Sentences with phrase «of people were left»

Millions of people were left without power as trees snapped on power lines.

Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power, and many homes were flooded.

In a dramatic way, it definitely jarred with the tension and excitement that went before but I understand that a lot of people were left wanting more.

But when the storm warnings went out one winter night in North Wales three years ago, everything went wrong, and hundreds of people were left in their homes as the water rose around them.

Tax season happens every year like clockwork, but when April rolls around a lot of people are left scrambling.

They do not believe that a group of people is left behind on earth for an extended Tribulation period after the events of 1 Thessalonians 4:17.

And that is exactly why so many millions of people are leaving institutional Christianity.

THAT is why so many of its people are leaving.

Any time the big get bigger, lots of people are left wondering whether the end is near for the small guy.

Millions of people are leaving the country through the major airports, all of which are reporting high numbers.

Universally, they have no wide appeal, and the majority of people are left scratching their heads.

Thousands of people are leaving Tumblr in anticipation of the inevitable changes that Tumblr will have to make.

When there is a product that is available (term insurance) that meets 95 % or more of all life insurance needs and you have people selling whole life insurance and they claim that it is the best thing for all needs, a lot of people are left wondering why.

Not exact matches

It was quite humbling, I left my strategy consulting job at McKenzie and I became a door - to - door sales person of original ZocDoc products.

Indeed, during the experiment, subjects ages 75 to 89 who also exhibited some signs of memory impairment were more likely than younger people to click on a suspicious email that would leave their personal data vulnerable to criminals.

Scarcely any Chinese person under the age of 40 goes a day without using WeChat, and they often leave home with only their smartphone, since there's no need to carry a wallet.

None of the people who've left — or lost — it were stupid or inexperienced.

A lot of CEOs would say that's an old way of running a company, where the CEO says «I hope people never leave.»

Because most people are right handed, and Americans drive on the right side of the road, most people move through a store from right to left.

London also saw a record 5,000 people leaving the labour force, but their employment decline of 3,700 was only the 5th worst on record.

People rely on the relative anonymity of services like Yelp to leave (mostly) honest reviews and that's what you want to hear.

Denton referenced both Gawker.com, which was left - leaning and gossip - oriented, and Breitbart, the ultra-nationalist far - right site, as publications that only appeal to people on one end of the spectrum.

In the thinking of Parker and CEO Matt Mahan, people's personal lives are covered by Facebook and their professional lives by LinkedIn, but that still leaves their civic lives.

Data reveals that more and more people are finally starting to realize the answer to this question is yes, leaving Black Friday shopping to those odd individuals who enjoy the bloodsport of in - person discount hunting.

Traditionally most people are left out of investing on the ground floor.

During the course of the day as you're dealing with difficult people, making decisions and battling traffic, you use up your willpower, leaving you feeling depleted toward the end of the day.

If a person is working for 72 of them, and sleeping, eating and bathing for 56, that leaves only 40 hours a week for accomplishing everything else.

The South African city has gone three years with hardly any rain, and is warning that it will be forced to turn off most of its taps at an unspecified date in 2019, leaving people to queue up outside for their water.

The billionaire said «there must have been a lot of people who believed» the infamous slogan on the Vote Leave campaign bus, which said Britain's weekly # 350 million EU membership bill should be spent on the NHS.

This is what it's like to have 12 weeks of leave after having a baby, if you're lucky enough to even have a job that offers it: You begin figuring out child care almost right away; the irony that you barely know how to take care of this little person and now must somehow assess someone else's ability to do so does not escape you.

The revolution in low - cost index funds and ETFs has been great for investors, but overreliance on cheap investments runs the risk of leaving people short of retirement goals.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

The union is part of a national wave of activism trying to get the firearms industry to improve gun safety and sales policies after another deadly mass shooting, this time at a Florida high school in February that left 17 people dead.

Zuckerberg said suppression of certain political speech on Facebook is «a fair concern that people would at least wonder about» because Silicon Valley is known for its left - leaning politics.

To believe that people like Schwarzman or Trump, or Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (net worth US$ 2.5 billion) or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former CEO of ExxonMobil whose net worth is a modest US$ 150 million), will leave Canada alone, that they will look for a better deal with everyone except their second - largest trading partner, is not just naïve — it's like jumping into a pool filled with great white sharks because you've convinced yourself they're vegetarians.

When that happens, it's really hard to build a great business because a lot of these great people are leaving.

Because disruptions are nothing new: We've seen dozens of them in recent years: A young entrepreneur has a big idea, shakes things up and emerges with a multi-billion dollar business that leaves people gaping, imitating, disbelieving and envying, all amid a dizzying swirl of emotions.

Leaving the negotiations on Saturday, Tony de Brume, foreign minister of the Marshall Islands, told Fortune, «We are going to go back with an agreement that people can be proud of.»

Pete Selman, global cohead of equity trading, is also leaving, according to people familiar with the matter.

Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

He said about 80 per cent of the people he's hired so far are from the region, and as many as 30 per cent have experience with fire cleanups or handling the potentially toxic waste left by the fire.

I think you've misconstrued the «zip» merging concept, it is not just who is in front but a one on one concept where the person who is in front has right of way then the person opposite and back and forth, one from right then one from left and so on, this works all over North America but seems to have been a missed import to Australia.

Once Katrina happened, first off a lot of people left, but then you had a lot of people come down and do community service projects, help rebuild, and a lot of them were young people right out of college through things like AmeriCorps or Habitat for Humanity, etc..

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

This inexpensive system of Internet - connected sensors placed on objects within a person's home tracks activity so adult children can ascertain if a parent is taking their medication, opening the refrigerator, visiting the bathroom, or leaving the house.

«If they leave the military when they're 30 or 40, you can still get 20 or 30 years of leadership from that person.

Namie agrees that turnover — a disproportionate number of people leaving your office or unit, and few people wanting to come in from elsewhere in the company — is another sure sign that something's amiss.

What he has left behind — books and recorded speeches, audio and video lecture series and hundreds of can - do maxims as well as children committed to upholding the principles by which he lived his life — all but ensures that people will be following the «Ziglar Way» for a long time to come.

He says he left thinking about this quote: «The fundamental element that defines the quality of your life is the people you surround yourself with and the conversations you have with them.»

They tried to tap into a plethora of different topical issues and ideas, but people were left confused: «What part of Pepsi's DNA connects with those issues?»