Sentences with phrase «stuck up on»

and would often buy home decor items that were trendy and then they would end up stuck up on a shelf somewhere collecting dust.

But instead of encouraging us to enjoy and investigate them as single sculptures, the show sets us the conundrum of trying to work out why they are surrounded here by a line of art magazines of the 1930s that have been stuck up on the wall, all the way round the room, at wheelchair height.

And I think a way to do this is to step back and first think about the meaning and not get too stuck up on other stuff first.

All clubs spend a lot of time and money doing far more elaborate statistical modelling than then the headline grabber stats that SSN sticks up on its screen every 5 minutes.

I was wearing my super wide leg organic cotton pants and a merino sweater, with my old to go cup full of hot tea and some gray hair sticking up on my head.

Tell your child to stick them up on pieces of cardboard.

Whatever the cause — dwindling attention spans, underfunded schools, something to do with the Internet — the fact is these days that if a Top Thinker wakes up one morning aghast at man's inhumanity to man, he's probably going to dash off a 300 - word op - ed and e-mail it to The New York Times, or better still, just stick it up on his blog, typos and all, not cancel his appointments for the next seven years so he can bang out War and Peace in a shed.

If The Last Jedi were a person, it would be a gap - toothed child with a grin like an intergalactic sunrise — part of its charm is the unruly cowlick sticking up on its head.

Step 2: After watching Owen's story, ask students to note down one phrase spoken by Owen that stood out to them on sticky notes, and stick them up on a space on the wall / whiteboard in random order.

At first I wanted the encore but the lease on trax was better and I did not like the sticking up on the dash for the radio on the encore.

But no - you stick them up on a pedestal and worship them like a god.

Aereo is reselling local broadcast signals in the same time - honored tradition of CATV when «back in the day» when it was literally Community Antenna Television — put a stick up on the hill and bring the signals down into the valley so people could watch the broadcast nets.

This doesn't mean printing off your sales figures and sticking them up on the wall; there are more subtle ways to go about it.

Not exact matches

Each cover slide comes with an adhesive sticker, which you peel off and stick to your device; all you have to do is line up the cover with the camera on your phone, tablet, or computer.

On the plane here I was thinking about how it's really not that hard to do something extremely disruptive and do something positive for the world if you just apply yourself, and stick with it, and don't give up.

Either he doubles down, sticks to the low - production model and hopes the unpredictable Eurasians kiss and make up, or he scales up production and competes on price, walking away from a marketing strategy that made Potash Corp. one of Canada's most successful, and profitable, companies.

Growing up in rural Michigan, Jesse Vollmar watched as technology transformed the world around him, while life on the farm remained labor - intensive and stuck in the past.

Following the news, Patagonia stuck to its promise, saying on Twitter that it would give «every penny to hundreds of local environmental organizations working around the world,» while thanking its customers for showing up to» #LoveOurPlanet».

Unable to move on its own — or to even stick a single thumb up to bum a ride like reckless humans do — HitchBOT relied merely on its good looks and charm to get from place to place.

It would be hand done, Chaulk explained, by men wearing gloves: a giant game of pick - up sticks, bit by bit, with the family looking on.

Subway apps can save you from being stuck on a crowded platform or ending up on a delayed line.

With a start - up, they can have an impact on Day One, whereas in a large company, they would have to go through months of training only to be stuck in a single role.

People would talk about the founders of the organization, how they were stuck on the side of Mt. Baker in a storm and there was nowhere to buy their gear, so they came up with the idea of opening MEC.

Sticking an introvert in an introvert room is a bit like grabbing an extrovert in the office and putting him or her up on a chair and saying, «OK, go ahead and start blabbering because that's what you do best.»

The problem is starting to reek of the mortgage crisis, when banks made oodles by selling bad loans to hedge funds that were layering on leverage to bolster returns — just before the loan market dried up and banks were stuck with the bad loans themselves.

It's tradition for Branson to coop up at his home on Necker Island and stick it out through major hurricanes — he's done so three times throughout the past 30 years, and this record - breaking storm was no different.

Yet, when the boss sticks to the plan, follows up with action, handles conflict, and jumps into problems on behalf of the team, it reveals character.

Other than that, stick to what you know, watch the lines as they move, and make sure you have the most up to date information on who is sitting and who is starting before laying down any serious cash on a game.

If you're gearing up for a major recruitment effort or simply want to entice your current employees to stick around, it's worth taking a walk on the benefit wild side.

Negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico wrapped up the seventh round of Nafta talks this week in Mexico still hoping for a breakthrough on the biggest sticking points.

Noshing on a simple carb like bread sticks or dinner rolls before a meal can cause blood sugar to spike and fall quickly, amping up hunger and causing you to eat more when the real meal arrives.

They stick with things way too long and end up beating a dead horse when they should be moving on.

«We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.»

We stuck to our original winning formula, making sure to open stores on busy streets, especially looking at spaces that needed smartening up, since we could get a few months rent - free.

This time, there were no eye - catching outfits as Trudeau stuck to tried - and - true business suits and, on occasion, his patented button - up shirt and rolled - up sleeves as he met with world leaders, industry representatives and students.

Distaste for this no - holds - barred approach even led one prominent activist, Jeff Ubben, the CEO of hedge fund ValueAct, to stick up for Kleinfeld during a panel discussion on activism at the Milken Institute conference in May.

Chew on it Next time you're stymied to come up with a creative idea, stick a wad of gum in your mouth.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

If the doors of opportunity open up even a sliver, stick your foot in, take a risk, bet on yourself and then fling them open.

Then I got stuck in L.A. for a couple of days, and I didn't have a guitar to practice on, so I ended up buying a ukulele, and now I just play ukulele all the time.

So, chances of getting stuck while setting up or running your business on BigCommerce are pretty thin.

I ended up using a just about thin enough 10 dollar round wireless charger that I found on Amazon (brand name was PowerBot but there are many similar ones) and stuck it to the X-Grip.

The city, like the rest of the U.S., was stuck in a decades - long entrepreneurial slump that had left its economy dependent on a handful of big, staid corporations — corporations that were pulling up stakes to head overseas at a rate that alarmed local leaders.

Investors who snap up a stake in a start - up they spot on Indiegogo are most likely stuck with it for many years.

I am so happy and proud to say that I stuck with it and didn't give up on those days I was tired or work was really busy.

Bitcoin is up.2 % on the day but is still stuck in a tight trading range.

We don't know how far back Facebook's history of data on its users extends, how that data is stored and backed up, but this is one way to at least make an attempt at sticking it to the platform before you leave it forever.

And once you set up autopay, you're not stuck to the original amount — if you get a raise or have other extra funds to put towards your payments, it's easy to log on and change your payment amount.

President Donald Trump had been elected on a promise to stick up for average citizens, not special interests like the powerful U.S. lumber lobby.

I would rather pick my friends based on similar interests and values rather than which company we ended up stuck at together.