Sentences with phrase «just took a hold»

«Really, the leadership just took hold of the team.

When I graduated, the recession was just taking hold so I took the first job I was offered and applied to Countdown on a whim.

Those really established the idea of the mean girl, and pop culture just took a hold of it and ran with it.

We've just taken hold of the very first trailer for Guillermo del Toro's upcoming horror film CRIMSON PEAK, which stars Tom Hiddleston opposite Charlie...

Remember back in the day, where graphics were limited and voice acting was just taking hold and they only had enough room for a line or two of taunts from the villain?

In defense of the quote, however, I must add that «Econometric Modeling» was just taking hold then.

It wasn't literally «free,» we just took the holding costs out of the overall budget, so, while I could have paid the interest on the loan, and the utilities as though I was renting, and come out of the deal with a bigger check, I just got the advantage of not having to pay rent.

Not exact matches

Refrain from avoiding taking action just because an employee is a friend or holds a position of leadership.

So if you're benching, use less weight than you normally do, lower the weight very slowly (taking at least five seconds), stop just above your chest, hold for a few seconds, squeezing your chest muscles the entire time, then slowly push it back up.

Since I have been on this path myself and have kicked the habit of just hoping, I have suggestions to help you to get out of the «fogginess of hoping» and take a hold of your business instead.

And then I think lastly, it's about just being very aligned with what the CEO — where the CEO wants to take the company, and really helping that CEO win on the things that he or she is being held accountable for.

Cooperman also sold about 3.5 million shares in Sprint (S), bringing his total holdings in the telecom to just under 40 million shares, and he took 5.2 million additional shares in grocery chain Supervalu (SVU).

The Taurus became the best - selling car in America in 1992 with sales of nearly 410,000, just as Japanese imports were starting to take hold.

One of them was Frank Ogden's The Last Book You'll Ever Read, notable not just for its breathlessly loony take on what the next century held for us, but also for including a complete digital copy of itself on a floppy disk stuck to the inside back cover.

If this change in mindset truly takes hold, the entire Vancouver market will be affected, not just the multimillion - dollar homes.

A cold, complete with nasal congestion and other unpleasant symptoms, can hold you back just when your business is about to take off.

The majority of analysts take the latter view, with 80 % saying to buy, 15 % saying to hold and just 5 % saying to sell.

It just takes more suppression assets to get a hold of those fires.»

Last week, it took just four days for the album to break the 15 year - old first - week sales record held by NSync's 2000 album «No Strings Attached.»

QC Holdings» payday loan stores dot that state, but just a year after the law, the president of the company told analysts that installment loans had «taken the place of payday loans» in that state.

Pretty much everyone took the move as meaning just that, but Xi has now claimed he is «personally opposed» to life - long rule, and the term - limit removal was more about aligning the post of presidency with that of top posts in the Communist Party, which Xi also holds, and which don't come with term limits.

There are a number of ways leaders can effectively communicate with their employees, such as holding town halls, taking a different route through the office to increase visibility or setting weekly one - on - ones just to check in.

To just get to the top step of the dugout and hold play for a second and then get the replay, which takes about 10 or 12 seconds, I think that's all good.

Animal spirits in the stock market have finally, truly taken hold and participation is broadening out from just the wealthiest 20 % of investors.

I'll keep buying, cold storing them and just hold on for the ride wherever it takes me.

I do not plan to trade any currencies rather buy a basket of a few and just hold on and enjoy the ride wherever it takes me.

I arrived in Southwestern Ontario in 2000, just as the manufacturing sector's collapse was taking hold.

Just when it looked like the risk - on paradigm was gaining some traction, Chancellor Merkel, through her spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said, ``... dreams that are taking hold again now that with this package everything will be solved and everything will be over on Monday won't be able to be fulfilled.»

However, the shares then recovered sharply just hours later after China's Tencent Holdings said it purchased around 145.78 million non-voting Snap shares on the open market, taking its overall stake past the 10 % threshold that requires formal notification.

Home values in Vancouver, Canada, are set to rise by just 2 % in 2017, 11 % lower than this year, as the foreign buyer tax and mortgage tightening measures take hold.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

We don't buy any stock that doesn't pay a dividend, and years back when the market took a big tumble, we sat tight on our holdings and those dividends just kept rolling in.

MOSCOW (Reuters)- An escalation in U.S. sanctions against Moscow risks derailing a fragile recovery in Russia's economy, which had just begun to take hold after the Kremlin's last confrontation with the West in 2014, analysts and investors said on Monday.

For portfolios that are invested in a selection of «building - block» strategies, rather than managed holistically, with full access to a wide range of investment tools and techniques, it is just as important to «look through» to underlying holdings to take account of factor exposures.

Just by clicking the «reinvest button», you'd be adding $ 122 to your annual income before even taking into account the growth of the dividend in your holdings.

Houses, for example: Home prices just took the biggest jump in four years (CNBC)-- Homebuyers, hold onto your wallets.

Overall, it was neither encouraging nor dismal, and as a result, the «Goldilocks» meme quickly took hold, suggesting just enough weakness to keep the Fed on hold, but not enough to endanger the economy.

The reason why DAI stays stable at just around one USD is due to the fact that the dynamic interest rates investors can receive in return for holding DAI and a minor amount fees being taken which allows for there to be a stability around the price of DAI.

Let's put it this way, reality took hold and I realized that what you believe is your own personal choice, however, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Mohammed, Buddha and the many other deities and prophets out there just want us to live our lives as good people.

When I look up at the stars in the night sky, it is obvious to me that there are many suitable planets where life has taken hold just as it has here on Earth.

And you just might hear the universe murmur that — if tired hands don't feel full of the riches of Christ, those weary hands might take His, and long hold the tried and true Words of Christ, and linger longer at the nail - scarred feet of Christ, and feel the wounds of Christ trace all the tender scars like He is finding His people and you're finding yours.

, what created the created and the created before the created, its unreal how far the universe is, we have a universe that science has taken photos of, what created our entire universe, and what created the universe before ours... it's like when you hold a mirror and look into another mirror, the image is of your self is stacked and stacked upon each other, are we just a mirror that goes on forever.

They had the audacity to pray for one small thing, «Please Lord, just give us a moment, one moment to hold our son before you take him.»

People have died unnecessarily and like any inquest that is held, someone needs to be held personally accountable for this and just having it as their corporate situation; no one is taking direct responsibility.

One side of a familiy not showing up at a family function just because the event is held in the wrong church or because the other side has the wrong take of the same damn religion.

When I hear people or places describing / selling themselves a certain way, I tend to hold back and take a wait and see approach... is there an effort to live up to that label... or is it just a catchy phrase reflecting the mood of the marketplace with no real commitment behind it.

The problem is they hold these caususes on weeknights when the real americans are just getting home from work or taking care of the kids.

Media education is just beginning to take hold in the public schools and it is almost altogether missing in the churches.

In interfaith dialogue we are not just exchanging information; we are also testifying to truths that have taken hold of us and shaped our commitments.

Santayana would reject the principle in both forms since he holds, as we have just seen, that there is no special immediacy about mind's knowledge of itself: What is ordinarily, and properly, called «knowledge» is, for Santayana, the intuition of an essence combined with an act of intent directed upon some reality beyond which this essence is taken as a description.