Sentences with phrase «out of practice in»

While terminal surgeries have fallen out of practice in many veterinary schools, the practice does still exist.

I way out of practice in the dating dept.I've been divorced 9 yrs ago, I have 2 grown sons ac2yr old grandbaby.

I used to be very good at it, but fell out of practice in the past year.

That's left the Republicans out of practice in raising funds.

Let's fly by the day Pat throws her starting point guard out of practice in her junior year, past the day when Michelle finally crumbles and sobs in front of everyone.

To increase student engagement, I recommend trying out some of these practices in your classroom.

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(It goes without saying that capturing and training baby elephants is horrible in and of itself... so hopefully this practice has long gone out of style.)

As you know by now, things went awry after a series of Wall Street Journal reports came out in 2015, revealing that Theranos was conducting most of its tests using typical lab practices and equipment instead of its proprietary machine.

As James Colaco, senior manager of Deloitte Canada's insurance practice points out, in the competitive world of insurance sales «it would be incumbent on the insurers to treat their customers well.»

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.

As many of the entrepreneurs and executives in Silicon Valley have found out, a simple fasting practice can optimize mental performance without costing a dime.

Critics have lined up against the recommendations of a high - profile parliamentary inquiry into fly - in, fly - out work practices.

TORONTO — The rise of so - called precarious employment in Canada — mainly work in the services and retail sectors — has brought with it some questionable employer practices that have employees stressed out and labour activists fuming.

As much as I respect a lot of the happiness work out there, most of it is either anchored in psychology practice or spirituality, or matters that are a little softer than what today's typical person who prioritizes logic needs to understand.

Some viewers had reacted on social media ahead of the game by lashing out at the car company and criticizing it for allegedly not practicing what was being advocated in the ad.

«The structure of the exchanges is a seminal part of the ACA, and if it turns out the subdsidies provided on the exchanges are not available, it will be a devastating blow to the president and the ACA,» says Steve Friedman, co-chair of the employee benefits practice and healthcare reform consulting groups at Littler Mendelson, in San Francisco.

They're calling for the elimination of «on - call» shifts, a practice where management schedules shifts for part - time employees each week, but then requires them to call in ahead of their start time to find out if they're actually working.

Overbooking flights is a legal and common airline practice; travelers cancel plans at the last minute, they show up late... it's a numbers game: The airline builds in a buffer of oversold seats to offset the number of people their statistical models predict will back out.

While the company has gained attention as an early adopter of implanted microchips in humans, it will be interesting to watch how it plays out and helps shape the practice for other companies going forward.

In short, while the technical nature of the security space isn't necessarily sexy, companies and investors are finally figuring out how important good practices are.

So in practice, if you are young software developer or entrepreneur in San Francisco, you can choose to work at a start - up that will have a more than 50 percent chance of going out of business in the next 18 months without risking the embarrassment of running out of money and having to move back in with your parents.

But an odd thing that may have informed US Dietary Guidelines when these recommendations came out is the strange practice of studying cholesterol in rabbits, which are — surprise!

«They punch themselves into the market, break glass, upset people and then figure out how to bring everybody together in a more friendly way,» as Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader of research firm Gartner, put it to the Los Angeles Times last year.

Oatly's new packaging highlighted the company's commitment to sustainability, in part by calling out unsustainable practices of the dairy industry.

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

Questrade also puts a strong focus on agile management, a common practice in technology companies that brings together people from different areas of the company to work in small teams to quickly roll out new features while constantly iterating.

«It is nevertheless a matter of concern that the collection of the data by Facebook may have involved practices that were not fully consistent with the principles of obtaining informed consent and allowing participants to opt out,» wrote Inder Verma, the Washington, D.C. - based journal's editor in chief.

As Dan Lauer, founding executive director of UMSL Accelerate, points out, classes may even be taught by practicing entrepreneurs, as many in the UMSL Accelerate program are.

And before you go dismissing this post out of hand, thinking that meditation has to be difficult to be effective, bear in mind that many other experts stress just how little time and effort is needed for the practice to start making a difference in your life.

If Hoque has convinced you that you should join Oprah and Sir Richard in a deliberate gratitude practice, there's plenty of advice out there to get you started.

As the year progressed, CEO Travis Kalanick resigned amid an investor revolt, many of Uber's other top executives resigned or were forced out, shady business practices were revealed, and more than 20 employees were fired as a result of an investigation into bad behavior in the workplace that includes sexual harassment.

They left it all out there, each and every day, regardless of whether the context was the film room, the practice field or the way in which they were taking care of their bodies.

As Jerry Brown, associate partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's consulting practice, recalls, «I saw a presentation given by one of the major studios where they pointed out that when they sold a [game] for a console they expected to collect $ 50 per consumer and that was it.

In essence, that bill gives individuals a way to opt out of federal laws that restrict religious practices, except in cases where the federal government has a compelling interesIn essence, that bill gives individuals a way to opt out of federal laws that restrict religious practices, except in cases where the federal government has a compelling interesin cases where the federal government has a compelling interest.

Meanwhile, a group of 20 scientists studying the Otway Project in Australia since 2008 confirmed Dec. 14 that the CO2 there was behaving as it was expected to and the practice is indeed an effective way to keep greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere for thousands and perhaps millions of years.

Even today, he runs his practice out of the Zuckerberg family home at 2 Russell Place in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

The idea of such a radical break attracted Branson, who stopped eating beef in 2014 out of concern over deforestation and slaughterhouse practices.

Moreover, in a recent survey of books recommended by Fortune 500 CEOs, The Practice of Management ranked 18th out of 50.

The offer might prove too tempting to someone who might otherwise never take out an auto - title loan, said the regulator in a bulletin to lenders: «This business model could also be perceived as a deceptive practice because it appears calculated to bring the consumer into the store with the promise of one product, but later effectively requires the consumer to go to another location to purchase another product.»

Our preliminary data already show the importance of certain beliefs for success in physics courses and a student's inclination to continue in or drop out of physics, and it shows that most teaching practices have a detrimental impact on all of these critical beliefs.

The federal RFRA was passed unanimously in Congress to allow individuals in states with a way to opt out of federal laws that restrict religious practices, generally speaking.

Increasingly applied in western psychology, the practice of mindfulness comes out of the Buddhist tradition of meditation, and is championed by a growing number of celebrities, athletes and executives.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

On the subject of religion, Porter points out that the time, effort and currency invested in the practice of faith is simply the price of receiving «a mixture of insurance and social services.»

Samantha Wallace, who leads the technology practice for Korn Ferry's division that focuses on mid-level search, said the Facebook hiring drive reflects the difficulty companies are having in figuring out how to best take advantage of A.I. and how to not become overly confident in it at the same time.

Just - in - time (JIT) procurement, which is much facilitated by the selection of a single, well - qualified supplier, arose from Japanese practice aimed at taking cost out of inventory control while maintaining very - high quality.

«These practices would stand in stark contrast to forced performance distributions that demand pre-set percentages of «worst employees» and up - or - out promotion systems that require employees to be fired even when the team is functioning well,» they wrote.

Employees can dive into an outside swimming pool during lunch, participate in a variety of sport classes, including ping - pong, yoga, basketball and squash, or even try out the Chinese meditation practice Qigong.

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Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, the book that popularized the idea that mastery in a given field takes at least 10,000 hours of practice, had just come out, as had Geoff Colvin's Talent is Overrated and Daniel Coyle's The Talent Code, both of which emphasized the role of dedicated practice (and discounted natural - born talent) in excellence.