Sentences with phrase «held out so»

However, many feel betrayed by the same - sex marriage legislation, and disillusioned faith - based charities, so encouraged by Big Society rhetoric, have tried and failed to win the government contracts that were held out so temptingly.

I had to stop reading after you gave credence to the idea Ben purposely held himself out so he could be ROTY this year.

Not sure how I've held out so long.

The scandal of the Church (held out so prominantly no matter how it compares with the rest of the world) has been a recurrent theme for the last 2000 years and there are 1.5 billion Catholics.

(3) The first major part of the body of the Gospel of Matthew, chapters 3 - 11, into which the text of Q is largely compressed, was composed as a kind of rationale or justification for the Q community's having held out so long in its exclusively Jewish orientation.

I'm praying that the weather holds out so we can also visit Mercier Orchards up in Blue Ridge Georgia and grab the world's best Apple Pie with the kiddos.

This holds true to the leaked roadmap we've already seen and is just a few more weeks to hold out so you can have your pick of any three of these BlackBerry 7 devices.

It has definitely peaked my interest, but I'll hold out so that I can get my hands on a kit and try it out before I give a verdict (yes, we will be reviewing it).

Not exact matches

He's been the best person that's ever held that job and I couldn't imagine that anything that he would have done — that would have been so out of character for him — that would have caused that reaction.»

PARIS (Reuters)- President Donald Trump held the door open to a reversal of his decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord on Thursday, but did not say what he would need in return to persuade him to do so.

And so, on this second day of a new era, I hold out my arms and welcome change — I welcome the invigoration of new names and faces and ideas to Fortune's living soul.

We offered to hold an engagement party so she could get to know some of our out - of - towners, but she declined, saying she didn't want to feel obligated to invite these new family members that she'd only met once and didn't know very well.

Out of those 1,000 or so, well more than half are held at minimum - security levels — often privately managed «Club Feds» that are about two steps down the comfort ladder from Motel 6.

One thing that unites Chu's small businesses with Reyes Holdings: All are changing the world for the better, whether they set out to do so or not.

Then the idea feels like the one piece you have to hang out to and you hold on so tight no one else can get at it.

Building stewardship in family members means holding regular family meetings to involve other family members in the key conversations so they understand the ins and outs of the business and are prepared to take it over when the time comes.

It has done this by offering attractive interest rates on banks» reserves held at the Fed, so the banks keep their excess funds there instead of lend them out to borrowers in the economy.

The dinner series, which features live music, guest speakers and panel discussions, has sold out for every one of the 11 events held so far — one of which Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney attended.

All along, I've tried to sing it so it's easy to sing along to, no speeding up or slowing down — so I held the mic out.

Morelli's shipment of materials didn't arrive on time, so she went to a copy center and printed out enough color copies to hold them over until the materials did arrive.

«It's the pause before you check out that I think is so effective,» Cherie says, noting that the idea holds especially true in grocery stores, where it's easy to nab appealing items without much thought about how they add up.

Even so, the two companies had always hashed out their advertising complaints in hearings held before «judges» at the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus.

And so are quits — there are still lots of Americans who are holding on to jobs they'd rather leave for fear they'll find themselves out of work.

OPINION: The government is finding out the argument that «it's the Liberals» fault» will only hold for so long.

As I pointed out in this post about the changing structure of the VC industry, private tech companies are delaying IPOs and thus privately held tech investors are reaping more of the value prior to an eventual IPO so public investors must have felt compelled to respond.

And the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, which lost out on the IPO of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., should be proud of its refusal to bend the rules — and resist the pressure to do so now.

«The collaboration we saw was some billing and administrative contacts between the two of them, so you'd see similar people show up in each of the accounts,» said Schroepfer, when asked for more detail about what it had found, before declining to say anything else in a public setting on account of ongoing investigations — despite the committee pointing out other witnesses it has heard from have not held back on that front.

I want to hold shares and not turn them for options so I wrote out of the money covered calls for bonus income.

