Sentences with phrase «hired hands in»

The man who single - handedly brought an entire film industry to prominence with the heroic bloodshed genre (which he also single - handedly engineered) has officially joined Jackie Chan among Hong Kong legends who have sold their souls to be second - wheels and hired hands in American films.

As a hired hand in Syriana he didn't really tout too much high - powered weaponry and in Three Kings it was handguns and leadership.

I guess it reminds a little of stuff like The Hired Hand in terms of pacing, but it washes out as an unpleasant - to - no - useful - end frontier melodrama.

Not exact matches

Yet most entrepreneurs at least want to have a hand in hiring.

Men, on the other hand, seem to have better mental health if they have jobs in which they can hire and fire.

His plan was to step away, again, this summer, when he was scheduled to hand the CEO reins to longtime lieutenant Keith Creel and start a three - year tenure as a consultant (or, in his own words, a «hired hand») to the railway.

«We hired a lot of architects and interior designers who could bring freshness with a wide variety of designs in hand - made tiles,» told Variava.

When you've reached the scale when it's no longer possible to be hands - on in each decision, you need to make sure you have strong hiring methodologies in place,» he continues.

Making it a point to give detailed instructions on tasks at hand, coupled with pointed questions about how the new hire is feeling and what they think would help them out in their job are keys to making them feel comfortable and useful.

On - demand platforms give instant, mobile booking and payment features directly in the hands of clients, so hiring someone to perform a three bedroom clean (for example) is as easy as ordering a movie or requesting an Uber.

In that same vein, you've been hired for a reason — so raise your hand!

The latest hiring boost comes on the heels of Amazon's July announcement that it added 7,000 permanent employees (5,000 in fulfillment and 2,000 in customer service) to help get products in customers» hands faster.

To prove that he was hands off in earnest, Roa early on relinquished all responsibility for hiring.

Spending the time to talk to people about their lives outside work shows a genuine interest in them as individuals and sends a message that they're more than just hired hands.

He removed himself from the help desk and from having a hand in every sales lead, and made a decision that terrified him: He hired a virtual assistant to manage his email.

«The little - known federal agency [the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration] charged with monitoring the system... is chronically short of inspectors and lacks the resources needed to hire more, leaving too much of the regulatory control in the hands of pipeline operators themselves, according to federal reports, and examination of agency data and interviews with safety experts.»

So every Monday morning we'd hire 10 people to haul the water we needed from the local hand pump to the different spots in the hospital, office and living quarters.

More than 30 years ago, researchers Robert Gifford, Cheuk Fan Ng and Margaret Wilkinson found that, among other aspects, job candidates who used more hand gestures in their interviews were more likely to get hired.

Numerous startups like Wave, which form the bulk of Hired's corporate clients, have created a profile on Hired to get an upper hand in the battle for talent.

«In 90 per cent of problems, we hand the seeker the resumé of the solver and they say, «I would not hire that person,»» Bingham explains.

We're in a world where we're hiring people and handing them a computer and saying, «Go execute,» so we're giving them the information they need to do that.

We like getting our hands dirty and helping entrepreneurs in the early stages of growth on partnerships, fundraising, marketing and hiring.

Aspect Ventures believes that startups benefit from hands - on investors who can shape operations from the ground up, providing not only advice but also a network of advisers and potential hires to navigate the rocky and ever - changing path from zero revenue to tens of millions of dollars in annual sales.

Maintaining a rental property may just require you calling the plumber or carpenter, but sometimes it may require you to get your hands dirty and pull the wallet from your pocket in order to hire a contractor to replace a floor or repair a bathroom shower.

In addition, Chipotle hired a new head of food safety who implemented a number of changes to policies at the Company's restaurants — for example, requiring all employees to wash their hands every half hour, mandating that two employees verified that certain ingredients had been immersed in hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredientIn addition, Chipotle hired a new head of food safety who implemented a number of changes to policies at the Company's restaurants — for example, requiring all employees to wash their hands every half hour, mandating that two employees verified that certain ingredients had been immersed in hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredientin hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredients.

The sleeve, featuring a backdrop of Meghan Moser's hand block printed coffee bean pattern in a camouflage design, recognizes the Veterans and military spouses who have been hired by Starbucks.

Within three weeks after hiring Hutchinson, Morrison left for two months in Europe, leaving the magazine in the hands of his new managing editor.

