Sentences with phrase «thing some years back»

He predicted the same thing some years back, then later said there was a math error and it's on the 21st of this month.

Not exact matches

I was going from a record company to the airline business, so the key thing in that deal was that if it didn't work out, I could hand the 747 back to Boeing after the first year.

You might even say the same thing about the Internet — though, to see the parallels with Bitcoin, it helps to stroll back to New Year's Day 1983.

I impressed on him that value in a business depends on things like recurring income from customers who come back year after year — in other words, exactly what he has at the music school, and what nurseries almost never have.

Moreover, Chef John's been doing the YouTube thing longer than most in the game — his videos go back 10 years!

For one thing, Wall Street firms and banks, which all but disappeared from the recruitment scene for two years, are back in force.

A very successful and experienced businessperson once told me that when he looks back on the handful of really great partnerships that he has had over the years, he realizes that it wasn't the little things that mattered.

When I look back on it years later, that one sentence really does keep memories vivid — it really does bring back the past — which is one of the things you really want a journal to do,» she says.

You may not land a sale for a single cornflake in the shape of Illinois (that already sold for $ 1,350 a few years back), but chances are good that you'll be able to generate quick cash just from things you have around your house.

Anyone who's gone through a holiday shopping season trying to find the «It» thing for the year knows the panic of having it sell out and hoping for it to come back in stock.

«I think one of the things that this team is lacking that hurts them the most is not having the true leaders like we had last year and guys that, when things go bad... I feel like when things go bad, this team struggles a little with bouncing back and making good plays.»

«If I could go back in time, I'd introduce my 22 - year - old self to a quotation by the writer Brian Andreas: «Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life,»» Huffington writes.

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

But Walgreens has been busy with other things in the last few years, leaving marketing somewhat on the back - burner.

College is becoming less and less a place to kick back and spend a few years «figuring things out.»

Things have improved, both in - stores and online for Penney since CEO Mike Ullman, both Johnson's predecessor and successor, came back last year and brought back the discounts and in - house brands customers loved.

There are things that go back 100 years, and things that we're inventing.

«What we're trying to do organizationally is to say, look, this thing is done the middle of next year and we're back to running an airline.»

She spent years highlighting other peoples» cool things without asking for anything back (although she did eventually join an ad network).

In the last 2 years, HSE and Training has been set back 20 years, why MONEY of course, that is the only thing that counts, so constant cut backs from the big 3 Iron Ore producers, want everything as cheap as possible, as a result, standards have dropped to appalling standards, but they are cheap, and that is all that matters, and injury figures are easily falsified.

When the kids follow Kohner's photos all year long and Mom and Dad ask the kids what they want to do while on Nantucket Island, the first thing they're going to say is that they want to go back and take some surfing lessons.

Depending on how you count these things, this is either the third or fifth return - to - balance projection the government has offered in the last three years (first 2013 - 2014, then 2014 - 2015, then 2015 - 2016, then back to 2014 - 2015 and now back to 2015 - 2016).

He's set it up where he's got a good deal and he gets 10 % back every year and other things.

If things are tight but you can free up money by cutting back on eating out or eliminating cable to stay on a standard 10 - year plan, that's better for you in the long run financially.»

And so I learned that we hadn't been paying payroll taxes for almost 3 years — a particularly painful thing given I believe in taxes as a means of giving back to society.

Fast - forward three years and Massenet is back and in a role where she has plenty of say in a lot of things: as a venture capitalist.

I think we're just losing too much of the conversion from the store traffic in the store, so one of the things we're considering is next year, layering back in some of the holiday decor, and gift items.

Translation: things might be getting back to normal after a couple of years of overheated growth.

Currency hedging may have been a smart thing to do a few years back.

This year we take a step back this and think about all the great things we're thankful for.

«For a significant number of people who attend the Friday event, things will happen that they'll look back on years from now and tie to the day their lives took off,» he said.

Really you have to look at it for years, and look at the footnotes and other explanatory sections in the back when things seemingly change for no good reason.

And, worst case scenario, if things don't work out as planned, I can always stay in the workforce for a few extra months or a year, work part - time, or (worst case scenario) go back to working full time for a short stint later on in retirement.

I might add to the box in the back thing, I have only preached about giving 2 times in 11 years.

We should be happy about how far we have come as a species via the hard work and dedication of man kind... we should be stopping and looking at the big picture and think about how far we have come in 2000 years... we have made tremendous progress in so many ways and it is really sad that instead of doing the right thing and giving mankind credit where credit is due, you fall back on 2000 year old beliefs and you thank a god who has never been proven to exist.

of course people will talk about their families... these are the roots... our ancestors grappling with the same things we do now going back millions of years.

It is symptomatic of postmodernism, really, to reason that socially things do not look very optimistic right now, so we had better jump back 1,600 years...

He'll disappear for a few months to a few years, then reappear on the scene and say all the things that make it look like he's a fantastic instance of a redemption narrative and ready to get back into the spotlight and hold the reins of power.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

«One of the things you learn from years of dealing with drug people, is that you can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug.

A 21 year old atheist, who will be receiving her B.S in May without the help of a God and will do great things in life without something holding her back.

But science came along and solved all those things, as well as many others, and the fundies have been pushed 14.5 billion years back in time to the big bang.

1) When I was digging into this whole thing 4 or 5 years ago I ended up coming across a copy of the email you sent to a few dozen emergent leaders back in July of 2008 asking for their help in getting Tony home from the Rolling Roadshow.

Go back to the real reading and leave us alone with your just a few years back science that disproves itself everyday because of its not good enough to tell us accurately about things without changing their mind and definitions of things all the times.

Lem me see here, according to your holy book your God personally ordered more infant killings than all American abortion doctors combined, ordered the annihilation of half a dozen civilizations, routinely taunted and tortured humanity, introduced evil into the world then blamed the things he created for it (even though he's supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent), then abandoned humanity for at least a couple thousand years while making plans to come back and slaughter 2/3 of Earth's inhabitants so that he can judge them and throw most of them into a torturous hell for all of eternity... for not being able to overcome the nature your book says he gave them... Just so he can have non-free will - having cloud gnomes sing his praises for eternity.

As 2013 draws to a close I'd like to look back at the past year for First Things magazine.

To take four days twice a year to do nothing but be together was unheard of, but if any of us backed out because we were «too busy,» the whole thing would come tumbling down.

After 2,000 years and the fact He said not one person will know when he will return, I can promise you one thing... Christ is NOT coming back on any day this guys says He will.

Back in 2013, I joked that Greg Boyd stole my book, but then about a year later, as I heard more about his book project, I realized that Greg Boyd and I were not quite saying the same thing after all...

The thing is, the universe He created had a cosmological and evolutionary history going back billions of years.