So far, investors are not buying the prediction made by top - ranked strategists from Haitong Securities and Bocom International Holdings, who had forecast at the end of last year that the big - caps» out - performance would be less conspicuous in 2018, with more mid - and small - cap shares joining the rally.

5 out of 5 so far let's see how it holds up.

The trading book review, as the new package is called, takes a more rigorous approach to supervising the so - called internal models that big banks use to work out how much capital they should hold in case swaps turn sour.

So they keep holding out the prospect of future rate increases and then find themselves unable to deliver.

3) The Hussman Strategic Growth Fund has gradually shifted from smaller to larger capitalization holdings in recent years, not out of any necessity due to Fund size (at the Fund's current asset level, we could easily populate the Fund with mid-caps if it was optimal to do so), but precisely because large stocks generally carry the best relative valuations.

The idea is that you want to hold enough stocks to earn the returns you'll need to grow your nest egg over the long - term, but also enough in bonds to provide some downside protection so you don't bail out of equities in a severe downturn.

Subsequent tax incentives in the 1980s (such as Section 1042 of the Internal Revenue Code) allowed owners of privately held businesses to defer their capital gains taxes when they sold more than 30 % of C corporations to the employees and managers through ESOPs or eligible worker cooperatives.15 Often, retiring entrepreneurs would sell 100 % in stages so that they could fully retire if they had no heir to operate the company or the family wished to cash out on their stake.

If the MBS securities extinguished in Step 4 are not directly held by the Fed, the Fed can be expected to simultaneously sell an equivalent amount of its own holdings out to the public, so that the publicly held stock of MBS remains constant.

I am just another statistic: (My E.I. benefits ran out March 2010: (I have not found work as of yet and I am barely holding onto my house and I barely am supporting my child: (All I do is apply and apply and interview after interview and so many of us out there fighting for a chance at livelyhood: (Sad sad world.

Dash is consolidating below the $ 200 level, but the break - out attempts have failed so far, while the coin is holding above the $ 190 level.

In order to respond to the «cash on the balance sheet» argument, I've subtracted out the amount of cash held by corporations, so the chart below includes market capitalization and net debt.

So he started seeking out alternative ways to make money, holding positions such as movie preview auditor, where he'd attend movies and earn cash for counting the number of previews shown.

Payout ratios of less than 60 % is certainly more stringent, and for the most part, most of my holdings are in that range but every now and then you screen out some great utilities like SO, ED or D for example.

Notley may be holding back for a number of reasons: (1) electoral reform wasn't part of her platform so she may be reluctant to spring it on Albertans, (2) she may be waiting to see how Trudeau's electoral reform works out and (3) she may be banking on the fact that the WR and PCs won't get it together in time for the next election.

So while we can't rule out the possibility of lifting a portion of our hedges if the quality of market action improves, I expect our returns to be driven primarily by the difference in performance between the stocks we hold and the indices we use to hedge (primarily the S&P 500).

The rule, which grew out of the 2010 Dodd - Frank financial oversight law, was intended to promote transparency so citizens in some of the world's most impoverished countries can hold their governments accountable for the wealth generated through mining and drilling.

Meanwhile, the US has seen all its investment banks go bust, sold off or hastily turned into traditional holding banks so they can be bailed out by Federal Reserve, while ginormous players in the mortgage space like Washington Mutual, Wachovia, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have effectively bitten the dust as independent companies.

Females actually make better wrestlers at that level, as they are generally more flexible and have a lower center of gravity so they can grapple and get out of holds easier than the males of similar weight class.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Same with Muslims, they are no different unless there is some special «Muslims shouldn't hold each other accountable so you get out of Hell free card» that no one else gets.

The birds look out at me, at the man holding his iPhone to the wall so a distant friend can pray into its mortar, at the Israeli soldiers completing their training and swearing to die for their country before this last remnant of the second Temple, at the masses of praying men and women — the women in a smaller area, separated from the men and further from the holiest part of the Wall.

Perhaps they only seem stronger because our society is moving away from Christian beliefs and tossing long - held Christian ways out of the public arena, so to speak.