Sentences with phrase «known as the hours»

You have most chance of seeing a ghost between 1 am and 3 am, as these are known as the hours of the dead, i.e. most people die between these times.

In fact, federal regulations designed to prevent tired truckers are known as Hours - of - Service rules, and they place strict limitations on how long drivers can be behind the wheel and on duty, and when and for how long they must take breaks.

If a truck driver refuses to make a delivery due to exhaustion or following federal regulations known as hours of service (HOS), they may risk losing their job or missing a large paycheck.

Not exact matches

As someone who spends thousands of hours in the air each year, I know how isolating traveling can be, especially when first starting out.

Start with something as simple as letting employees know that with the exception of attending to major deadlines such as a new - product release, the company refrains from phone calls or emails one hour each day — and that you're directly requesting all employees to observe it.

Valerie Cooper, also known as the «Denture Queen», will lead a 1.5 hours hands - on session to teach attendees on how to create dentures with a new digital workflow that can potentially solve the current crisis where there is a lack of affordable denture providers and care.

Folks, if you've ever flown in or out of San Francisco, you know what I'm talking about — the bitter resentment growing in your belly as the fog settles in once more and delays your flight for two hours.

This belief is held by other companies, as well: The Container Store is known for giving its new employees 300 hours of paid training in their first year at the company.

I had about an hour to move as much as I could and I called my friend Doug; I knew he would come, no questions asked.

The opening ceremony is no different, as the event will air on a one - hour delay for viewers on the east coast of the U.S., with even longer delays in the western U.S.

However, this is not always the case, as PR agencies have been known to say yes to proposals just to rack up billable hours.

Many Facebook experts recommend this «get to know you» phase to occur in 24 hours or less, but we've seen it work for that period of time as well as over an entire week.

Most of these deadlines were short, and to excel I always made sure I used my time as efficiently as possible — knowing that a few hours of web surfing and I would be turning in my assignment late.

Road warriors and companies that don't want to take on the burden of buying videoconferencing equipment themselves can rent videoconferencing rooms by the hour at FedEx Office, formerly known as FedEx Kinko's.

The relationship began to get a bit more complicated in late 2013, however, when Ravikant announced that AngelList would allow well - known individual investors such as Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 - Hour Workweek) and Gil Penchina (ex-eBay exec) to create «syndicates,» or pools of committed capital, allowing them to make larger investments on a deal - by - deal basis.

United is offering a nearly 18 - hour flight from Houston to Singapore aboard the Boeing 787, known as the Dreamliner.

Some know them as Task Force Brown, others fear them as thunderous ghosts who approach in the darkest hours of the night.

Yet as long as we indulge a fatalism that says we can not know the day or the hour when hurricanes will come, so we should limit our efforts simply to what we can do on that day and during that hour, we leave ourselves open to more injury and pain.

The company is well known for a no - vacation policy that lets workers set their own hours and time - off schedule, as long as they get their work done.

The storm has continued to grow increasingly powerful in a process called bombogenesis — known to some as a bomb cyclone — which occurs when a system's central air pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.

You train yourself to know, as soon as that hour strikes, to fall into that mode of focus required to do your best work.

Who knows, maybe you'll gain an extra hour now as well.

Industry experts say airlines informally have what's known as a «flat - tire rule,» allowing passengers who miss their flights by up to two hours the leeway to fly standby without a penalty.

The No - Facebook group experienced this hit to their life - satisfaction despite the fact they reported an average of more than two hours extra face - to - face socialising on the Sunday during the study period compared to the Facebook - as - normal group.

(PS - if you're having a low - energy day and don't feel like hitting the gym after a study session, you might want to know that previous research has also suggested napping for less than an hour helps cement memories as well).

The big city with a small town vibe is known for its music scene, and for being home to the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and as well as the Whole Foods HQ, but where it really shines is in its culinary scene, which ranges from barbecue that people wait hours in line for to all kinds of tacos.

As a columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, writing about technology stocks, I had a one - hour, get - to - know - each other meeting with Campbell, then CEO of Intuit.

Police officers start letting people, in groups, into sectioned - off areas known as «party pens» just before the New Year's Eve bash begins at 6 p.m. (though many people wait around hours before then to get a good view of the ball drop).

I know people buying over 100 homes a year — and they work the same number of hours as I do, if not fewer.

Viveka von Rosen, author of LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day and known internationally as the «LinkedIn Expert.»

If this is your answer then you know that you are not making money as you can not afford $ 25 - 30 an hour for a bookkeeper once or twice a week!

Under ROWE, as the program has come to be known, a corporate philosophy that equated success at work with long hours at the office would be scrapped in favour of a more flexible workplace.

As the hours pass, successive rounds of managers leave the room, knowing that those who remain will determine their fates.

Until 2016, it was known as First Trust Company of Onaga, after its hometown, about two hours northwest of Kansas City.

In the hours after the shooting, people who knew Mr. Cruz described him as a «troubled kid» who enjoyed showing off his firearms, bragging about killing animals and whose mother would resort to calling the police to have them come to their home to try to talk some sense into him.

As an employer, if I knew you worked even just 20 hours a week while in school I would be impressed.

Creator Alex T., known as «PangaePanga,» has titled this course «Pit of Panga: P - Break,» aptly so, because he himself fell into a nine - hour trench before successfully completing the level.

Meet the women who have built businesses around their kids» schedules If you've been part of my world for a while you'll know that I had two small children and a husband that worked 10 + hours a day as a Fedex driver when I started my current business back in 2014.

In a world where we get our groceries delivered in just two hours through Instacart or Amazon Fresh, the humble corner store — or bodega, as they are known in New York and Los Angeles — still performs a valuable function.

It's about doing everything within your power to help your business achieve success; and if that means you have to get up at an hour not known to most, then you might as well enjoy the sunrise.

The 2016 presidential candidate addressed a group of a few hundred well - coiffed young women, many costumed in bright pantsuits, who waited for hours in the rain in New York City for a chance to gain entry into the coveted powder - pink female - only clubhouse known as The Wing, pay $ 12 for a glass of champagne, and see Clinton speak.

As a best practice, always schedule a half hour call to get to know each other before agreeing to a campaign.

I'm also pleased about the wages being increased, because as we all know it's very difficult to live in Fort McMurray making less than $ 15 an hour.

It's been quite a tumultuous week in the markets, as we all know, but something seems amiss... on Thursday when the Bank of England's Mark Carney talked about raising rates faster than expected, the pound popped (as one would expect) but it did not take even a few hours for it to completely reverse trend as if nothing happened, and the USD was back to being strong again.

Keeping admissions prices flat could juice attendance, of course, but as anyone who's been at a major theme park lately and encountered hour - long ride waits knows, these places are hardly hurting for business.

The research also found that «more than 2 in 5 (43 %) consumers who identified themselves as last - minute shoppers have waited until the 11th hour because they didn't know what to get their intended recipient.»

Since 2006, Razoo has offered online fundraising services to nonprofits and individuals, and has been an industry leader in 24 - hour online giving marathons known as «giving days.»

You can use certain information to your advantage, such as knowing that the 24 hours prior to the NFP release there is very little trading taking place; you can trade on smaller time frames, such as 5 minutes, and do some successful trading based on this.

While millennials are known for always being connected online, 80 % of those under 30 believe reading emails after hours is work, as compared to only 45 % of those over 60.

Besides that, as bad as it's told in the legend, Jesus just had real nasty pain for a few hours and knew he wouldn't * really * be dead anyway.