Sentences with phrase «lead off by»

The marketing materials for the LickiMat lead off by saying that mats are a «medical - free» way to calm your pet during storms.

The whole sequence is reminiscent of a sort of hellish version of Pinocchio being lead off by the circus folk and it plays out with a dreadful inevitability that left my stomach churning.

That's why we use them in all of our modules, and why we lead off by describing a module about finding and telling your story!

At the annual sales conference for my company this year, I did not lead off by speaking of victories but rather of a time when I was unable to make a sale.

For the NDP, Guy Caron led off by raising the flaws in the Access to Information amendment bill that the Information Commissioner identified.

In the first, the score was 4 - 4 in the ninth when Pirate Ed Ott led off by hitting a fly ball to right center.

As the newly unemployed behemoth was led off by a team official, in full view of 100 players and thousands of fans at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, Calif., Walsh paced behind them, screaming, «Don't even let him f ------ shower!»

First, take a look at their magazine's 2010 Political Technology issue, which features articles on microtargeting («Demystifying Micro-Targeting»), volunteer retention and common mistakes that novice candidates often make, all led off by a reprint of the first chapter of the e.politics «How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010» as an introduction.

Cuomo led off by proposing the «nations largest convention center» in Queens.

At the session on tick - borne illness — a major district concern that has earned Gibson votes from the left and right — she led off by pointing to New York's ban on hydraulic fracturing as evidence of what a groundswell of opposition can do.

Literacy expert Timothy Shanahan (p. 10) leads off by cutting through the rumor that schools are already prepared to teach these standards.

When Mazda's highest - volume car went in for a redesign for the 2010 model year, it emerged with a more powerful engine (in the «s» models, at least), an additional gear for its manual and automatic transmissions, a plethora of new luxury features, and new styling led off by a front end that West Coast editor Jason Cammisa described as «an anime gremlin wearing an I've - been - naughty grin.»

Moderator Charlotte Abbott led off by reciting a number of alarming facts about the paucity of women in executive positions, the gender and diversity gap, and other matters («On the bright...

The piece leads off by citing study findings suggesting that «caustic, abrasive, and overbearing bosses just might be taking years off their employees» lives.»

With regard to the apology, Zuckerberg leads off by saying that the company has a responsibility to protect user information.

Not exact matches

AYR, which stands for All Year Round, originated as a part of Bonobos and spun off in 2015 as an independent company led by Jac Cameron, Maggie Winter, and Max Bonbrest.

The opportunity arises because the big four U.S. wireless carriers, led initially by T - Mobile, have been weaning their customers off of subsidized phones and trying to get everyone to pay for phones in full — in return for somewhat lower monthly service charges.

She did it in part by selling off a 7.8 % stake in TV broadcaster Mediaset and replacing the CEO of the group's core business, Mondadori, Italy's leading book and magazine publisher, where she is pushing an aggressive digital transformation.

American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said on Thursday that a move by the leading U.S. black civil rights group to warn black travelers off the airline was «obviously a disappointment.»

Coincidentally, I'm off this morning to the speak to the Geno Auriemma Leadership Institute, named after and led by the University of Connecticut's iconic basketball coach.

This tends to lead to people actually taking their days off — because if you don't take them by the end of the year, you lose them,» Jan Kramps explains.

The company's shares, which have come off 10 percent since a 2017 peak in May, were 4.9 percent higher by 0800 Eastern Time, making them among the strongest performers in the FTSEurofirst 300 index of leading European stocks on Thursday.

Earlier, about 100 conservative South Korean lawmakers and activists staged a sit - in near the border with North Korea, facing off against about 2,500 South Korean police to protest against the arrival of a northern delegation led by an official accused of being behind a deadly 2010 attack on a South Korean warship.

The investor group, led by American private - equity firm Silver Lake, now has to figure out how to convince more Skype users to actually pay for the communications service, all the while fending off Google, which is becoming a major competitor.

Spot gold slipped to $ 1,334.10 an ounce, the lowest since Jan. 23, also weighed by the stronger U.S. currency, while a 2.2 % drop by nickel led a broad - based sell - off in industrial metals.

Rather than lead by example, Diminishers actually turn staff off and hinder growth by becoming over invested in their own pursuits or perceived greatness.

For example, giving into road rage when cut off by another driver could lead to fatal results.

«That will lead to more power by some of the giants, who will start consolidating more and taking companies off their IPO track,» he said.

