Sentences with phrase «of calling attention to»

Trying to explain in a resume or cover letter why you were terminated at a company, even if you have a good explanation, will simply leave the impression that you are being defensive and will have the effect of calling attention to negatives, eliminating your chances of even getting a foot in the door for an interview.

I do doubt this thesis's impact on AGW, but I can hardly point fingers as to the practice of calling attention to new ideas or observations and saying «It's early days, but what if?»

Freedman lived and photographed there for its six - week lifespan, portraying the daily struggle of an ad hoc society of different races, varying demands, and the common goal of calling attention to the injustice and inequality of America.

It's likely the fact that the 7's styling elements are nearly all horizontal, for the purpose of calling attention to the car's width.

Students work better when you catch them doing something well instead of calling attention to their faults.

Its segments are introduced by parting curtains, each labeled with the name of the appropriate month, which serves as a chapter heading — a neat way of calling attention to the broad and attractively composed «Scope frames and of parceling out the story in bite - size seasonal units.

«This is an important part of the American process of democracy of calling attention to injustice; of peacefully marching and saying that our system listens to peaceful protests,» Miner said.

Celebrate the good people instead of calling attention to the idiots.

cit., p. 420) Theology is a way of calling attention to a pattern by which the facts may be seen and understood.

If one were to take the liberty of calling his attention to this by a single word, he would be offended.

Nick Graham, founder of Joe Boxer, gives his singular take on the art of calling attention to yourself and your company.

In a federal court complaint, John Lockette, an African - American former wealth manager, alleged that he received negative performance reviews, was denied raises and given derisive nicknames, and was ultimately fired from Morgan Stanley in August 2016 as a result of his calling attention to the company's racial biases, Reuters reports.

Not exact matches

Just days after a gunman opened fire at her school and killed 17 of her peers, Florida high school senior Emma Gonzalez used her voice to call national attention to gun law reform.

«It has called to attention the importance of having a work environment that is safe to speak up [in],» New York City - based Mila Singh, culture strategist at culture management platform CultureIQ, said of the #MeToo trend.

There are half - unwrapped office chairs all over the place, but Smith's attention drifts over to a lattice of pipes dangling from the ceiling — an incomplete high - tech lighting system that uses something called «visual magnetics.»

While both governments have been aware of the possibility of Russian computer attacks for decades, yesterday's announcement was an attempt to call attention to vulnerabilities.

Drugstore brand Black Opal is beginning to attract more and more attention, including endorsements from popular YouTubers like Nyma Tang and Jackie Aina, who called it one of the «best foundations for people of color.»

- Though Hunter was their entire case, prosecutors were sufficiently wary of her (or perhaps of drawing additional attention to her precise role in the matter) that they did not call her to the witness stand.

His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

It highlights fun new features like Animoji, but calls attention to the black bar at the top of the screen, which Levy calls «Area 51.»

Calling the results «surprising,» study author Michael Kraus commented: «People are paying too much attention to the face — the voice might have much of the content necessary to perceive others» internal states accurately.»

But I wanted to call out specific attention to the loneliness of success because it has its own unique flavor.

OnMSFT, the Microsoft - centric blog that first called attention to Gate's testimonial, noted that Microsoft partnered with Samsung earlier this year on a customized phone in the U.S., the Samsung Galaxy S8 Microsoft Edition, which comes with a suite of Microsoft software, like Office, LinkedIn, and its voice assistant Cortana.

Holiday rightfully calls out the page - view - hungry game of blogging in which writers are forced to churn out a dozen attention - grabbing posts a day regardless of whether or not anything truly attention - grabbing is happening.

And since no one wants to get on the bad side of the Internal Revenue Service, when you get a call from the «IRS» and they talk about «fraud,» «police,» «back taxes» and «arrests,» it tends to get your attention.

The girl statue was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, the fund management arm of Boston - based State Street, to call attention to the role of women in corporate America and its «gender diversity index» fund.

As Alexandra Troy, founder and CEO of Culinary Architect Catering, explains in my book The Good Ones, a brave employee we'll call Sarah revealed that another employee, Mabel, was bad - mouthing Alexandra behind her back and not paying attention to details at work.

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

Make sure that your holiday offers all feature clear calls to action that instantly command the attention of your visitors.

These days, with all of the recent attention on The Law of Attraction — which should really be called The Unproven Hypothesis of Attraction — the most frightening trend seems to be goal setting by the process of wishful thinking.

The stunt was designed to call attention to the 4,200 children who die each day of water - borne diseases.

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The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.

Despite that reversal, UPS maintains that its denial of Young's light duty request was lawful at the time and that its policy change is voluntary and not required by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.The Chamber of Commerce filed an amicus brief supporting UPS, calling attention to companies that offer pregnant employees «more than what federal law compels them to provide.»

Scholars have called attention to the manipulative function of these and other invented traditions.

Activists and legislators are trying to call attention to and reverse these trends, and some progress has already been documented on the local level: «A number of states have enacted robust pay equality statutes,» Caminiti says, «and we expect more legislation on the horizon.»

Though Check Point was first to call attention to the threat, the honor of first discovery goes to Qihoo 360, a Chinese cybersecurity firm.

The discredited story was intended to call attention to the issue of sexual violence on college campuses, but it might have had the opposite effect by reinforcing the notion that rape allegations are often fictitious, a team from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism concluded in its critique.

According to the research, landing pages that draw a person's attention to one main call - to - action (in other words, a link) have a conversion rate of 13.5 percent, while landing pages with five or more call - to - actions or links have an average conversion rate of 10.5 percent.

Adam Ludwin, the CEO of a San Francisco blockchain services company called Chain, captured the finance world's attention in 2017 when he wrote an open letter to Jamie Dimon.

Carlin was on to something when he concluded, «I'll bet you if we'd have still been calling it «shell shock,» some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time.»

As the head of a company that seeks to encourage people pay more attention to automated telemarketing calls, Kelly knows she's got no more than two or three seconds to «earn the moment.»

The collapse, the third catastrophic incident at Bangladeshi factories in five months that have killed more than 200 people, could taint Bangladesh's reputation as a source of low - cost products and services and call attention to Western retailers and other companies that obtain products from the country.

This improvement in what is called auditory attention is essentially a measure of concentration, and could, for example, enable a person to better extract relevant information from a lecture, Bak said.

Creeping inflation has also attracted the attention of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is calling on many of the world's central banks to raise interest rates.

The appeals to emotion instead of fact and the seeming desire to be at the center of attention (while psychologists are unwilling to diagnose anyone from afar, many have no problem calling Trump a narcissist) certainly fit the bill of a con artist.

Call attention to yourself in the best way possible: by showcasing the intelligent, thoughtful things going on inside that head of yours.

Some people are fearful because of something called the spotlight effect, thinking that others are paying more attention to them than they truly are, according to Psychology Today.

For starters, Falk houses his mantra within a broader leadership philosophy, what he calls the «Pyramid of Bad - assery»: pay attention to detail, live and breathe the spirit of hospitality by always putting others first, and then take that to the next level with a BPA.

Our intent with the «Dear New Jersey» billboard, which was one of many ads for our campaign, was to call attention to the fact that armpits can and should be considered beautiful and ask women everywhere to accept this as something that is okay.