Sentences with phrase «of putting a stop to»

Making a big fuss over backtalk can backfire: You may actually prolong this sassy patter instead of putting a stop to it.

I wash twice a week and used to straighten my hair everyday but having a toddler and newborn has kind of put a stop to that most days!

Also, the legislature stopped short of putting a stop to TNReady entirely, claiming federal law «requires» them to test students.

They've worked with hundreds of clients in need of putting a stop to the ongoing assault of phone calls, emails, and letters from debt collectors and creditors.

In short, it is an allergy medicine for dogs, fully capable of putting a stop to one of the most uncomfortable manifestations of allergies — itching — within 4 hours and can provide full control of pruritus within 24 hours.

Not exact matches

While modeling traffic patterns, they stumbled on a truth drivers can put to use today: If we all stopped tailgating like a bunch of jerks, we'd all get where we're going much faster.

«We don't know exactly what McGahn said, but the mere fact that he put a stop to that letter is another piece of evidence that Mueller could use to say, «Donald Trump was warned by the White House counsel that this was a problematic step and decided to do it anyway,»» former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told Business Insider in September.

San Francisco regulators put a quick stop to Uber's testing there in the wake of the red - light incident.

Don't stop once you've put in the work to create a solid set of buyer personas; there's still more to do.

In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

After that, I stopped into the reception to thank the host of the event, Dimitri Simes, the publisher of the bi-monthly foreign policy magazine, The National Interest, who had done a great job putting everything together.

Spanish Health Minister Dolors Montserrat, who originates from Catalonia, delivered a brief statement at the rally on Sunday: «Today is a very important day for all the Catalans and today we are going to put a stop to the independence, and we will... And we want to build for the Catalans and with all the rest of the Spanish people, this grand nation and this great democracy all together.»

If you're starting to feel that your put togetherness is being taken advantage of, maybe it's time to stop quietly making up for your colleagues comparative lack of responsibility.

Put simply, the whole purpose is stop ObamaCare from driving future federal budgets to far higher levels of spending, and even deeper and more disastrously into the red.

The rest of the afternoon flies by and before I know it, it's time to check out the evening commute report, dinner options in my neighborhood, and my outfit for tonight's date, which was put together by WhatToWear (at some point all these companies stopped coming up with clever names and just called themselves by descriptions; less confusing for me).

Italian elections have put a stop to that nonsense by reaffirming the demise of austerity - only policies and unrealistic fiscal consolidation schedules.

«The whole reason for this company is to protect children in schools,» says the founder of Amulet Protective Technologies, which makes ballistic material that can be put into walls, doors, cubicle dividers, and office furniture to create bullet - stopping barriers in public spaces.

He just kept acquiring companies until federal regulators put a stop to it and the house of cards came tumbling down.

The one - stop shopping cart of retirement vehicles, they are designed to put you on a comfortable «glide path» toward retirement — owning more equities when you are young, more fixed income and cash when you are older — while keeping investors from having to make potentially wealth - destroying decisions about timing the market.

I'm not saying a more diverse executive team would automatically put a stop to this problem, but it would show that diversity is top of mind for the company.

Putting a stop to this kind of crime has been described as a «never - ending game of whack - a-mole» for law enforcement.

«The recognition of this possibility does not by itself justify stopping the technology,» according to the UCS, «but does put a substantial burden on those who wish to go forward to demonstrate benefits.»

As Karl Bode at DSL Reports put it in his brief analysis of the latest MoffettNathanson numbers: «The bad news for cable is the majority of them continue the slow trickling loss of subscribers that, unless you work somewhere in the cable ecosystem with your head buried in the sand, nobody believes is going to stop any time soon.»

But while the companies are keeping quiet, collectively and through the mouths of their supporters and trade groups, they are putting up a fight to stop the proposed tax dead in its tracks.

It's that millennials and African - Americans and a lot of social justice - oriented white people and a lot of white people who are working class really were progressive and they really were open to a message that was things like «no death penalty,» «put the money back in schools,» «mass incarceration,» and «stop taking people's property unjustifiably.»

