Sentences with phrase «in a bad way for»

The cartoon was sort of a punch in the gut, but not in a bad way for me.

Its focus is to see that the children aren't affected by it in a bad way for the remainder of their lives.

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This shift in mindset and the way I approached providing my services resulted in more than doubling my monthly income for the next five months, and I'm finally confident that I'm growing something more than just a bad job for myself.

In the same way a bad credit score can freeze you out of the lending market, a bad sender score for your domain name or IP addresses can keep your emails out of inboxes.

Worse yet, according to Siu, this shift would most likely come in the midst of a recession, when the industry is looking for new ways to cut costs.

As horrific as the tolls from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — or those from the tsunamis in Japan (2011) and the Indian Ocean (2004)-- were, Galea reveals how the social context in each affected region transformed the population's health, in ways good and bad, for years afterward.

They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s, as a way to stimulate badly needed investment in technology.

But it's also bad in that it creates lock - in, the same way that telecom companies make it tough for customers to leave by hooking them into a suite of services that include wireless, TV and internet.

The company's founding president recently called the company out for manipulating psychology in a way that's good for its bottom line but bad for humans.

In its ideal form, business owners find ways to protect their personal assets while preparing for the worst for their business.

In a world where big business is often marked as self - serving bad guys, companies are looking for ways to remove themselves from the stigma and reach out to their communities and the world.

This way, you can still make a connection with the investor, because in the worst case you will get a call, and in the best case the investor will actually be impressed and ask you to come in for a meeting.

«You know I think the way we deal with the tax bill is by being honest about it, saying across time the very significant tax reductions for groups and parts of our economy that really weren't needed will hurt the fiscal condition of the country and put us in a bad position as it relates to other priorities we have,» Delaney said.

Either way, somehow eight years after the financial crisis, with the economy on the best footing it has been in years, the uncertainty that is out there over a Trump Presidency just doesn't seem so bad, at least for one day.

The bad news is that, at this stage in our long transition from PSTN to IP calling, there isn't just one way for VoIP devices to talk to each other.

It could be that the decline is lumpy for a host of other reasons, or the reporting from pay - TV providers is clumped together in ways that made the second quarter look worse.

It was, in a way, worst for people in East Germany, who lived tantalizingly close to their wealthy European cousins, where radio and TV signals easily carried information about the latest consumerist luxuries.

Quitting is the easiest way to avoid feeling bad or taking responsibility for frustrations in business.

In an unexpected move, the United States is upgrading Malaysia from the lowest tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers to the so - called «Tier 2 Watch list», a status that could smooth the way for an ambitious U.S. - led free - trade deal with Malaysia.

Though there aren't ways to predict what could go wrong 100 % of the time, having a plan in place for what to do if the worst should happen is important.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

After devoting a solid 15 pages of his letter on how the U.S. should slash regulations, Dimon made a point to single out a single area of government oversight that has undeniable value: «Some regulations quite clearly create a common good (e.g., clean air and water),» Dimon noted, in a sentence that went on to catalog the ways regulation is otherwise bad for the economy — making it all the more striking that he chose to highlight environmental issues.

For better or worse, you may soon face the daunting prospect of managing memos and business correspondence that, in some ways, write themselves.

As I said in my review, it's not exactly a «destination poutine» — or one that you might go out of your way for — but it's not a half - bad option unto itself.

And the thing about narratives is that they drive behavior in ways that are more powerful and profound than people readily acknowledge — for good and bad.

George Moncrief, who previously worked for VTF Capital as an entrepreneur - in - residence, says that while the VC - entrepreneur relationship is a two - way street, «what differentiates the good from the bad investors is that good investors ensure that their entrepreneurs take care of their bodies and spirits.»

«And when those bad boys are made, look, the way to think about it, the magic of self - driving vehicles, is that the reason Uber [is] expensive is because you're not just paying for the car, you're paying for the other dude in the car,» said Kalanick, in a moment of bare - knuckles candor.

Instead of shrinking in the face of a few bad apples, customers using social media to solve service or product issues will learn to go around trolls and «haters» — the same way they do for the rest of their Internet experience.

