Sentences with phrase «thing going for it with»

It has almost this pecan pie without the nuts thing going for it with all the butter, eggs, sugar, and bourbon.

For features the Ematic EB101B 7 ″ eBook Reader has some good things going for it with its 7 ″ 800 x 480 pixel color display, 4 GB of internal memory and microSD card slot, video and audio players, and support for EPUB, PDF, TXT, and DOC ebook formats.

In fact, if it wasn't for the controls, The Aftermath actually had a few things going for it with humor, good advertising, good soundtrack and some stomach churning monsters.

He got another thing going for him with color and line.

Not exact matches

Working in groups is «the most important thing,» says her teammate Adelina Corina Cozma, 15, whose computer - based communication system for people with autism went on to win several awards at the May event.

«Now Mark, I am more than willing to give you my time and really work with you to find out exactly what the best solution for you and your specific situation is, I'm just going to ask for one thing in return... As we go through this, if you don't feel that what we have is a good fit, are you okay telling me that?

Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.

People with humble backgrounds going on to do amazing things makes for a very compelling read any day.

If things go bad for you, and you can't keep up with repayments, they'll take it from you.

Inexperienced managers, for example, are going to make mistakes as a matter of course; those of us with more experience may become so set in our habits that we don't even recognize there are other ways of doing things.

There are lots of ways to practice gratitude, from keeping a journal of things you're grateful for, sharing three good things that happen each day with a friend or your partner, and going out of your way to show gratitude when others help you.

«I know this is a personal thing, but it feels more intentional, to go into a place and pull out a $ 5 bill, pay for what you want and have an exchange with the barista,» says Trey Wrage, a manager at Ninth Street Espresso.

«You need to look at the hard pieces of the puzzle — for example, how is the user really going to interact with this thing.

When she went ahead and added these sorts of risks to the scale — things like cooking an impressive but difficult dish for an important dinner party or buying a ticket from a less reliable airline — lo and behold women suddenly seemed just as comfortable with risk as men.

«There seems to be very little progress on some of the big things in terms of getting user growth going again, in terms of making Twitter more accessible for new users, in terms of dealing with abuse, in terms of driving revenue growth.»

Food Lion is a great companion for March Madness because, after all, few things go better with a March Madness game than a plethora of tasty food.

Also, notwithstanding a silly fiscal policy and the ongoing political impasse, the U.S. economy has some very good things going for it now, as even king of doom, Nouriel Roubini, couldn't help but note: the Fed is going to stick to its asset - buying regime for the foreseeable future, providing a monetary protein shake the recovery still very much needs; the housing rebound is well on its way, which is helping Americans rebuild their wealth and is boosting employment in many states with high jobless rates; and the shale oil and gas revolution continues to power investment, job creation and revenue growth.

All of these are things you could do with a standard smartphone as it is, though they do at least fit in with what Siempo is going for.

«And then we have a legal review that says that engaging this target comports with the laws of armed conflict and that engaging in these circumstances is permissible according to those laws, and once we've established all of those things we go to the government of Iraq and ask them for permission to strike that building, and they'll say yes or no, and they do say both, depending on the structure.

The diagnostics, coming up with a theory as to what's going on, or what a good subsequent test would be — those are the things that look very promising for automation.

Dr. Louis Baxter, executive medical director of the Professional Assistance Program of New Jersey and an alcohol and substance abuse consultant with the NBA and NFL, told me that it's one thing for CC Sabathia to voluntarily announce that he is going to rehab, «but the public doesn't have a right to know this information, and Sabathia wasn't obligated to disclose it.»

One thing is for certain: it's going to be difficult to reach your dreams if you are living with a slew of bad habits.

Every night before bed, write down three things that went well for you, along with an explanation of why they went well.

For example, one episode is titled, «Three things Instagram won't teach you about being an entrepreneur,» and another is, «Enough with the webinars and ecourses, go hustle and have patience.»

Extending our focus much beyond two days ahead is an exercise in willpower, whether working on a long - term project, saving for retirement, or doing things with little immediate reward, like going to the dentist.

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

The problem with this free thing is, if you're going to hook people on free for four years, and all of a sudden start charging for things, that doesn't work very well.»

The smart business owners I know spend time thinking up every conceivable thing that could go wrong in a partnership and have a plan for dealing with it.

