Sentences with phrase «than handing out»

Drew says he pitched the contest as a community effort rather than handing out brochures to individuals and having them compete against one another.

Finding your next job or career takes so much more than handing out a resume.

Something small that briefly states who you are and your specialty comes in handy when meeting new people, when a business card seems more appropriate than handing out resumes to everyone you meet.

Packaging your resume and cover letter to apply for a job is a totally different ball of wax than handing out your resume to strangers at a networking event.

Rather than handing out your wireless network password to all and sundry, WiFi Sense allows you to share it with Outlook contacts, Skype contacts, and Facebook friends: as long as they have WiFi Sense, they can get online through your WiFI without having to actually know the password first.

Sounds like a job even George Costanza could love, no harder than handing out candy on Halloween, right?

The means may be similar to networking — particularly good networking, which focuses on meaningful connections rather than handing out business cards — but the focus in a community is on building the relationship for the sake of the relationship.

I personally think it is best to watch for the meaningful opportunities rather than handing out compliments like Halloween candy.

Rather than handing out solar ovens (which many communities don't embrace in any case), could your plan include helping powerless residents in poor places become solar entrepreneurs (while they wait for a power plant to get built somewhere, someday)?

The majority of the other 49 achievements seek to award players for teamwork, insane skill and innovative methods of survival, rather than handing out 1000 points simply for completing every level.

Giving during the holiday season means more than handing out shiny new presents to friends and family, it means giving back to your community.

They volunteer at a Suicide Prevention Center, where they seem to possess no skills other than handing out donuts and teaching tap dancing.

The Focus on Time's Up: From the all - black dress code in protest of sexual harassment — which nearly everyone in attendance followed — to the widespread exaltation of the Time's Up initiative to each of the actresses who walked the red carpet with an activist as their date, this year's Globes was about so much more than handing out trophies.

Restrict early communications to a dating site's messaging system rather than handing out your personal email or phone number.

Rather than handing out individual scores, the judges will instead pick a winning conference.

Similarly, rather than handing out marriages to everyone equally, the privilege of marriage should go to those able to fulfill the intrinsic ends of the activities traditional marriage protects: the procreation and education of children, protection from concupiscence, and mutual sanctification.

This year, Mark - Viverito has said she will divide member items based on a formula that accounts for the income levels of each council district, rather than hand them out arbitrarily as was the practice in past years.

That we prefer the so called poverty or underdevelopment (by their definition) with the tranquility of our environment, that our rivers, the forest and their wild lives are more valuable to us than their hand outs.

Exit Realty founder and CEO Steve Morris says: «Habitat's philosophy of providing a hand up, rather than a hand out, is right in line with our corporate philosophy.»

With the leadership of the KWAR and the Realtors Care Foundation, the continuation of Realtor support will provide hard - working, low - income families in our community with an opportunity for a hand up rather than a hand out.»

It changed the tradition this year, deciding to donate turkeys directly to local charities rather than hand them out to anyone who lined up for one.

Not exact matches

For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions on how people use it.

After more than a decade of being Sumner Redstone's right - hand man, Dauman abruptly fell out of favor earlier this year.

Rather than expose miners to the risk of a human error - induced accident involving a multi-ton vehicle, Clearpath takes the driving out of human hands.

But less than a month later, Sessions wrote to congressional leaders criticizing the federal government's hands - off approach to medical marijuana, and citing a Colorado case in which a medical marijuana licensee shipped pot out of state.

Not only is modifying an operating system a lot harder than the government makes it out to be — much harder than handing over a pen register.

As William Strauss and Neil Howe put it in their seminal book Generations (almost anybody pontificating about generational cohorts is channelling Strauss and Howe, even if they don't realize it), «More than anyone, they have developed a seasoned talent for getting the most out of a bad hand.»

Rutan eventually discovered a cheap way to hand - build exterior components out of «composite» materials — essentially strips of glue - soaked fiberglass over cut foam — that proved stronger and lighter than wood or aluminum and easier to craft into complex shapes.

Studies that involve divvying up money, for example, have shown that subjects would irrationally rather walk away empty - handed than feel they were cheated out of their fair share.

Handing out business cards for his mobile massage therapy practice, Peer says, «I won't thumb type more than a text message, but with this keyboard and this phone, I can do 90 percent of what I do on my laptop.»

This may also be the first time you get to pick out bedding for yourself, rather than living with what your mom chose or what was handed down from someone else's bed.

Ben Chestnut, meanwhile, grew up watching his mother and sister run a beauty salon out of the family's kitchen — and learned never to spend more than the cash he had on hand.

If the situation gets out of hand, they may eventually find themselves losing money, as expenses grow faster than sales.

«Think five years out, when the hardware is closer to the form factor of sunglasses than a helmet, and the sensors pick up hand and finger gestures directly.»

Since then, the school has handed out more than $ 2 million at a clip of $ 600 per week (or less) to the fellows.

As a CEO, it's important to know when to step back and ensure the team works together to figure things out, rather than hold everyone's hands as they sort through their differences.

«This is a wake - up call to Silicon Valley and the tech community that if you let these things get out of hand, having grown up in a very lightly regulated environment, you could end up with a lot more regulation than you seek, he said after the hearing.

When it's time to scale the other direction, it's much easier to stop handing out freelancer contracts than it is to lay off full - time employees.

Parents are handing perfectly good old machines down to their kids, rather than going out and spending a lot on a shiny new model.

An exchange that used to house more than 5,000 traders shouting out their business now is a mostly docile habitat in which those still left on the floor quietly tap out orders on hand - held computers and barely make a peep at swift changes in market activity.

For less than $ 20, you get a high - quality armband so you can keep your smartphone close at hand while working out.

Their users are so dependent on both their platforms, they are likely to hand over consent rather than be locked out of their email, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp.

Just like Pickens County itself, NGAtops won't thrive if it remains little more than a well - kept secret, so the Guidices are marketing the service throughout northern Georgia, meeting with local businesses and handing out promotional decals at regional festivals.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

By eliminating that escape hatch from our vocabulary we encourage people to thoughtfully consider the situation rather than dismissing a request out of hand.

Forty years ago UNICEF figured out that promoting simple, low - cost interventions like hand - washing and breastfeeding could save millions of lives, and its mission has helped children in more than 190 countries and territories.

What's worse than a potentially interested customer reaching out to you at 1 am with credit card in hand, only to lose interest when the support team finally gets around to answering questions at 2 pm the following day?

In a sign that the speculative mania is getting out of hand, one very small stock, Future FinTech, briefly leaped more than 200 percent Tuesday despite no clear ties to anything crypto - related.

In hindsight, she remembers little other than her co-host, at one point, guiding her trembling hand out of a close - up shot, whereupon a producer in her ear coached her to «take deep breaths.»

«When your schedule gets out of hand, less than half of it is under your direct control,» says Mankins.