Sentences with phrase «someone out of the blue»

Instead of an increase coming out of the blue, it seems like a natural consequence of a series of events that have led to the company to say, «There's nothing more we can do.

«I could see regardless of where a company was located or its size, the most common complaint was when an employee would say, «Here's my two week's notice,» out of the blue,» he says.

We as consumers are exposed to a lot of green washing, and are skeptical of companies that seemingly out of the blue introduce something «mission» related.

While at first the pairing seems a bit out of the blue, Karp is actually a board member of Planned Parenthood.

And they can strike out of the blue, much as it did for NBC correspondent Tim Russert, who died tragically in 2008 when a heart attack gave way to sudden cardiac arrest.

Now we need to let them know that this is the way the relationship will work from the beginning, don't just cut off their service out of the blue.

Doerr's interest wasn't completely out of the blue: Field is a KPCB Engineering Fellow.

Maybe some habits you like started out of the blue, but I bet you «caught» many from friends and peers, which then you passed to others.

If you hire an agency that contacted you out of the blue by email or by cold calling, without you seeking them out first, what does it mean?

And it was Etsy's mercurial founder, Rob Kalin, who contacted the pair out of the blue, inviting them to leave Seattle and come to New York, where he would give them a free workspace.

There is a misconception out there when it comes to entrepreneurship that all successful people «got lucky» or created an overnight success out of the blue.

This strategy is quite a bit different than attempting to sell a concept you've come up with out of the blue.

«The Broadcom - Qualcomm [deal], it seems to be a long - running drama, and out of the blue the administration opined on it.»

So when she got a call out of the blue from Karen Radford, executive vice-president of Enbridge — a lightning rod for environmental protest — she was ready.

One Saturday morning in December 2012, I received an email out of the blue from the president of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific — one of the most senior executives in the global organization.

From outside Michigan Republican circles, it appeared that the Republican drive to weaken unions came out of the blue - proposed, passed and signed in a mere six days.

Speaking on ESPN Radio's «Mike & Mike» on Thursday, Finebaum ripped into Michigan football fans, seemingly out of the blue, when asked which school's fan base he finds the most «arrogant.»

If a great opportunity arises out of the blue, is that luck?

Then one day, out of the blue, disaster seemed to strike: the service simply stopped working.

If someone rang you up out of the blue and asked you that, you'd be curious, right?»

How would you react to someone you don't know calling you out of the blue, and quickly rushing to ask to leverage the contacts you've made over your professional life?

Elliott, it seemed, had lucked into its desired outcome out of the blue, by way of its opponent's unforced error.

«Two months passed and all of a sudden, out of the blue, Tim gets another email from James Cameron saying «Hey, I'm meeting with Jim Gianopulos tomorrow.

Out of the blue, such at - home gene tests have become consumer must - haves: On the most recent Black Friday, 23andMe's standard DNA test was one of Amazon's top five sellers — barely trailing Amazon's own Echo Dot and the «Instant Pot.»

And out of the blue, one of our clients actually recommended the factory we eventually settled on, making them back in the USA in New York!

A few years ago, I received a call out of the blue from the publishing company McGraw - Hill.

The run - up came out of the blue.

Out of the blue he mentioned how great those new standing desks were for your back, brain, productivity — and probably world peace on top of it.

Musk called a second cousin out of the blue from the bus station and hitched a ride to his house.

One day, I got a box from Noah Kagan (the CEO of AppSumo) that contained some amazing cookies — completely out of the blue!

A cold call is a sales pitch call made without prior contact — a call out of the blue.

Out of the blue, hedge fund Mount Flag, LLC, bought about five percent of Tribune Publishing.

«We didn't see anything bleeding edge or real «out of the blue,»» said Gartner Inc. analyst Mike McGuire.

However, publicly asking @prospect anything on Twitter out of the blue risks being #tacky.

However, publicly asking @prospect anything on Twitter out of the blue risks tackiness.

I called Stephanie out of the blue one day on the recommendation of my web mentor to assist in some content creation for our developing web presence.

The software was not a bolt out of the blue, as is sometimes assumed, but was instead built on the ideas of multiple people over several decades.

In the end of February this year, out of the blue, I wanted to see Taipei.

You can't just sit there and hope that maybe some clients stroll in or that someone will drop by out of the blue with inventory for your retail store.

The entrepreneurial lifestyle doesn't happen just out of the blue.

It was real, and it wasn't out of the blue.

In the case of the economy, there is a growing and untenable gap between debt burdens and debt servicing ability, but even if you anticipate the eventual failures (which can be like watching grass grow), the triggering events emerge out of the blue.

Why would anyone from Habitat for Humanity be calling out of the blue, asking if she wanted to become a homeowner?

The only alternative to this view is to imagine that the collapses that followed valuation extremes like 1929, 1973, 2000, and 2007 somehow emerged entirely out of the blue, ignoring the fact that valuations accurately projected likely full - cycle losses, and remained tightly correlated with total returns over the subsequent 10 - 12 year horizons.

Kushner operated in much the same way when it came to crafting Trump's tax plan — calling up someone for help out of the blue.

Quarter - ending sessions are always tricky affairs in stocks, as funds are adjusting their holdings, all forms of price triggers affect the market, and generally, unusual price action is to be expected, with assets showing strength and weakness out of the blue, especially around major price levels.

That's not to say investors should rotate completely out of blue - chip stocks.

Out of the blue, the small distributor of a nasal spray that reverses opioid overdoses got a major endorsement from the U.S. president.

On Thursday, there were reports coming out of Blue Sky that it would be willing to do that.

If someone sends you a hugely attractive offer out of the blue, you need to immediately be on your guard.