In a bid to encourage staffers at the streaming giant to take more time off, Hastings, who serves as Netflix's co-founder and CEO, is hoping to lead by example with his own rather ample vacation allotment: six weeks every year.

The reactor is very complex, and being off by even the tiniest amount can lead to a meltdown.

By being quick to qualify his leads and get them on the phone shortly after initial contact, his sales team keeps the initial excitement and momentum going right off the bat, which is very valuable to prospects that are ready to move quickly and start testing out their solution.

On average, Kostin says, the S&P 500 has risen on average by 5 % following momentum sell - offs like this, led by value stocks that underperformed as growth stocks were going up.

From kicking off a professional wrestling career back in the 1990s, to the present day, where WWE sees Levesque «revolutionizing the business» with his developmental training processes and global recruiting strategy, Levesque concluded the discussion with CNBC, by stressing how putting in the hard work and taking a gamble can lead to life - changing developments.

Laissez - Faire: A form of management that is characterized by being very hands - off and allowing group members to make many big decisions, a laissez - faire management style has generally led to the lowest productivity level among groups.

Geoff Blaber, vice president of research and market analysis firm CCS Insight, says that by leading off the conference with a focus on security and privacy, but pledging the only way to overcome those challenges is to continue to build services, Zuckerberg successfully «walked the tightrope.»

«With the threat environment unlikely to abate per a host of global tensions spanning China, the Mideast, North Korea, and Russia, we do not foresee any imminent fall - off in US military budgets,» wrote Morgan Stanley analysts led by Rajeev Lalwani.

The fate of major proposed mergers, not just Bayer - Monsanto but also Dow Chemical and DuPont, which plan to spin off their combined agriculture businesses, will be decided by Trump's nominees to lead antitrust enforcement at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission.

«I don't have time to date» is not an excuse and will only lead you to put things off until years have gone by and you «forget» how to date.

But Cindy took him down by grabbing some money off nearly every category and protecting the lead she built during Double Jeopardy.

Bitfinex, which is officially incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, has been fined by regulators in the United States and cut off by U.S. banks, and it has lost millions of dollars of customer money in two separate hacks, leading critics to question whether it even has the money it claims to hold.

Start your sales routine off with a constantly refreshed database of prime opportunities — curated for your unique prospecting needs — , and start prioritizing your day by calling your hottest leads first.

Combining this with poor sales growth results in a dismal outlook for earnings 3) the pressure on earnings will continue to hurt capital spending, which is usually just a magnified image of earnings, 4) the same factors will continue to raise default rates, causing earnings problems and debt downgrades among banks and financial companies, 5) earnings shortfalls will also lead to continued job cutbacks, with the unemployment rate rising to at least 5.5 % (indeed, once the unemployment rate has advanced by 0.5 % from its lows, it has never reversed until rising by least 1.5 % off those lows).

The hard - line contingent — led by the president's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, and the director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro — squared off against the more traditional group, which included two former Goldman Sachs executives, Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.

As an entrepreneur Khoshbin is always looking for opportunities, venturing off into other businesses as a seed - stage investor committed to identifying, financing and developing early - stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.

By that afternoon, however, the promising leads had collapsed, and officials confronted a risky decision: proceed without the help of the public to avoid tipping off the suspects or publicize images of them and risk driving them deeper into hiding or worse.

Led by Arnold Harberger (who spoke Spanish and had married a Chilean), the Chicago Boys set out to make socialism irreversible by selling off as many state enterprises as possible.

The shareholders of Citigroup who are still nursing stock losses of 85 percent from the bank's pre-crash days aren't going to be too comforted by reading about Rubin's musings about existentialism in coffee shops around Harvard when he should have been cramming for finance courses that might have led to his questioning the more than $ 1 trillion bucks that Citigroup held off its balance sheet in the leadup to its crash.

In the 4 - minute video below, we walk you step - by - step through the exact technical criteria that helped us identify $ KNDI as a Blast Off candidate in early December, which subsequently led to a 60 % winner in The Wagner Daily newsletter less than one month later.

The blue pill will take you back to your cozy desk job coding for the man, and the red pill might lead you to insomnia induced by ideas of how to turn your startup into a real company using only your laptop combined with some technical and marketing skills, and a realistic gameplan to pull it off.

The following month, at an ostensibly off - the - record dinner with media power brokers, an Uber business - development lead suggested that Uber should fight back against bad press by investigating the personal lives of those who criticized the company.