Sentences with phrase «of naming things»

This naming device mocks gendered terms of endearment and ownership, and it points at the patriarchal aspects of art making and of naming things.

Also Microsoft really needs to fire whoever is in charge of naming things there.

Not exact matches

It didn't really have a book of business, but there was something to the name and it did have some equipment and things like that.

Name badges for attendees who will have not met one another before are one of the most important things to prepare in advance.

All registrars require the name of the company or individual who owns the domain (the registrant), the individual authorized to handle daily matters (the administrative contact), and the person who handles all things technical (the technical contact).

The company alleged that Trump and Fisher had plagiarized one of their shoe models, called «the Wild Thing» by creating an identical copy and launching it under a different name.

And, without realizing it was happening, learning to memorize a deck of cards helped me develop techniques that make me a lot better at remembering the names and faces of people I meet — as well as a bunch of other things.

Enabling the working poor, many of them immigrants (hence the name Tio, which means «uncle» in Spanish), to pay their bills for a low fee and avoid late penalties or service interruptions was simply the right thing to do.

The Mannix brothers share many things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National Music Centre — which houses Canada's Music Hall of Fame — came to being thanks to more than $ 10 million in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.

On Amazon's affect on the sector: «I think one of the things you can see is that brand names matter.

For one thing, their name, Twisted Tree, echoed that of many similar companies, both in and outside their industry.

The two weakest forms of trademark are descriptive names, or generic names, for example «candy» or «soda», when your product is actually those things.

Any of these things can derail what appears to be a perfectly good name.

In the middle of» 95, I had to give the thing a name, and I was going to call it San Francisco Events, but people around me said that they already called it craigslist so I should keep it that way, and they were right.

I have constraints in that I have to meet quarterly numbers, which is a good thing — it's certainly good discipline — but it's a bad thing as well because if I wanted to invest, for instance, a $ 100 million to just make my brand name more accepted for two quarters and in the third quarter I'll get traction, that's not an option I would consider without a lot of pull.

Of course, if things are awkward now, imagine how they'll get when Kleiner and the individual partners named in the lawsuit file their response.

Lewis points out, for instance, that early baseball stats didn't bother to record the number of walks a batter earned — mostly because one of the early promoters of baseball stats, a journalist named Henry Chadwick, happened to be a fan of cricket, a sport where there's no such thing as a «walk.»

One of the first things they did was name the product, which turned out to be the only easy part of this journey.

When a big - name writer such as Rowling — who, let's face it, is the biggest there is — goes solo and decides to sell her own ebooks independent of any publisher, that contributes to two things.

«One of the things that I've found to be true throughout my career is that the most important decision that a company makes on a daily basis is who they name manager,» Soto says.

With Instagram stories we'll open it up and make it kind of playful, talk about how it was named, things like that.

At the time, Priceline was our main rival and the «name your price» thing Priceline's innovation, and Hotwire's innovation was that we showed you the price, and so you didn't know what the hotel was until after you purchased, but we showed you what the price was and so it took some of the guessing out of it.

Well, now we know that Theodor Geisel's (that's another thing — no «e» at the end of his first name) pen name — which was his mother's maiden name — was actually pronounced to rhyme with «voice» rather than «moose.»»

And it's much easier to do that than to say, «Well listen, we have free markets and we have democracy and both those things are incredibly messy and no one is really controlling it,» but if I give you a few symbols and attach a name to it, all of a sudden you have an evil villain that you can pin the blame on.

The team behind that study quizzed thousands of people aged 10 - 90 on their ability to do things like remember lists of words, recognize faces, learn names, and do math.

Do the same thing with a collection of 10 flowers and their names.

Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»

I asked them to go around the room, say their name, what job they had and to offer two examples of what was working and two examples of things not working.

Says Wong, «The earlier challenges were sort of partner buy - in and getting our name out there and things like bonus structures for our sales team, structuring our revenue share model and putting together all the default paperwork for how we would build out our streams of relationships, so to speak.

The Anne Frank Foundation said it recognized the «good intentions» of those who name things after Frank, but pointed out that the significance of Frank and what she represents «will increasingly have a contemporary rather than a historical basis.»

Questions included things such as the children's parents» names, the name of their school and more.

In general, generics are a wonderful thing — they're a lower - cost alternative to expensive, brand - name versions of drugs.

A few simple changes incorporating the practices of some of the biggest names in business can help you turn things around and get ahead.

But here's the thing: Even back in 2012 — when Mike Duffy was a household name as a former broadcaster and Harper was looking solid, solid, solid — 57 % of Canadians still thought he should quit before the next election.

But to be fair, your name isn't actually that interesting to me, and besides, it's inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.»

Some of the names of these purported next big things will look familiar to Inc. readers — Kickstarter, Etsy, Foursquare, and Buzzfeed have graced our pages before.

Assuming the letter you've received doesn't paint the whole picture for you, calling this number will be well worth it as talking to a person not only helps you understand the nuances of the situation but there's comfort in knowing that a human being with a name and a face at the IRS is there to help you figure things out.

For Cadillac, embarrassing false starts named V8 -6-4, Cimarron and Allante finally gave to the real thing in 1992, when they relaunched the trusty Seville with sharp new creases in the bodywork, a shot of «Northstar» steroids in its V - 8, and a Euro - import - style moniker: STS.

Whenever I'm out and I think of things that I need to do, I just send myself a quick email or just put in the subject line the thing I need to do, so that later I can just search by my own name to find it.

«To all of you that have something nasty to say about me or other women who are built like me, women whose names you know, women whose names you don't, women who've been picked on, women whose husbands put them down, women at work or girls in school, I have one thing to say to you: kiss my fat ass,» she said.

One of the truly wonderful things about starting your own company is that you get to name it whatever you want.

One of the things you're going to do when you license — through your sales force, advertising, and promotional efforts — is build up the value of the licensed name.

We'll do this Good Thing in the name of public safety, and the Uber faithful will talk us up until the cows come home.

One thing to know: Dahlmeier doesn't have any Olympic medals to her name, but has a strong chance to get one at Pyeongchang after winning five of six possible gold medals at the 2017 world championships.

For one thing, if a board of directors doesn't name you chief executive officer of a real corporation, you're sort of like a silly little kid playing grownup.

With a loyal customer base who were keen to preserve the things they liked about one of the most innovative banks in Canada, readers were curious about how the name change happened.

There are a ton of things to consider when buying a mattress, including firmness, materials, warranties, return policies, and whether to go with a direct - to - consumer mattress startup or a big - name brand.

In the CNN interview, Buffett repeated some of the criticism, saying Trump has had some major business failures, but was «very good at licensing, and he was very good at things that involve promotion of his name.»

Machines could conceivably do the heavy lifting, but they still tend to miss things like punctuation, nuance and spellings of names.

Leatherman is a tried - and - true name in this market, and its Sidekick packs 17 different tools into into its tiny steel build, including wire cutters, multiple types of knives, a can opener, a wood and metal file, and Phillips, large, and small screwdrivers, among other things that could help you do grunt work around the house.