Sentences with phrase «much in his abilities»

The genius of AA is not so much in its ability to help its members connect to some sense of a higher power that will help them succeed and overcome their problems, as it is in its ability to thoroughly convince each member of his or her own insignificance, thus rendering them vulnerable, helpless, and willing to «turn their lives over» to something... anything... other than their own power.

Neither team has seen very much in his abilities, and he's looked poor going up against decent competition.

Support for you: Finding the right nursing bra can help so much in your ability to feel comfortable and confident in nursing.

Spielberg invests much in the ability of Day - Lewis to make this icon human, and his performance is a great success.

Not exact matches

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

But most don't have that ability because, despite the internet removing geographic barriers, there is still very much a communication barrier in language.»

You need to fill your needed roles, sometimes faster than others, so we must make trade - offs between choosing someone with the right skills today versus the ability to do the role and much more in the future.

In addition, if everyone has to adopt this new technology to be competitive, emerging economies have the ability to catch up to the industrial economies much faster.

The screenshot ability, however, works at pretty much any time, in any game, and even in the system's menus.

Too much lost sleep can affect your ability to function in your life, and even impair your ability to earn a living.

By setting up deals in which Lunar would receive equity - based compensation from its clients, the founders could tap into «the power of the multiple» — the ability to turn what might have been simply a fee - for - service payment into an equity stake worth much more in the long run.

, and in the piece they discuss why stories are much more influential than facts (again, a conclusion backed by numerous studies) through their ability to change emotional beliefs in a way that «logical» arguments just can't touch.

Or I could gently suggest you might want to read it, if it's not too much trouble — but then I'd come across as too timid, lacking confidence in my own abilities.

Creating demand requires vision, astuteness, and an ability to execute in such a way that people are attracted to your work, so much so that there is an acquisition of some kind.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

Last month's Ring acquisition puts Amazon in a much better position to integrate its products with Alexa, accelerating its ability to compete with Google's own smart home ambitions.

DETROIT (AP)-- Consumer Reports said Thursday that Tesla Motors is misleading car owners by calling its semi-autonomous driving system «Autopilot,» potentially giving them too much trust in their car's ability to drive itself.

Because to live in denial is a much greater danger than to have your eyes open and have the ability to do something about it,» says Schlosser.

By creating a margin - focused and reliability - focused business, Backblaze was able to profitably add the ability to do what Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others have at a much lower price of $ 0.005 a gigabyte stored or accessed a month (in comparison to Amazon or Microsoft's $ 0.022).

This means you could paying as much as 35 %, 45 % or even 50 % in income tax, which is taking a devastating hit on your compounding ability.

Subtracting the company's current liabilities from these current assets shows how much working capital (your firm's truest measure of liquidity) is on hand and its ability to pay for decisions in the short - term.

Although I have progressed in my ability, anytime I look at some of the couples on the dance floor, I realize much more I need to learn.

«If you believe passionately, act with integrity and take personal ownership of the impact of your decisions, have the ability to look at yourself in the eyes and admit when you are wrong, the rewards are that much greater than if you never had the courage to make bold moves, affect transformation, or ultimately strive to have a positive impact on your life as well as the life of others.

Even if such a step is seen as unlikely by most officials and observers, Pakistan's ability to shape the destiny of America's longest war is a reminder of how much leverage the country maintains at a time Trump is suspending hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance.

As a young person (I was still in high school), I realized age didn't matter as much as work ethic and ability.

Whatever you call the firm (its post-merger name hasn't been revealed as of this writing), much of its success in early seasons was due to creative director Draper's ability to see beyond what clients and customers said they wanted, and understand instead what they truly needed.

To be fair, Gladwell never said that innate talent had no role to play in achievement, but the extent to which inborn ability sways outcomes in this analysis seems much greater than the degree suggested by the 10,000 hour rule.

In particular, she was captivated by the high - tech moguls, some not much older than herself, who had the ability to forge new types of electronic ties that left people better connected to one another and to the world.

«To make the big jump to the next level, they're really being benchmarked on their ability to deliver future value to the firm in ways that are not taught or explained to them: chiefly how much business are they are able to bring in,» he asserts.

We spent far too much time hand - holding team members through their struggles with technology or their ability to discipline themselves in this flexible environment.

This is why the deal makes so much sense: AOL provides the technology to target individuals instead of content, and Verizon the ability to track those individuals — at least the over 100 million customers they already have — at arguably a deeper level than anyone else in digital advertising (for non-Verizon customers, AOL's ad platform is still useful, albeit not as targeted; rates would be commensurately lower).

