Sentences with phrase «tight ship in»

To build affordable housing profitably, you need to run a tight ship in the office as well as the field.

Annie suggests making adjustments to your way of thinking, «I like to run a tight ship in my classroom, but flexible seating has caused me to release some of that control.

But now Amazon is putting protocols in place to run a tighter ship in terms of removing content from its Kindle store that it feels is pirated or PLR.

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Finally, raw expertise may simply be in short supply: with so many TV shows in production, there just aren't enough experienced crew members around to run a tight ship on a tight budget:

Also, George Clooney said in the interview that his wife is «like an Olympic athlete» with the kids, so it sounds like Matt Damon's intuition was correct, and Amal Clooney truly is running a tight ship.

Brito ran a tight ship, but he also showed a knack for creative problem solving (albeit in service of financial performance).

McAvoy also noted that as an independent media company, The Onion has been «forced to run a tight financial ship,» which has made it difficult for the company to experiment with or invest in new things.

They have access to both surging light - tight oil production, which will be in demand as low - sulfur requirements tighten in shipping at the end of the decade, as well as captive (and cheaper) Canadian heavy barrels.

Conditions are generally expected to remain tight, in part due to short - run inelasticity in the supply of ships and continued strong world activity.

Early on the morning of the 14th, the mist still rising off the water and half obscuring the ship, 12 cadets, arranged in a tight circle, pushed on capstan bars thicker than baseball bats and slowly brought up the ship's 4,000 - pound anchor.

They play good football, develop players, buy in cheap but quality replacements for their sold stars and run a tight ship.

They're also well known for running a tight ship, so won't try and buy their way out of trouble in January.

Despite Uncle Ken's constant claims that he was running a tight financial ship, this only appears to have been in terms of spending money on the actual playing side of the club.

They love a routine and have everyone in line, essentially, they run a tight ship.

Just as those who give to charity want to see as much as possible of their money go to the intended beneficiaries rather than chief executives» salaries, and investors in companies want to see overhead and administration costs kept down, elected politicians want to show voters that they are running a tight ship.

In the tight little ship of NY pols separation is far less than six degrees.

«And his team runs a tight ship, and it's a real tight ship — nobody would have gotten away with that in the Cuomo world.»

Hybrid Tug Tugboats may look like something out of another era, but they play an essential role in ocean shipping as they push, pull, and prod large vessels into (and back out of) the tight quarters of a port.

«By contrast, PIs who spend a lot of time in the lab tend to run tighter ships.»

The ankles are a bit tight, so if you're interested in the boots, I would highly suggest trying them on first (or getting them from a place with free shipping / free returns).

I run a tight ship because I'm a dragon in the Chinese zodiac, born a leader.

Demme runs a tight ship and he knows how to produce a film that draws his audience in, even with a plot that is relatively guessable, and a narrative that hardly whizzes along.

The tight hallways and tiny rooms throughout the ship do emulate the claustrophobic feeling of the first two movies, which amplifies the tension and thrill of many scenes in the film.

The combat mechanics in Sea of Thieves are far from tight and while ship combat is fairly good, the battles do tend to devolve into the two ships sailing circles around each other until one crew gives up and goes home.

Rather, an orderly, tightly - run classroom (a tight ship) is important only in that it creates additional instructional time, and can therefore facilitate increased student learning.

by Karen Russell * The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt * The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya The Train of Small Mercies by David Rowell There But For The by Ali Smith Unless It Moves the Human Heart by Roger Rosenblatt Withering Tights by Louise Rennison You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon

One of her biggest challenges is «managing work and the rescue - there is not enough time in the day, however, we run a pretty tight ship and get a lot done for being such a small organization,» Hillary said.

Both laws adversely affect the dog fancy; the airline bill resulted in tighter restrictions that interfered with shipping dogs for breeding, for shows, and for travel to new homes, and the breeder restriction law is based on number of puppies sold annually, not kennel conditions.

This time around you'll sail not only in open water but also in tight areas and freezing oceans where icebergs can be destroyed to create waves that can damage small ships.

Invaders have come from space in tight formations and your ship moves left and right and pew!

The game sports a really cool pixelated art style that gives it a character all its own while offering tight gameplay and a lot of player choice in how certain elements in the game look such as the design of the ship.

The fact that your ship is always in motion makes maneuvering through long, tight corridors or enclosed structures difficult at times and can lead to some frustrating moments.

Features • Sci - Fi action / adventure combines aerial and on - foot combat for a totally unique third - person shooter experience • Will's jetpack delives total freedom of movement allowing players to race against UFOs in high - speed chases and rain death from above onto unsuspecting otherworldly foes • Speed and scale unmatched by any other action title: send Will zipping through tight corridors and then out into immense canyons and futuristic geoscapes • Gravity - defying vertical combat system, where moving up is the only way to bring your enemies down • Seemless transition between jetpack flight, ship - to - ship dog fighting and third - person shoot - «em - up action all exists within the same level — not broken up into different «areas» • Unique grip system that allows the players to scale walls by jumping from surface to surface and hijack UFO's while in mid-air • Huge bosses that require fast reflexes and aerial barnstorming manoeuvres to defeat • Developed by Airtight Studios, a new group featuring team members from the Crimson Skies series of video games

The Milford track is situated in a dock environment complete with shipping containers and some tight turns making it a good contrast to the main TT course seen in previous videos.

Control is tight, allowing for trick aerial maneuvers and pixel perfect ship placement in dangerous areas.

Hear from and chat with professionals in the fine arts industry to learn about simple but often overlooked measures that can be taken to help protect artwork in multiple case scenarios, from shipping on a tight budget, to general storage, and disaster preparedness.

I usually complain that shipping containers are too narrow and tight to make decent living spaces, but Cúbica have done a really good job of squeezing everything in here, including a full laundry, a workable kitchen and a bright bathroom, thanks to that shower with an exterior door.

They don't appear particularly interested in testing the boundaries of the tax code, but they also run a very tight ship.

Founded by Ian Pryer (whose track record includes multimillion - pound brain - damage - in - birth cases), Pryers Solicitors LLP is «a very effective firm with very high standards; it is a very tight ship and inspires confidence that it will get the best result possible for its clients».

We encountered it after damaging an enemy with cannonballs, but it can be frustrating when you're trying to navigate through tight areas and a ship suddenly lands in front of you.

InSight, sealed tight in its white shipping box, will follow behind us, pulled by a semi truck.

Bragi says that the Headphone is supposed to start shipping in early November, but Hviid told me that the company isn't starting production until October — a tight turnaround, even for a company with one product under its belt.

It's been in constantly tight supply, prompting my colleague Chris Welch to document his frustrations with the terrible job Google was doing of shipping its phones.

But if you crave a higher - res screen, hold tight for a bit: Lenovo tells us a 1080p option should ship sometime in January of 2014.

The flagship Z3 is a 5.2 - inch «dust - tight and waterproof» aluminum framed device that ships in black, copper, silver green, and white.

Jobs took a company that was hemorrhaging money and leaking tons of information, and transformed it into a tight ship with an obsession on keeping its work secret in order to gain a competitive edge.

Google is due to release the next generation of its Nexus smartphone series that's being called the Nexus 6 or Nexus X.As was the case in previous years Google is running a tight ship with few rumours escaping.

The district in general seems to run a pretty tight ship.

Plan: The company will be OK in this rate environment if it runs a tight ship.

Although repurposing used shipping containers has not yet taken off in the United States as quickly as sustainable developers have hoped, another venture has announced it will use this business model to tackle the tightest property markets in New...