Sentences with phrase «play roles calling»

Bouchey's striking resemblance to Dwight D. Eisenhower enabled him to play roles calling for quick decisiveness and unquestioned leadership; he even showed up as the President of the United States in 1952's Red Planet Mars, one year before the «real» Ike ascended to that office.

Not exact matches

Acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven - year - long conflict.

Sandberg's call for an apology comes 12 days after Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized for the role his company played in the election.

Last month, the professional group updated its stance, saying it had growing concerns over what it calls a «lack of clinical oversight» in the use of medical marijuana if pharmacies don't play a «front - line role» in providing access to the drug.

Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

A committee for women of color within Time's Up, the organization that played a key role in the #MeToo movement, is calling for a boycott of musician R. Kelly, who has been accused of a range of sexual misconduct.

Musk — who already plays leading roles in the SpaceX rocket venture, the Tesla electric car company and the SolarCity solar - energy company — unveiled what he has called the «alpha» version of the Hyperloop plan in a blog post on Monday.

«As organizations increasingly understand how critical a role the initial customer experience [through a call centre] plays in retention, they're starting to rethink some of the ways their using their contact centres.»

And believing the Facebook news feed played a role doesn't mean you are necessarily calling those who voted for him idiots who can be manipulated by what a social network shows them.

The company's ESOP - training plan calls for role - playing games to help employees better understand their impact on stock value as well as a series of what - if exercises to help explain the delicate balance between short - term profit taking and long - term growth needs.

Musk played an Oz - like role as master orchestrator, sending signals through earnings calls and blog postings, while keeping the states in the dark and playing on their fears of losing out.

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

U.S. lawmakers have called on Google, Facebook, and Twitter to testify before Congress on the possible role their services played in distributing fake and deceptive information.

Trump's call for India to play a greater role in Afghanistan, in particular, will ring alarm bells for Pakistan's generals, analysts said.

And from his telling of the Chobani story, it was clear that a little bit of «elevation» — what some might call craziness — certainly played a role.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 21 - Alphabet Inc said on Thursday its Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will step down in January, ending a 17 - year - run in which he played a central role in building a promising startup called Google into a global technology powerhouse.

Maybe terminating that toxic employee isn't your call, or maybe as an entrepreneur this problem person plays an unavoidable role in your day - to - day business.

Politicians have a role to play, and it is irresponsible to send around «go home» immigration billboard vans and to create what the Government calls its hostile environment against migrants.

«It's really just calling out to the company, saying it has an important role to play in lowering our dependence on oil and appealing to the brand's fans and consumers to ask them to be the company we want them to be.»

Saudi Arabia has historically played a central role in Middle East peace talks, and spearheaded a proposal called The Arab Peace Initiative, which called for an end to the Arab - Israeli conflict, in 2002.

However, Jackson called up Sonnenfeld after seeing the first movie and asked to play a small role in the sequel — and so Jackson became an agent who negotiated a peace treaty between aliens.

The plan, called 9000 Points of Care, laid out a framework that would see pharmacists treat more minor ailments, like cold sores, hay fever and back pain, administer more vaccines, and play a larger role in managing chronic conditions, like heart disease and diabetes.

The sessions combine various selling exercises, including question - and - answer forums with real customers and what Macdonald calls «the dreaded role - playing,» wherein recruits are videotaped making sales pitches and then critiqued (read: roasted) by their classmates and instructors.

The two heavyweight CEOs were there — along with Jeff Watson, the president of Apotex, Canada's largest generic - drug producer — to present a plan calling for a vast expansion of the role pharmacists play in the Canadian health - care system.

Davies called on investors to play a more active role in improving gender balance in companies.

Also at the meeting was Erik Prince, the founder of the private security firm Blackwater, which played a controversial role in the Iraq War and is now called Acadami, like something out of The Da Vinci Code.

After this brutal wakeup call, economists went back and re-examined the possible role monetary policy plays in setting the stage for crises.

