Sentences with phrase «trains running on time»

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.

I haven't had any cravings to make the Italian trains run on time or take over any industries on behalf of the Italian government.

Workers in railroad occupations ensure that passenger and freight trains run on time and travel safely.

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.

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.»

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

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

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..

This justification for Shelly's continued leadership reminds me of old adage about Benito making the trains run on time in pre-war Italy.

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.

It looks like Lhota now has every intention of going from making the trains run on time to keeping the city on the right track.

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.

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

She makes all the trains run on time.»

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.

In other words, Silver, unlike his counterparts in the senate and the pre-Cuomo governor's office, has made the trains run on time.

«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.

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

William Daley, President Barack Obama's new chief of staff, is expected to bring a corporate mentality to the White House, improving discipline and, in a favorite Washington phrase, «making the trains run on time.»

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.

After all, he spent a career dramatising subtle truths: not all handicapped people need be helpless (The Men), not all soldiers act valiantly (From Here to Eternity), not all religious commitment leads to fulfilment (The Nun's Story), and not all Germans understood the consequences of Hitler's making the trains run on time (The Seventh Cross).

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.

These are people who know how to make the trains run on time, and run on time they do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The focus has shifted from ensuring that we keep the trains running on time, which continues to be critically important, to rethinking the way we run all aspects of our business.

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.

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