Sentences with phrase «testing the waters on»

As my conspiracy theory went, I posited that Bell was testing the waters on cutting out throttling in exchange for the regulator granting it UBB.

Vickar advises testing the waters on a potential move by vacationing in the new place for a lengthy period (even a few months, if possible) before making the leap.

And after testing the waters on several projects, we acquired a complementary organization that was headed down a similar path, and became a fully integrated marketing agency.

«The interest rates you could charge someone are so low that you can test the waters on whether they would pay you back by talking about a repayment plan,» says Gamel.

With Pinterest poised to take its first ad product, Promoted Pins, public, retailers and brands that have so far been testing the waters on the social pinboard are now beginning to look more seriously into optimizing their activity on the site.

You were able to test the waters on a blog, rather than a publisher having to take a chance on you.

I've never had any gluten free breads, I think a sweet bread would be the one to test the waters on.

Perhaps the Patriots brass wanted to test the waters on whether the fan base would be okay with Tebow signing, or perhaps it was just a heck of a coincidence.

Babies are smart and understand a lot more than we give them credit for, including testing the waters on what they can get away with.

The Daily Politics mood box - an unscientific method of gathering public opinion - tested the waters on polls and surveys near Speakers» Corner in London.

This belt is also great for leagues just starting up, who want to test the waters on a fantasy football belt before spending the big bucks.

The baggage we're inevitably dealt (and it's all relative) will play on those characteristics, mapping out our emotional intelligence, to be unraveled in late adolescence and early adulthood as we test the waters on our own.

I'm 29 myself and testing the waters on crop tops again, and this is serious encouragement

They aren't perfect quality, but it sure is a great way to test the waters on a trendy piece:)

Some of these individuals won't have been on a date since their late 20s or 30s and are just testing the waters on whether they should dive straight back into the dating world.

Then again, they are making a new Shin Megami Tensei for Switch so perhaps PQ2 can be cross platform and test the waters on both.

(b) Although districts retain the court's deference on matters of educational Page 2 policy, parents of special education students and their attorneys may likely test the waters on applying the SCOTUS decision in the Endrew F. case.

Im testing waters on selling my ultra rare and heavily modified 6spd manual 2005 Nissan altima ser project car.

I don't have an hour here and there to test the water on a «bargain» only to discover that it falls apart on me at hour two.

As an aside, I'll have a good collection soon that will need a publishing home — one of these (I like Kindle Singles) might be a good option to test the waters on my writing.

(Testing the waters on how best to bundle services with devices?)

Do make sure you use warm water — test the water on yourself before using it on your dog.

We'll likely take advantage of this in the coming year in some form, if for nothing else, testing the waters on new game prototypes.

Then again, they are making a new Shin Megami Tensei for Switch so perhaps PQ2 can be cross platform and test the waters on both.

If you're already in a job and want to just test the waters on remote work, you can do that, too!

Apparently, insurance companies are beginning to more actively test the waters on independent living and assisted living properties.

Not exact matches

To test the principle I decided to learn three simple guitar riffs: Smoke on the Water, 7 Nation Army, and Iron Man.

On Wednesday, North Korea also threatened to strike the Pacific U.S. territory of Guam by test - firing ballistic missiles into the waters surrounding the island.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

New social media platforms pop up on a regular basis, and as we all hop in to test the water and see how we can use each, we undoubtedly upload a profile picture in the process.

With your EOIs posted on your website or blog, you will begin testing the waters, see who is still available in the labour pool and begin to build your pipeline of talent so that when that big order comes in sooner than planned, you already have a talent pool to draw from.

«We recently had a test for E. coli in our water, and it didn't pass, and then maintenance came on and hit a couple buttons and it passed.

My cold water test was actually brought on by a conversation I had with Business Insider's senior director of commerce, Breton Fischetti.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

During CES, Goetgeluk says Virtuix is conducting a «testing - the - waters» campaign on SeedInvest under the new mini-IPO rules of Regulation A of the JOBS Act, which allow the general public for the first time to potentially invest in tech startups.

On January 21, 2014, Trump made his first waters - testing visit to New Hampshire.

A settlement means that we're going to not chance it to the jury to make a decision, we agree to disagree on whether anyone did anything wrong but we're making a practical business decision, we're going to pay this much to be done with this case and not test the waters.

On its part, Ola has been testing waters in Australia and Sri Lanka, and, if reports are to be believed, plans to foray into Bangladesh and New Zealand.

Saudi Arabia will be a litmus test — it raised some gasoline prices by 66 % and slashed subsidies on gas, diesel, kerosene, electricity and water.

He said he looks forward to managing a store where «everyone is treated with respect, whether they're coming in for a glass of water after they've come in on the bus from their job or they want to get a beverage while they're studying for a test at the community college.»

The restrictions on their services will catalyze a healthy local market where vendors, such as Alibaba, JD.com and Xiaomi, have already launched smart speakers to test the waters.»

Beginning on January 22, investors will learn about an opportunity to become part of EV history when Dubuc tests the waters with a funding campaign on the StartEngine equity crowdfunding platform.

Changing water to wine Walking on water healing the sick drowning the world in an amount of water equal to five times the water on the planet fitting several of every animal on a boat that could not hold half of the animals and have enough to eat and drink the fidelity test in numbers making striped goats by having goats stare at stripes changing people into a pillar of salt plagues of toads

very simple test for people that call themselves christians, jesus said if you really believed in him you too can walk on water, well I have a bucket, anyone want to try?

I aced the test, but when I tried to walk on water, I sank.

Here's a list of things we should test... 1) Worldwide floods 2) Seas parting at the command of a person 3) talking snakes, donkeys, and bushes 4) People spontaneously turning into pillars of salt 5) a few loaves of bread and some wine feeding thousands 6) instantaneous healing of disease 7) worlds forming in 6 days 8) words forming on stone tablets without the assistance of a living creature 9) people walking on water 10) resurrection on command

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

Most reviews include demonstrated drying times, a variety of paper tests, assessments of bleed through, feathering, water resistance, smearing, and variations in color depending on the width of the pen nib and absorbency of the paper.

Repeating the test on her next fledging, she elicited the same response, and so dropped him, too, into the waters below.

It is the human endeavor to apply the tests of coherence and comprehensiveness in drawing conclusions about the veracity of certain phenomena — that, for example, axheads do not float on water and the sun does not stand still, that conceptions are not immaculate, that corpses do not rise from graves.