Sentences with phrase «not as a luxury»

«School leaders need to make a commitment to ensuring that every student has access to the arts, not as an extra enhancement when there is time, not as a luxury for the privileged, but as an essential part of well - rounded education.»

New York normally stands out as a tweener show; it's not as truck - focused as Detroit and it's not as luxury - oriented as Los Angeles, though there have been surprises from both ends of the spectrum in the past.

Still, it makes sense to think of life insurance as a financial product and not as a luxury purchase.

Not exact matches

«We have established Starbucks as, not only the leading provider in coffee, but also a brand of choice and luxury in China,» he said.

For luxury brands, whose sales are often offline or in - store, tracking website conversions can be as difficult as choosing a present that your spouse actually likes (when luxury cars are not an option, of course).

If a development filled with luxury apartment buildings is not perceived as «international,» it will not be nearly as desirable to prospective buyers, the real - estate agent explained.

Everything works well, although the overall interface, combining touchscreen and controllers, isn't as compelling as what's on offer from Audi or Cadillac, the luxury segment infotainment leaders.

Like most people, they're also hoping to not overspend, «getting the best bang for their buck,» as noted by Calgary luxury real estate agent Daren Gull.

They buy luxury products to obtain status, although they don't want to be seen as «baofahu» or nouveau - riche (even though almost all wealth in China is new).

Shortly before taking office last year, Trump Sr. said he would hand off control of his business empire, which includes luxury homes and hotels across the world, to his sons Donald and Eric, and move his assets into a trust to help ensure that he would not consciously take actions as president that would benefit him personally.

Sorry, Manhattan real estate owners, but your luxury home might not be worth as much as you think it is.

Luxury watches generally paint their wearers as conspicuous consumers, but an expensive watch that degrades quickly is going to mark its owner as a conspicuous consumer who really isn't that wise about their money.

Still, Dyson isn't positioning the 360 Eye as a luxury good or complementary item to its traditional vacuums.

One thing hasn't changed as Tesla Inc. has crept from high - priced luxury - car maker toward mass - market manufacturer: Elon Musk's heavy reliance on media buzz to bring attention to his electric cars.

Smartwatches, if and probably when they do happen, are likely to be viewed as gadgets or toys, not the superbly precise instruments that luxury watches are.

But as I found after interviewing more than 160 entrepreneurs for my 2012 book Hungry Start - up Strategy, entrepreneurs don't have the luxury of time for this type of strategy because they could easily burn through their remaining cash in the months it would take to get this process started.

Besides a price tag of $ 127,820, beyond the means of the average person and the most expensive car Consumer Reports has ever reviewed, the car is louder than the base Model S and isn't as plush as other luxury vehicles.

This is a luxury you wouldn't have in a traditional career path as an employee — so take advantage of it.

Obviously, as an entrepreneur, you won't have this luxury, but here's what you can do.

David: We need to start viewing time for reflection as a necessity, not a luxury.

Tesla Motors announced on Thursday, Oct. 20, that it will not allow any of its luxury electric vehicles to be used to work for ridehailing companies such as Uber or Lyft.

«Many people tend to think of Tesla as just a luxury or performance brand — they kind of put us in that category forever — but that isn't the mission statement, that's not what we're actually trying to do.»

As for luxury items, leather shoes can be made to order for $ 22, a dress tailored for not much more than that, and a weekly manicure goes for $ 6.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Warren defines «kickbacks» as including not the commissions from the sales of those products, but «lavish cruises, luxury car leases, and other perks to annuity sales agents to promote their products.»

Enterprises strategizing on mobility today, including for internal collaboration, don't have the luxury of learning as they go.

It does require special attitude, as you need to agree that you are going enjoy life differently (not on overseas vacations and luxury tours).

So as long as demand for luxury goods is here, which it will be, we want to be able to offer the Canadian consumer something in Canada so they don't have travel to the U.S., where there's going to be a foreign exchange headwind.

In our industry this is a luxury, as many other investment firms have clients that don't let them do this.

Moreover, the homebuilder didn't see its quarterly profit fall as sharply as some investors had expected, and despite some lower sales prices for its luxury new homes, Toll Brothers said that unit sales were up 12 % for the quarter, and net signed contracts were up by more than a fifth in terms of homes sold.

Developers who want a piece of the action near Hudson Yards still have a chance, so long as they don't plan on building another luxury...

Nest Seekers bought Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes as an entrée into the L.I. market, but some doubt the acquisition will impact the local competition

While this addition was completely donor funded, as provincial money can't be used for capital projects at private schools, it's a strong reminder of the luxuries that Albertans help subsidize — and the amount of money that could be directed towards public education.

Some people now retired like my father have the luxury of a defined benefit pension which just about covers their basic expenses, so they can hang on to their equity portfolios as a «top up» and not need to buy bonds at all.

On one end of the spectrum, high - end properties» on - going struggle with supply glut was not an isolated event as luxury homes in New York, Boston, Houston, Aspen, and parts of California came under pressure, and a few common catalysts were noted by sector participants:

Individual investors — or the handful of advisors, such as your grandfather's firm, who are granted substantial autonomy by their clients whose focus is on building wealth — who aspire to long - term success can not afford the luxury of impatience (though they usually think the opposite is true).

Luxury goods such as fashion jewelry and diamond engagement rings are not the type of products you'd normally expect to find on sale.

When more money is printed, gold has traditionally been a beneficiary, for two key reasons: 1) If the money - printing is accompanied by economic growth, greater access to capital might boost demand for luxury items, including gold (the Love Trade); and 2) If the money - printing isn't accompanied by economic growth, inflationary pressures might prompt investors to increase their exposure to real assets, such as gold (the Fear Trade).

He may not have that luxury much longer, as the Supreme Court has two upcoming cases that have the potential to be watershed moments in the gay marriage movement.

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It was also cheaper, as I was not finding it easy to manage on the scholarship which was set at the rates for Indian students and I needed European luxuries such as sunscreen cream!

As cities grow, more and more people know nature only in tiny yards and gardens, which are luxuries on which their lives do not depend.

Faith based beliefs don't afford such a luxury as admitting they are wrong, because they don't rely on evidence, but on human «feeling.»

Such cultural work is not a luxury in which a man indulges, because without it a man could not even exist as a natural being.

And don't think we don't deserve luxury as well.

Alvarado cites the example of German Calvinist political theorist Johannes Althusius, who defined the discipline of morals as «the inquisition into and chastisement of those morals and luxuries that are not prevented or punished by laws, but which corrupt the souls of subjects or squander their goods unproductively.»

When your father is both daddy and the demon, you don't usually get the luxury of writing him off as just a demon; you have to live in the tension between the two.

But because beauty is regarded in Western liturgy as an accident, a luxury, a decoration, it should not be surprising that Western culture has made beauty accidental also.

It was the Disciples, after Jesus left this earth, who took up collections for the poor, as they went from town to town - they took up collections for FOOD - not «luxuries» like ipods, expensive tennis shoes, etc!

In any case, ease, luxury, and wealth that in Solomon's days attained a relatively fabulous level, public respect that became adulation, full opportunity to indulge his whims such as easily descends into self - indulgence, and not least the position of king per se all combined to set the king apart from the simple state of the nation's leaders of only a little before.