Sentences with phrase «of a hard sell on»

Between those things, I don't think there's much need of a hard sell on top of that.

I won't put too much of a hard sell on you, but there's a lot of unique, practical content in Game Developer that you can't get anywhere else, if you're a developer, student, or wannabe developer - and the digital version comes with searchable access to back issues all the way to 2004, too.

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You can even opt for eBay if you're feeling like you can auction off something that might otherwise have a hard time selling on one of the other sites.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

Nakanishi, an engineer who joined Hitachi in 1970 and worked his way up the ladder, proceeded to sell the company's hard disk drive business and consumer - related operations, opting to concentrate on sales of big - ticket power plants, rail lines and water treatment facilities.

CEO Tim Cook, Steve Jobs» down - to - earth successor, couldn't help himself on the earnings call, describing the quarter as «historic» and his company's performance — selling an average of 34,000 iPhones an hour, 24/7 — as «hard to comprehend.»

If they continue on that path, they will discredit China's remarkable achievements accomplished over decades of hard and smart work to save, produce and sell to willing buyers around the world.

Third, crude prices will keep pressure on stocks as SWF selling hits hard in the first or second quarter of 2016.

And whether you own 100 percent of your business or your unhappy spouse is also your business partner, you may find yourself having to sell assets or take on debt to break up the company you worked so hard to build.

Without «The Apprentice» and the carefully curated image of Trump it insinuated into millions of American homes, it's hard to imagine how Trump could have ever sold the American people on his ultimate pitch: becoming president.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this brief relief rally driven by the fact that China is offline for the week and that the persistent source of overnight selling on Chinese «hard / crash landing» concerns has been gone simply due to an extended national holiday.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

Reliable data on wealth management products sold by other types of firms, like State Gold Treasure, is hard to come by.

It wasn't as hard of a sell as I had thought and I did like the fact that it was via video conference, so I could see they person on the other end.

Instead of coming on too strong, start thinking of ways you can attract your customers to your brand without pushing the hard sell.

• The $ 702 million worth of bonds that WeWork sold last week have dropped in price to as low as 95.25 cents on the dollar, which may make future borrowing harder.

It is harder to convince would be traders to spend a couple of hundreds $ on education that sell them the holy grail robot for $ 500.

«I think stocks will go up another 15 to 20 %, but ultimately, when the recession arrives — and it will arrive — there's going to be a very hard sell - off in equities,» said Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Securities in an interview with CNBC's Brian Sullivan on Tuesday.

They meant his creativity in sourcing pre-crisis loans and then selling them based on unconventional appraisal methodologies; the loans went bad, the investors are suing Credit Suisse, and I don't really know or care that much about the substance but it is always harder to argue about the good faith of your loans when you have e-mails from your own bankers calling them naughty words.

During the days when Hebrew speaking peoples were the only ones obeying God's commands, when a man fell on hard times provision was made for him to sell himdelf into slavery to another man, who was bound by law regarding the treatment of his laborers.

The winter months are hard on my banana addiction — I can't get them to ripen fast enough and the stores sell green ones I should probably just buy way more than I need so that they can ripen at home, but I haven't figured out how many that'll take, or what kind of intervals I should buy them in.

Thankfully I managed to get some from a world foods stall on a market for 1.99, but he said it's getting harder to get hold of cooking grade oil — probably because it's all being sold off at a premium elsewhere!

Promising to buy x number of hectares of product from farmers puts the pressure on the marketing arm of Eco-Farms back home, which has to work hard to sell the product.

poor signings and allowing unnecessary sellings of players not based on team needs When Cr7 is not scoring and marcelo and casemiro become strikers over their main roles in the team... Players play what coaches tell them especially positioning and movements... Hard days are ahead with PSG looming..

Our continued display of lack of ambition makes it harder and harder to sell a top striker on the fact we want to win trophies now.

when you consider that it would be hard to sell people on the idea of him boxing again, that means he's cornered into booking just mma fights moving forward.

@Fatboy Gooner The Ozil deal was far less that 40 plus million as has been exposed on football leaks it was more in the region of 32 million with verious clauses that enable REM to take a percentage of any profit we make on selling Ozil and I would assume there are similar attachments with the Sanchez deal, even our record signings are clouded in smoke and mirrors so let not run away with the idea that its all SWengers fault, if your employer is on your back and pushing for results then you perform at a higher rate and push harder where as Wenger has no push from above so does nt go out of his way Kroenke does nt have the culture around him to win trophies cos thats not his aim and that filters down to the grass roots at Arsenal and shows in Wengers transfer policy and in the players performance.

it will be a lot harder to convince them to sell now, not only because of the number of players they have lost but also because of the crazy amount of cash they are sitting on.

But the most effective auctioneer of all was Ray Bolger, who skipped the humorous patter and concentrated on the hard sell.

its a nice approach but its hard getting a coach with similar ambitions and philosophy to that of Wenger... many coaches relay on buying ready mades Rather than getting patient with what they have... barca is termed to have a world class accadamy but they are never patient with them any more... they sell them and latter try getting them back..

The club can only hold so many players and if the board are not selling the deadwood then it makes bringing in the required volume of quality harder... Add to that the board buying players that Wenger only wanted on loan to add to the driftwood...

I wish fans would appreciate that Elneny at # 5m represents very good value for money.He was bought as a back up player unlike Xhaka and Mustafi who were so called stars costing # 70m who were going to take us to a higher level.If Arsenal were to sell Elneny they would at least double their money whereas we would take a huge hit on Xhaka and Mustafi.In fact I very much doubt it we would recoup 50 % of our outlay.Enemy will never be a great player but he is the type of dependable, hard working standby that every top team needs.Please get off his back.

