Sentences with phrase «of stand back»

And I sort of stand back on the side, and watch them achieve their goals.

Too many of us stand back from that, we invest in ETFs without wanting to engage, and we chase average returns because we commit average effort.

Oh, I've got a list of classics that I love (The Borrowers, Paddington the Bear, Ribsy, Harriet the Spy, Island of the Blue Dolphins) and new books that I adore (Cody and the Fountain of Happiness, Circus Mirandus, The Great Good Summer), but I am, mostly, a big fan of standing back and letting a kid pick the book they want to read.

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Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

Additionally, they noted that those who were more likely to push back against their superiors as children «also have higher levels of willingness to stand up for their own interests and aims, a characteristic that leads to more favorable individual outcomes — in our case, income.»

And we think, particularly with the addition of some thrusters, maneuvering thrusters, we can actually put the rooster right back on the launch stand.

But does a VC - backed, for - profit company stand any chance of making money while attempting to solve the world's energy problems?

But for Legere (it's pronounced «ledger»), wearing T - Mobile's distinctive color palette is all part of a serious business strategy he introduced when he joined as CEO back in 2012 — and a way to stand out from much larger competitors AT&T and Verizon.

«You know, often we (hold) ourselves back out of our own fear of either who we are, or what we stand for, or what we don't stand for.

China's Huawei said it backed Apple's chief executive Tim Cook in his stand - off with the United States government over breaking into an iPhone, but stopped short of saying explicitly it would adopt the same stance.

They were grabbing a quick lunch in our restaurant, so on my break I went to Mary Mac's, which is the last standing tea room in Atlanta, and got them a fat piece of true peach cobbler and brought it back just as they were finishing lunch.

According to Gartner, most companies in this space plow an average of 20 % of their revenues back into R&D; Kinaxis's R&D spending stands at 17 %.

With supply issues sorted, Doucette thinks Target stands a fighting chance of winning the back - to - school battle — and may even have an advantage over its competition.

Just as the Republicans won back control of the Senate in 2014 in part by criticizing the Obama administration's lackluster response to Ebola, the GOP could get hit this fall for standing in the way of Zika funding.

Tesla's sudden change in fortune stands in marked contrast to Fisker Automotive, a competing alternative car company now on the verge of bankruptcy and at the center of controversy over $ 192 million in federal funding that it's unlikely to pay back.

Check out the location beforehand, getting a feel for the size of the space and the setup (whether there's a podium, microphone stand, etc.) Lindner suggests having people in the audience that you know, with whom you're comfortable, so there are friendly faces who can smile back or nod reassuringly.

However, once in a while you have to stand back and look beyond today to determine what's in the best interest of your business and yourself over the long run.

Among the sectors they identify that stand to benefit most: transportation and infrastructure — the transport of people, the movement of water, the means of keeping back the sea.

Even as shameless and short - sighted as most brokers and underwriters are, they're finding that the numbers just won't stand up and they're having to go back to their investors and talk about «public» valuations that may be less than the last couple of rounds of capital injections.

Johnston, welcoming MPs back to work after a month - long delay, opened the speech by noting that «the eyes and ears of Canadians turn toward this Parliament, in trust that those who stand here in their place will relentlessly advance and uphold the ideals that are inclusive, honourable, selfless, smart and caring at every turn without fail.»

Back in October, the panel allocated only 1 % of government funds to such a measure; today the number stands at 14 %.

We're on a moving sidewalk and this guy standing in front of us has all these old school tattoos, back pack, boots... he was a hardcore looking dude.

Occasionally I see people sitting on the back deck; on those occasions that happens, she's always standing at the limit of her chain, as close to them as she can be.

Donald Trump's tax plan is yet another example of the Republican frontrunner talking a big game but, when it comes to standing up to the establishment, he falls back into the party line.

Once you understand the habits that are holding you back from your goals, you can make meaningful resolutions that you stand a much better chance of achieving.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

This TV stand does away with the furniture part of the equation in favor of two legs that you'll screw into the holes on the back of your TV so that the TV can stand on any old table.

