Sentences with phrase «of good things going for it»

As the largest iPhone, it has a lot of good things going for it.

Salt has a lot of good things going for it: they have assembled a strong leadership team and advisors, raised substantial start - up capital, and laid the groundwork for a successful company.

Alcatel's Idol 5 has a lot of good things going for it, and it comes in at a price point that's accessible to a wide array of different people — as long as you're on Cricket.

While the Lenovo TAB A8 doesn't offer anything in particular that makes it stand out from the crowd of competing slates, it has a lot of good things going for it, battery life arguably being at the top of them all.

There are a lot of good things going for the Lava Iris X1 — great looks and decent build quality, above - average 8MP camera, and a near - stock latest Android KitKat OS.

For a budget smartphone it's got a lot of good things going for it like the solid build quality, a decent looking display, and a handful of very useful software features.

Google's Pixel phones have plenty of good things going for»em, but they've also always had one pesky limitation: a lack of diversity, both in price and in style.

While it's hardly on par with its predecessor, it still has plenty of good things going for it.

The 2011 release had its problems, sure, but it also had a lot of good things going for it as well.

So, yeah — the Nexus 7 has a lot of good things going for it.

It has a number of good things going for it, including a high - res 1920 x 1200 resolution screen, a 1.6 GHz octa - core processor, and Android 6.0, the latest version of Android that's still only available on a small percentage of devices.

However, it also had a lot of good things going for it.

Founded in 2003, AfroRomance has a ton of good things going for it, but let's start with the registration process.

If constantly striving for bigger and better things is a sure telltale sign of ambitious corporate leadership, drive and vision, then the recently - merged paperboard packaging group Torham / Hamilton Paperbox Inc. has a lot of good things going for it already — starting from...

However, one of the best things going for the Cherokee is that if you get the optional technology group package you get advanced technology for cheap.

Not exact matches

Here's a simple rule of thumb for when to keep your own mouth shut: don't say a thing unless it's going to help someone else in the meeting do their job better.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

Things are going so well that it also raised its profit outlook for the rest of the year.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

There are lots of ways to practice gratitude, from keeping a journal of things you're grateful for, sharing three good things that happen each day with a friend or your partner, and going out of your way to show gratitude when others help you.

Food Lion is a great companion for March Madness because, after all, few things go better with a March Madness game than a plethora of tasty food.

Five of the 14 series that were nominated for best drama or comedy went to Netflix shows, including Stranger Things, The Crown, House of Cards, Master of None, and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

For the founder and chairman of consulting firm, Bild & Co., that meant having a salary instead of taking money when things were going well and scrimping when times got tight.

We believe that while many brands come and go, one thing that will never go out of style is the love we have for our pets, the extent we will go to get them what they need and the importance of being the go - to store for expert advice and best - in - class customer experience.

Things seem to be going well; rapport and information flows; all the signals are right; and then, for reasons that seem to defy elucidation, delays of all sorts come into play when you go for the close.

Every night before bed, write down three things that went well for you, along with an explanation of why they went well.

McElrath knew things went well — he had a team camped out in a war room all weekend glued to status monitors for not only WeatherTech's site but also the websites of MetLife Stadium and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, also Americaneagle.com clients.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

They may be prospects you haven't worked with yet, referral sources you haven't talked to for a while, or even ex-employees who've gone on to bigger things but might be your best source of talent and clients if you keep the relationship fresh.

And I knew that while there were a lot of things going wrong for the board and leadership at Yahoo, there were a lot of really good people there working on the products.

Start being grateful: feeling grateful is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel it elevates your mood and it fills you with happiness, if we are going to be successful at this thing called, life, we have to start being grateful for the things that happen in our live, no matter how good or bad each of us has it, you have to make to start making it a practice to be grateful for your life.

«Jimmy was very, very good at letting go of the things that might have made him a success up to that point, but he was willing to shed them and go for something completely different... Jimmy's career is based on a tremendous lack of fear of moving forward.»

Go ahead and get ahead of the curve so that you can focus on bigger and better things for your business.

There are a lot of things donors are looking for: A reduction in taxes, a sense of doing good in the community, and the satisfaction that comes from donating to causes that go against the opposing political party (so - called «rage donating.»)

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

After economists falsely warned that Trump's victory would cause a stock market crash, investors have now gotten too caught up «in this very bizarre 180 that Trump is the best thing ever for the stock market,» Gundlach said, predicting that «we're going to see some backlash of negativity.»

Sadly for my health, a good portion of readers now expect me to routinely try these things on their behalf, so off I went to the local KFC.

Having had troubling experiences with bad bosses before, Jon Good, the founder of gourmet chocolate company Jon Good Chocolates, makes sure he sets the bar high when it comes to leadership, taking blame when things go wrong, showing support for his employees and doing everything he can to help them be their best selves.

«I think that the worst thing employers can do is simply say, «Well, it's delayed for a year, I'm going to stop thinking about that part of the law.»

Pick up a piece of confetti from the street and you'll likely find a note on there written by someone wishing for good things for the next year, or letting go of something from the past one.

While Biles easily captured the gold in vault, things also didn't go as well for the men's all - around champion, Kohei Uchimura, who stepped out of bounds on his first tumbling run.

And what happened to us was that our salaries stagnated and fell while the cost of the things we couldn't do without went up at rates well beyond that of inflation for decades as the social safety was being pulled out from underneath us.

«The one thing that I really think Facebook has going for them is that the feature set is proven to work on mobile devices really well and proven to work for people without training,» says Josh Bersin, principal and founder of Bersin by Deloitte, which advises companies on corporate learning strategies.

It has some other things going for it as well: it's generating strong operating profit growth in China and Latin America; it's done a good job of extracting cost savings and it's buying back shares at a healthy clip.

Or perhaps things are going so well that the team is exhausted, working lots of ramen - noodle - and - Redbull - fueled nights for little pay.

«I know it's so tempting to go ahead and make investments and it looks good for today,» he also commented, «but when this thing ends, because we've had speculation, we've had money building up four to six years in terms of a risk pattern, I think it could end very badly.»

«About a third of us seem to be wired to respond to, «I took some control, I have some autonomy, I'm doing this special thing that's really gonna be good for my health.»

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Those are big things to balance, but the fact that the government has indicated [it's] interested in the question is a good sign and if [it's] going to talk about more than just length of leave, it could be a significant opportunity to make life better for families.»