Sentences with phrase «to wean»

The program had aimed to use a number of measures to wean the country off oil by 2020.

This produced a design epiphany: Existing drones were so hard to manoeuvre that only a kid weaned on video games could use them; Aeryon needed a design that would fly itself.

What's more, Dick's is playing a very dangerous game given how many retailers have learned the hard way how hard it is to get customers weaned off of discounts.

Coach is weaning customers away from deep discounts, an achievement most retailers can only fantasize about.

U.S. presidents since Richard Nixon have talked about weaning America off imported oil, but Obama is the only one who can claim to have succeeded in any great measure.

For adults, vaping can wean people away from their cigarette addiction, it seems.

The opportunity arises because the big four U.S. wireless carriers, led initially by T - Mobile, have been weaning their customers off of subsidized phones and trying to get everyone to pay for phones in full — in return for somewhat lower monthly service charges.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Last July, U.S. President Donald Trump stood beside his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda, in Warsaw and promised to help wean the nation off Russian energy imports.

The German company is midway through a strategic transition, aiming to force the pace on developing its S / 4 HANA cloud platform, which now counts 7,900 customers, and wean customers off software sold under license and installed at offices and factories.

A decade ago, he unveiled his «Pickens Plan,» a lobbying effort to wean the United States from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) by championing the use of alternative energy and natural gas.

The vaccine didn't interfere with methadone or buprenorphine, mild opioid medications that are used to wean opioid addicts off the drug.

Musk's workers believe they're weaning mankind off fossil fuels and helping it colonize other planets.

Will governments, investors and green - minded consumers, who put their faith in the sun's power to help wean us off our fossil - fuel addiction, back away from another technology that promised too much — in jobs and profits as much as in renewable energy — and failed to deliver?

Started by serial entrepreneur Shai Agassi, the electric - car company seeks to improve the world by weaning it off of oil.

By then CEO for just a month, Johnson laid out his vision of a more upscale, more youth - oriented Penney, weaned of its addiction to price promotions.

Let's wean ourselves off dirty fuels.

Gawande doesn't take a position on specifically how to wean us from the current model.

There should be a weaning - away process.»

Einstein wanted to find a simple harmonious truth about how the universe works and Musk wants to save our species by weaning us off of fossil fuels and establishing a colony on Mars,» she says.

Your aim is to wean yourself from the habit by setting target goals that consistently decrease the amount of time you spend doing the undesirable habit.

Weaned on mobile technology, fluent in social media and networking and immersed in issues such as climate change and sustainability, Millennials seek work environments that reflect their ideals.

And that likely precludes any big shifts in economic policy, whether it's weaning the treasury off its resource dependency with a sales tax or imposing the kind of greenhouse gas emissions regime that would satisfy the Americans.

The 25 - person studio has used government assistance to get on its feet and is now weaning itself off assistance, with three of its own games under development.

Though Democrats and Republicans see different ways to do it, there is today a bipartisan resolve to wean America off imported oil.

Unlike the President, who spent months trying to wean himself off cigarettes after entering the White House, Justice Sotomayor says she quit after a five - day programme and has never lit up since.

The complete post is well worth a read in full for Taggar's description of the emotional ride he took weaning himself off mobile email and how Y Combinator deals with email in general.

Coach has helped restore its upscale aura by cutting down drastically on online flash sales (indeed, its e-commerce sales declined as it continues to wean shoppers off those deals), < a href = «http: / /

He was speaking following a meeting with Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is visiting the United States to promote a reform plan to wean the kingdom away from oil revenue.

That's why activists at this year's U.N. climate summit in Paris are taking a gentle approach to tackling the world's greenhouse gas - intensive love affair with meat, ranging from offering lookalike plant burgers to suggesting a gradual weaning off animal protein.

I'm not sure it's enough to wean me off the Mini or even carrying two devices when I travel, but that's probably more the result of my own inertia than any of the Note Pro's shortcomings.

Now the company is seeing the downside as it tries to wean its customers off of the heavy discounting and promotions.

Mozilla said this week that it plans to gradually wean its Firefox web browser from Adobe's (adbe) multimedia player.

But possibly the most significant and ambitious goal in Vision 2030 is to wean the kingdom's economy off of oil exports, which accounted for roughly 87 percent of total budget revenues as of December 2016.

Funding would remain over the next few years, albeit slightly lower, but the plan would also set an expectation for alternative energy industries to wean themselves from government aid in the next decade.

And unless that economy started to wean itself off an ever - depleting supply of affordable oil, there would be other recessions to follow as economic recoveries would simply push oil prices right back into triple - digit range.

But weaning our economy off oil meant, at the same time, making fundamental changes in the way we live.

B.C.'s new government will not be immune to this demand and it can, and should, work hard and quickly to help society wean itself off the fossil fuel nightmare.

``... to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels...» And how do you propose to do this with fossil fuels representing more than 80 % of the energy budget?

The next time the premiers huddle together they should start talking about how to wean our economy off its overreliance on high - cost carbon fuels that the rest of the world has little need for today and will need even less of tomorrow.

As deputy secretary of state in the Reagan administration, he helped wean the countries of Eastern Europe from the Soviet Union.

Will it continue to lurch and sputter along with oil prices or will it eventually wean itself off the fuel?

While the BOJ has no imminent intention to debut an official digital currency, the bank is reportedly supporting a private sector project to develop J - Coin, a cryptocurrency that aims to wean Japan off of physical cash and which would be pegged in value to the yen.

And the new Solar Roofs — combined with Powerwalls and Tesla cars — may truly be a key development in helping wean us off fossil fuels.

But by now the $ 90 bln - plus PayPal is mostly weaned and ready to exploit its independence.

Saudi Arabia has a plan to wean its economy off oil.

The union is trying to shake its old reputation and wean itself off court supervision, all while trying to stay competitive as open shops encroach on its market share

This listing will be the lynch pin in Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's endeavors to wean the kingdom off its decades long dependence on oil.

Ukraine, an important consumer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), is tentatively turning to Western suppliers as it aims to wean itself off Russian and Belarusian imports.

So, they're going through this process of totally free food, then the next level of buy - one get - one, until they can finally wean the customer back to a full - boat offering there.

I have worn out my copies of The Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth (Sears Parenting Library) and The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth Through Weaning, but this one was my Bible for my first baby.