Sentences with phrase «switch is in the off»

The lights switch is in the off position, and the interior lights are off.

Smart bulbs are more convenient to install than smart switches, but if the socket the bulb is screwed into is controlled by a light switch, and that switch is in the off position, no technology in the world will let you control it until the switch gets flipped.

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Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.

«They are paying early termination fees in order to get customers to switch, and everyone followed, so if you look at the major changes that have occurred in the industry, from payment plans (to) turning off termination fees, no contracts, getting rid of roaming (charges), it's a longer list of things that are precipitated by them doing it first,» he told CNBC by phone.

But not everyone is in love of the idea of a ritualized switching off, at least not if it's unconnected to deeper reflections about what's driving the seemingly frantic pace of modern life.

In handbags, the button is a closure or physical feature, but for Switch Embassy, it is also the main interface for changing the colors and turning on and off the bag.

Short of throwing your cellphone into a vault, hitting the «off» switch in the settings of your apps could be the quickest fix.

It is a good habit to switch off TVs, monitors, printers, etc. when not in use, but these electronics continue to suck power when they are off in «standby power» that allows the device to power up quickly when you turn it back on.

I feel very lucky to run an amazing organization like Back on My Feet — this is a real passion and mission, not just a job — and that in itself can make it very hard to switch off the email, laptop, or phone and take a moment to yourself.

A test can be as simple as switching up your opening line in a coffee meeting, or showing a different visual in that deck you are showing off.

If you have a room where the light switch is in an inconvenient spot, it pays to be able to turn the lights on and off without it.

Thefts involving smartphones have declined dramatically in three major cities since manufacturers began implementing «kill switches» that allow the phones to be turned off remotely if they are stolen, authorities said on Tuesday.

In other cases, products like sunscreens that advertise a reduced skin cancer risk, filters that remove unhealthy chemicals from air or water and even power on - and - off safety switches, are put under additional scrutiny by the FTC to ensure they actually do what they say.

A hiring manager at a stodgy corporation may be put off by short stints at many different organizations, but in startup land, switching between projects relatively often is more embraced and often essential.

Perhaps the most common misconception about meditation is that it's an exercise in freeing your mind of all thought, as if it's a quest to find an on - off switch in your brain.

The first «personal computers» were introduced in 1975, but they were sold as kits and had no keyboards or video monitors: You used them by flicking on - off toggle switches and watching flashing red lights.

The opportunity to get outside and run around if you had some energy to work off, knowing you could just shower and switch into some other clothes helped alleviate a lot of the fidgety energy I felt being pent up in a cubicle.

The Open Observatory of Network Interference, an organization that documents internet censorship, is currently developing a new system that would better determine when a shutdown occurs or when certain social media platforms are switched off like in the recent case of Chad.

In most markets, if Google were to switch off the power that links hold and for example make social the main ranking factor they would have a very odd looking index with pages that should be ranking not appearing because they don't have the social traction.

If you are doing well financially and find yourself in a position to pay - off your mortgage sooner rather than later, then switching your fixed - rate mortgage to an adjustable - rate mortgage can be a powerful way to save you thousands of dollars in paying off your home.

«We're seeing a higher rate of people switching to iPhone than we've experienced in previous cycles, and we're off to an exciting start to the June quarter with the launch of Apple Watch.»

Switching gears, this evening I will be hitting the road eastward to attend the PC leadership forum in Vermilion to watch candidates Doug Griffiths, Doug Horner, Gary Mar, Ted Morton, Rick Orman, and Alison Redford square off in the first of many open - forums.

From bait - and - switch tricks to telemarketing rip - offs, there are lots of ways for a dishonest seller to bilk investors out of hard - earned savings — and not just in the gold market.

As Dr. Caroline Leaf, who has been studying the way emotions take place in the brain for the last decade, wrote in her book Who Switched Off My Brain:

«What really annoyed me is that when it first started people would switch off their phones in embarrassment now they are cupping their hands over the receiver and carrying on talking.

Belief or disbelief in a deity isn't a light switch you can turn on and off.

His parents from west London had asked judges at the High Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court to support their plea; however they ruled in favour of GOSH doctors who recommend that the infant's life - support machine is switched off.

The brain's switch is usually stuck in one position, on or off, and nothing really changes it.

A pastor who believes in god can't just turn off his belief like a light switch and say «I'm going to try atheism.

-- I do not see ego hassles when I am on my draft of communications because they flow spontaneously through me in my absolute «switch off» capacity from the lower realms of life as a being of life for the Being that I am for life.I thank all for bearing with me or rejecting me at the mind levels because that is how I am poised for all life to relish me as being of life for the Being that I am for life.I thank all for bearing with me or rejecting me at the mind levels because that is how I am poised for all life to relish me as Being that I am for life.I thank all for bearing with me or rejecting me at the mind levels because that is how I am poised for all life to relish me as food.

Complex instructions must be carefully analyzed into a series of elemental steps to be carried out in the digital type computers by simple on - off switching devices.

And just as lights can be switched on and off depending on the time of day, and the circumstances of the person in the room, so also, faith can waver back and forth from day to day, even from minute to minute, depending on the evidence that is presented to a person, their past history, the circumstances in which they find themselves, and a variety of others factors.

As differentiation continues, various genes are «switched off» but stem cells, even in adults, retain a certain pluripotency in order to produce fully differentiated cells lost by damage or ageing.

Davies and Lineweaver suggest that genes active in embryogenesis and switched off later may be reactivated because of damage, causing the accelerated cell division of these rogue cancer cells.

There have been viewers, of course, who switched off the program, deciding that such a dish of snobbery, alcoholism and decadence was too gamey to serve up in the living room.

In this perfect world we would be androids, turn off emotions like a light switch.

Why is it than in a modern country like America, so many people switch off all common sense and logic and believe the fairy stories and hateful rhetoric written by this ignorant, desert dwelling goat herder and his ilk over centuries?

However, switching directors in the middle of production is a pretty drastic move, and may signal some real creative issues with the new spin - off.

If you want a thicker stew then make a flour paste by mixing 2 tbsp cornflour with 2 tbsp water, mix this in when the stew is done, select sauté and bring to the boil before switching off.

«I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.»

Switch off oven but let the cheesecake bake in the residual heat until the oven is completely cool.

I guess part of the lure of travel for me is being able to see places through fresh eyes, my brain switches into a different mode, my daily routine gets knocked off balance and I end up find inspiration in the unlikeliest of places.

Sometimes I have to switch off a little [from the criticism] because even in my own family I'm considered the crazy one because I only eat organic.

Once product is packed in the box, simply hit a switch and the pack off station lifts up and rolls the packed box out.

Try keeping the starter in a switched off oven, then it wont be exposed to draft.

After that switch off flame and take all potato pieces in a bowl and let it be cool.

A day to kick back in bed all morning, drink freshly pressed dark roast French coffee, read the paper (love the fact that it is on - line now) and not feel guilty about switching off from all the daily responsibilities.

Once again our problems are highlighted in the DM position and Centre back, Mertesaker is too slow now and switches off, I think next summer we go and buy a top top CDM and a top top Centre back, those are our two positions we are weakest in.

It was great to switch off for an hour and take part in an activity that took me out of my comfort zone and, I think surprisingly, I found quite inspiring!

They have that on / off switch we've talked about over the years and when they are «on», very few in the League can keep them down..