Sentences with phrase «of a turn off as»

There is no way to identify the shade from outside if you own more then one, which is kind of a turn off as I personally do not like spending time on finding a particular shade.

The German developer has released a game that tries to distinguish itself through a number of mechanics and concepts, but they're potentially as much of a turn off as a selling point.

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As a founder of a small business, my brain is constantly going and turning it off to get some much - needed quiet time can be pretty difficult.

The experimental device shot a beam of X-rays at its infinitesimal target, which in turn yielded a pattern on some photographic film resting behind it as the radioactive waves diffracted off of the molecule's atoms and etched a smudgy outline of its shape.

As a result, the company plans to try a number of different strategies to convince readers to turn off their ad blockers in the new year, including a message that tells them the publisher relies on ad revenue for its survival.

As it turns out, this sort of rip - off of the multi-billion-dollar Medicaid Personal Care Services program administered by the states is fairly common, according to a recent Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General's advisory report.

Some of the most respected news sources turned out to be way off the mark about Donald J. Trump's chances of securing the Republican nomination, or even remaining in the race for as long as he has.

It's best if the emails are designed with mobile in mind every step of the way, so consider fonts, layout and even hyper - text as many mobile devices have images turned off.

Instead, the command will need to «not appear as being part of the task at hand — which means the robot must think it's deciding to turn itself off instead of obeying the orders of a pesky human.

As the computer began processing the data, the lights in the room were turned off so that the audience would be awed by the blinking Ping - Pong balls, a spectacle that became a staple of movies and TV shows.

In fact, the situation already leads to «curtailment» of solar production during peak hours, with thousands of megawatt - hours of potential energy simply getting turned off, even as other plants continue to produce.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

«Our mentor told us, specifically because of our attire, that we had come off as being unpolished and had made a terrible impression on the middle - aged investor who, as it turned out, never followed up.»

Only in the past decade has RNA been discovered to carry out a wide variety of specific tasks in genetics, such as turning particular genes on or off.

RNA interference involves synthesizing short strands of RNA that will turn off harmful genes, such as the ones that allow viruses to spread.

Turning off lights in unoccupied areas and rooms allows you to not only cut out unnecessary energy usage, but extends the life of lightbulbs leading to reduced maintenance costs as well.

That means you can know remotely whether you've left your oven on (and can turn it off) as well as if your kids are playing Xbox instead of doing their homework.

Interestingly, one of the 8 RAF Tornados deployed at Akrotiri could be regularly tracked online during its transit from Cyprus to Iraq via Israel, Jordan, accompanied by a Voyager tanker: the example #ZA556 (the only «visible» aircraft in a formation of at least two planes) can be often spotted on Flightardar24.com as it flies into Israel, then into the Jordanian airspace before turning its transponder off to enter the Iraqi airspace.

As for the lights that line the armband, with the press of a button you can choose to turn them off, have them on steadily, or have them on and flashing for increased visibility.

In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.

As a last resort, you might want to consider turning off the EMV capability of your new terminals from now through the holiday season, says Julie Conroy, research director for Aite Group.

What appears to be the ultimate cultural stand - off — four sexually liberated New Yorkers facing women with all but their eyes covered — turns into a moment of cultural harmony as the Muslims disrobe, revealing their designer duds.

Activists in four states were arrested after they cut padlocks and chains and entered remote flow stations to turn off valves in an attempt to stop crude moving through lines that carry as much as 15 % of daily U.S. oil consumption.

Some studies indicate as many as a third of passengers forget or ignore directions to turn off their devices.

After all, nothing makes a plan feel more real than Venn diagrams, charts and timelines as you set off to explore the daunting and unfamiliar territory of turning your idea into a scalable, repeatable business model.

That tack paid off as the advent of big natural - foods chains turned out to benefit — not harm — even tiny players in the $ 48 - billion nutrition industry.

First, the cost of outsourcing services over the short term can prove less expensive than buying pricey software: «We write short - term contracts so they can turn us on and off as they need to.

Vice's grip on its millennial audience, and its power with major advertisers, are seen as so valuable that A&E Networks, the TV network co-owned by Hearst and Disney, is reportedly going to turn over control of an entire channel — H2, a spin - off from the History Channel — to Vice.

It would be nice to say the world can now put the fiasco that was Spider - Man: Turn off the Dark behind it, but unfortunately the settlement opens up a new world of opportunity for the producers, such as potentially taking the show to Vegas, which should please co-writer Bono.

The move also comes as a number of retailers stake a claim in the growing «smart home» industry which centers on tech that does things like let people turn off the air conditioning remotely: Best Buy (bby) recently announced it was giving more floor space at 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo as well as Google Home.

Macy's comparable - store sales have fallen for seven straight quarters, and the company has turned to selling off real estate and consolidating as a way of keeping profits up.

Using the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to turn off certain genes in a mouse zygote as well as other new techniques to enrich the pluripotent stem cells of a rat, the group managed to grow various rat organs (a pancreas, heart, and eyes) in a mouse embryo.

But if you're seeing this strictly as a public relations move meant to distract us from the evils of Facebook, you need to turn off your computer for a while and go for a walk.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Faraday Future may be turning the lights off on its participation in Formula E as a result of financial issues.

Author Charles Steindel explains that when the U.S. personal saving rate took a negative turn in second - quarter 2005, it raised concerns that Americans may have to curtail spending and accept a lower standard of living as they pay off rising debts.

In the last decade, the Bush Administration, seeking a Trojan Horse to privatize Social Security in the United States, applauded Chile's disastrous privatization of pension accounts (turning many over to US financial institutions) even as that nation's voters rejected the Pinochetistas largely out of anger at the vast pension rip - off by high finance.

European stocks also turned lower after a few days of relative strength during the bounce, and the DAX the FTSE 100, and the EuroStoxx 50 are all in clear bearish trends, even as they are well off their lows from March.

As for Elanco, it turned in less - than - stellar performance in the third quarter of last year, reviving questions about whether Lilly might spin off what has long been a leading player in animal health.

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If events take a turn for the worse, as in the case of Valeant, executives can ride off with little fear of losing the large compensation they received during their tenure as clawback rules are rarely enforced.

The increasing cost of high - deductible plans was named as the main reason for the consumer turn - off.

«Fiduciary» is such a boring word that it turns people off, so think of it as a banana.

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday as they kicked off widespread walkouts that shut down public schools in a bid for better pay and education funding, building on educator revolt that emerged elsewhere in the U.S. but whose political prospects were not clear.

Yet, as attractive and popular as open plan offices are, there are plenty of workers who find themselves intimidated by or just turned off by their sheer size.

They should be there to function to allow the economy to operate — the extension of credit, the availability of credit when money gets turned off, the economy shuts — and so I actually think that banks might be getting a pass to be able to develop using these technologies to bolster their economic utility to the rest of the economy as opposed to being disrupted away.

I realised though that as well as avoiding sticky market situations it also gives the chance to turn the screens off for a couple of hours and forget about the markets to do something else.

As always, the key to consistent, long - term trading profitability is simply to plan your trades and trade your plan, without getting distracted by the financial «gurus» and talking heads of mass media (turning off the TV helps in this regard).

Volumes on Bithumb, one of the biggest trades in South Korea, have bounced by 41 %, an advancement that itself has turned into a remarkable pattern as digital forms of money have seen enormous helps off postings in the locale.