Sentences with phrase «in older days»

In the older days, and in many parts of the world still today, thermometers were installed inside naturally ventilated screens.

This baby walker is very durable, the toys keep my grandsons attention the only thing is the height adjustment I didn't like because in the older days it use to adjust with the weight of the child but this one doesn't do his feet do not touchthe ground enough for him to walk in it.

Is it the bond between clubs and fans, which is so much weaker than in the older days, when you could actually talk to the players, as I and we oldies used to do at away games, when the players would come outside the players entrance and give us free complimentary tickets?

Doubtless a significant temptation to sloth or «accidie» — as this vice was called in older days — is to be found in the frustration a man experiences when he has no clear sense of his duties and no specific standard by means of which to judge himself.

In older days, inexplicable distaters would be attributed to God's wrath by those inpower so that their subjects would be kept in line.

In the old days that would've taken many months.

«Everybody has story about buying on a Tuesday, and I think maybe in the old days that used to be the case,» he laughed.

So it's fairly manageable, considering the trips that people used to in the old days.

In the old days, advertisers couldn't control how many times a message appeared before Web users.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

In the old days, flossing when you had braces was a difficult chore.

In the old days, for example, the government responded to high prices by legislating tax breaks for first - time home buyers.

In the old days, website content was managed by creating an HTML file on your computer and uploading it to a web server, where it was accessible to the world.

Such tantrums might have been tolerated in the old days, but Twitter makes nothing sacred anymore.

«You can't have a musty church basement or whatever space people used in the old days.»

But when we make these investments, it can be easy to overlook the power of building intimacy with your customers by delivering world - class customer service like they used to in the old days.

In the old days, dropping by someone's office or picking up the phone was a fairly straightforward affair.

In other words in the old days there used to be a rule in the Hays office days where you couldn't fire a shot and see the person who was being shot.

In the old days, VCs funded off of a «pre-money» valuation.

In the old days there usually weren't convertible notes on early - stage deals, and there weren't party rounds with 20 angels or 6 seed funds.

«In the old days, you dealt with one regulator.

In the old days, it was taboo to talk about your personal life in public but social media has changed all that.

In the old days, Hawkins would judge a promotion a success or failure depending on the redemption rate (percentage of customers who participated) and the rise in sales.

Back in the old days, a business's presence would be signified by advertisements in the paper and a physical storefront.

«In the old days, men wore a uniform to work,» he says.

The difference is that in the old days, conversations were largely consensual, two - way deals.

The retiree and his wife treat visitors the way people used to in the old days: They invite us into their home, insist that we have some noodles, and practically force bags of apples and nuts into our hands before we depart.

«In the old days, we would just show you an ad about people traveling to a destination,» says Vic Walia, VP of global brand marketing at Bellevue, Washington - based Expedia.

Typically, in the old days, the importer would have asked his bank to issue a letter of credit, and this would be sent to and accepted by the foreign exporter's bank.

In the old days, you had to call your broker to make a trade and pay a $ 100 + commission for each trade.

HADLEY, MA: In the old days, companies that wanted to reach a market simply advertised.

Back in the old days, when Uncle Sam swindled his creditors through inflation, he was burning his own taxpayers, since Americans owned over 90 per cent of US debt after World War II.

In the old days of selling, it was about the «ABC's» — Always Be Closing (Think Glengarry Glen Ross.

In the old days of bond investing, you would pick a bond fund with a narrowly defined mandate, like «medium - term corporates,» and the bond manager would spend his life trying to outperform the stated benchmark.

In the old days, you would say you were diversified if you owned one — you owned 500 stocks!

«China, in those old days, was dominated by class struggle.»

In the old days — basically, up until a month ago — most people in the video world assumed ESPN was untouchable.

Now that you are an investor, you are going to hear a lot about blue chip stocks, or «bellwethers» as they were called in the old days.

I think that to some extent, we've gotten almost as good at picking the superior managers as we were in the old days, at picking the no - brainer businesses.

In the old days of investing — that is, before the Internet — share ownership really did involve taking receipt of share certificates.

In the old days, in contrast, economists — or many of them, in any event [1]-- liked to distinguish between what they considered money in the strict sense of the term, or «money proper,» and «money substitutes.»

In the old days, getting exposure to, say, the energy sector would involve trading options on the XOI or OSX indices, or maybe trading a swap over-the-counter.

South America in the old days?

In the old days, there was fear and dislike of Chinese workers (by workers and unions but perhaps not by employers) because they worked too hard for too little.

In the old day, or possibly still today I'm not sure, coal miners used to carry a live canary in a cage when going into the...

Now, in the old days, if you wanted to lend money to somebody in particular, you were taking on a pretty risky business, unless he or she put up some form of collateral.

In the old days any well - trained security analyst could do a good professional job of selecting undervalued issues through detailed studies; but in the light of the enormous amount of research now being carried on, I doubt whether in most cases such extensive efforts will generate sufficiently superior selections to justify their cost.

In the old days 90 + % of the Greeks believed that lightning and thunder were created by Zeus when he was angry.

In the old days when we were more tribal, the only way to remove someone from our lives was by murdering them.

But the proof is in the big picture: In the old days, almost 100 % of the pop was religious.