Sentences with phrase «to accustom»

While navigation felt a bit alien at first (after all I have been using an iPhone and iPad for years) it's surprising how quickly you become accustomed to the new user interface.

We instead hope band - aid solutions — like feel - good, but toothless fair - trade rules — solve the problem while allowing us to carry on in the lifestyle to which we are accustomed.

Those accustomed to online shopping might open the infected email on their personal device and unknowingly transfer the virus when they go to use the same device or email account at work.

That's a far cry from the monthly payments that most business owners are accustomed to making for other types of financing, and for some entrepreneurs the daily debits could pose a cash flow problem.

Retailers now have to cater to «omnichannel» consumers, the demographic accustomed to researching products online for the best deal before buying in - store, if ever.

Now while most consumers are not big fans of dynamic pricing, they have also become accustomed to conducting their own research to make sure they get the best price available; this way of dynamic pricing is not unique to Amazon.

Wages barely are keeping up with inflation, and oil prices have settled at a level that is unlikely to generate the kind of economic activity to which we had become accustomed before the 2014 - 15 crash.

This is familiar and accustomed behaviour.

If you've always been accustomed to taking off on a trip whenever the spirit moves you, you need to think about a business that will allow you to build it but not run the day - to - day operations.

Bend has many features that Bay Area residents have become accustomed to, including good weather, outdoor opportunities (the nearest ski slopes are less than an hour away), and a thriving brewery scene.

«People are accustomed to talking at normal volumes, so just watch your volume and keep it short.»

Yet, managing them well is a tricky thing for companies accustomed to employees who have traditionally been happy to have a steady job and good paycheck.

Politicians were accustomed to boasting about annual growth of around 3 % before the Great Recession.

She quickly learned why that Halifax cuppa had been so transformative: the leaves and buds used in loose - leaf tea blends produces a fuller, more subtle flavour than the stale old bags — which she now calls «the hotdogs of tea» — to which she'd been accustomed.

Target experienced steady growth during that time, and Steinhafel had simply become accustomed to succeeding.

Take some time out of your working day to get accustomed to all of the warning messages, signs and posters, dotted around your workplace.

A change here could put a cap on the unlimited amount of tax - free capital gains that Canadians have become accustomed to on their principal residence.

Unlike the cab industry where Uber & Ola had to create demand by leveraging on discounts so that the customer is accustomed to this new lifestyle; maintenance industry on the other hand already has a pre-existing influx of demand.

The insinuation is that old habits die hard and some firms have these arrangements in place because their advisors were accustomed to earning trailer fees before they came over from the Old Country.

Chip Espinoza, co-author of Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce, says millennials» expectations can pose challenges for older managers accustomed to a more traditional, seniority - based system.

Whether it's taking some kind of class or regularly hanging out in the same place at the same time, if people become accustomed to seeing your face, they're more likely to like you.

American expats, accustomed to the efficiency of the U.S. operations, were flabbergasted.

People are accustomed to planning in business, but expect families to work on auto pilot.

... while many voluntary conditions don't affect our happiness in the long term because we acclimate to them, people never get accustomed to their daily slog to work because sometimes the traffic is awful and sometimes it's not.

But it'll be a process — I'm sure after a while I'll get pretty accustomed to it.

They're creative and articulate, accustomed to living literally by their wits.

Even if you feel ready to step away from your smartphone, you have to make sure all the people accustomed to reaching you aren't caught off - guard by your sudden absence.

For tech execs accustomed to playing by their own rules, the tightly regulated markets where the next big business opportunities lie present a special challenge.

The AAA and INRIX, a global transportation analytics company, predict that travel times in the most congested cities in the U.S. could be as much as three times longer than you may be accustomed to.

As a society, we've become accustomed to responding to «thank you» with «no problem.»

She took all that uncertainty, slowed down her fears and started naming them under the lens of being a founder accustomed to being patted on the head for having great ideas and eating fear for breakfast.

Many entrepreneurs, accustomed to good times, have few models or memories to fall back on during this downturn.

What's more, the news - reading public has grown accustomed to announcements of multi-million-dollar investments over the last 15 years, a period of extremely active venture capital funding, which reached new highs in 2015.

Those who become accustomed to spending hours at the office may find it difficult to turn off their work - mode switch and get used to a more laid - back or relaxing lifestyle.

Somewhere along the line many of us have grown accustomed to using tools from Facebook, Google, Amazon and other big companies to log in to websites and apps, instead of creating new usernames and passwords for each one.

And thanks to the recent supply surge, North America's natural gas is currently fetching much lower prices than the ones Asian and European importers are accustomed too, which are usually pegged to oil rates.

My spouse and I are accustomed to having our independence during the day, so how can we prepare to be around one another full - time?

It also has a touchscreen, so if you've become accustomed to doing a lot of your computing on a smartphone or tablet, that'll likely be a big plus.

Or maybe the fact every one of the 100 people in attendance was a CEO, an executive, or the owner of a medium to large business meant they were way more accustomed to being listened to than they were to listening.

The constant curiosity has gotten McClellan accustomed to working and marketing his work at the same time.

Courts are accustomed to tackling cases that require painstakingly tracing assets, especially where those assets are held offshore.

A fundraiser for a children's education non-profit in Michigan, this anthology is offered consciously at a moment when work is in shorter supply than Americans are accustomed to.

Now that people are accustomed to buying online, they want instant access to goods and services.

As a business owner, I am accustomed to sacrificing personal time to get the job done.

While global powers and financial markets have long been accustomed to over-the-top rhetoric from North Korea, the U.S. has traditionally taken a more diplomatic stance.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In a British suburb in central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human trafficking.

I was accustomed to feeling shame in the classroom, and as a result of that, I was accustomed not to being popular or approved, and that was freeing.»

I was accustomed to being an outsider.

People were ready for a cooler, slicker, more capable device, but many were accustomed to carrying a phone in their pocket.

Retail analyst Brynn Winegard says the industry has grown accustomed to using staff to «ladder - up and ladder - down» in peak times.