Sentences with phrase «of getting at»

S'ton beat»em so I fancy our chance of getting at least a draw as you have said... Plus Kompany is out and the team is not really playing well...

It is a nice breakfast, especially since the weather is warming up here If I'm very hungry I'll have some toast as well, but it's a great way of getting at least one serve of fruit and veg for breakfast.

Instead of getting at eye - level and squinting to see if you've poured exactly 1.5 cups of cream, invest in a sloped cup.

It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Indeed, I should wish to urge that it is a way of getting at what the Greeks intended when they spoke also of something or someone as kalagathon or kalagathos.

Special groups in which consciousness raising is the primary focus are the most direct way of getting at the issues of sexism.

From the consciousness raising point of view, study groups are among the most important means of getting at the issues raised by the changing identities of women and men.

In the Symposium Plato used this method of getting at the nature of being by analysing love, and he there laid down the lines of a metaphysical method for interpreting love and being in a way which will prove relevant for us.

The most important part of getting at the Sermon on the Mount is to go directly to the Sermon on the Mount.

Of course he can not become completely divested of his public vocation; but he can know that for the sake of getting at realities he must become skilled in describing human problems in more than one language.

One way of getting at the point is by considering the celibate man or woman whose specific vocation is not to act genitally but to redirect the sexual drive, desire, and equipment for other ends that are taken as good for that particular person.

Thus, in the argument I have set before you, I have been following what I take to be the only truly rational method of getting at the problem.

We today may prefer other ways of getting at the point, and that is our privilege.

Another way of getting at what is at issue is to say that apocalyptic narrative is instructive for us because it shows the difficulty of working both God and man into the same story.

We need reporters with a Christian perspective, not to proselytize subtly through their writing, but simply to do a better job of getting at the whole truth.»

I've taken a bit of a roundabout way of getting at this, and going through all this to ask a question during a presser would put the half - dozen people streaming it to sleep.

But the Moya III isn't something you should buy imitations of if you're thinking of getting it at all.

Trump and Sessions have also pledged to crack down on «sanctuary cities» — typically localities that limit how local authorities can work with federal immigration agents — as a way of getting at drug traffickers and gangs.

It found that for those taking supplements either daily or weekly, the risk of getting at least one acute respiratory tract infection was reduced.

«The more questions that you ask, the more facets of it you get at, the more you minimize the margin of error, the more you minimize the noise in any survey,» VanAmburg says.

That is not exactly the takeaway from this study, but it sort of gets at the meat of this new study from Vanderbilt University professor Marino Bruce.

But none of this gets at the distinctive developments that have characterized religion in the twentieth century.

Not exact matches

I get my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.

«That's why many women who have this type of IUD either get a very light period every month or they don't get a period at all.

Whether you teach a class at your office, at a local university or learning annex, or through another source, you'll be able to get the word out about the business you own as a part of the experience.

«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» says Cuban, in an interview for a recent episode of the podcast «How I Built This.»

Another member of the Russian delegation, Alexey Urivskiy, told the Russian newspaper Vedomosti last year that the delegation at the I.S.O. committee was supposed to get Russian cryptographic algorithms into the standard.

The risk with that kind of approach is that obvious falsehoods or offensive views get treated as though they were valid through a false attempt at balance.

JM: It's mainly been that we look at our userbase, we look at where they have the most friends, and that's mainly the function of what cities we're in, just because it's really about the social connections, so when we go to a city that has a lot of friends who are already using Hinge, it makes it a lot easier for us to get off the ground.

Starting in January, 200,000 businesses around the country will get at least $ 50 of free advertisement credits to be used on Facebook.

Learn how to get your entire company on board so customers see your brand at work in every aspect of your business.

She excelled, got promoted numerous times over the next seven years and climbed the ladder to director of operations, eventually taking a similar management role at another company.

CastLight searches for for employees who have stopped filling prescriptions for birth control, and then looks at their ages and, if applicable, the ages of their children, to see if they might be about to get pregnant.

But keep in mind approximately 70 percent of all freight in the U.S. is moved by tractor - trailers: Whatever you just bought, whether at a store or online... chances are it got part of the way to you on a tractor - trailer.

The Borrowell team got to sit down with Strange, who happens to be both an entrepreneur and a Valley VC — she was part of the executive team that built Ruba, a startup acquired by Google in 2010, and in November last year she became a partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

As holiday rituals go, it's a strange one: you get up at the crack of dawn to fight your way through crushing crowds (and often terrible weather), only to spend a day surrounded by utter pandemonium.

Great read for anyone looking to get the most out of themselves and perform at their peak.»

According to Ted Conley, who heads up North American marketing for the condom maker's parent company: «The category has traditionally been strong at times of economic downturn and we are getting anecdotal evidence that the same can be said for today.

But since profits begin to trail off as the price gets further away from $ 55 in either direction, Gordon wants to make sure he has a point at which to get out of the trade.

«I get criticized for going to meetings in the United States — and I don't really care at the end of the day.»

CB «s writers also take you behind the scenes of Canada's most - profitable companies, to get an inside look at how a corporation becomes the best at what they do.

It isn't bothering to line up a pipeline at this time, expecting another pipeline project to become available as the list of export plants gets winnowed down.

When the school year ends, we may take a week or two to ourselves much like someone in any other field; however, at the end of that time, we need to get ourselves back into gear.

After getting at least a secondary school education, you'll need either complete a four - to five - year apprenticeship, or at least four years of work experience in combination with school or industry courses.

The report from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center (TPC) found that while Americans at all income levels would, on average, get a tax cut form the final version of the tax bill, the benefit would be skewed towards people at the upper range of income earners.

«I would get a job as a bartender at night and a sales job during the day, and I would start working,» says Cuban, in an interview for a recent episode of

If we want to see more women CEOs, we need to stop underestimating women at the lowest levels of the organization and start betting on them from the get - go.

He recalled how he and his family got into town for the first time late at night, and because of something that went wrong in the move, they all went to a late showing at the theater to kill time.

Go get lunch and eat it at my desk: romaine salad with apples, feta, and a scoop of tuna fish.

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.