Sentences with phrase «rather than firing»

Vivi probably won't have anything to worry about, although it would be better for him if Garnet agreed to call it a layoff rather than a firing.

The TicHome Mini has a tidy design overall, with its cupped base helping to expose the diminutive 3W speaker's grille, rather than it firing down into a surface.

Rather than firing off a present number of responses when it sees certain keywords in an email, Google's AI uses machine learning to process the content, and then suggest replies.

But what about using additive manufacturing techniques to «print» tiles out of recycled materials, rather than firing them?

It is best to keep working furnaces and turbines running at optimum rating rather than firing up and firing down and moving units online and offline.

Russian businesses adjust to negative shocks mostly by lowering salaries, rather than firing employees.

Still didn't stop me from attaching leads in cylinder order rather than firing order though.

The HGSE team took a different approach by focusing on mentoring and improving teacher's performance rather than firing them.

Capcom staff explain to me that Thor was lacking mobility in MVC3 so he's been given a projectile in this game, but it doesn't surprise me to see that rather than firing a blast of lightning or something Thor's projectile has taken the form of him throwing his hammer, something which is basically the signature move of the movie Thor.

A small proportion of the neurons in the lateral habenula fire several times in quick bursts, rather than firing once at regular intervals; the team found that «depressed» rodents had a lot more of these quick burst cells.

When you run the numbers, it may be more cost - effective to invest in your employees, rather than firing off the poor performers and finding new ones, which, in sales, can be an expensive process that can take months.

When you discover your error, rather than firing executives and / or creating a crisis, you simply change the hypotheses.

Skep - tical act - ivists should be making a special effort to reach those still per - ched on the fence, the luke - warm rather than the fire - brands.

Rather than fire people for entering same - sex marriages, «we should fire people for being mean.»

plenty of rants about people who think differently or worship differently (even within Christianity) or live different lifestyles than what people think they should, and not nearly enough anger about injustice, disdain for prejudice, discontent about misrepresentation of Jesus» words and frustration at the unwillingess to be salt and light rather than fire and brimstone.

Flavors come from hints rather than fire — it is the mild spices rather than the heat that bring out the charm of this curry.

According to the IBO's Doug Turetsky, the staff reductions came primarily through attrition, rather than firings.

Baraka won re-election despite a last - minute campaign against her after she voted with a majority of board members to suspend rather than fire Principal Carmen Perez Dickson for dragging kindergartners down the hallway at Tisdale School.

At least in opening up such a debate, education ministers will feel that they are easing back into more reassuring waters, making decisions about change rather than fire - fighting problems.

As in Long Beach, struggling teachers are provided support, rather than fired.

Here we're talking specifically about Kindle ebook readers, rather than Fire tablets, although in many cases, the same information applies.

But rather than fire up the mod as soon as I returned to Electron Dance HQ, I elected to wait for the remake.

This attitude then cascades down so that I get involved right from the start, rather than fire - fighting when things take a turn for the worse.

Often a company wants to push someone out rather than fire them and have to pay severance or unemployment benefits.

«Relationships die by ice rather than fire,» said McNulty.

«Relationships die by ice rather than fire,» says McNulty.

Not exact matches

To engage workers, step back from the day to day and focus on proactive, inspiring leadership rather than reactive, putting - out - fires management.

But Obama fired Flynn as the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 — and Flynn's security clearance would have been renewed at the DIA level rather than by the upper echelons of the White House.

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

Boards of directors are facing increasing pressure to fire CEOs rather than allow them to linger.

For example, if your boss has immediately fired a past employee who told them about another job opportunity then it may be in your best interest to start your new job sooner rather than later to avoid missing out on pay.

Because this customer had maximum demands of 260 kilovolt amperes (KVA) for firing up equipment, there is a demand charge based on 90 % of KVA rather than the total kilowatts actually consumed (KW).

Jean fired back on Twitter, suggesting that Cruz is «the one who could use a pacifier in his mouth» rather than Maggie, the Simpson's family baby.

«It's like a log on a fire rather than a gas fireplace,» he adds.

Founders and CEOs should prioritize building their boards Entrepreneurs may prefer to focus on the daily tasks of launching products, hiring employees and putting out fires, rather than thinking about their boards.

«If some institutions feel pressure today,» Carney fired back in a speech, «it is because they have done too little for too long, rather than because they are being asked to do too much, too soon.»

Top of the risk charts was the US's new - found protectionism, with trade tariffs having the potential to batter investor confidence — especially if the US's trading partners, rather than adopting a mollifying stance, choose instead to meet fire with fire by launching an all - out trade war.

The intensity of the explosions and fires at Lac - Mégantic, he said, came as a «big surprise» to him and other researchers, given that the tank cars had been carrying crude oil, rather than a more volatile form like gasoline.

The users are currently more likely to own Tablets like Apple's iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook, and Samsung Galaxy Tab rather than PlayBook.

However the Wildrose gets everyone fired up thinking «that damn Rachel Notley wants to destroy the family farm» and rather than try to find the facts out people just believe what comes out of the WR as the god given truth.

An attempt at creative camera work turned into a rescue effort rather than the inventive imagery the photographer had hoped for, fire officials said.

So Catholic doctrine is not so much about pushing people to have kids but demanding they use a «hit and miss» technique rather than a «sure fire» technique, when the people DO N'T wan na have kids?

It's as if you're taking a fire extinguisher and rather than read the instructions, you just throw it at the fire hoping that will work... it might, or it might make it worse... or do nothing.

Living dogmatically in a non-dogmatic world soon proves silly; tell a nation like ours to not eat bacon because pigs are «unclean» rather than explain that it was tricky to cook pork 2000 years ago over a fire and made people sick.

Responding with mercy and grace helps usher in reconciliation rather than stoking the fire.

«And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire» (Matt.

In the classic Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury paints a picture of a future world where firefighters start fires, rather than put them out — fires created with burning books because intellectual pursuits...

This does not mean that the realities imaged by fire, undying worms and darkness are not terrible because that language is metaphorical rather than literal.

Rather than despairing, he thrust his efforts into ministering to the people who had suffered loss from the fire, working to get them back on their feet.

The Virginia planter and Fire - Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture «the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.»