Sentences with phrase «trains running on»

An event manager who keeps the trains running on time...

Management entails keeping the trains running on time, administering the practices and procedures, ensuring adherence to policy, and not allowing any rocking of the boat.

Predictions to keep the interest rates down, the pound up, housing affordable, healthcare services improving by X, inflation down, and social harmony up and the trains running on time... to fulfill their own «predictions and promises» then they might actually earn THEIR wages for a change and gain a lift in credibility.

We're grateful to our business colleagues who keep the trains running on time.

As if 2 World Travel Awards, several nominations in World's Leading Luxury Train category and numerous other awards were not already enough, Maharaja's Express can be introduced as one of the most popular luxury trains running on Indian rails.

Of course, they have to «keep the trains running on time» — that is, attend to myriad managerial responsibilities, such as scheduling and budgeting — and good principals are adept at doing just those things.

It's Cyril who corrals the seamstresses, keeps the trains running on time, and dismisses Woodcock's muses and mistresses when they're no longer of any use to him.

The latter fixation is understandable: these chase scenes, with Johnny Depp's Tonto and Armie Hammer's Ranger defying physics to battle bad - guys on speeding trains running on parallel tracks, are some of the most brazenly spectacular sequences put to film in many years.

«In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?

They didn't have much of the stuff the Right likes, except maybe keeping the trains running on time.

Keep the roads in good repair and the trains running on time and keep your metaphysical beliefs to yourself.

If it makes comfy mattresses that help people sleep better, for instance — or builds software that keeps trains running on time, and therefore lowers commuter stress — consider it a yes.

Not only do they make sure that articles make sense and the subjects and verbs are right, at many places — such as the media company in question — they write the headlines and make sure the trains run on time.

Like the Italians who used to declare, «At least Mussolini made the trains run on time,» this CEO's half - hearted attempts at paying someone a compliment were so feeble that it would have been better if she'd said nothing at all.

«Studies of CEOs have shown that those who are first - borns tend to run their companies conservatively — improving things by, say, streamlining product lines, simplifying distribution routes and generally making sure the trains run on time,» Kluger wrote in an article for TIME.

«Mr. Kinsella will see that the trains run on time, that the graphics are co-ordinated, the phone lines are in and the election expenses legislation complied with.»

Paul Critelli, one of the program's teachers, told me that many parents feel overwhelmed trying to get two or three kids ready for school each morning, and that their instinct is often to «sacrifice the anxious kid» in order to avoid morning hysterics and keep the family train running on time.

The fact is that Mussolini did not, in any economically significant sense, «make the trains run on time.»

Swinging across the glistening snow beside Squaw Creek, five members of U.S. cross-country team head west through Squaw Valley during a sunrise training run on Olympic practice course

If you want a man on a white horse who promises to make the trains run on time and then crushes you with his horse's hooves..

One of the biggest challenges facing New York City right now is its aging mass transportation system, with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's infrastructure deteriorating as subways and trains run on an outdated system.

Mario Cuomo famously said «you campaign in poetry; you govern in prose» and if he was the orator, his son is the operator, the one who passes state budgets on time and — as when he resolved a threatened Long Island Rail Road strike last year — makes trains run on schedule.

And the reality is, more often than not, that mayors — tasked with making the trains run on time, picking up trash, plowing snow, solving problems — are taking on more and more responsibility.

If a bunch of the city's movers and shakers have their way, Lhota will go from making the trains run on time to keeping the city on the right track.

That's a problem for a governor whose core political narrative is steady competence — that he makes the trains run on time and can wring accomplishments from a legislature split along party lines.

The Mayor is doing his job superbly — making sure the trains run on time and everyone is doing their jobs according the the rules and guidelines.

Those trains run on Amtrak's Empire line along the Hudson River and could make an eastward detour to run through the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.

And while it's neither fair nor reasonable to compare the outdated legislative form of government (circa 1967 - 2008) with its modern executive successor, the fact is that Mike Hein has made the trains run on time.

In a remarkably short period of just over four years — which included one unopposed reelection in 2011 — Ulster County Executive Mike Hein has defined his office, staked out his turf, and brought order and direction (as in making the trains run on time) to where there had mainly been rule by legislative committee.

«At least Mussolini made the trains run on time, every train has been late so far,» said Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa Sunday from the newly christened 96th Street Station platform.

I told him that my father's Republican party made the trains run on time and his derails them.

Trains run on...

Benito Mussolini made the trains run on time; the people who supported his totalitarian view were recipients of a transportation system they could count on.

Mannix's job is a quotidian nightmare of putting out fires, making sure the trains run on time, preventing the embarrassing stuff from getting into the press and keeping the tantrums / temptations of the stars to a manageable minimum.

In an era when long - distance travel was difficult and exhausting even when the trains ran on time, the weather was fair, and the roads weren't thick rivers of mud, Julia — and her four young children, who often accompanied her — risked disease, death and capture whenever they journeyed between home and headquarters.

As an example, an investor like Charlie Munger finds his «comparative advantage» in investing rather than «making sure the trains run on time» as an operator of a business like Matt Rose of Burlington Northern.

The train runs on the Golden Triangle Circuit of India (Delhi, Agra & Jaipur) and through the mesmerizing landscape of Rajasthan.

Some of the trains run on multiple journeys — Maharaja Express itself runs on 5 different itineraries — that run on pan-India itineraries.

But you know, even Mussolini couldn't make the trains run on time all the time.

For the entire journey the train runs on a narrow gauge track, only a metre wide.

Well, Mussolini may have made the trains run on time, but how many giant plastic slides did he build down the Spanish Steps?

The athletes were magnificent, the crowds were enthusiastic, the trains ran on time and the place looked great.

I can take training runs on data up to 1950 and project that fit to the 2000 hiatus.

Many passenger trains run on tracks owned by freight companies, and they are slowed on long stretches of single track, where trains must pull onto sidings so others can pass.

If Luban's scholarship can be reduced to one ethical preoccupation, it is with the problem of the good bureaucrat, who does his job well but in service of great evil — the Adolf Eichmann who makes the trains run on time to carry Jews to the concentration camps.

Speed with which calls are returned, appointments booked, and noted that the property can only be viewed at certain times (shift workers), general area knowledge, specific area knowledge (what times of day the trains run on the tracks that are contiguous with the lot line).

Not exact matches

As a result 55 trains a day now run on the Sunset, compared with around 40 in the mid 2000s.

When the double - tracking is completed, Union Pacific plans to run 90 trains a day on the Sunset Route.

As for China's ever - expanding network of bullet trains, Chinese media report trains on several of the new lines frequently run with more than half their seats empty.

Edwards said the introduction on Wednesday of a new version of its Nike + running app should be a bridge between amateur runners and the stars of Rio, offering customized training tips and product recommendations as well as invitations to local events.