Sentences with phrase «on a lot of good»

Dollar stores stock up on lots of good, quality cards, which they sell for cheap.

If your first point of contact with new sales leads is someone who doesn't have a sales background to properly assess sales leads, ask questions, build relationships and make the right decisions, you're going to miss out on a lot of good sales opportunities — and you'll end up passing along too many unqualified leads to your sales team.

«I don't think there was any resentment, but I think we did miss out on a lot of good stuff growing up that was so unnecessary,» he concludes.

I missed out on a lot of good sex and experimentation in the bed because of stupid, irresponsible ministers telling us it was wrong to have oral sex, or wrong to «do it» in certain positions, or wrong to try «anal» sex, or wrong to use any vibrators or sex toys, etc..

«Or someone potentially does something wrong, and that kind of casts a shadow on a lot of good work by a lot of good people.»

Katie, I find myself missing out on a lot of good stuff because my hearing is failing me.

I was at another Coach outlet in Carlsbad and they also had the 50 % off sale on lots of good bags.

I don't ignore the fact that both Sony and Microsoft have brought on a lot of good changes and definitely made me wake up and pay attention.

I think you missed out on a lot of the best features of ebooks and the Kindle, and strangely lumped the ease of buying books as both a caveat and strength.

Very low prices on lots of good books.

However, it misses out on a lot of good books that have enough sales and quality to make it into the hundreds but which miss out on the Top 100 Bestsellers List.

Just as with thousand others, I have a small trading account and while I never risk more than 1 per cent (which I can conveniently afford to lose) of my account on any trade, I have missed out on a lot of good trades out of FEAR!

The cycle of having to re-qualify for status every year was expensive and I actually passed up on a lot of good deals on other carriers because I wouldn't have earned any miles towards Star Alliance status.

It draws on a lot of good RPG elements and it really feels like Snowcastle are fans of the genre themselves.

the suggestion that results which don't reach 5 sigma should be discounted is nothing but a recipe for missing out on a lot of good science....

Their dynasty has relied on a lot of well - oiled parts, many of which have been replaced over the years.

In addition, Apple's inability to play nice with companies like Amazon means that you'll miss out on a lot of good content (at least for now).

If at all possible, don't wait or have a break before looking, or you will have missed out on lots of good jobs.

Not exact matches

«The CEO wanted to have a certain culture at the company, but he had a lot of other priorities to focus on as well,» Duffin says.

Allen notes that there are lots of consumer - friendly carbon dioxide detectors on the market, adding that the research found that people performed best at CO2 levels of 500 to 600 ppm.

The key, for me, is that I have a very good team both on the insurance side — assistants and account managers who can deal with a lot of the day - to - day things — and on the football side.

A lot of these guys keep on launching businesses, even if they could live well without making another dollar.

«There's less worry about financial stability in China because a lot of other sectors are doing well,» Gao Ting told CNBC on the sidelines of the UBS Greater China Conference.

There were a lot of people who thought the person who wrote the love song «Until It's Time For You To Go» should know better than to follow it up with «Universal Soldier» on stage.

In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

«A lot of the development in deep learning came out of Canadian universities, yet the industry wasn't positioned well enough to capitalize on that innovation, so we've lost a lot of people to south of the border,» said Foteini Agrafioti, who leads RBC's deep - learning division.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

A lot of the best variety in my career has come from getting suggestions from editors and from collaborating with people — authors and others — on different projects.

«Even if you walk into a Sephora and try to figure this out yourself, a lot of the time it will end in trial and error and a lot of wasted product that didn't work well on you.»

Defensive stocks, as they're often called, are big players like Coca - Cola or McDonald's — companies that have a lot of customers in sectors that aren't as dependent on good economic conditions to survive.

And when we collectively move on, the people who create a lot of the content touting this technology never take a moment to reflect on our collective obsession with technology and whether any of it is actually making human beings happier, healthier, smarter, or better off.

A lot of people think that negotiating means simply trying to get a better price on things, but that's very naive — there is a lot more to it than that.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

He added that, depending on your distance from the blast, you might get 10 to 15 minutes to move to a better shelter — ideally, a windowless basement, where soil and concrete can help block a lot of radiation.

In the article, Vanderkam examines the psychological benefits of strong friendships (and why we sometimes let them slide anyway) before offering a long list of «ways to be a good friend, even when you've got a lot going on.»

There's a lot of advice on writing original content, ranging from the generic «be helpful, solve a problem» to the well - known «good artists copy, great artists steal.»

There's lots of places for you to find out about the best computers — but none with the focus on business that we have here at Inc..

I launched it and the program went well, in the sense that we got a lot of customers on board and I got a training program in place, but the mistake [I made] was moving a little too quickly and not thinking through things all the way through.

After a slow start, including visiting a lot of houses and receiving plenty of rejection, he went on to become one of the best in the vacuum businesses.

Nothing is better than asking personally or assessing where you could still improve cause a lot of times we over think on what yet should be done to improve when in fact our customers have already been ranting or praising our business.

FLAKE: There are a lot of things I disagreed with President Obama on with regard to foreign policy, and domestic policy as well.

So there are a lot of impressive people on this list but McDonald's has just been too good the last couple of years.

There are lots of partnerships in place with indie developers that are doing really well or are in the works for our platform, both on our 3DS platform and Wii U.

But as a for - profit, I can make smart bets on marketing and talent that will allow us to do a lot of good over time, because I am not scrutinized about how I spend money in the same way that nonprofits are.

Well, most businesses spend a lot of time trying to recruit the best talent, but drop the ball when it comes to on - boarding new hires.

«They have a lot better understanding of what the NFL is not only on the field, but off the field,» said Madden.

Take heart in the fact that you've saved yourself a lot of pain before investing resources in a bad idea and get on with finding opportunities where the numbers will work better for you.

My days are quite well - prepared for me, and I sometimes feel like I'm being wound up at the beginning of the day and have got one hell of a lot of things on the plate.

«On paper, things look good — our spoilage is in check, and I don't have a lot of back stock,» he said.