The CLC paper calls on Canada to play a role in creating a co-ordinated international response to the crisis that features re-regulation of both local and cross-border transactions and the imposition of a small transaction tax on all securities trading, including commodity futures.

This afternoon, Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, publicly issued a call to Zuckerberg to appear before state members to answer questions about personal data on Facebook and the role it plays in swaying elections.

New York City Coming in at 9th in this year's ITM report, New York City's technology ecosystem, sometimes called «Silicon Alley,» is home to just about every startup niche imaginable, with notable sectors including education tech, health tech and financial tech playing a big role.

In a conference call with its suppliers on April 25, a ZTE company representative suggested that ongoing U.S. - China trade tensions may have played a role in the Commerce Department's decision.

Perhaps the most important recommendation in the panel's report is its call for business to play a more direct role in how Ottawa allocates its innovation budget.

IBMers (as employees call themselves), play a critical role helping to set the agenda, as well as build and cultivate relationships.

If your team uses call scripts or trains via role playing, update your materials to make it second nature for them to sell the advantages of using an agency that markets in China.

In laying out her qualifications for the job, Blinder notes that she played an instrumental role in steering monetary policy «toward what was called the «perfect soft landing» in 1996.

The central bank would play a key role in the so called «three arrows of Abenomics», a three - pronged strategy that comprises aggressive monetary easing, flexible fiscal policy, and supply side reforms to spur private investments.

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«This stems from our long - held belief that pharmacies can, and should, play an important role in the safe and secure distribution of medical cannabis in Canada,» Neufeld added on a conference call with analysts.

Many years ago, I was playing the role of retail sabermetrician (every financial and marketing analyst should be called this), and I was frustrated because I could not get a better understanding of my company's top line.

«As we continue to make sure we are connecting with our guests, connecting with them in the way they are looking to connect with the Target brand, digital is going to play an increasingly important role,» said Mr. Cornell during an earnings call.

The so - called «Brexit» fiasco (Britain's exit from the European Union) has played a role in the downward trend in lending rates.

Muneef you know these people are so quick to call out the radicals, they do nt know what radical is, there for they cant identifiy it if they wanted to.Why is that because the truth is a work in progess and if someone at sometime in their life claimed to have recieved it there will be a good difference in their lives that will effect those around them, and if there is not, and all you have is someone repeating scriptures and playing a role Well thats all you have.

What this memoir does make clear, however, is that the central years of John Tietjen's professional life were absorbed by this struggle, that he genuinely felt himself called by God to play the role he did, and that this conviction cost him a great deal of ease which might otherwise have been his.

Drucker may be too generous in his estimate of the role that the churches and synagogues of America are playing in this «management revolution,» but religious leaders have reason to pay attention to his call for the upgrading of voluntarism.

Although I believe guilt plays a role in our lives by making us conscious of our higher calling, I also believe that if we get caught up in feeling bad about minor things, we are wasting our time.

It is the acosmic notion of brahman which is associated with what has been called the transcendental subject of knowledge, a conception which plays an especially important role in the teaching of Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.

Part of Israel's call was to be a light of who Yahweh is so that the nations around could come to faith, through faith, by the Passover blood and then the sign of circumcision, which for us I believe plays the same role as baptism.

To pick out just three: that which Deleuze theorizes as «the virtual» bears a certain similarity to Whiteheadian pure potentiality; likewise, the elements of the virtual, namely, what Deleuze calls «Ideas,» play a role comparable to that attributed to eternal objects; finally, the factor in the Deleuzean system which corresponds most closely to Whitehead's notion of creativity — that ultimate principle by which the production of novelty is to be thought — goes, for Deleuze, under the name of «productive difference,» or «Difference in itself?»

It even plays the role of what Paul Nizan calls «watchdog»; that is, to the extent that it calms passions or preaches patience or permits the poor man to bear his poverty or holds up the light of hope, to that extent it becomes a party to injustice, inhibits revolt against it and supports evil.

Kenyon Adams writes a blog for RELEVANT about how the church can play a role in nourishing Christian artists called to major cities.