Sentences with phrase «people have a leg up»

Like other researchers before them, Wong and Penner found that go od - looking people have a leg up in the workplace: Attractive individuals earn roughly 20 percent more than people of average attractiveness.

Optimism is protective — we all know that confident people have a leg up in realizing their ambitions, and «fake it till you make it» can often be a successful strategy.

Not exact matches

«A lot of people are banking on it to make up for the first - quarter number, it needs to deliver... I really think that that number might be the trigger point on does this market have the legs to go higher.»

For example, if someone comes aggressively running up to the person wearing the device, the legs would move in a manner to ward off the approaching person.

The companies that figure this out first will have a leg up — and some may even be able to build new businesses around people - tracking.

«Advertisers will want to be where the people are so having a platform as important as Twitter should be the leg - up.»

NOTE: If you'd like to get an extra leg up and learn exactly how I connect with «impossible to reach» people — including the exact email scripts I use, check out my Advanced Network Hacking Guide here.

Uber has also contemplated a bigger push into the travel business, in December 2015 securing a patent for «Uber Travel,» a trip planner à la Expedia or Kayak, that would tap into airline networks, hotel listings, and shared accommodations providers like Airbnb to help people plan their trips and line up their Ubers with each travel leg.

Mormonism was a cult that was started by a paedophile (look it up people... when he was already married, he told his wife he was going to marry a 14 year old girl) that has legal records on him over his illegal boot - legging and thievery.

One clear example of this would be the person on their way to the airport for an overseas vacation who gets caught in a traffic accident and ends up instead in the hospital with a broken leg, only to find out that the plane they would have taken crashes and everyone aboard is killed.

So when in middle age I come at last to believe that a nation builds up a moral treasury of merit by the sacrifices of its people in war and I begin to worry, like the ancient moralists did, that we grow fat, lazy and contemptible amidst our plenty, I don't have a leg to stand on.

«1,500 people standing up and opening their wallets was a nice sign that this idea had legs,» Cook told us, «The past two years have been filled with location scouting, design, staffing, construction nightmares.

Xhaka gets yellow for rash tackle Navas does 2 rash tackles the second studds showing and catching the player half up the leg why the hell isnt he sent off cause i think if it was Xhaka that did what Navas did it be red and people would say he deserves it i do nt know why but this crap happens us always.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

The subject of Terry's game came up when Carragher — now working for Sky Sports as a pundit — asked the following question in his interview with the 34 - year - old: «People have been saying this year that «John Terry's legs have gone» but they haven't gone — you never had them!

With the advent of the Internet and how it has (a) naturally opened things up and (b) given ordinary people a megaphone — along with (c) advances in DNA testing — closedness in adoption is on its last legs.

I was kinda concerned that my kid was going to grow up to be bow - legged (we live in a big city, so we don't have the excuse that equestrian people do... haha).

For example, James Caan, businessman and former television Dragon's Den investor, was by appointed by Nick Clegg this year to help promote the Open Door initiative for getting young people into work without leg - ups, only to be revealed as having given employment to his own children.

«This is another step towards ending this culture where people who have business before the city feel they have to pony up in order to have a leg up,» he said.

M.M.: I have to say, it wasn't long until we were hit with things like the oil spill and the Haiti earthquake, and the fact that I already knew people like [Energy Secretary] Steve Chu and [NOAA Administrator] Jane Lubchenco — to know these people and have their cell phone numbers and be able to call at a moment's notice, to have these people already know me, and not have to question motives — was such a leg up in getting off square zero and getting things done.

«Some people who don't like the idea will pick this up,» he says, «but I don't think they have a leg to stand on.»

If you know people who have deadlifted for a long time, they've probably mentioned that when you're doing a good deadlift, your shins should be bleeding from the bar dragging across them, this is why you put tape on your legs — so that you won't bleed up the gym.

There's nothing wrong with being single, of course — but research does suggest that, when it comes to health benefits, happily married people often have a leg up.

Although most people can't do the true hanging leg raise the unique quality that this exercise has is that it is easy to start with the easier versions such as the hanging tuck and then build up over time until you nail the true version.

Ask any fisherman out there why they're continually studying fishing and it won't be to simply catch more fish - it's to learn the tidbits of information other people don't know so they can have a «leg up» on everybody else.

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An example of a higher resistance abs exercise would be a hanging leg raise with a proper pelvic curl - up (different than what you see most people doing in the gyms, where they only raise their knees up).

