Sentences with phrase «more enterprising»

I've painted things red for lack of black paint, for instance, and been much happier with the results than if I'd been a more enterprising sort.

Sharp - tongued art - world jester Maurizio Cattelan may have announced his retirement from making art in 2012, but his surrealistic visual sensibility has been fully on view through one of his more enterprising ongoing projects: the magazine Toilet Paper, created in collaboration with photographer Pierpaolo Ferraria.

If you are a little more enterprising, you can start your own business.

Some cultures are more enterprising than others.

More enterprising investors might want to hang around to see if LaGrange can squeeze some value out of a sale of the business.

For more enterprising investor, we recommend letting dividends accumulate and selectively reinvesting them in the stocks in their portfolio that offer greater values.

It was close to the low for the day, though someone more enterprising could have picked up shares cheaper during the «when issued» trading, if he was clever.

Being a more enterprising person, I would have been more inclined not to make some of the really obvious bad decisions she made.

And given that it's plain ol' Android underneath, I won't be surprised when the more enterprising Android nerds make it capable of doing a lot of other things too.

And so the Casters» research days in their makeshift warehouse are numbered as Will wastes away, Louis Slotin - like, until Evelyn and Max get the crazy idea to upload him to the virtual great beyond, where he becomes a new being — equally affectless, but more enterprising and all - seeing... and considerably faster at buying plane tickets on his wife's iPad.

Ben Stiller stars as the eponymous Brad, a once - idealistic late forty - something who used his journalism degree to start a non-profit that connects other non-profits with funding sources while his friends and college classmates (Michael Sheen, Luke Wilson, White, and Jemaine Clement) went in more enterprising directions that paid off in designer homes and lucrative gigs as cable - news pundits.

Dublish ran Kumar's supply chains, in which the more enterprising donors became middlemen themselves.

I can not be alone in wanting to hear news of more enterprising links or, better still, of completed transfer swoops.

Looked more enterprising than any other player in red, but his innovation was only visible in flashes.

When Ireland finally got their hands on the ball they seemed the more enterprising, throwing the ball around more, but a combination of effective Welsh defence and Irish errors meant that the scoreboard was still blank as halftime approached.

Argentina were tepid and stodgy, Chile were more enterprising but not much more productive, and both sides spent as much time kicking one another as they did the football.

Piles of the orange, gold, and brilliant red peppers are found in every outdoor market in Peru, tossed in jumbled piles, stacked in pyramids by more enterprising vendors or divided by color upon handwoven cloths.»

In the new capitalist towns she earned cash, and the more enterprising members of her group built up capital to invest in loftier and more profitable schemes, a trait commercial bankers and even hardheaded church financiers could appreciate.

Though not a preferred instrument for risk - averse investors, the futures market is extremely liquid and is therefore highly attractive to the more enterprising trader.

I use both passive and more enterprising in my own portfolio.

Not exact matches

That observation is echoed by the Federal Reserve Board, which fielded its Enterprising and Informal Work Activity (EIWA) survey, which concluded that 36 percent of the adult population has undertaken informal paid work activity either as a complement to, or substitute for, more traditional work arrangements.

MORE than 10 years of research and development to design new four wheel drive suspension technology has paid off handsomely — about $ 51 million worth — for an enterprising Dunsborough identity.

Enterprising Women is the magazine for women business owners featuring a community of more than 10 million strong and counting.

With more than 400 active companies, our expansive membership of industry veterans, successful innovators and enterprising startups comprises the largest and longest - running network for entrepreneurs in the country.

He has a presentiment of the dreadful event, that a jealous criticism will many a time let him feel the birch; he trembles at the still more dreadful thought that one or another enterprising scribe, a gulper of paragraphs, who to rescue learning is always willing to do with other peoples» writings what Trop «to save appearances» magnanimously resolved to do, though it were «the destruction of the human race» — that is, he will slice the author into paragraphs, and will do it with the same inflexibility as the man who in the interest of the science of punctuation divided his discourse by counting the words, so that there were fifty words for a period and thirty - five for a semicolon.

As the basketball scandal continues to spread to more colleges, an enterprising graduate student's term paper exposes the frantic attitude that contributes to the tragedy

It is bad enough that we are setting about wrecking our economy, which will make the poor poorer and even the enterprising more vulnerable.

