Sentences with phrase «take a left»

We should take a leaf from our world - class athletes and set our sights on «owning the podium» in investment attraction.

Laura Fitton told Axios she came forward after Pishevar announced he would be taking a leave of absence to pursue legal action against his accusers.

Ohanian has unwittingly become a role model for exhausted founders, he says; after he took leave, many of the men he mentors said they now feel they have «permission» to do the same.

And by swiftly quashing behaviour that makes those who take leave feel second - class.

She considered taking a leave of absence, but she missed the fall semester deadline.

Blankmeyer alleges that the school did not provide her with appropriate alternate accommodation leading to her taking leave of absence and later finishing her degree remotely from New York.

So Rendon, who'd worked at the school for a year and a half, told her bosses she'd be having transplant surgery on July 21 and planned to take leave starting July 19.

Pishevar said in a statement on Tuesday that he would take a leave of absence from venture firm Sherpa Capital and transportation startup Hyperloop One.

Silicon Valley investor Shervin Pishevar, known for his early bet on Uber, said on Tuesday he was taking a leave of absence from his venture capital firm and the startup he co-founded to fight allegations of sexual harassment.

The news of Kalanick's official departure as CEO, which was announced Wednesday morning, comes after he penned a letter to staff last week that he would be taking a leave of absence to cope with the death of his mother, Bonnie Kalanick.

I took a leave of absence and figured I'd focus on real estate in a hotter market, Los Angeles.

In 1999 she took a leave of absence from teaching biomedical engineering at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., to launch AnthroTronix, based in College Park, Md..

Say you are taking a leave of absence from work, are between jobs or have recently retired.

But, after spending some time and saying your thanks, take leave and tell everyone to have a great time.

This announcement comes right after RIM's announced COO Don Morrison would be taking a leave of absence for medical reasons, although he's expected to return later this year.

Like every other call for Ford to take a leave of absence, this too was ignored.

Now Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has taken a leave of absence from the company.

And 15 percent reported having to take a leave of absence due to workplace stress.

Kalanick apparently made his decision to take a leave at almost the last minute.

The most important rule to remember is that everyone plays golf, so if you don't play golf, take a leave of absence, learn golf, then go back to work.

Zuckerberg carefully negotiated a clause that would allow him to take a leave from Facebook to serve in public office or government, so presumably he has some sort of political beliefs — if not outright political ambition — as well as some core ideas about what's good for society and what's not.

Taking leave might be career suicide if your employer operates in the Dark Ages, Chandler notes, but many more now recognize the need to protect employees» mental health.

Struggling mobile device maker Nokia suffered another blow Thursday when its chief technology officer, Richard Green, took a leave of absence after just one year at the company.

Some have since taken leaves of absence, but Duplan was able to graduate a year early so he could work on Clinkle full - time.

And then I finally take a leave of absence from medical school, when ISU, International Space University, is really getting going.

Learning the value of calculated risks — like the one we took leaving our home in Tehran; of hard work — like how I battled back after failing out of school; and that people should embrace those who are different from them — the opposite of how the playground bullies treated me; are life lessons that have brought me to where I am today.

Still, he's glad he took the leave: «Even now that I'm back in the office, my family life is better because I took that time, and in the end, everyone in the office was fine with it.»

Since then, the number of Québécois men taking leave has jumped to 76 %, compared to 11 % in the rest of the country.

Council vote 37 - 5 urging Ford to take a leave of absence.

SAN FRANCISCO — In Uber's continuing attempt to repair its reputation over a series of scandals stemming from its bad - boy culture, its co-founder Travis Kalanick said he would take a leave of absence as chief executive.

The chief executive has taken a leave of absence and several others have been fired over the past two weeks.

Taking a leaf out of Tesla's «how not to» book, the phrase leads Volvo customers into believing that the car sports more autonomy than it really does.

To negotiate the details on the immigration bill, Mr. Rubio hired Enrique Gonzalez, who took a leave from a law firm that handles H - 1B visa applications for many technology companies.

Chairman and co-founder of Hyperloop One prior to Virgin's involvement, Shervin Pishevar, recently took a leave of absence due to allegations of sexual misconduct.

According to Variety, Harvey Weinstein has been «furiously resisting efforts to force him out [of the Weinstein Company] permanently,» going so far as to continue to appear at work after he said that he would be taking a leave of absence.

Amid all this chaos, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will be taking a leave of absence from the company for an undisclosed amount of time.

There was no specific incident over the past week to make investors decide Kalanick taking a leave of absence wasn't enough, the person with knowledge of the situation said.

The Tesla car that Joshua Brown was driving ran full speed into a semi in Florida — as the tractor - trailer took a left at an intersection causing the Model S to hit its side.

The workers could use the leave to care for themselves, a member of their family, a domestic partner or another loved one, or they could take the leave to recover from domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.

«If you provide the same benefit to both people and encourage both to take the leave, there is no opportunity for bias,» he said.

June 13 — Kalanick takes a leave of absence.

With some work fatigue and a significant change to his bank account, he took a leave from the company in 2005 to spend time with his family.

Mothers are still more likely to take the leave, she notes, as there «are still employers that are not supportive of male employees taking parental leave.»

Pregnant workers like Peggy Young at UPS have been expected to either keep doing the heavy lifting, or take leave.

I half - think that this explains why Carney has been all over the map at the BoE; perhaps Poloz is taking another leaf from his book.

There should be some way of encouraging fathers to take that leave.

As arguably the greatest Investing Mind of the last century, I've taken a leaf out of Charlie's book and picked up biographies on some of his heroes over the last year including Lee Kuan Yew, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin.

It was only after Mr. Kalanick took a leave to deal with his family's personal tragedies that Benchmark for the first time took the position that Mr. Kalanick should be forced to resign and to give up his right to appoint additional Board members — supposedly because he had withheld information that Benchmark in fact knew all about.

If you will be taking leave during warm months, see if you can have a yard sale to earn money beforehand.

Copeland said if he is nominated, he will take a leave of absence from his duties both at city hall and at the fish hatchery.