Sentences with phrase «time than promised»

I scheduled an oil change and tire rotation for 1 p.m. on 5/21; I arrived a few minutes early, they took my Santa Fe back quickly and I was done in less time than promised.

Students might also grow cynical and believe that the teachers are gaming the system by not being honest in stating the allotment, knowing that the homework will probably take more time than promised.

Not exact matches

Zymeworks» recent winning streak is a sign — perhaps the most emblematic yet — of a revival in the Canadian biotech sector, this time promising more sustainable growth than in the past.

Whereas Postmates and Uber are one - time actions, Zirx has to factor in the surge pricing up front since you can't suddenly deliver a larger bill than promised when you pick up.

You won't be able to buy a Varjo headset any time soon, but it promises resolutions 70 times greater than what current virtual reality headsets offer.

The PGS platform promised genetic risk reports for more than 250 disease at the time — but, after the FDA smackdown, 23andMe was forced to stop marketing the service and pursue a piecemeal strategy of winning regulatory approval of individual tests.

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.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

She filed the lawsuit in 2011 claiming that the school made its employment data look more promising by including jobs such as part - time waitressing, misleading potential students into thinking that their job prospects in the legal sector were more favorable than they actually were.

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.

It's promising to make the wireless internet up to 10 times faster than Starbucks customers have previously enjoyed.

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.

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.

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.

This isn't the first time a cryptocurrency promising better privacy than bitcoin has tried to break into the markets, making some users skeptical about the promise of Monero.

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.

Rather, it is to remind you that the next time you are tempted to buy into something that promises emotional excitement and rapid payoffs, to over-leverage yourself or take more risk than you should; consider, instead, looking to one of the 50 or 100 incredible businesses that are as close to sure long - term bets as anything in human civilization.

There is more to this than the long - held Liberal practice — if only for the time of a re-election campaign — of borrowing a few choice NDP promises.

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 economic situation in Japan is more promising than it has been for some time, and the economy now looks to be in a fairly healthy expansion phase.

The anticipated launch of Hashgraph's new distributed - ledger technology, which promises more than 250,000 transactions per second; mathematically proven fairness (via consensus time stamping); and bank - grade security could solve those scalability issues.

I just wished the old SEO companies who have tried to reinvent themselves as content marketers would spend more time helping their customers «invest» in building audiences and authority through their content, rather than promising them short term returns on their efforts.

It occurred to me about that time that the Zionsville Rotary Club was asking me to make a greater commitment of involvement — and promising swift retribution if I fell short — than I had ever dreamed of demanding of church members.

For the first time, today's graduates are facing an American economy that is not promising to be more financially successful than that of the previous generation.

«I recollect thinking then, boy even though I was, that there must have been something more than common that those men struggled for; that something even more than National Independence; that something that held out a great promise to all the people of the world to all time to come.»

STONER»S PRAYER Now I pass out into sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other stoner take My weed and bong before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no crackhead's thrill tonight And in the morning let me awake Breathing scents of wake «n bake God protect me in my dreams and make this better than it seems Grant the time may siwftly fly When myself shall be so high In a green grass weed bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes And the smell of bammer smoked by beans Take me back into the land Where the cops never take you out Where the weed won't burn my throat like sand; Where the scent of chronis blows Where the good Mary Jane grows; Take me back and I'll promise then Never to leave BC again... - Anonymous

It turns out that when we let ourselves surrender to the «Time of the Season,» we are less like the animals and flowers of the field than a) like actors playing parts in some two - bit melodrama about low - class Others, or, b) like the starry - eyed Icaruses of the first verse seeking to take one another «to the sun» and «to promised lands.»

Ours is a time when the future looms for most as more of a threat than a promise.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

In God's timing, the things He has promised will happen, and if it is anything like the appointed times of Esther and Ruth, it will be a blessing to more people than you think.

