Sentences with phrase «like stepping on»

Interest rate hikes can be like stepping on the brakes while interest rate cuts can be like hitting the accelerator but bear in mind that consumers and business react a little more slowly to these changes.

It's like stepping on a scale and seeing your weight; you realize that you need to get in shape, but how you go about getting fit is the real challenge.

Responsive four - wheel disc brakes, ventilated up front and solid at rear, don't deliver sports - car - like pedal feedback — but neither does the pedal feel like stepping on a sponge.

It feels like stepping on a dead pedal.

Suddenly, like stepping on a banana peel, the footing surface slid out from under them.

It's like stepping on human legs.

«Ninety percent of the energy that was used for acceleration can be recovered when the vehicle slows back down, kind of like stepping on the brakes of a Toyota Prius with regenerative braking that can capture some of that acceleration energy.

If a conversation is like a dance, interrupting is like stepping on your partner's foot.

Hold onto an incline surface like a step on the staircase and put your feet on 2 sliders.

Then it starts, revs up really high like I stepped on the gas, but I didn't.

It's not like you stepped on anyone's toes by making it.

Fortunately, Tomb Raider seems like a step on the right path.

There are lots of ideas here and Sahib has progressed since we saw his work at his graduate show, but it feels like a step on the path of his evolution as an artist.

Not exact matches

Personalized recommendations may seem like a marginal step forward — a decent iteration on an otherwise underwhelming product — but I'm inclinded to believe there's a bigger story here.

I think you have to hope that... they step up, as Bell has done and make these kinds of investments that triggers a response from their competitors and that other people are at least prepared to look, even if it's on a limited basis like Beanfield has, at coming into the marketplace.

Take things one step further by editing your client's bio on LinkedIn with ``... some improvements I made over the weekend...» and pre-endorsed skillsets like Buying Pens and Inking Deals.

Instead of converting language into text, like most virtual assistants do, the app's AI combines voice recognition and language understanding into one step, which helps speed up results and cut down on errors.

He characterizes it like this: Step 1) Scrawl app / software / drone idea on a napkin.

Like TaxAct, TurboTax noticed that the Social Security and Medicare taxes reported on my W - 2 were too high, but TurboTax took the extra step of telling me that I was entitled to a refund from my employer — and then told me what to do about it (ask my employer for a refund and a new W - 2, and then file my tax return).

To give you a leg up on everything from winning SEO strategies to Pinterest pinning your products like a pro, the helpful Shopify infographic below offers a step - by - step guide to launching your first online sales business.

We should all strive to be more like them because we are all entertainers, delivering a performance every time we step on the stage that is our businesses.

Walmart, which has stepped up its competition with rivals like Target on a variety of fronts of late, is expected to beat analysts» sales expectations for the most recent quarter while Target's numbers are expected to disappoint.

You can make good decisions, but if you slip a bit and something beyond your control can happen — like the guy [on the peak] who stepped out on that cornice, and I'm at the bottom of the bowl, not up there to show him exactly where to step.

To avoid something like a missed deadline, get back to the basics: Spend some one - on - one time with each person to talk through the steps involved in a project after you give out work assignments.

Piggybacking on his remarkable success, Pala took his passion a step further in early 2017 and founded Kids4Community, a nonprofit to rally others like him into service.

The Facebook Developers site offers step - by - step directions on adding Like buttons, but again, it does involve a fair bit of coding.

The third step is asking candidates to do tasks like the ones they'd do on the job.

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.

The app lets you earn «Sweatcoins,» or points based on the number of steps you take in a day, which you can then use to buy a limited number of specific goods that Sweatcoin has made available — like a Fitbit tracker, fitness classes, or subscriptions to apps designed to help you eat healthier.

«Corporate America hasn't really stepped up on this disease like it has for cancer,» she said, adding that Alzheimer's isn't as «sexy» since there aren't really survivors.

They like the idea of differentiation, but when it comes down to taking action, they can't seem to step out on a limb.

Step counting thus seems better suited to an always - on device such as a wristband fitness tracker, like perhaps Samsung's Gear Fit.

He dresses like a skateboarder, or a drummer who might have just stepped off the stage at the Biltmore: on this day, a Whitney Houston concert tee, Nudie jeans, nerd - chic sneakers.

However, the likes of AT&T and Verizon have taken a more aggressive step and charged content providers for the ability to be zero - rated on their networks.

According to his piece, work is underway on a new console in Sony's PlayStation line — a full - on successor to the PlayStation 4, not a half step like the PlayStation 4 Pro.

Once in a while, Jim Cramer likes to take a step back and provide his advice on diversification for investor portfolios.

She said, «If the world puts you on a road you do not like, if you look ahead and do not want that destination which is being offered and you look behind and you do not want to return to you place of departure, step off the road.

At each step, we built social infrastructure like communities, media and governments to empower us to achieve things we couldn't on our own.

While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.

It will rely more on a linked smartphone and will have some smart features like step tracking and limited notifications.

One of the default arguments why he wouldn't want to enter government is that it might feel like a step down, given Facebook's global reach and quasi-monopoly on the distribution of information.

It seems like everyone has an idea that they think is the next big thing, yet very few of those people ever take the steps to execute on it.

It was far from my favorite, but like every other place on the list — from Nauru with its ravaged limestone to Somalia with its machine - gun nests ringing Mogadishu — it was a necessary step on a journey all the way around the world.

You can spend longer on any step if you'd like.

«If you step in with legislation like this, where it's tougher on companies to price risk into the equation, the real risk is they're going to pull in on credit,» Keating said.

When it feels like the whole world is on your shoulders, it is important to step back and put things in perspecti...

Getting to step 2 on the Global Animal Partnership, for instance, means providing both cage - free living conditions and enrichments like perches, hay bales, and hanging CDs that reflect the light.

Twitter said in a statement on Wednesday: «We have taken a number of steps to keep an incident like this from happening again.»

Well, this could involve intermediate steps like paying a gym membership, packing your gym bag in the morning, driving to the gym after work, exercising in front of other people, and so on.

The first step to achieving something vastly important but fuzzily defined like work - life balance isn't soul - searching or reading up on the issue, it's nailing down what you mean by the term in the first place.