Sentences with phrase «over wording in»

He was stumbling over his words in his shock.

I absolutely abhore arguments over the words in the Bible.

And voters make no allowances for local notables» lack of political experience, passing harsh judgement on those who stumble over their words in the media, fall out with their colleagues in public or have to pick their drunken teenage son out of a gutter on a Sunday morning.

You'll agonize over every word in your profile.

This tendency to physical interaction over words in many instances adds to an animalistic dynamic this little clique of vampires share.

One day I discovered 11th grader Jamie laboring over every word in a required novel.

Banville, who writes crime under the pen name, Benjamin Black, had regularly boasted about how easy he found it to lash out a crime novel, while poring over every word in the literary stuff.

Tapping and holding your finger over a word in a book launches a menu that offers the choice to make highlights or notes, share a passage, or look up the word in the dictionary, Wikipedia, or Google.

Those who have been digging for details on all of this for many months will now of course pore over every word in his sprawling account of events.

And you agonize over every word in your LinkedIn profile.

Now I agonize over every word in a resume and rewrite every article several times and I don't even think consciously of him when I do it.

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In other words, I got passed over for promotions.

As they took cover from the machine guns, they received word that the war would be over in less than an hour.

As the tweet suggests, the mistake is a common one and pops up almost every time news outlets report on a celebrity owning such and such a word or phrase (the Queen Anne in the tweet, by the way, refers to the British monarch who presided over the UK's first copyright law).

If you are make an effort to interact in a somewhat social setting with your potential customers or people who might spread the word for you, it could help you many more times over than some expensive traditional marketing techniques.

Studies have shown that using the word «because» in email correspondence is over 31 % more effective when seeking compliance, compared to leaving the word out.

But that's not the final word, apparently, because other evidence suggests that brand loyalty is as strong as it's ever been: Fully 77 percent of consumers in one survey, for instance, said they return to the same brands over and over again, with 37 percent of them qualifying as «brand loyalists» — the segment of customers who will stay true to a brand even if offered a superior product from a competitor.

The chart below shows how the prevalence of the word «fact» has changed over time, using a tool designed to search for it in Google's library of millions of books published from 1600 to 2008.

In other words, Facebook, Twitter, and other services not only have a significant amount of control over who sees specific kinds of content because of their algorithms, but they are becoming more involved in creating it as welIn other words, Facebook, Twitter, and other services not only have a significant amount of control over who sees specific kinds of content because of their algorithms, but they are becoming more involved in creating it as welin creating it as well.

In other words, while it may not pay back immediately, over the long run, it would likely prove good for the bottom line.

«The days of sending a foot soldier out in the field to randomly call to qualify are over,» says Gary Hultgren, director of sales training at Moore Business Forms, a $ 2.5 - billion company in Lake Forest, Ill. «Cold calling has almost become a dirty word because of the economics.

Merkel, whose popularity has fallen over her handling of the refugee crisis, said the word «limit» did not feature in the CDU's main resolution which will be debated at the two - day party congress starting on Monday in the southern city of Karlsruhe.

A word of caution, though: The ups and downs in an employee's personal life can carry over into the office.

The warm words exchanged Friday night in the U.S. masked underlying tensions between Beijing and Washington over how to deal with the errant regime in Pyongyang.

In other words, over a 27 - year period the assumptions will have been about $ 43 trillion off, if Ernie is right.

Increased consumption of online media has led to a boom in digital video advertising, a sphere that encompasses in - stream ads (ads that run at the beginning, middle or end of video content), in - banner ads (display ads that contain embedded video) and in - text ads (video ads that show up when a user hovers over a relevant word).

Currently two of our smartest minds — Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — are in a war of words over whether artificial intelligence is more likely to improve our lives or destroy them.

What if certain words could open doors for you and win over your coworkers and others in the workplace?

