Sentences with phrase «of getting a leg up»

That said, you raise a good point about the importance of getting a leg up on funding one's post-career life.

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You're going to have to do a lot of leg - work in the form of networking with friends and friends of friends as well as getting yourself up to speed with the latest web development changes.

There are online courses or classes at community colleges and universities that can give you a leg up in getting savvy at writing copy for brochures, catalogs, advertising and, of course, marketing copy for the web.

Indagare was able to get a leg up at hundreds of hotels around the world as a result.

4) It doesn't need to: Although buying Netflix would give Apple a leg up in the subscription services area, the company doesn't have to acquire the company in order to get most of those benefits — it could strike a licensing deal with Netflix, while also building its own subscription offering similar to Amazon's Prime Video.

Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, just get your running shoes on and get out the door (2 - Minute Rule), and you'll end up putting mileage on your legs instead of popcorn in your stomach.

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a member of a marketing team, this course will teach you valuable skills to get a leg up.

You'll get a leg up on remembering names and faces, and knowing a bit about someone can help spur topics of conversation.

«That gives us an opportunity to get a leg up on some of our competitors there.

Approached more and more by other dispensaries hoping to get a leg up in quality, the folks behind Pinnacle began offering their services not only as consultants for the physical breeding of plants, but for the entire infrastructure required to begin a new cannabis business.

So the only way you're going to be able to see it is that if you're if you're behind him then you've got to stand up and the next thing you know everyone in the entire auditorium or wherever they're watching this is now standing up and the only thing that's happening is that everyone's legs are getting weaker and they're more annoyed that they're having to stand up and they can't get high enough to see the show because everyone around them is taking advantage of this.

You prescribe a LOT of very practical ways of investing and diversifying... Even a «valuable links» post to take your How to Start a Blog to the next level would be really valuable for your readers trying to get a leg up.

All of a sudden, your competitor has quite a leg up when it comes to getting his article ranked in search ahead of yours.

This means you've certainly got a leg up on many of your human brothers, if this scripture is indeed God's word.

One clear example of this would be the person on their way to the airport for an overseas vacation who gets caught in a traffic accident and ends up instead in the hospital with a broken leg, only to find out that the plane they would have taken crashes and everyone aboard is killed.

Or perhaps the blogger hasn't read his history and still gets a tingle running up and down his leg every time he thinks of Emperor Obama.

In battle, if they had a longer tunic, they would take the four corners of the tunic, and fold it up underneath the belt to keep their legs free and to keep from getting tangled.

I love a good bootie, which I can get a lot of use out of in San Francisco while walking the hills and still getting a little lift with a heel to dress up my many pairs of leggings.

The broccoli slaw in this gives it a leg up on other chicken salads since you're getting the nutritious benefits of raw broccoli.

Janow got a leg up in the sports nutrition market after a University of Tampa study -LSB-...]

3 months is looked at per minimum it take more than six months for a bone to heal some very minor muscle will take 3 months a serious injury which takes 8 months and more + rehabilitation while a player is rehabilitating other injuries my form a direct result of being constrained where muscles freeze you are not playing for 8 months you cant expect the muscles to be up and running straight away players how ever want to play because of all sort of reasons one being replaced so it hampers with their full recovery hence having players regularly in the treating room but take it from me some times you are perfect you just get back bang someone heavy dose your ankle in so you are back in out off playing time I personally got very angry because my knee was ok so went back out to come back in after one game with ankle problem after a couple of weeks i will go back out I have no guarantees that some one wouldn't go heavy on me or me injuring myself going heavy on someone else its football thats the way it is if it is not a medallion for the cabinet its a leg medallion

Liverpool normally only had 3 two - leg ties to get to the final and with the comp only being «champions» meant 90 % of the teams were there to make up the numbers.

The winner of the AFC duel between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills would get one team a leg up in the wild card race.

Freshen the legs up with a couple of new players, rotate our goalkeeper so we get competition and keep the mentality of «must win» and we should do fine.

Good leg kick from Jędrzejczyk, who also gets out of the way of the follow - up hook from Namajunas.

When you are playing football and you got a high ball to control the slightest touch will push you off it for sure eguaro pushed mustafi but mustafi should have stock his leg out to bring him down or elbowed him in the face well i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to line up against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones period

He gets hit, bounces along on one leg for a while, then spins, leans over backward and picks up another yard or two, and then for a finale puts a hand down and scrambles as far as he can before the rest of the world jumps on his back.

