Sentences with phrase «not as a field»

But wine was not in his future — not as a field of study, anyway.

It is as if the prepared white ground is treated not as a field of activity, but as the first stage of a multi-stage process.

Not exact matches

In addition to the removal of Fielding as CEO, the startup is «taking a number of steps to improve Ripcord's culture, including but not limited to increased training, reporting mechanisms and Board oversight,» the representative said.

While the emerging field of neuromarketing seeks to address this issue by peering directly into the brain, there are things we can do easily and cheaply to make sure we're not reacting just to consumers» conscious minds, but to their unconscious as well.

Our focus as a company has not and will not change: We remain committed to moving the science of cognitive training forward and contributing meaningfully to the field's community and body of research.»

«Looks as though you could ride a jet - ski through where you probably shouldn't,» Matt Sawyer said of one of his barley fields near Acme, Alta., located northeast of Calgary.

«A lack of color contrast can be really annoying, especially when fields are set as mandatory by the brand but can't be seen as such by the user.»

As an entrepreneur in the fashion industry, I've been to networking events and gatherings where some entrepreneurs in technology don't further conversations or ask me questions about my company because they feel that we're on different playing fields.

As one of the most sought after speakers in the field of customer service, Whiteley couldn't have put it more accurately or succinctly.

There's a term in the field of human longevity known as negligible senescence, which is a fancy way of saying a thing doesn't seem to age.

But then again, the father of classical economics, Adam Smith, wasn't an «economist» (as «economics» wasn't a distinct academic field in his times) but a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow University.

Even fintech startups that don't specialize in analytics, such as SumZero, StockTwits, and Scutify, have begun fielding requests from hedge funds wanting to buy their data, such as what stocks their users are searching for, which is seen as a potential proxy for bullishness.

The city might be in such a state that institutions of all types feel it's necessary to throw resources at it, creating opportunities for young entrepreneurs who won't have to compete with as crowded a field as they'd find in New York or Silicon Valley, but that doesn't exactly solve the problem of what to do on a Saturday night.

It also can't be a modification obvious to anyone familiar with the field, such as making an existing product in a different color or size.

SS: I went to the University of Toronto to study civil engineering with the idea that I wanted to be an architect, but as I talked to more and more architects, they all warned me I shouldn't go into the field — there was no money in it.

Cooper cautions not to make any promises in this section, such as promising to pay employees the top dollar in your field, which might be hard to sustain if the company falls on economic hard times.

«When you do outdoor events,» says Russell, who went to high school across the river on 98th Street and played sports on Governors Island's athletic fields as a kid, «you are expected, both contractually and on a personal level, to return the park in the same condition, if not better than, it was in when you first took it over.

If you want to become not just an expert, but a «celebrity» in your field, you need to present yourself as the expert.

This can include ensuring that employees have access to VoIP and work e-mail accounts from home, though this won't work in fields such as manufacturing where employees need to be on site to accomplish their jobs.

The new Alzheimer's framework may not be much of a surprise given numerous, high - profile, late - stage clinical trial failures in the field by companies like Eli Lilly and Merck, and the decision by other companies (such as Pfizer) to back away from the risk - prone field.

Don't forget to highlight skills that are valuable in any field, such as communications, teamwork and leadership, said Blair Decembrele, a career expert at LinkedIn.

While Belch believes VR can help every player on the field improve their mental timing and performance, Cowboys quarterback Brandon Wheedon finds StriVR invaluable because it provides him reps that he doesn't get as a backup.

He recognized that to compete with Silicon Valley techies, many of whom have been coding for as long as he had been running around on football fields, eight weeks of learning was not enough.

And unfortunately, sports stars aren't always as disciplined online as they are on the field.

It's for the same reason that they're not controlling as much crucial real estate in the fields of sports, medicine, finance and law as their male counterparts.

Pichai and Porat also fielded questions about Europe's upcoming GDPR privacy rules (the company told investors not to worry, and that it has spent 18 months preparing for the May 25 change) as well as YouTube (which they said continued to drive its websites revenue).

But when the 2005 engine is now installed into a 2017 «glider» kit and masquerades as a 2017 truck, cannibalizing 2017 truck sales, and does it with a cost advantage, that is not an even playing field.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

The glass ceiling, the old boys club, brogrammer culture... it seems to me that these aren't signs of an all powerful patriarchy so much as an ongoing manifestation of men who are terrified to compete with women on a level playing field.

As in any other field, some are good and some not so good.

If Airbnb hosts have to compete on a level playing field with San Francisco's 35,000 hotel rooms, running an Airbnb won't be as lucrative, and people will have less incentive to offer their properties to short - term guests.

As someone who teaches and advises in the field and has an obligation to keep current with emerging developments, given the significant rate of change in the last ten years, I could not imagine how a director of a company could remain current without ongoing requirements rather than passing familiarity or osmosis (I am speaking here of directors who have chosen not to upgrade their education).

Add only skills that you think will actually be useful to emphasize, such as bilingualism, or expertise in a field that wouldn't otherwise be indicated in your past experience.

Your niche isn't the same as the field in which you work.

Just as suddenly, you're on the bone - dry plains of Somalia where camels graze and where your guide sadly comments how, «We used to have four seasons,» because what is now below your feet isn't a fertile field, but sand and endless drought.

It may seem unattainable to reach «celebrity status» in your given field, but it's not as hard as you may think.

When Violet can't project a force - field over the plane, Helen has to scoop them up and parachute down to the water below, and all the while Bob can only listen in terror as he believes his family was just killed.

The tech supporting the marketplace had to be updated, he explained, to optimize pricing, classification (to be sure a bike helmet is not categorized as a hockey helmet, for example), and payment to the vendor, not to mention loading data about a seller's items into 350 fields of information on the Walmart site.

THE whole picture of industry, business, and amusements, then, may be summed up by repeating that while there are certain industries which Jews dominate and certain industries in which Jewish participation is considerable there are also vast industrial fields, generally reckoned as the most typical of our civilization, in which they play a part so inconsiderable as not to count in the total picture.

«A baseball team entirely composed of catchers could have high esprit de corps,» Ellison offered as an analogy, «but it would not perform very well on the field.»

Don't be afraid of making mistakes as you transition into a new field.

Some fields showing marginal gains (for men and women)-- such as journalism and pre-law — haven't been great job producers of late.

But the way we talk about these fads isn't consistent — as in so many other fields, there's a troubling sexist undercurrent to the way these trends get packaged, marketed and sold:

I call this ability to stand out from the crowd Managed Distinction, and it will be instrumental in helping you position yourself as not only an expert in your field, but one with a distinctive background, skill set, and perspective.

The stark responsiveness to the business cycle suggests that many college students, and especially female college students, have sufficient ability to complete more challenging majors, such as STEM fields, yet choose not to do so in periods with stronger labor market prospects.»

Entrepreneurs in the field say that focusing on the price of Bitcoin is missing the point — its value is as proof of concept for a new kind of payment system not reliant on third parties like governments, big banks or credit - card companies.

Good defense is more important than good offense not just on the football field, but on the investing field as well.

As to other storage technologies, I don't see anything that can be matured for volume vehicle fielding in less than a decade or so.

Since I don't know anyone personally in this field or probably have the net worth to invest in it, I'll just keep on dollar cost averaging in an index fund as the market is nosediving like today.

This could theoretically result in problems if adults are in the seats in case of an accident, though Tesla says that they haven't seen anything related to this issue in the field, or in any customer car as of yet.