Sentences with phrase «other things going for it»

But it had other things going for it as well, including its loft design.

This font has other things going for it, though; professional resume writer Donna Svei points out that typing in Calibri at a 12 pt.

This watch runs Tizen, which means there are fewer apps available, but it has an intuitive interface and plenty of other things going for it.

In addition to the apparent ecological improvement over traditional bottled water, «Boxed Water Is Better» has several other things going for it.

The game does have other things going for it — namely, it looks good.

Turkish offers 100 % mileage credit and has a few other things going for it.

The Sapphire has a lot of other things going for it, too.

The JW Marriott Hong Kong also gets good TripAdvisor reviews and it had two other things going for it:

The Platinum card has a lot of other things going for it too.

These days, they're an interesting option on a company with a lot of other things going for it.

Besides, DIS has a lot of other things going for it...

Locke had a lot of other things going for him, like striking at the right time with 99 cent books.

We have many other things going for us as well.

The seven players ahead of Pierre on the hits leaderboard since 2000 all had other things going for them.

Nowadays I don't even care and honestly, I'm really glad my parents couldn't afford to make me a metal mouth back then... I had plenty of other things going for me at the time anyway... unruly curls WITH bangs, being a foot taller than every boy in school, and ohhh, let's not forget the time I thought it would be a good idea to get a FREAKIN PERM!!!

It has some other things going for it as well: it's generating strong operating profit growth in China and Latin America; it's done a good job of extracting cost savings and it's buying back shares at a healthy clip.

The big box technology retailer has some other things going for it.

Meantime, although your credit may be less - than - stellar, your business might have other things going for it.

Cambodia has a couple of other things going for it: Angelina Jolie and a generation of young people determined to rebuild their country from the poverty of previous generations and heal the scars of the genocide.

Yet Palmer and Templeton had one other thing going for them: They took their time, and by the time they went on the job market, they were ready.

It has one other thing going for it: it is remembered.

It also has one other thing going for it in the realm of sales to the feds: Barack Obama is famously a big BlackBerry fan — so much so that RIM designed a super-secure model just for him.

Not exact matches

The same thing goes for most business entities that want to do business under a name other than the company name.

In other words, people aren't going to search for things in which they're not first interested.

Some of them got jobs, and a lot of them went successfully into treatment because if you're not spending all your time thinking about how you're going to pay for your next fix, you do have time to think about other things.

I've opened doors for myself by being somewhere and not knowing that six months or a year down the road that it was going to lead to this other thing.

Inexperienced managers, for example, are going to make mistakes as a matter of course; those of us with more experience may become so set in our habits that we don't even recognize there are other ways of doing things.

There are lots of ways to practice gratitude, from keeping a journal of things you're grateful for, sharing three good things that happen each day with a friend or your partner, and going out of your way to show gratitude when others help you.

One other thing: I have to go though a Startup folder rigmarole to get DateInTray to load when I boot the system; QuickMonth Calendar handles that for me.

And for those exceptional others, they're so busy fanning the flames of success that there's no time to go back and fix things.

Turner: One of the things that people in the industry often talk about when it comes to money management is this barbell, where as you said you have low - cost, passive index tracking funds and at the other end you have higher fees, higher active share, things like private debt which you mentioned, and it's those in the middle that are charging higher fees for something that looks quite a lot like beta that are really going to struggle.

Among other things, they were constantly going for the quick sale.

Actually, a lot of that stuff goes for export, so Canadians are dying so that people from other countries can have those things cheaply.

Along those lines, Smith and Microsoft's EVP of Artificial Intelligence, Harry Shum, are circulating a new book that, among other things, explores the demands that AI is going to create for new skills and job retraining.

For a certain set, it's other things they're after: dog sled rides, solving puzzles, going to concert performances, racking up some serious hot tub time, and just parking one's self in front of the fire.

One of the things that makes us feel weak as negotiators — and it's those of us who feel weak that are likely to go looking for advice — is the sense that the other side has more information than we do.

Wenger, on the other hand, is purely an optimist who doesn't plan for anything going wrong and is confounded when things go against him.

Instead, take a look at what you did well, what you didn't do so well, and figure out how you can make more time for those other things you enjoy — like reading, going for long walks, or cooking yourself a nice dinner at home.

Sandberg told Zuckerberg that if she were going to work for him, they would need to give each other candid feedback and check in with each other first thing Monday morning and last thing Friday every week.

But the «yes» part comes from reminding yourself that there are a few basic rules you can live by in terms of how you interact with others, and if you keep these absolute essentials in mind, things will go a lot easier for you — and be a lot easier on those employees of yours who are, in many respects, very much at your mercy.

You know, things like going out to eat or going to shows, which for the time being is great, but as you get older, you realize this money is well spent other places.

Schriock: I mean, it's hard because this is the other thing I think for so many of us in this moment: We are going to have friends who maybe didn't do everything exactly right, but they're still friends.

But in Simmons» case, his writing is a loss leader for other things that he is making money from, rather than going through a third party the way newspapers and other media outlets do.

«I would love to see them say, «Hey we are going to pass this thing and it costs [small businesses] $ 200 million a year,»» says Mark Strumwasser, CEO of Sunshine Rentals, a Vista, California - based provider of housekeeping and other services for corporate housing, with annual revenues of $ 3.9 million.

In addition to making you miserable every day, a two - faced manager who's loved by the higher ups can wreak havoc on your career by taking credit for your work, bad - mouthing you to others, and blaming you for things that go wrong.

It would be one thing if Girlfriend Collective just made my favorite pair of flattering leggings, but they make them for much less than my other go - to pairs at $ 68 for a pair of classic high - rise (+ $ 7 shipping now, versus $ 20 two years ago).

This usually unstated but powerful assumption that striving for the next greatest thing is the obvious way to go can leave those with other priorities feeling like there is something wrong with them or their businesses.

Boon + Gable has created a way for us to shop - something we already do - while avoiding the lines, tedious physicality of going store - to - store, and every other painful thing in between.

Newt Gingrich likes visiting zoos in different cities, going for walks, and paleontology, among other things.

In this time of globalization and extreme competitiveness, one of the key industries we are going to have to focus on for prosperity is technology, and many other countries around the world have concluded the exact same thing.