The old way of vacations, because it was seen as the «amount of days off that I have to use before they expire» was taken with an overwhelming sentiment of entitlement, and many things fell through the cracks when a team member went off on vacation for a week.

They may be prospects you haven't worked with yet, referral sources you haven't talked to for a while, or even ex-employees who've gone on to bigger things but might be your best source of talent and clients if you keep the relationship fresh.

From the day it became apparent that Theranos had gone to great lengths to hide serious issues with its blood testing technology, it wasn't hard to predict that things would end badly for the much - hyped $ 9 billion startup and its iconic founder, Elizabeth Holmes.

Whether it is getting up early, going for a run or checking in with a friend about your progress, find the things that give you strength and make sure you do them every day.

Start being grateful: feeling grateful is one of the most medicinal emotions we can feel it elevates your mood and it fills you with happiness, if we are going to be successful at this thing called, life, we have to start being grateful for the things that happen in our live, no matter how good or bad each of us has it, you have to make to start making it a practice to be grateful for your life.

«[Companies] used to be able to do the same thing for years on end, but today if you do the same thing, you're going to be faced with significant business challenges,» he says.

There are legitimate concerns about things going wrong with crowdsourcing for new companies: Fraud and suitability of investments are the two most obvious.

Sandberg told Zuckerberg that if she were going to work for him, they would need to give each other candid feedback and check in with each other first thing Monday morning and last thing Friday every week.

But the «yes» part comes from reminding yourself that there are a few basic rules you can live by in terms of how you interact with others, and if you keep these absolute essentials in mind, things will go a lot easier for you — and be a lot easier on those employees of yours who are, in many respects, very much at your mercy.

It can be really hard to protect your brand, and brand safety and brand awareness really has to be top of mind, so couple of things that you all have been in the news for recently, one was Megyn Kelly just shot a show with Alex Jones, who's very controversial and [CMO Kristin Lemkau sent out a tweet indicating] you were going to pull out of the episode and I wanted to just ask you how you arrived at that decision and why you thought that it was important.

«I would love to see them say, «Hey we are going to pass this thing and it costs [small businesses] $ 200 million a year,»» says Mark Strumwasser, CEO of Sunshine Rentals, a Vista, California - based provider of housekeeping and other services for corporate housing, with annual revenues of $ 3.9 million.

Fredrick Petrie, author of «The End of Work: Financial Planning for People With Better Things To Do,» recommends «taxing» yourself in order to get more money out of your wallet and into the bank — this way you'll make savings a priority from the get - go, rather than budgeting everything else first and then seeing what is left over for savings.

If you can go out of your way to take a risk, you are going to become more comfortable with the potential for things not working out.

Having had troubling experiences with bad bosses before, Jon Good, the founder of gourmet chocolate company Jon Good Chocolates, makes sure he sets the bar high when it comes to leadership, taking blame when things go wrong, showing support for his employees and doing everything he can to help them be their best selves.

This usually unstated but powerful assumption that striving for the next greatest thing is the obvious way to go can leave those with other priorities feeling like there is something wrong with them or their businesses.

In Foursquare, for example, people can be noteworthy and attain badges within the system for doing such things as being the biggest regular at a certain place (What Norm and Cliff from «Cheers» would do with this...) and going to a venue in which a lot of Foursquare members of the opposite sex are present.

When Brandon Snow goes looking for companies to buy, he wants to see three things: a defensive business model, a history of capital allocation and a management team whose interests are aligned with those of shareholders.

«One of the things that will be a real achievement for me is when I get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States, where instead of going to China, and going to Vietnam, and going to the places that you go to, you're making your product right here,» Trump said he told Cook, according to a transcript of the President - elect's interview with the New York Times on Tuesday.

When Cambridge Advisors» Brandon Snow goes looking for companies to buy, he wants to see three things: a defensive business model, a history of capital allocation and a management team whose interests are aligned with those of shareholders.

The coolest thing about it, according to the sources I spoke with, was going to be the new story mode for the Toy Box.

As parents, you think the best thing you can do for your children is to encourage them to go to college and get a good education — and, hopefully, that will help them land good jobs with higher earning power than if they had high school diplomas alone.

With a mandate to shake things up in Washington and control of both houses of Congress, no matter what you do for a living or where you live, your life is not going to be the same.