Whether it's a plane in the Hudson River or a crying boy hugging a police officer, social images are unique in their ability to communicate so much information in just a snapshot of time.

While the Fed's zero interest rate policy has yet to lever much in the way of a domestic spending rebound, no one can doubt its ability to drop the value of its currency.

Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk's refusal to answer «boring» Wall Street questions about finances sent the electric vehicle maker's shares down as much as 7 percent on Thursday, jarring investors and raising concerns about its ability to raise money in the future.

«Like others, I was skeptical at first, however Aspiration has won me over with excellent customer service... I enjoy the ability of being able to select how much I am able to contribute each month for having the account (can even be zero),» one investor, Brian C, commented in a Yelp review.

Fueled by web - based tools that speed up the application process, a new paradigm for evaluating credit worthiness, and the ability to leverage technology to help them determine eligibility (often in under an hour), these lenders may approve business loans that might be overlooked by traditional banks, and can typically do it in much less time than their traditional counterparts.

The astonishing ability of the China bulls, both foreign and Chinese, to celebrate every unexpected decline in growth and every new surge in debt as if they somehow justified nearly a decade's worth of denials of the urgency of China's rebalancing has done so much damage to China that the sooner Beijing's leaders finally turn against the bulls, as I believe they might finally have done, the better for the Chinese people and the Chinese economy.

In 2017, we added more than $ 20 billion in new investments to support AXA's ability to meet its financial obligations to customers and policyholders while at the same time supplying much needed capital to the broader U.S. economy as the banking sector continues its repositioninIn 2017, we added more than $ 20 billion in new investments to support AXA's ability to meet its financial obligations to customers and policyholders while at the same time supplying much needed capital to the broader U.S. economy as the banking sector continues its repositioninin new investments to support AXA's ability to meet its financial obligations to customers and policyholders while at the same time supplying much needed capital to the broader U.S. economy as the banking sector continues its repositioning.

Mr. Bonforte's team, for example, has spent much of the last two years rebuilding Yahoo's email and instant - messaging services from the ground up, focusing on features such as better searches in email and the ability to unsend or delete an instant message at any time.

With an end - date in sight, the wealthy can take advantage of various means to defer their income until the top tax rate returns to 14.7 per cent, thereby undermining the ability of the new tax to raise as much revenues as it should.

In Canada, though, this much is already clear: Confronted with a challenge that hardly figured in their plan for getting elected, Trudeau and his strategists have displayed an ability to react — marshalling resources, assembling a coalition, even creating a cabinet heavyweight — that can not be denieIn Canada, though, this much is already clear: Confronted with a challenge that hardly figured in their plan for getting elected, Trudeau and his strategists have displayed an ability to react — marshalling resources, assembling a coalition, even creating a cabinet heavyweight — that can not be deniein their plan for getting elected, Trudeau and his strategists have displayed an ability to react — marshalling resources, assembling a coalition, even creating a cabinet heavyweight — that can not be denied.

When retrieving a score from FICO's system, the lender has the ability to choose how much weight is placed in a personal score versus that of the business.

You never want to be in a situation where a major car or home repair — much less a natural disaster — impacts your ability to care for yourself or your family.

Those who have demonstrated their ability to distinguish three from four «competitors» by counting on their fingers have no grasp of how much money it takes to make an impact in the wireless industry.

Not much, though some sound a note of caution about his ability to fulfil the huge hopes invested in him.

(Reuters)- Tesla Inc chief Elon Musk's refusal to answer «boring» Wall Street questions about finances sent the electric vehicle maker's shares down as much as 7 percent on Thursday, jarring investors and raising concerns about its ability to raise money in the future.

If so much of current newspaper economics is about more profitably managing decline, then the ability to highly utilize presses in one location — and get rid of them in another — comes in at the top of the list.

Of course it won't do this, but it shows how much leverage Apple has in its ability to increase its dividend, which is still just a paltry 23.3 % of earnings.

And it just goes to show a lot of people's edge, and in his case, I think, for example, is that is his ability to stick to his system, you know, much like you talk about in blackjack where he says, «Look, this is what I do and realize there's gonna be times of underperformance,» and not changing his whole approach when markets are down or he's doing poorly.

One thing that makes an investor to continue to stay afloat in the investment world is the ability of the investor to know when to invest, how much to invest, where to invest and when to pull out from any investment instrument.