Sentences with phrase «picking at it as»

You're lucky this even made it to post, because I kept picking at it as I was trying to shoot.

It was also insanely difficult to keep myself from picking at it as I stirred the mixture together, particularly the peanut butter / maple syrup mixture, which I could have eaten by the spoonful!

This type of food is so dangerous because it's too easy to pick at it as you walk by.

The game could be improved with the inclusion of map to aid exploration, but when that is the only real thing we can pick at as a negative point it is clear that we're on to a winner.

Not exact matches

In keeping with what has been a familiar theme for the founder at Glenview Capital Management, Robbins picked Express Scripts - Cigna, CVS - Aetna and McKesson as his winners in the field.

Walmart now has grocery pick - up at 1,000 of its 4,700 U.S. stores, firepower that is essential as it competes with Amazon's Prime Now and that retailer's recent acquisition of Whole Foods Market, which gave it 300 new physical distribution points.

Pick - up options: Select «Check store availability» as you shop online, then select «Same day pickup» at checkout.

Even experienced VCs will tell you they have to make educated guesses, and sometimes rookies are as good as veterans at picking winners.»

C - SPAN picked up those streams and began re-distributing them, as did a number of other broadcasters (at least one member of the House also used Facebook Live to show what was happening inside the chamber).

The bigger payoff for the larger populace will come in December 2016 at the latest, when all providers will have to offer channels on a pick - and - pay basis as well as smaller theme packs that are, to use the CRTC's language, «affordable.»

The source of her discomfort was revealed by another user who posted details of an event in which men were meeting up at the Eaton Centre to pick up as many women as possible.

CNBC's Dominic Chu reports on the best stock picks as laid out by Starboard's Jeff Smith at the Delivering Alpha Conference.

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.

In some places, like Tokyo, it's easy to rent a portable Wi - Fi hotspot to use all around the country — you can even pick them up from the airport — but this isn't as easy everywhere, and if there are any issues picking up the hotspot at the start of your trip, you're out of luck.

The bears don't believe Genworth will be picking up the slack because «they too are subject to a parliamentary cap of $ 250 billion,» at least as stated in this article, «The under - the - radar changes that may soon deflate (or pop) the housing bubble.»

«But not everybody is as good at picking up on social cues and it isn't always easy to know if you're in sync with each other or not.»

To be fair, Buffett himself isn't responsible for picking all the stocks that Berkshire owns, as his two deputies, Ted Weschler and Todd Combs, are now managing large portfolios of their own at the company.

Across the web, professional reviewers, including those at Savant Magazine and Best Cheap Reviews, name the Sport - Brella as a top beach chair pick.

After picking up a degree in aeronautical engineering from California Polytechnic in 1965, he took a job as a test engineer at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave.

That doesn't necessarily mean they'll be able to get the player they want, as the potential first pick Josh Rosen has expressed hesitance at the idea of joining the Browns.

In 2017, Walmart has also introduced a membership - free, two - day shipping program, a discount for customers who pick up an online order at a order rather than have it shopped, curbside grocery pickup at hundreds of stores and other novel services such as having a Walmart store worker drop off an online order on the way home after their shift.

At a time when shoppers can just as easily make purchases online, Walmart stores have to offer a more inviting environment but also take advantage of an asset it has over Amazon: its thousands of stores offer it many pick up locations.

M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every deal we do, and so not to pick on any specific deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of deals we've done in the past, is making sure the key leaders at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.

While the Browns could justifiably use all of those picks, as they have needs at just about every position, quarterback remains their biggest need.

The company has even looked at picking up the rights to scripted shows that aired during previous seasons on traditional networks, while Facebook also has deals in place for streaming live sports, including MLB games and European soccer, as well as e-sports competitions.

Solving the issue of trust comes at the expense of convenience and scalability, as the process of picking random validators so that the network can verify transactions instead of financial institutions, «takes time, is expensive, and consumes tremendous amounts of energy,» Martin said.

Beyond slowing sales, food companies are working with increasingly punishing retailers that are under their own pressure as shoppers pick up their food staples at convenience stores and, increasingly, Amazon.

It's handy to look at the screen as a security measure to unlock the phone, although you do have to pick up the phone and look at it.

There's a high demand for babysitting and childcare services, whether it's regularly picking up and dropping off children at school for two - parent working families or accompanying a family on a trip as a childcare provider.

«We want them to go to companies that will put them in the sorts of applications we know they can succeed at,» says Brooks — tasks such as picking up an object from a conveyor and putting it into a bin.

At Kellogg, Jain had the advantage of being an insider and he knew what he was in for — he had joined Kellogg as a marketing professor in 1986, and became associate dean in 1996, five years before he was picked for the top job.

Cabinet ministers have been at odds over policy, including citizenship laws, the national vote on same - sex marriage and competition reform, as well as being left out of the decision loop on a series of «captain's picks» by the prime minister.

«The chances their parents can pick up the bill are not as high,» says Sara Goldrick - Rab, a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and founder of the Wisconsin HOPE Lab, a research center at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Rather than being picked up on - site as cats are at most shelters, they are delivered right to people's homes and have access to various at - home services.

In other countries, he notes, banks are making products more tangible by allowing customers to shop for them in off - the - shelf boxes, which makes things like getting a new bank card as easy as picking up cornflakes at your local supermarket.

The general feeling is that two first - round picks was two much for Mozgov and many looked at it as a sign the Cavs were getting desperate.

Wal - Mart has scaled back on new store openings and is instead investing in improvements such as grocery pick - up kiosks, which are now available at 1,000 stores.

As John Herrman at The Awl described so thoroughly in a recent piece he wrote about the disintermediation of journalism by the web and social media, one of the biggest shifts in media of the past decade has been the ability for anyone — journalist or not — to pick up a phone and share information with vast numbers of people.

As with any UberPOOL, you'll get picked up at a corner near your starting point and dropped off at another corner near your destination, making the route more direct and subsequently saving you time.

Salamunovic said he often visits these stores when he's staying at his second home in Los Angeles to pick up brands such as Vince, John Varvatos and the Made & Crafted line by Levis — all of which he says are difficult to find in Canada.

Brain - picking at Harvard Abroad, Lee's thoughtful, forceful speeches on international affairs have won him a reputation as a regional statesman.

As a long - time Apple Watch owner, I can say with confidence that there's never been a better time to pick one up, especially at this discounted price.

Investors have picked up on the trend: A website that tracks private companies values Zynga at more than $ 5 billion, roughly the same as Electronic Arts» (ERTS) market capitalization.

But if I could pick anyone as my COO it would Ali Rowghani, who is the COO at Twitter.

Note we do see inflation moving sideways at low levels in the eurozone, even as we expect inflation to pick up in the U.S..

As at Five Guys and Shake Shack, Wahlburgers customers can order their food at a register and pick it up at the counter.

As for the voluntary fingerprinting program, Austin's mayor hopes that drivers will be motivated to participate by the incentives that are included like the ability to pick up passengers at the airport.

«I remember at the hospital when I was coming out of the coma,» says Schuback, leaning forward slightly as though concerned my recorder may not pick up her soft, halting words.

To pick their next locales, employees look at demographics such as education level.

I was a bit shocked because I grew up working at the local mall — it was as much a social arena as it was a way to pick up a new outfit.