Sentences with phrase «succeeding at making»

This 16 chapter adventure will contain lots of humor, action and self - awareness, but the writers manage to do all that while succeeding at making the overall story engaging.

Gaming genres and expectations were increasingly formulated by what these companies had been making — and succeeding at making.

Across the United States, I see schools that are succeeding at making adequate yearly progress but failing our students.

First, I want to thank you for been such a great baker and help us (lousy bakers in progress like me) attempt and succeed at making this bread.

White House aide Kellyanne Conway went after Hillary Clinton on Fox & Friends, saying the former presidential candidate «failed to make history and she succeeds at making excuses.»

I don't know if I will succeed at making my pockets as beautiful as yours.

The other actors are great and perfectly cast too: Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, and RJ Mitte all succeed at making their parts feel like flesh and blood, not mere pawns of writers» whims.

Though I don't have much more than a nodding acquaintance with either action auteur, it seems that Chan in Rumble in the Bronx has succeeded at making a personal project in the Hong Kong manner in a putatively American setting, while Woo in Broken Arrow has made a slam - bang Hollywood picture in which personal touches are visible, if mainly applied with an eyedropper.

A psychological thriller with a horror bent, Still / Born trots through familiar territory, yet mostly succeeds at making its own way through a well - worn genre landscape populated by superior fare.

It's a really unique and fun way to add party members to a team in a JRPG and succeeds at making you invested in their stories.

in the hopes of forging something entirely new, and while it's tempting to think that the «Star Wars» films could ever actually do such a thing, Johnson at least succeeds at making the personal stakes matter as much as the intergalactic ones do.

The movie succeeds at making friggin Aqua - Man a menacing and sometimes villainous character while the story's dark and bleak future is grim at times, the message of heroism trumping villainy isn't lost.

For the first time in nearly half a century, Buick has succeeded at making a luxury car that you'd actually want to be seen in.

At a point when a series like Resident Evil has largely long turned its back on its survival horror roots, ZombiU is a game that recalls such games, but also brings its own interesting and inventive ideas to the genre and, at the same time, has the distinction of being one of the most interesting launch titles that, whilst not perfect, is an absorbing and unnerving experience that succeeds at making use of the capabilities of the system, without ever managing to feel gimmicky and, as such, it's a strong early demonstration of the magic of Wii U.

Unlike many others, he succeeds at making the science accessible.

Google's Nexus 9 is the Goldilocks of pure Android tablets and, for the most part, designer HTC succeeds at making a device that's «just right» next to anything but an iPad.

Let's start with the good: Star Wars Battlefront is a virtual toybox that succeeds at making you feel like you're in the middle of the film series» most iconic battles.

You'll need to catch fish, gather fruit, decorate your campsite, and make friends with the animals if you're going to succeed at making an awesome place to hang.

They can learn and we have seen many parents succeed at making more decisions and abiding by them, by using these small skills with lots of positive encouragement and reminders.

Good luck Rogers, maybe this new venture will succeed at making the public hate Rogers more than they already do!..

Not exact matches

It may be that the sales manager who feels the need to offer bribes simply isn't very good at his job and is looking for ways to succeed without having sufficient talent or making sufficient effort.

The researchers at the University of Essex found that girls whose «main parent» — that's usually the mother — consistently displayed high parental expectations were far less likely to fall into the traps that made the girls less likely to succeed in life.

While he concedes that talent abounds at Google, on Medium recently he argued that working at the company actually teaches you two subtle but important lessons that make it more likely you'll succeed as an entrepreneur.

If Mark Cuban lost everything, he says he could succeed again and make at least seven figures.

The third outcome is that — should the VC and entrepreneur succeed at creating the next Facebook or Research In Motion — the government's coinvestment stake will earn the same handsome return as is being made by the private sector.

Many observers, though, balked at the $ 710 million cost of the acquisitions, questioning whether Under Armour could quickly produce any return on investment — two of the three companies were unprofitable — let alone succeed in a space that shares little with making shirts and shoes.

