Sentences with phrase «over a stick of»

Yet now their mistress sits far at the rear, beside Audun, and I swear her lips are sparked with cants, and I see that her hands are moving - perhaps over a stick of secret runes.

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The couple have struggled over the years from almost getting shut down by the police, to losing their home and dealing with the wrath of angry customers, but stuck with it and became multi-millionaires!

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The Bank of Canada's latest quarterly survey of businesses shows that companies expect little sales growth over the next 12 months and that their investment intentions are stuck near the lowest levels since the Great Recession.

Malcolm Gladwell set off a mania for practice a few years ago with his book Outliers, in which he argued that to become truly excellent at any skill, you need 10,000 hours of deliberate practice — that's six hours a day, six days a week, over six years of simply sticking with it.

Finally, the Republican Party got stuck in a loop of style over substance.

The problem, he warned, is that Canada's workforce is rapidly aging, while its companies are stuck in a low productivity gear, putting the country on track to generate only half of the annual growth in the next few decades that Canadians have come to expect over the past 50 years.

A version of the bill overwhelmingly passed the House last year before getting stuck as Senate Republicans and Democrats dueled over funding specifics and certain controversial provisions.

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My reading of that is that if they were sticking to their original policy of paying for bathroom breaks that don't go over four minutes, that would be legal, because they're clearly warning you of the time limit.

Over the last three decades, servant leadership has risen from a noble and ethical leadership ideology stuck in religious worldviews to the very principles of how the most successful companies on the planet operate and profit.

Sticking to your regular exercise routine and controlling portion size over the holidays will allow you to keep a semblance of normality so that your energy levels are up and you can hit the ground running when you need to go back into work mode.

And sticking with the debt theme, it became clear over the weekend that Puerto Rico was on the verge of bankruptcy.

The head of Glenview Capital Management said a number of stocks have been held in limbo over the past several years as they were stuck in the middle of deals that weren't getting completed.

With a massive following of over 1.3 million Twitter users, the serial entrepreneur has some social media wisdom for businessman - turned - President Donald Trump: «Words do matter, and they stick forever.»

Actually, it was scraping up asphalt attached to the factory floor, loading roofing membranes (that's roofing speak for the dark rolls of disgusting black material that gets laid down over the roof while inconveniently sticking to every far flung corner of the human body).

Your best results over time come from sticking with something long - term and taking advantage of gains over time.

On Wednesday a board member of the Bank of Japan said that the central bank should stick with its ultra-easy monetary policy, despite recent signs of economic recovery, because uncertainty remains over how fast inflation will rise.

Risks could rise as more and more investors buy into index funds who have no intention of sticking with them over the long - term.

Generally, they are sticking to the top 25 metros and in - fill locations that are likely to hold their value over the long - term, notes Randy Blankstein, president of The Boulder Group, a commercial real estate firm specializing in triple net lease investments.

«We look for a lot of qualities but the two most important are: 1) integrity — without integrity, it doesn't matter how otherwise talented you may be; you won't fit on our sales team, and 2) resiliency — the ability to stick with it even when things get tough; and the fortitude to come back tomorrow to start all over again.»

These fears will only keep you in the continuous loop of thinking, planning, and tinkering over and over again, which keeps the invention stuck.

Then, sell the value of your offering over the value of sticking to something that was created before they even knew your benefits were available.

In light of recent developments, too bad Harper didn't stick to his 2011 commitment — to balance the budget over the medium term, without specifying a specific year.

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Walter «Jay» Clayton stuck largely to prepared remarks Wednesday at Temple University, saying he's pursuing «harmonization» of regulation over both brokers and investment advisers.

In addition to a lack of alternatives, the U.S. stock market is strong because it has remained relatively stable over the past few years, which encourages investors to stick around, says Tim Courtney, CIO of Exencial Wealth Advisors in Oklahoma City.

This is also true for the cohort of young workers who are stuck in jobs for which they are overqualified and who are having trouble securing the professional experience that would make them increasingly productive over time.

I've spoken to a lot of friends over the past 3 months, and one of the common points they made was the difficulty in sticking to plans as markets go backwards.

Regardless of recent trends, the economists at Freddie Mac are sticking to their long - term forecast that rates will rise over the coming months.

«We have started Aspect to focus at looking at things in a different way and in a more extended way,» said Gouw, about the wide - ranging plan to stick with entrepreneurs over the course of a startup's long - term history.

Plenty of studies warn against this, including one that shows that missing out on just 10 of the best days in the stock market over 160,000 daily returns in 15 markets around the world can cause you to end up with about half of what you would have earned if you had stuck with an index fund over time.

The bankruptcy of GTAT (making of sapphire glass) after Apple stuck with Corning screens gave me some consternation over companies with concentrated revenue streams.

If you stuck to the safest rate over the course of a non-worst-case-in-history scenario then you left money unspent.

Bulls Market - A Bulls Market, is essentially reflect of a particular asset or stick rising over a period of time, typically reflective of buyers being in control of said asset and market, thereby eliminating the majority of doubt or lack of easement over whether or not to invest into such a stock.

Now, instead of sticking with that same card, if you moved your balance over to the BankAmericard ® Better Balance Rewards credit card your pockets would have been a little less empty.

But even if they have what's called «inertia loyalty» to your competitor, meaning that they're sticking around simply because they don't want to deal with the nuisance of switching, you're still going to need to win them over before you can effectively pitch.

A number of companies are sticking by the NRA, at least for now, including FedEx, which has been under activist pressure to end its discount for the NRA for over a year.

By July 1, investors must decide whether to stick with the fund, which has lost roughly 60 % over its life, or sell their stakes to a group of buyers for less than three - fourths of its shriveled value.

He recognized early on that applying leverage to safe, cheap, high - quality stocks would magnify returns without the risk of fire - sale, allowing him to stick to the principles outlined above over the course of multiple economic and market cycles.

If you're still stuck, take a drive over to wikiHow.com and check out some of their checklists.

It would show a good looking young folks partying in heaven (albeit, a holy party), while a group of old wrinkly bent over folks wondering why they weren't turned back into them young selves, while their is a nursery in heaven with toddlers stuck forever skinning their knees and having ridiculous conversations.

First, there's the garden - variety hysteria of Susan Jacoby: the social conservatives will stick their fingers in every pot and undo everything we secularists have accomplished over the past thirty years.

Recent debates in the pages of First Thingsand other conservative journals over Darwin's theory of evolution and creationism reveal the degree to which Catholics seem stuck in the trees for want of seeing the forest, the lopsided degree to which the Church gives assent to philosophy without deeply exploring the particular science it considers a threat, (this journal, it goes without saying, excepted).

Since you do not recognize these facts, you are stuck thinking like a child and basically planting a flag of victory over pointing out that «bananas are yellow therefore yellow crayons must taste like fruit».

End Religion summed him perfectly with these lines:... «Since you do not recognize these facts, you are stuck thinking like a child and basically planting a flag of victory over pointing out that», bananas are yellow therefore yellow crayons must taste like fruit»»...

The monk hesitated, thinking the matter over, at which point Rinzai released him, saying, «The true person of no status, what a dried - up manure - stick he is,» and then returned to his chamber.

«The creationist side use to stick to the 6000 year calculation based on ages of people recorded in the Bible until certain trees have been demonstrated to be over 10,000 years old by counting their growth rings.»

I can think of several advantages that Mitch Daniels has over Mitt Romney when it comes to health care, but I'll stick to one for now.

We could all live together peacefully instead of arguing over which of our imaginary friends has the biggest «stick»?

Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens 38 when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?