Sentences with phrase «spending several»

Gov. David Paterson of New York won't be finished with his work after spending several days vetoing about 6,700 items in the state budget.

After spending several months in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), the gunman who said he had wanted to assassinate President John Mahama, was on Friday, December 30, released from BNI custody.

After spending several years working for Republican media guru Scott Howell, Thompson and fellow Howell alumnus Todd Harris started their own firm earlier this year.

But the younger Cuomo plans to return the Albany property to the home it was when his father lived there, spending several nights per week there (he'll head to Mount Kisco on Wednesdays, Thursdays and every other weekend to see his three teenage daughters, whom he had with ex-wife Kerry Kennedy).

Now, Mr. Adams said, he is learning the «city system» after spending several terms in Albany, where he was not always comfortable.

He subsequently joined PwC Consulting, spending several years assisting banking and insurance clients, performing various leading roles in substantial strategic change programmes, specialising in insurance finance function transformation and financial control remediation.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- Bo the Portuguese water dog made his White House debut under cloudy skies Tuesday afternoon, spending several minutes taking his new family on a lively romp over the South Lawn with frequent stops for hearty sniffs at his new surroundings.

When our son was going through a really rough period with sleep as a toddler he was spending several hours outside each day running around.

With home education, free from the artificial environment of spending several hours per day with the same people (of the same age) children learn rapidly to treat everyone else as an individual, irrelevant of looks.

This came from spending several months trying to figure out how I wanted to rearrange our den.

Or, you may find that after spending several hours alone, he's counting the minutes until he can meet up with his friends.

Spending several short stretches of one - on - one time with your preschooler during the day can help relieve her anxiety.

After spending several minutes cuddling, I hurried into the shower while my husband got breakfast ready.

Spending several weeks building the foundation of friendships that form the basis of this essential support network.

Everton are looking to strengthen in January, despite after spending several hundred millions back in the summer, according to manager Sam Allardyce.

The 35 - year - old recently returned back to Argentina after spending several seasons playing in Europe.

A couple of hundreds industry members — mostly exhibitors — relaxed after spending several hours setting up their respective booths.

When I asked them to elaborate on what that meant, they described the process of walking to a market, picking out a beautiful winter squash, buying it, then spending several hours preparing it for a meal.

She joined the company in 2000 after spending several years working in the food packaging sector for companies including Kraft.

Give it to my daughter who spending several years in Japan now loves anything Japanese.

A nice thing about spending several days away from computers is relief from chronic headaches (I knew they couldn't all be hangovers).

And it can be yours, if you're up to spending several grand on workout gear.

After spending several hours comparing the two commentaries, and studying their own explanations of numerous variants, here are my observations about the two books:

I suggest spending several hours (yes, that is how long it will take), and go down to a local Christian bookstore, getting a cup of coffee, and pulling all the Bible translations off the shelf and then just flip them open and start reading.

After spending several years in relative anonymity, the PowerShares S&P Emerging Markets Momentum Portfolio (NYSE: EEMO) is finally getting some attention.

Rather than spending several minutes tuning your guitar, the Gibson Min - ETune gets it ready to play in seconds.

He imagines a facility where, rather than spending several minutes finding and counting inventory, an employee wearing a head - mounted device simply looks at a bin, scans it, and then is directed to the next bin.

Online quizzes are what I call Cognitive Catnip; people engage with them at remarkably high rates, often spending several minutes in each quiz, then sharing with colleagues and friends.

However, after spending several years testing various technique with other experts and clients, I have developed five strategies for crafting emails that are sure to grab a prospect's attention:

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

Following her graduation in 2009, Toshack spent several years working at the Boston Consulting Group in Sydney before enrolling at Harvard Business School.

After explaining that she had picked up the precepts of medieval palmistry decades ago, from an art - historian neighbor whose specialty was Hieronymus Bosch, Atwood spent several disconcerting minutes poring over my hands.

Most mobile food entrepreneurs spend several months, often while waiting for their truck to be retrofitted and their backers to fork over some startup money, experimenting with various menu items.

If you're a nature lover, prepare to spend several days marveling at erupting geysers, observing animals like moose, elk, and grizzly bears, and exploring the surrounding mountains and canyons.

I sometimes say «why do you want to spend several years, and hopefully many more, of your life working on this problem.»

This may mean the dollar / yen spends several weeks or longer consolidating near this resistance prior to developing a breakout or change in trend direction.

The most important part of this process is to spend several minutes, or more, as often as possible focusing on those feel - good emotions.

«I spent several mornings my freshman year running the stadium stairs at 4 a.m.,» he says, «because I'd forgotten an appointment or showed up late.»

Software Appliance spent several years on development and licensing before going to market with Clickfree in January 2008.

I've spent several years listening to entrepreneurs pitch their deals and I've read more than my share of business plans.

Before Guy Baroan began running his Elmwood Park, N.J. - based IT firm, Baroan Technologies, full time, he spent several years managing an indoor amusement park.

Glass credits Dorsey with having a vague idea about how to share status, but asserts it didn't turn into Twitter until the two of them spent several hours bantering in a car on the rain - slickened streets of San Francisco after a night of drinking.

In the aftermath of the attack, he returned to the firehouse where he'd worked in Little Italy and spent several days helping search through the rubble for survivors.

The next steps for the states that voted «yes» on their respective ballot measures will vary, as regulators in each state will likely spend several months deliberating on the specific framework for a legal marijuana market.

Steve Madden, the company's founder and former CEO, was in on this fraud too (see the movie to see how it works) and spent several months in jail.

Faber spent several hundred dollars on business cards, stationery, promo photos and envelopes that he never used because he quickly realized that his original business name, Fabercom, was «terrible» and the corporate image was all wrong.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

According to Carbone, she spent several days researching the concept and within a very short time frame launched an enterprise that yielded a $ 2 million investment from Shark Tank's Mark Cuban.

At first, the Mirzas advertised in the yellow pages but soon decided to target large companies willing to spend several thousand dollars per translation contract.

«If we really want to spend several billion per year purchasing conservation easements on property, then we should go and just do that,» Looney said.