Sentences with phrase «more than a chair»

Our room still had a large bathroom with sliding walls like the Le Meridien, but the sitting area wasn't much more than a chair and a desk.

Would you believe that the flowers cost more than the chair?

Banquettes seem to attract stains more than chairs, possibly because you can't scoot the seat completely under the table as you can with chairs and more surface is exposed.

Not exact matches

Sitting in a chair for most of their waking hours often translates into carrying around more weight than is good for a person, physiologically or esthetically speaking.

Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

To figure this out the team out of the University of Rochester asked 75 volunteers to do nothing more complicated than sit, alone, in a comfortable chair for 15 minutes without their devices.

Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, said at a press conference that she's concerned that the slowdown in the world's No. 2 economy could be more «abrupt» than expected.

Take digital marketing as an example: By 2017, CMOs will be directing more corporate technology spending than chief information officers will, and yet CIOs are more likely to have chairs in the C - suite, where the corporate agenda gets set.

Even the directors of the co-working spaces recognize that it's more than just having a fancy espresso machine or Herman Miller chairs to complement the offices.

The Ellevate chair and former Citigroup CFO wrote in a LinkedIn post that she's never more productive than she is at 4 a.m. «I brew a cup of coffee, I keep the lights pretty low, I sometimes light a fire in the fireplace, and I let my daughter's cat sleep next to my computer,» she wrote.

The chair comes in more than 15 different colors and patterns, including single - color favorites like Pacific Blue and Turquoise, as well as stripes, and tropical themes.

But at that point, the Fed chair Janet Yellen and the other members of the interest rate - setting committee seemed to side with the idea that Trump's policies would do more to help the economy than hurt it.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up by more than 800 points since Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen spoke about the economy last week.

In a span of one minute, 21,256 gold futures contracts, equal to more than 2 million ounces, traded just before Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen addressed a gathering of policy makers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Bond yields rose to the highs of the day as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid out a case where the Fed could raise rates more than it has forecast.

Asked about rate hikes in 2018, the Fed Chair signaled that the option for more than three increases remains open.

«The [trend] we found is that students who go it alone run into [problems] more than students who approach [things] as a team,» says Jay Kayne, chair and professor of entrepreneurship at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

The new chair signaled the central bank could hike rates more than three times this year in an effort to keep the economy from overheating, sparking anxiety among equity traders.

Bond yields rose after Fed Chair Jerome Powell laid out a case where the Fed could raise interest rates more than it currently forecasts.

Not many events can compel people to shell out more than $ 150 to spend an entire Saturday perched on metal folding chairs inside a chilly, cavernous auditorium.

The office consists of no more than a wooden desk, a standard chair, and a one - drawer filing cabinet from Office Depot.

As chair of the CRTC, he wields enormous influence over the regulations that govern a more than $ 100 - billion industry in the midst of unprecedented digital upheaval.

«If the terms of a settlement that were just fine under a Democratic chair are now unacceptable under a Republican chair, FCC enforcement becomes little more than political caprice,» Pai said in a statement.

Many of the Recaro Basic Line 3520 seats found on these airlines have thinner padding, and the bottoms seem to reach to only mid-thigh, which feels more like a hard bench than a real chair.

Hedvig Hricak, chair of the radiology department at Memorial Sloan Kettering said in a lecture Tuesday that AI tools would make radiology «more relevant than ever.»

The brawling is about big salaries, offices, with soft leather chairs and jarrah - top tables, that overlook the Swan River, interstate and overseas trips, and the power to promote the next generation of young Laborites who, more often than not, hail from student union ranks on Perth's four publicly - owned tertiary campuses.

«To date, the candidates have focused more on issues that will hurt small business than on those that will grow small business,» says USHCC Board Chair David C Lizà ¡ rga in a press release received at inc.com HQ.

The store, for example, boasts a «town square,» where seminars are supposed to be held, but the area in question consists of nothing more than two chairs in front of a video screen.

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First, he reacted to population changes, then he shifted his product category from furniture to toys, because families with more than one child often used the same crib and high chair, but they kept buying new toys for new kids.

The best wage growth since 2009 sparked speculation that incoming Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell may have to raise interest rates more than the three times the central bank has forecast in order to tame inflation this year.

«In fact, going back more than 100 years, the Dow has been down 0.3 % on average during the first six months after a new Fed chair takes office,» Lynch and Detrick wrote in a note this week.

While Yellen had hinted recently that further rate hikes were imminent, the Fed chair announced last week that the benchmark rate would hold steady and that future increases would come more slowly than the Fed originally planned.

Although a treadmill desk may help with the risk of obesity and heart disease, these desks are also prone to increased typos and might cause you to fall more often than merely sitting in a chair.

DuPont shares jumped more than 5 percent after the chemical company said its CEO and chair, Ellen Kullman, would retire, effective Oct. 16.

I ended up chairing meetings with more than 15 team members, each one of them as confused as I was about their role in the startup.

He has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels for more than 20 years and served as department chair, senior associate dean and, most recently, dean of the Graziadio School.

In fact, Ferro, according to several confidential sources, has been acting far more like an operational executive than a non-executive chair («Michael Ferro immediately redefines Tribune Publishing's chairman role»).

Under the leadership of Chair Janet Austin, the Board hosted a 142 events with a cumulative audience of more than 23,000 people!

At The Vancouver Board of Trade's 128th AGM, incoming Chair Tim Manning announced an unprecedented decision to elect more women than men to the board of directors — something that has not happened before in the organization's history.

If history is any guide, it is more likely than not that the economy will go into recession during the next Fed chair's four - year term.

Saturday's rally was nearly two years to the day more than 600 vehicles paraded down the Alaska Highway for a rally in support of LNG at Charlie Lake, said Taylor Mayor Rob Fraser, who chairs the Northeast B.C. Resource Municipalities Coalition.

Her past comments on inflation aren't explosive, but they're enough for skeptical senators to conclude, correctly, that she's more worried about unemployment and less worried about inflation risks than recent chairs.

Committee chair Damian Collins concluded one round of dark ads questions for the Facebook CTO by remarking that his overarching concern about the company's approach is that «a lot of the tools seem to work for the advertiser more than they do for the consumer».

... the evidence on the proposal to mandate the separation of the chair and the CEO of public companies is more extensive and considerably more mixed [than evidence on say on pay].

Hannon has operated a private investment group for more than 15 years and chaired Atlas while the iron ore miner was in the ASX100 index.

But a combination of factors — including a more dovish - than - expected update from the ECB, perceptions that Fed Chair Yellen's dovish tilt to Fed policy would likely be maintained by Jerome Powell and the absence of any sign of pricing pressures — saw them dip once more back into the trading range that has held for much of 2017.

«Manufacturing adds more total value to the Ontario economy than it does in any other province,» says Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters President and CEO Jayson Myers who chairs the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition.

He is a leading global speaker on family offices and has spoken at and chaired more than 50 industry conferences and summits in Zurich, Monaco, Singapore, New York, Liechtenstein, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and the Cayman Islands.

After repeated episodes stretching back to 2013 when the Fed had failed to deliver predicted rate rises, market participants were now faced with a specific warning from Fed Chair Yellen that policy accommodation would be removed more quickly than in previous years.