Sentences with phrase «like turning up»

Our annual company meetings are full of information, but we laugh a lot, and do crazy stuff — like turning up in movie - star wigs for a Hollywood party theme.

Unsurprisingly, things like turning up late...

Unsurprisingly, things like turning up late or swearing during an interview are sure ways to ensure you definitely aren't going to get called back for a final interview.

That means tasks like turning up the heater, checking the outdoor temperature, dimming the lights, or turning off a Eve Energy plug (UK, US) can be done without leaving the couch or even using an iOS device.

They'll also come with Google Assistant support so you can use hands - free actions like searching for stuff to watch, or managing smart home products for things like turning up the temperature in the home or turning off a few smart bulbs in another room of the house, things which you can do through Google Assistant either on your smartphone or using a Google Home speaker.

This new partnership between Qualcomm and Microsoft aims to bring Cortana into the burgeoning age of consumer products that are powered by Artificial Intelligence and fit right in with a slew of new IoT - related products that make everyday life more convenient, from asking a simple question to initiating a task like turning up the temperature in the home when it's deemed too cold.

Tricks like turning up the radio or rolling down the window do not work.

There is nothing like turning up at the farm, and negotiating a cranky old staircase in a converted outbuilding which leads to the farm office in what may well be a multi-million pound business!

Not exactly like turning up fragments of pottery from a mid-Holocene civilization.

Everything revolves around your deck of cards, because without them it would be like turning up to a knife fight without a knife.

Using cancer drug vorinostat, Kennedy believes he can boost the one working copy of TCF4 to compensate for the damaged copy — like turning up the radio when it has one broken speaker.

Now increase the positive feelings that you experienced, just like turning up a dial.

Phrases like this turn up the heat in all conversations, particularly in strained ones.

I only have to do something inconsiderate like turn up mymusic a little too loud or eat spicy food to feel a sudden flurry of protesting feet and fists demanding that I desist.

We like turn up the radiators maximally, because our home has lukewarm temperature.

With Google Assistant built — in, you can control compatible smart home devices with your voice and do things like turn up the thermostat, turn lights on and off or check to see if the front door is locked.

Not exact matches

Caplan said the best bet for super powers through gene editing would be greater muscle strength, better memory, quicker reaction times, better night vision, and turning up receptors to experience things like alcohol, drugs, and sex more intensely.

Of course, it's hard to resist giving in to a more cynical suspicion that reports like these are a vague attempt to drum up a bit of fear within the VC industry, which, in turn, will provide lucrative contracts for the branding agencies that will swoop in to «refresh» a VC's look.

«The difficulty that Mercata faced was that it wasn't able to capture great discounts and, in fact, the search bots like Ask Jeeves turned up better prices than Mercata,» Andrew Bartles, senior e-commerce analyst told CNET at the time.

Grado SR60i If you grew up in the»70s and you wanted to listen to The Dark Side of the Moon in the privacy of your room without your mom asking you to turn it down, your headphones might have looked something like the SR60i.

Although it's generally understood they don't like «hockey stick» projections — sales projections that start off pretty level, then make a very quick, sharp, almost 90 - degree turn straight up into the stratosphere — what is it they're looking for that would convince them to invest?

Jon Bon Jovi on how he feels Steve Jobs and iTunes have altered the music - buying experience... for the worse The Sunday Times, March 2011 Kids today have missed the whole experience of putting the headphones on, turning it up to 10, holding the jacket, closing their eyes and getting lost in an album, and the beauty of taking your allowance money and making a decision based on the jacket, not knowing what the record sounded like, and looking at a couple of still pictures and imagining it.

In these sauna - like conditions, the power grid in these regions will likely be put to the test, as fans and air conditioners in homes and offices will undoubtedly be turned up full blast.

Among the reasons it cites is that pot is most likely to be detected in a test, whereas more serious drugs like cocaine or meth will not turn up since they are flushed from the body more quickly.

A web search for «Starting a business is like» turned up dozens of results that left me scratching my head.

«But over time we have turned that around, and we've built up a constructive relationship with groups like the Maquila Solidarity Network.»

The launch of these consumer models will also turn up the heat on competitors like Magic Leap, a well - funded startup building a similar product to HoloLens.

