Sentences with phrase «of a room of»

To get onstage in front of a room of people who are eagerly awaiting your every word is appealing.

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The classic Marshmallow Experiment of 1972 involved placing a marshmallow in front of a young child, with the promise of a second marshmallow if he or she could refrain from eating the squishy blob while a researcher stepped out of the room for 15 minutes.

Jackson is one of multiple directors who have publicly backed Parker's Screening Room, including JJ Abrams, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese.

The duo left to start North Strategic in 2011, initially operating out of Pearson's home living room with a handful of interns.

Effective product pricing leaves you with room for flexibility instead of binding you to a specific percentage or dollar amount.

By Saturday up to 200 employees drafted from merchandising, logistics, supply chain and human resources teams were marshaling people and goods from Home Depot's buzzing five - room command center filled with monitors tracking the storm and maps of the hurricane region pasted on walls.

However, my professional experience reaches beyond the sales room, and because of that, I have a unique perspective on the real - world relationship between sales and engineering.

There was a sense that the team was largely accepting of Love's explanation, and that the airing out of issues could have a positive impact on what has become an increasingly fractured locker room.

«When that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men are fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say «Me Too» again.»

And after the emergence of the Access Hollywood tape in October 2016, in which Trump can be heard boasting about making unsolicited advances toward women, writer Natasha Stoynoff said that while on a reporting trip to Mar - a-Lago, Trump led her into a room alone, pushed her against a wall, and began trying to kiss her.

AMC, one of the country's largest theater chains and a subsidiary of China's Dalian Wanda Group, has reportedly signed on in support of Screening Room, though the company's CEO has been reluctant to go on the record about the startup.

Speaking to Deadline, Jackson said that the movie industry is currently «dying, slowly» while arguing that Screening Room could help the traditional movie industry add a new, healthy revenue stream by tapping into the demographic of consumers who are already eschewing trips to movie theaters.

And simpler games that work well on mobile usually don't require massive budgets and teams of hundreds to produce; smaller development budgets mean they don't need to sell millions of copies to turn a profit, and there's more room for creative risk.

When you're in charge of a ship, you deal with all kinds of unexpected issues that come your way on the water — everything from fires in the engine room and giant waves to enemy ships and submerged reefs.

«The closing of these plants will do more to save lives than I could ever hope to achieve as a physician working in an emergency room.»

«We know that these can be very toxic and have drug interactions,» says Austin, adding that «weight loss supplements are making up a majority of events where people end up in emergency rooms.»

Anticipating big things on National Pancake Day, the company set up a social war room, with a staff of 15, to handle the traffic.

The dog days of Zynga may be over — which means there's ample room for new gaming start - ups to emerge.

Amid the toughest stretch of the Cavs» season in which the team has lost five of their last six games, blame has reportedly been passed around the locker room, with players pointing fingers at each other, the coaching staff, Cavs ownership, and most recently, Kevin Love.

There are rooms of different sizes to suit any budget and accommodate any sized party.

So there's seven engines in the center cluster, those would be the ones that that move, for steering the rocket, and the other ones would be fixed in position, which gives us the best concentration of — we can max out the number of engines because we don't have to leave any room for gimbaling or moving the engine.

He thinks it unlikely the influence and power Thiel has accrued over time, becoming «one of those 800 pound gorillas in the room,» will be damaged in a lasting way by the investor's relationship with Trump.

The figure of 11 cubic metres per person is a minimum and may be insufficient if, for example, much of the room is taken up by furniture etc..»

Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

While his son was in the hospital, De Brouwer began writing down the names of all the medical equipment in the room.

One attendee came in dressed entirely in black leather (he'd ridden his motorcycle there) and sat in the back of the room near the door.

«And I think it's indicative of the kind of room that our congressional candidates are gonna need in purple or red areas.»

And over all of this looms the continuing possibility that Apple will eventually unleash its gaming catalog on the living rooms of the world by opening its app store to its inexpensive Apple TV set - top box as well.

Likewise, instead of installing plaster walls for a conference room, O+A designed a yurtlike circular meeting space with walls made of industrial - grade freezer curtains — at a cost of less than $ 2,000.

Something as simple as changing the brand of silverware stocked in your break room or moving your conference line to a free service can pay off big time over the course of a year.

In a joint party room meeting, the coalition agreed the legislation, which paves the way for the break - up of Telstra, should be opposed in its current form.

The growth of emerging economies means there is room for Canadian - manufactured goods around the world — but we're falling behind

Reviewers like Meghan are happy with the cord length, and like the fact that the cord «doesn't get tangled and is long enough so you have a lot of room to work.»

He appreciates the importance of communication, especially when communicating with people in different rooms, countries and continents.

From a swivel chair in one of the many identical 10 - by - 10 conference rooms at Lyft's labyrinthine offices, Zimmer declined to comment specifically on the rumors Lyft is entering merger and acquisition territory.

Turns out that famous booty and those abs are the results of hard, hard work, including a strict diet and fitness regimen that doesn't have room for coffee, alcohol, processed food, or skipping sunscreen.

You need to make room for all kinds of people, because talent comes in lots of different sizes, shapes and packages.

Shira Abramowitz, the director of content on the community team at Summit, does this by framing event topics as if they're living room conversations.

Last October, I looked around the table during a Lessonly board meeting and thought to myself, «How do the women on the team feel when they walk past this room and see a bunch of men making big decisions on their behalf?»

The manager, who's based in Provo, Utah, explained that companies can use meeting - room management systems, for example, to find out how long employees spend in meetings, and that that information can be an indicator of productivity.

So while some might tout the competitive advantages of Uber in a winner - take - all market or predict a general plateau in demand for ridesharing services, Sundararajan foresees a wildly transformed transportation market with room for Lyft, Uber, and possibly other players to compete.

This could be because the original article leaves the author enough wiggle room, including the use of a question mark headline, to say, «I didn't say we knew for sure.»

Oregon's legalization of recreational pot two years ago created room for entrepreneurial cross-pollination in this fertile region abutting California's so - called Emerald Triangle, a well - known nirvana for outdoor weed cultivation.

In response, Trump went around the room and asked what he should do about Cordray, who has three months until the Feb. 1 filing deadline to run for governor of Ohio.

Besides that, neurologists tout the learning benefits of midday siestas.Silicon Valley companies compete to see who can design the the coolest napping rooms.

However, the self - styled smartest guys in the room still only managed a return on equity of 8.7 percent, well below its estimated cost of capital at around 10 %.

Once at a table, the women wait until their sons or husbands — all of whom have been imprisoned for more than a decade and have over a decade to go — come out to spend a morning in the gloomy room to talk and eat food from the vending machines.

No one has yet successfully pressed sheet metal or centrifuged a blood sample from the comfort of their living room.

On the rare occasion when some sort of partition becomes necessary (for example, to delineate a conference room) the favored material is clear glass that may block noise but does not obscure vision.

Wolf's performance was met with waves of laughter in the room, but subsequent responses have been sharply divided.