Sentences with phrase «laurels for»

The main thing the interviewer will want to know is that you spent your time within your previous organisation wisely, rather than resting on your laurels for the best part of a decade.

Zeiss and Nokia have earlier earned the laurels for making the first multi-megapixel mobile phone and the partnership has also been used in other popular phones like the Nokia N Series.

Citi have appeared to be a bit too lackadaisical in their approach to American Airlines credit cards and have sat on their laurels for a bit too long — that's why I gave up my Citi AAdvantage Executive card late last year... it wasn't worth it to me.

Chase hasn't shown much inclination to experiment with Ultimate Rewards and they seem content to rest on their laurels for the time being, even if others are potentially passing them by.

It's hardly newsworthy that the company that brought us the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and resulting app and music stores in the space of such a short time frame would rest on its laurels for a moment before attempting to launch anything quite as world changing again.

With the advent of Audi's TT roadster, Nissan's 350Z roadster, a redesigned Mercedes - Benz SLK and the new Lotus Elise, Porsche could hardly rest on its laurels for another year.

The hybrid version (which we've reviewed separately) takes the laurels for the lowest fuel consumption and claimed CO2 emissions and its mere 11 % Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) rating is good news for company - car buyers.

As mentioned, the Camry Hybrid enjoyed top billing last year, but Toyota really can not rest too much on its laurels for long, as competitors are vying for its place.

Nissan wasn't content to simply let this crossover rest on its laurels for 2018.

The M5 and E-Class I think have rested on their laurels for far too long.

So while all kudos have to go to Doug Liman, Damon and screenwriter Tony Gilroy (the series» godfather, in many ways) for rustling up the surprise smash of «The Bourne Identity,» to Greengrass (and Gilroy again, of course) have to go a lot of the laurels for making Bourne a viable continuing property.

(And hey, there's always Cannes, which awarded him both the Palme d'Or for «Wild at Heart» and Best Director laurels for «Mulholland Drive.»)

Previous recipients of the Laurels for Team Achievement Award are the Russian Mir Space Station Team (2001), the U.S. Space Shuttle Team (2002), the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Team (2003), and the Hubble Space Telescope Team (2004).

In honoring the spokespersons of the two detector collaborations, the prize committee has taken a stab at the thorny question of how to hand out laurels for a discovery that was made by large teams of people.

COVER Cheap, widely available, and easy to use, the genome editing system called CRISPR earned Science's 2015 Breakthrough of the Year laurels for many great feats and some controversial ones — including the alteration of DNA in human embryos.

Kwaku Manu is of the view that if Kumawood is accorded the needed professional help and not treated with contempt, it would go a long way to win laurels for not just the Ghana movie industry but Ghana as whole.

Thierry Henry is an Arsenal legend and it will be an honour to see him coach the same team he won laurels for to success, but first things first!

But the other thing about free enterprise is, you don't get to rest on your laurels for long.

Harley - Davidson, globally, has been accused of resting on its laurels for the past few years while the competition has intensified.

The Columbia Journalism Review honored him with a laurel for his investigation into disability benefits for injured American veterans.

5:23 p.m. Updated Gavin Schmidt, the climate modeler at NASA and Columbia University who has long endured the slings and arrows that come with blogging on climate, has now gained a laurel for his efforts — the inaugural $ 25,000 Climate Communications Prize of the American Geophysical Union.

There is plenty of natural daylighting and warm materials (Ecuador laurel for exterior cladding and eucalyptus wood for framing) throughout, creating an clean and uplifting atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Maybe that's true for Canada and maybe even North America, but again are we resting on our laurels?

Two back - to - back critically acclaimed albums put West atop the rap totem pole and it would have been easy for West to rest on his laurels, as Brion put it.

Still, De Baene is not one for laurel resting, and he saw ways to improve the program.

It's really easy for big companies to rest on their laurels and get tunnel vision from their own successes.

Always keep an eye out for the industry that needs disruption, or is simply filled with companies that are resting on their laurels or spinning their wheels.

Resting on your laurels does not bode well for a strong retirement plan.

«More Laurels than Darts for the 1992 Federal Budget,» C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder 5, by the C.D. Howe Institute (February 26).

This, then, is why I would want to deny Kierkegaard the laurels Oden has so diligently plaited for him: because Kierkegaard fell short, at the last, of his own high vision of the Christian humorist, while Hamann realized it.

But the word used for «crown» is stephanos, which can also refer to a «reward» or «laurel wreath.»

When Pannenberg broke onto the scene in the 1960s, he was treated as the new candidate for these laurels, the latest thing from Germany, the land of giants.

The Cedars, an 11 - 18 school for boys in Croydon, and The Laurels, an 11 - 18 school for girls in Clapham, took their first pupils in September.

Of course, The Laurels and The Cedars are just two schools and much more could be said about the good work that is being done in schools across the country, about the sterling work done by Catholic home educators, and about a range of other initiatives including the steady growth of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and the projects arising out of Stratford Caldecott's two books on education: Beauty for Truth's Sake and Beauty in the Word.

The Laurels School in Clapham, for instance, gives greater prominence to the development of sound philosophical understanding.

Not content to rest on his pork - roasting laurels, Perry also has a website / blog called hautemealz.com, which is a membership - based recipe service that provides weekly menus for home chefs to create delicious, healthy meals.

More uses for this container: flaky finishing salt, and fragrant bay leaves that are too long to jam into a squat jar (I grow my own bay laurel tree, and the leaves are big and beautiful and deserve roomy, non-squishing storage).

The West London side eased to a Premier League title this term but Mourinho isn't one to rest on his laurels and will hope to mount a genuine push for a Champions League triumph next term.

They are fighting for their places aND not sitting in their laurels.

So, I do not accept any argument, especially ones which suggest players leave for fame or laurels.

But that shouldn't be the basis for him to rest on his laurels.

Lionel Messi doesn't rest on his laurels — it took just moments for the Argentinian superstar to bag himself a hat - trick for the evening after breaking the all - time La Liga goalscoring record with a neat finish past the Sevilla goalkeeper.

If I have him as a brother now, I will advise him to look out the window for a better club courting so that he can win some better laurels in his career.

Theo must be happy with how things have been going for him and the club so far, so for him to realise and accept that he can not rest on his laurels and could do better sounds like he is approaching his football with the right attitude.

The Villans have been in doldrums for a very long time as they have been unable to win any laurel to showcase their football for any glory in contrast to the Gunners, who have been riding high on their game and with their football.

The German is aware that Coquelin has to pick up where he left off, as he told Talksport, but he does not seem to have too many doubts that he can, probably as Coquelin did not just rest on his laurels but kept improving as the season went on and saved his very best for last in the FA cup final.

The Blues eased to a Premier League title success in 2014/15 but Jose Mourinho is certainly not a manager who rests on his laurels and a move for a player of Witsel's obvious quality could only boost the West London side's push for Champions League honours.

She had won the junior division championship for four straight years and now has added the senior division to her laurels.

Thus now waking up from his complacency as he was using the financial cost of building the Emirates stadium as a hideout for his not able to win any laurels as he used to win before.

u r kidding right... That might happen once wenger leaves but not before... Players are comfortable coz the geriatric laurel and hardy combo just sit there all game trying to remember where they left their Zimmer frames... At one point in his tenure wenger recognized that a skillful midfield was key to quality forward pushing football... The current crop are just a bunch of very average players all of whom could have been playing for WBA