Sentences with phrase «insist on it as»

By 2017, more than half of employers won't just tolerate employees bringing their own phones, they'll insist on it as they move to lower their own costs.

Many small businesses have decided to seek ISO 9000 certification because of their corporate customers, who began to insist on it as a method of ensuring that their suppliers were paying adequate attention to quality.

Infant baptism was insisted on as a necessity for purification from an original sin said to be inherited at birth by all humans due to the sin of Adam and Eve.

Then adequate and speedy compensation was insisted on as pertaining to the law of international relations.

Mind - cure, theosophy, stoicism, ordinary neurological hygiene, insist on it as emphatically as Christianity does, and it is capable of entering into closest marriage with every speculative creed.

In a word: with his «knowledge for its own sake» Newman does not exclude the relation to the whole of knowledge, but insists on it as the main point.

They seek to normalize the idea that formal citizenship doesn't really matter — and that insisting on it as a prerequisite for voting is at best discriminatory, and most likely racist.

However, an author should take nothing for granted and must become actively involved in the promotion and marketing of their e-book; some e-publishers insist on it as part of the contract.

Insist on as full of an accounting as the plan sponsor will give you.

They do, though, insist on her as postmodern and relevant.

So we wanted to restore the height that the drop ceiling had taken away and we wanted to fulfil the original idea that there was natural light in the gallery, which is something Henry Moore had insisted on as an advisor to the Arts Council, but the original architects didn't want it.

Next, the rich countries here commit to «mid-term» goals (still non-binding) to curb emissions, a step that China, particularly, had insisted on as evidence that the «you first» standoff has been resolved.

We are suggesting an underlying fairness principle, which you, China, and your developing - country colleagues are rightly insisting on as a starting point.

The whole point of the global warming scare is to take an uncertain and unproven scientific hypothesis and insist on it as an absolute scientific certainty requiring immediate action — which just so happens to be a very specific agenda that aligns perfectly with a certain political outlook.

Not exact matches

Still, one thing seems clear: The glitch would never have happened if the banks hadn't insisted on classifying Coinbase purchases as cash advances — despite the fact that the U.S. government does not currently consider cryptocurrencies currency at all.

Canada and Mexico have said they are happy with the «rules of origin» as currently written, and that they would oppose any attempt by Washington to insist on a specific quota for any one country.

Institutional investors (such as pension funds) routinely insist on holding only highly - rated securities, so a downgrade can force them to sell that issuer's bonds.

It's pointless to seek a more profound truth here, as media boffins will insist on doing.

Google insists it is committed to Glass, with hundreds of engineers and executives working on it, as well as new fashionista boss Ivy Ross, a former Calvin Klein executive.

If you insist on using a common name, then look for an ending, such as:

«Thinking for yourself means questioning dominant ideas even when others insist on their being treated as unquestionable.

Though the fast - food chain insisted that the new wording was never intended to replace the company's long - standing catchphrase, «I'm lovin» it,» the Wall Street Journal reported it would debut on New Year's Day and even get an airing in the Super Bowl — claims the company dismissed as «highly speculative and premature.»

In the short - term, some people will hang on to the notion of driving on their own of course, much as some holdouts who insist on typing on typewriters, or putting two spaces after a period.

But even as it faces competition in the future, Scaled Composites will not turn its back on the past, Rutan insists.

«The best things most boards can do is ask as many questions as possible and insist on high - quality information from management and outside advisers,» says Fullbrook.

Venture capital investors almost always insist on investing through a «preferred» equity instrument, typically referred to as preferred stock.

Prior shareholder letters insisted the proposals were misguided or ignored the company's efforts to spell out its position that even a world intent on limiting temperature rises would still need more oil — a position shared by bodies such as the International Energy Agency, which sees oil demand rising for some years to come yet.

The company built its Aurora manufacturing facility specifically with the U.S. regulatory approval process in mind; the FDA, as part of its sign - off, insists on a detailed facility audit.

Marino describes Tuft & Needle as «culturally flat,» and he insists on giving every employee the chance to be heard.

Amy Lewallen advises that you insist on being put in contact with struggling owners as well as successful ones, so you can gain insight into the real challenges of the business and evaluate your own ability to respond to them.

Executives at Sanofi have denied any wrongdoing and insist on the benefits the medicine brings as a whole.

Plus, Buffett could always insist on some special warrants that allow him to increase Berkshire's position as Uber matures and overcomes various regulatory hurdles.

As Wiseman reported to Quartz at Work, when leaders talk about the reasons an approach might not work, someone on their team is more likely to jump in and insist on why the team will succeed.

As part of the arrangement that saw him relinquish Magna's reins last year, he insisted on receiving a controlling minority stake in Magna E-Car Systems, a nascent venture that's co-ordinating Magna's foray into electric vehicles.

Martin Moen, the director general at Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would be «very difficult to see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.

Even the Bible insists that we finish what we started (2 Corinthians 8:11) and I'm sure Shakespeare and Ben Franklin had a thought or two on the subject as well.

He went on to insist that Congress continue to prioritize coverage as the bill continues its legislative journey.

As for being spoiled and narcissistic: I have yet to meet an entrepreneur of any age who isn't supremely confident, easily distracted by new ideas, and proud of being unemployable by ordinary companies that insist on coloring inside the lines.

In a heated interview on «Fox News Sunday,» the attorney, Jay Sekulow, insisted — as he did on the other Sunday political talk shows — that the president was not under criminal investigation, despite reporting from The Washington Post and the president's own tweet that suggested he was a target of the probe.

But Ovshinsky insisted on the nickel, postulating correctly, as it turned out, that ECD could devise a high - performance, low - cost battery.

Thus, insisting on strong English skills as a condition of coming to America is likely to increase labor market competition and suppress wages.

How to do this seems to revolve a lot around consciously defining what sales should do versus what customer service should do, and which employees should work in which area — as well as helping your team build on their strengths (which can often be done for free, the guide insists).

Directors must insist on asking management to analyze strategic choices as an activist would: by looking at alternatives to the strategies the CEO is recommending.

The House of Cards deal tossed that model out like so many catered leftovers, as Netflix bet on the product without insisting on the creative control that comes with a traditional TV deal.

Especially for young entrepreneurs, Vanderkam insists it's also smart to think of building assets as building future options and not to focus too much on what you're missing out on.

[M] illennials seeking government help as automation takes hold, and boomers insisting on promised levels of Social Security and Medicare.»

Bezos insists on a long - term orientation for Amazon, just as Jobs did at Apple (aapl).

During the Civil War, American Red Cross founder Clara Barton insisted on working as a nurse on the front lines.

Hannity interjected that his relationship with Cohen was «minimal,» something he had underscored in previous statements where he painted the interaction as being mostly focused on real estate and insisted he «never retained» Cohen «in the traditional sense.»

Conservative in almost every sense of the word, the billionaire Singer, now 73, insists on hedging all his investments to reduce the risk of loss, and prizes «manual efforts» — in other words, old - fashioned elbow grease — as the defining characteristic of his investment style.