Sentences with phrase «off my back as»

Even a mugger who snatches your coat should be given the shirt off your back as a gift.

Finally have Man Utd off our back as well.

Jordan Spieth came just a moment later and one - hopped his ball into the water off the back as well.

Following the pictures they were easier to make an older child would easily be able to make them independently (if J was at home I would have been able to make them with him with some support — mainly pulling off the backing as at times that was a little fiddly).

OK all you evil Wall Street bankers out there, get ready to pony up the big bucks for Cuomo's campaign so he'll get off your backs as Attorney General.

I will give you the shirt off my back as long as I'm treated the same.

But after buying that home, they chafe under the mortgage and want to get it off their backs as soon as possible.

But, instead of ignoring or avoiding these phone calls, you should work with your creditors to negotiate an installment payment plan that you can afford to get them off your back as you make progress toward paying off your debts more quickly.

Not exact matches

Held back by police, they were waiting some distance away near the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, when the second explosion went off just as people were entering the government office.

If the balance feels off, be sure to speak up — don't hold things back, because in addition to harming your professional relationship, it can affect aspects of your personal one as well.

Gold edged up on Monday, clawing back some lost ground after posting its biggest one - day loss in two months in the previous session as a softer tone to the dollar took some pressure off the metal.

Gold edged up on Monday, clawing back some lost ground, as a softer tone to the dollar took some pressure off the metal.

This is known as «honesty insurance,» and ensures your clients that you won't get their house keys and make off with their valuables (or that they'll get their money back if you do).

If they pay off their debts, do a lot of «back - end saving» in their 50s and luck into a period of good investment returns, they will do as well as their predecessors.

Manning came across as a laid back southern boy but on the gridiron he was a clinical, ruthless competitor with an off - the - charts football IQ who changed plays at the line of scrimmage to outsmart opposing defenses and torched opponents with a big arm and dead - on accuracy.

Economists such as Carleton University professor Frances Woolley note that we've moved to this rebate system because everyone wins: well - off students with mediocre grades (who wouldn't have gotten into university at all back when I went) are now effectively subsidizing the smart kids and the ones who need financial aid.

Lie on your back with your knees bent and lift your butt off the ground with your pelvis held as high as you can so the line from your knees to your shoulders is straight.

He strapped a surfboard to his feet and a parachute to his back, pressed the Broadcast button on Periscope and started leaping off the waves, reaching as high as twenty feet in the air before crashing back into the Pacific Ocean.

His announcement of the new policy at Virgin set off a flurry of press coverage of other firms that were succeeding with similar policies (as well as a few pieces offering skeptical push back, it should be said).

At the most recent expo, held in August, there were bona fide industry legends on convention floor, such as Jon Kosmoski, the ponytailed, self - described «solvent head» who helped kick off the custom car craze back in the 1960s.

After a few days, I'd turned off the fingerprint and iris sensors, as well as facial recognition, and went back to a plain old PIN code for security.

It's like your body stays back in New York as you head off to your first meeting in London!

«It's getting to a level, actually slightly above a level, that it reached last fall just as the dollar was starting to finish off its little bit of a rally here and then rolled back over and made new lows,» said Maley.

The back isn't broad and squared off as would be expected, and also narrows towards the back.

The captains of England's Industrial Revolution locked the doors of their factories during their 12 - hour workdays because the former farmhands on the assembly lines had a habit of wandering off for a snooze whenever they felt like it as they used to back on the farm.

«I think the pressure [to increase interest rates] will be there, because the Fed in the U.S. should stop printing money, and taper off as they say,» Mr. Flaherty, referring to the dialling back of U.S. bond - buying, told CTV in an interview aired Sunday.

For her second look, however, she ditched the headwear, letting her long blonde locks cascade down her back as she showed off a floor - length sparkly silver sequin number with a matching belted waist.

And American Express, which has lived off corporate expense plans, is struggling as companies cut back costs.

In July last year, when CIR was known as Asset Backed Holdings, it launched an off - market bid for the shares it did not already own in PRL at $ 3 cash a share.

In recent months, the proposal has stirred back to life as the Saudi government kicked off a formal process to solicit bids for their first reactors.

It might seem cuddly and friendly but will try to bite the kid's head off as soon as a back is turned.

Second, immediately after bunny - hopping off the capsule Baumgartner «was supposed to get himself into a delta position — head down, arms back - as soon as possible,» explains the BBC.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

Howat and his team were able to figure this out by creating high - resolution topographic models of the glaciers and their boundaries, as well as a numerical model of exactly how much water was flowing off these coastal glaciers and ice caps — technology that wasn't available back in 1996.

Should you run into trouble or the business fail to take off as planned, and you're unable to pay back the balance on time, you'll be stuck with high interest rates.

While handling the back side of a campaign might not be as thrilling as dealing with the fund - raising part, these activities play a vital function in getting a fledgling business off the ground.

«There are a lot of businesses where you're better off stabbing people in the back, but as a VC you're better off helping people and being honest even if you lose money in the short run,» says Davis.

And if you back up information but store the duplicated materials onsite or in an adjacent building, as some downtown Manhattan businesses did before the terrorist attacks of September 2001, you won't be any better off in a disaster that affects an entire region.

«Our view is that General Electric's key challenge is in North America and it relates to the lack of robust demand for new gas - fired power capacity coupled with an installed fleet that is coming off Long Term Service Agreements that were put in place as far back as 2000,» Obin explained.

But the number of venture - backed mergers and acquisitions didn't drop off nearly as much, with 348 in 2008 and 263 in 2009 compared with 378 in 2010, the report says.

Looking back, Flanders says he regrets the Manwin agreement because the company used Playboy.com to funnel traffic to its hardcore adult subscription sites, which he thinks was «too off - brand» with Playboy's shift to a retro - clean rebrand, a return to the classy Playboy your grandfather might recall as a gentleman's destination.

The president asserted that Comey told him three times that he was not personally under investigation, while the former director's associates allege Trump asked Comey if he could back off an investigation into Michael Flynn, who was fired as national security adviser because he misled the White House about his ties to Russia.

He has his critics, to be sure, but the man has spent his entire career studying the depression, and it seems to have paid off, as Bernanke helped bring us back from the brink of disaster — at least for now.

Hughes may have built his empire on his knack for taking time off, but as he tells Nancy Won, behind the laid - back veneer lies a hardcore workaholic who's more likely to measure his downtime in hours than days.

The company laid off one employee who was hired one back as a freelancer.

As the oft - told story goes, Kamprad was a born entrepreneur, who, while growing up on a small Swedish farm, began selling matches off the back of his bicycle at the age of five.

Working directly with Steve Jobs starting back in 1984, the Harvard Business School grad oversaw AppleLink, which spun off as the beginnings of AOL (America Online).

Bryant's departure follows a pattern that we've now seen repeated in the industry: Longtime CEOs are stepping aside as they battle activist investors, the pressure to implement the 3G - backed Kraft Heinz model of cost cutting, consumers eschewing their processed products, and pressure to slash their prices from retailers fending off Amazon (amzn).

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Stocks across the globe rose on Monday, however, after four days in decline as investors saw the tariff threats as a U.S. negotiating tactic and not a done deal and as pressure grew on Trump to back off.