Sentences with phrase «someone takes it upon»

If your account remains inactive for a long period of time, credit card companies can take it upon themselves to close your account.

After the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee announced that under Japan's bankruptcy code, creditors were not entitled to Bitcoin's massive price appreciation in their claims, Richard Folsom took it upon himself to change that.

But while there was little Jones could do back home in Santa Monica, another major creditor took it upon himself to ensure the Bitcoins would be fully divvied up among Mt. Gox victims.

Here are three ways that Best Workplaces companies have taken it upon themselves to help their pet owner employees.

HomePod uses Siri as its smart assistant, and I will say that it worked almost perfectly throughout the demo (save for a moment when Siri took it upon herself to start playing a podcast).

Fox News took it upon itself to find outraged conservatives, ready to batter down the doors of Coke's headquarters, ready to rail at yet another tear in the nation's social fabric.

We want our Terminators to take it upon themselves to organize team activities and not wait for something to be scheduled.

Cohen, 51, first caught Trump's eye in the early 2000s when, as a member of the condo board at a Trump property, he took it upon himself to wade into a nasty dispute between Trump's management company and some residents at a skyscraper near the United Nations.

A Tweet sent out by an account associated with the group read: «Obama doesn't have any ethical issues with spying on the world, so we took it upon ourselves to return the favor.»

During Sunday's Academy Awards, show host Ellen DeGeneres took it upon herself to feed the A-list actors in attendance by ordering 10 large pizzas and passing them out throughout the star - studded crowd.

In college, I studied creative writing and math was never my strong suit, so I took it upon myself to seek out mentors who had learned how to master money: investors, bankers, successful serial entrepreneurs, etc..

A little over 10 years ago, the HubSpot team took it upon themselves to coin the term «inbound marketing,» whereby marketing professionals take advantage of this new environment to reach buyers on their home turf.

While a few brands have been less than pleased to find themselves wrapped up in the Ford scandal, others have taken it upon themselves to capitalize on recent events.

This guy took it upon himself to analyze the company's website and come up with a list of recommendations about how to revamp it — something he presented to the president of the company, who gave him the go ahead to make those changes.

But many consumers don't even need to take it upon themselves to check their balances; many services offer SMS alerts when your account is low or there is a suspicious charge.

Dotzler, who does not have a technical background, took it upon himself to act as a liaison between nontechies willing to serve as bug reporters and the programmers — helping to get the former up to speed and the latter to be more forgiving, and thus bringing thousands of new people into the project.

Dealing with bloatware like Lyft, Booking.com, or NewsRepublic (which takes it upon itself to feed you notifications) is annoying.

The first generation of successful founders took it upon themselves to teach and mentor the next generation.

From there, teams should take it upon themselves to push for innovation and improvement by testing various workflows and finding a system that works for everyone.

With Trump's growing unpopularity, entrepreneurs are taking it upon themselves to resist in their own ways, and many are doing so in a way they know best — online businesses.

I've taken it upon myself, with help from everyone else, to help him feel more comfortable.

But he acknowledged a potential Russian role for the first time earlier this month when he said that «patriotically minded» Russian citizens might have taken it upon themselves «to fight against those who say bad things about Russia.»

At the same time, investors can take it upon themselves to be proactive about tracking mini flash crashes in equity markets, and to integrate technical safeguards to moderate cross-market flight to safety, when instances of abnormal instability arise.

Since then, the government has taken upon itself to create policies that recognize the importance of entrepreneurs for the country's economy, and facilitate the growth of small to medium sized businesses.

«The President of the Republic shall by decree proclaim a referendum on crucial national matters following a resolution voted by an absolute majority of the total number of Members of Parliament, taken upon proposal of the Cabinet.»

It seems that Facebook took upon itself to help their platform users form meaningful relationships.

There is a role there for the government to play, but a lot of this is going to be done by private individuals and private entities in America taking upon themselves of keeping their information more secure.»

Miners are very important in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and they take upon themselves very high risk in order for us to use the network.

With that in mind, Financial Times takes us upon a thought experiment into the new world (dominated mainly by startups) of P2P lending:

As a lawyer, you're trained to think analytically so I took it upon myself to investigate ALL the legislation and history that played a role in the development of those rules so that we could truly understand why various aspects of the system operate as they do.

It wasn't until a public servant took it upon themselves to test the water in Prince Rupert schools this year that it was revealed that children and staff are being exposed to elevated lead levels.

I find it interesting that god fearing, commandment following children of a benevolent higher force feel they need to take it upon themselves and offer death threats to Mr. Silverman.

In this list I took it upon myself to cut through the noise and round up the 60 best blogs that you should be reading going into 2015.

God came down as a man to take upon Himself our sins to make us right with God, the Father.

I'm taking it upon myself to officially baptise all deceased Mormons into The Church of Satan.

1928 «Lord God let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty we have taken upon us.

This blog does not have a Login requirement, therefore any of the many charlatans of the atheists trailer park crowd, have taken upon her or himself to using my nickname to post his / her ho - mo - se - xual filth.

All other Church are corrupt and either lost the Priesthood authority thru corruption (think Catholic) or never had it, but took it upon themselves to administer the audiences of the Gospel as in baptism, marriages ect...

While presenting themselves as champions of equality, these communitarians take it upon themselves to reeducate the rest of society.

Here you feel humans can take it upon themselves to say who should have kids and here you are, deluded, conceited and playing God to tell Mike not to, by the way, my mom raised me to be highly respectful to women and I continue to strive for that every day.

My family was also the friend who took it upon herself to take my family in hand, my family who had arrived sad and confused to say goodbye, and guide them through the maze of a place to stay and the bureaucracy in front of them.

WillieLove, and others like him, take upon themselves the role of judge when they exclude everyone except those who subscribe to their narrow view of what it takes to be saved.

With scant grounding in constitutional text or tradition, court majorities took it upon themselves (usually over strong dissents) to remove a number of matters from legislative and local control.

the answer to that is the incarnation itself, that Christ would take upon himself humanity and the pains and struggles of the human condition, including the pains of death.

Thank Jill, when you say «After this I took it upon myself to have a blind faith in everything written in the Bible.

Pushing their beliefs on others to the extent that they take it upon themselves to «baptize» non-mormans is just plain disgusting.

This was a free decision by an adult to give his life and take upon himself the consequence of sin to set you free.

After this I took it upon myself to have a blind faith in everything written in the Bible.

He died, but He vanquished death; in Himself He put an end to what we feared; He took it upon Himself and He vanquished it, as a mighty Hunter He captured and slew the lion.

The major element in this innovation was the unusual legislation that Augustus initiated that, although aimed primarily at the elite, for the first time made «the private life of virtually every Roman... a matter of the state's concern and regulation», with the state taking upon itself the unusual role of not only arbiter but also prosecutor for crimes of immorality, crimes in which it had previously had no interest.