«Mostly, our digital work was confined to those moments where TARS and CASE, his twin robot, tend to do extraordinary things like turn into the waterwheel and move through the water to be able to collect Dr. Brand, pick her up, and run with her,» Franklin explained.

Score's tied at 10 and he goes right to the bench, stands up on the bench, and just lets the Buckeyes fans behind him that were giving to Baker, he turns at them and says, «You like that one?

The company is also experimenting with turning down the volume of music (or as Abercrombie's president mistakenly called it during the conference call, «noise») played in stores, turning up the lighting, and generally making its retail locations feel less like a bizarre form of torture.

Later, sitting around ornate game tables (which Kallos acquired from the Imperial Palace after that casino got a makeover and a new name), they learn things like paying out bets, pacing games, and offering insurance when the dealer turns up an ace at blackjack.

Valleywag points out that this whole situation is really weird: «So, our elected officials, in their effort to find a scapegoat for crimes against sex workers like the murder of Julissa Brisman, have taken a site that never made a dime from the hookups it helped set up, and turned it into a full - time, for - profit sex money machine.»

Old - school wet shavers used to turn up their noses at synthetic brushes, but times have changed: New synthetics like the Fendrihan shaving brush are capable of offering a feel similar to badger in softness while still providing enough backbone to whip up a great lather.

«I like Wallace, but his goldsmith work is par for the course,» and «Argyle's gonna tee - up that taxation meeting with the Burgh Commissioners on Tuesday» were common turns of phrase until the 1721 publication of The Rules of Golf by Sean Connery.

But direct marketing has its setbacks as BBM could risk launching its new service and turning it into a glorified junk mail folder for people who like to sign up for special offers, but rarely use them.

'» It turns out even an experienced investor like Graham can be influenced by the notion that entrepreneurial success is genetically predetermined — inherit the right combination of money - making DNA, and you'll wind up the founder of the next billion - dollar startup.

Then, maybe like the high kick, you want to turn it up a little bit, just because it's you and it's fun and own it.

Like a big, heavy wheel, Vanguard needed to be pushed forward until it picked up speed and began to turn really fast.

As Moran points out, partnering with commercial start - ups by investing in them allows Lockheed Martin to be vertically integrated in a number of areas, like satellites and autonomous technology, which in turn affects the efficiency and affordability of the technology the company can offer.

There's like 18 knobs, you turn a knob up or down, and you're there.

As Tim Duy, a University of Oregon economics professor who is an avid Fed watcher, wrote in a recent blog: «When the Fed turns hawkish and steps up the pace of rate increases, is when we need to be increasingly concerned that, like all good things, this expansion will come to an end.»

Most of my clients are too busy, or don't have the internal resources to get a powerful application like this set up and used properly with the right processes without things turning into a mess.

The sarcastic reviews dominating the pen's Amazon pages went viral thanks to a popular Gawker story, which in turn was picked up by a range of mainstream media outlets like CBC.ca.

All sorts of interactions that Facebook can observe in the backend — like a user turning on the sound, pumping up a video's volume, video views, time spent watching a clip, going full screen, or enabling HD — those are all weighted factors.

Indeed, if you approach thought leadership marketing as just another strategy to sell your product, you're unlikely to gain much traction — and, like the saleswoman in Beverly Hills who was so wrapped up in making a sale that she complimented my ill - fitting dress, you might end up turning off your audience rather than prompting them to trust your expertise.

However, as companies race to mix and match cloud - services delivered by the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, unforeseen gaps in classic network security systems are turning up.

I run shirtless with a running belt so I can't clip them to a shirt & I don't like to turn up the volume too high so I can be aware of cars.

To combat this challenge, retailers will have to start turning to omni - channel strategies like giving customers the option to purchase merchandise online and then pick it up later from a physical store.

The day before, the star had gamely turned up — though conspicuously without her $ 35,000 diamond engagement ring from actor Jude Law — at Wyndham's Theatre in London, where she is performing in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

While this might sound like it wastes more time, it actually ends up focusing people by putting them into a positive frame of mind to tackle issues and talk metrics without turning into an unproductive, repetitious «round robin of complaints.»