Sentences with phrase «living the high life by»

Henry Cavill plays Napoleon Solo (the name is not accidental), a thief serving his sentence by working for the CIA but still living the high life by taking off the top (we never know what «top» this is).

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The United States Government Life Insurance program was approved by Congress in 1917 and provided an alternative to commercial insurance which either did not pay out in deaths caused by war or charged extremely high premiums for the coverage.

Judging by my Twitter feed, most foreign observers simply can not understand why a man serving his country in one of its highest and most sensitive positions should step down over something that happened in his private life - something that directly affects only those involved and their families.

The workouts — which beam into your home live or on demand — focus on activities like high - intensity interval training, which includes short sprints followed by exercises on a mat.

If the Jay approval comes through — and O'Keefe is one of several analysts who believe it will — it would extend Ekati's life by another 10 years and firm up Dominion's consolidation of an area that has some of the richest and highest - value diamond deposits in the world.

«Invest in Cornwall» aims to lure more tech companies and entrepreneurs to the county by touting benefits like high - speed internet connectivity and work - life balance.

The city's efforts to position itself as a hub of the global high - tech entrepreneurial community will be showcased this week with its five - day Digital Life Design (DLD) festival, driven by the mission to create a network of innovation, digital prospects, science and culture.

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Already by 2001, when Health Canada conducted a massive survey of 31,571 workers on the subject of work - life balance, a third of respondents said they enjoyed high flexibility in working hours and location, and another 39 %, moderate flexibility.

They're desperately afraid that something important will pass them by, so you might be checking out Pokémon Go just to make sure your enjoy - life - o» - meter readings stay high.

If you notice that, within a few months, your declining margins will push your break - even point too high to live with, you can take action now to fix the problem by adding a new, higher - margin product, getting rid of an old one, or beginning to stress marketing to a more profitable clientele.

Both the rate of new entrepreneurs and startup density notably increased from 2015 — 0.33 percent and 88.2 percent, respectively — indicating entrepreneurs aren't detracted by the city's high cost of living.

According to Variety and others, that makes it the highest - grossing live action film ever directed by a woman.

We are reminded by such models as Idi Amin, Papa Doc Duvalier, Fidel Castro, and Ferdinand Marcos that there are high costs to these emperor - for - life models.

Setting the display to a higher resolution means you'll take a small hit on battery life, but it's not a dramatic difference by any means.

To justify the self - storage expansion, many industry insiders begin by citing urban growth, as well as the ascendancy of condo living, which discourages clutter, and higher rents.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

Alibaba faces the challenge of living up to the high expectations of investors and analysts after its IPO in September, but its shares have increased by more than 20 % since then, and its $ 285 billion market cap exceeds that of Walmart by about $ 30 billion.

And many basic decisions will be made quickly and automatically for us by high - velocity computers living somewhere in the cloud, based on the unimaginable quantities of data being generated by every action we take, every move we make, every venue we enter, and the trails of digital exhaust we leave behind wherever we go.

More than 63,600 Americans were killed by opioid painkillers last year — 11,200 more people than the year before that and the highest number of lives claimed by the crisis so far.

Our standard of living is high by global standards, so it's tempting to conclude we haven't suffered unduly thus far through our heavy reliance on the natural resources industry to drive our economy.

Simon Baptist, chief economist at the EIU, told CNBC by phone that these cities were able to provide the necessary amenities needed for a higher standard of living, without suffering from congestion.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

What it's about: The highest - grossing movie of all time — by far — «Avatar» is a science - fiction epic where a paraplegic marine inhabits another body to live on the moon of another planet and ingratiate himself into another population.

Indeed, the CNBC Millionaire Survey, which was conducted by market research firm Spectrem Group, found 19 percent of high - net - worth respondents wish to leave enough for their kids to be comfortable and maintain their standard of living, but not all they have, while 17 percent indicated they will be «very cautious» in how much they leave, because they want their children to learn self - reliance.

While it might not sound sexy, high - performance company culture is more about living and working by a set of unifying company - wide goals, values and beliefs.

The children who were willing to delay gratification and waited to receive the second marshmallow ended up having higher SAT scores, lower levels of substance abuse, lower likelihood of obesity, better responses to stress, better social skills as reported by their parents, and generally better scores in a range of other life measures.

Our next - door neighbor's daughter was one of the lives taken (too) soon by a senseless act of violence at Stoneman Douglas High School.

But if the story told by the film - makers is even close to accurate, the world the workers live in is anything but sane, and they're struggling, after all, to feed their families without the help of the power - brokers who see them as mere pawns in a very high - stakes game.

Retirees will have a hard time maintaining their wealth when they're being nickel - and - dimed by taxes and the high costs of living in this state.

The RSC budget make Social Security sustainably solvent by implementing a slightly modified version of Representative Sam Johnson's (R - TX) «Social Security Reform Act,» which would slow initial benefit growth for higher earners, gradually raise the normal retirement age to 70, and eliminate annual cost - of - living adjustments for higher earners while using the more accurate chained Consumer Price Index (CPI)(currently used for the tax code) for other beneficiaries.

She could then switch to that higher amount, and increase her lifetime benefits by $ 40,000, or almost 10 %, if she lives to age 89.2

For example, a young, high - income parent may get whole life insurance since they would have lower annual premiums by purchasing early when they're healthy.

What doesn't play in the state's favor is its high cost of living, bolstered by higher - than - average home prices and middling deposit account rates — and the second - highest median property tax in the country.

Will this create even larger problems to come, by making the costs of living even higher as labor and industry become even more highly debt leveraged?

By capping state income and propery tax deductions at $ 10,000, residents living in high state tax and high property price cities are getting an uppercut to the chin.

I hope that by sharing these monthly updates I can also prove that it is possible to take control of your financial life and invest a high percentage of your income, even on a small salary.

The report: The life and annuity industry is a slow - growth proposition and company managers need to hunt for higher returns by rethinking business models by rearranging like Lego blocks distribution, underwriting or customer service components of their companies.

The Big Sky State has an overall cost of living that's higher than the national average — but only by 0.4 percent.

A year and a half ago, upon its approval by nearly 200 nations, The San Diego Union - Tribune Editorial Board called the Paris climate accord an achievement lacking in accountability because it would not punish countries that failed to live up to its high...

Much of the venture activity in edtech in the US posits that edtech will look more like SAAS companies in other sectors, high growth driven by a stable low cost of user acquisition relative to life time value.

Rigontec is supported by a consortium of experienced life science investors including Wellington Partners, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund, NRW.BANK, High - Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Forbion Capital Partners, Sunstone Capital and MP Healthcare Venture Management.

As has been pointed out by several authors, rising living standards in the developing world have seen rising demand for a higher - protein diet and hence grain to feed animals.

These are safe high yield plays that can buttress an early retirement portfolio by making it completely unnecessary to sell shares to fund living expenses.

In February 2016, federal cabinet ministers acknowledged that the true number of Indigenous women and girls whose lives have been stolen is likely far higher than reported by the RCMP.

MG&A expense increased 11.5 percent in local currency, driven by higher brand amortization expense related to the reclassification of certain Canada brands to definite - lived intangible assets, partially offset by lower incentive compensation.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

«As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not utter words, but to live by them.»

Some of this divide can be explained by the fact that Democrats tend to live in areas with higher home values, where the changes hit harder, although there still seems to be an element of partisanship at play.

By continuing to spur the creation of new small businesses and providing high - quality living wage jobs, solar's dramatic growth under the Obama Administration enables more Americans to provide for their families while also helping the United States to achieve its clean energy and climate goals.