Sentences with phrase «longer up to the task»

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Tasks and to - do items can pile up, leaving you overwhelmed and working long hours just to keep up.

Following up occasionally, especially for long - term tasks, gives you insight into progress, and gives your employee the opportunity to bring up any questions or obstacles that have arisen in the process.

You end up splitting your focus over many tasks, losing focus, lowering the quality of your work and taking longer to hit your goals.

Many insiders — Fortune spoke with 19 current and former McDonald's executives, as well as more than two dozen industry analysts and veterans — are starting to question if Thompson is up to the task and how long his tenure will last.

Combining the Yesterbox method with Andy Grove's advice — my email inbox is what I use to manage my day - to - day activities, while my calendar is used to track proactive tasks, long - term projects and more intensive follow - up activities.

If you put it to the back of the line or spend time scheduling the task for later it will end up taking you longer than five minutes in the long run.

Economists use gross domestic product to measure growth over time, but as modern economies evolve, it may no longer be up to the task

Over the course of the week, tasks pile up, and my to - do list can become so long that it's unrealistic for me to complete all of it.

That's how long it took to get wheels up from the hospital,» says Jim Scheulen, the chief administrative officer tasked with overseeing the medical center's sprawling emergency medicine unit.

The rest of your to - do list can be filled up with minor tasks that you would do as long as you complete your MITs.

You may think that if a prospect comes across a piece of content that isn't engaging they'll click away with relatively little harm, at least as long as your product and your salespeople are up to the task.

No longer then is the bearing and rearing of children thought of as a task we should take up or as a return we make for the gift of life; instead, it is a project we undertake if it promises to meet our needs and desires.

If at some point during the week I express an opinion, I must perform one of the tasks on my very long been - meaning - to - get - to - that home maintenance list (which includes such glorious undertakings as mopping the kitchen floor, vacuuming the stairs to the basement, and bagging up old clothes to send to Goodwill).

Fed up with the current system, our columnist, Ben Lowe, decided to run for Congress and take to task all the broken and partisan politics that had been infuriating him (and us) for so long.

Mundane tasks like errands to Trader Joe's or a stroll through a rose garden is no longer mundane when she visits, and it's always good to catch up with her.

glad it went well - a slow cooker seems quite up to the task of «long and low» which is certainly a big part of «yummy shanks»

What I gather from that is that Ramsey is definitely on right, and Wenger wants to pitch Chambers in the middle for longer so he can find out if he is truly up to the task, before Wenger decides whether to delve into the transfer market for a Coquelin replacement.

It opens up a fascinating race for the hotseat at Stamford Bridge, with the successor to Mourinho tasked with ensuring that the champions a year ago return to their usual high levels for the long term future.

If they're not careful, lacrosse's promoters risk setting up the sport for an almost impossible task: Scroll down the long list of what ails youth sports, and in most cases lacrosse seems to offer an antidote.

It's a near - impossible task — a soccer field is between 100 and 130 yards long — and one that really only a couple of players in the world are up to.

Garry Monk has a mammoth task ahead of him trying to get Leeds back to the big time, especially while that nutbag Cellino is around, but if he can get a strike partnership that scores on a regular basis it goes a long way to going up.

Ireland's approach in Copenhagen was pragmatic to say the least with lone striker Daryl Murphy handed the thankless task of trying to battle the home defence with little support before Shane Long took up the baton.

At Leicester, Kante's primary task was to break up oppositions attacks and constantly hassle opponents, while Drinkwater had more license to dictate play and exercise long, raking passes.

As long as it's performing optimally and it is up to the task, well no one has to really get concerns.

Even if it's just for 5 minutes at a time, you'll feel energized and ready to keep up with baby tasks all day long.

Earlier today, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and City Councilman Fernando Cabrera announced a big - name lineup of «heavy hitters» to serve on a task force that they hope will come up with a new plan to put the massive and long - vacant Kingsbridge Armory to use for the community.

ALBANY, NY — Separate audits of Metro - North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) found they failed to properly manage overtime paid by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allowing abuses such as allowing some conductors to charge overtime for tasks such as washing up for work, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today.

In the case of a mash - up, trying to hear two separate things that are no longer two separate things is a daunting auditory task.

While the control mice picked up on the new rules in 4 to 5 days, the impaired mice took at least twice as long to learn the task.