But it is important to keep it in perspective, focus on your long - term objectives without fleeing to the sidelines at the worst moment, and keep an eye out both for opportunities — as well as ways to strengthen your portfolio.

Unhappy neighbors can be bad for business in all kinds of ways.

In some ways, I feel bad for Facebook... sure, it's sad that it happened, but Facebook is a high - risk company.

The way to know for sure whether your business has a competitive advantage in this category is to ask, «if other companies started using or offering this special sauce / feature / method, would it be bad for our business?»

A slowing Chinese economy might be good or bad for the world, depending on how it affects the relationship between domestic savings and domestic investment, and this itself depends on whether Beijing drives the rebalancing process in an orderly way or is forced into a disorderly rebalancing by excess debt.

It might make its customers happy, but its growing economic power could make their lives worse in countless other ways when they're not one - click shopping for toilet paper.

I also got a chance to travel to Texas this past summer for several weeks of training in San Antonio which I combined with some leave days visiting Denver, the Grand Canyon, Albuquerque New Mexico (saw all the Breaking Bad film locations), and Austin, Texas (along with a fun night at 6th Street seeing a ton of live music and drinking way too much beer).

This is not a bad thing in some respects — rich communities have legitimate need for attention from the state, too — but the aid we can get this way is out of proportion to the needs.

The system threatens to collapse in such a way that will leave a legacy of financial cleanup costs for the bad debts that form the counterpart to the economy's «bad savings», that is, savings lent to speculators who use the money simply to buy existing properties rather than to create new assets.

In fact, in some ways can be worse for the entrepreneuIn fact, in some ways can be worse for the entrepreneuin some ways can be worse for the entrepreneur.

Just as watching your weight, exercising and not smoking are dull but dependable ways to stay healthy, diversifying your investments in accordance with your risk tolerance and stage in life will keep your portfolio from taking a turn for the worse.

Removing hidden asset write - downs from operating expenses does not reward companies for bad investments, it just records the negative impact in a more accurate way.

For long - term investors the most important manifestation of that trend is a U.S. stock market trading at elevated valuations that do not discount much in the way of bad news.

In fact, looking at Amazon's impact in its current headquarters city is a good way for the 20 cities battling for HQ2 to be catch a glimpse — for better and for worse — of their own futureIn fact, looking at Amazon's impact in its current headquarters city is a good way for the 20 cities battling for HQ2 to be catch a glimpse — for better and for worse — of their own futurein its current headquarters city is a good way for the 20 cities battling for HQ2 to be catch a glimpse — for better and for worse — of their own futures.

Now that many African Americans in cities like Atlanta were foreclosed on during the subprime crisis, many of them have bad credit as a result — which means they can't buy homes the traditional way, and so are being offered contract - for - deed payments once again.

Senior executives at China's Big Four state - owned banks say regulators are also exploring ways for banks to exchange bad loans for equity in certain too - big - to - fail companies — a potentially controversial step that they say could saddle banks with near - worthless stock and squeeze their liquidity.

Uber is facing a similar lawsuit from its drivers, but a quirk in the litigation could make the outcome way worse for the world's biggest ride - hail company.

But some listeners can't forget that America wasn't always all about freedom for some people and talking about the past in a way that ignores those experiences comes across like cluelessness at best or nostalgia for the political marginalization of nonwhites at worst.

Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesses.

He repeats his description of the ways bad charity (the Great Society) drove out good charity (religiously based groups): It reinterpreted the causes of poverty as exclusively material and environmental; its bureaucracy tried to reach ever - larger numbers of poor people with a decreasingly personal strategy for fighting poverty; it dismissed the role of volunteers in favor of professional social workers; and it removed the incentives for work, saving, and marriage.

After reading several of the posts on the «interpretation of mythical texts into a book called the bible» one is left to wonder how a being who is supposed to have created the universe would permit what is often referred to as «his inerrant words»... to get so screwed up... you would think he / she / it would have been keeping a close eye on a book that he / she / it wanted to have in print for... mass distribution... it is not not a womder the bible is messed up the way it is... it is a «human» construct... only humans could mess a book up that badly... gods do nor make mistakes... except for Rick Santorum