Sentences with phrase «in the lurch»

Expanding CPP with an optional add - on to the point where many employees wouldn't need a corporate pension at all would allow companies to reduce benefits without leaving their workers in the lurch.

Quickly propose a game plan to end the relationship — but without leaving the client in the lurch.

This is because in addition to being very thoughtful about their workload versus vacation time, when employees do decide to take time off, they work even harder beforehand to make sure that they're not leaving team members in the lurch.

I know my friend will do a good job so I'm not leaving the customer in the lurch.

Major service interruption that hit other parts of the world earlier this week has reached the U.S., leaving users in the lurch.

But Trump's diplomatic initiatives in Asia have often left Japan in the lurch — a dynamic underscored by the recent whirlwind events around Trump's proposed meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that this is just another part of the process — that being left in the lurch comes with the territory.

Significant others, try to understand how much your entrepreneurs are managing at work and that they're not intentionally leaving you in the lurch.

For older workers, meanwhile, more effort should be put into training so they aren't left in the lurch when automation transforms even more jobs along the way.

No wonder that if PC vendors such as Dell, HP and Lenovo aren't already in a lurch, they're scrambling to get out of the business.

It's left his party in a lurch.

To compound this problem, mall owners are now starting to mail in the keys to financially troubled malls: More mall landlords are choosing to walk away from struggling properties, leaving creditors in the lurch and posing a threat to the values of nearby real estate... [as] some of the largest U.S. landlords are calculating it is more advantageous to hand over ownership to lenders than to attempt to restructure debts on properties with darkening outlooks (LINK).

The FTC also will want to ascertain that a franchisor is well - capitalized and not a fly - by - night operation that might leave franchisees who've invested tens of thousands of dollars in the lurch.

The Labor Department first proposed an expanded fiduciary definition under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, in 2010, but withdrew the proposal the following year amid broad criticism that it would impose onerous restrictions on the industry that would cause financial professionals to abandon the retirement space, leaving low and moderate - income Americans in the lurch.

Servicers left borrowers in the lurch — some went out of business, while others saw that they could make more money by foreclosing than by modifying loans.

Every few years borrowers with mortgage insurance are left in the lurch, not knowing if they have a deduction or not.

The Zano Project, a Kickstarter - backed attempt to launch a line of «sophisticated nano drones» — which made $ 3.5 million in donations for its launch — has folded, leaving contributors potentially in the lurch.

Although the capex share of sales has finally begun to edge upward, some of these companies could find themselves in the lurch if the economy hits a rough patch or the cost of capital moves substantially higher in the months and years ahead.

And just as the retail workers at Target are left in the lurch, our small congregations were often left to scatter in the aftermath, trying to find healing as best they could.

Or was there something about Elijah and his surrendered mantle that overwhelmed any secondary considerations, such as what it would mean to rush past the fifth commandment about honoring one's father and mother and instead leave them in the lurch?

Jesus had assured them, «the Father from heaven gives good things to those who ask him,» and yet his last word according to Mark was «My God, My God, why have you left me in the lurch?»

The government seemed aware that, after overthrowing the Taliban government, we should not leave Afghanistan in the lurch, as we had earlier when we helped engineer the defeat of the Soviets there.

The theology of original sin lay languishing in the lurch.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

You will note that I ought to proceed somewhat leisurely, if only for the sake of the illusion; for 1843 years is an exceptionally generous allotment of time, likely to put me in a predicament the opposite of that in which our philosophers find themselves, whom the time usually permits only an indication of their meaning; and the opposite also to that of our historians, who find that not the material, but the time, leaves them in the lurch.

Well, truly, I wouldn't leave you in the lurch like that, but after I made them it was dark outside, so I froze my pot - stickers to shoot on a better day.

Wrighty said; «I've got a nasty feeling Arsene Wenger will walk away from the Arsenal job today, leaving the club totally in the lurch.

Just a thought, if Wenger does leave us in the lurch, who will step into the breach?

We'd be a family, I'd rather give it my best and go down swinging with my family rather than leaving them in the lurch, leaving them to watch me with the lot they despise most and winning the thing they want most.

You can't say we've left him in the lurch.

Despite being on top for 70 minutes after Diego Costa's goal and the decisive red card for Per Mertesacker that really left us in the lurch, I never felt there was the cutting edge and spark in our attacking forays to make the all - important breakthrough.

«I've got a nasty feeling Arsene Wenger will walk away from the Arsenal job today — and leave the club totally in the lurch,» Wright was quoted as saying.

Atletico took the lead through Fernando Torres, but the former Liverpool striker was dismissed for a second yellow card during the first half, leaving his side in the lurch.

The French international left us in the lurch without a straight replacement if Bellerin got injured in the second half of last season, and he has never been happy about sitting on the bench ever since here covered from his injury - so the sooner Wenger brings in a suitable replacement the better, but I can't say that I will be happy to see Ospina leave, although he is obviously too good to be sitting on the bench....

Bandes was 14 when Marlon flipped to SC and left us in the lurch.

But I want us to have a proper go of the title at the same time, I'm in two minds if I'm being honest, so, I'll except whichever one they choose so long as it's not leaving it too late and they aren't leaving us in the lurch.

agree with keane on alot of things but hes bitter and keeps bringing things back to himself, he left us in the lurch in 2002 and berating every1 now is not going to vindicate him....

Conte had made the decision to go for Lukaku over Morata this time around, but the Spaniard has seemingly been left in the lurch by United as he looks to leave Real Madrid.

Wenger knew as much and a part of him sensed - rightly or wrongly - that going then could have left them in the lurch, that he had something of an obligation to carry on and have one last crack a leading this team to success.

He has destroyed every team he has managed and been sacked on all but one occasion — the other being when he left a team in the lurch to go in search of «success» prior to being binned from City.

Holloway's response was to threaten the FA with his resignation should any punishment be handed out, which means the rest of this preview could be a load of rubbish and partly irrelevant if Holloway does pack his bags and leave the Seasiders well and truly in the lurch, Steve Coppell style.

Writing in his column in The Sun, Wright said: «I've got a nasty feeling Arsene Wenger will walk away from the Arsenal job today, leaving the club totally in the lurch.

An undependable caregiver will leave you in a lurch time and time again.

Still, if supremacy is bad for the North, it can't be good for the South — and that is the point the Biafra and Oodua supremacists miss, busy flexing muscles about making it alone; while betting the North would be left in the lurch.

«The administration has utterly failed to get any kind of meaningful infrastructure plan to form and now we're seeing rollbacks for transit in this bill that's going to leave millions of New Yorkers — and the regional economy — in the lurch.»

Incoming NYC schools boss Richard Carranza left his previous district in Houston in the lurch by quitting after just 18 months on the job, critics say.

At one point after announcing his candidacy for comptroller, Spitzer appeared to court Paterson by publicly apologizing to him for leaving him in a lurch by resigning during the worst economic meltdown in 50 years.

Now these people aren't ordinary people, they are the higher echelon of campaign staff — the kind of people who can put together a successful ground operation, but for one reason or another these folks were left hanging in a lurch by the billionaire oil baron.

He said he had sought to engage with ministers to find a compromise over several weeks, but without success: «The blunt reality is, and I'm sorry to have to say this to the house, I've been left in the lurch, as a backbench member trying to improve this legislation.»

StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis is calling on the Mayor to issue an immediate retraction of those comments saying quote: «Last night Mayor de Blasio claimed that closing failing schools doesn't work because it «left kids in the lurch in all those transition years and a lot of those schools were not necessarily better.»