His enterprising ventures have failed about as much, if not more, than they have succeeded.

These should be answerable empirical questions for a neutral agency with financial expertise — a comptroller's office, say — an enterprising investigative journalist who can do more than gather and repeat quotes from «the sides,» or a legitimate academic expert not trying to hone an already - ground axe...

Published by the enterprising Biteback Publishing, 22 Days in May takes the form of a diary, with Laws as the controlling, omniscient intelligence: he recounts verbatim telephone conversations between Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg as if he were there listening in (more likely, the calls were taped and Laws has read the transcripts).

They may be fit only for consumption by weary grad students who have forgotten to buy any bread again, but be wary of enterprising caterers who decide to branch out into more modern flavours.

In the laboratory, it was a relatively simple step for Lovley to dupe the enterprising microbes into passing their electron booty to an even more attractive mineral — an electrode made of unpolished graphite.

Thus, more than a century after two enterprising American pharmacists set in motion their pioneering partnership, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund remains committed to the belief that fostering research by the best and brightest scientists offers the fullest promise for improving human health today and in the new millennium.

The enterprising Kelly figured out that if she wedged a single piece of litter under a stone and ripped it into multiple pieces, she would receive more fish.

Find out more: http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/ Well established as a nurturing environment for enterprising minds, Bath is ranked highly in all national league tables.

'm looking for a life time partner that is the opposite of me but at the same time is the same as I. Compassion, a genuine love of life, philosophy and enterprising are some... Read More

Oskar Schindler was an enterprising, womanizing Nazi Sudeten - German industrialist / opportunist and war profiteer, who first exploited the cheap labor of Jewish / Polish workers in a successful enamelware factory (Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik or D.E.F.), and eventually rescued more than one thousand of them from certain extinction in labor / death camps.

In this film, an enterprising chorus girl from Brooklyn decides to go to Europe so she can make herself seem more exotic.

An even more interesting multiplayer mode is Game Master mode, where enterprising users are able to create their own campaigns and act as a Dungeon Master in a virtual table - top RPG.

Aired by Fox just one other time after it premiered and later dropped from syndication, the superficially disturbing «Home» went on to become the show's best - selling episode on VHS; it was but a matter of time until some enterprising producer recognized the franchise potential in its heartland troglodytes — and it was even more inevitable that they should be paired with a WB cast - off for the first big - screen vehicle, since no modern horror flick is complete without one.

But enterprising homicide detective Seth Frank (Ed Harris) knows there's more to this mystery.

«Blade Runner 2049 had recently offered me a vision of a more emotionally evolved Alexa — Ryan Gosling's flickering, buxom fantasy, who occupied his futuristically claustrophobic living unit with coquettishness and bonhomie that I suspect will remain more elusive for the enterprising engineers at Google,» writes James Kernochan.

Enterprising Science investigated how schools and teachers can engage more young people in STEM.

This surely explains the heart - breaking situation at Montgomery College, the county's enterprising and generally well - regarded community college, where almost 80 percent of students coming straight from high school must take remedial math — and where more than half of students never make it past remediation.

As more and more educators take up the challenge to implement UDL, this enterprising book is an excellent place to start that journey, filled as it is with wise and hard - won lessons from these UDL pioneers.»

The search uncovers a host of radioland suspects who seem willing to do almost anything to grab more on - air time and a chance at fame — including Graham, the handsome hero who has a way with women; a couple of wannabe starlets; a star - struck station engineer; and an enterprising midget who unexpectedly lands a choice promotion.

Also, no one knows for sure when in 2012 that is going to happen, though that is surely not to the liking of a few enterprising XDA members who decided to take matters onto their own hands and get... [Read more...]

With the rapid rise in popularity of e-books along with the gadgets to make the best use of these e-books, it comes as no surprise that some people with an enterprising bend of mind - read hackers - come out with ideas that are completely out of the box and aims to draws on the full potential that the device has to... [Read more...]

This year's top 10 crime fiction for youth, reviewed in Booklist between May 1, 2017, and April 15, 2018, run the gamut — you'll find enterprising kid detectives, a fedora - clad pigeon, a wildly unreliable narrator, frank commentary on social justice, and plenty more.

I'm sure some enterprising person will write a program to search the CSLS for all active zip - codes and do a more comprehensive report.