On the task with full body images, they took considerably longer — up to 50 % more response time — than participants with partial and no spinal cord injury.

If you use a precise body fat calculator and determine that you still have a long way to go before your abs start showing up, the first task will be learning the fundamentals about what you need to eat, as well as becoming really good at meal preparation.

As long as your shoulders are up to the task, this move will ensure your pecs are getting all the attention they need.

Or, it could simply be that the scrumptious - looking smoothies have given me the motivation to dust off my megawatt blender, which has long been relegated to the task of propping up a row of cookbooks on one end of the kitchen counter.

Cycling longer distances is a great method to build up your stamina, which supports you with challenging tasks in everyday life such as climbing several flights of stairways or carrying heavy luggage.

Of course, as one maternal blogger observes, «long - term consequences are nowhere near the radar» during adolescence, and lectures by parents are unlikely to soften teens» sense of invincibility.21 On the other hand, teenage boys are certainly mature enough to begin to understand «what is good and what isn't,» even if they won't admit it.21 Fortunately, parental willingness to cook regularly with ingredients like butter and bone broth greatly facilitates the task of preparing appetizing meals that teenage boys will not only accept but gobble up.

Instead of being distracted every few minutes, I found myself able to focus on a task for longer, every now and then looking up at the clock in surprise to find that an hour had passed without me noticing!

So I started to force myself to get up earlier by setting up goals and tasks for every day and it worked, now I don't like to stay too long in bed in the mornings!

I try to respond to things as soon as I read / see them, and if that task takes a long time, I'll put it on my to - do list as a follow up.

As usual for this World War II u-boat sim series, your first task in Silent Hunter 5 is going into the options and filling out a long checkbox questionnaire while the game holds a protractor and set square up to your masculinity.

However, as long as the player is up to the task, so is the game.

As long as we're up to that difficult task, why stop at five or ten?

Stephen Root flits by long enough to squeeze out approximately one chuckle while assigning Chris a terrible task: to escort his ex-girlfriend Samantha James (Anna Faris) to record her new album, a hideous - kinky concoction with the lead - off single «Forgiveness» («To forgive is divine, so let's have a glass of wine / And have make up sex until the end of time»to squeeze out approximately one chuckle while assigning Chris a terrible task: to escort his ex-girlfriend Samantha James (Anna Faris) to record her new album, a hideous - kinky concoction with the lead - off single «Forgiveness» («To forgive is divine, so let's have a glass of wine / And have make up sex until the end of time»to escort his ex-girlfriend Samantha James (Anna Faris) to record her new album, a hideous - kinky concoction with the lead - off single «Forgiveness» («To forgive is divine, so let's have a glass of wine / And have make up sex until the end of time»to record her new album, a hideous - kinky concoction with the lead - off single «Forgiveness» («To forgive is divine, so let's have a glass of wine / And have make up sex until the end of time»To forgive is divine, so let's have a glass of wine / And have make up sex until the end of time»).

Two former Martin co-stars sign up for supporting roles: the long - suffering Chief Inspector Dreyfus is now played by John Cleese (Kevin Kline having gone AWOL) and Lily Tomlin appears as Mrs. Berenger, a government official tasked with making the racist and sexist Clouseau P.C. Jeremy Irons even shows up to play straight man as a suspect in the thefts.

The film teems with fierce performances from an up - to - the task cast made up of mostly young faces, though at just over two hours, it's longer than it needs to be.

As students tackle more complicated tasks and concepts, those who haven't absorbed key building blocks into long - term memory will find it hard to keep up.

You can complete task in 30 minutes or 1 hour depending how long you give students to come up with their answers.

They work well as follow up tasks to an assembly, as part of a stand - alone lesson or as part of a longer topic.

But when a country's elementary and high schools can no longer educate its own young people up to the highest international standards, then its security is endangered — just as Klein, Rice, and their task force have said.

If a frustrated former U.S. Secretary of Education is bent on taking a hard look at the administration's effort to turn the Department of Ed into what he's repeatedly labeled «a national school board,» it could be a couple pretty long years for whoever is tasked with closing up shop at ED.

Therefore, it's reasonable to believe that some of our kids could be growing up without the skills needed to think critically because they don't have the attention span to stay on a task long enough to develop problem - solving and critical thinking skills.