Sentences with phrase «of nudged there»

«Sometimes we just get kind of nudged there.

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There's reason to doubt that Macron's combination of flattering personal diplomacy and idealistic rhetoric can nudge the Trump administration in his direction.

There are all sort of techniques to reduce the amount of time you spend in useless meetings, from team - wide initiatives like having employees «pay» for meetings and simple gizmos that nudge people to use their time more effectively, to personal strategies for winnowing the number of meetings you're obliged to accept.

Today, there's no shortage of books, toys, classes and camps to nudge the next generation of coders along the path to promising careers in technology.

Is there any way to slow the clock at this physical level and nudge your brain to resemble that of a younger person?

So instead of trying to get more users with marketing, the company focused its efforts on nudging the behavior that locked in the interest already there.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 1 - Facebook Inc is entering the dating game, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, planning a dating service to matchmake millions of people on the world's largest online social network and nudge them into spending more time there.

For Herjavec, that curiosity and realization that there were people succeeding outside of «the mold» was the initial nudge that he needed to get started.

The Fed funds rate remained there for seven years before the central bank nudged it up a quarter of a percentage point in December.

But I digress... what we want to know — and there is a consensus around this among the FX folks I talk to, but having it explicitly stated would certainly be useful and potentially market - moving — is whether these election results nudge the Bank of Canada's «risk management» approach to setting monpol in one direction or another.

It's almost exactly the same as being agnostic, but with a nudge to side of believing there is something out there.

«If we nudge one of these constants just a few percent in one direction, stars burn out within a million years of their formation, and there is no time for evolution.

There is some evidence that The Pawnbroker was actually nudged out of box - office doldrums by the announcement of the B.F.C. award.

I don't necessarily believe that the current system is beyond reform, there are some positive movements in this direction, but nothing short of a whole change of perception and thought is necessary; not something that can be achieved with just a little nudge and encouragement.

Place the water bath in the oven and bake for 50 - 60 minutes, or until the top looks just set except for in the very middle and if you give the pan a gently nudge there's a slight wobble in the middle of the cheesecake.

All in one bite there's salt, tang, sweetness, roast - y qualities, and those light nudges of umami too.

«There are also reports of increasingly strained relations between the front office and Leonard's chief adviser, now his uncle after nudging aside his longtime agent.

But even with this uncertainty, and even without any guarantee that this will nudge England further toward the ultimate dream of full fan ownership and the World Cup victories that would surely follow, there is cause for optimism.

Avoiding the carnage, Lewis took control of the race in very difficult conditions and negotiated his way through various re-starts and unnecessary Safety Cars (as opposed to VSCs — when Ericsson nudged the wall and spun there was no huge amount of debris on the track, just a Sauber facing the wrong way, how could they justify a Safety Car for that?)

Eboue bumped into the back of him, there was a nudge but Lucas was already going down.

When they were done, they stuck around by my side, letting me pull a burr off their fleece here and there, and even, from Cinnamon, I got a few moments of loving nose nudges.

My daughter, for example, needing a bit of a nudge to talk to that initial coach and we were right there helping her work through that.

There's nothing wrong with adult children living at home, especially in difficult economic times such as these, but if the time comes that you feel they need a gentle nudge out of the nest you can help them to find an acceptable roommate or two and guide them through the process of settling into independent adulthood.

It's like tools in your toolkit and you're filing that away and it's like that idea of lifelong learning, you're always going to be adding tools to your toolkit, you shouldn't let it get full of cobwebs like you need to keep adding to it because there's always something that's going to work and make it a little change and for me the mechanics of it... and understanding all of those mechanics and bringing that to the mechanics of the pelvis and how babies come down and all of that and so there is a part of me that kind of, I can think it's very cool that there are ways that this baby can come down and the more experience you get the more you realize yeah we can nudge this a little bit.

I think the most important thing from my perspective is that my grounding in normal helps me recognize the abnormal... it's like a line, the straight line of normal and if there's a wavering off to one side or the other you just try a little tiny subtle intervention to nudge it back to normal... like if the baby is malpositioned you know, ideas and ways, and position changes, manoeuvres we can do to try to get the baby into a better position, things like that... so you know if she's dehydrated, hydrate her.

There are things that you can do to nudge people into buying off of your baby registry.

