Sentences with phrase «than the step up»

I think Holiday has been good, when healthy, for a long time, and Cousins» presence necessarily suppressed him offensively more than he stepped up post-injury.

He's backing up as the ref calls on him and than steps up to the line to block the throw.

Director Ryan Coogler more than stepped up to the challenge of bringing Wakanda and its heroes to life, and he did it while infusing it with beauty, heart and wonder.

However, rather than step up and address the major flaws with the existing failed funding system, Governor Dannel Malloy made a thinly veiled reference today, in his State of the State Address, that he plans to propose a new state education funding formula, one that would likely pump even more scarce public funds to Connecticut's privately owned and operated charter schools.

While point and shoots are still better than smartphones in some ways, they're more of a step sideways than a step up.

The difference between 5.1 and 7.1 is much more negligible than the step up between stereo or virtual surround to true 5.1.

«Various news outlets have confirmed that the School Resource Officer and three Broward Sheriff Deputies were on campus at the time of the attack and chose to take cover themselves rather than stepping up to protect our students.

Not exact matches

Particularly as an entrepreneur, it's more important than ever to steel your resolve, take a giant step backwards, and say «hold up, not so fast!»

With access to growing markets, a skilled talent pool and comparatively lower living costs than the Valley and its other Western counterparts, East Asian cities are stepping up to win over entrepreneurs.

«He was always up for going one step further than anyone can imagine,» says Lee.

More than anything, it seems the recession has given them the chance to step up to the plate.

The industry has stepped up its political contributions, snatched up some of Washington's finest consultants and lobbyists and just launched the first tech super PAC — or political action committee — led by none other than that hoodie - wearing, 28 - year old social media whiz Mark Zuckerberg.

There are plenty of free bookkeeping tools on the market, but QuickBooks is the best option for growing companies, because it's easy to step up to the paid version ($ 99.95), which lets users track more than 10,000 customers.

In real terms, while the display certainly is nice to look at — and a giant step up over the grainy screen of LG's other recent effort, the bendable Flex — it's not that much better looking than its competitors.

We need to ensure Canadian companies can stay one step ahead of their global competitors, rather than always playing catch - up.

«Rather than stepping back, he stepped up even more,» says Ed Chen, Bloomberg's White House correspondent at the time.

Rather than criticizing leaders who are stepping up to help solve the most pressing problems of global society — devoting not just their money but their time as well — we should be venerating them.

And would be a big step up from today's electronics recycling systems, which are not much more than industrial - strength shredding machines.

And, thanks to technology, every step of starting and running a business will be significantly easlier than ever before: setting up shop, gaining exposure, sourcing, shipping and delivery.

Here's another familiar dilemma: If you're out to dinner with a friend who makes a significantly lower salary than yourself, are you expected to step up and cover the whole bill?

Following the revelations, YouTube said it would step up its efforts to prevent children from seeing that type of content by restricting access to inappropriate videos to users that are logged into the site and are older than 17.

«We are more than willing and capable of stepping up our game.»

Rather than «unpack the meeting» let's «outline what was discussed in the meeting and come up with all the next steps.»

Regulatory changes had been in the wind for some time as the evidence against the program built up, yet employers relied on the lobbying efforts of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business to maintain the program rather than taking steps to improve domestic recruitment and training efforts or adjust wages and benefits to attract workers.

When you identify the informal networks that exist within your company, more often than not the leaders of these informal groups are the ones who are actively looking for opportunities to Step Up.

There are lots and lots of tips available out there on perfecting your email marketing, but in a forthcoming book, Peter Kazanjy, co-founder of start - up TalentBin, which was acquired by Monster, goes a step further than most of those offering advice.

Pitching in the name of a CEO or founders offers more social proof, than for example a head of marketing, but if writing's not your forte, then allow a wordy colleague to step up to the plate.

