Sentences with phrase «of turns they took»

The average number of turns they took in talking increased by 27 % per minute as their trust in each other grew.

Some of the turns it takes — and some of the challenges the two friends are given by Colin — moves the film into very unsettling waters.

As a turn - based strategy game it can feel a little sedate at times, particularly in the early goes, but things soon heat up and if you're not paying attention you can easily make one or two little mistakes that can really give one side the upper hand, and in the space of a couple of turns take many more turns to rectify.

Amusement parks across the country boast collective attendance in the hundreds of millions, with billions of turns taken on rollercoasters, ferris wheels, and other amusement rides, according to the National Safety Council.

Board games consist of turn taking, learning to win and lose, following rules, and coping with disappointments.

Not exact matches

But not many Midwestern business people have had that rocketship growth experience; the visceral sense of the pressure and speed of g - forces when you take a $ 1 million startup and turn it into a $ 1 billion - plus business.

Schultz displayed his own work ethic and leadership capabilities, when he took something as simple as a cup of coffee and turned it into a national pastime.

As it turned out, the billionaire had been taking some of Sadoway's free chemistry courses online.

This week, Apple's Qualcomm battle took a rather interesting turn, when a host of the company's competitors, including Google and Samsung, announced that they back the iPhone maker in its chip battle.

Making a turn took our time and effort, but I think I can speak for all of us when I say it was worth it.

And, not exactly able to announce that fact or ask his sick wife to sign off, the wealthy Edwards turned to some wealthy backers to take care of the woman and the baby and hide the whole thing from Elizabeth Edwards and presumably everyone else.

Whether it's taking a love of baking and starting a cupcake empire, or moving from a 9 - to - 5 job in IT to designing custom websites on your own schedule, there is are plenty of reasons to turn your personal talent into a money - making venture.

It takes a darker turn when both sides of that rivalry have an army ready to kill and die at their command.

As the economic environment continues to soften, many young professionals are contemplating returning to graduate school so they can «take shelter» during the downturn and be set to reenter the workforce as the job market turns around a couple of years from now.

You also want to take that drubbing now so that you avoid it later on (when your ego takes more of a bruising, when the thought of an 80 - hour workweek and simultaneous childcare makes your stomach turn, or when you think you're simply too old to take that kind of treatment from someone else).

Then, in 1992, a disgruntled associate who had recently shot Buari in an attempt to take over the corner implicated him in the murder of two brothers and turned state's witness for the Bronx district attorney.

Her mission: Take a highly dysfunctional set of executives and turn them into a highly functioning leadership team before the company implodes or she gets fired.

As you can see, the team took an interesting concept from one of their blog posts and turned it into a simple graph.

Taking a few moments every day — while I'm still invited — to join them in a match is not only great quality time with my family, it keeps me grounded in what's important and in a positive frame of mind when I turn my attention back to work.»

Small business owners are often quite reluctant at first, but taking the plunge turned out to be one of the best decisions they made for their company (and sanity).

Strategies For More Authentic, Respectful Communication How to Build Better Business Relationships: Turn Blunders into Opportunities Admitting mistakes and correcting missteps will take you far when it comes to building relationships, says William Gregory O, who is the co-founder of Lex Scripta, a law firm in Illinois.

Later in the event, one of Trump's top congressional allies, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, took his turn to speak.

One poor experience, of which there will likely be many, is likely all it will take to turn consumers off, Pao said.

It took its logos off the building and shut off the marquee lights — though after years of public outcry, AMC began turning on the lights in the evenings.

This in turn means that billions of dollars of «unnecessary and avoidable spending» takes place, as people are not following their healthcare plans.

While it's impossible to turn off your reactions to what others think of you, you don't have to compare yourself to others, and you can always take people's opinions with a grain of salt.

A lot of things have to be taken care of and it might turn out to be too big of a burden.

In recent years, the stalwarts of Western democracy seem to have taken a turn for the aged.

The giant social network takes the content and makes it load faster and look better on mobile devices, something that has been an issue for many media outlets — and has in turn helped drive the adoption of ad - blocking software.

On Friday morning, the coverage of the bombing suspects took an even more «meta» turn on social news sites and throughout the media.

The Microsoft founder - turned - humanitarian is a veritable font of book recommendations, taking to his blog periodically to suggest new releases and old favorites that have caught his eye.

The group agrees that if A.I. is part of a conversation, it shouldn't butt in out of turn; if it's on a computer or phone, it shouldn't take over your screen or dismiss whatever you're working on.

In recent years, I've taken the role of mentor a lot more seriously, knowing how many mistakes of mine could have been avoided had I been humble enough to turn to someone who knew more than I did.

It turns out that nearly 60 % of those who took the smaller cheque held on to it for more than two weeks anyway before cashing it (30 % waited more than a month and 15 % never cashed it at all).

She has learned what it takes to turn a hunch into a massive business: a clear vision, yes, and the conviction to see it through, of course, but also an appetite for risk, a willingness to make changes on the go and nerves of highly tempered steel.

The real turning point, though, came in 2016 when Micheli and Gagliese launched their own marketing shop as an extension of the agency, planning ad campaigns for corporations with their influencers, and taking a cut of the transaction.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

Can you take data and numbers and turn them into actual stories and learnings of what's going on with a business?

The company takes care of us, and we in turn take care of our franchisees and customers.

«Staten Island Hustle» star Adolfo LaCola took a passion for music and turned it into a career working with some of the music industry's biggest names.

Ultimately, it turned out great in that we were able to raise a round from top - tier investors, but it took us six months of mistakes to get there.

Take the time to decide, ahead of time, what you will do if something doesn't turn out well.

«A lot of small businessmen take it personally if they get turned down for a bank loan,» says Leonard Leff, president of CDS Capital, a finance and factoring company in Lynbrook, N.Y. «They say, «Do I want to get another rejection?»

While it's impossible to turn off your reactions to what others think, you don't have to compare yourself to others, and you can always take people's opinions with a grain of salt.

He made a crucial claim, new at the time, which today is taken for granted: That low unemployment spurs wage rises, those wage rises in turn spur inflation, and that inflation then spurs further wage rises down the line, for as long as the rate of inflation continues to grow.

And all these engineers at Facebook and Google and others are taking this deep learning concept with all these frameworks, which is basically another word for tools, and turning these ideas into things of practical use.

When former Havas CEO David Jones — now founder of his own brand technology network You & Mr Jones — pulled out his iPhone and offered to show me his amazing personal assistant «Amy Ingram,» I thought our interview was about to take an uncomfortable turn.

It turns out that only a particular kind of stress takes a serious toll of your health.

IN 10 years, CJ King and Co Pty Ltd has grown from a small annex behind a North Beach home to what it claims is the biggest full colour printer in the Southern Hemisphere — a $ 1,500 investment that is now turning over $ 10 million a year.With the assistance of Austrade and the WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR), the company is taking on the UK market, already with some success.One of the remarkable things about this success story is that it has been achieved through a consummate belief in a philosophy to use standardised, leading - edge technology and to supply just the print trade and other on - sellers.

The three BW authors (Benjamin Elgin, Doni Bloomfield, and Caroline Chen) take us inside the aggressive — and, at times, even combative — sales practices that helped turn a drug that treats a relatively small number of people into a blockbuster.