When a child is removed from his / her parents» home by the police, foster homes
like ours get calls at all hours of the day or night by the foster care agency asking if we can take in a child.
«For a state employee, getting a call from Percoco was
like getting a call from the governor himself,» Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Boone said in his opening statement in Manhattan federal court.
«For a state employee,» the prosecutor declared, «getting a call from Percoco was
like getting a call from the governor himself.»
Nothing
like getting a call on ones phone to ruin your day at gaming.
I know most big stars don't
like getting called out...
For me, this has been a lot
like getting a call from an old friend who's been out of touch for a while and remembering how much you like her.
Seeing their work, Gornik said, «was
like getting a call from a long - lost relative.»
That's on top of roughly a dozen or so various other requests I've referred to the Clinic over the past 2 years, along with the true oddities
like getting calls for legal help from Mexico.
But she also
liked getting calls from Tanner and having conversations with him.
But the Shorewood High School junior
likes getting calls.
Not exact matches
«On the ride home, we
get a phone
call from Paul Graham to inform us that he'd
like to offer us a spot in the Y Combinator program, and we later found out that the reason wasn't because of our idea,» said Gebbia.
«With so many day - to - day phone
calls, emails and meetings, it's easy to
get caught up in issues that may seem
like they need immediate attention but are small in the long run.
A lot of men in the comments are
like, «no one talks this way,» and the women are
like, «yes, I
got yelled at in the street yesterday, and someone
called me soy sauce!»
And when you start to dissect the so -
called «elevator pitches» of star salespeople,
like the ones who met you and managed to
get you to do business with them, you'd be surprised at just how many follow the pattern I'm about to show you.
At the same time, however, there's growing angst that foreign buyers — namely from mainland China — may be
getting into the game, leading to
calls for some sort of speculation tax in provinces
like B.C.
That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk, «you're
getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for —
like other people's conversations and phone
calls.
«So, we feel
like the error bars around the unit volume predictions are
getting smaller with each passing week,» Musk said on a conference
call on Wednesday.
Another fascinating study recorded physiological reactions
like pupil dilation in volunteers as they looked at their Facebook accounts to find that browsing Facebook can evoke what they
call flow state, the feeling you
get when you're totally and happily engrossed in a project or new skill.
«John Lynch, he's been trying to
get Garoppolo since the offseason, he
calls Bill Belichick, and he says, «Hey, we'd
like to trade for Garoppolo,»» Glazer said.
Klein prefers what he
calls real - time transformation: Rather than waste precious time studying what's wrong with an organization, proceed directly to envisioning what it should look
like and «start knocking off the list of impediments that are keeping you from
getting there,» he says.
«Whenever I make a decision, I
like to do what I
call a «constructive challenge;» that is, understanding how we
got to the recommended option as opposed to the other possible routes.
If your longer - term plans
call for creating a more official fiduciary board, it makes a lot of sense to
get your feet wet early on by creating a board
like this.
The idea is to develop eyewear that essentially replaces the smartphone — so that floating in the periphery of your eyesight at all times are options to do things
like get directions, place video
calls, or check into Google +.
Also built into the wearable is the ability to
get notifications for things
like text messages, calendar entries and phone
calls from your smartphone.
With those two films showing potential weaknesses, there is room for a surprise winner
like Get Out, the horror film about racism, or the coming - of - age LGBTQ romance
Call Me By Your Name, among others.
You can also
get an LTE version of the Series 3 for standalone smartwatch functions
like calls, texts, and internet access.
«This is one of those models where it could
get really big and have software -
like margins,» says Y Combinator partner Dalton Caldwell, who is invested in a similar startup based in Detroit
called Castle.
In other jobs, you might not be able to
get a workout
like this because you have to meet with clients or go on a sales
call.
But
calling this a recovery might
get you branded by Icelanders as «very 2007,» a term coined after the crash to describe an overly optimistic view or something ostentatious,
like those Range Rovers.
And he cold
calls me everyday Monday, at 8:03 AM, and every Thursday, at 8:03 AM, right on the dot,
like he's
got it on a tickler.
Small - business owners waste their time on what I
call $ 10 an hour work,
like running to
get office supplies.
It may be trivial,
like placing a phone
call, or might be more substantial — agreeing to a reduction of an owed amount to finally
get paid.
You still
get essentials
like call waiting and caller ID, too.
It sounds
like «
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4» is
getting a mode along those lines, according to reports from various media outlets this week.
Shapiro
got the idea for Glowforge after experimenting with an industrial machine
called the CNC Laser Printer Engraver, used by companies
like Apple and Boeing for large - scale manufacturing.
Jackson's assistant
called Schilowitz in early 2007 to say his boss would
like to try out the camera the next time he was in L.A. Jannard learned early on in his Oakley days that if he could
get stars to use his product, the rest of the world would follow.
I once
got a sales
call from a person who said, «would you
like to make more money?
«You
get so sucked up in the day - to - day that sometimes you forget to do other things,
like making sales
calls,» he says.
Murphy: We
call that «execution rhythm» and it allows teams to address gaps or pop - up threats [
like an unforeseen competitor, or a staff illness or absence] so they never
get so wide as to derail the plan.
A folder
called Robots
gets anything not written by a human,
like bank statements and Google Alerts.
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for all the other women who helped me — just
like the woman who took me to all those parties I couldn't
get into or the lady who carried my first clothing line after she
got a fax of my line sheet and actually
called me back.
I don't care if you're into Purple Cows or The Brand
Called You, popular fad -
like notions won't
get you there.
According to a story in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, his reasoning goes
like this: «
Call me opportunistic; I thought I could
get better people with less competition because we were willing to understand the skills and capabilities that many of these women had.»
If something out of your control happens,
like getting a flat tire, be respectful enough to give them a heads up (
like a quick
call or text) so that they aren't just sitting there waiting for you.
When a container ship arrives in the United States with a half - million Tweety Bird shirts for Warner Brothers that look
like cheap knockoffs because they are the wrong shade of yellow, it is the sourcing company, not the factory, that will
get the unhappy
call, he said.
He mentioned Square, a payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey, that
got its start processing people's credit cards but has branched out with new services including a Venmo -
like system
called Square Cash.
«It's crazy when you have a
call with someone
like Starbucks,» says Kauss, «and you
get off the phone and you think, «That was a $ 2 million phone
call.»
'' «You really did a great job of
getting the vote out in places
like Cleveland and Milwaukee,» in other words, black people,»» Obama allegedly said after the
call, paraphrasing Romney.
Like the time he
got a
call from an HR director at a large pharmaceutical company that came to him on referral.
Face characters, as they were
called,
like Belle or Prince Charming or anyone who doesn't have to wear a thermal death - suit,
get paid $ 3 an hour MORE than the «furries.»