Sentences with phrase «like giving myself a raise»

Paying off a debt is like giving yourself a raise in pay.

It's like giving myself a raise.

«It's like giving yourself a raise,» said Jody Dietel, spokesperson for Save Smart Spend Healthy and chief compliance officer at FSA administrator WageWorks Inc. «People leave money on the table if they're not willing to put the time into it.»

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Like many post-recession pros, I rotate through freelance and contract gigs to earn dough, which made me give serious side - eye to a recent Glassdoor study finding that 89 % of 18 - to 34 - year - olds would prefer more perks to a pay raise.

It's like giving your advisor a 5 % raise each year.

Plus, vitamin C megadoses of 2,000 milligrams might raise your risk of painful kidney stones, and may give you digestive issues like diarrhea, bloating, and cramps.

Since Doug McMillon became CEO of Wal - Mart Stores in 2014, the company has been investing heavily in tech to offer services like in - store pickup of online orders, while giving workers pay raises to motivate them to improve customer scores and keep stores cleaner.

True, managers like to say they give their subordinates a certain measure of room to fail, but the marines practice failure tolerance to a degree that would raise most managers» hair.

Crowdfunding Investment is similar to other crowdfuning initiatives, like Kickstarter, but rather than just raising money, equity crowdfunding would give investors shares in the small businesses they invest in.

For Casper, the new money gives it the funds to continue to expand into new products and invest in marketing as it tries to become known for more than just mattresses and break away from a pack of competitors like Leesa and Tuft & Needle, which have raised little to no venture capital but are still growing.

On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.

The stuff they say in the bible is real, but you'll know the value of it unless you believe it first, give God a chance first, and then the things like Jesus raising from the dead, it's not such a big deal anymore.

Thus far, I have not yet been able to do so, giving me confidence whenever the dragon of discontentment - with - my - vocation raises its ugly head, which, like you and many others who have already commented, is very often.

Thus, like Luke, Matthew embodies in a Resurrection story the conviction of the Church that the raising of Jesus from the dead, as the Lord of all men, meant that its task must be to witness to him and to preach him as Lord to all the nations, although, as Acts shows, the realization that the gospel was meant for all nations, and not only for the Jews, came gradually as a result of further revelation, and could not have been an instruction given at Easter.

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»

It would be ill - advised to set much store by such studies, given the difficulty of measuring something like self - concept, but at least they don't raise any alarms.»

She was not apparently bad in her role (in the Quora interview, Justine Musk describes her an «exceptional and devoted employee» who «gave her life to the job»), but after twelve years on the job, she probably felt like a raise was not an absurd request.

In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.

Few things capture my heart like women being empowered to give birth to their babies, nurse them, and raise them in dignity.

Dr Janet Smith, on the Catholic World Report website, gave what may be something like an authoritative commentary (worth reading at much greater length than I can quote it here) on the particular example the Pope chose, one which caused a considerable raising of eyebrows.

I have three tinies here, three little scraps of humanity, that I am raising to live out the big verbs like forgiving and giving...

From the second it clearly show that Rauf is like any other Islamic leader, either extremist leader, terrorist leader even a country leader, they always give threat statement, to raise fear.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

If you are ready to commit to better health through nutrition the best advise I can give you is start simple - lots of fresh veggies, lower sugar fruits like berries, nuts, pasture - raised meats and eggs.

The trick to the tortilla bar pizza is using a cast iron pan, which can get roaring hot to give the cracker - like crust, and fitting the tortillas into the pan so that the toppings don't slide off, as the pizza has little or no raised crust.

I've used half gluten free oat flour and half buckwheat flour and it worked fine - but a gluten free flour or self raising flour mix is your best bet as it also has added starches to give the best results Otherwise you could try making your own mix with things like brown rice flour, tapioca starch, sorghum flour etx.

Senator Ryan: «Mr Cassidy, I would like to give you the chance to put on record a response to my summation of a couple of issues that have been raised by the submitters.

Oh, and I'd also like to give a shout out to my local Bison rancher, Calibison, for raising organic, all - grass fed old stock bison near Mt. Shasta, CA.

They could more easily make the defense champions league quality with two or three high quality signings, then go for a striker like Lukkaku, I think Lukaku would raise the level of the strike force, and a stout defense would eliminate these embarrasing goals that we give up.

He isn't like people that give - up their free - time to raise money for charity, or those who volunteer to work without pay, to help people that are sick or homeless.

Can Michelle dress like the First Lady, give goose - bump - raising speeches, spearhead $ 7 million United Way fund drives, be competent in everything — can she be, does she want to be, the woman who's trying to do it all and pulling it off, as Pat is?

