Sentences with phrase «pick of activities»

No, this probably wouldn't have been most of our first pick of activities for our boys but sometimes you just got ta let em go for it.

Not exact matches

I've also started a new self - imposed daily challenging healthy activity (sidcha) this spring to pick up at least one piece of trash per day and put it into a trash or recycling can.

Because of this, we believe M&A activity will continue to pick up steam in 2018, particularly among larger players, such as Aetna and Cigna.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia were down 15.8 per cent in May, adding to a sharp decline in year - to - date activity, though one bright spot was a pick - up in sales of luxury marques.

It found that social - support providers — those who ask co-workers to lunch, arrange activities in the office and help pick up some of the slack — are 10 times as likely to be engaged at work than introverts and 40 percent more likely to land a promotion.

If you're a part of the selling organization, you or your CEO must intercept the sales activity, pick up the telephone and make a «call to the top» of the buying organization.

Whether it's a project for Insider Picks, creative work on the side, or even an attention - sucking activity, like getting into a video game, whenever I get deeply invested into something, I lose track of time.

A separate report on Monday, however, showed factory activity in New York state accelerating in July, bolstering the view of economists that growth was likely to pick up soon.

You can get a modicum of activity tracking without sacrificing too much style, however, by picking up a smart analog watch.

Instead, the focus has been on making more loans to energy companies and building stronger relationships with clients so that when volumes pick up, more of the activity will go to Morgan Stanley, the sources said.

«This has encouraged a game of whack - a-mole between issuers and regulators, which would tighten controls on one industry only to see activity pick up in another,» a Nikkei Asian Review report said.

Additionally encouraging was that merger activity tended to pick up toward the final half of 2013, with volumes increasing drastically then.

«I think you're going to see higher interest rates, I think you're going to see higher growth rates from GDP, that's going to benefit Goldman in a lot of ways, one of which is M&A activity should be picking up, particularly as cash gets repatriated from abroad and companies use that cash to purchase other companies,» he argued.

Treasuries touched session lows after the Institute for Supply Management, an industry group, said its index of U.S. factory activity rose to a reading of 51.5 in September as new orders and employment picked up.

Much of the activity so far this year has been in the enterprise (or business - focused technology) and software sectors, a theme that started last year and has continued to pick up.

One of the reasons activity is picking up is that financing deals is cheap, with interest rates near record lows.

But M&A activity is expected to pick up in coming months as China's political situation firms up, although the focus could fall outside of the US.

That's why it's important to pick the activities that resonate most with you, the ones that push you to become the best you that you are capable of being, and to keep doing those things.

There aren't enough hours in the day to attend every club meeting and bonding event, so pick a handful of culture - focused social activities that you will personally enjoy.

But this is a big market, and there already is some activity — it just hasn't picked up a ton of traction just yet because it is a slog to get everything all in one place.

Trading activity in interest rate futures and options picked up signicantly in North America and Europe, reflecting expectations of higher interest rates.

If the pace of the economy picks up, banks will probably see demand for more loans — and will raise rates as they compete to attract new deposits to fund the additional lending activity.

Comments from respondents include: «Business is picking up» and «Overall level of economic activity is driving our business volumes to record levels.»

April / May Canadian [trade] data may have been partly reflecting hangover effects from a harsh winter and a soft US economy in Q1 and into the start of Q2 whereas the US activity measures really picked up thereafter.

«Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that growth in economic activity has picked up recently, after having slowed sharply during the winter in part because of adverse weather conditions,» the FOMC statement read.

The consolidated structure of the iron ore industry, and geographic separation from competing economic activities, appear to have facilitated a rapid pick - up in transport capacity in response to strong global demand and prices.

The value of loan approvals to both owner - occupiers and investors has picked up since the beginning of the year (Graph 24), along with refinancing activity.

We concur with recent comments by Fed policymakers that US economic weakness seen in first - quarter data is likely to be transitory, and that activity should pick up over the rest of the year.

A pick - up in employment growth in the course of the current year would seem consistent with the range of indicators pointing to faster growth in overall activity.

Forward - looking indicators of buildings and structures investment suggest that activity will pick up significantly in coming quarters, with construction work done likely to rebound strongly following the fall in activity in the September quarter (Graph 40).

The global pick - up in demand and activity has generated strong upward pressure on a range of commodity prices over recent months, notably for oil, gold, base metals and a number of rural commodities.

This pattern is expected to be reversed somewhat over the second half of the year, as activity in the house - building sector begins to pick up and growth moderates in the medium - density sector.

Along with the pick - up in activity, there are tentative signs that conditions are improving in labour markets across the region, with the unemployment rate declining slightly in a number of countries.

A most common approach, of what can be referred to as «picking and choosing» activities, may actually be hindering the further evolution of lead nurturing.

Other signs of global reflation include a rebound in inflation expectations from mid-2016 lows, a bottoming out in core inflation and wages, and a synchronized pick - up in economic activity indicators and corporate earnings estimates.

Over the last year, people of all ages have engaged in a wide range of activities to assist people such as DIY, litter picking and gardening.

If given a choice, many of them would pick candy as the main element of their diet, and television as the main activity.

When my kids were younger, I used to plan a whole day of activities supporting my obsession with apple picking, hay rides and all.

One of our must do activities in the spring and summer is berry picking (blueberries, strawberries, etc.).

Picking pie cherries is one of my most favorite activities of the summer!

We also take responsibility for monitoring activity of pick - up agencies and replacing them if they are unable to handle pick - up and distribution of surplus food properly.

In the absence of a real chance of someone other than Metcash taking up the Franklins wholesale assets and continuing Franklins wholesaling activities, the field of grocery wholesaling in the defined territory would be left, substantially, and by default, to Metcash simply by reason of Pick n Pay's decision to cease its Australian operations.

Recruiters are hopeful that the pick - up in merger and acquisition activity will see some musical chairs among the investment banks, and put an end to four years of job cuts and hiring freezes.

The cameras had picked up Suarez's actions, however, and an independent FIFA disciplinary panel opted to suspend the Liverpool forward from all football related activity for a period of four months, ruling him out of his country's last sixteen defeat to Colombia.

On Monday, the NFL announced that the Seahawks will be docked $ 400,000 and a fifth round pick in the 2017 draft, and forced to forfeit the first week of next year's organized team activities.

Yes the Frenchman is ultimately to blame for picking the side which didn't win, and I can't help but think that our squad depth is a problem with our injuries stacking up, but I'm not 100 % sure that the club wasn't to blame for our lack of transfer activity in the summer, especially when the likes of Ivan Gazidis are insistent that our summer window was a success!

As always, injuries, the depth of our squad and transfer activities will IMO determine 50 % of our success the other 50 % being determined by the way Wenger picks his squad and tactics.

The summer transfer market can be a tricky and confusing field at the best of times — whether teams are spending bucket loads of cash or picking up snappy little bargains here and there, the more activity in the summer months the better.

Despite the whines of many, and their inclination to pick up any old piece of shit to bash the Arsenal with, football spectating is supposed to be a leisure activity done for fun, not something you do do get a boy scouts badge for meritorious attendance under grossly arduous weather conditions.

Picking up groundfall apples helps with several types of apple diseases / pests and helps control bear activity in populated areas too, so it's good all around!