I have danced my entire life (have multiple degrees in dance), have been teaching yoga since 2008, and am an Occupational Therapist — While it is true that rolling up with fully extended legs is / can be very hard on the low back — it really depends on the anatomy and age of the person.

However, I agree that it can easily be done unsafely even by healthy people — if they roll up with their legs straight and the pelvis in a posterior tilt, which would likely place too much compression on the anterior aspect of the intervertebral discs in the lumbar spine (as you illustrate above).

OUTFIT DETAILS: Athleta leggings (old but Free People has some cute cropped leggings with a similar criss - cross tie look and alo yoga does a lace - up calf as well) H&M crop (old but this top is basically the exact same and only $ 30) Nike sneakers

Gothic inspired people love to dress up in black and lace and in vintage and this all - black, laced cowgirl getup is a really cute idea for Halloween and also you can take some inspiration from the dress such as you can have lace leggings incorporated with a pretty frock for an evening invite or these nice shoes with a summer dress for a high tes party.

I'm a fast walker — probably because I've spent most of my life trying to keep up with people with longer legs than me.

Well, the star print knockout leggings aren't quite as soft as the silk ones, but they both have the kind of material where you would feel compelled to walk up to random people and say «omg you have to feel my pants — they're so soft!»

For people who have more muscular legs, straight jeans might end up looking like skinny jeans because of how tight the jeans are at the calves.

As a Chicagoan, I personally would never hire a person who chose to show up at an interview in Jan - Feb without a winter coat and covered legs.

Often people who have a long rise (the distance between natural waist and leg break (where the leg bends up) can seem too much of a distance, so breaking this part in half to give the illusion of a more balanced rise can flatter.

Getting a good education has always given young people a leg up in life.

Publishing in a series gives you an even bigger leg up as you already have people interested in that topic.

Everyone knows that the NOOK had a solid leg up, and people who love to read WANT a great reading device.

If you can be one of the first 5 to 10 sites to come up when people look up the subject matter of your book, you have a leg up on most of the competition.

Experience: The Credit People have been in the credit repair game since 2001, which gives them a leg up on many of the other, newer credit repair companies.

Just an fyi any dog is capable of killing a child!!!!!!! There is a German Shepherd in our neighborhood that chased a kid on his bike bit his leg and drug him off the bike!!!!! I have a pit my sister has a staffordshire terrier I've known people that raise them and I don't know of one of them that have intentionally ever hurt ANYONE better yet kill someone the most they've done is lick everyone too death in the face and tried jumping up on people!!!! My pit is around my 10 month old and my 4 year old not once has he snapped or hurt either one of them!!!

The point of stopping before the puppy actually catches up is to prevent having a puppy bite at pant legs or jump at the person running.

Very clever dog because i live in the uk in london gangs ang thugs fights these loving dogs we had our blue pitbull took off us because there band in uk because off people do nt no how to treat these dogs better we have to figght to get him back they said it would take up to 6 months he has to have his bballs cropped off tatteod on his leg.

There were 6 of them in one cage at the pet store and I randomly picked two of them to take home and the pet store people said it would be okay to put them in the same cage so I did and less than a week of having them they got in a fight and now one of their legs is hurt pretty bad and the others face is all scratched up.

firstly thank you for all the messages regarding the email subscription and feedburner... a few things... since the accident in our family I have not published any Beach Cottage Newsletters (they will be back soon) so if you haven't received the weekly little message from me with a few extras from Beach Cottage Land and a bit of a round - up of what's been going on, it will be back soon, it's not that you've been removed from the list or anything like that — I have been so busy at the moment with sooo many appointments and medical stuff and well you know the gig with three kiddos plus if I'm truly honest I just haven't had it in my to greet people with what's been going on here when in my heart I feel like cr*p... (If you haven't subscribed and want to for when the Newsletter goes out again you can see a little box up there to the top right on the main page, just add your email address to that — I promise I won't ever spam you and nope I won't try to sell you my left leg or indeed bombard you with advertising or affiliate links)

Don't allow people to purchase anything for real - world money that would give them a leg up over other players.

Then, with tail between legs, you admit you've never even heard the name «Ababneh», and started asking people to bring you up to speed.

It's not a whole program but it's a start and if it cost $ 10 million it would be amazing; a lot of people could get a leg up on the new green economy now.

Most people aren't likely to pay more for manual transmission, so if your vehicle is automatic you already have a leg up.