Jovial and laid back, Hinn tells anecdotes to the crowd, even engaging in banter with the hired hand playing Central Hall's huge organ.

The danger is apparent in several disdainful references to Othello's black skin, African features, and general foreignness; these are mingled with brutish sexual images after Othello, the hired commander of Venice's military forces, has secretly won the hand of a prominent senator's beautiful daughter.

Hired hands as we say in the Old West.

In this parable, the hired hand always gives his employer the benefit of the doubt by imagining the best possible motivation for actions that otherwise seemed suspect.

We read of Hook, the retired teacher, who quotes his father's hired hand, and Elizabeth Heinemann, whose understanding of heaven suggests that she is perhaps meant to be considered in the long tradition of blind «seers.»

In California, hospitals must hire bedsitters to hold hands and accompany the dying.

Because he was not in favor of making the league too lively, Commissioner Charles refused to sanction the hiring of such obvious wild - card prospects as a trick - shot artist who could roll seven balls down the alley simultaneously or a California chimpanzee who bowled with both hands.

In the minds of much of the cricket establishment, though, a pro is what he always has been, just a hired hand recruited to stiffen gentlemanly, amateur sides.

On offense, the Vikings will mostly be left in the hands of whomever is hired as the offensive coordinator.

On the other hand, that quote, in my opinion, is spot on to support a comment on what she was hired to do and very likely will do — provide value to the organization as a whole and the individual players that she works with and that follow her recommendations in keeping the roster, as a whole and over a period of time, healthier.

She's constantly looking for ways to give back to others — hiring stay at home moms to hand - glitter cards, providing jobs for friends or family in need of extra monetary support and establishing non-profit partnerships.

If you are even remotely considering hiring a doula to help you out after you've had a baby, we highly recommend listening to Monique Cowan (a.k.a. Monique The Doula) share her first - hand experiences in a typical day in her job.

In a letter submitted to the Times Union, the commissioners — all legislative appointees — argued that the hiring by JCOPE's outgoing executive director is improper because Gagan's special counsel title wasn't listed in a staffing plan, approved in 2012 soon after the panel's creation, that handed responsibility for filling certain posts to the executive directoIn a letter submitted to the Times Union, the commissioners — all legislative appointees — argued that the hiring by JCOPE's outgoing executive director is improper because Gagan's special counsel title wasn't listed in a staffing plan, approved in 2012 soon after the panel's creation, that handed responsibility for filling certain posts to the executive directoin a staffing plan, approved in 2012 soon after the panel's creation, that handed responsibility for filling certain posts to the executive directoin 2012 soon after the panel's creation, that handed responsibility for filling certain posts to the executive director.

Weinstein hired high - powered defense lawyer Elkan Abramowitz, a partner at the firm where Vance worked before he became DA, after Ambra Battilana Gutierrez accused him of grabbing her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt inside his Tribeca office in March 2015, sources told The Post on Wednesday.

Noble noted that the current «strong mayor» system was enacted hastily 20 years ago when Mayor T.R. Gallo (the incumbent's late brother) orchestrated a rapid about - face from a proposed city manager system which would have left day - to - day operations in the hands of a professional hired by elected council members.

The current hands are Geoff Berman, executive director of the New York State Democratic Committee, and Metropolitan Public Strategies, which the party hired as an outside consultant in January.

Typically, control of the authority and hiring there is in the hands of whichever party controls the Erie County Legislature, and in November, the Democrats became a new majority there.

Wadhams, whose hiring was first reported last week by City and State, mostly stayed in the background, standing by quietly as Long shook some hands, then suggesting it was time to get upstairs for her speech after she had spent about ten minutes talking to reporters.

On the other hand, Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier in the month said DOCCS was hiring guards because, even though the prison population — now about 52,000 — is shrinking, the inmates who remain are tougher than ever.

The reports, on the one hand, signal a continued slowdown in hiring that has persisted throughout this year, but also indicate that the local labor market is tightening.

Citi News can confirm that the vehicles handed over to the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) in 2016 on hire purchase by the Microfinance and Small Loans Centre [MASLOC], have been left at the mercy of the weather.

Employers will hire you for the complete package, and not just because you've got a good pair of hands in the lab.

But in among the aficionados you will usually find hired hands, paid to wait in line on behalf of others with more money than time.