When you put your entire focus on something that really matters to you, when you can't stop thinking about it every day, this intense focus unleashes a burning desire that can help you obtain what might otherwise be out of reach.

We managed to stop putting a hole in the ozone layer by phasing out the chemicals that were causing it (cholofluorocarbons) and, as a result, the hole is closing and there are millions fewer cases of skin cancer than there would otherwise have been.

How do you prevent burnout?I've become stricter on protecting my time, putting hard stops when I have to get out of the office.

We shouldn't forget he made a populist sale of his healthcare plan, too — and it stopped working once Congress started having to put details of the plan into legislative text.

President Trump's threat to stop billions of dollars in government payments to insurers could put him in a tricky legal situation.

The Moya III, as one co-worker who stopped by to try it on (after years of it sitting on her own wish list) put it, is the «perfect legacy piece.»

He pointed out Alberta didn't put a tariff on or prohibit imports of B.C. wine, it simply told the provincial monopoly buyer to stop buying.

I certainly don't advocate running away from your problems, but if someone is making you uncontrollably angry, the path of least resistance is to simply stop putting yourself in that situation.

«Putting aside even the expansion of the rule from 500 to 2,000, nobody's stopping from youdoing that loan — the hand of big government is not telling you that you can't do it — it's just saying that you just don't get the legal protection afforded by QM.»

«Sunlight will decrease the release of melatonin, a hormone that makes us sleepy,» says Steve Orma, clinical psychologist and co-author of Stop Worrying and Go to Sleep: How to Put Insomnia to Bed for Good.

Rather than mentally struggling with whether or not to exit a stock ahead of its predetermined stop price, I put into place a clear and objective «set it and forget it» rule that was designed to:

In barreling into new markets, Uber capitalized on this lack of regulation to quickly enlist UberX drivers and put them to work before local regulators could stop them.

In spite of the city's many attempts to put a stop to it, Uber said it planned to keep its self - driving cars on the road.

Uber has sold its China assets to Didi Chuxing for a 17.7 percent economic interest in the new enterprise, putting a stop to a rivalry that cost both companies billions of dollars to dominate the country.

For example, in the aforementioned article, reference is made to a gentlemen named Martin Woods, who served as director of Wachovia's anti-money laundering unit in London for three years before leaving his position «in disgust» after his repeated requests to executives to put a stop to ongoing drug money laundering operations, which were allegedly occurring in Wachovia's branch network, were ignored).

That's why Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., sees bitcoin as a «fraud» that's destined to come crashing down, as its use in ransomware schemes, drug and arms trafficking ultimately persuades authorities to find a way to put a stop to it.

Site C Dam is now putting the nail into the coffin for the delta and none of you are doing anything to stop it.

We continue to hold index put option coverage under about 90 % of our stockholdings, though primarily as a «stop loss» against any major continuation, rather than a defense against moderate declines.

At present, the evidence indicates that it is appropriate to accept market risk, but with something of a «stop» in the form of put option coverage close to (or a few percent below) current levels.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg just put forth a statement and plan to improve data privacy, but omitted some of the most grievous inquiries — and stopped short of apologizing.

As she and Ohanian arrive at their house in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Williams emerges from the car, struggling to put one foot in front of the other as she lugs Olympia in a baby carrier with her right hand as if nothing — truly nothing — is going to stop her from reaching the front door.

David Friedman, Director of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, said, «After another tragedy involving Autopilot, Tesla should commit to put safety first — and to stop using consumers as beta testers for unproven technology.

«And unless Facebook puts a stop to everyone else that's using it, the company really isn't doing anything to fix the problem, instead just continuing its trend of employing inadequate half - measures.»

The protocol was designed to put a stop to expensive lawsuits filed by brokers that had lost top advisers who took their roster of clients to rival firms.

AT&T and Verizon also invested a lot of effort to put unlimited data plans of their existing users to a stop.