Sentences with phrase «off a phone call»

Usmanov, on the other hand, I get a feeling he is the type that will perch in his office recliner & shut off phone calls for 2 hours to watch a game.

That's a great question and I think one of the reasons people avoid or put - off a phone call is because they feel anxiety regarding what they should talk about.

On your smartphone, Assistant passes off a phone call to the Phone app, which is why Home can't make calls.

Not exact matches

I secured advertising by calling up big brands from the school phone box, telling them their rivals were already advertising with us and playing them off against each other.

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.

Once I got off the phone with him, I called the actual company who I was supposed to be talking to and asked for Peter.

Russell points to one of her clients who alerted her network about a month before her mini-retirement ended and began fielding job phone calls almost as soon as she stepped off the plane.

Reaching out through a phone call to check in with this type of customer or sending a one - off, interest - based offer can be very effective.

Those who take off may still feel the pull of work, either through email or phone calls.

Last week, McDonald's announced a new initiative called «Phone Off, Fun On» as a way to get families to spend more quality time together.

«I forgot to turn off my phone before we started, but I'm not getting any calls,» Buffett chuckles.

That means you can take a call without having to take off your headphones, or take your phone out of your pocket.

Distractions are plenty: reading and responding to emails, checking social media, phone calls, meetings, taking time off — all of these threaten to take away your focus and doom you to another year of mediocrity.

The article recommends using Skype or Google voice and avoiding paying for any metered phone service: «If you're paying anything more than a penny or two a minute for calls, except for certain international routes, you're getting ripped off.»

Create an internal time line of procedures for when you'll send the initial invoice, when payment reminders will go out and when you'll make collections phone calls or cut off services if past invoices aren't paid.

«It's crazy when you have a call with someone like Starbucks,» says Kauss, «and you get off the phone and you think, «That was a $ 2 million phone call.»

Then the phone company realized that all of Glickman's customers» calls went to the same area code and «exchange» — the three - digit number that leads off the seven - digit phone number.

Negative thoughts aren't like an unwanted phone call you can simply put off for a more convenient time, right?

Ideally your phone would be ringing off the hook all day with clients offering you business but the reality is that if you want business, you need to go after it, and as part of your outbound marketing strategy, cold calling can be a very effective sales tactic if it's done properly.

You might think politicians would write off young voters as a waste of time, while cultivating seniors with boxes of chocolates and daily phone calls.

When a seller calls you on a house he wants to sell, after you test his motivation level, do you get off the phone, conduct you ARV estimate research and call him back with numbers?

But I went for the «paying it off» option and you can't beat the feeling that you can never get a visit or phone call from the bank!

If you go to a hospital uninsured, after they have badgered you for every dime you have, they will then physically roll you to a phone in a wheel chair no matter how bad off you may be, and have you call social security to beg for money.

The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scandal.

Threatening phone calls had become a daily routine in the weeks of the protests, and King had tried to brush them off at first.

In addition, this particular nullification has a little extra weight, since North Korea cut off its emergency direct phone line to South Korea — a sort of bat signal one could use to call the other and sort things out when tensions got unbearable...

Continually the lady called back in her rude stern (you know she's a Christian therefore she has the authority to speak to the rest of the * heathen * family like that) until finally my mother was well enough to tell them herself to take her off their phone list.

being followed get off phone with «girlfriend» call cops while walking toward a place i know i can get help.

It may seem like a small gesture that involves very little effort, but sending off a care package can be a far bigger illustration of kindness than many, many phone calls or online chats.

When I came back from taking my phone call, I managed a few photos and then watched my son inhale one of these guys before he was whisked off to bed.

My friend Amy (from Constellation Inspiration) called me on the phone to tell me about a Williams Sonoma sale where this puppy was 75 % off!

So all those crazy things like delivering shipping documents, brix testing, scheduling, coordinating, dropping off supplies for harvest, and yes all those phone calls!

By the time I get off the phone with their call centers I feel like my brain is broken.

In a recorded phone call to voters, Labor leader Bill Shorten said that «cuts to penalty rates will rip off 700,000 workers».

Just about 45 minutes ago, I got off an epic long late - night phone call (yes, it's 3 AM and I manually pressed the Publish button on this post) with my friend.

Her dad, Craig, a natural resources consultant who used to set off avalanches with explosives as part of his job, had to be awakened by a 2:15 a.m. phone call delivering the news of his daughter's stunning success.

Then after the trade was made I'd phone my pick in first and watch Goodell call our pick as I laughed my ass off.

Man U Real Madrid PSG Accrington Stanley they all called... apparently but Arsene's phone was switched off and his phone has no voice mail.

and then when they need PPV sells, they pick up the phone, call brock lesnar, and ask USADA to do him an exemption and let him fight juiced to the guts... put that next to his comments about Cyborg, who again they are trying to their heads off to make money of these day, when Dana said: Cyborg looks like wanderlei silva with dress and high heels....

The calls started on Tuesday before the game, and Tebow eventually turned off the phone.

I realised recently that they only ever allow phone calls on their show from the kind of Arsenal supporter whose sole aim is to slag off the club and Wenger in particular; some may say what has taken you so long to work that out, to which I would say, fair comment.

I know, I know, I hate the phone too but it's the best way — your call can be be brief and imperfect (and it's fine to read off a script... see next point)!

Getting rest and sleep was so difficult those first few weeks that we turned off the ringer on the phone, changed the message periodically, thanked people for calling to check in on us and asked them to leave their messages.

She made a push for the bill in a Monday phone call with 5,000 faith leaders that kicked off an effort to get churches involved with her nutrition and exercise initiative, and spoke to Democratic lawmakers about it on Tuesday.

So when you get a phone call or are summoned for a meeting to discuss problems your child might be having, don't brush it off and think the teacher is blowing smoke.

These are handy things to do with toddlers when you need to make a phone call or complete an online purchase without someone hanging off your body.

You Should Call a Lactation Consultant At the First Sign of Trouble The second you think something might be off, or you're having problems, or it hurts a lot, pick up the phone.

Turning the phone off and letting the answering machine pick up calls is another way to avoid interruptions.

You pack and repack your birth bag 3 times, check the on off switch on your pager / cell phone 5 times and go to bed with your clothes on... on a hunch... and you get called three hours later.

-LSB-...] he got off the phone with the midwife, he called the doula to tell her to come.