Sentences with phrase «long talked up»

The president has long talked up his friendship with Xi, whom he has praised for consolidating power in China despite its limits on democratic reforms.

(Bloomberg, for example, has long talked up the idea of a «people index.»)

Not exact matches

This is not another self - absorbed athlete — not as long as he ventures into monologues about the «deep responsibility» that comes with being an Irish champion, or talks with humility about «showing up to the gym every day as a white belt.»»

Instead of waiting long periods of time for the next person to speak up, everyone will be prepared to talk through ideas and you'll have a much greater chance of deciding the best course of action that same day.

Several special guests appeared during Benioff's talk on Wednesday, livening up what can otherwise be a long, bland event.

Bots will be in your car, talk to you in the winding path in a park on a long run, and wake you up in the morning.

Each person picks an industry or area of focus, then they go hunting: talking to experts, digging up documents, interviewing key sources, and otherwise shaking the trees to come up with a long list of suggested candidates.

It seems crazy to even talk about the idea of someone moving to a smaller house or trading in their car in order to bulk up their emergency fund or fund their 401 (k), even if doing so would probably make them happier in the long run.

People who have been fighting for this for too long, others who were never comfortable enough to openly talk about their experiences with gun violence, or still others who were never listened to when opening up about their experiences with gun violence or were afraid to speak out — these are the people we are fighting with and for.

It's not often that I get my hopes up about a potential volte - face in the way we talk and think about economics at the policy and political level but this is by far the best news I've heard in a long long time.

A long time ago we talked about what we would need for that and each of those came up with a number that's subject to change based on changing needs.

There's already talk of saviours, voiced in the sincere hope that whoever turns up will be a longer - running hit than the last messiah, Jim Prentice.

Many people are logged in to a Google account all day long whether they are using Google Talk throughout the day at work, checking out their Google + page, or searching from an Android device which requires a Google account to be set up.

Talking to Financier Worldwide Magazine this month, Andrew Schoulder, a partner at Bryan Cave, summed up the ongoing retail apocalypse: «The Band - Aid has been on for so long and part of what we are seeing now is the adhesive coming off.»

Jason Zweig looks at this Age of Macro Investing and talks about the fact that these are the types of markets in which investors set themselves up for longer - term outperformance.

Dividends are the last thing you'll hear about when reading the financial press or talking to most small investors, yet they're the lynchpin of all of those reports (such as the CSFB Equity - Gilt Study) that reassure us the UK stock market goes up over the long - term.

Canadian officials say the long - term objective here is to create relationships that could prove useful, should trade talks hit a difficult patch and Canada find itself in need of allies willing to speak up in favour of NAFTA.

You know, that long - term history we're talking about earlier of stocks is made up of that bull market part that's kind of two - X the long - term average, and then all that negative that goes with it, and the blessedness that comes from owning stocks in the long - term includes all that volatility.

Long before anyone was talking about collateralized debt obligations or the credit crunch, many investors had already unwittingly loaded up their portfolios with explosives timed to go off at the first sign of trouble.

guess it doesn't matter if people are up and posting, I've a memory problem with my cell phone, and it takes too long to load this page, so wii talk to you later — I hope.

Another time, we had to have long talks about the influences of certain friends and how these friendships had opened up the gates to some unacceptable behaviours and habits.

We talked for a long time that night, this growing - up child and me.

It no longer talks of them as being the church of tomorrow, as if to say they must grow up to church membership and responsibility.

Narcissist: some redundancy in all these ics and ists & it amounts to fundamental Fear & Hate & welcome to the First Church of the Crippled & any one can join once outed & the cover - up's no longer adequate: leaking limp and lame shall enter first; no talk of golf or coming out parties of the debutante kind; potluck suppers and holy smoking prayer meetings possibly, with plenty of coffee

But Vine is certainly happy to talk about it to me, and admits that, despite growing up in a strongly Christian background, his adult relationship with faith was an on - off affair for a long time.

Now when I talk about church, I am not talking about simply showing up on Sunday to fake a few smiles, and half - heartedly sing a few songs, and then suffer through a long - winded sermon.

On the «soul sleep» kind of thing, I remember when I was about 19 or so talking to a physician, off duty, and saying that it must be terrible for someone in a coma to wake up after a long coma and somehow being aware of this long time where they only had their brain and no connection to the world.

