Sentences with phrase «of doing anything about it»

Not that we seemed capable of doing anything about the possibility warming, either.

For example, the city of Rio de Janeiro, a national and cultural treasure, is in a state of absolute collapse because of government failure to maintain even the impression of doing anything about it.

Anything else is open to fraud, with ASIC seemingly incapable of doing anything about it

There was no possibility of doing anything about it and during those years I got depressed and spiralled into darkness.

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

«None of you do anything about it, including James Murdoch?»

We remained in contact but neither of us did anything about it until we met up just before Christmas 2013 when we got it together.»

Not exact matches

In hindsight, many of us in VC and tech are saying, «How did so many people in Hollywood know about Harvey Weinstein and not say anything?»

The shot has been noticed online by many (YouTube channel ScreenJunkies compiled a supercut of the shots), and while some don't find his work to be anything special, Bay isn't too worried about what the critics have to say.

In his 68 - page finding, Chen was careful to note that saying the plaintiffs constitute a class — one that potentially now includes a majority of Uber's 160,000 U.S. - based drivers — doesn't say anything about whether those plaintiffs have justice on their side when it comes to the merit of their suit.

We were interviewing suppliers for each of the components when one of them took a chance and said, «You don't know anything about this market.

The CRTC's upcoming Wireless Code of Conduct will require cellphone providers to unlock devices after 90 days or immediately if paid for upfront, but the regulator didn't say anything about what carriers can charge to do so.

Sound bites and snippets basically suck — whether we're talking about the nightly news or the newest nasty politician — and they don't add anything important to the meat of the conversations that really matter.

That user, CCPKA, did an eye - opening «Ask Me Anything» on Saturday that talked about being a kid in the north of Kiev, Ukraine, about 60 miles from the Chernobyl power plant.

They can talk about neural pathways and neurotransmitters as if those big words definitively concluded anything, which they don't, at least with our current understanding of such things.

They're very interested in the solutions that come out of the box that you don't need to install anything or need to worry about security and patching.

Instead, the new ruling is surely just the beginning of what will be a long and arduous battle that may go to the courts or cabinet, especially if Bell has anything to say about it, and of course it does.

Also make sure your social - media accounts are scrubbed of anything that you don't want a potential employer to know about you.»

As is often the case, the Government is busy pointing their finger at energy providers and energy providers are busy pointing their finger at the Government - but no one seems to be doing anything about it, and the people (and businesses) of South Australia are caught in the middle.

«The overall broad definition of confidential information makes it so employees don't say anything, even about issues they're allowed to talk about,» he said.

A lot of people might make excuses about making videos, or publish one video and see that it doesn't do anything and then give up on it.

Less quality sleep, dehydration, restricted movement, and an inability to do anything constructive about the situation are part of the problem.

Nor does it say anything about the all too frequent occurrence where you develop a great presentation, bring it to the group and never get off of the first slide.

You can't force customers to really do anything, but if just a handful of them leave positive reviews on the Internet about your business, those will become valuable testimonials that will encourage more potential customers to pay your business a visit.

«We wanted to make sure that our own country was part of the conversation about global health issues in two ways — one, making sure that we're not thinking of it as issues that affect other people that don't have anything to do with us, but also acknowledging that we can learn so much from what has gone well or new models that are effective in other countries,» Bush tells Business Insider.

«If you're a beginner and you don't know anything about this stuff, it's actually an excellent place to be because a lot of the stuff that you wouldn't understand how to do on your own, like I didn't, I could just get help from a lot of other people.»

In June, the former Secretary of State said that she doesn't believe there is «anything controversial» about being labeled a feminist.

By 1998, Musk, who remained chairman and executive vice president, was thoroughly frustrated with the direction of his company but found himself unable to do anything about it.

«The BoC has stated rather clearly to look through near - term inflation, partly because there isn't anything it can do about it anyway but also because (and we agree) it believes many of the pressures will abate into next year,» they write.

You're a great leader and can handle a group of people, but you also don't know anything about business and technical areas.

«Who best to make these decisions about the intimate details of our familial and financial lives — us, or a judge who doesn't know anything about the ins and outs of our lives?»

I don't know anything about soccer, but it's very much a leadership book about how to build teams of people, how to play off personalities and understanding what makes people tick.

When asked if anything about Rent the Runway's culture needs to change, Hyman says yes — that it could do a better job of on - boarding new hires.

«The relevant questions now — beyond how it may impact the van der Zwaan sentencing — are whether Gates related this connection to anyone else relevant in the Trump orbit, did that person lie to OSC about the issue, did the Trump campaign get anything of value from the Russians, and similar inquiries,» he said.

And so, I'm left wondering, and maybe you are too: if, hypothetically speaking, the Wright Brothers or Zuckerberg were aware of the negative effects their inventions would bring about, would they have done anything differently?

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

At the end of each interview I would ask, «Is there anything we didn't talk about or that didn't come up that should in a discussion about creativity?»

The company has done well with several of its movie franchises, such as Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and Shrek, but it doesn't have anything that really compares to the Star Wars library or the Marvel franchise (although Shrek has pulled in about $ 3.5 billion since the original movie in 2001).

Not that Amazon isn't doing anything about its problem — it probably is — but it's certainly not making a pantomime out of it.

It tells me that the staff who walk past a tray of dirty dishes and half eaten food make a conscious decision not to do anything about it, probably because it's «not their job».

A couple of years back, there was a phenomenal (and by phenomenal, I mean completely offensive, juvenile and NSFW) video about an animal called the honey badger, who just doesn't care about anything (or in the words of the video, doesn't give a s #!

Well the picture was made under the title of Magnifico Straniero, so when it was Fistful of Dollars I didn't think anything of it, and then about the fourth or fifth time that they mentioned this film they said Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood, little tiny letters down there and I said - I said oh god, that's it, huh?

This doesn't happen with anything else — you don't sit around having conversations about the kind of peanut butter that you put on your toast.

One told a friend of mine, «When you didn't fire me five months ago when you should have, I figured I could get away with just about anything.»

In others, like Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities (then the parent of ABC), the stock would have remained about the same, implying the deal didn't add much of anything to the bottom line.

In this dynamic and energizing keynote drawing from his experiences in sport, business and philanthropy, Clemons will talk with unabashed passion about teamwork, about the potential in each of us to achieve anything we set our minds to, and about how putting your heart, fully, into everything you do can make you a better leader — and your organization exponentially more successful.

«What's the point of reading an email while you're standing in an elevator and you can't do anything about it?»

He says that anywhere from 30 - 50 % of people report high stress, but only 6 % of people are really trying to do anything about it.

A recent survey of 1,000 adults by mobile app developer BiTe indicated 45 percent of people think Google Glass will be «too socially awkward or too irritating» to don, 38 percent of folks wouldn't buy the glasses, even if they could afford it and 44 percent don't think there is anything appealing about the features offered on Google Glass.

While it doesn't tell us anything about the aftermath of «Infinity War,» there are some clues hinting at a new hero and more about the Quantum Realm which will almost definitely come into play in next year's superhero sequel.