Internet provider members such as Comcast and AT&T are currently locked in a war of words with technology company members such as Netflix and Amazon over the idea of paid prioritization, where ISPs can charge online content companies more for better - quality connections.

Since he took over as worldwide managing director in July, he's launched a dozen internal initiatives, ranging from cost - cutting measures (at a firm notorious for not taking its own efficiency medicine) to a new focus on marketing (a word that, by Barton's own account, draws gasps of horror at McKinsey).

Belying Spicer's comment is data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, which has 450 million words spoken on television and written in books and print media over the past three decades.

In other words, if multiple SIM card use in countries with penetration rates of over 100 % is accounted for, Canada doesn't look that baIn other words, if multiple SIM card use in countries with penetration rates of over 100 % is accounted for, Canada doesn't look that bain countries with penetration rates of over 100 % is accounted for, Canada doesn't look that bad.

«There is a lot of anger in the FBI (the entire intelligence community, for that matter) over how this president will say nary a negative word about the Russians, but will insult us every chance he gets,» he said.

It's also important to look over your contacts to identify «super» connectors and promoters in your own network who'll help you spread the word.

Now, if a city manager, say, types in the words «asset management software for wastewater operations» a link to Datastream's site pops up first, giving it an edge over Oracle and SAP, which offer more broad - based applications.

It's a broad range that, according to your interpretation of the measure's wording, would include even very early - stage startups so long as they've received more than $ 1 million in funding over the course of a single tax year.

With President Trump and the mayor of San Juan in a war of words this weekend over the relief efforts in hurricane - battered Puerto Rico and a stream of harrowing images coming out of the island and its neighbors in the Caribbean, it's easy to feel gloomy about the response to the disaster.

The recipient of several Bronze Stars and Service Medals (among other awards), Dunbar had to leave his UCLA EMBA program for a time so he could lead special forces operations inside Afghanistan, which included (in Dunbar's words) «11 different battalions, from 7 different countries, 13 different governmental and non-governmental agencies with over 6,000 personnel with no positional authority over the networked organization.»

When his daughter Lizzie came through to get some water and saw him maniacally scribbling the same words over and over like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, she asked what he was doing.

Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete» button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.

In a 3,500 - word blog post on Tuesday, Goldberg went into even greater detail in accepting blame for the many hits that Fab has taken over the last year, which include a massive round of layoffs that reduced the e-commerce company's headcount from 700 to 30In a 3,500 - word blog post on Tuesday, Goldberg went into even greater detail in accepting blame for the many hits that Fab has taken over the last year, which include a massive round of layoffs that reduced the e-commerce company's headcount from 700 to 30in accepting blame for the many hits that Fab has taken over the last year, which include a massive round of layoffs that reduced the e-commerce company's headcount from 700 to 300.

With word of Hagel's impending selection circulating over the weekend, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham - one of Rice's critics - called it an «in - your - face» nomination by Obama.

When women get to pitch over three months to a room of their peers instead of two minutes to a panel of investors, in other words, they get a fairer shake.

Give us materials, give us information,» Putin said in an interview with NBC TV aired late on Friday, according to an English voice - over of his words.

Savvy marketing, followed by strong word of mouth: The studio was smart and pushed the film with recording - industry tie - ins and social media; a «Straight Outta» meme, featuring stars like Beyonce, took over the web.

In just over a month, what began with tariffs on steel and aluminum has grown into a war of words between the U.S. and China — a showdown now threatening nearly 1,500 product lines.

The perceived need for new content simply happens at a faster rate than the world turns, and as a result, marketers are rehashing the same story over and over again in different words.

Over the weekend came word that the social messaging company is in talks to buy Flipboard at a price of more than $ 1 billion.

It is also likely to shift over time, as affluence grows and technology evolves, and as companies like Coke and Starbucks and a thousand anonymous start - ups find new ways to make environmental protection efficient, in the broadest, most ethically - significant sense of the word.

In other words, once the videos start to feel like commercials, the game is over.