You atheists know who you are, so don't argue about it, go talk with the Humanist Atheists, you don't have to give up atheism, but you can not keep writing off the world's religions because they are quite frankly the most important deciding factors in whether this world will survive much longer, whether there will be chaos in the world or order.

Some theologians have relegated theology to the supernatural order; others, no longer believing in the supernatural, have reduced theology to feelings, emotions; and still others have given up on religious talk altogether.

We ended up talking for a while, trying to work out the answer together, because the truth is, we've been immersed in these narratives for so long that it's hard to know how to change them.

He knows that an individual voice will be raised in resistance, but he knows that he is stronger, he knows that for an instant one still can cause men to seem serious, but he knows also that privately they long to laugh with him; he knows that for an instant one can still cause a woman to hold a fan before her eyes when he talks, but he knows that she is laughing behind the fan, that the fan is not absolutely impervious to vision, he knows that one can write on it an invisible inscription, he knows that when a woman strikes at him with her fan it is because she has understood him, he knows without the least danger of deception how laughter sneaks in, and how when once it has taken up its lodging it lies in ambush and waits.

«In the context of this case it is super-difficult because in relation to the provision of goods, facilities and services you are talking about a prohibition on discrimination on transactions which may range from a box of matches up to a long - term contract.

Many of us humans like to dress up that law in a long beard blue eyed robe wearing guy who talks of only loving all as he loves himnself or maybe some Sumo Wrestling look alike cat with an iconic beer gut that talks of enlightenment thus giving in to the power of positive thought and stay clear from the negative thinking that some how compels mankind to drop bombs or take by force what never was his in the first place from those who were willing to SHARE!!!! I tell those show me your GOD because I can always show you mine.

Sadly, meals are no longer a time of talking and gathering together but rather, something that takes up time in between tasks.

It's been a long road to get to this point, a story Bev opens up and talks about with her usual humor and unusual candor (which made me love her even more) and we can all only IMAGINE what will be going on in the Weidner household once those babies hit the threshold.

and then I ended up staying for a long time talking to them all about ice cream.

Ironic, I talked about cooking with tea in my post today too my breakfasts definitely come in phases hut I haven't had an oats one in a long time I miss them, I think I should start back up with the recipe because it looks incredible!

Talks with bankers over the restructuring of a long - held lending agreement were progressing smoothly in the lead - up to Tuesday's deadline, he said.

Long story short, I can imagine they both know what I'm talking about you can imagine how honored and psyched I was when they asked if I would like to come up with a little something - something using their mole!

I could Up - talk my boys all day long, not so much for myself thou.

But, with allergy warnings, I have long given up (if anyone knows anyone at the company — please talk to them!).

The youngster hasn't always been a regular for Manchester United this season, but has long been talked up as one of the most exciting young talents in Europe.

After signing Jake Long they shored up most of their offensive line, but there is talk that Roger Saffold could ask for a trade because he doesn't want to move to right tackle.

Xhaka must have had a long talking to on his red cards, now the poor lad plays with a hand break on and ends up making mistakes.

talking about wining the league,, I have long given up on wenger winning us any major trophy bcos he nd his boys are too relax, that's why a fighter may not want to work under him.

The 48 - year - old Laudrup signed a two - year deal when arriving at Swansea, but is now hoping to tie up talks on a new long - term contract after being pleasantly surprised by the progress the club have made under him.

Later in your comment, you seem to understand how smack - talk / playful ribbing of a rival / long - time opponent works: Both sides cherry - pick facts to either make fun of the other team, pump up our own team or make our team look better than the other guy's team.

And though Orthwein seems bent on selling, the Patriots could well end up with a local owner if a long - talked - about domed stadium is built in Boston.

You want to talk about a cluster fuck, it's hard enough to move the ball on that defense, but giving up yards because of presnap penalties when the Panthers already couldn't get their running game going almost guaranteed they would end up facing yet another third - and - long every time it happened.

Coupled with the fact that ESPN add that United are targeting another midfield signing this summer, it paints a pretty bleak picture of his long - term hopes of making a breakthrough at Old Trafford and so these touted talks will likely be vital in clearing up the matter and formulating a plan.