Sentences with phrase «n't at a few of»

He wasn't at a few of the games in Australia and China because he had surgery.

Not exact matches

Though the 3 million jump in subscribers over a period of just a few months is notable, Apple Music hasn't gained enough traction to threaten streaming music leader Spotify — at least not yet.

For one thing, many open - Web advocates argue that these kinds of deals cement control of the internet with a few large platforms such as Facebook, which may not always have the best interests of news and journalism at heart.

Thiel's substantial donation to Trump doesn't come as a surprise — he did have a prime - time speaking slot at this summer's Republican National Convention — but the billionaire has been largely silent about his chosen candidate's many controversial statements of the past few months, which had caused some to wonder if he had abandoned his support for the Republican nominee.

A core tenet of employee engagement is that there are few things more motivating to most workers than being heard; it's hard to imagine even the most jaded desk jockey wouldn't feel a little bit chuffed when the person at the top of the org chart looks her in the eyes and asks her what she thinks.

A Brigade analysis of user - generated positions, or debate - starters, at the turn of the month showed fewer than 10 percent of such posts did not explicitly reference Clinton, Trump, their campaigns or surrogates.

A few minutes of shut - down is better than nothing at all, so don't get discouraged if you can't dedicate a proper 30 minutes or full hour.

«First, domaining is not a get - rich - quick scheme,» says John Motson, author of the e-book, Domaining Manifesto, proprietor of industry blog DNXpert.com, and owner of more than 1,000 domains, including a few valued at more than $ 100,000.

It's not surprising to me that the SEC has started to look harder at them because using some of these new technologies to raise capital in a less regulated way with fewer consumer protections is not sustainable.

«No surprise, since they are good at only awarding an «elite few» — aka the upper management, and not the entire population of frontline workers.»

It revealed that 18 percent of users can't go beyond «a few hours» without checking Facebook and 61 percent of users check their newsfeed «at least once a day.»

That last line is key: «Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.»

In 1993, Conlon joined one of Chicago's top real estate firms at the time, and within only a few short years, he had made a name for himself as one of the most prolific sellers of residential real estate throughout not only Chicago and and the Midwest, but also the entire U.S. with sales approaching $ 200 million annually.

Increased bank reserves held at the Fed don't necessarily translate into more money or cash in circulation, and, indeed, broad measures of the supply of money have not grown especially quickly, on balance, over the past few years.

There have been signs of traction already: General Electric, an AWS customer, has been a presence at this conference for a few years now, and companies don't get much bigger than that.

There are still plenty of ways for it to fail once it gets off the ground — the structure could be torn apart by supersonic shockwaves or the side boosters may not separate, since that system has never been tested, for example — but at that point, SpaceX could probably launch another Falcon Heavy within a few months.

Web visitors aren't patient (for the most part), and will flee at the first sign of difficulty, even if that means just a few extra seconds to find what they're looking for.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

An institution of Desjardins» size would not function without codified processes, and while the co-operative has plenty — 143 distinct ones when it counted a few years ago — it is now looking to give employees more leeway to act on the front lines by, say, allowing a caisse teller to offer an additional incentive at the counter.

«A few years ago,» wrote Cook at the time, «users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer.

The time to think about tax season isn't at the first of the year — it's all year long, and these five strategies can help any small business plan for a simpler tax season with fewer headaches.

«Most dealers don't consider the sale final until the money is in their account, and that could be anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days,» said Chris Kulka, senior vice president at the Center For Responsible Lending.

The limited number of entries, exits and check - out locations at stores like Walmart, Home Depot and Canadian Tire not only make for better in - store logistics, but also require fewer employees on the floor.

That's because it will be one of the few remaining data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising interest rates at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.

The website that Williams unveiled at TED, an audio directory and a few simple tools for recording one's own podcasts, wasn't ready for the public until a few months later, and by then it had been overshadowed by Apple's release of podcasting features for iTunes.

With 30 states and the District of Columbia having broadly legalized marijuana in some form, at least a few employers are reportedly treating it like alcohol: Don't show up impaired or get that way on the job, and you're fine.

As one of the few women in a top job at a major U.S. tech company, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty did not have an easy time getting there.

Few people even used the term «social media» at this point, and it wasn't clear whether any of these new social networks would last.

Overall, she says, her data has confirmed that when entrepreneurial couples — couples with at least one entrepreneur in the household — follow a few key steps, their relationships, though challenging because of the business, are not doomed.

«Every few weeks we have a totally new set of problems and as soon as we start getting good at something it's not the priority anymore.

A look at a few of them, and why you may not want to panic, yet.

A first - party study like this obviously has to be taken with a few grains of salt, but the Nest does make it easier to keep your thermostat at less wasteful temperatures when you're away (whether it's automatically or manually from your smartphone), and it gives you useful info on how much energy you're regularly chewing up.

A few days later, Sherry Cooper, the chief economist at Dominion Lending Centres and the former chief economist at the Bank of Montreal, told Business News Network she was «very worried» about skyrocketing home prices in Vancouver and Toronto because «these things generally don't end well.»

You don't have to be a genius coder, but if you really want to succeed, at the very least get a few months of developer training under your belt.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

«After a few years, employees came to us saying there weren't any opportunities for growth,» recalls Melissa Sonberg, who was part of those discussions and now serves as executive - in - residence at Desautels faculty of management.

As a part of Inc.'s annual look at the best industries for starting a business, we decided to highlight the niche sectors that are projected to grow during the next few years and that don't have an industry leader dominating the market.

Take me: I'm good at working hard and staying focused and delaying gratification and grinding — especially at unusual pursuits, like doing juuust a few too many pushups in one day — but do I actively cultivate a steady stream of things I can't wait to do?

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

Rather than try to compete directly with Match, the industry leader, he created a website that cost almost nothing to run and was aimed at the sort of people who wanted to browse a few profiles but weren't ready to take out their credit cards.

It's not too hard to understand why workers might like this plan; it offers them the ultimate flexibility: Instead of running out or cramming vacations into the last few weeks of the year, vacation days can be taken at any time.

«We looked at why that was happening and the reason was we had some schools, like SMU, which had very few [MBA job] recruiter mentions — not a really deep base of recruiters — but that small base was wildly enthusiastic about the school.»

A few days after a gunman murdered 17 of her fellow students in Parkland, Florida, she stood at a podium and, with unbelievable poise and power, said the fearless words that adults couldn't.

Richard Swart, who directs research into innovative entrepreneurial finance at the University of California, Berkeley, does not forecast sharp growth for crowdfunding, at least for the first few years, partly due to regulatory costs.

The average retail broker at Morgan Stanley typically gets no more than a few hundred shares per client for popular IPOs that the firm underwrites, said one of the advisers, who requested anonymity because he did not want to be seen criticizing his own firm.

She agreed, handed him a wad of cash and said that she couldn't pay for it all at once, but that she would pay it off in installments within a few weeks.

As he geared up to sing a song he had apparently authored («My Chinese Dream»)-- karaoke style — to a few dozen reporters in a conference at a hotel on Central Park South, one thing about this eccentric Chinese millionaire seemed clear — Chen Guangbiao isn't afraid of the limelight.

If it weren't for a twist of fate a few years earlier, Rive wouldn't have been around to start SolarCity at all.

Actually failing at anything the first few attempts doesn't really hurt the company's chances of success.