«It stands to reason the eight schools in the official Ivy League account for 10.7 percent of total capital raised and 7 percent of companies - talking undergrad numbers here - to get at least a first round of venture financing, as pedigree accounts for a lot when it comes to backing a first - time entrepreneur,» he wrote.

Surprise: you should have two different versions of your deck — one that has lots of white space and relatively few words that you use as a back - drop to a live presentation, and one that has enough words that it can stand on its own if you need to email it to someone.

This makes the price tag of $ 41 very attractive (a brush stand usually sets you back around 10 bucks by itself) given the quality of the brush's bristles, its excellent construction, and its

When the Congressional Budget Office reported that the AHCA stood to strip 24 million people of their health insurance, Congressional Republicans divided into two camps — those who disliked the bill for fear that it would harm their constituents (not to mention their own electoral prospects) and those who did not feel that the bill went far enough in rolling back the «socialism» of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

This makes the price tag of $ 41 very attractive (a brush stand usually sets you back around 10 bucks by itself) given the quality of the brush's bristles, its excellent construction, and its «just right» mid-range size and softness.

Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council director who announced his resignation on Tuesday after failing to persuade Trump against the tariffs, stood in the back of the room.

«I think this is a moment where the American people have got to stand up, fight back to a Congress which is out of touch with where working families are,» Sanders said.

What stands out about it for now is that its business model — backed by some big money — is a radical rethinking of what consumers want from an online shopping experience.

It's healthy in today's climate to have diversified offerings, as long as they are all connected back to the brand's promises and stay true to the essence of what the brand stands for.

And since a few financial institutions played multiple roles in the market, some of the banks that were paid to back ABCP now stand to actually make money from its failure.

Employers will note the advice of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, which warns that standing all day can cause sore feet, swelling of the legs, varicose veins and lower back pain.

At a very high level, I'm investing in ventures where I believe we stand a chance of getting our money back within a timeframe we're willing to wait, getting a return on capital (including financial and impact returns), and investing in someone we trust.

All of those things make it easy to back down when we should stand firm, to fudge it and not take time.

We stand on the backs of our ancestors.

«The poor performance of the Wii U has dented its standing, but Nintendo has come back from similar poor sales in the TV console business before,» he says.

Staffers could stand in the way of Pruitt's ambitions to cut back on the agency's role, slowing the potential damage of his appointment.

With trade war anxiety rising, it's worth taking a step back to get a sense of where the market stands in terms of valuations, and what could lie ahead if trade policy around the world turns more protectionist.

Out of the blue he mentioned how great those new standing desks were for your back, brain, productivity — and probably world peace on top of it.

For Kaukaohu Wahilani, who flew from his home on Oahu to Kauai to support Mau - Espirito and others, it's about standing up to the wrongs committed against Hawaiians — all the way back to the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom 125 years ago.

Finally, by substituting the historic linear trend above into the IRR term of this equation, and the industry average investment period of 13 years into the c term, we get the following formula, which shows that nominal R&D productivity / ROI currently stands at about 1.2 (i.e., we get only 20 % back on top of our original R&D investment after 13 years), is declining exponentially by about 10 % per year, and will hit 1.0 (zero net return on investment) by 2020:

Now its 2016 and Hillary Clinton can't say anything about what really happened in 2008 for fear of being accused of being a back stabber, so instead she takes the attacks that she is for Wall Street and the Banks even though she actually lost the 2008 democrat nomination because she stood up for the impoverished homeowner and not for wall street.

With the NRA and NRA - backed politicians becoming a focal point of the conversation around gun control, people and companies are standing up to say «enough» as they join in the rapidly growing NRA boycott.

Qualcomm fired back late Monday against Apple's legal attack on its patent licensing business — accusing the world's largest tech company of egging on anti-trust regulators with misleading information and meddling with Qualcomm's long - standing patent...