Sentences with phrase «people hang onto»

Magnusson advocates that people hang onto true keepsakes (letters, photos, etc.).

Most people hang onto their cards for years.

Many people hang onto their credit cards «in case of emergency.»

«People hang onto leftover pills, especially narcotic painkillers because they're getting harder to get scripts for.

Clearly, people hang onto some bad associations and disregard others.

In a 2009 study Holt - Lunstad and graduate student Briahna Bigelow Bushman found that people hang onto difficult friendships deliberately — because the relationship has a long history, because the good in the relationship outweighs the bad or because, for whatever reason, they just do not want to give up on the person.

A lot of people hang onto those kinds of things to be able to help someone else out sometime.

Call it the «Honda problem» — people hang onto their cars a long time.

Another person hanging onto the past that the dog would happily let go of if the owners let it.

Dogs with their nose to the ground sniffing furiously, dogs leaning hard into their collar or harness, dodging this way and that, sometimes to the point where the person hanging onto the leash might be in danger of falling.

Not exact matches

While some people are still hanging onto the hope that wired headphones will make a comeback or just flat - out refuse to make the switch, our cordless future is upon us.

The proposed changes will also look to address the practice of «trademark squatting,» where people misuse the system by hanging onto a trademark they have no intention of using themselves, such as an internet domain name, to sell it at a later date for profit.

Yes, it makes many people feel better and more righteous to hang onto their grievances.

People like to hang onto «traditional» things from their childhood, that's all.

The O'Bannon case already chipped away at this idea, but the NCAA is still hanging onto amateurism for the time being, because many people, including the O'Bannon judge, believe that the educational aspect is a distinguishing factor in college sports.

These people can amass millions of followers who hang onto their every word, and, through their online accounts, make getting that 6 pack look easy.

«The thing that I hung onto all the way through,» he said, «was something he wrote to his brother: «I want to touch people with my art.

And also, we've hung our hat onto unique stuff, things that people haven't seen all that much.

But people do seem to hang onto their Highlanders for quite a while, and with the styling of the 2008, I wouldn't blame them a bit.

And so I will continue to tell people to hang onto their money until Edelman shows (a) she can do what she claims and (b) can do it with a modicum of grace.

But all this is assuming (A) ebook growth will continue to a saturation point — it could be this is all new and shiny and the early adopters are hoarding a lifetime's supply of books (B) as Joe pointed out, NY will hang onto artificially inflated prices for ebooks for too long and give lesser - known authors their one current competitive advantage of price and (C) people will still be willing to pay for ebooks, or any content, in five years.

People need to read their emails — pronto, if you have video content you want to hang onto.

Considering most people tend to hang onto their tablets for a few years after a purchase, this is a worthwhile investment.

But if I say that I actually had Shreddies and a mug of tea3 I start thinking about Coco - Pops and lemonade and Porridge and Dr Pepper and how I wasn't eating my breakfast in Egypt and there wasn't a rhinoceros in the room and Father wasn't wearing a diving suit and so on and even writing this makes me feel shaky and scared, like I do when I'm standing on the top of a very tall building and there are thousands of houses and cars and people below me and my head is so full of all these things that I'm afraid that I'm going to forget to stand up straight and hang onto the rail and I'm going to fall over and be killed.

Me and my wife will be hanging onto those for the life our 2 yr contracts, there is no reason to switch, our phones will be getting the maybe 2 major updates in the next 1.5 yrs and we do nt need to keep switching phones to feel coool like some people.

As with tablets, people are comfortable hanging onto their readers for a number of years, while the relative lack of new features makes upgrades even less compelling.

One need only look at how long the iPad 2, which was released in 2011, has stuck around to see people are hanging onto their tablets longer.

Most people have at least some of their savings in taxable accounts, and index funds help them hang onto their money.

Yes, people have been denied their points because they didn't hang onto their boarding pass.

Some people tenaciously hang onto unproductive investments because they hate to admit that they made a mistake, or they may hate to deal with the tax consequences, or they are loath to expend the effort to fill out the paperwork and move to a new fund or fund family.

The handheld does not come with a charger, which puts people who want one as a new user will need one and those who have one will need to hang onto theirs if they don't have a spare, which makes trading in their old hand - helds not an option.

If you're still hanging onto the fading threads of rhythm gaming and don't yet own a copy of Guitar Hero Live AND your choice of platform is either a PS3 or Xbox 360, well then you, very specific person, are in luck.

So if you happen to be an incredibly optimistic person — or one of the lucky few who managed to play it without trouble — you can hang onto your copy of the game and hope that its problems will be resolved, but talk of «issues that we can not fix» doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

I think even a pre-school child could see the flaw in that argument, yet people tend to hang onto every word those pseudo-scientists put out.

What surprises me is that people still hang so much onto standard deviations, when extreme events are much more powerful witnesses to change in the underlying probability density function, be it gaussian or not.

I came up with another streetart project — I hung little tags onto bikes to show how glad I am that people are choosing to cycle.

Opinion polls show people still hanging onto old beliefs, indicating education is essential, not only in poorer countries, but also in the 2 big polluters: the US and China.

Cf. Henderson & Zorn, «The Most Prized Lateral of 2015 Wasn't a Partner,» American Lawyer, Feb. 1, 2016 (discussing media attention given to movement of 4 - person process improvement team from a UK Silver Circle firm to a Global 100 UK - Australian firm and predicting that this type of sophisticated capability will eventually attract lateral partners trying to hang onto clients).

I know plenty of people who hang onto phones for far longer than two years, even though I tend to grow impatient with my own two - year - old phones.