Sentences with phrase «so tied up»

NTRB resources are so tied up in litigation and related matters, that NTRBs can not negotiate agreements, thus impeding local and regional development.59

But then, some people just get so tied up in just the heading tags of an employment lawyer, Boston or whatever, that they don't really appreciate how much people are really struggling with issues.

Rather, it tasks us to examine why exactly parts of the science have become so tied up with ideology, and how to re-frame and depoliticize the physical science itself (the policy response, alas, will always be somewhat hostage to ideology, but a better acceptance of the basic science will at least engender a more meaningful debate).

The emotion, the materials, the grand scale... The stories of de Kooning, Pollock and Rothko hanging out at Cedar Tavern haunted me while I was studying at the New York Studio School on 8th St. Ultimately, though I think some of them took themselves too seriously and the massive scale was so tied up in machismo which was a turn - off.

Or are they just so tied up in their outdated model that they can't break out?

Joy is a typical teenager, so tied up in her own problems that she can't see the wood for the trees.

I got so tied up in adulting, working, reading new releases for review and other books on my TBR stack, that the books sat there on the shelf.

I've been so tied up with trying to get my *!

Maybe you have been so tied up with the earning money part of your life that you never really gave dating a chance.

It is easy to feel discouraged and deflated in this job, especially when your work is so tied up in your personality and entire self, but occasionally I am completely blown away by the opportunities that this little website brings me.

The Avery is the perfect example of how conventional «work pants» don't have to be so tied up all the time.

«Everything is so tied up with these ethics reform conversations that it's overshadowing every other issue,» Adam told Rink in a March 24 call.

Toilet training is particularly ripe for power struggles because it is so tied up with toddlers wanting to have control over their own bodies.

Suddenly I was so tied up in a whirlwind of rocking, burping, feeding and diaper - changing that «age - appropriate - play» was the last thing on my mind.

That's not so say Iturbe isn't an effective playmaker or passer, but his efficiency is so tied up with aggression that, as we discussed, when the match doesn't come his way, he becomes a neutral threat at best, whereas Falque makes quick, forward passes when he receives the ball, preferring to passively beat defenders via the passing game rather than deceiving them with body feints or step overs.

So I shall use the word «appraisal» in the remainder of this chapter, rather than the word «judgement»; the latter fails seriously, for us today at any rate, because it is so tied up with notions of law - courts, assizes, and the other paraphernalia of «justice» in the legal sense.

Thomas's answer to this question (in ST1.75.6) sounds occasionally like the position Plato sets out in the Phaedo, where the character Socrates argues that the concept of the soul — and, presumably, also its being — is so tied up with life as not to admit of its opposite, death [105C8 - E10].

Perhaps evangelicalism in particular has become so tied up with politics that the decline of Republicanism signals, to many, the decline of Christianity in public life.

«Sometimes your identity is so tied up in your work that if you lose that the identity, you're in a lot of trouble,» explains Shepherd.

So a tie up with Amazon just makes the right sense for HP in their bid to make things that much more difficult for the Apple and its iPad.

So you tie up hundreds of thousands of your liquid capital into equity on a house that you still have to pay monthly for?

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After all, one reason insurance companies traditionally keep patients tied up with red tape is because healthcare costs are so high.

Whether you need to pick up all the essential ties for men or you simply want to add more choices to your professional wardrobe, right now is the best time to do so.

Because so much of its business is tied up in a few particular styles, a single manufacturing error — like the one that forced executives to recall the near - seethrough women's pants in March — can cause millions of dollars in lost sales.

Have you ever experienced something cool and, in telling the story, you get so tongue - tied that you end up saying something along the lines of, «well, you just have to experience it for yourself?»

So if voting isn't meant to break a tie, what's the purpose of getting a show of hands on an issue that's holding up your meeting?

Tesla absorbed SolarCity in 2016, so it's unlikely that an official tie - up with SpaceX would happen in 2018.

So the «soft» tie - up of SpaceX and Tesla appears to be the way to go.

All of the so called big four have online grocery offers, with Morrisons the last to enter the market through a tie - up with Ocado.

PR: Their stock vests over a five - year period, and the senior guys are tied up for about eight years, so they're at Canaccord for a long time.

Not only will these experiments provide you with valuable feedback on whether you'll really enjoy that new life you're eyeing for yourself, but they're also mercifully small and doable — it's hard to tie yourself up in knots of fear and procrastination when the initial step is so tiny.

The deal would maintain the government's so - called golden share in Embraer, a former state enterprise, giving it veto power over certain strategic decisions, including Boeing's current push for a tie - up.

63 % of all requests to Facebook from Google Chrome were those so - called «conditional requests,» tying up resources for the time it took for the server to tell the browser that, no, there's no new file since the last time you visited.

It's practically weightless, takes up almost no space when deflated, is easy to tie onto a backpack or bike, and lasts so long on a full charge.

Rising prosperity has largely obviated the first and helped the second, along with changing social mores — people who really want children can do so today without having to be permanently tied to a mate, if they are up to the challenge.

Back in 2010 it paid $ 550 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it mislead investors into buying a so - called synthetic collateralized debt obligation named Abacus, which was made up of a bundle of financial instruments tied to subprime mortgage bonds, many of which plummeted in value shortly after the deal was sold.

Still, Loftus was concerned that so much of his personal wealth — and that of his shareholders — was tied up in the business.

So, while it might be great to be able to put our money to work in an investment vehicle that produced double - digit returns, we may not be able to afford to tie up our capital for that long or to sustain huge swings in our portfolio's value.

Bregman says it's also a good time to tie up loose ends so they don't leak into the evening.

«The E.U. has tied us up in a straitjacket of regulations so we can't compete with other member states like Spain, where the same regulations don't apply,» Hourdel recently told The Telegraph.

My cash flow is currently tied up until the end of December building a house for my father so I have time to make a decision.

Just curious why all equity, when there are several debt offerings in the 8 - 9 % + range that only tie up capital for 12 months or so?

You don't want to get tied up with that kind of job the whole day, so looking for a virtual assistant would be the most practical thing to do.

This doesn't tie up any working capital to finance the cost of the payment, so you can keep your day - to - day operations intact.

Not surprisingly, this money is needed because so much of a business's liquidity is tied - up in accounts receivable.

The tie - up follows an industry shift towards rivals providing low - cost index - tracking products and away from so - called active investment management, which charges customers higher fees, and follows the $ 6 billion merger deal between Henderson Global Investors HGGH.L and Janus Capital JNS.N..

Even so, that doesn't mean mortgage rates will go up because mortgage rates are more tied to the 10 - year bond yield which has been declining due to all the risk in the markets.

Well, they say the main reason they're attacking them is they say CEOs tie their compensation to buybacks, to EPS, and they get more options, and so they try to drive up EPS, and buybacks are artificially inflating EPS.

So while a Kroger - Target tie - up doesn't seem likely at the moment, it's fun to consider its potential and it's noteworthy that many investors seemed to back the move, based on the stocks» reaction.

They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger.