Sentences with phrase «like giving them a year»

It's not like any given year tends to have a deluge of impressive fodder up for consideration or anything, but on the whole, outside of a concentration of contenders that have a fighting chance at recognition, it just seems to be -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

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.

Private firms like Amur have proliferated in the past few years, which is hardly a surprise, given that Canada's stubbornly low interest rates have pushed investors into alternative asset classes, and residential real estate has generated stunning returns for investors and homeowners alike.

Just like winter seems unwilling to give up its grip in huge swaths of the country, I'm unhappy to report that this year's flu season seems set to be just an tenacious.

At a demonstration staged at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, for example, a robotic arm was given human - like reflexes through the deployment of 5G technology.

Though this new policy wouldn't affect people like Tyler who had already been sentenced, Holder's announcement gave Tyler renewed hope that his more than 20 - year - long stint in prison would actually end.

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

Given that Mario Kart 8 was one of the best - selling games last year, that's extraordinary for a brand new IP like this.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

Given Apple's iPad performance and broader market challenges, it becomes clearer why Apple didn't decide to hold a big iPad event like it would have several years ago.

The first month of the year is reserved for, or rather given to, movies like Meet the Spartans and Bio-Dome.

The company also has competition from companies like Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, as well as from Elon Musk, who first proposed the system four years ago and recently decided to give it a go himself.

He has given something like $ 175 million over the past 14 years to universities in Canada, in Nevada (where his fortune got its start with Franco Nevada Mining) and in Israel (where he gave $ 23 million to Technion University in 2006).

Let me explain: it has been a few years since Audi gave a big rethink to the front view of its lineup, abandoning the old smooth, svelte, wind - cheating look in favour of something more grille - heavy and power - suggestive — like that of a 1937 Bugatti Type 57SC, or possibly a Dodge Ram truck.

At 46, Samantha Bee likes to say she's entered her «don't give a f**k» years.

Given the similarities between the Canadian Patent Act and its U.S. counterpart for the definition of «invention», the Canadian Patent Office has for many years granted claims like Myriad's to isolated gene sequences and continues to do so.

It's also worth considering one - time expenses, like the installation of a security system, that may inflate a given year's spending, says Aaron Boyd, director of governance research at Equilar.

While the industry, regulators and lawmakers would like to increase the frequency of examinations, fewer than 1 in 10 firms will undergo a routine regulatory audit in any given year.

Step into her two - year old (and profitable) New York boutique to see retail reconceived: one night an Italian grandmother gives pasta - making lessons; on another you'll find installations sponsored by the likes of General Electric, Pepsi and HP.

Many devotees of the Leafs, Raptors, Toronto FC and Marlies were overcome with flop sweats at the prospect of current president and chief operating officer Tom Anselmi geting the top job, given his five years steering TFC made the soccer club look more like a bumper car than a Cadillac.

She recommended the advice a fellow businesswoman gave her years ago: Walk into the meeting with expectations like those of a man.

Darling likes to put together a survey at Surveymonkey.com every two years so these people can give her honest thoughts without fear of offending her.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

In a briefing last year, Washington reporters were given a flavor of what Gowdy's leadership of the hearings might be like.

For that reason, in recent years, some brands have taken a «show, don't tell» approach to their marketing, choosing to give potential customers the chance to experience what they offer for themselves to decide whether they like it.

Employee performance reviews are often given at the end of the year and have a big impact on an employee's future performance manipulating factors like motivation, engagement, and morale.

The program works like this: for the first year, seven Ontario scientists have been given $ 50,000 each in one - time funding, plus dedicated business and management training in areas like patent registration, marketing and investment.

Value investor Bill Miller, who's had a strong track record over the years, tells CNBC he's not giving up on stocks and likes airlines and homebuilders.

It also allows the 31 - year - old budding philanthropist to change his mind about what he wants to fund and how much he wants to give over his lifetime, making the $ 45 billion number more like a pledge than a gift.

Instead, a good gift - giving strategy will focus on the entire year, just like any other business strategy does.

That gave Lane a ringside seat for the peak years of New Gilded Age excess, and he recalls plenty of the lavish parties and attentiongrabbing events he organized to promote Doubledown's titles, and to connect their readers to luxury goods vendors like Maybach and Gulfstream.

That's according to Joel Holland, founder and CEO of VideoBlocks, a company that shook up the stock footage industry when it introduced a Netflix - like subscription model that gives amateur and professional filmmakers unlimited access to video clips and digital effects for $ 99 a year.

«After eight years as an entrepreneur, I felt like I wanted a new career, but I also wanted to give back by sharing entrepreneurial skills.

«Coca - Cola usually does a holiday package design with Santa, but it sounds like they're giving Santa the year off....

Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

«Over the years, the idea of giving people second chances or fresh starts has really become a focus for the business, and as a result it feels like the whole company is motivated and inspired make a positive impact on the lives of as many people as possible.

«I feel like a starving man who waited 3 1/2 years for a feast and who was just given a handful of rice,» said Orloff.

In the past year, Mattel collaborated with Google to make virtual reality accessible to kids, completely reinvented Barbie to give them a more diverse choice of dolls, and displayed moonshot - like vision with Fisher - Price's Future Of Parenting report.

Republicans last year struck down online privacy regulations issued during President Barack Obama's final months in office that would have given consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share information.

«If you liked my company last year so much why don't you just give me more money to get through «Winter?»

Generally I agree (9 times out of 10) with your startup thoughts, especially given you and members of your super team (like ex-vancouverite Catrina) have done it before (and I've just been building for past 8 years) but I have a couple of quibbles on this post (but not necessarily «disagreement»).

The 2014 law required states to take certain steps to help families get and retain child care assistance — and many have taken steps like allowing families to stay eligible for assistance for a full year without having to continuously recertify their income level, giving them a semblance of certainty about their finances for at least the coming year.

I thought this may give a great snapshot of where I currently am, the progress into this year and if I like the trajectory for the year.

This seems like a high threshold now, given that lumber prices fell below that for only six weeks in 2004 and four weeks last year.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.

This has enabled Weibo to invest in video platforms like Miaopai giving it an additional kick two years ago when it was dying, she explained.

Between the trend away from pensions, some hard losses in the past few years (Dot Com and Housing crashes and resulting fear of stocks) and the emphasis recently on «give your kids everything» (private education, expensive colleges, etc etc etc), it does not seem like a stretch that retirement savings are put on the back burner.

Chelsea Galicia, a 33 - year - old nonprofit executive director in a black V - neck jumpsuit, likes the fact that SheEO might give her a chance to back socially responsible companies.

«MSCI estimates some $ 17 billion will flow into Chinese markets — both from passive funds that automatically track its indexes and active fund managers — when the country's stocks are included a year from now,» giving indexers something like a quarter of a percentage point of China's stock market, which is the second - biggest in the world behind America's.