Sentences with phrase «successful at pushing»

There is wide agreement, however, that the administration has been particularly successful at pushing through its flavor of education policy.

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All of them failed at one point, but none would have been successful if they hadn't pushed themselves.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

To the topside, a successful break above $ 711.49 could set the tone for a push toward the next major resistance at $ 800.00.

I saw a recent WSJ article that China has been pushing to have more of their successful internet companies open a second listing at home, as the tremendous growth in these companies has benefited only foreign investors and not Chinese investors.

I am not sure who know this, but having a successful and food - safe week at Girl Scout Camp was the push for me to start my blog over seven years ago.

Healso seems to have convinced himself that he came back to Chelsea because he had been supremely successful and done everything with Inter Milan and Real Madrid, whereas I seem to recall him being pushed out of Madrid because he failed to stop the dominance of Barcelona, failed to bring them the 10th European cup and fell out with the Spanish media and half of the players and staff at his own club.

He has undoubtedly started that process with the signings of Gabriel Jesus and Leroy Sane to name but a couple, but it remains to be seen how successful he is in continuing that push at the end of the season with Sagna likely to be the first of many moving on.

Isco has enjoyed two successful seasons at Malaga, helping his side to a maiden Champions League berth in his first and then impressing in last season's push to the quarter - finals of the showpiece trophy.

In turn, it looks as though Messi was right to pursue him and the pair, along with the rest of the squad, will now push on and try to enjoy a successful year amid plenty of talk and speculation over problems at the club at all levels, with president Josep Maria Bartomeu coming under fire too.

If they are successful, it would undoubtedly continue their push to invest as part of a long - term plan with Louis van Gaal already signing the likes of Memphis Depay, Anthony Martial and Matteo Darmian since his arrival at the club.

Holden was just 68 minutes away from a successful summer comeback and would have been ready to push for a starting spot with Bolton Wanderers against Burnley at Turf Moor.

Their experience of Old Trafford was one everyone involved with the club will savour forever, and was perhaps even the catalyst for a successful promotion push from the Conference National division, which they won at a cantor.

As with legislation at every level of government, successful utilization of the power of the permit depends not so much on concerned citizens committed to making youth sports in their local community safer (although they are, of course, important) as on the willingness of governmental officials themselves to sponsor bylaw changes and push for enactment, in other words, to serve as «safety champions.»

I'm glad you posted this - I had a super long labor (I lost my mucus plug and had bloody show and contractions for over a week before they eventually forced me to have a c - section 24 hrs after my water broke... I never got to the pushing stage or dilated above 7) and anyway it is nice to hear from someone who had a long labor but still was successful at a natural birth.

I think our most successful implementation of RSS here at Greenpeace has been in a pull function rather than push.

After a successful summer at Buffalo's Outer Harbor, Congressman Brian Higgins is pushing for expanded access to one of the area's hidden gems — often overlooked or avoided by visitors.

Since then, New Yorkers Against Fracking, the coalition of like - minded groups that shadowed Cuomo at events and campaign stops across the state, has remained active, with some of its leaders traveling to other states — and even other countries — to speak about the successful push against drilling in New York.

It's clear that New York will lose two House seats in the next round of redistricting — most likely one upstate and one downstate, as is the tradition, although if the push for a nonpartisan commission is successful (seems doubtful at this point), that could change.

At the time, the exhibit matched the theme of a successful policy push for increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the New York City metro area and the approval of a paid - family leave program.

The Doe Fund, a nonprofit that backed Mayor Bloomberg's successful push to extend term limits, regularly gets big contributions from the mayor, at least $ 10 million of which came after the term limits hearings.

The hiring of the seasoned political and media operative builds on the momentum generated by the group's successful push for landmark reforms at the state level.

At the annual Coalition Leadership Awards Reception, The Coalition for Behavioral Health honored the Campaign 4 NY / NY Housing Steering Committee with the Advocacy Champion Leadership Award for the successful push for supportive housing.

Even as the signs stirred warnings from federal officials that money earmarked for the state was at risk, Driscoll insisted the signs, part of a five - year push for the I Love NY program, were successful in directing motorists to points of interest in New York.

Environmental groups have praised the successful push to boost spending at the EPF, which has reach a record appropriation of $ 302 million.

People with developmental disabilities and their caretakers held a rally at the State Capitol Wednesday to ask Governor Cuomo for financial help if he's successful in pushing through a $ 15 minimum wage.

While his push comes late in the year's legislative session, which is scheduled to end June 21, the governor has been successful in his first 17 months in office at focusing attention on a limited number of legislative priorities and persuading lawmakers to address them quickly.

The Tories have been so successful at transforming a crisis of market failure into a crisis of public spending because they have stuck to a script: they've repeated the same arguments whenever a microphone has been pushed in their direction.

JCESR will integrate efforts at several successful independent research programs into a larger, coordinated effort designed to push the limits on battery advances.

Like «The Squid and the Whale,» this character study pushes the definition of comedy to the breaking point, and unlike the far less successful «Margot at the Wedding,» it leaves us faintly smiling after the workout.

It may not push itself in terms of plot, or as seems to be the case with many of this 2016's blockbuster releases go as far as it could / should, it's more than successful at doing what it sets out to do.

In fact, even though Common Core advocates conceded that Massachusetts» standards were at least as good as those of the Common Core, they mounted a furious (and successful) push in 2009 and 2010 to get Massachusetts to adopt the Common Core — precisely because of the state's symbolic importance.

At the helm as chairperson of the American Federation for Children (AFC), the largest school privatization organization in the country, she led a successful push at the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schoolAt the helm as chairperson of the American Federation for Children (AFC), the largest school privatization organization in the country, she led a successful push at the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schoolat the state level, including Wisconsin, to direct public funds to unaccountable, private schools.

While the school had been successful at moving students from far below proficient to almost proficient, and had doubled ELA proficiency scores, Lee and her team knew they needed to push students further.

The 3 Series formula is a successful one — a compact sedan or coupe (there are wagons and convertibles too, of course) with a sporty flavour, wheels at the corners with minimal overhangs, pushed back cab and rear - wheel drive.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow continues to widen its reaches every month, with some OEMs being more successful than others at pushing the update to their product lineups, as usual.

If you want to be successful at selling today, you need to quit pushing your needs (please buy my book) and messages at potential readers and concentrate on figuring out how to pull them in by putting their needs above yours.

One Mobile Ring has no doubt the mobile phone will prove as successful as its older relatives, but with HTC firing on all cylinders at the moment with rumours of dual - core devices coming to the UK — the company are pushing the hype surrounding the brand further still.

With self - publishing processes like the one offered by Amazon, it's easier for authors to try to push work out again and again even if they aren't successful at first.

In the latest edition of The Successful Investor, we look at the outlook for interest rates and whether they will continue to push investors away from bonds and into higher - yielding funds.

As we at the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) have monitored and responded to legislation throughout the first half of this year, we have been successful in identifying and engaging on those bills written and pushed through normal legislative procedures.

On April 22, Charley Moore spoke at the PUSH Tech 2020 Summit in San Francisco about what it takes to lead a successful and sustainable business.

After all, at the root of every successful career is a supportive family, an encouraging friend, or a beloved mentor who pushed you to succeed.

You wouldn't be successful as a person at the pub pushing business cards at people, so don't do it on Twitter.

REALTOR ® and September / October 2013 guest editor Chris Nichols: «So many people approach [social media] from a taker's standpoint, [but] the «unfriend» button is real easy to push... You look at the people who are successful with social media, and they are the givers.»