Sentences with phrase «off position as»

Though Ting recently handed off her position as board president in order to spend more time with her 98 - year - old mother, she also sees herself as a resource for La'akea's clients.

Not exact matches

Starting off as a social worker or at an entry level position in community services is the way to get started.

Why it's effective: As you push your buttocks and upper legs off the floor, your chest and shoulders naturally fall into a more open position.

(Adidas Group bought Reebok in 2006 for $ 3.8 billion; in recent years some critics said it should sell it off, but now the company has positioned Reebok as a fitness brand, and the brand's sales were up 5 % in 2014 globally.)

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.

In the new position, he will work a nine and a half hour shift as a part of a rotation where he will work four days on and four days off.

Starting off as a social worker or at an entry level position in community or correctional services is the way to get started.

Before joining private equity firm Capital Advisors as an executive vice president, she had worked at a couple of tech companies — including as CFO of General Magic, a spin - off from Apple (AAPL) that closed in 2002 — and in all of those positions her job was to obsess over quarterly results, meeting demands of investors.

All in all, Kaz Hirai can feel rightly smug that most of his gambles have paid off, and Sony's in a much better position as a consequence.

Toronto police officers take up positions as they face off with protesters during a protest at the corner of Queen Street and Spadina Avenue on June 27, 2010 in Toronto, Canada (Photo: Jemal Countess / Getty)

In a new report, Business Insider Intelligence explores how and why financial services providers such as PayPal and Bank of America are positioning for voice interfaces to take off.

(As the parent of a first - year university student off to study tuba performance, I'm in no position to lecture anyone on practicality over passion.)

The starting gun had just gone off in the race to cyberspace, and as he watched the throngs jockeying for position, Barrelet wondered, «How do all these people measure returns on their investment?»

* Prices have in recent sessions climbed off 2008 lows touched last week as technically over-sold conditions inspired investors to cover short positions, dealers said.

The retailer positions itself as offering a luxe dollar - store shopping experience, «unique» products and higher quality goods than homegrown Dollarama, Canada's king of knock - offs, but it does so by copying Japanese chains that came before it.

As his position goes up (down), he will raise (lower) his market to move closer to the outside spread at which he will have to lay off (and to encourage customers to move him back to neutral).

No formal announcement, no position papers had been prepared; significant cabinet officers, such as the secretaries of Defense and State, were caught off - guard, as were his party leaders in the Congress.

The «one - off» buyback program shouldn't be seen as a change of position in the company's capital allocation plans, Thompson said.

Moreover, both our inversely correlated (short ETF) positions, $ SOXS and $ EEV, zoomed sharply higher as the broad market sold off last Friday.

As I typically do, I clipped off a modest portion of our precious metals position in the Strategic Total Return Fund on strength last week, essentially bringing it back toward 20 % of assets after the appreciation in those shares.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

The plans should «make appropriate assumptions as to the valuations of assets and off - balance sheet positions,» the documents said.

Even if activism made sense from a cost - benefit perspective, corporate managers are well - positioned to buy off most institutional investors that attempt to act as monitors.

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This strategy is clearly paying off as we are have now firmly positioned ourselves as the market leader in Europe and soon the world.

Kimberly - Clark Corp. (KMB) spun - off Halyard Health Inc. (HYH) to realize better their shareholder value and as a result of this, I received 2 positions in HYH and $ 10.96 for fractional shares.

As sterile surgery took off, Johnson & Johnson had positioned themselves to grow with the demand for sterile surgery dressings and supplies.

Peter has held executive management positions in finance, serving as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of several companies, including the New York City Off Track Betting Corporation, Unicast, and Player's International.

First quarter 2011 adjusted results include $ 17 million of pre-tax pro forma adjustments to reflect the company's position as if it were a standalone, public company since the beginning of 2011 rather than from the actual spin - off date in November 2011, as well as $ 2 million of legal related charges and severance costs.

Then if you think you're unlucky because the market sells off just after you bought, think again and reconsider whether or not you were unlucky or whether you just got your wish and are now able to scale in at lower rather than higher prices as you build your positions before the Gold Rocket Ship blasts - off.

«Unfortunately, a few bad actors are taking advantage of the [VA home loan] program as home lenders have begun targeting veterans and servicemembers to generate profit and fees at their expense, often leading to higher loan amounts and putting families in a worse financial position than they started off,» observed Senator Tillis.

Because their investments are hands - off, we were in a great position to continue our work and life as normal.Matt and Liz run a great business and are always improving investor outreach.

However, these lenders still want to ensure you are in a strong financial position to pay off the loan, so it may come with a trade - off — such as a higher interest rate — to offset the smaller down payment.

They stand alone in Canada as having delivered five consecutive balanced budgets and have put our province in the unique position to pay off the government's operating debt by 2021.

Sidestepping the Fraud Issue: Bailing out fraudsters instead of saving America's economic base Recent federal bankruptcy proceedings have exposed Lehman's deceptive off - balance - sheet accounting gimmicks such as Repo 105 to conceal its true position.

I sold a small position in Shake Shack (SHAK) as it turned off to be not a good fit for my portfolio.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

They gave positions of leadership to women when many women had no rights, and girls as young as 12 were often married off to middle - aged men, he says.

Many, such as the media guru Douglas Rushkoff, have cavalierly staked out a position that jettisons the concept entirely, writing it off as racist and tribal.

I was in the position as «already there», and if I were to ever open up, they would think I was off my rocker!

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

When many protest anonymously their position gains weight additively; the single anonymous protester comes off as a crank or a troll.

We can understand Russell's later cautious advocacy of an explicitly metaphysical position as in part resulting from a consistent and continued commitment to, and application of, this method of logical construction, together with a dispassionate exploration of its full implications, rather than writing off this later phase as entirely distinct and grossly inconsistent with the earlier phases of Russell's career.

And shall not memory be able to remind him of that time when he sneaked away by underhanded means, in order to avoid a decision; of that time when he gave the matter another turn, in order to please men; of that time that he deserted his post, in order to let the storm pass over; of that time he knuckled under, in order to secure an easing off of his painful position; of that time he sought refuge and association with others — perhaps, as it is called, in order to work all the more effectively for the Good's victory, that is, in order to make his own position a little less difficult than as though at the midnight hour, somewhat terror - stricken, one stood all alone «with heavily loaded weapons at his dangerous post.»

It is tempting to pass this book off as propaganda, but no one should underestimate Carlson - Thies, who in 1992 began working, from his position at the Center for Public Justice, for the passage of Charitable Choice.

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Thus, during active alcoholism, as the person is cut off from nurturing relationships including his relationship with God, he is forced into a kind of idolatrous position in which he is his own god.

He has generally failed to articulate a coherence behind his policy positions — and I do believe there is a deep coherence — thereby allowing the media, and many GOP primary voters, to write off this deeply conservative candidate as a «moderate.»

In that case, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for himself and four other members of the Court, knocked religious liberty off its rightful pedestal as the «first freedom» and relegated it to the position of a dependent afterthought.

I don't know what else to say but that she has gone off the deep end on this one, the way that she presents her position in this article as being supported by history, and scripture is almost offensive.