Sentences with phrase «just been in the middle»

Tencent is about to roll out its mobile hit Honor of Kings in the west, as the title just was in the middle of controversy in China regarding the amount of time children spent playing it.

Not exact matches

When I see other people walk by trash or drop cigarettes in the middle of the street, I can't help but think that they're marginalizing their agency and the impact they can make in their community by just implementing one mundane action.

If you struggle to make time to maintain your friendships in the crush of middle age mid-career craziness, just remind yourself that socializing isn't an indulgence.

«It's farmers in Middle America developing something for people just like them.»

«Seeing that movie theater with its beautiful architecture in the middle of town and it's not open, it's just strange.»

But six miles inland, something just as unusual, if far less gaudy, is taking shape — the first coal - fired power plant in the Middle East.

These local and mayoral elections are unusual because they come just five weeks before voters will go back to the polls for the general election, and slap - bang in the middle of the political parties» election campaigns.

We wanted not just their capital to invest, but also the credibility they could bring that would shine a spotlight on entrepreneurs in the middle of the country who are building great companies.

In the middle are clients who are doing well but aren't focused on conquering the world because they just see that challenge as too risky.

That would be like if we said, «Let's forget about all the stuff in the middle, and just go straight to Nevada.

To many bankers and others in the industry, SBAExpress occupies the middle ground between a conventional bank loan and traditional 7 (a) credit — trotted out when a borrower is «just a little bit of a stretch beyond the normal credit limits,» according to Joel Pruis, portfolio management analyst at the Indianapolis consulting firm Baker Hill.

It might be during the last stretch of an important project, in the middle of a team meeting about an upcoming initiative, or somewhere else — sometimes, you just burn out.

Again, if you ask people about how they deal with stress and you hear answers that just don't pass the smell test - where someone always seems be in the middle of a crisis - you might just have an arsonist on your hands.

It just seems right that way, maybe because the word is about payments and numbers and «noom» sounds like the «num» in number, while «myoo» seems strange to put in the middle of a word.

The financial industry frequently touts 70 % as the percentage of your working income that you'll need to replace, but most middle - class Canadians replace only about 50 % to 60 % of their working income in their golden years, and they say that's just fine.

Van Bruggen was an ambitious 21 - year - old who had just bought a safety - equipment business in Sturgeon County, Alta., and with the acquisition came a single middle - aged staffer.

«And so again I think that Americans, when they have all this information put in front of them, are going to understand just how far the president and Republicans have gone to disadvantage the middle class — the very people who they promised to be champions for,» she said.

«We were in the boardroom one time figuring out who to blame for the task, and he just stopped in the middle and pointed to someone and said, «You'd f... her, wouldn't you?

... We are just lucky to realize that we are in the middle of it right now,» he says.

It's just one of the many overseas adventures he's had, including attending a Masai tribal wedding in Kenya, breaking an ankle on a volleyball court in Brazil, and finding himself at Bangkok's airport in the middle of a military curfew.

Scientists behind a recent study published in the journal Neurology analyzed 101 late - middle - aged adults (the average age was just under 63), and collected spinal fluid samples from each participant.

He started trading stocks in middle school, but had decided by the time he started at UC Berkeley that he was more interested in creating a company than just investing in them.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

«These are our neighbors (not just in Syria, but the Middle East and Africa as a whole), so it makes sense for there to be stability and prosperity in countries that surround us and with which we need to do business,» Gunzburg told CNBC.

While there are lots of potential ways we could help working mothers, one that may seem counterintuitive is to focus less on the handful of women at the top — just 28 of Canada's 500 largest companies are headed by women — and to emphasize instead the successes happening in the middle.

And as for their comfort zones, «You would laugh to see how uncomfortable middle managers are just standing around in a circle.

Just two years ago Wilson was in the middle of the list, at No. 49, but when operating income at the yogawear retailer he founded soared 67 % in 2011, he was catapulted into the Canadian elite.

It showed just how fragile and isolated the earth was as the globe was reduced to an ornament sized sphere, hanging half in shadow and suspending in the middle of nothing at all.

«Backing away from reacting once the red line was crossed impacted American credibility not just in the Middle East, but I think it was being watching in Moscow and Tehran and Beijing and Pyongyang and elsewhere,» Gates said.

What's more, the middle class in Asia doesn't just have increasing amounts of disposable income, but also time, education and access to information.

There is one part of the ad that just seems out of place today — the fact that the man lights up a cigarette casually in the middle of his monologue.

WHEN a computer system crashes in the middle of the night somewhere in America, the first phone call for help may well be made to Perth, where it is just another client ringing during office hours.

Robertson described his dream to the Guardian: «I was standing at a window with venetian blinds just like the actual gas chamber, and the blinds opened up and I could see a crib in the middle of the room.

Just think about it: When you're in the middle of a situation, it's difficult to see the big picture.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

«We're investing in the middle of the conflict because we believe it gives people not just hope, but it gives them more reason to say, «We want this conflict to end.»

These days, Albertans are in the middle of a prolonged interjurisdictional peacetime, and not just because Notley has opted to be less confrontational with fellow premiers and the federal Liberals (she does get into spats with her right - leaning neighbour, Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, but he's been goading).

Herbalife, the company caught in the middle of a hedge fund dogfight, says it's doing just fine, thanks.

The ensuing boom endowed the middle class in the United States and other countries, but was debt financed, first for home ownership and commercial real estate, then by consumer credit to purchase of automobiles and appliances, and finally by credit - card debt just to meet living expenses.

In Panama City's central Parque Lefevre neighborhood, where many middle - class Panamanian professionals make their homes, a two - bedroom condo — with a balcony, a newly remodeled kitchen with granite countertops, and all appliances and window treatments included — is selling for just $ 122,000.

According to Reuters, Putin's role as intermediary between Riyadh and Tehran was pivotal, and is a «testament to the rising influence of Russia in the Middle East since its military intervention in the Syrian civil war just over a year ago.»

On the other hand, Lockhart said, «If we see a deterioration from this point, and I would say my more realistic fear is just a kind of ambiguous picture of mixed data that signal neither accelerating strength nor necessarily deterioration, but that kind of moping along in the middle, then I think it's not a foregone conclusion that the asset purchase program should be removed or be removed rapidly.»

In fact, from the middle of 1983 through October of 1987, there were just two months when more money flowed into stock funds than into bond funds — April 1987 and August 1987.

Since I calculate my net worth on the last day of the month I just use whatever the current balance is on my cards (my billing cycle ends in the middle of the month).

The bursting of the housing bubble — which entailed a collapse in home values and a flood of foreclosures — and spiking unemployment led millions of Americans to realize that their «middle - class» lives were just a paycheck or two from evaporating.

Similarly, when bosses noticed Kim transferring Bitcoin out of company wallets, Kim claimed company Bitcoin funds were blocked and he was just in the middle of taking steps to unblock the money and recover the Bitcoin.

«In some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that too,» says Kalanick, who'd grown up middle class in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for iIn some way, L.A. respects the young guy that's out there just trying to make it happen, but in some ways, they disrespect that too,» says Kalanick, who'd grown up middle class in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for iin some ways, they disrespect that too,» says Kalanick, who'd grown up middle class in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for iin Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, close enough to people like Ovitz to want what they had and also to hate them for it.

I think you're right, most people are just maintaining middle class at best in the bay.

It's just a matter of time before we see a reversion to the mean in which housing prices revert back to the true fundamental condition of the middle class in this country.