Sentences with phrase «taken on a life of»

Just as with raising a child, your business will begin to take on a life of its own.

The promotional item took on a life of its own, according to McGovern, attracting orders from as far away as Germany.

The Stat, with the imprimatur of the Commerce Department, took on a life of its own.

But business planning can take on a life of its own.

But markets in those days were significantly concerned by an administration unable to address its policy agenda, bogged down as it was with problems that had taken on a life of their own, and a Congress preoccupied with the issue.

The letter has taken on a life of its own, inspiring hundreds of people to adapt it to spark conversation in their own families.

Quality control then took on a life of its own in this country.

JM: It takes on a life of its own.

The ad copy has taken on a life of its own, with hiring managers and entrepreneurs pointing to it as an example of how to lure exceptional people to your organization.

In the linked and data - hungry internet age, however, those volunteered pieces of information take on lives of their own.

Before long Biznik took on a life of it's own as folks joined from all over the country an even the world, responding to the call for independent business people to show up, collaborate, and work together to help each other stay in business.

Perhaps the most important takeaway is that while there can be merit to any number of analytical styles (fundamental, sector, thematic, technical), a company's shares can take on a life of their own out in the secondary market where the shares live.

«The radio silence from executives over the last few days has added fuel to the growing Cambridge fire and if this data leak fiasco is left to fester it could take on a life of its own leading to tougher regulatory oversight / chatter,» Daniel Ives, head of technology research at GBH Insights, said in a research note.

Use these share triggers in your next blog post and watch as your articles take on a life of their own.

Creativity is the key — a good image ad will take on a life of its own and create a viral buzz about your product.

As we have said on many occasions, sometimes a theme or narrative around an industry or trend can take on a life of its own.

Fake news has taken on a life of its own.

Fresh on the heels of his very well - received take on the life of Abraham Lincoln, Steven Spielberg is setting his sights on one of Stanley Kubrick's abandoned screenplays: a Napoleon Bonaparte biopic.

While he maintains hope for its future as a reform movement within the church, he fails to observe that evangelicalism has taken on a life of its own outside the church.

OK, so technically Jim Gaffigan isn't a fictional character, but his on - stage persona and ever - present internal monologue have taken on a life of their own.

The Feminist sport of deriding and sniping at men seems to have taken on a life of its own and is by no means minimised by the media, by advertisers, by politicians and pundits and even by the clergy.

When that happens, the study of a theory takes on a life of its own, and the curriculum becomes a clutch of unrelated courses instead of an integral course of study.

But at least four interrelated themes in Plato's proposals about the education of ideal rulers took on a life of their own and did shape ordinary paideia as the Christians knew it centuries later.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

Warehouse 242 grew out of a Sunday school class at Charlotte's Forest Hill Evangelical Presbyterian Church «that just seemed to take on a life of its own,» Hahn tells me.

After it was published I experienced what literary critics often point out, that any work of art — a poem, a painting, even a book of theology — quickly escapes its creator's hand and takes on a life of its own.

The hate itself takes on a life of its own.

So this started as a comment on Peter's great post below but took on a life of its own.

An ancient rabbinic method of exegesis called midrash, which sought out and inevitably found the solution to problems perceived in the biblical text, resulted in the creation of an abundant mythology that eventually took on a life of its own.

Across the pond we hear similar arguments that Brussels has violated the spirit of subsidiarity, with the larger dream of unity taking on a life of its own at the expense of the hugely diverse interests of the member states.

Despite having a life of its own, the church takes on the life of its people, becoming them even in the inert substance of its construction: «And its walls shall be hard as!

There can be patterns that grievers will experience in common... and / or it takes on a life of its own.

Like Noah's ark, too, true art takes on a life of its own that is completely outside the hands of the creator — a life imbued by God.

Anyone who has been caught up in data system mishaps knows how miserable is the extrication process; once data is mis - recorded the error takes on a life of its own within computer systems.

From there, the conversation took on a life of its own.

Like so many others, the Augustinian cloister had in fact taken on a life of its own as a social and economic unit in a society devoted to the maintenance of the policy and economy of the Church with all its complicated and expensive structures.

But because these decisions are world - constituting, they end up taking on a life of their own:

They do take on a life of their own and how we design institutions has a lasting impact, which can be for better of worse.

They tend, in short, to take on a life of their own, having the power to order and govern the courses comprising a course of study.

Created at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, N.Y., more than 40 years ago, Buffalo Wings have taken on a life of their own and there are hundreds of variations from the original recipe.

Our Sculpin IPA with Habanero Pepper began as a crazy experiment that's taken on a life of its own.

Like many others, this recipe has evolved over the years and has taken on a life of its own.

But like in every other part of the world where they are grown, the naming of chiles has taken on a life of their own.

I couldn't imagine using marmite as a spread... but in a stew, it takes on a life of its own!

Each Flag Football Game takes on a life of its own though and this one will truly be up for grabs come Thursday Night.

Eventually the rumor takes on a life of its own, large and multiple enough that no one cares where it came from anymore.

More than a year later, the action taken by the quarterback has taken on a life of its own.

It has now taken on a life of its own as variously his arbitrarily decided value and the price Levy placed on him and is capriciously raising against poor old financially doped Manchester, playing off a straight bat, City.

But, as your business grows this may take on a life of its own.

«Teaching life lessons» seems to be a phrase that every coach has embraced of late, so much so that it seems to have taken on a life of its own, particularly in the context of middle and high school sports.