Sentences with phrase «of serious people»

That discussion could usefully include Lomborg, if he can get beyond spreading scientific misinformation and being a self - promoting provocateur at the expense of serious people.

[David Roberts of Grist has weighed in on what he calls «Prof. Socolow's bizarre climate comments and the pessimism of Serious People.

But a growing number of serious people, including some elected officials (hardly a class of citizenry eager to be branded space cadets), are stating publicly that it's time for the nation and the world to step up preparations for a day that will inevitably come.

While this is his first stint managing a mutual fund, he's had a interesting and varied career, and it appears that lots of serious people have reason to respect him.

But it was signed by a lot of serious people and deserves a serious response.

We're fortunate our paper has been taken seriously by a number of serious people, including those who largely agree, those open to a discussion, and those with reservations.

Hi there im an easy going guy who likes a girl to have a sense of humour and loves having fun... Sick of serious people getting in the way of a good time so if this appeals to you than hit me up...

Not exact matches

When a relationship hits a serious stage and couples get married or commit to each other in some big way, people are often too overcome with excitement or too overwhelmed by the prospect of spending forever with this person to have a deep discussion about where their priorities lie.

«With people of various income levels increasingly divided by geography, income inequality can worsen and the risk of social polarization — and even serious conflict — can grow,» Shiller said recently in an op - ed for Project Syndicate.

The only people starting companies in that kind of bust period are really serious about it.

Big hint: most of the interviews are with HR directors and VPs of HR — great people to reach out to if you're serious about a specific company.

But I think over time because Hinge is getting better and better, you'll be able to use it for a broad array of purposes and one of them will be if you're serious about finding a specific kind of person, it will actually be a great platform for that and still in a much lighter - weight way then having to fill out a whole profile and just using people's ambient information because there's so much information that already exists about people through their interactions that they already have through Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all these different kinds of platforms that allow us to match you up probably better than stuff you would say about yourself on an online dating site because frankly its more validated and it's more real.

The investigation was prompted by about a dozen complaints concerning the Trump school that the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has found to be «credible» and «serious,» these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was not yet public.

When asked what he had learned from his first month of intelligence briefings, Trump said, «we have a lot of problems that a lot of people have no idea how bad they are, how serious they are.»

To put the most people with the most congenial state governments would involve some serious redrawing of borders.

If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not, and particularly in an age of social media when so many people are getting their information in sound bites and off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.

I'm sure many of the people requesting meetings with me last week (and didn't notice the email signature) thought I was getting a little ahead of myself — or that Business Insider had some serious cash to burn, and was giving its section editors their own personal lackeys.

Some of us have it worse than others, and for some people it's a very serious problem that messes up their lives, work and relationships.

«I think he's trying to show people he's serious about protecting his privacy,» said Debi Coleman, a co-managing director of SmartForest Ventures in Portland, Ore., who worked closely with Mr. Jobs in the 1980's, when she was in charge of Apple's manufacturing.

The short - term rental site has pledged that its next board hire will be female, saying that it is already in «serious discussions with a number of incredible people.»

Developing that weapons technology comes with serious risks — including the risk of a missile exploding in a city of your own people.

Over the last 30 years or so, the number of people starting new businesses has been in serious decline.

While there are certainly many people with serious sleep problems whose account of their suffering shouldn't be doubted and who need medical solutions, science suggests that there are also plenty of folks with milder sleep issues who would benefit from simply chilling out and lowering their expectations.

The initiative allows people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to stay and work in the country, as long as they entered before the age of 16, lived in the U.S. continuously since June 2007, and have committed no serious crimes.

For people who have always dreamed of setting their own rules and starting a business of their own, confidence — or lack of confidence — can be a serious issue.

In fact, a 2005 study, amusingly titled «Egocentrism over e-mail,» found that people vastly overestimate how often the recipient of a message will correctly identify their intended tone, whether serious or sarcastic.

In his new book, The Digital Diet, he cites a barrage of statistics that show technology's pervasiveness in our lives, from the funny (10 % of people 24 and younger believe it's OK to fire off a text during sex) to the serious (16,000 Americans have been killed by texting drivers).

And now, marketers are getting really serious about Snapchat as a platform to reach an enormous number of people due to some key changes Snapchat has released.

Better still, Jacobson's blueprint started to inform policy discussions, with serious people taking the idea of 100 percent renewables pretty seriously.

Stress to them that the culture and values are important, they're one of the main reasons people stay with the company, and if the candidate is serious about that culture and values then they'll have absolutely no problem fitting in and thriving in.

«Almost everyone agrees that the Director made serious mistakes; it is one of the few issues that unites people of diverse perspectives.»

In Los Angeles, Amazon has held serious talks with the billionaire developer Rick Caruso about bringing a Go store to The Grove, his 600,000 - square - foot outdoor shopping Mecca, two of these people said.

In a fascinating post on The Conversation blog, Maynard makes an argument that won't surprise anyone who has read any fictional account of human's interplanetary future — colonizing other planets probably won't bring out the better angels of our nature, and any attempt to put people on Mars will require overcoming serious social and political problems, such as:

«It will have serious consequences for the health of the public and our planet, and the American people deserves actual answers,» Carper added.

The most successful people often are serious about self - improvement, which can come in the form of a good book.

Not only is all of this possible, it's necessary — if you're serious about keeping good people around.

«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»

«It would be a serious, a catastrophic war, especially for innocent people in some of our allied countries, to include Japan most likely,» Mattis said.

Irrespective of whether we did everything that is being said about us in London today (and to be clear, I don't think we did), it really matters what people think of us, especially in a global business like ours, where actions in one part of the world can have serious consequences in another.

The Justice Department offered a $ 17 billion settlement in the previous round of discussions and felt the bank's proposal was not serious, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

It might take a while for some of these companies to have $ 20 billion in revenue, but I see a much more robust crop of serious companies that are well financed that are run by intelligent people and are tapped into the trends of where technology is going.»

After a decade of «coddling» the super-rich and people who «make money with money,» Buffett wrote, «it's time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.»

The larger issue is that it's now possible to hold a serious, legitimate debate on whether these two sites wield excessive influence over hundreds of millions — or perhaps billions — of people worldwide.

As a 2009 CDC document about Zika notes, we thought the same about West Nile virus — until we realized that it could cause serious neurological illness in a very small percentage of people infected with it.

If you're serious about building a great startup culture, then you need to rid yourself of these types of negative people.

More details: Salmonella can cause serious and potentially fatal infections in young children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems.The pistachios, distributed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Peru, can be identified by a 13 - digit lot code number on the lower back or bottom panel of the package.

These aren't the kind of hacks that mean tech - savvy folks need to change their login credentials, but precursors to something far more serious: potentially devastating and life - threatening infrastructure disruptions that could leave thousands or millions of people without electricity or other utilities.

Studies have found that longer sentences do not have appreciably greater deterrent effects; many serious crimes are committed by people under the influence of alcohol or drugs, who are not necessarily thinking of the consequences of their actions, and certainly are not affected by the difference between a 15 - year and a 30 - year sentence.

The report was from Paul Kunert's The Register and cited a person who told Kunert, «While these things have a habit of fizzling out there are some fairly serious players around the table.»

Organizations such as the Canadian Association of Optometrists say only doctors should be responsible for issuing medical aides (which it believes glasses and contacts are), and have expressed concern this change will lead to people skipping eye exams, which could delay the diagnosis of serious eye disease.