Step 2: Setting Up and Posting Ledgers A completed ledger is really nothing more than a summary of revenues, expenditures, and whatever else you're keeping track of (entered from your receipts according to category and date).

Up to the day in 2013 she announced she'd be stepping down, its shares appreciated more than 400 %.

Indeed, the opposite might be true: the new scale for mozzarella, they believe, is more an effort to shore up the system than a first step toward taking it down.

Sears Holdings has lost more than $ 8 billion in the last five and a half years, and this summer, Lampert had to step up to provide an additional $ 300 million in debt financing for Sears, half of whose shares he controls.

Virgin Atlantic's wording for its mid-level seating is quite clever: by calling it premium economy rather than business class or something similar, it makes it seem less of a step up even though there is quite a large price difference.

I live in a city, and frequently visit more than one place when I go on vacation, so having something I can carry up and down subway steps and on uneven streets is crucial.

Wealthy Chinese are snapping up gold, Rolls - Royces and yachts, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gucci faster than ever before, with increases registering not in baby steps, as a decade ago, but in giant leaps — 20, 50, even 80 percent, year on year.

Also an elder law attorney told me recently that several states are looking into «filial duty» laws where families must step up to care for aged parents rather than game the system to have parents cared for as indigents by the states.

In the wake of a January heist to the tune of more than $ 500 million from the exchange Coincheck, Japan's financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), stepped up efforts to ensure that exchanges operate in compliance with the country's laws.

If you over step the amount your budget can handle, you may end up worrying more about money rather than having fun.

We spoke with more than half a dozen current and former Twitter employees, and the general consensus is that there isn't anyone in the building ready to step up in a Noto - like role.

In November 2013, Desert Newco refinanced the term loan, lowering the interest rates to either (a) LIBOR (not less than 1.0 %) plus 3.0 % per annum or (b) 2.0 % per annum plus the highest of (i) the federal funds rate plus 0.5 %, (ii) the prime rate, or (iii) one month LIBOR plus 1.0 %, with step - downs of up to 0.25 % depending on Desert Newco's credit ratings.

-- Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind «In this valuable guide Chris Guillebeau shows that transforming an idea into a successful business can be easier than you think... You are in charge of which ideas deserve your time, and this book can help you wake up every morning eager to progress to the next step.»

But allegations of sexual abuse related to BJU and the school's response have been ongoing at least since 2010, when former board member and former Trinity Baptist Church pastor Chuck Phelps was accused of helping to «cover up repeated instances of sexual abuse committed more than a decade earlier by an older male parishioner against his step - daughter.»

No matter how it is explained, however, this idea is more blatantly wrong than any of the other logical steps leading up to it.

Working out of his small, cluttered office at Adrian University, where he teaches political science, the seemingly indefatigable Khan stepped into the role of public intellectual for the U.S. Muslim community after 9/11 with incisive articles such as «Memo to Mr. Bin Laden: Go to Hell,» which was picked up by more than a dozen news agencies around the world.

Oh, and I missed the scripture reference that tells us we can «step up to the land of more - than - enough» is that in the apocrypha or something?

As you walk down the soccer field, all those different creatures pop up in the space of less than one step!

Fortunately, higher motives than these were primarily responsible for stepped - up mission efforts.

The technique trains people in a series of graduated steps, each requiring more assertiveness than the one before, to speak up or to do things for themselves even at the risk of disapproval from others.

The church needs to step up on it's moral pew and condemn greed as hard if not harder than they condemn gays and abortion or else it reveals itself to be what it always has been, a GIANT GOD DAMNED HIPOCRACY!

More than that, though, each has had to navigate the overwhelming pressures of growing up in broken or impoverished societies where sex becomes one of the stepping stones to success and comfort, even if more often than not a standard stumbling block of horrendous proportions.

To me it primarily matters because it sets us up to believe in a God who is angry and ready to kill somebody rather than a God who is a loving father who steps in front of the train, shoving us off the tracks in order to set us free to live.