Sentences with phrase «tougher than talking»

Talking about personal finance is tougher than talking about bedtime and vegetables.

Not exact matches

Donald Trump's administration is talking tough, but putting up new trade barriers will do more harm than good to American consumers and companies

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

In a day of closed - door meetings with NATO foreign ministers, Pompeo appeared to charm European allies with tough talk on Russia and a more sure - footed approach than his predecessor Rex Tillerson, but he still carried Trump's familiar demand for higher defense spending.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

They talk tougher on currency manipulation and trade than some in the White House.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

We should not make the mistake of thinking it will be easy though, even though their Italian midfielder Thiago Motta has been talking up our quality and saying that we will be tougher than Chelsea who they have faced with success in recent seasons.

In case you don't know about Coach Tony, he is what I would call a «guy's guy»: a tough - talking «shock jock» - type of radio host who tends to shoot from the hip, and with a reputation for disdaining political correctness and for using outdated terms for people he doesn't like (I cringed while listening to an earlier show when he used the word «retarded» and «retard» more than a dozen times to describe a person he did not care for).

«For Democrat Eric Schneiderman, it's about more than talking tough on crime.

I also wonder whether some of Denham's language - rejecting «the traditional 1960s version of egalitarianism» and talking of «a tough, hard headed, but at the end of the day, compassionate version of fairness» - does more to pander to Daily Mail prejudices than challenge them?

As has been widely reported, I had a tough time controlling these two, who were more interested in talking over one another and getting their jabs in than answering questions posed by myself and the members of our panel.

«Rather than seeing who can be toughest on people out of work, the government and the Conservatives need to talk about how they can create jobs and support those in most need.

Nassau's financial control board appears to be more accepting of less information about the county's finances than it has in the past, despite tough talk of forcing the county to balance its budget.

In the published extracts, Laws refers to a «policy paper» that Labour's negotiating team brought to the talks that «seemed to indicate tougher action on the deficit reduction than the party had previously planned».

Lib Dems I talk to think that the # 6bn immediate cuts the Tories have put centre stage in this campaign could be talked about rationally and down - scaled without much difficulty because the markets would be more interested in the overall package (bound to be tougher than what we've already been told) and would be happy with the eye - watering nature of the overall cuts for 2011 and beyond in the emergency summer budget.

(It's interesting that this slam is atttributed to DiNapoli himself; usually campaigns let someone other than the candidate do the talking when the talking gets tough).

«I did not believe one word that you said,» Lynch said, sounding more like tough - talking U.S. District Court Senior Judge Gary Sharpe or state Supreme Court Justice Thomas Breslin than a former defense attorney who carried the reputation of a prosecutor's worst nightmare after taking the bench in January 2013.

In my opinion, more often than not we either talk about the hard things — the tough things we're going through or our latest rant about the political climate we've found ourselves in.

Each member of Miller's squad has been accused of being little more than caricatures and ethnic stereotypes: the tough - as - nails Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore), the cynical and smart - mouthed Irish Private Reiben (Edward Burns), the scared and green - gilled Corporal Upham (Jeremy Davies), the tough - talking but soft - hearted Italian Private Caparzo (Vin Diesel), the brash and sarcastic Jewish Private Mellish (Adam Goldberg), the sensitive medic Private Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), and the Bible verse - spoutin», Southern Private Jackson (Barry Pepper).

Sally Rogers as Wade's tough - talking wife Alice and Bronwyn James as his «mopey» daughter fight back against the male cabal, which is really more pathetic than oppressive — Tony Hirst's hapless alcoholic, Simon Rouse's semi-deaf codger, Craig Parkinson's mordant policeman, and Andy Nyman's former assistant hangman, defined by one ill - judged comment about a criminal's abnormally large privates.

A beautifully observed piece of South Boston regionalism filled with tough talk and uneasy stare - downs, Gone Baby Gone eventually crams in way more plot than is necessary.

Ford talks about their trucks being tougher than ever but their «military grade» alloy bed got ripped apart like a pop can on national television, their engines have been worthless junk for 20 years and counting, their 4x4 system really is weak junk, and the suspension is so soft they make Ram's coil spring suspension look beefy.

We're tough around here, and we can take it if someone's talking behind our backs: Hilton Kramer, testy art critic for the New York Observer, came to San Francisco on «other business,» he writes, but managed to stop in at the Museum of Modern Art, where he glanced at the Gerhard Richter show (which he'd «already suffered through at MoMA in New York») and looked both at the permanent collection (early Matisses «remain, in my opinion, SFMOMA's principal aesthetic asset») and the Ellsworth Kelly exhibition («What could be more personal than the persistent, unvarying project of self - abnegation on a monumental scale that we observe in his own most ambitious abstractions?»

The I988 projections for CAGW (science is settled talking heads) were pretty tough on everyone (even those much smarter than themselves F. Dyson, etc.).

assuming what you say about skeptics changing topic as you describe is accurate, and at this point I do we are talking about data that is less than 200 years old, out of which extraordinary claims are made as to how that data relates to distant past and future trends tough sell assuming that all adjustments to the data are scientifically sound, It is very difficult for me to believe that measurements that have gone through so many iterations can be trusted to.0 and.00 in most other sciences, I doubt they would tough sell (the photo of the thermometer is downright funny) in terms of goal post moving I observe predicted heat being re-branded as «missing» a prediction of no snow re-branded as more snow a warming world re-branded to a «warm, cold, we don't know what to expect» world topped off with suggestions that one who thinks the above has some sort of psychological disorder extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence especially when you are teaching children that their world is endangered

Meanwhile, you know better than to talk to the insurance companies, but you also realize that eventually you must make some tough decisions about your finances.

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First of all, we're not talking about a company that makes technology attempting to build an accessory, we're looking at a Swiss company which specializes in manufacturing luxury mechanical watches with more than 150 years of experience, so they know about fine craftsmanship and tough materials.

Even if it turns out to be tougher than you expected, you'll be facing the challenges together, and you'll find it easier to talk about further adjustments that you need to make.