Sentences with phrase «see us off at»

«Every four years we are asked if we want to have our foot trod upon or sawed off at the ankle without anesthetic.

The president was seen off at the departure point by the Emir of Daura, Alhaji Umar Farouk, top party officials and several well wishers.

I personally prefer to avoid anything that has a strap at the ankle as I think these can make you look sawed off at the ankles.

The next day Roy was flying back home and his daughter and grandson were seeing him off at the airport.

When I left for Switzerland, you and my mother came to see me off at Dulles.

And at the end of our stay, all the surfers we had met jumped into our taxi and drove 2 hours to see us off at the airport.

Callie saw her off at the station, promising to catch up with Marie the following day.

You could greet friends and relatives and see them off at the gate.

Not exact matches

A company that became a national phenomenon with retail alchemy — a rare ability to attract millions with hip designer items at clear - out prices — has seen that delicate formula stifled by excessive caution and a strangling bureaucracy, even as competitors emulated Target's approach, and fast - fashion retailers like H&M, off - price chains such as T.J. Maxx, and dollar stores all muscled onto its turf.

Razer showed off two new prototypes at the show this year: Project Valerie (seen above) and Project Ariana, a projection / camera system for making video games impact the real world around your screen.

Rheingold recommends that people investing in a campaign look at the people behind it to see if they have the business plan, personnel, and expertise to pull it off.

When Zuckerberg showed up at Oculus's offices in Irvine to see a more advanced version of Oculus Rift, founder Palmer Luckey blew him off.

Kerr began collecting plays too, pausing games on the flat - screen at his San Diego home whenever he saw an action he liked - a backdoor lob off an inbounds or a particularly potent flare screen.

In particular, the Euro Stoxx Banks Index jumped 0.9 percent, which meant that euro area banks have managed to recover the losses suffered in the global sell - off seen at end of 2015.

«It's hard to see it from the employee's standpoint, even though you were an employee at one point — if you're in a company that has no choice but to lay off employees, would you want to be treated like that?»

At the same time, we're doing enforcement activity in our remote [exclusive economic zones] to make sure that there's not illegal fishing activity taking place, and we were not seeing that activity, but it was peeling off a lot of our resources toward what I would consider a relatively benign threat, and then we're providing other resources to do exercises with the military in the remote parts of the world but with really no strategic outcome that I could discern where the Coast Guard was providing a unique capability.

I've never seen any kind of public campaign to persuade patients to apply some common sense before dropping themselves off at an emergency room.

Revolut launched cryptocurrency trading through its app at the end of 2017 and Storonsky said the company saw an uptick in activity but it has since trailed off as the price of bitcoin has fallen.

Margie Patel, a senior portfolio manager at Wells Fargo Funds, said that she expects to see little to no effect from trade tariffs and has been adding to companies such as PNC Financial Services that have sold off in the market downturn.

It wasn't our intention to have the watermelon have a voice, but after we shot it, the footage went off to our editor, and I took a look at the cut and saw that he'd inserted these lines for the watermelon.

The global stock sell - off is continuing, with Tuesday seeing significant falls at exchanges in Asia and Europe.

This is the first discount we've seen on the Voyager at hefty 25 % off.

Many lower - income Canadians, meanwhile, would be better off avoiding PRPPs, which would see their Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement benefits clawed back at higher tax rates.

Some analysts struggle to see how entering the Canadian market will pay off for Verizon at all.

Drummond suggests that no matter how the Americans deal with the debt, it could throw Canada into a double - dip recession: «It could be a lose - lose, because if they deal with it in a draconian fashion, then they'll kill off the recovery, but if they don't deal with it at all, they're going to see lower U.S. growth, drive down the U.S. dollar, raise the bond premiums — and that would be a disaster for Canada.»

In a time when Americans are working more than ever before and taking less time off, it's helpful to see how the U.S. arrived at its «standard» workday.

Hats off to those guys, who I'm sure I'll be seeing at E3 this week.

