Sentences with phrase «of surviving on»

If we stand a chance of surviving on this planet, Klein says we not only need to rewrite the international trade rules that have governed our economies for the last few decades; we also need «managed de-growth,» or more dramatically, «The Great Transition.»

With Carl the Crab at your side, you'll craft tools, fend off threatening creatures, and catch and collect food you'll cook up yourself — all in the effort of surviving on your tiny room - scale - sized desert island.

But after all of these years of surviving on our own Klei Entertainment will bring players to not starve together.

When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four - day - old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing, she knew he had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild, so gave him a permanent home living with her.

The human body is capable of surviving on just water for many weeks.

Synthetic biology and microbial insights will soon allow scientists to custom - build bacteria capable of surviving on other planets, says extremophile expert John Baross.

Some of the organisms with the best chance of surviving on Mars also have good chances of stowing away in the first place.

Scientists could then, for example, assess their individual likelihoods of surviving on Mars.

«The testimony really got across how much worse the reality (of surviving on minimum wage) is to how many close observers like myself thought it to be.»

Government is in the process of weaning off some state enterprises deemed capable of surviving on their own.

I've always had to practically force myself to eat breakfast — I fallen into the typical Mum trap of surviving on strong coffee until about 11 am.

The thought of surviving on juices for the month of January leaves me feeling... [Read more...]

The thought of surviving on juices for the month of January leaves me feeling cold.

I believe it is determined by society, and that societies tend to develop similar beliefs on what is right and wrong because humans are social creatures, pretty much incapable of surviving on their own in the wilderness (we are useless predators when unarmed).

(I work night shift as a nurse and many of us survive on Red Bulls and pizza.)

Our ancestors got a healthy 9 hours of sleep per night, but these days some of us survive on half of that.

But I suspect most of them survive on the basis of a strong marital friendship.

Not exact matches

Github survived the biggest ever recorded distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday.

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

Could newspapers have survived by having only a token website and focusing most of their resources on their print product?

You recently gave a talk on «surviving» in the age of automation, which implies a threat.

A passenger who survived the deadly Southwest 1380 flight filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier after an engine exploded earlier this month, killing one person on board and leading dozens of others to prepare for an untimely death.

Even if President Trump takes a pass on opting out this time around — potentially because of the North Korea negotiations — it is hard to see the deal surviving the full year given the constellation of domestic and foreign foes aligned against it.

Defensive stocks, as they're often called, are big players like Coca - Cola or McDonald's — companies that have a lot of customers in sectors that aren't as dependent on good economic conditions to survive.

But in order to survive in this world, you have to find a way of making those [things] and putting bread on the table at the same time.

A famous example of this comes from statistician Abraham Wald, who in World War II recommended putting extra armor on planes in locations where surviving crafts returning from battle had no bullet holes.

But boasting that you survive on a handful of shut - eye each night is nothing to be proud of.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

Even without the bright auburn hair or the intricately woven braids, Sophie Turner is still very much her: Sansa Stark, the cunning, tenacious Lady of Winterfell (and one of last two surviving Stark children — unless you count Bran, which we don't) on HBO's Game of Thrones.

For most of us, our suppliers really have a huge impact on our business and in tough times, they can help us to survive.

Your chances of surviving cardiac arrest — which can strike in healthy people, and kills more Americans each year than Alzheimer's, breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, HIV, car crashes, prostate cancer, and suicides combined — vary immensely based on your zip code.

On the other hand, the longer - term impact and return of disruptive technologies is likely to be huge, if they survive the early challenges.

Marchionne spoke plainly about the rationale against splitting Jeep from the rest of Fiat Chrysler on the earnings call, warning that the remainder of the company might not be healthy enough to survive.

In 2007, you narrowly survived a Size 4 avalanche (on the Canadian Avalanche Association's scale of 5) in British Columbia's Coastal Mountains that almost swallowed your helicopter and crew.

«But I wanted to show that you could come out on the other end of it and show that you could not only survive, but also thrive.»

«We have now reached a point where European integration, in order to survive, needs a bold leap of political imagination,» ECB president Mario Draghi said on May 24.

On top of all that, Fastly — or any other buyer — has to have confidence that the vendor is going to survive a potential downturn in the capital markets and a wave of consolidation.

«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

Steven C. Bullock: The pyramid is a sign of strength and survival and long - lasting, and that's showing that the new nation is going to survive and last a long time, and it's built on 13 different steps meaning the 13 new states, the 13 former colonies.

Based on my own observations from more than two decades in the field of business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions, many small businesses that survived the economic downtown are now seeing renewed strength in their top - line revenues, and solid or growing bottom - lines.

A battle over how players and team owners will split the league's $ 4 billion in annual revenue, which led to the suspension of exhibition and regular - season games through at least Nov. 14, is bringing collateral damage to a range of businesses counting on professional basketball events to survive, including caterers, bars, stores, parking lots — and even the self - employed masseurs who tend to players.

There was the announcement of an imminent free trade deal with the European Union, and a pledge to confer honorary Canadian citizenship on Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who survived a Taliban attack on her school bus in October 2012.

If you want to survive, he advises avoiding the following: taking on too much debt, becoming overly dependent on one customer, making a mess of a major IT project, signing a costly / long - term property lease, or forgetting your customers.

BofA bet heavily on real estate loans at the height of the craze, and barely survived the meltdown.

A contingency plan is a plan based on the worst - case scenario that you can imagine your business surviving — loss of market share, heavy price competition, defection of a key member of your management team.

But in the book, it explains how it's not just about if you can survive on a little bit of sleep but also what happens to your body over the long term when you deprive it of sleep.

Here are some of my tips and advice on how to survive as a digital nomad, whether you're only planning to become one, or have been one for a while.

Heidi Burkhart, president of Dane Professional Consulting Group: «At 21, I got into commercial real estate brokerage in NYC... My first three years I was hustling, working 24/7, and surviving on peanuts... Fourth quarter of my third year, I finally started closing deals.

On the flip side, if you're giving the power back to your customers to control their own data (with respect to their engagements with you), then you are being given permission to provide incredible customer experiences for your best customers; this is the very thing that will allow you to not only survive but also thrive in this next wave of digital marketing.

One owner loved the «insulated zip pocket» on the exterior of the bag and said that it «clips onto the stroller perfectly,» while another customer reported that their Columbia Summit Rush Backpack «survived falling off the car at 45 mph, tumbling down an embankment, and landing next to a tree and [still] kept the contents inside the bag.»