Sentences with phrase «sets about»

A good training program, coach, team or club will have athletes complete benchmark sets about every 5 - 6 weeks.

He doesn't employ a system so much as he just observes his team's strengths and weaknesses and sets about maximizing the former and minimizing the latter.

Nothing daunted, Josiah sets about implementing the law - book.

«The detractor, like a dog, digs up and eats a man's rotting and wormy corpse... He lives in manure... sets about plastering anyone who is clean... indeed uses the stuff for food.»

Thus Whitehead sets about interpreting reality as a creative process, and does it with the conceptual tools of the classical metaphysics of spirit that he has fundamentally reinterpreted and generalized.

With a critical grasp of the factory of meaning, he or she sets about to oversee production.

The story is straightforward: God calls, Abraham answers and sets about to honor the demand that Isaac be sacrificed.

From the outset Shakespeare sets about providing Shylock with powerful motivation for his hatred of Antonio.

«A man's free - will, indeed, avails for nothing except to sin, if he knows not the way of truth; and even after his duty and his proper aim shall begin to become known to him, unless he also take delight in and feel a love for it, he neither does his duty, nor sets about it, nor lives rightly.

When a modern historian sets about writing the history of the United States he feels it necessary of course to go back to the period of discovery and colonization; and to give some account of the European people, chiefly the English who colonized and came to rule the Continent.

Abrams sets about crafting a film that is, in every way, true to the spirit of what made the original trilogy such a delight.

Sending himself up in the process, he sets about unpacking how ultimately vacuous that idea is, and even begins to explore what might replace it instead.

«When the Church, through your service, sets about to declare the truth about marriage in a concrete case, for the good of the faithful, at the same time you must always remember that those who, by choice or unhappy circumstances of life, are living in an objective state of error, continue to be the object of the merciful love of Christ and thus the Church herself.

The report adds detail to the troubles facing new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as he sets about fixing the company's dysfunctional culture.

As it sets about finding a new CEO, it would behoove Weinberg to consider his own role in this mess and the board's efficacy.

Breadware also sets about challenging industry standards, by helping clients bring their IoT ideas to fruition quickly and effectively.

When Stuart Vevers wants to reconnect with the DNA of the Coach brand as he sets about designing a collection, he hangs out in the climate - controlled archives on the ninth floor of company headquarters, where it houses 28,000 Coach items going back decades.

As YouTube star Mamrie Hart — her popular channel You Deserve a Drink has more than 1.2 million subscribers — set about writing her second book, which some could argue is an even scarier prospect than writing your first, her M.O. was to seek out adventure.

An unreasonable fellow, he set about doing every exercise that might help him find his why.

Roth, who declines to disclose how much the renovations cost but does reveal it was «a lot,» set about turning the island into a haven for women.

Petite & Sweet staff set about creating a higher - end version of the Twinkie, incorporating their recent obsession with salted caramel, a rising trend in dessert offerings, as well as their penchant for ganache, into two Twinkie prototypes.

Lapointe then set about validating the idea.

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

The group set about their plan by renting office space in Dallas, Texas, where a robust fracking industry regularly requires radioactive materials for gauges needed in their search for gas and oil deposits.

They benefited from rising property values mostly after they purchased their homes, and once they burned their mortgages and their kids left the nest, they set about saving for retirement in a big way.

Psychologists noticed this too and set about proving that this everyday insight holds up under rigorous scientific scrutiny.

«We... set about revolutionizing the way that cars were being sold.

To fill it, the FCC set about creating a set of privacy rules specifically for ISPs.

And back when we were making the show, there were a couple of jokes going around the set about what it looks like if you do it a certain way.

Once in office, Putin set about punishing his enemies.

Mimran set about striking a balance between «integrity of product design and killer price points,» as he later recounted to Strategy magazine.

Over 40 years of launching new products and services, we have striven to listen very carefully to what our customers think they want and then set about giving them something that is often very different, but always a little better.

I must confess, when reading this book I identified elements of both traits in my own leadership style and quickly set about changing for the better.

Harrison set about an aggressive cost - cutting and asset - trimming program that has produced amazing results.

So, Buffer's marketing team members set about broadening the scope of their posts to include a variety of topics about social media.

That thought spurred Rourke to set about reinventing his company or, more precisely, returning it to its R&D roots.

Once he got the inventory out of his hair, Rourke set about outsourcing manufacturing.

When I arrived, I set about meeting with local entrepreneurs to get a better sense of the community here.

He set about rewriting and clarifying, and this is when the magic happened.

Amos set about getting that mind working within his first 90 days of taking over as CEO in 1996.

Khosrowshahi accepted the job and immediately set about rehabilitating Uber's image.

In 2001, having lost a job as a software engineer with a dot - com, Zander moved to Truckee, California, and set about trying to make a living in a town of 14,000 people.

While deleting «coffee» from the logo, he also set about re-establishing the experience that justifies the premium he charges for a cup of joe.

He set about reconnecting with Adria.

When you set about integrating mobile into your marketing plan, you should begin with the basics: the «who, what, and how» of your mobile strategy.

You can select games, explore instruction manuals, and change a handful of settings about the console — that was pretty much it.

Then you have set about making real changes to put you on the right path.

The pair set about redesigning the store, reworking the product mix and moving the shopping experience from hippy - dippy toward a more accessible, suburban concept.

Heins certainly had his investor relations work cut out for him, as he set about reassuring shareholders that BlackBerry is alive and kicking.

He set about maximizing line speeds at Case Farms, buying additional family - owned operations and implementing modern factory practices.