And there are many cases in which traditional tools — such as prohibitions and mandates — are essential for achieving specific policy objectives, and nudges might not be of value.

«After the change, there was some discussion among practitioner press that Facebook gave users these controls just to increase the openness in content sharing — that the intention was seen not to facilitate better protection of privacy, but rather to nudge people to share openly more.

«Once you really nudged them on, insisting there are two types of g, some would still insist there is no second g.»

«Many people are excited by the potential of using activity trackers to monitor healthy behaviors, but there is very little evidence on who is using them and whether or not use is sustained over time,» said Mitesh Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management, and director of Penn Medicine's Nudge Unit.

However, the fact that these places tend to be some of the most deprived areas of the country hints there may be underlying socioeconomic factors at play that can not be solved with a subtle nudge.

The good news is, there are ways to nudge them out of our path — if we have enough warning.

Thankfully, there are a ton of reminder apps out there that can serve as an external nudge on busy days.

A visual of what you're working toward can help nudge you in the direction of making the best financial decisions to get you there.

The whole shoot was a bit outside of my comfort zone... but the heels were like an extra nudge out there.»

If there hasn't been any talk of moving things offline after about 3 exchanges, make the nudge to get IRL.

Erika Ettin, founder of A Little Nudge came to give us a Here are 9 things you didn't know about dating for to one specific age - group (there are dating sites out old member of Stitch in New

Sugar Daddies also have to keep their financial safety in mind, as there are plenty of scam artists trying to pose as honest Sugar Babies... perhaps we can call these «Sugar Baby Posers» lol (inside joke, * nudges «confused» *).

A one - joke film of nudge - nudge, wink - wink sexual adolescence and fat jokes, it lacks the inimitable mix of bad taste, romantic charm and spirited performance that defined «There's Something About Mary.»

«In the original script, there was this sort of wink - wink, nudge - nudge quality to Jim's Dad, so I told them, «I want to make this guy a real do - gooder, I want him to be a good dad, very positive, very supportive,» and they said, «We'll do whatever you want.

The film still has all the little Soderbergh touches — there's a scene involving a prison riot that gets caught up in the differences between the TV version and the book version of Game of Thrones in which you can almost sense Soderbergh nudging the camera — but what's perhaps most impressive about it is how effortless it all seems.

The movie milks its formula of nudging the period for all it is worth in the first act (There's a running joke about the lack of smiling subjects in photographs, and the racism of the time is acknowledged with a shooting gallery with targets that are despicable racial caricatures — acknowledged but not addressed in any worthwhile way until a cameo that concludes the movie).

The nudging placement of this Classics - seminar quotation can't help but feel pretentious, but in fact there's something authentically Socratic about Gavin Hood's new thriller.

It's a weird one, though... On one side, you have to be thrilled by the fact that there are filmmakers out there willing to nudge the boundaries of family - oriented animated fare.

There was no reason they shouldn't work in other states, too, Bush reasoned, and of course there was precedent for Uncle Sam nudging states in that direction, initiatives like the Clinton - era «Goals 2000» and «Improving America's Schools» legislaThere was no reason they shouldn't work in other states, too, Bush reasoned, and of course there was precedent for Uncle Sam nudging states in that direction, initiatives like the Clinton - era «Goals 2000» and «Improving America's Schools» legislathere was precedent for Uncle Sam nudging states in that direction, initiatives like the Clinton - era «Goals 2000» and «Improving America's Schools» legislation.

Ford has not released any information other than a nudge here and a wink there, but the Raptor version of the new F - 150 will be a halo truck and a sign the Blue Oval is taking performance seriously in 2015.

On the model we tested, which retails for about $ 65,000 (base price is $ 57,000), there wasn't an option for adaptive cruise control (slowing for the car in front of you), lane departure prevention (gently nudging you back into a lane), or even blind spot indicators.

While it's late in the season to be thinking of your holiday strategy, there are some great things you can still do to nudge sales in -LSB-...]

There is a handy tip on using the shift key (up arrow) as well as the right - side of the 5 - way controller button to just nudge the screen over a little so you can read the whole sentence.

And there, in that house in a suburb north of Sydney, her mother's voice was suddenly everywhere, nudging and advising, cautioning and directing, escorting her through a terrain as foreign as any she had ever trekked.