Don't really understand lucas silvas» logic, yes I understand it's hard to say know to the lure of Real Madrid but surely the boy must realize that if the likes of khedira are struggling to get game time what hope does he have, why go to Madrid to rot on their bench only to be sold elsewhere for a inflated price in a few years, I think silva is the real deal imo and will likely into a Xabi Alonso type player, if we were to move for him a bigger stronger more experienced dm would have to be bought aswell imo

Like yesterday was as low as it gets for me as fan I didn't even care when Liverpool got 3 rd and fourth goals because we're dead our pride as fans is same as players we're just dead hurt, sad, weak and spineless then it gets better ox is going Chelsea today and now timers sanchez has put in transfer request haha when board said change they meant it change as in we're selling all players and we're going like Aston Villa laugh u mite we are rotten from top to da bottom and it will get better cause I bet by Thursday we will bring in nobody and promote young kids we mite chance van diik he's going for 60 million and by Thursday night sky sports will report arsenal came in with last min bid of 21 million for van diik it got flat out laughed at so at 1 min to 11 we came in again with bid of 27 million and add ons til 2029 its hard and it is only beginning haha ox starts at anfield and was shambles and he is sold today says a lot about wenger if that was me I'd say stay away till ur sold u little traitor thanks ox hope its worth it, loyalty me behind ahwell we still bellerin another little man and heart holding for Barca ahhhh I'm so mad we need Simeon's cum in and start bouncing heads off da canvas Jesus bring bk George graham at least we have defence??

Like it or not once you become known as a «selling - club» it's nigh on impossible to reverse the trend, a footballing transfer vicious circle that it's hard to shake off and one that Tottenham are certainly in the midst of at present.

While I understand the sentiment of offering Sanchez a massive contract to keep him at the club, it would also be prudent to ensure that we don't end up with a Wayne Rooney problem — namely that a forward player heading into 30's on a massive long term contract who would be incredibly hard to move in a few years (with almost zero sell value and no club willing to pay for his wages).

One of Chelsea's best players this season, it's hard to imagine why on earth the Blues would sell Oscar to one of their rivals in Liverpool.

It's obvious that he effectively has nowhere else to go.His wages alone preclude any interest from another Club.Factor in a transfer fee and uninspiring form and Arsenal are alone in a desire to have him.Wenger can't bear the thought of a player who originally cost over 40 million pounds having no sell - on value.However this is a fact.Extend Ozil's contract for another wasteful two years paying him a wage he doesn't deserve and he'll be off to Turkey once he feels that he's banked enough # 300k weekly wage packets.Any way you look at it Arsenal won't get their money's worth!As unappetising as it might be Arsenal should play «hard - ball» and just let him see out the remainder of his contract.

At the end of the day it is whether we are willing to spend extra for the British player inflated fee and convince - to - sell - to - rival type of fee — it also depends on if Sterling trying to push hard for the deal or not

I haven't changed my stance once in the last 4 to 5 years and I am glad to Welcome t Lacazette and if he can even produce 75 % of the goals scored in the French league, he will be a huge bonus and it appears a true CF.We hopefully are still in the market for Mahrez as in all probability we wont let Sanchez run down his contract and walk away on a free, as that is not the Arsenal way.We need to sell several players and it's the saving of wages that is most important not what we get and a decision has to be made on particularly Wilshere and it looks like the player we arguably missed the most last season Santi Cazorla maybe coming to the end of his playing days.We have already tried to sell Gibbs and Jenkinson and in all probability add the two keepers, Ospina and Szczesny to the list which leaves Joel Campbell who seems to have missed his chance and should have been sold at a premium after the last WC, but more importantly The Ox and Giroud.Our attack force needs a real hard think as I can't see Perez as a long term Arsenal player, but Walcott, like him or not in all probability will stay.

It would be very hard to convince Man United to sell to us, but he will have just one year remaining on his contract at the end of the season.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

A lot of us sell online, so that means that our customers and followers don't always get to see the process, hard work and effort that goes on behind the scenes, so I think it's only a positive thing to show this.

... or instead of buying all of these new items, use items you already have around the house — old purses (for girls), tupperware, visit second - hand stores for cloth napkins... it's hard to get excited about «be a green parent» articles, blog entries, and websites that just tell us to go buy something b / c it is green... even the Waste Free Lunch website tries to sell us on how much less it costs to pack a lunch, saying that cloth napkins, lunch bag, reusable containers and thermoses don't cost anything while tabulating the cost of paper / disposable versions... but there is an initial layout, so that argument doesn't hold my attention.

The various speakers were academics speaking about research they have done for their respective institution's rather than HIPP organic and I did not necessarily feel they were giving formula the hard sell; however, the topics were obliquely related to formula feeding the most recent being «Food, mood and children's behaviour» led by Dr Alex Richardson of Oxford University this focussed on the benefits of Omega 3.

Rather than passing herself off as some sort of miracle worker, or trying to sell me on a simple five - step plan she'd come up with, she made it clear to me that improving school food can not happen without lots of hard work and, most importantly, without funding; in her case, San Francisco's board of education is willing to kick in significant money each year to cover the costs of the improved school food.

Second, if a school is making millions selling pizza and fries as competitive food — and is on record as saying that it does so precisely because kids are spurning the healthier meal — then I have to believe that the percentage of hard - boiled eggs and skim milk sold as part of their overall competitive food mix is extremely low.

One would think that after June's Brexit vote the salience of fantasy - fuelled political prospectuses might be on the wane, but the trouble is that if the SNP concedes that independence might make Scotland worse off, then its related pitch about fostering «social justice» becomes much harder to sell.

«I think on minimum wage, it's kind of a hard sell in the Senate.

It's going to be a hard sell in the Senate's Republican majority, but that may just up the ante for deal - making on legislation for the rest of the session, which is scheduled to end June 16.