Sentences with phrase «taken away»

None of the show's investors were impressed, and the one offer he got was for a royalty that would have taken away a portion of his sales forever.

That way the protections couldn't be put in place or taken away at the whim of whichever party had a majority in the FCC.

Wired has the bizarre story of Andre Vrignaud, a 39 - year - old gaming consultant in Seattle, whose Internet was taken away by his provider for using too much data.

And it was the afternoon of that dismissal that friends found him home alone, crying like a baby whose favorite plaything had just been taken away from him.

The other issue with Gizmodo's article — with Microsoft's reversal, actually — is the lament about how the company has taken away the ability to share digitally downloaded games with family or friends.

«(But) if there's curtailment all the way to the point of discontinuing that flow of product... that utilization taken away from the refineries would have a pretty negative effect on the refineries.»

Computers and documents were also taken away from Uber offices.

General Wang Jianping, 62, deputy chief of the Joint Staff Department under the powerful Central Military Commission, was taken away in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Thursday afternoon, one of the sources said.

Trump has yet to specifically specify what's wrong with the agreement other than that it has taken away U.S. jobs.

«Every second spent recruiting, hiring, training, and developing new employees is time taken away from your core business,» Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, previously told Business Insider.

When the distractions are taken away from you, it becomes much easier to stay focused.

At one point a man asking a question (who later turned out to be from the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong) grew so irate during his questioning that when the microphone was taken away from him, he carried on speaking — virtually shouting.

«The position came with a company car, and that was taken away because I had a husband who worked and I didn't need it.

He says the symbolism is valid because it targets the «differential treatment of debt» and how money has influenced politics such that «big borrowers got their debt forgiven, small borrowers got their houses taken away from them.»

And it keeps you hungry because if you stopped thinking like an underdog, anything you have achieved can and will be taken away from you if you neglect your responsibility to keep it.»

That might sound elitist to some, but I would never suggest I am somehow entitled to either, or, more importantly, that the people who achieved that need to have it taken away.

One reason, says Eisinger, is that court rulings have taken away tactics that prosecutors had used to pressure defendants, such as restricting attorney - client privilege and preventing their companies from bankrolling sky - high legal bills.

Two points can be taken away from all this.

The reality is Amazon's efforts are putting a lid on Costco's stock and they've taken away the floor.»

Meanwhile, as laws change, a residency visa can be taken away — but it's a more affordable way to get the perks that come along with living in another country.

The final clause here involves a situation where an employee's job evolves to the point where they are no longer doing the same job (see section 1) as when they were hired because certain key responsibilities have been taken away from them.

Swallowed by the intense glow by the Chinook's loading ramp, are paratroopers filing into the aircraft to be taken away for an air assault mission.

Jokowi said not using the state budget for the rail project in heavily populated Java meant money wasn't taken away from infrastructure projects in other parts of Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago.

«Citizenship is forever, and can not be taken away unless you received it under fraudulent circumstances,» he said.

Friends, spouses, cash, assets and hairlines come and go, but a college degree or welding cert can never be taken away from you.

«When you get something like that taken away — it's my livelihood, how I make my money, how I do everything.

The fundamentals can't be taken away.

By becoming the boy who cried paradigm shift, we've taken away its impact when we really need it - during real transformation.

«But when you're locked to a couch and the only way to move your leg is to physically lift it with your hands, well, all these things we do every day are taken away, and you have to come to grips with yourself and spend a lot of time in your own head.

I have a great life and a wonderful family, and that's not going to be taken away from me.

This is something that can never be taken away from me no matter what happens in the future.

What was added and taken away?

A study of volunteering in Germany explored how volunteers were affected when their opportunities to help others were taken away:

Access to the controls was taken away from the analysts, depending on the product.

One tool, that if taken away would give them hives.

If that is taken away you can be assured that the quality of people who answer the phone will drop significantly.

If, by this possible omission and limitation of FCC powers, net neutrality were made ineffective by allowing the otherwise prohibited behaviors to occur further upstream, consumers would rightly judge their net neutrality to have been taken away.

Or, for that matter, if their preferential treatment in the domestic market were taken away?

You can invest in state - controlled firms like Sinopec, PetroChina and Bank of China, but it's difficult to tell whether these firms would thrive were their preferential treatment taken away through economic liberalization.

With the uncertainty in terms of reproductive rights, and with health insurance uncertainty, the birth control pill might get taken away from you.

Here's what Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz wants you to take away from his speech in Whitehorse on June 15: the world is unfolding roughly as the central bank thought it would a month earlier when it published its latest quarterly economic report.

But once that IUD is in your uterus, they can't take it away,» Streicher said.

Since then, the Sûreté du Québec conducted a second raid on another warehouse, this time in Lévis, just across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec City, taking away an undisclosed number of barrels of maple syrup.

Engaged employees have ideas; take away opportunities for them to make suggestions, or instantly disregard their ideas without consideration, and they immediately disengage.

Take away anything that blocks your view or forms a barrier between you and the person with whom you are speaking.

Take away the $ 75 in electricity costs, and I've made $ 90 in two weeks.

In the past month or so I've found myself complaining a lot about this because my drive time takes away from my work productivity, puts me in the office later, and fills me with intense anger directed at, well, everybody and nobody.Driving accomplishes nothing except getting me to the office.

My main issue with a plan to simply work longer — over and above the reality that it might not be possible — is it takes away your freedom to stop working when you want to.

The solution to complacency, however, does not lie in dropping the thermostat or taking away the fancy coffee in the break room.

If you aren't getting paid to do something, and the task will take away time from accomplishing what you are paid to do, saying no demonstrates your commitment to your role and the value of your time.»