On the other hand, if the campaign succeeds, then the company must continue to make at least the same disclosures every year for as long as the securities remain outstanding.

Just because a company succeeded in making the Fortune 500 does not mean it rewarded its shareholders — in fact, every year, at least a handful of corporations fail miserably in the stock returns department.

Don't get me wrong: Someone's going to succeed at this, and make a mint.

That's because he believes that many of the aspects of his behavior that were allegedly driven by a desire to succeed actually made him worse at his job and likely held the company back.

Still, all of this means the U.S. burger chain might not even really have to win in court against Down N» Out to succeed at its larger goal: demonstrating from a legal perspective that they're aggressive in protecting their name and other trademarks, which makes the marks themselves stronger.

I try to focus on trying to run this company to the best of my ability, making decisions and focusing on what we know we can control, and putting people at this company in the best position to succeed.

At that moment, he made a promise to himself: if he ever succeeded in the future, he would work to ensure that no young entrepreneur ever felt alone or struggled without the proper resources again.

Russ Koesterich explains why he believes a more active and nuanced approach to investing is required to succeed at a time when depth and decision - making can mean all the difference.

You've succeeded at creating a system that makes money for you and you're not a component of the system!

That would be bad enough, but to make matters worse, Peter can not succeed at the thing to which he has resigned himself.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

This little book at least succeeds in making it clear that Vincent Harding is in the second camp.

If India does succeed in driving Compassion — and other NGOs it doesn't agree with — from the country, «no plan or provision at all has been made to care for these children when we depart.»

One showed humility, the other arrogance; one practiced sincerity, the other hypocrisy; one made efforts at cultivating unity, the other seemed to delight at encouraging division: and one succeeded in becoming more and more a man of the people, while the other, despite his harsh populist appeals, has grown more distant.

Attempts have often been made to show that this man never lived, that he is entirely the product of early Christian imagination, but these attempts have at no time succeeded in convincing more than a few, and it is inconceivable that they would ever convince the Christian, for the event whose historicity is to him more than the conclusion of an argument but is witnessed to by his own being as a Christian — this event includes the appearance in history of this man.

Finding himself at Rome in his twenty - ninth year, he fell in with a French gentleman who tried to make a proselyte of him, but who succeeded no farther after two or three conversations than to get him to hang (half jocosely) a religious medal round his neck, and to accept and read a copy of a short prayer to the Virgin.

The Devil succeeded in making democrats believe that they did not like evil at all, that they in no way desired it, that they were good and others wicked, and that the whole thing was that simple!

It was also the belief of the Babylonians and As - syrians, as their monuments testify, for a figure of a guardian angel now in the British Museum once decorated an As - syrian palace, and might well serve for a modern representation; while Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, says: «He (Marduk) sent a tutelary deity (cherub) of grace to go at my side; in everything that I did, he made my work to succeed.»

The strength of these æsthetic sentiments makes it rigorously impossible, it seems to me, that Protestantism, however superior in Spiritual profundity it may be to Catholicism, should at the present day succeed in making many converts from the more venerable ecclesiasticism.

How will I succeed at the elimination diet if I don't have a sauna in which to sweat out my many toxins or an assistant to make my juices when I inevitably become too weak and / or start hallucinating?

I'm bummed that I tried making caramel corn at home and succeeded.

«By helping to identify the best chocolate made with the best cacao,» the judges, including experts from around the world, hope, «to help chocolate makers, chocolatiers and cacao farmers continue to succeed at producing the world's best fine cacao and fine chocolate.»

It aims to link the image of Euskadi to the shared values of Basque society, such as a strong work ethic, commitment, drive to succeed, striving for change and equal opportunities for men and women, and to make these values our calling card at an international level.

Regardless of your background or experience, you can succeed at Chipotle if you have a passion for making the people around you better.