Sentences with phrase «n't find any at the time»

I added faux large white garden roses (I wanted peonies but couldn't find any at the time) and white anemone with my usual animal bottle brush and white owl ornaments.

Not exact matches

Joe Issid, a contributor with job site Monster.ca who has had his own publishing company and is now an executive at another, notes contract work can also be useful for millennials who can't find a full - time job in their field.

For instance, I didn't realize I'd long enjoyed a flexible work environment until I later found myself at a bureaucracy that put a premium on face - time.

«But if for some reason that's not in the company's best interest,» he said at the time, «I'll find something I can do that will add value.»

While he didn't know it at the time, he employed several principles British psychologist Richard Wiseman has found to be involved in harvesting good fortune.

Ours may need some tweaking, but for now at least, my colleagues and I have found plenty of positive things to comment on: work we're proud of, jokes about office nicknames and even a little cheerfulness about the weather («Not wearing a sweater for the first time in... I can't even remember,» one colleague posted).

Vanderkam finds when many self - professed night owls look at their time journals, they often find they aren't spending their evening hours productively or doing anything particularly enjoyable.

Finding your full courage usually doesn't happen overnight, but rather is cultivated one small quest for independence at a time.

«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

How many times have you as a customer, seen something online you wanted to take a closer look at in person, then visited your local store only to find that it wasn't in stock?

One group looked at the effect of sleep loss on productivity at four American companies and found employees who weren't sleeping well or enough to be roughly twice as likely to report difficulties with time management, decision - making and motivation.

The Man Isle (which doesn't consist of an entire aisle... yet) lets male shoppers find all the stuff they need at one time.

If at times these standards are not met, work closely with your employees to find ways to get back on track.

With two kids who were in elementary school at the time, Curran asked administrators what their emergency plans were, which he didn't find sufficient.

And a lot of the same people who were literally chuckling at that time are now not only taking bitcoin seriously but trying to find a place to work in it.

It's not easy finding a connection between a big Australian cattle company, an American business that makes jet engines, and the Western Australian government's insurance arm, but if you look closely they're all doing something at the same time — selling property.

I find when I look at it like that — from their perspective — it's clear I'm not selling time.

A day later he sent me an email: «While I can't please everybody and you can always find people who will criticize you, I'm passionate about news, and yes, at times I've lost my cool in the context of trying to get things right.

The analysis, which looked at 22,100 corporate retirement plans and 14.5 million participants, found that the lofty balance figures have been helped not only by a robust stock market that has been hitting all - time highs, but also by an increase in savings by workers.

Born in Denmark, he spent time at Unilever and Novartis — not two companies associated with the high - tech boom — before founding SuccessFactors in 2001 and taking it public in 2007.

There are certainly exceptions to every rule — at times you may find it advantageous to be divisive, but in general, this isn't a wise practice.

If the case went to court, the veterans stood a real chance of losing, because science at that time had not found a strong correlation between Agent Orange and the illnesses afflicting the veterans.

Doing so will help you learn more about their perspective — not to use against them in any way — rather, as a foundation for finding solutions at a more appropriate time.

Inc. reached out to the EPA for comment on the report's findings, but had not received a response at the time of press.

Also, if you're able to find something through a friend of a friend, it takes away some of randomness, and you at least know you're not wasting your time with a scam.

«At the time when Hef founded the company [in 1953], nudity was provocative, it was attention - grabbing, it was unique and today it's not.

If you can find a way to delay gratification a bit, you'll not only be able to keep your days filled with hard work, but you'll also be able to truly enjoy the small pleasures in life, a little at a time.

They help us remember to laugh at what we didn't find funny the first time around.

This is not something I anticipated when I went into business, but over the years, I've found that many employees, especially at the hourly level, have financial emergencies that come up from time to time.

For the first time in three years, the findings weren't discussed publicly at the annual offsite meeting of the top leaders in July.

Jumping from career to career didn't help me in finding stability, confidence, or happiness, and I struggled to make peace with my life at the time.

[I] found out many years later that it was a white shark breeding ground, but I'm glad I didn't know that at the time or I'd have just died.»

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Microsoft, whose employees have not participated in my seminar, seems to be heeding some of its lessons, at least judging from a recent The New York Times article.

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

1010data found that regular Whole Foods shoppers (shopping at least six times during a 12 - month period) who are also Prime members spent an average of $ 1,371 at the grocery store over the period, $ 306 more than Whole Foods shoppers who are not Prime members.

If I don't make the time from 6:00 to 9:00 am to do what I need to do and get my mind right, I find that I'm at the mercy of other people's schedules and demands.

You might be finding it difficult to come up with the right idea at given point of time, but there might be an idea sitting in the heads of a person who isn't a marketer, but still has immense knowledge about the business, its target audience and the operational niche.

If, on the other hand, you find that the market won't support a full - time business but might someday with proper marketing and business development, then it's probably best to start part time at first.

The economy is still finding its way back to better times, and thus managers aren't equipped with endless funds to add sales reps at their leisure.

In a study of hundreds of manufacturing CEOs, Harvard researchers found that time management isn't a priority for people at the helms of large corporations.

It's our ability to put those two contradictory ideas together: We need to be prepared for what we can't predict and, at the same time, have this total, unwavering faith that we will find a way to deal with all of it.

You might recall Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen discussing at length the numerous pitfalls of the headline unemployment rate, which doesn't count the discouraged workers who've dropped out of the labour force, those who've stopped looking for work but say they would still like to have a job, and those who would like to work full - time but could only find part - time employment.

Most people don't do this because they're concerned that these people are too busy and important to consistently donate time, but you'll find that they're flattered you've asked them for help and would relish at being partially responsible for your success.

At any time during those 14 days, you can get 100 % of your subscription fee back if you don't find yourself immediately more informed and better prepared.

At the same time, consumers collectively expect the deep discounts of previous holiday seasons — which are simply not viable this year — and will be disappointed when they don't find them.

However, she later found out that this wasn't the case: her mother had been unable to care for her at the time of her birth, but later married her biological father and had another child with him.

Overall, what growth can be found is moderate, and companies are not feeling particularly optimistic about the next 12 months as they did at this time last year:

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Though the FBI was unable to uncover any of the devices, the report did not find that she used more than one device at a time while secretary of state.

At the same time, «anyone who doesn't have a pristine credit rating finds it very difficult at this point to qualify for a mortgage.&raquAt the same time, «anyone who doesn't have a pristine credit rating finds it very difficult at this point to qualify for a mortgage.&raquat this point to qualify for a mortgage.»