Sentences with phrase «often dead time»

For instance, Garbugli includes a little graphic in his presentation illustrating just how hard it is to concentrate before an impending meeting — the hours leading up to it are often dead time — and also quotes Y Combinator's Paul Graham: «A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon by breaking it into two pieces each to small to do anything hard in.»

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This will often get their attention — and if it doesn't then it will prevent you from wasting any more time and energy on a dead prospect.

The most useful mental models and rules of thumb, in other words, are often dead simple, which is why an interview Adam Bryant of The New York Times did with Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston earlier this year is so helpful (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer).

The most common problem I have had in my history of owning cars is a dead battery, which often happens at the most inopportune time.

We mention this because we have long noticed that the best - known quotes attributed to all sorts of long dead famous people — the ones one immediately finds on the first page that pops up when googling their names — are more often than not either garbled beyond recognition, or misattributed, or at times even completely made up.

Jesus said; I will show you my faith by my works: Faith without works is dead: (There is no life) = If we have the Faith of Christ (a gift from God) then we will have the works that go with it that is evident of our faith; the works will testify to our faith, then do we produce fruit that will remain: If our heart does not convict us to do what is right according the written word, then we are not in faith: Our hearts are far from the life of Words of our Lord penetrating into our hearts because our hearts are wicked; even Paul who said; follow me as I am of Christ; how was that??? In and by the Holy Spirit, even Spirit of truth as Paul takes us through the Words of the Lord to have us established in the truth: The Word of our Lord is as refined silver, 7 times in the fire: Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, to them who believe: In the Bible one's «belief» and one's «behavior» are often compared.

By the time we get to the garden, we have seen Jesus raising the dead so often that his own resurrection seems just another day's work,

Young love, blind to the rich time - tested tapestry, deaf to the wealth of meaning in quiet companionship, lost to the supple oneness of hearts in accord, often looks at old love and calls it dead.

All too often, deals continue to get cut behind closed doors and rank - and - file lawmakers are called upon, sometimes in the dead of night, to cast votes on bills they are given little time to read, much less vet.

You will often find that successful candida treatment can cause in many cases, but certainly not all cases, the rapid death of large numbers of yeast organisms, during which time great amounts of toxins are released from the dead candida microorganisms.

The enemies vary depending on what level you're on but it never changes the fact that you will be dead in moments if you don't pay attention, time your hits, and move often.

At times breathtaking, often awe - inspiring and never, ever dull, Red Dead Redemption is already one of 2010's biggest hitters, and is likely to become one of this generation's greatest achievements.

Dark Legend attractive visuals often force the action to chug, an overabundance of minions makes the game far too easy and at times incompetent artificial intelligence forces you to reissue the same commands to brain dead minions.

However, by that time most of the major figures of the Nazi regime were either dead or long missing, and in the resulting legal proceedings American judges often found themselves confronting the question of how much responsibility someone held who had «just followed orders.»

In some of the maps like Helmond Valley be prepared to die quickly and often, many times as you are dead moments after spawning, for me this is no fun.

Whereas Fallen was packaged, and ultimately delivered, as a dead serious action / thriller, I don't think White House Down marketing did enough to prep its potential audience members for the over-the-top, often times ridiculous, self - aware genre piece they would encounter.

She follows the advice of her late mother to «have courage and be kind,» a phrase that is uttered so often in this film that, if you chose to play a drinking game where you drank a shot each time you heard it, you'd be dead before the main character got transformed for the ball.

It's not often you hear an audience of movie critics gasp out loud at something on - screen, but Toni Erdmann, the new comedy of forced familial closeness from German director Maren Ade, has a comic moment so perfectly timed that it got the civilized cinema - set of New York City to jump out of their seats like this was an Evil Dead movie in 3D.

At a certain point, The Light Between Oceans seems almost single - minded in its pursuit of theme; by the time the nationality of the dead man in the boat is revealed, the film has made clear that we're watching variations on survivor's guilt — the idea that, in war and maybe life in general, staying alive (or emotionally fulfilled) is often a zero - sum game, dependent on choosing your own well - being over that of a stranger.

Clearly these two have chosen the grieve alone path, Sarah often wandering around Times Square late at night, not necessarily searching so much as distracting herself, and Phil parking outside the gas station where their son disappeared as though he may wander back in the dead of night.

«Dead and Loving It» is often dismissed these days because the Lord of the Vampires is played by Leslie Nielsen, but at the time, Nielsen hadn't yet begun to over-saturate the market with sub-par slapstick comedies.

Too often, though, Frank's staging and timing are as deadly as they are dead - on.

The screen can get a little crowded at times, and I noticed that the traffic guidance was often wrong, showing green while I was stopped dead in traffic, and showing red when I was happily cruising at 65 mph.

Often, there were so many dead bodies clogging the news wires that the Times could barely mention them all.

Searching for a lost cat with or without an identification tag is a time consuming and often disappointing effort, and there's nothing more heartbreaking than wondering for years if your missing kitty is alive and well, or suffering, abused, or dead.

Their undercoat requires a brushing every so often just to pull out the dead hairs and minimize shedding during certain times.

The second irritation comes in the form of attacks that can stun you, something which the majority of fighting games abandoned a long time ago as being left reeling during a battle as you frantically waggle the stick to regain control can be frustrating for the player, especially if it happens to be from a ranged attack like it often is in Killer is Dead.

Often when your playing Telltales titles like The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us you feel life you made the wrong choice and eats you up inside, well in Life is Strange you can rewind time to change your decisions but let me tell you that it doesn't make it any easier for the player to make a choice.

Sackboy prepares to blast off into space again and this time he's really tooled up for the job in this Advanced Suit that is often worn by Isaac Clarke in the ever - popular Dead Space series.

Dark Legend attractive visuals often force the action to chug, an overabundance of minions makes the game far too easy and at times incompetent artificial intelligence forces you to reissue the same commands to brain dead minions.

Often times you'll be circling around an island trying to eliminate enemies, and then are suddenly stopped dead in your tracks as the words «out of bounds» appear in the middle of the screen.

«Maybe it [painting] appears that way [dead] if you spend much time in New York City's major museums, where large group shows of contemporary painting are breathtakingly rare, given how many curators are besotted with Conceptual Art and its many often - vibrant derivatives.

In more recent work, Islam often takes a single visual motif as her point of departure, such as a woman distractedly spinning a ring in Dead Time (2000), a girl turning towards the camera and then vanishing in Turn (Gaze of Orpheus)(1998), a group of rickshaw drivers instructed by the artist to sit and do nothing in First Day of Spring (2005), or a cable car receding from its port in Time Lines (2005).

«I found myself questioning the whole process and being often frustrated at the formulaic way things had to be done — often wasting time and going down dead ends.

This is often called «pre-sentence custody,» «pre-trial custody,» or «dead time,» and it can be used to reduce the length of a jail sentence.

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Painters and writers often leave their work unfinished, coming back for a fresh look after time has cleansed a confused or dead - ended perspective.

Sometimes 4 Pts was allocated to the co-op, never less than 3 of it, and other times the extra was allocated to expensive marketing, (seller's choice) that often, although produced quickly, didn't get delivered fast enough before a sold sign went up (even in a dead or quiet market); I had already designated a «sold card» repeat, and since the artwork was already at the printer, things then moved quickly, because even when agents many times said my listings were overpriced, my listings 99:100 times sold fast, even in dead markets, and way back when, even, generated multiple offers.

I kept all the stats and carried copies of all authentication with me at all times so I had proof positive what I did worked and contributed to my listings often eliciting multiple offers even in dead markets and mostly bringing higher prices than other mirror image area listings.