Sentences with phrase «play power games»

Feedback is quite happy for executives to play power games with each other, but is less happy to receive incoming calls which start, «please hold on, Mr X would like to talk to you», followed by a long wait on the line while Mr X starts another job or call.

Friends are less likely to make assumptions or play power games because no divorce is necessary to make changes.

When women are given more opportunity to play the power games, they do so and can learn to like it.

In my Christian experience, I have seen pastors playing the power game, but I have also seen pastors suffering at the hands of Pharisees, Scribes and Saducees among the membership.

Ministers were undermined by senior advisers playing power games and seeking to exert unreasonable control over Government and the First Minister himself.

Not exact matches

If participants know what the expected hypothesis is — that playing brain science games improves your memory or that standing in a power pose improves your confidence — they're more likely to skew the results in the favor of that hypothesis.

Add a roomy battery pack and the idea that you might be able to play upcoming games like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe or Splatoon 2 for the better part of a working day, AC power - free and nonstop, is nothing short of astonishing.

Powered by Oculus technology, the $ 139 device turns smartphones into miniature VR machines, good for playing short games and looking at 360 photos and videos.

As game play shifts from the console to the smartphone, the balance of power has tipped in favor of upstarts like Bolt Creative and Imangi Studios.

With the original NES and SNES consoles, you inserted a cartridge and turned on the power to play a game.

While Taipei and Beijing have both played that game previously, Taiwan now can not hope to match the spending power of the world's second - largest economy.

By resigning as CEO but retaining his board seat, Kalanick has set up the potential for a «power game» to be played between him, his fellow board members and the new CEO, he said.

So if you want to play the ICO game, why not simply own the gas the powers the network: Ether.

The power nations of the world are playing a reckless game with their currency in a race to devalue, while developing nations have no choice but to follow them into the death spiral.

So we move from the word game study on motivation to your own hypothesis of why believers lack motivation, indulge me and I play along... So, in your opinion a person who believes in a higher power lacks motivation?

Aren't we playing the game of the dominant power if we accept that political, economic and social representation should be difficult to implement at the world level?

What he did in his influential essay, «The Power of the Powerless,» was to propose a form of radical political resistance that refused to play by the rules of the game as set by the Communist authorities.

And that when we act as victims and play a blame game, it blocks real power.

In the light of this, the game of prenuclear age power politics which the leaders of nations continue to play is preposterous, suicidal nonsense.

The two men agree as well as a gray sky and a gray moor; for both scholars, human things are best understood as plays for power, with religion merely one of the more contemptible forms of the game.

In the brutal politics of a region where the withdrawal of American power has led to seven demons worse than the first, Chaldean Catholics are especially at risk because, as Father Bazi put it, they «can't play the game the way the others do» — they can't indulge in revenge killings because their faith forbids them to do so.

San Jose went 4 for 8 on their power play as Edmonton's youth and inevitable frustration at the score caught up to them in a snowball of a game.

After Gourde got his 20th goal during a power play at 1:38 of the second, Erne made it 3 - 0 with 6:20 left in the second in his first NHL game this season.

Purdue has won just a single bowl game against a Power Five program since 1998, while Arizona has won three of its last four but didn't play in a bowl game a season ago.

... Tampa Bay, which went 2 for 4 on the power play, came into the game ranked first in the league at a 27.4 percent clip with the man advantage.

All his power last season came during two back to back games against Toronto where he belted the only three homers he had for 2017 and a 10 day period in September where he played three games and got 4 doubles.

Fukufuji stopped four shots but allowed a power - play goal that turned out to be the game - winner for the Blues.

Beliveau scored eight goals and 16 points in the»65 playoffs, including a record four power play tallies in the seven - game final vs. Chicago.

... Edmonton is 3 for 34 on the power play over the last 16 games.

He scored five of his seven goals on the power play while leading the Flames to their only Stanley Cup, won in a six - game final vs. Montreal.

It obviously takes a lot of restraint and focus to make sure no one gets out of position but they are definitely taking advantage of their seemingly game - long power play.

Bantering, gloating, praising and insulting has always played a big part in it and no matter how hard the powers that be, try to control it, it will always exist in the game... Even the players do it.

The game was theirs for the taking however when your power play looks as terrible as it did last night nj wont win.

Jack Wilshere's physical powers have been intensely tested in the last few weeks as Arsene Wenger has picked the 25 year - old for every single Arsenal game over the intense Xmas period, and he showed he was just as fit today as when he first played by being as impressive as usual and even scoring his first goal in the Premier League for two and a half years.

The Big Bang The shots heard «round the baseball world are home runs coming at a machine - gun clip, changing the way the game is played and turning mere mortals into power - hitting gods

It's on the power play, where Crosby and Kessel have combined for nine of the team's 14 goals, that the Penguins are winning games.

In Game 2, the Islanders scored three power - play goals — just as they had done in winning the opener 6 - 5, thanks to Bossy's sudden - death goal — plus a short - hander by Carroll en route to a 6 - 4 victory.

we have great fire power with probably the 2nd best creative attacking midfield in the EPL now the problem is that if we get congested in every game just outside the oppositions box there is no way we can score goals with 15 to 18 players in and around you, we need to change the way we play we can not play the million passing the ball game outside the box, we have to draw out the opposition to half way to be able to get behind their deference

Perhaps the return in December of steady, stoic power forward Charles Smith, who hasn't played a game this season because of a bum right knee, will change attitudes and fortunes for the Clippers.

Two second - period power - play goals by Mike Bossy broke open a 1 - 1 game, and the rest of the way the Islanders and Smith shut down the Canucks.

So why would a power program allow for a margin of error by limiting a game's total plays?

The Twins also rank the lowest in star power, because while I'm giddy about Miguel Sano and love watching Byron Buxton play center, I'm pretty sure Joe Mays would be the scheduled Game 2 starter.

Constantine's faith in Kovalev — who had averaged 20 minutes a game for the Penguins and mans the point on the power play — has transformed caution to courage.

But I've yet to see anybody who's really, really confident either Alabama or Ohio State has hands - down earned the No. 4 spot... other than Big Ten commish Jim Delany, who likes the fact that Ohio State played a lot of Power 5 teams, or Nick Saban, who likes the fact that he didn't lose a game by 30 points, that is.

The Lightning's top - ranked power play extended the advantage to three when Vladislav Namestnikov scored 50 seconds after Gourde's second of the game.

The Sabres are just 1 -9-2 in their last 12 games, and haven't potted a power - play goal in nine straight tilts.

The Islanders are 7 - for - 14 (50.0 percent) on the power play over their last three games, after going 2 - for - 33 (6.1 percent) in their first 10 games of the season.

Calgary has scored at least one power - play goal in six straight games and eight of its last nine.

«I thought our power play could have won us the game and they weren't good tonight,» Canadiens coach Claude Julien said.

Backlund scored Calgary's second power - play goal of the game at 14:46 to round out the scoring.