Sentences with phrase «of stuck at»

Keep those holiday stories coming through for those of us stuck at home and still having to prepare endless meals.

«Just think of me stuck at the desk the next time you step out.»

On the flip side, I realized afterward that the dealership sold me unnecessary services, but I was sort of stuck at the time and didn't have much option but to just take what they were selling me.

I am sort of stuck at my weight loss and I need a jump.

I bought a box of hundreds of sticks at Michael's.

although I don't understand the rating for the BFG, he seems to be the one copping a lot of stick at the moment.

He has been featured in many international exhibitions including the Bienal de Sao Paulo in 2016, An Aleatory History of the Stick at Art in General in New York in 2015, and Useless, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, at the PINTA Art Fair in London in 2010, among others.

Not exact matches

And yet we battle problems daily at work and at home, and we all too easily get stuck in the rut of matching up the same kinds of solutions to the same old problems.

McRaven was the speaker at the University of Texas at Austin, and he focused on the 10 most important lessons that stuck with him as a result of getting through the notoriously difficult SEAL training program.

We all know it'll be far too tempting to look down at (and tap and swipe the hell out of) that cool touchscreen display anyway, especially at stoplights or stuck in freeway gridlock.

Some companies get stuck on the number of people who stop by the booth, instead of looking at whether they are qualified buyers of your goods and services.

They say, «I'm stuck here,» looking at their cubicle job as the end, there is nowhere else to go, and they feel like they will never reach the desired destination of «success.»

«It's kind of like being stuck in a traffic jam and honking your horn at the guy in front of you,» says Canada West Foundation senior economist Michael Holden.

«Stick to what you're good at» seems to be an accepted piece of advice in the world of ecommerce so focus all your efforts into the best aspects of your store.

Instead of yelling at the guy who cut you off or getting stuck in a blocked - in parking spot, General Motors China says it has a solution: It's called DiDi Plate, and it lets Android users text any car owner by scanning their license plate with their phone's camera and sending it to a cloud ID service.

In 2011 a reported 908,300 workers were stuck at home with work related injuries, costing companies millions of dollars in workers compensation and paid time off.

And, while in some cases, there's nothing wrong with a two - way street, when that's the only way you build your network, it's a sure thing that one day you'll wake up at the short end of the stick.

That's because, as he explains in more detail on an October episode of his show, when you're stuck at your desk, «you're getting a lot of stimuli that you didn't ask for — like other people's conversations and phone calls.

You'd think that even in these crazy times of radical change most people would have learned to stick with what has worked for them — at least until it doesn't work any longer — and also to hang on to the advisors, the tools and the techniques that got them to where they are.

But the automaker later admitted it was hiding a problem with «sticky pedals,» the accelerators getting stuck at partially depressed levels, and it also was minimizing the scope of the floor mat entrapment.

Stick to an exercise routine that replenishes you, whether it's individual activities (like walking, biking or working out at the gym) or group sports that build your confidence as part of a team that works together towards a common goal.

After days of exchanging emails and failed attempts at contacting the company by phone I realized I was stuck with a lemon.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

«The fact that they stuck with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management.

Or, put differently, in the absence of productivity growth, UK living standards would be an order of magnitude lower today, stuck at late - Victorian levels.»

Perfectionists tend to set high (or in many cases, unrealistic) standards and strive to be the best at everything they do, but this desire to be perfect all the time can turn into a fear of failure, causing perfectionistic individuals to get stuck in the status quo.

I was so cold at one point that I felt like someone who was drowning — that moment where you're in and out of consciousness and stuck in lala land.

NECK Raise your left arm and place hand at base of neck so the elbow sticks up like you're about to do a biceps curl.

Television footage appeared to show a police van striking a group of protesters, reversing into them and then driving forward, leaving several people bloodied and at least one man stuck under the van's wheels.

Presumably, the Airbnb initiative would be aimed at helping travelers unexpectedly stuck outside of the U.S.. On Saturday, travelers from restricted countries were detained in U.S. airports or blocked from boarding U.S. - bound planes.

The Federal Reserve's preferred measure of U.S. inflation, the core personal consumption expenditures index, is seen stuck at 1.6 % for the year to September, exactly where it has been since March.

My idea of financial forecasting consisted of looking at last month's sales, sticking my finger in the air and taking my best guess as to what next month's sales were going to be.

Branson and some of his Virgin team decided to stick it out and take cover at Branson's Necker Island home in the British Virgin Islands.

His latest effort is aimed at the issue of youth unemployment, which is stuck at 12 percent for people 16 to 24 years of age.

But in fact, Jeff Wald, co-founder of Work Market and one of the smartest people I've met on this subject, says the freelance share of the workforce has remained stuck at about 34 % for the last few years, and is likely to stay there for the indefinite future.

«Gold is stuck between $ 1,238 - $ 1,260 with the risk to skewed to downside based on rising expected interest rates and failure to break higher which has left it vulnerable to profit - taking in the short term,» said Ole Hansen, the head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick was rated by six of the above sources (including us), for instance, so its total review score at this point in the process was divided by six.

If the difference between 16 and 64 GB isn't dramatic enough to deserve the extra cash, though, a memory stick like the Leef iBridge gives at least some form of relief.

«If you just memorize a long list of words, it doesn't stick in your brain,» says Orlando Kelm, associate director of business language education at UT's Center for International Business Education and Research.

If you're into outdoors activities, the Hydro Flask is well worth the investment; running out of cold water when you're stuck in the woods is a disaster that should be avoided at all costs.

I can't directly compare the processors in both because Roku doesn't list the clock speed or number of cores for the Streaming Stick, but the startup has been pretty good at keeping up with the pace of technology with its hardware revisions.

«Merchants are at the short end of the stick,» says Gartner analyst Avivah Litan.

Working at the same job for decades or staying in the same line of work for your entire career can get you stuck in a rut.

For example, numerous retailers rely on a partnership with third - party delivery service ShopRunner for two - day delivery — and a shot at competing with Amazon Prime; Starbucks sticks cafes in Barnes & Noble; convention bureaus in places like Vegas and Orlando try to conduct a symphony of airlines, airport authorities, hotels, restaurants, and local transport providers.

If you don't have a clue about who's in the game or the pool and what they're doing, the patsy at the party is most likely you (or it will be soon enough) and that's an unhappy and ultimately untenable situation that never ends well for the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.

And as they slowly began regaining weight, leptin levels rose a little, but got stuck at about half of what they'd been at the start of the show — which would help explain why they felt such strong urges to eat.

Some are stuck with houses worth fractions of what they owe, others have no houses at all.

According to work by the British government's Behavioural Insights Team, Canada is at a tipping point; we're not yet stuck in the mire, but we aren't safely clear of it, either.

As the big day grew closer, my partner and I realized that we had a potential problem: Our beloved beagle would be stuck at the kennel during the hours of our pre-ceremony photos.

Economic growth is stuck nearly in neutral with the gross domestic product growing at just shy of 2 percent for the last 15 years.