Sentences with phrase «out of the blocks on»

First out of the blocks on Radio 4's Today programme was the former cabinet minister Damian Green, a zen master of never saying anything interesting.

So my next question was: Which countries have jumped out of the blocks on STEM and in particular Computer Science?

Not exact matches

California chain In - N - Out Burger had people lined up around the block hours before the opening of their pop - up store in Toronto on Thursday.

Topol pointed out that currently there's a ton of «information blocking» going on by health providers that don't» want to share data with others for fear of losing their patients (i.e. business).

In a coworking space, for example, it's easy to join in on topic - specific discussions, head to the gym to work out at any time of the day, grab coffee at all hours, change up your work surrounding, take important calls in sound - blocking rooms and even catch some Z's in a nap closet.

At one point in 2014, Coach execs showed employees slides of Michael Kors, Kate Spade, and Coach stores with their logos blocked out and quizzed them on which was which.

(Block points out Sino - Forest went public through a reverse takeover on the Toronto Venture Exchange long before the current wave of companies.)

Based on an impressive database of intensive interviews with executives, it turns out that big failures and small egos are among the building blocks of great leadership,» notes Grant of this one, again due out March 6.

I've used a variety of different ones on my commutes over the years, but the best ones for avoiding tangled wires and for blocking out the noisy people on the train are the Bose Quiet Comfort 35 Wireless Headphones.

For me, it's important to be present in the moment while I'm trying to focus on a particular task and sometimes that means blocking out all of the other noise for a bit.»

ACLU attorney Joshua Block said the main practical impact of the decision is that it would prevent the Obama administration from carrying out administrative enforcement actions against schools on transgender issues.

Block out certain times to check your email (perhaps at the top of every hour during weeknights and twice a day on weekends) and then shut off your phone.

But this brought out the final question of the day, about whether the block chain, not Bitcoin, will have the biggest impact on financial services.

I won't look at my inbox until I've completed one big - picture, time - intensive task — which I will choose ahead of time and block out on my calendar as if it were a meeting with myself.

But the harmony turned to discord on April 2 when North Korean officials blocked the passage of South Koreans into and out of the zone — with 861 South Koreans still inside.

It's worth noting that French broadband provider Free tried turning on network - level ad - blocking a few years back, in a bid to get money out of Google, but the government told it to stop.

Three might be the lucky carrier group to test out this theory, but don't forget that its U.K. operation is about to merge (pending regulatory approval) with local rival O2, meaning around 40 percent of the country's subscribers might find themselves with network - level ad - blocking on the menu.

The system used to generate the fake comments swapped out words in such phrases again and again — for instance, switching «people like me» for «individual citizens» and «products» for «services» — to produce 1.3 million superficially distinct variations on the same basic block of text.

Outlining classic research from the 1970s and 80s done by a team out of Yale on the subject, Konnikova explains that after months of interviews and a barrage of psychological tests, the researchers «found, unsurprisingly, that blocked writers were unhappy.»

And on the handful of occasions where the Obama administration did draw legal scrutiny, the investigations did not block out the sun because they were not part of a decades - long legacy of ethical missteps.

Like most people, I deal with this problem all of the time and the best way I've found to overcome it is to block out significant time to focus on one project and eliminate everything else.

And while there are plenty of direct - marketing customers out there who would disagree with Civale — some of the best - known companies in the world still employ the tactic — it is a risky investment for the newest entrepreneurs on the block.

So this holiday his wish list includes a pair of MyVu Shades, eyewear that looks like regular sunglasses but blocks out whatever is showing on a laptop or iPod screen for everyone except the person wearing them.

Lily has 20 minutes of flight time and will follow you down the slopes, out on the water on your jet ski or even on a run around the block.

It's nice to block out the rest of the world during your morning commute or to block out the screaming kid in front of you on the plane.

Last month, Adobe and Pagefair — a firm that offers software to help publishers detect and evade ad - blockers — came out with a report on the impact of ad - blocking.

But the results of the study, carried out by the non-partisan Public Religion Research Institute, show the impulse to block varies widely based on gender and political leanings.

After using it for three months, I noticed that I spend a lot of time on YouTube, so I blocked that site out for the entire workday.

Political risk consulting company Eurasia Group says that other measures the Trump administration may soon roll out could include blocking Chinese cloud services companies from establishing data centres in the U.S.; a renewed emphasis on restricting sales of Chinese telecommunications equipment to major U.S. operators; and prohibiting Chinese acquisitions of U.S. firms in sectors such as artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, semiconductors and biotechnology.

Kris Martinez, founder of Martinez Creative Group: «You have to learn to block out the negativity and focus on doing what you love, because it serves no purpose for you to play small.»

That ad blocking is now being considered something to be rolled out on an industry level is the first step to reducing the intrusiveness of online advertisements.

If you are cut off from any of your emotions you block out valuable information and may miss out on important opportunities.

Action: Use an ad blocker Who is this for: Everyone who can support the moral burden How difficult is it: Fairly easy these days but you might be locked out of the content on some news websites as a result Tell me more: If you've tried using a tracker blocker, you may have noticed that many ads have been blocked in the process.

Block out 5 minutes of «what's up» minutes each day to check in on your Millennials.

«In a meeting with the board of directors of the post-bank on digital currency - based blocking chains, the bank set out the necessary measures to test the country's first digital currency using the country's elite capacity.

No, arbitrary limitations on block sizes by a cartel of developers and high fees that force money out of private wallets and into exchanges are what is centralized.

The lead designer on the project, Markus McKenna, worked with Steelcase to construct what McKenna refers to as a «cocoon - like space»; a three sided set of privacy screens that work together to obstruct peripheral vision and help block out the sound and vision of people traffic around it.

If a bitcoin miner produces a block that does not follow the rules of the bitcoin protocol, then bitcoin nodes will reject the block and the miner will lose out on their chance to win the block reward.

Mining is carried out by using high - performance CPU, GPU, or ASIC to process (or «mine») blocks of transactions on the network of this digital currency.

Well here are 5 inbound marketing resources that will get you up to speed in no time at all, simply block out a couple of days and get your inbound marketing game face on.

If you focus on your own strategy and block out the noise of daily market action, you will increase your odds of success dramatically.

Before the era of mass incarceration, there was already evidence linking problems in poor neighborhoods to the high number of single - parent households and also to the high rate of mobility: the continual turnover on many blocks as transients moved in and out.

Block it out of your mind, and focus on what's good, and what's right.

It turns out that the author of Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist has the same house number as we do but on a street four blocks away.

As I turned the corner onto Plantation Drive — the street that would usually take us out of the neighborhood — what I saw startled me: a small black sedan, like a child's toy in the bathtub, bobbing up and down on the swollen waters that blocked our way out to safety.

In the name of stability of life and values, our children are presented with role models of adults who (at least on the surface) make every effort to block out the feelings and influence of the child.

I mean, can you imagine if a president actually tried to explain the in's - and - out's of socialized healthcare within a sixty minute block, while the other candidate has already warped the public's perception being all recognition in the same time that the other guy made his boring lecture on truth and equality?

Jeffrey Burton Russell points out that among historians of science «there's a strong debate going on between those who understand that the development of science is basically a Western European phenomenon, and that this is because of its Christian or Judeo - Christian roots, and those who maintain that religion blocked the progress of science until the 18th and 19th centuries, and that [science has] to struggle against religion.

Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»

If you're behind on some of your favorite BBC shows, you may want to block out some time for binge - watching in the next few weeks.