Sentences with phrase «n't turn on a dime»

I have yet to meet a medical doctor who actually sat down and read What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, who didn't turn on a dime and embrace Dr. Lee's protocol — the concepts are literally that obvious, both intuitively and factually.

Like a battleship, book publishing doesn't turn on a dime, so the old year's trends don't usually determine a new year's books.

International corporations can't turn on a dime.

Publishers have long - entrenched ideas, facilities, processes, and business models that can't turn on a dime, and they're seeing increased competition from online retailers (like Amazon and B&N) and smaller publishers, who don't need the huge economies of scale and financial capital that the print book business requires.

Last minute, panicked phone calls are common, but we can not turn on a dime because we don't have a shelter.

Just as the Titanic couldn't turn on a dime, neither can your monster punch as quickly as you'd expect.

Of course, evolved human nature does not turn on a dime, and sometimes these sorts of statements, depending on their context, can muddle distinctions among what has happened, what is happening, what we'd like to have happen, what would be most healthy to happen, what should happen, and so forth.

It won't turn on a dime.

That's challenging because, in part, you can't turn on a dime and it takes some time to ramp up any business based on relationships.

Not exact matches

I don't know about y ’ all, but the weather here in Cincinnati can turn on a dime — one second sunny, the next,!

The front wheels turn on a dime with the lock option so that you don't feel like you're pushing around two kids.

It's not going to turn on a dime, but it's easy enough to get around corners (slowly) and you'll easily fit through standard doorways.

Turning a dinosaur on a dime isn't easy, but people have done it before, and recently — for a great example, see the David Brooks Times column from last week about the transformation of the U.S. Army over the past half - decade.

You can't turn an ocean liner on a dime, and in their view, it will take a complete about - face in society's profligate use of fossil fuels to avert a catastrophe.

The climate change and melting [of glaciers and polar ice] issue is obviously something that's apparently under way and can not be turned on a dime.

We are very active, making the most out of every minute, and we are prepared to turn on a dime if things aren't what we want them to be.

Wright also twirls dramatic emotional depth into the mix; after all, these are criminals, not teammates, and their vested self - interests are ready to turn on a dime if need be, and their thirst for murderous revenge is not easily slaked.

Which is not uncommon for Hollywood films of the era, which often turned on a dime to placate the production code.

Where Byrne and Rogen must exercise caution in not overplaying their immaturity, boisterous performances from Efron and Dave Franco as fraternity leaders manage to balance maturity and all - out debauchery to the point where each character's mental state could turn on a dime and remain thoroughly believable.

Franco recreates Wiseau's ability to turn on a dime: «I did not hit her, I did not hit her, Oh, hi Mark.»

It's why charter schools can and do fire ineffective teachers, why they can turn on a dime when an instructional approach isn't working, why they can spend their money on the classroom instead of the bureaucracy, and why they can put the needs of students first, every day, all day.

But a culture of failure doesn't turn around on a Green Dot dime.

They're not going to turn around on a dime.»

With a whopping 40.7 - foot turning diameter, it isn't a car that will turn on a dime.

It does not easily turn on a dime.

They don't have to be able to «turn on a dime» like an individual... but they could devote departments to just one thing... being nimble in the business world.

Agency pricing doesn't have Amazon's ability to turn on a dime with pricing so it can be quite annoying to see books that cost more than the paperback copy and even worse more than the hardcover after the paperback has come out.

I do not normally like to own commodity stocks as they can turn on the dime, however, there are few exceptions like BBL that I'm considering to add in my portfolio, and keeping an eye on OKE as well.

She can turn on a dime and stay right with them for extended periods of time and if they do not rise up higher than she can jump she will surely catch them.

Well indeed it is, in a temporal way — we can't steer the climate on a dime, and slow feedbacks would tend to increase our turning radius (perhaps all the more important to take your foot off the accelerator?).

You can't turn the industry on a dime.»

But if it turns out that your plumbing or electrical work doesn't meet code, you can be forced to redo them on your own dime.

My kids have watched me crash so many times, probably because I can turn on a dime, my kids know not to follow too closely, now.