In a perfect world, employees would refrain from conducting their holiday shopping at work, but when your employees see «80 percent Off Everything» promotions advertised across the Internet and in their inbox, it will be nearly impossible to stop the online shopping mayhem unless you address the challenges for your network and employees in advance.

It became commonplace in America to see a vast range of people at the local Starbucks: hurried bankers in suits, parents with strollers, students with laptops, someone writing a novel or dozing off in a comfy chair.

When running the last five miles of an ironman while your legs are cramping so badly that you can see the muscles knotting in your legs between each step, or diving a 3,000 - foot shelf, at night and in the dark, while someone accidentally kicks off your mask leaving you temporarily blind, getting into and staying in your flow state is not just helpful, it can be lifesaving.

Don't stare at the person dead in the eyes as this can be seen as too intense or even feel intimidating, but rather, look slightly off center to the left or right eye.

You'll be amazed at exactly how even the slightest difference in the contact point on the club face gives you the knowledge that a shot will be off line before you even see where it's going.

Combined sales at HBC and Lord & Taylor grew by 2.5 per cent, while Saks Fifth Avenue saw a 2.6 per cent increase OFF 5TH rose by 1.5 per cent.

She also learned to resist impulse buys, thanks to one, simple strategy: When she sees something she wasn't planning on buying and doesn't actually need, she puts off the purchase for at least a day.

«While it's not uncommon for commodities and USD to rally or sell off at the same time, especially when we look at their returns at a higher frequency (daily or weekly), 4Q 2016 was actually the first quarter in more than a decade to see such a sizable divergence,» the analysts added.

So when you look at Chinese PBR ads, you'll see a fancy bottle next to a champagne flute, with stacks of barrels trailing off behind, as if a high - end scotch were being advertised.

Clayton explains that small - to - medium size farmers «want the EPA off their backs, regulatory-wise» and at the same time don't want to see changes in terms of ethanol.

«The owner of the pizzeria I worked at walks in and sees a burnt pie in the trash, takes it out, pulls the cheese off, puts it on my pizza table and says «reuse that!

At Vice, we give interns big jobs — throw them off the diving board to see if they can swim, so to speak.

«If you see your targets are off by more than 4 percent to 5 percent, you should think about a rebalance,» said Christy Gatien, certified financial planner and first vice president and portfolio manager at D.A. Davidson & Co..

When we look at the data globally, we often see the research and attention on women at the top or on the board, but the biggest issue is really the drop - off at the middle - management stage, where women leave at about twice the rate men do.

That was one of the questions Boxed CEO Chieh Huang had to answer when employees saw a robot taking items off the shelf at the company's fulfillment center.

With stocks in general still trading so high, investors are best off ignoring the short - term hype around buyback announcements and instead taking a closer look at companies on repurchasing binges to see if their share prices have more room to run.

I've got to see a write - off at Alstom.

At Buffer we've found that we can post 13 times to Twitter per day and three times to Facebook without seeing any significant drop off.

So Paramount, in the wake of a disappointing 2017 that saw big budget films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Ghost in the Shell underperform while the studio's would - be Oscar hopefuls Suburbicon and Downsizing were DOA at awards season, is looking to make some changes in 2018 and selling God Particle off to Netflix may be a cushy deal.

Then he'd direct them to make the drop - offs: Go see Ron Ron with 50 keys at Q Billiards on Cass Avenue in Darien, he'd say, or Old Man with 30 at the Outback Steakhouse in Calumet.

Each time we see a smaller and smaller number, Nicole and I look at each other and say, «Wait a second... We're actually going to pay this thing off!!»

But in the last two days gold prices came off because of a stronger dollar and we saw good demand,» said Brian Lan, managing director at dealer GoldSilver Central in Singapore.

We usually purchase our product at a price of around 10 - 15 % of the items original retail values (we usually sell most items for 50 % off original retail, just so you see the numbers here...).