Joining a club of arsenal s stature has its ups and downs.There is a requirement of how our players should perform when on the pitch.The following is a list of players who were wrong to choose arsenal.Aaron ramsey - Even though he is the most favoured of all players at the club now.I cant help but think how it would have gone for Him if he decided to search for other greener pastures.He was a clear talented footballer during his time at cardiff but he hasnt been raised with the discipline at arsenal.You can always see ramseys all round strengths but sadly Its not helping him or the club with his foward moving pleasurr.He is so Over used and its sometimes difficult for him to get used to the rythm of the game.With time you realise he gets low ib confidence and his engine gets wasted.He needed somebody who would have managed him properly and with care and that person is certainpy not wenger.You would have been better off at Manu mate.Calum chambers - Came us a very talented player from southampton with raw talent.He was very good at first but wenger found a way to reduce his level of confidence.His inexperience was left exposed and wenger did nt do anything to resolve that problem and instead He looked for other talented players.Alex oxlade chamberlain - Another very talented player who needed only his skilled sharpened and his character modelled.That and he was ready to become a world beater.But wenger decided to let him run and run like a headless chicken causing him to be often injured and damaging his confidence.Who knows what would have happened to him gad he decided to look for more greener pasture.He is surely a much better player than this.Theo walcott - Another player who was tipped to have a very bright future.He had it in him.But all he needed was an appropriate manager who would nurture him with discipline and help him with his talent.But on Coming to arsenal he was given Much more responsiblities putting more weight on his shoulders on top of that another player who was recklessly managed with his talent and never coming off age because his character wasnt properly shaped.Mesut ozil - Al right i agree he perfoms well just recently.But imagine all the legendary players he was often compared to during his time at real madrid.On coming to arsenal he found no rotation often overused, suffered many injuries and his confidence dwindled.It is pretty clear arsene does not take any responsibility for players.And when at arsenal you have to be your own manager.You need not rely on your manager otherwise you might continue being the same player for the next many years.That is why each and every player are what they are because of their own efforts and wenger had nothing to do with it.Van persie was the same player for over 7 years untill he himself decided to change.Wenger only organises and prepares tge team while the rest is in your court.It is not what so many people make it out to be.Thats why we need to pressure wenger more than our own players.They are their own self managers and wenger needs to take that responsibility

Whether he will have games like this on a regular basis or he will miss chances like Dortmund and Spurs is yet to be found out, but i do enjoy the way the Man United boy raised with so much love is now scoring goals for Arsenal and mocking United at not giving him the chance to shine as a forward.

2nd sure Walcott has become a squad player and it doesn't look like it will change anytime soon!But even thought he is less important than he used to be thanks to some youth prospect finally stepping up (Ox) and our new transfer policy ($ $ $) he still has that pace and ability to score and create havoc after 1 to 1,5 year out your rusty but obviously if he's dead on a pay raise I wouldn't go as far as to say he's holding us ransom but it is too much considering he's current impact and importance to the squad... Sure we could argue that he will rediscover his form and give us 20 + goals a season and not sustain an injury anymore but how sure are we?

From a financial point of view for Palace though, it seems like a good deal and if indeed the Eagles are able to pull it off, the funds raised would give Pardew a better chance of landing his high profile targets such as Zaza, Benteke or Berahino this summer.

This formation raises concerns given the way Tottenham like to get their full - backs forward.

So it was a very interesting upbringing in terms of what it felt like to be a twin and how we were raised and parented and then they have the experience of been able to raise my own boys, my own twins really gave me this terrific insight into what I feel parents need to be aware of when they are raising twins.

I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other childs mother or father... the other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S

This includes monthly donations, community fundraising events like the Winterlight Faire, MayFest and other ways to give, including SCRIP, Amazon Smile and Target Red Card — great ways to help you raise money for our school every time you shop.

There's so much work involved in giving birth and raising happy, healthy kids... Just imagine what it could be like if we could just support each other through it all instead of judging and tearing down.

If you are a new empty nester, give yourself time to adjust and feel the loss of your day - to - day joy of raising your children - but start to think about what you would like to do next.

But having said that 4moms Origami Stroller stroller definitely grasp the public attention & give you a easy life with your baby, so I would like to recommend to being techno lover & raise your baby with techno friendly environment.

Sherpa is knit terry fabric, just like a baby towel, that has been brushed and washed to raise the fibers and give a fluffy super soft feel.

How To Stop Beating Yourself Up In Your Parenting * Why Mamas Have A Hard Time Giving Up Guilt * The Shadow Side Of Conscious Parenting * How Feeling Like A «Good» Mom Can Lead To Acting Like A «Bad» Mom * Why Controlling Behavior Is a Bad Idea * How Emotional Baggage From Childhood Keeps Moms From Staying Present With Their Child Leslie Potter is the founder of Pure Joy Parenting, a joy based parenting model based on her experience raising her daughter as a single mom as well as working with families.

She likes to raise my shirt in the morning and rub my belly and say BABY, she gave it a kiss this morning.

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I've been given some CRAZY opinions and «advice» through the years, like the fact that raising my arms while pregnant would twist the umbilical cord and strangle my baby, that my son needed pants that fit him (read that story here) and that I absolutely was not complete in life because I only have sons - I NEEDED to keep trying for a daughter (and even gave me a VERY detailed description on sexual positions that guarantee that)!

People comment on how «good» she is, content and secure, but when they learn that she sleeps in our bed, they give the eyebrow raise, like they've discovered my grave weakness.

So go, buy some fruits or cakes and pay a visit to Aunt Mary who might bombard you with questions and give you unwanted advice on how to clean your silverware but she also might be a pro at shushing and soothing and crying colicky baby (seeing how she's raised like five kids in her own and is babysitting for her neighbor's chubby baby seemingly well).

It is one that I have asked numerous times on this blog, raising issues like lacking lactation training among health professionals, giving formula samples as a «breastfeeding prize», the impact of formula samples given -LSB-...]