Sentences with phrase «of calling up»

I also toyed briefly with the idea of calling up some of the restaurants we plan to dine at when abroad and purchasing gift certificates on a First Friday, but it will likely be more trouble than it's worth, even though the Sapphire Preferred does have the advantage of no foreign transaction fees on those purchases, unlike the Chase Freedom.

The days of calling up the airlines, listening to «hold music» and dealing with airline (and credit card) representatives that barely understand you are a thing of the past.

What are my chances of calling them up and requesting the 5,000 SPG points?

Generally, moving with your policy is a simple matter of calling up your insurance provider and making sure they know the date and new location you're moving to, as well as whether or not your new property manager needs to be listed on the policy.

It is natural, therefore, for the thought of calling up a bank and asking for a higher credit limit has entered the thoughts of many people.

Additionally, we will help you so that you do not have to deal with the headache of calling up different lenders to compare their rates and terms.

for the privilege of calling up the printer.

As her mother prepares to marry a new husband, Tracy takes the initiative of calling up her soon to be stepsister Brooke (Greta Gerwig), a free spirit about ten years her senior who also lives in the city.

His form has altered France coach Didier Deschamps, who has spoken about the possibility of calling him up, while the 27 - year - old is unlikely to remain at Guingamp beyond this summer.

«We have occasional fantasies of calling up [Microsoft] and torpedoing the deal,» quips Marc Andreessen, founder of Andreessen - Horowitz.

There are a NWSL record 11 players on the team who are currently active with their national teams, and others who may be knocking on the door of a call up.

As I said if it's based on form then he is deserving of a call up, I agree with the slow as a cart horse comment but think it's an unfair assessment given the amount of goals he has scored this season.

Not exact matches

Advocates are in the process of setting up an international association, called Neurowrx, that advocates for autism in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.

Investors should have some of the portfolio hedged — a hedge on half could make sense, as that would essentially be a neutral call on currency, he says — but whether an entire basket of bonds is hedged is up to the manager.

Salman Khan of the Khan Academy explains call options: contracts you purchase if you think a stock will go up in the near future.

JM: I think there's a big difference, I think they're both opening up a new space of what you could call social discovery.

The so - called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark of the eight - year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.

Donald Trump's plan calling for six weeks of mandatory paid leave for new moms is a step toward wooing women voters and a step up from current federal law — which doesn't require companies to provide any paid leave — but it's still behind the times for the business world.

T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

But one of her key findings has held up: The bank, called Pilatus Bank, did depend for much of its business on the Azeri elite.

«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.

Called «Seeso,» the service will launch widely in January, at which point members can pay $ 3.99 per month for ad - free access to a full library NBC comedy programming — from new episodes of Saturday Night Live and Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show to all past episodes of classic shows like The Office and 30 Rock — along with a slate of new original series and stand - up comedy specials.

«I think that networks are in a tough position right now, where they have shows that a lot of people watch — much more than cable shows that are considered «hits» — but they're not allowed to call them hits because they're up against an old system.»

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

Medical marijuana dispensaries, online seed sellers, head shops selling drug paraphernalia, sellers of hydroponic equipment and so - called vapour lounges where customers are welcome to smoke their own weed make up a budding industry, not just in big cities but in suburbs and small towns too.

The so - called «straddling bus,» the brainchild of designer Youzhou Song, would arc over two lanes of traffic, carrying up to 1200 passengers while leaving smaller vehicles free to drive underneath it.

She said investors looking for smaller ups and downs should consider ETFs denominated in U.S. dollars or other so - called «hard currencies» that are seen as better stores of value.

Home Capital Group has seen some of its riskier lending business drain away to the private, unregulated mortgage lenders — firms like Alpine Credit or the many so - called «mom - and - pop» shops which proliferated as small investors teamed up with brokers to provide short - term, non-amortized loans.

Voice roaming calls, said Monique Goyens, the director general of the Brussels - based group, typically cost three times what consumers pay domestically; data roaming charges can be up to 50 times what consumers pay in their home markets.

A bit of stolen merchandise is no big deal for Amazon — it recently hit a market value of $ 500 billion — but the snafu may serve as a rather embarrassing wake - up call for the retail giant.

Even if it doesn't come up during the interview — which it likely will, if only obliquely — what Fox has called Trump's «obsession» with Kelly will be a kind of sub-text running beneath the event.

Similarly, Paul used the same opportunity to bring up Rubio's wavering on immigration, and his support of the so - called Gang of Eight immigration overhaul bill in 2013, where he voted with Democrats, including New York Senator Chuck Schumer, in favor of the bill.

Stanley Black & Decker is partnering with a start - up called Sunflower Labs to add drones to its line of commercial security products.

A colleague of mine recently made a warm call (the phone call that follows up on a letter) to a CEO.

We can call out lots of reasons why this nation suffers from a record of gun tragedies that no other country on earth experiences — and we can conjure up other theories until we forget the urgency of Parkland and Las Vegas and Newtown and move on to something else.

We're now in an era of what I call «distributed trust,» where trust in institutions is down but trust in individuals is up.

Please call up to ten minutes in advance to ensure you are connected prior to the start of the call.

One section of the book, drawn up in 1992, reads: «The documents of the cabinet and ministerial committees are issued primarily to the sovereign, the Prince of Wales, and ministers... The need for secrecy calls for special care in circulation and handling.

While different currencies require different types of calculations that favor one kind of computing set up or another (ethereum runs great on graphics cards while bitcoin mining uses specially made chips called application - specific integrated circuits), Monero's underlying mining challenge was made to run best on ordinary PC CPUs.

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban called President Donald Trump «s time in office so far «political chemotherapy,» suggesting that supporters of the President knowingly voted for a «poisonous» leader in hopes of shaking up America's political system.

In fact, I'd done quite a bit of research on Dahl, so I called him up.

And worries «that the prices of Bitcoin and other digital tokens have been artificially propped up by a widely used exchange called Bitfinex, which has a checkered history of hacks and opaque business practices,» the New York Times reported.

He's launched a locally sourced buttermilk fried chicken catering start - up, called Questloves Food, which will operate in New York and his hometown of Philadelphia.

In addition to calling into question the effectiveness of the checks taxi companies use, Uber has also argued that the fingerprinting requirement is too onerous and may make it harder for the company to keep up a steady stream of new drivers.

Content That Converts by Laura Hanley is a great book for B2B companies looking to get out of direct selling or warming up the leads before calling.

Your copy should include the main benefit of the lead magnet, a call to action to click / sign up for the lead magnet, and a short explanation of the lead magnet.

«I've done a lot of formal mentoring through the Women's Executive Network, and then there's the informal stuff: People call me up all the time and ask if we can chat.

And 100 felt like a lot for Howard Hoffman, who began snapping up domains like HealthWater.com and SportsWater.com to help redirect web surfers to his bottled water company's site, taking advantage of what's called «type - in traffic,» when users just enter words or a guessed - at domain into the browser address bar.

Last week, following the publishing of details from Comey's memoir, the president called the former FBI director a «slimeball,» «slippery,» and «a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!).»

SPECIAL REPORT: Three major reviews have called for a big shake - up of the state government's information and communication technology (ICT) strategy.