Sentences with phrase «hand a thing of»

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One of the first things I noticed about Apple Watch when I initially laid hands on it 7 months ago was the design.

So, a lot of these teens will say to me things like, «Is it my left hand or my right hand?»

Hybrid devices like Surface Pro and iPad Pro, on the other hand, still need to iron out a number of things before becoming both great laptops and great tablets at the same time — and, also, potentially much more.

This is the kind of thing that makes tech managers everywhere reach for the Aspirin; employees taking IT matters into their own hands is a perennial headache, and I sympathize with that.

It's certainly better than writing things down on the back of their hand.

i think clients can get out of hand when they arent properly educated up front on what the parameters are, what's expected, how things will run, and what hours / ways you are available to them.

But that's the situation that fans of the critically - acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all things.

The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.

The most important thing for you at this moment is to get your product in the hands of the customer.

On the other hand, the researchers noted that being in a state of hunger can increase one's impulsivity, but that impulsivity isn't necessarily a bad thing.

And, believe me, I know how hard this «hands - off» approach can be when it's your baby and when you find yourself biting your tongue because you might have done a bunch of things in different ways.

In addition to devoting an inordinate amount of time to all things Trump, the media has also spent quite a bit of time hand - wringing over the media's role in amplifying his message to the masses.

As you probably already know, it's very easy to obtain information over the Internet, and while this is a good thing most of the time, it also means that if you're not careful, cyber criminals can get their hands on your financial credentials.

Along the right - hand side of the resume, you'll see things like similar descriptions of the jobs you've listed in your resume, a list of skills that are applicable to the jobs you've listed, job openings that fit your experience and access to resume coaches and professionals who can guide you to your next position.

But instead, he wrote a 350 - word piece letting his colleagues know that things had gotten out of hand.

The same things you generally do to avoid catching any flu — wash your hands and steer clear of the guy hacking and sniffing on the subway or airplane (and hey, if you're want to try stocking up on Vitamin C, you'd be in good company, even if science suggests you're probably not accomplishing much).

Laura's first move when I stepped into the serene shop (it boasts, among other things, a living wall of plants) was to hand me a wee paper cup of peppermint - lemon tea with a smile.

A University of Arizona study on college students» financial behaviors found that three things help there: Parental involvement, taking a personal finance class and having a part - time job and other hands - on money experience.

The size and thickness of our palms is the benchmark for things like meat, and our cupped hands offer the same for legumes, salad and the like.

«But when you're locked to a couch and the only way to move your leg is to physically lift it with your hands, well, all these things we do every day are taken away, and you have to come to grips with yourself and spend a lot of time in your own head.

The material is durable but not overly thick or heavy (the entire thing is really lightweight), there's a vertical front pocket to easily slip one hand into and out of for a wallet or keys, the side pockets are the only ones I've found big enough to securely fit my 1L Camelbak (even whilst jogging to grab a train), and the sternum strap on this one is specially designed to be more comfortable and ergonomic for women — and it shows.

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

Instead, it takes the role of right - hand man, playing host to my to - do list and email and all that sort of thing.

They understand QE distorts markets, so they want to normalize before things get out of hand.

«We are trying to do everything to minimize hospital - acquired infection except for the most obvious and easiest thing to do in my opinion, which is to stop shaking hands,» UCLA professor of pediatrics and cardiologist Dr. Mark Sklansky tells NPR.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

The powerful thing happening here is that these devices put cheap computing into the hands of the masses who can then play with their ideas and possibly turn them into new products.

Mobile payments: The internet of things: Fintech has sure got its hands full.

Sometimes you simply have to accept that things are the way they are and make the most of the hand you've been dealt.

The word «culpable» was in itself carefully chosen, Glees said, because it could mean one of the two things: That Putin did not take proper care of his military - grade Novichok nerve agent and it fell into the wrong hands, or that he willfully weaponised it on foreign soil.

And if you want to get ahead of things that could be more in the hands of others than your own, you have to keep tabs.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

«Each morning for the past 15 years, I've carved out the first 15 minutes of my day to hand write my «top five» for the day — the things that I need to get done to move my larger goals forward — on a new page in a bound notebook.

Apparently unsure of their own taste in such things, they also appointed rapper Drake as a «global ambassador» — Rolling Stone described it as a «consulting gig» — to lend a hand.

Betting large is a good thing, but only if you've taken the steps to figure out what kind of hand you're holding.

On the other hand, if you go to the event in a bad mood, reciting in your mind all the other things you should be doing instead of being there, nothing good will come from it.

«This is a wake - up call to Silicon Valley and the tech community that if you let these things get out of hand, having grown up in a very lightly regulated environment, you could end up with a lot more regulation than you seek, he said after the hearing.

Some, then, might even argue that high and climbing costs are a good thing — more dollars in the hands of the workers, right?

Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete» button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

In the sport of remanufacturing, the fundamentals include such things as using hand tools correctly, watching the labor utilization rate, figuring out better ways to make spare parts.

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama unveiled executive actions on guns, which, among other things, are designed to make gun sales easier to monitor and keep guns out of the hands of people who are prohibited from having them because of criminal and certain mental health records.

You see, one of the nice things about the $ 130 gadgets was the alarm could be silenced by a simple wave of the hand.

«The hand and writing things — that's just human nature,» says Edoardo de Martin, director of the Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre, which in February set up shop on two sprawling floors covering 3.5 acres of the former Eaton's and Sears flagship.

«We're at a point where people want things in the palm of their hand, easy to get to, and on demand,» Hoyt says.

Less - than - stellar leaders become consumed by the entrancement of the new thing and are hypnotized into dropping, aborting, or prematurely birthing what they're currently working on in order to get their hands on that shiny new project — all, of course, accompanied by an intellectually robust post-rationalization.»

«Celebrities like to look hands - on and that kind of thing,» Beth Torre, a spokeswoman for Celebrities Staffing Services, told Forbes, referring specifically to celebrities in Hollywood.

«In my heart of hearts, I knew I really enjoyed building things, having a hands - on role in a company's culture and future,» Svenson said in a phone interview.

On the one hand, it makes it easier for new users who don't have time to follow a lot of things or create custom magazines to get a curated feed of interesting content.

«One thing that we are seeing from a lot of employers is that they just want to be rid of this, they don't want to own the responsibility around it, and they want to hand it off to someone else,» Plakans says.