Sentences with phrase «of rooting for»

O'Connor had a long history of rooting for the Bushes in presidential elections.

That's bad news for those of us rooting for a stable planet.

Which of course, leaves me in the unusual position of rooting for Electronic Arts.

As a result, Nala had fans from as far away as Finland, all of them rooting for her to find a home — but few of them volunteering to provide one.

None of us finds comfortable being in the position of rooting for the latter if we're not ready «to go,» but there it is.

I'm thinking of rooting for a cpu app to control the frequency.

«I will work with him and whoever he selects as education secretary,» she said, adding that she is «troubled by what I see as a sort of rooting for Trump's failure.»

Earlier this week, some executives of the Tema East constituency NPP held a press conference accusing Mr. Ishmael Ashitey of rooting for one Ben Ashitey whom they claim is related to the Regional Chairma, to become the MCE for the Tema Metropolis.

Malloy's spokesman accused McKinney of rooting for failure.

That's very different from the experience of rooting for Wisconsin, which is only trying to find out what it is.

«I didn't really like either team going in, but I couldn't ever turn away from watching Reggie Bush, so I went west coast and had the privilege of rooting for a team that looked great, predictable, dumb, and helpless in a matter of minutes.»

And personally, I'm kind of rooting for Him to have been married to Mary Magdalene!

Extensive ginger research and studies provide some insight on the benefits of this root for weight loss, mainly as a result of its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects.

As we all know, when it comes to comfort, many of us root for wedge shoes & why not?

But of course, many of us root for the underdog — none are more under than roaches.

«Some of them you root for and some of them are kind of goofy and some of them are annoying to be honest.

Not exact matches

If you spend a lot of time hankering for a world with less B.S., these questions will certainly help you root out and banish baloney, but it's worth doing some soul - searching.

This is at the root of the president's policies to improve access to high quality childcare, preschool for all, and free community college.

For instance, just after Obama's November 2008 election, U.S. News & World Report proclaimed that, «The Web, a perfect medium for genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politiFor instance, just after Obama's November 2008 election, U.S. News & World Report proclaimed that, «The Web, a perfect medium for genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politifor genuine grass - roots political movements, is transforming the power dynamics of politics.

«They may run the risk of getting lost in that world for a really long period of time and really not establish any real roots,» said Issid.

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

You won an Emmy for Roots, and now you're starring in The Book of Negroes.

Though Green's own entrepreneurial roots lie in e-commerce, he's familiar with the traditional retail industry, having headed that vertical for DoubleClick, the online advertising company that now forms the basis of Google's ad serving platform.

Yet, paradoxically, it is exactly in their public actions and the policies they espouse that we may look for the roots of these selective scandals.

The show also introduced a fictional business philosophy based on compromise among the sales, manufacturing and engineering departments, and that too has roots of truth — provided you substitute the word «respect» for «compromise.»

For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the ciFor a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the cifor tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

There are various reasons for this, but the root cause was of course the Financial Crash of 2008.

Ask questions to determine the root of a problem, and ask for their input on a resolution.

There's a long way to go there, but we believe we have the roots of and the basis for that technology.

Employees are encouraged to regularly dissect each other's thinking to determine the root of decision - making, to rate each other's performance using a proprietary iPad app called «Dots,» and to send an audio file to any person mentioned in a meeting — which isn't an outlandish practice internally, since all meetings, with few exceptions, are either digitally recorded for audio or video.

Leaders who master the practice of good listening will be more apt to intuitively understand the other person's story by searching conversations for depth and meaning, digging deeper than casual listeners, and getting to the root of an issue in order to come up with the right solution.

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

For all the change under way in Eisfeld, Raider and Katz - Mayfield have no intention of putting down local roots to manage it.

Kutcher and Kunis watch «The Bachelor» and «The Bachelorette» just like the rest of us and even root for their faves.

Even though its roots are planted firmly in the mystique of its uncompromising off - roading prowess, the G - Wagon has now become the SUV of choice for the posh suburbanite or the Hollywood starlet looking for something «different».

We've sponsored local realtor golf tournaments, rooted for the home team at football games, chowed down at food truck parties, hit the pavement in charity runs and, of course, filmed the occasional spoof video.

And Marathon barely did any actual clinical legwork to get the drug cleared for Duchenne — it relied on 1990 - era clinical trial data before tacking on just enough study material to win an approval that doesn't even address the root cause of the disease.

Loneliness might have multiple causes on the national level, but for accounting software company FreshBooks (full disclosure: I'm a happy customer), the root of their concern about employee disconnection was a happy fact of startup life - their head count was growing wildly.

The issues are rooted in a compound of inevitable realities: the continuing disparity divide, a shortage of workers for growing occupations, a widening skills gap for job categories yet to exist, algorithms and automation that keep eating the world, and a new generation of workers desperate to find meaning in work.

Elop is a native of Ancaster, Ont., a historic Hamilton hamlet, so rooting for the Maple Leafs isn't an option.

On whether the firing of Ba'ath Party loyalists was largely responsible for the insurgency that took root:

«At this time, we do not know the root cause or incidence rate of patient death, nor have we been able to definitively attribute the deaths to the devices or the insertion procedures for these devices,» said the FDA in a notice.

Sony is also touting standardization as a key selling point for its system, which goes back to the differentiating roots of consoles versus PC gaming.

The city is at the point where a not - insignificant portion of residents are rooting for the so - called tech bubble to implode at least a little, the New York Times reported earlier this month.

And he has the sort of rags - to - riches story that makes you want to root for him.

This summer, a group called Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known as ICANN, which manages administration of this root part of the Internet, opened up the domain - name registration process, and received about 2,000 applications for new suffixes, which sold for nearly $ 200,000 a pop.

Not only can PCW fetch a higher price for its wasabi in pill form, but it can also make use of the entire plant, instead of just the root cluster.

This way of living had its roots in a very flawed definition of success, since I was buying into our collective delusion that burnout is the necessary price we must pay for success.

Criticisms of the 1099 employment model, they say, are rooted in nostalgia for an age when blue - collar jobs came with lifelong union guarantees and fat pensions.

And for 27 years, before he was elected sheriff, he presided over court cases — ones that increasingly involved the stories of lives undone by drugs and poverty, and of an opioid epidemic taking root.