Sentences with phrase «surprised at the lesson»

Everything you do and interact with is related to it, and you'd be surprised at the lessons you can draw from just about anything — including college parties!

And you might be surprised at the lesson you learn by having your own garage sale.

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While I expected to be brayed at and to smell a bit like a donkey (this, unfortunately, happened), I was surprised at the management lessons I learned.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Microsoft, whose employees have not participated in my seminar, seems to be heeding some of its lessons, at least judging from a recent The New York Times article.

At any rate, I am not the least bit surprised to hear Mr. Mpiani call the suspended Kyerematen shill «a fine gentleman,» because Mr. Mpiani is widely known to have generously offered coaching lessons to Messrs. Afoko, Agyepong and Crabbe on how to railroad Nana Akufo - Addo.

MN: He booked private sailing lessons for us on the San Francisco Bay, and then surprised me with dinner reservations afterward at world - renowned restaurant, Chez Panisse in Berkeley.

Once there, however, Jackie's annoyance at her son's poor life choices manifests itself into a surprising curiosity, so she takes up surfing lessons with Ian (Luke Wilson), a laid - back dude who emerges as a prime candidate to end her five - year - long celibacy streak.

* In a lesson on the Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg, students gain new insights into the complexities of the Civil War by reading letters from three soldiers and learning the surprising reasons that each chose to fight for the North or the South.

«Teachers are surprised to hear that using a strategy at the wrong time in a lesson can sometimes be detrimental to a student's progress.

We asked teachers in our turnaround schools that very thing, and we were not at all surprised to hear that the number one thing they all did was to go from only having students verbalize the answer to the Lesson Essential Question to having their students answer the Lesson Essential Question in writing!

She will explore her strategy behind selling at higher price points; taking advantage of the global market via a combination of licensing and self - published translations; diversifying her author portfolio by branding two names (Bella Andre and Lucy Kevin) in two distinct sub-genres; entering the audio book market as an indie; and the surprising lessons she's learned about metadata.

Once again, although the classic adage is that we are all Legal Realists now, and a few people argue that critical legal theory has not died but been absorbed into general legal thought, I find on the whole that lawyers and law professors at least appear to have internalized very little of the lessons of Legal Realism or CLS, and retain in thought and deed a surprising attachment to the appearance of «reasoned elaboration.»

You might be surprised at what lessons from other fields can be applied to infosec.

These basic lessons are the «why» behind these two columns: * Never accept the numbers you receive from CRA as being correct; always make sure you understand and agree; * Always insist on the background calculations and assumptions to the numbers; there is no way anyone should pay a bill without understanding it; too many people just pay when it comes to CRA; * Never give up if you think you are right; having said this, I do not know yet if the company in this story will in fact file a second Notice of Objection to recover the additional $ 1,000... cost benefit does enter into the equation at times; * There are a surprising number of CRA staff in the various departments who are understanding and helpful; * As I have stated in earlier columns, there are mechanisms built into the system that protect and allow taxpayers to challenge CRA where it is appropriate.