Sentences with phrase «kind of a sign of»

«You also realize too though, it's kind of a sign of success when sometimes negative things come your way — it means that it's getting big.

In a lifetime of making a certain kind of painting, an artist may find some kind of transcendence in the production and some kind of sign of that transcendence in the work, but, as time passes, I'm not sure how immutable that transcendence is.

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«After several months of interviews with friends, teachers and coaches still reeling from the shock, what emerges is a portrait of a boy who glided through life, showing virtually no signs of anger, let alone radical political ideology or any kind of deeply felt religious beliefs,» the magazine explained.

It's kind of like signing up to Netflix to binge watch House of Cards, then dropping it.

It studies DNA in the blood, detecting biological signs of cancer and then making predictions about where the cancer is and what kind of treatments would work best.

Curiously, this is precisely the kind of report the authors of CEO - Speak (McGill - Queen's University Press, $ 39.95) would argue is the sign of an enlightened CEO.

PR is kind of like the road sign that announces a bridge is up ahead, and content is what the bridge is actually built with.

«We never had enough money — or we were always too cheap — to hire any kind of administrative staff, so [my co-founder] and I were always the ones dealing with sending out offer letters, setting people up on payroll or signing them up for health insurance.

If you don't have that kind of mentality, it's not the kind of thing to sign up for.»

Look beyond the giddy throngs of advertising wunderkinds, and you'll find clear signs that the industry's eternal conflict is lurching toward some kind of finale.

While precipitous market swings may put the Dow Jones Industrial Average in correction territory, financial experts say these kinds of moves are the sign of a healthy market.

If your employees huddle every morning to find out what kind of mood you're in, that's a bad sign.

Gregory Simon, the chief executive of large - scale crowdfunding site Poliwogg, told the Washington Post: «There's another kind of fraud, and that's when Congress and the president pass and sign a law, and thousands of companies organize according to the principles in that law... but academics and people in consumer groups who disagree with the law make it their mission to prevent the law from going into effect.»

To achieve what essentially will be a new and dynamic art medium, Electronic Arts acts as a kind of production company with teams of draftspeople, writers, and musicians, who are signed up in much the same way as a record or movie company signs up talent.

Streaming video currently appears on Twitter only when the creator or provider has signed a partnership deal of some kind with the company — as the NFL and others such as Bloomberg News have done — or when someone uses Periscope, the streaming - video app that Twitter bought in 2015.

Now once again there could be all kinds of reasons why they are acting strange, I'm not suggesting that you get paranoid, but I am suggesting that you be observant to signs like this.

It makes a poetic kind of sense that some of the earliest self - storage facilities in the world opened in L.A. under the Hollywood sign in the 1920s.

He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.

Because there are two things that leagues like the NFL are usually looking for when it comes to signing those kinds of streaming contracts: One is money, and the other is reach.

One other downside is that the card doesn't offer any kind of sign - up bonus, and has a $ 150 annual fee.

The Alberta government, meanwhile, has been fighting a losing battle to keep upgrader jobs in the province with its BRIK (Bitumen Royalty in Kind) program, whereby it accepts bitumen from producers in lieu of cash royalties and has signed a supply agreement with a «merchant» refiner (without production of its own) to build an upgrader to process it.

Not wanting to let my pal down, I helped out again, though any experienced businessperson — and common sense — will tell you that repeated requests of this kind are a warning sign.

I recommend signing up with Personal Capital with that kind of money.

Signing this kind of deal could be a sign that Waymo is confident in its program and is ready for it to be released commercially.

And there are all kinds of signs that Trudeau doesn't want to put his convictions to a test.

Use this kind of exclusivity to your advantage; by letting people know that if they sign up early, they'll be first in line for the best rewards.

Those are kind of the signs you start seeing in an economy in the late stages of a bubble, where a state - owned enterprise starts building real estate projects because it's almost like you can't lose money doing this.

Interestingly, because Facebook's browsing data plugins, websites and apps can collect data on internet users who aren't signed up to Facebook, these users will have no way of turning this kind of data collection off.

And encouraging this kind of behavior is a sign of predatory lending.

NAFTA is «one of the worst deals ever made of any kind, signed by anybody,» he declared during a September debate with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the presidential campaign.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

WHY do they believe that their God is so concerned about whether or not they listen to musical instruments in church on Sunday, get dunked or sprinkled in ceremonial water, speak in a tongue as some kind of sign... to whom ever, read from the correct translation of some long lost ancient books, etc, etc?

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

I think all too many Christians are over-reacting to this kind of sign.

Kind of like schizophrenics see «signs» supporting their delusions, everywhere in the real world.

German American Marketing, Inc. will now remove the sign completely as it wants to avoid any kind of misunderstanding.

«Carrying a sign seemed a cowardly kind of love, one that isolated you behind a barricade, futilely shouting at the world while it stumbled past,» she determines when looking back on those days.

While I agree the simplistic approach of these billboards is kind of silly, what about all the signs that express religious or conservative views out there?

Earlier this year the Fox network, showing either the effects of the writers» strike or the signs of social decay, offered a gem of televised exploitation — the kind that repulses you but you can't help watching.

seriously read such signs in this way, but still, it is kind of funny.

The existence of foxholes is a pretty good sign that no kind or loving god exists.

In a particularly poignant passage, Wallis writes, «When children talk about their favorite kinds of caskets instead of bikes or cars, it is a sign we can no longer ignore.»

A little later, packing up his manuscripts, Ford happened to see «the page and the very commended phrase «old - eyed», and to notice that somehow in the rounds of fatigued retyping that used to precede a writer's final sign - off on a book in the days before word processors, the original and rather dully hybridised «cold - eyed» had somehow lost its «c» and become «old - eyed», only nobody'd noticed since they both made a kind of sense.»

No sooner had I finished my piece for Faith magazine's last issue (in which, my readers may recall, I encouraged Polish Catholics to keep themselves at arms length from the secularised and indifferentist ethos of many English dioceses) than news emerged that one English bishop at least had done something to try to address the problem, and that he had in the process aroused the kind of secularist hostility which is, I strongly suspect, — certainly in this country — the only really reliable sign that the Catholic Church is being faithful to its vocation.

I have served under many «leaders» who required this kind of devotion, and the signs associated with it.

Dobson and Hindson and their kin and kind have the right instincts, or have astutely read the signs of the times.

At one point, a Human Resource Manager was kind enough to tell me that they saw my education and experience as a sign that I was overqualified for some of the jobs I was applying for, and so they thought that I would be leaving soon after I was hired.

That kind of love is carnal and selfish — loving in that way makes us feel good; a bad sign.

But just a few turns around the sun and here we were swimming in silent deep water together and praying like a van - full of Pentecostals at the stop sign: praying we would be strong and kind, smart and wise, the head and not the tail, tender - hearted and brave.

What is needed now and what shows sonic signs of emerging is a kind of commitment that French existentialist Gabriel Marcel called «counterintolerance.»