Sentences with phrase «running the ship because»

Mom has her way of running the ship because she's there all day in the trenches.

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«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

There're probably tens of thousands of versions running because engineers here have the power to try out an idea and ship it to maybe 10,000 people or 100,000 people.

The 11 - year - old online marketplace has more than a hundred million users and a hundred thousand sellers shipping more than 8 million packages a month, customers Walmart has n`t been able to reach because of strict regulations limiting foreign retailer «s ability to run big stores in India.

Did you ever hear the story of a fancy ship that ran into an iceberg on its maiden voyage and sank as a result, killing more than half of the people on board because there were not enough lifeboats?

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

I saw few families take advantage of these, mostly I think because they weren't planning on doing much walking around the island (the ship does do a 5k run in the morning if you are so inclined).

I didn't get any pictures of Splash Battle because as soon as they got on the boat, my husband started squirting their boat with the water guns you can access from OUTSIDE of the ride, which of course resulted in the water guns on the ship aiming at him, so I ran!!

«If you take the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU)[report], they said 2017 and onward is going to be a period of prosperity for Ghana and that is because of the foundation that we have laid, it's because of the work that we have done, we've eliminated a lot of the deficits that were created by huge subsidies on utility tariffs, we eliminated a lot of the subsidies that created huge deficits on the cost of petroleum products, today as I speak, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) is running, and producing petroleum products for Ghana, we have enough stock of LPG, our tanks and strategic reserves for petroleum products are all full, and, so, we have ships standing offshore Ghana with petroleum products, but there is no space to offload those products, and, so, we've done a good job in stabilising various sectors of the economy.

But if you're, you know just for argument -LSB-'s] sake, if you are 20 feet from the ship, but you're in the same, going exactly the same velocity as the ship, ordinarily well, you would be up the creek, so to speak; because with nothing to accelerate against you would just parallel the path of the ship until you run out of oxygen or starve to death, whatever.

This particular ship was especially valuable because of its size — nearly twice that of most fishing boats used for trafficking — so it meant a hefty profit for traffickers who run a business that generates millions of dollars a year, as estimated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

Debbie I know — I think they do often run giveaways that are good in the UK as well because I know they ship there!

This year I decided to knock out my holiday shopping early, because let's face it, no one wants to be running through the aisles at stores with your toddler or placing that order with a high shipping fee more than me; -LSB-...]

Didn't return this one because all the shipping and fees would run more than the item itself.

I run a tight ship because I'm a dragon in the Chinese zodiac, born a leader.

Time is running down, because a potential tragedy is brewing in the Atlantic with a convoy of shipping vessels amid the German U-boats the British no longer know the positions of.

ViewSonic's Viewpad 100 (or Viewpad 10, depending on who you ask), has been getting a bit of attention because it's one of the first tablet PCs slated to ship with dual boot operating systems, allowing you to run both Windows 7 and Google Android 1.6.

«I used to carry around bags of books,» she remembers, adding that in fact, «my last deployment on the ship I ended up having close to $ 800 worth of books sent to me — only about half of which I kept because I ran out of room!»

Really, does anyone believe the shipping and storage costs are the same now, in this day of POD, as it was when huge print runs were made and then the publishers sat with fingers crossed because they didn't have pre-order numbers to judge off of?

Be realistic and you'll save in the long run, which is more important than saving a few bucks off one trendy gadget just because you get caught up in a shipping frenzy.

This requirement makes sense because it indicates serious involvement, you can't be part of such clubs unless you run a tight ship.

What I meant is that the CatGenie does not work if you don't have the brand's supplies so you never have to run out of them, this could be a con if you forget to have supplies as backup because you can only buy them online with a approx. 4 days shipping.

Bombers aren't there to dent the large capital vessels because they would rarely pierce their powerful defenses, rather their job is to take on the smaller frigates and mop up the larger ships that have already been heavily damaged in combat, opening up the possibility for a bombing run to destroy them.

We ended up locked like that for a while, because I'd run out of space to build anything without an incredibly expensive command centre upgrade and therefore was left struggling to increase my command limit in order to get enough ships, or upgrade my own ships weapons.

Even returning to an outpost to deliver your loot becomes a pain because what once was three players hauling three chests is now you slowly running back and forth between your ship and the merchant.

It's really good that diesel vehicle sales are declining, because the saved diesel could be used power ships, barges and locomotives which normally run on more dirtier bunker fuel.

You cost less because you run a tighter ship.

So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.

A couple predictions: HoloLens ships in time for the holidays, Continuum for Xbox, OneDrive placeholders return, Surface Phone with an x86 processor (and since Continuum will run desktop apps, everyone will make excuses when it doesn't work well because it's new), and more.

HTC neglects to mention which version of Android this is though, which is cause for concern because the company is shipping MediaTek - based phones elsewhere still running the ancient 6.0 Marshmallow.

They were actually very reasonably priced because they have deals running all the time for 35 - 40 % and free shipping.