Sentences with phrase «of them were able»

I really loved the idea of being able to make something during the day, because I was such a night owl at the time, and have people watch it at their convenience, in the comfort of their own home.

This group includes wafflers who either don't have a lot of confidence in their decision making and hope by putting off choosing others might decide for them, or those who enjoy the feeling of being able to stand in judgment of others without committing to any course of action themselves.

«People are much more insecure, (there's) a lack of benefits, lack of pension, lack of being able to save,» Frost said.

Here's the thing: at the heart of being able to do a lot of things is doing one thing at a time very strategically.

Where big corporations generally have layers and layers of corporate bureaucracy to wade through, not to mention the livelihoods of thousands of employees in their hands, and many stock and stake holders to answer to, smaller companies have always had the advantage of being able to pivot fast by making quick decisions.

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

One is the live experience they need of actually being in a working enterprise, whether it's a bank or city government, and two it gives them the credibility of being able to say, «Hey, we've got this installed at the city government and they've got this many taxpayers or employees or traffic.»

Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas but few of them are able to successfully execute that one idea that makes all the difference.

Being able to give massive political contributions actually pales in comparison to the impact of being able to destroy a publication you don't like by combining the machinery of the courts with anonymity and unlimited funds to bleed a publication dry.

Those individuals need more than robo advisors to manage their finances, but are still far out of reach of being able to afford a family office.

It is that quality of being able to thrive in the sweet - space where things flow naturally.

What's the point of being able to deliver content to smartphones if your audience doesn't care to interact with it?

Two years ago, Lou Hoffman, president of a $ 5 - million public - relations firm in Silicon Valley, was in the enviable position of being able to grow without necessarily adding new business, mostly because his high - tech clients were growing so quickly.

Most of them are able to connect with people they once believed were inaccessible.

Uber, which allows users to book and pay for a taxi by smartphone, says its more than 30,000 London drivers enjoy the flexibility of being able to work when they choose and receive on average more than the minimum wage.

Further, none of them were able to place in the top 20.

Without the benefit of being able to hear people's vocal inflections or see their faces, it can be challenging to interpret how the person on the other end of an email is feeling.

The flexibility of being able to withdraw monthly income from a 401 (k) plan or another qualified retirement plan, and then have additional principal available if needed, may far outweigh guaranteed lifetime income, he explained.

Institutional investors also have the luxury of being able to call analysts to further probe their views.

«I believe that fermentation is one of the possible technology breakthroughs of being able to feed the global population,» says Natur Research Ingredients CEO Loren Miles.

«The prospect of being able to make important product design decisions early on in my career was enough to sell me,» says Briana Whelan, a University of Virginia computer science and mathematics major who joined APT as an associate product manager despite being recruited by Google, Microsoft, and KPMG.

But in your address to your business, you have the advantage of being able to take questions from the audience.

TORONTO (Reuters)- Buffered by three oceans and the United States to the south, Canada has for decades had the luxury of being able to pick and choose its newcomers.

«I love the idea of being able to take all of our technology with us.»

A lot of people overlook the importance of being able to show emotion.

I liked the idea of being able to set my own rules and create my own environment (today we have a treadmill and showers in our offices and everyone dresses extremely casually.)

«The inability of being able to have team breakfasts, lunches or even drinks is missed,» she says.

Smaller businesses are often resource - starved in terms of being able to make change happen quickly.

Remember when the promise of being able to ditch the office to work from home in your pajamas sounded like the best invention since Pop - Tarts?

I'm slowly becoming more and more intrigued by neuromarketing and the science of being able to read a consumer's mind.

For the whole family, a big part of being able to cope after her death was to have outside support (from local sexual assault centres and a women's shelter).

«Going to AWS gives us speed in terms of being able to build and deploy products faster and give us adaptability in being able to add more regions quickly,» he said.

«He has been advised to remain immobile and begin a regimen of anti-inflammatory medication and icing, with the hope of being able to play tomorrow.»

Student entrepreneurs know the benefits of being able to juggle.

Most of us are able to have «off days,» but for athletes competing at the Olympic level, it would seem those words aren't even part of their vocabulary.

If you're in the rarefied position of being able to attract investor dollars, these three young founders have some advice for you.

«This isn't just about Dippin» Dots, this is what every brand faces today, these opportunities or these pockets of being able to take a situation and turn a critic into a champion,» Hyder says.

There's also the advantage of being able to use qualitative data when negotiating a funding round.

These men, women, and children deserve the same protection under the law as everyone else, and until the majority of us are able to appreciate the distinction between the radical factions of Islam and its peaceful majority, it's best to avoid conjoining «radical» and «Islam.»

At the same time, HP and other rivals forged retail relationships that gave them the advantage of being able to showcase their machines in stores where consumers could check them out before buying.

«This is an area robots traditionally can't do, but where (soft robots) are on the cusp of being able to,» said Wrench.

It's an entirely new way of being able to relate on this planet.»

Finally, there's Google's Chrome OS, which is a little more targeted to those with basic computer needs who like the idea of being able to use some Android apps on their computer and are plugged into Google's ecosystem and web apps.

Garcia is right about the benefits of being able to measure guards» use of force on inmates, Minor said, but problems can arise if guards become overly dependent on weapons.

«The power of being able to take your decision - making rules and make them into algorithms and have the computer make decisions in partnership with you is fantastic,» Dalio said.

«The fact that the GEs and the Netflixes of the world were playing around with Periscope before any of us were able to get in touch and say, «Hey, have you considered using this new thing we've created?»

But it's actually an important aspect of being able to slow down and just be.

The best leaders share the paradoxical trait of being able to move past a mistake as if it never took place, yet still walk away with important lessons learned never to be forgotten.

In that period, I had the luxury of being able to focus on my family.»

But there's a simple way to increase your chances of being able to upgrade to first - class with miles, New York Times best - selling author Tilly Bagshawe told Bloomberg.