I watched as quarterback Kirk Farmer broke his leg after getting pushed out of bounds during Homecoming against Iowa State; I was on the hill on the north side of the stadium with my parents, so unlike most of the student section on the east side, I apparently missed witnessing him screaming, throwing up, and passing out.

Well in order to get to that final, with the first step coming up this week as we try to beat CSKA Moscow in the home leg of the quarter = final.

Because we sit on seats that roll up and down a slide, and our legs go from bent up into our chests to squeezing down straight out and hard against the deck of the boat with each stroke, we have ample opportunities each row for the boys to get caught.

Six feet one, 195 pounds and built a little like a long - legged Yogi Berra, he gets so high up on his toes when he crouches that on each foot only one front spike and a corner of another is in the dirt.

There was talk of Gibbs getting a knock last week and Koscielny got a dead leg, but Wenger didn't even think Gibbs was worthy of discussion in the injury round up, and he said of Laurent: «Koscielny is doing well.

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

Although almost every Arsenal fans has already accepted that the Gunners will not be going through to the next stage of the Champions League after losing 5 - 1 in the first leg away to Bayern Munich, it would be nice for Arsenal to get something out of the return leg at the Emirates tomorrow, if only to build up a bit of the confidence that the hammering in Germany took away.

I support you on the fact that Araenal need a player who can make an immediate impact.However, it's also naive to try to create an impression that he's going to fail due to similar playing style and stature of the players you mentioned above.Even Eduardo would have world class and possibly better than Van Persie if not for his leg breaking.It's likely Mbappe is going to succeed and if he gets signed up by another club we'll be chasing him on the future.The same gamble being taken on Mbappe is the same that was taken on Henry.If Henry had failed I don't think Arsenal would've been this great club today.This is a very similar situation to Mbappe.Weneed players now to have an immediate impact but we should not be inclined to think Mbappe would fail if Arsenal should sign him.

How it unfolded: We will get out of the CL group stage through the skin of our teeth and in the round of 16 we will get drawn with Bayern Munich or Barcelona or Real Madrid and end up getting hammered in the first leg.

Even if we some how managed to beat Munich 3nil away in the 1st leg, you can guarantee that we would go and lose our home leg by a bigger score line, in other words we'd still end up getting dumped out of this competition lol?

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

The ride was not as rough as expected, although at the end of it the Dancer got up on his hind legs and pranced lightly off the track in a near - vertical posture, as if trying to live up to his name.

American track fans got disappointing news when Britain's Brian Hewson, one of five who have run the mile in less than four minutes, regretfully notified the AAU that he won't be able to compete in the U.S. next month because of a strained leg muscle, though he may possibly arrive for the wind - up of the indoor season in March.

2) If Ronda gets her hands on anyone in the division she can finish the fight 3) She has incredible power, TKO's an Olympic medalist in the clinch with a knee and knocking out Betch with one punch 4) With her judo skill set she doesn't need to become a master boxer but learn how to stay behind a jab to move her opponents around the ring until she can get a hold of them 5) With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double leg.

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

The trainer wants to get rid of the horse, but knows no one will claim him if he shows up in the paddock with the telltale bulge in his lower leg.

«We've got the advantage of knowing we messed up the first leg and now we know what we've got to do.

The draw was sufficiently strong — the injured Chris Evert Lloyd and John McEnroe and the resting Steffi Graf were the only notable absentees — that neither of the world's No. 1 players was able to get a leg up on the»87 slam.

Perrin was one the most highly rated CB's in Ligue 1 last season, yes he is old, but some defenders are late bloomers, and his legs show no signs of giving up anytime soon, he is like a mixture of Kos & Verm, he likes getting a goal or tw, but is a fighter and is fairly quick for his age.

On top of all that, it frees up 3C for Dickinson, who desperately needs an opportunity to show some 2 - way prowess and flex his legs — he'll get decent linemates and steady minutes there.

Going out of a European competition has become the norm for us and we Gooners have gotten painfully accustomed to our team messing things up in the knockout stages, but not many expected it from the mighty Barcelona, especially with a big lead from the first leg.

We will f*ck up our group again and come second and get drawn against Bayern again or someone of that calibre and then get f*cked in the first leg and Wenger will say, «we are now going to try to make the impossible possible» like he always says when we try and get something away at Bayern when we're 2 - 3 down on aggregate...

I don't expect the Sixers to shoot this poorly again from 3 pt range again — got ta stay calm, get Embiid back in the line up & pray he can give the team enough to win one of the 2 games in Miami & the Sixers have to Attack Wade & Dragic on the Offensive end to make them use those old legs to Defend the Entire time they are in the Game