Sentences with phrase «than they promise on»

And when you finally have a date lined up from OkCupid... why is it that the guy is always two or three inches shorter than he promised you on his profile?

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According to the study, «Loyalty has a lot more to do with how well companies deliver on their basic, even plain - vanilla promises than on how dazzling the service experience might be.

So rather than shelling out for a pill that promises to be a cure - all, snack on a parfait.

Labour has said it will raise income taxes on people earning more than # 80,000 ($ 103,152) a year, promising no increases for the other 95 % of taxpayers.

Rather than have you spend hours on a slow train or in a cramped car, Blade's flights promise to get you out to the Hamptons in just 40 minutes.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

Jet also promises prices that are 10 % to 15 % lower than Amazon's, and it lists Amazon's prices on every item, so you know exactly what you're saving.

Hospitals and health insurers are gaining confidence that their nightmare scenario — millions of Americans instantly losing health insurance once President - elect Donald Trump delivers on a promise to «repeal and replace» Obamacare — is looking more like a bad dream than becoming reality.

Netscape was young, and its promise was built on a revenue model, rather than profitability.

He said his administration is just getting started and «will work tirelessly to make good on our promise to the working people who built our Nation and deliver historic tax cuts and reforms — the rocket fuel our economy needs to soar higher than ever before.»

The British government's attempt to crack down on offshore tax evasion is only yielding # 349 million ($ 492 million) a year, rather than the promised # 1 billion.

In a time where you can pretty much bank on cell phone cameras capturing every moment, it is more important than ever for brands to make smart decisions when it comes to delivering on promises to their customers.

So much so that he promised — on Twitter, for the world to see — that he'd eat a bug if Donald Trump earned more than 240 electoral votes.

With Trump appearing to crack open the door to diplomacy with North Korea — something that China has long urged — he may have a better chance of securing further promises to intensify economic pressure on North Korea, which relies on Beijing for more than 90 % of its trade.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

Republican lawmakers in the Senate are days away from perhaps a final deadline on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, a seminal promise from the party for more than seven years.

The only promises that Trump has not wavered on, like his insistence on deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning immigration from parts of the world with a history of terrorism, would create more problems than solutions for American businesses.

Billionaire investor William Ackman in 2012 claimed the company was running a pyramid scheme, recruiting members with a promise of payment for enrolling others in distribution, rather than depending on the actual sale of its nutritional supplements and weight management products.

This can work for the consumer if it delivers on the promise of facilitating access to high - quality primary care in more ways than currently delivered in the rather bare bones CVS Minute Clinics.

If your target buyer persona is female, you might note that Facebook and Pinterest show promise, as more women than men are active on each site.

But when Campbell toured a couple of the adventure - travel sites in this month's best - of - the - Web survey, he was wowed by packages that promise a wilder time than your typical day on the links.

Even if following through on this promise is more difficult than Trump admits because of the First Amendment (as I explained in a recent post), the fact that he even talks about such policies and is cheered by his adoring fans for doing so is disturbing.

Like Pauly, he also believes the organization has proven a positive force, and argues its market - based approach offers more promise than relying on government.

As promising as the Falcon Heavy might be on paper, Musk has acknowledged that SpaceX's hopes for the technology have been too lofty and actually getting the rocket to become reality has been much harder than he had anticipated.

The pariah state has promised eventual disarmament more than once, only to repeatedly backtrack on commitments.

94 year - old John Goodenough, one of the co-inventors of the lithium - ion battery that now powers everything from phones to Teslas, has developed a new solid - state battery formula that promises to hold three times more energy than li - on.

Politico reported on Saturday that even though the Russians reportedly believed Page to be an «idiot» who wanted to make «loads of money,» they noted that he was a promising lead for them, and that he made trips to Moscow more frequently than even they did.

The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was spending less than 3 cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.

McDonald's (mcd) earlier this week also reported softer U.S. sales than analysts had anticipated — and the fast - food operator promised it would focus on improving traffic in 2017.

The WikiLeaks collection contains a mix of copious data and empty files marked «secret» that promised more details to come on attacks against more than 15 security software firms.

And with a growing body of research that suggests employee happiness yields a promising return on investment, many employers are interested in perking up their workers with more than just K - Cup coffee.

Just one day after Inc. covered the formal launch of Mosaic, a clean energy crowdfunding platform based in Oakland that connects investors with solar energy projects, the start - up has made good on its promise: In less than 24 hours, it hasalready funded four sustainable energy campaigns in California.

«Promising to raise prices no more than 10 % and then raising them 9.9 % is not the answer,» Regeneron CEO Len Schleifer during his JPM presentation, adding that Regeneron does not raise the prices on its drugs.

The company promises to offer prices up to 15 % lower than anywhere else on the web, and developed an exclusive technology that adjusts prices in real time based on what users put in their carts.

The new PM will be a breath of fresh air on the environment — it's impossible to be any worse than his predecessor — and he will take the leash off federal scientists, or so he has promised.

In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

* For employees it is a way to persuade current executives into getting pay raises in a way that hits the bonuses current executives, who are signing their employment contract, less than the bonuses of future executives and shareholders, who will have to pay those raises; hoping that future executives and shareholders will not renege on the promises of deferred compensation by previous ones.

He has always thrived on the perception that he will be able to pull off the impossible, which affords him time to deliver on his promises and an unusual degree of goodwill when that delivery takes longer than expected.

Looking out over the next five years, a technology revolution — one focused on industrial applications rather than consumer connectivity — promises to improve capex and open doors for the next crop of market leaders.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

But for those who take the broader view, recognizing both that even best - in - class healthcare businesses like Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson have underperformed for years on end and that also choose to analyze the company itself, GlaxoSmithKline looks more promising than its track record of investment performance would suggest.

But this wrenching concern over the deficit — particularly when the situation in Puerto Rico remains so dire — is hard for some to swallow when conservatives are simultaneously pushing forward a tax reform package that could leave a more than a trillion - dollar hole in the deficit and have signed on to spending bills that added more than $ 100 billion to defense spending, without the immediate promise of offsets elsewhere.

Advancing the right growth metrics or connecting the company to a superstar engineer, or a promising venture capitalist, could be well more valuable than working solely on product copy.

It should have been obvious more than a decade ago that growth in China was so directly dependent on credit expansion and so indirectly dependent on balance - sheet effects (the latter is far more important than most analysts understand but very poorly understood) that we should have discounted altogether Beijing's promises that it would be relatively easy to rein in credit expansion.

SAN FRANCISCO — In another sign of the turmoil sweeping Uber, the company's president of ride sharing has quit after less than a year on the job, following a string of scandals at the startup and CEO Travis Kalanick's promise to hire a new second - in - command.

Unfortunately, by then, most budget decisions had already been made and the chances that the Committee's recommendations (other than Liberal election promises) would have any impact on the Budget were virtually non-existent.

He answered more than 500 questions and promised that we would get back on the 40 or so questions he couldn't answer at the time.

The Liberals also made good on their promise to introduce a new 33 % tax bracket for people who earn more than $ 200,000 each year.

«There are solutions that deliver on this, and Minister Stone appears to be buckling rather than looking for these solutions, as he promised he would.»

Ethereum builds on the blockchain technology to deliver its promise, but aspires to be about more than just money.