So the present time of the disciple is filled with the reality of God — that is what gives it its meaning — and the promise is that nothing is to be expected other than a consummation of the experience of this reality in the future.

There is no promise of security, or plenty, or peace in our time, or the victory of this programme or that; any more than there is certainty that the «end of the world», or of our civilization, is inevitably impending.

Therefore he insists that men must recognize the signs of the times; that is why in all his promises and commands he can appear before men with a claim that is more than human, that he can ride into Jerusalem as king of peace, and take charge in the Temple as Lord.

They're relatively easy to make, although they do take a little time to set so you need to be a bit more organised than usual and make them the night before you want to enjoy them — I promise it's so worth it though, everyone will love them!

This method is time - consuming and kind of crazy just for an egg, but I promise you — you'll never have a better hard boiled egg than you will using this method!

With our hearts and our mouths and our pinkies, we made a promise to each other that in a couple of years — when things are far less eventful and chaotic than they are at this particular moment in time — we'll return with a master plan and heavy boxes packed with only our most essential belongings.

I promise, the time will go by quicker than you think and you'll find yourself actually looking forward to it!

The livelihood of more than 440 Victorians, and their families, should not be risked on the basis of the Greens» promises, particularly at a time when manufacturing in the state is under acute pressure.

And, as Elana promised, it took more time for the oven to preheat than it did for me to throw together the ingredients.

Oh my gosh, I promise you you can totally make this I'm actually so not a baker either (learning slowly, but definitely at war with my oven more times than not) and this recipe is practically foolproof, especially if you want to skip the swirl and just do plain green.

It's such a good feeling when you take the time to make something special for someone you love, I promise gifts from the heart are cherished much more than spending a fortune on the latest gadget.

This writer is clearly an AKB... but bro let me tell you... since the turn of the year Arsene knows nothing... Is it my fault they cant beat Hull or Man U or Stoke Or Soton This team is unreliable and annoying to watch most times... Arsene jst need to accept this and promise they will do better rather than jst saying stupid stuffs at His pressers

Now since the case is cleared, and I assume that you realized your mistake about believing on false claims was nothing more than wasting time, and you promise not to repeat such mistake again, we can approve of you staying.

Give Welbeck more time in the middle, I think he shows more promise there than Walcott... Add Schneiderlin or Kondogbia and maybe a GK if Shez leaves and even a CB as Per and the Boss ain't getting any younger.

He was a promising youth player for our academy, rated higher than Wilshere at some time.

we have waited a long time for this club to truly step up, which is a difficult ask... to do so properly they will need to overextend themselves and get well outside the comfort zone they have become accustomed to... at the very least they owe their fans, most of whom supported this franchise for at least the first 8 years of this 10 year plan, one real shot at the «promised» land... remember phase one was build and save, phase two was the fire sale of all our top players, phase three was supposed to be our metamorphosis, when we were literally told how we could compete with any club in the world and phase four appears to be rinse and repeat, under the guise that we just can't seem to find any players that are better than our current lot (can you even imagine the state of world soccer if that were truly the case)... it's time for you Mr. Kroenke and Mr. Wenger to ask not what the fans can do for you, but what you two can do to make things right again for the fans... if you can't do this earnestly and honestly, simply move on before the only thing left in the cupboard are bitter memories and what could have beans?

It's no longer time to experiment with players like this — I'd rather take my punt on Ings who has at least shown he can transfer some of that Championship talent at the top level than someone who has shown promise in a lesser league (not that I particularly want Ings).

There are many Arsenal fans that agree with him, but for some Jack is the epitome of unfulfilled promise, and it has been pointed out many times that Arsenal win more games when Wilshere is not playing than with him in the starting line - up.

Iwobi has too many deficiencies in his game to be rated as anything more than a still young player who can at times show promise.

Jack Wilshere had never played for any other club than Arsenal from an early age, and despite his early promise, injuries stunted his growth and development and stopped him getting much game time even when he felt fit enough to play.