Sentences with phrase «people were in line»

Just this Sunday my local Toys R Us received 37 Wii's from Nintendo, and only 25 people were in line to get them.

People were in line from 6:00 am to be first through the doors at 9:00 am.

You are so, so, so, sweet for singing books for hours because so many people were in line.

«People are in line to sort of point the finger at him and say that he's this, that, or the other.

A normally astute and well - informed Lib Dem observer reckons the following people are in line to be among the expected 15 new Liberal Democrat peers:

Many online users have gotten one of the infamous emails that detail that some person is in line to receive millions of dollars, but they are unable to access it without the help of the email recipient.

Not exact matches

A phone call would be next in line when neither in person or Skype is feasible.

Sometimes in conversations with these people, I find myself thinking of how thin the line really is between praying and whining, and how easy it is to cross.

HTT, which lays claim to the brand name «hyperloop» — a futuristic transport system that essentially involves sucking people through a vacuum tube at high speed — says it is «building the first commercial line in Abu Dhabi.»

«In the days before cell phones were commonplace, we drilled holes into the concrete and ran hard lines to telephones on each table, so people could talk to their office and do work.»

So when you're sitting down at the table to plan for 2017 and beyond, you'll want to have the right people who influence your target's opinions — and your bottom line — at the table, engaged in the right way.

«I think it is important for me to listen to the people in the front line, understand what their obstacles are, and then [decide] how can I make sure that they are properly resourced.»

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

Bottom line: Not necessarily the place that the numbers or non-stop notoriety would ever take you, but the right thing to do if you're trying to make an important difference in people's lives.

Tsarnaev's words in the note, «Now I don't like killing innocent people but due to said (bullet hole) it is allowed,» resembled lines from an editorial in Inspire, Levitt said.

And, invariably, having a conversation with that person in the checkout line, or wherever it may be, makes me better at what I do.

These latest reports and in particular the Productivity commission are nonsence to say that it will have a marked effect on the overseas On - Line sales is absolute rubbish.My daughter is in retail in Sydney the problem with overseas On - Line they pay no tax eg GST super, the list goes on we forget WA metro has say 1.8 m people Sydney has 6m Bondi Junction which is probiably the largest shopping centre in Sydney is shut at 6 o, clock most nights The gov keeps going on about the east and what they do Wayne Spencer and co are mouth peaces for the large retailers.My main concern is the On - Lne which is destroying Australias retail ecnomy if it fails being our largest employer the country will be in huge trouble economicly.I have spelt this out in detail in an Email to Bill Shorten if you would like a copy

Admittedly, because a government entity is counting the real people standing in real lines, the first count is usually inaccurate.

Here are the first 17 people in line for the crown behind Queen Elizabeth:

There were only 100 available and these people were No. 130 in line.»

If he is unable to serve, the next person in the line of succession acts as president (see the chart below).

The bottom line is that content is king and people are consuming it in different ways.

«We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was.

This struggle reminds me of people just waiting in line at the grocery store, even though there's an empty line one or two lanes over that they could have accessed, if only they had stayed focused, rather than drifting away in la - la land.

How people should feel about their gadgets is in fact counter-intuitive to this line of thinking.

Rather than front - line support, this is involved in all the meetings — up and down the customer support organization — to understand what people are dealing with.

«It's a fine line you need to walk because you need to take care of whatever your business requirements are, but you also want to recognize that the person who works for you is not a robot,» says Barnett, who works in the Atlanta office of Houston - based HR provider Insperity.

That's more than a lot of people pay in rent for commercial property; $ 55,000 a year is a really good manager to run a shop in Iowa, or a new product line.

Its products, which also include a line for kids, are sold in 125,000 locations around the country and now employs more than 100 people.

At 5 %, which is more in line with today's returns, that person would need to invest $ 230,000 — 30 % more.

«But the advertising people were immensely professional in terms of explaining what Microsoft had done,» Montgomery said, «They toed the corporate line — it's very, very difficult for someone who works for Microsoft to say, look, we don't agree.»

Mulvey & Banani's tag line is «well connected,» referring to not only its work designing intelligent building systems that connect people in a physical sense but also its network of like - minded architects, designers, owners, developers, property managers and project managers.

It was the iPod that Steve Jobs was talking about in 2003 when he uttered the line that has become one of his most defining, and frequently quoted, aphorisms: «Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,» he told the New York Times.

You have to act as if you're in polite conversation - you'd never make the person on the other side of the line uncomfortable.

«People think running a startup is just a straight line, that you go in one direction,» Solorzano, who has since shifted from CTO to CEO, tells Inc. «You really go up, down, sideways, left, right, 45 degrees this way, 90 degrees that way.»

But it's still too early to tell whether it'll mirror the Nintendo Wii's early days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend for the small number of consoles available.

When we arrived at the gym, there were about 2,000 people in line outside.

It states that a food truck can't stop unless someone waves it down and can't remain in place unless there's a line of people outside.

«Contrary to what some people in the business world think, the 1990s were not that different from the 2000s for top - line economic performance results — GDP and employment growth,» says Finlayson.

That's because the combo treatment would become a go - to, first - line option in patients regardless of whether or not they have the biomarker PD - L1 (Keytruda is far more effective in people who express high levels of the biomarker).

And though the line of totality will not pass through California, people in the solar energy industry there are prepping for the impact.

«We are in a golden era for transformation, and while people throw around the word disruption all the time, as someone who loves business strategy and technology strategy I can tell you the lines are disappearing and they are becoming one and the same.»

So, either way, the lines are just getting slower, and in many cases, people are being left hungrier.

(It's worth noting that on the day Uber launched UberPool, its carpooling feature, the news arrived in a blog post with this line: «Since the early days of Uber, we've been excited about the idea of providing transportation so inexpensive and reliable, people can actually sell their cars.»)

«Too many companies are still focused on treating people in robotic ways, looking only at the bottom line,» says Burke.

In 2009, General Motors killed its Pontiac line of vehicles, which was named for the city, and then announced the closure of two local plants, putting more than 2,000 people out of work and costing the city a huge chunk of tax revenue.

It was the modern assembly line, with the product passing through stations instead of people going to work in shifts on the product.

«We bring in new clones every Tuesday and Saturday, and the line is always at least 60 people waiting to buy clones from Dark Heart,» says Zwack.

A tip that Corcoran gives to people searching for Shake Shack is one that only locals would know: if you only want ice cream, you don't have to stand in the crazy long line.

If you don't think you're in line to win a Nobel, the study authors say the concept still holds for other great achievements — people tend to do their most outstanding work in middle age.