't care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon... No longer works,» Trump wrote on Twitter.

Here's the other angle - you could be right - because top performers won't work got a micro-manager for long and you'll be left with lower caliber employees that are happy to let you do the work.

And some of the players to watch out for are the same big guys from 10 or 20 years ago (Microsoft, Oracle, AT&T, etc.) who are the long - entrenched stakeholders and «powers - who - be» in your space — not because they're great innovators or disruptors, but because: (a) they're increasingly well - informed about who's doing what very well (damn those demo days); (b) they're fairly fast followers with great gobs of money; and (c) they have the people, resources, and patience to hang around and keep buying and trying until they eventually get things right in the long run.

Such pollution, as Business Insider's Lydia Ramsey explained in 2016, «is especially dangerous because it can get lodged in the lungs and cause long - term health problems like asthma and chronic lung disease.»

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

«Many people wake up after about four hours, because that's how long it takes to metabolize alcohol, then they have trouble getting back to sleep,» she says.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

... while many voluntary conditions don't affect our happiness in the long term because we acclimate to them, people never get accustomed to their daily slog to work because sometimes the traffic is awful and sometimes it's not.

In the ROWE environment I worked in there were no vacation days or holidays either, because at least in theory an employee could take 5 vacation days a week, every week, so long as he or she could get the work done in the remaining time.

Just because you can get someone to agree to very tough terms doesn't mean it's going to be in your long - term interest to do that.»

Because 352 no longer allowed clients to dictate the process and workflow, it empowered teams to build their own values and create strong client relationships without managers getting in the way.

«We're positioned for long - term success because our program encourages participation, pays people back and gets us a larger database of real - time codes.»

If you can't get a refund at the store because too much time has gone by, your credit card issuer may be able to help, as long as it's within 90 days in most cases.

So whilst the closed door discussions will be about how to keep the status quo regardless of the rapidly increasing power costs and breakdown of service that is now being experienced around the country, the open conversations being had by the people are excited discussions about the future because we trust the likes of Elon Musk and Mike Cannon - Brookes to get the job done more than we trust big power and Government to come to any kind of meaningful and affordable long term solution.

«Because he's already familiar with the politics, people and products [of CIBC] he doesn't need a long time to get up to speed on those things,» he says.

«Because we don't get to spend as much time as the founders and devolve our conversations into hour - long epitaphs about cream cheese and whatever.»

It's better for both sides because being unemployed makes it harder to get a job, which means you'll be on unemployment longer.

«But I can see them being around a long time and having a big environmental impact, because they've got a darn good business model.»

Buybacks, said Aguilar, are done because that's the way companies think they can get the best return on their investment, so with a more volatile stock market and harder access to credit, spending cash on long - term growth becomes the best option.

When her husband finally got a job, she became even more motivated, because she wanted him to be back at home instead of working long hours away from their kids.

He noted that mega-incubators like 1871 are great places to get started because they enable entrepreneurs to avoid all kinds of costs and commitments that are bad uses of their scarce capital and — at the same time — to secure access to enormous amounts of «free» resources, education, networking and mentoring that will be crucial to their long - term success.

«The moon would be easier than Mars, because it takes you so long to get to Mars and back,» she said, estimating the length of the journey at around two years each way.

Gone are the days when #allmalepanels, culturally insensitive and non-representative marketing gets a pass just because it has been the status quo for so long.

The assumption is that users are much more likely to get scared off with a single - column design because it looks much longer.

But capital has very low latency: It takes a long time to raise money, because those who need capital have to go through intermediaries to get to those who have capital.

Because of the relatively small market and the long, unpredictable path to getting a product made and approved, SCI therapies tend not to be the kinds of investments VCs flock toward.

People get lazy when it comes to travel because any prep work, no matter how much time it may save in the long run, just seems like another dreary task on the to - do list.

But it's easier because, once you get them, they tend to stay longer.

Because PhotoPoint provides free long - term storage for Kodak's brick - and - mortar retail customers, the Kodak retailers stand to get more reprint orders over a longer time period, Bernstein says.

So as long as I can't get to it through Alexa, Alexa's never going to reach that vision that they have of «Alexa everywhere,» because now to check the surf I still have to go over to my app world and the Surfline app to check it.»

Sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do because we know they're for the best in the long - run: fire someone, cold call a stranger, pull an all - nighter to get the company server back up, or scrap a project and start over.

«Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures.

If you are an inventor, understand that obtaining capital for manufacturing is possible but it's a really long stretch to believe that you are going to enter a bank and get a loan because your idea is the next greatest thing since chewing gum.

Long lines, hectic check - ins, overstuffed airplanes — they don't really bother me because I'm usually giddy about getting away; in addition, I'm in full - on people - watching mode.

If it takes longer than the times listed below, you've probably got a case, because these are the IRS's estimates of how long it would take the average person to prepare for and complete 1992 tax forms.

Robert R. Johnson, president of the American College of Financial Services in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, says homes appear to be stable investments only because you can not get minute - to - minute price updates like with stocks, and that many homeowners focus on long - term price gains and ignore all the costs of ownership.

I resisted reading it for a long time because I figured it would be full of self - affirmational claptrap, and there is some of that, but it's mainly about a simple financial truism: no matter how much money you make, the only way to get rich is to spend much less than you earn.

«Typically, when a stock gets overbought, it is ripe for a pullback because overbought stocks, ones with many buyers reaching to take in supply, tend to snap back after they have gotten too far away from their longer term trend line,» Cramer said.

«You'll work for us [during those four years]; we believe you'll stay longer because of what we did; and even if you leave the day after you get your degree, we believe you're going to be a lifelong customer of Starbucks.

Matt Cutts and Google want to get to a place where relevant content is the top content that appears in the results places, so writing a post because of a long - tail keyword is probably not advisable.

P2P lending has taken me the longest to get comfortable with because I really dislike the idea of people not paying me back (breaking their honor).

Auto loans stretching six or seven years are often criticized as a poor choice because they leave borrowers underwater for years before they finally get to a point where the vehicle is no longer in negative equity.

It's also an acquisition that is tapping into another trend: we're living longer and getting more and more conscious of our health, and in some cases we're not actually getting healthier, with weight issues affecting a lot of our sedentary population, and other illnesses like diabetes growing in prevalence because of wider changes in our diets.

PREDICTING INTEREST RATES Whatever the reason for rising interest rates, getting from here to there is the scary part because we haven't experienced a sustained rising rate environment for a very long time.

When the major averages subsequently get back above their 20 - day exponential moving averages and hold, we can then get excited about new long setups because the potential for a new uptrend (or resumption of the previous uptrend) increases.

But as long as the PBoC can continue to withstand pressure to lower interest rates — and it seems that the traditional poor relations between the PBoC and the CBRC have gotten worse in recent months, perhaps in part because the PBoC seems more determined to reduce financial risk and more willing to accept lower growth as the cost — China will move towards a system that uses capital much more efficiently and productively, and much of the tremendous waste that now occurs will gradually disappear.