Sentences with phrase «tries at all costs to»

«They try at all costs to exclude me from party events, to cast me in a bad political light.»

It considers itself a people's picture, in that it tries at all costs to give the public what it thinks it wants.

Try at all costs to avoid withdrawing cash from ATM machines with this card or else it will cost you.

Successful couples try at all cost to not give low blows or not attack the character or personality of the person they love.

Not exact matches

Trying to compete at the same cost from such a weak position hints at the same sort of hubris that has laid BlackBerry low over the past few years.

At $ 89,734, the cost of living comfortably in San Jose may seem like a bargain compared to San Francisco, but it's still very painful, especially if you're trying to stretch those startup funds into the longest possible «runway.»

The upsell is important for airlines because they are trying to at once compete with low - cost carriers such as Spirit and wring more money from passengers.

At first, North tried to work through local partners outside of Ontario, but Pearson and Creally discovered the approach was costing them potential new clients.

Just try convincing employees to keep costs down when oil is selling at US$ 100 a barrel, he says — it's a losing battle.

Trevor Outman, co-founder and president of Shipware, a consulting firm aimed at vendors trying to reduce shipping costs, said return costs are among the top concerns of clients.

I tried my best to provide quality food and service and to cut costs at the same time.

Generally speaking, lawyers say you should try fighting back now, or at least find a way to delay settling until the summer, when a favorable court decision, as well as pending legislation before Congress that would make trolls responsible for court costs, could work in your favor.

The time it takes to conclude a deal isn't any shorter than it is in the U.S., and if you must stay there to nurture the process, it will cost you even more money than if you'd tried it at home.

It's also not good business when you constantly try to gain the upper hand at all costs because, over time, no one will want to do business with you again.

If, at the end of the 12 months, a customer wants to try a new phone or tablet, they can upgrade without the typical costs.

And thanks to protective parents, they also try to avoid failure at all costs.

This is dangerous and usually implies acting from ego, something you should try to avoid at all costs.

Try to avoid them at all costs.

While that's a modest return for a high - flying tech stock, at a certain point, Twitter would hit a wall trying to satisfy investors and contain its costs.

When I started WANdisco, my co-founders and I were adamant about trying to avoid venture capital at all costs.

Personally, I would look at the cost of your Kickstarter video as part of the initial amount of money you're trying to raise.

Rather than try to compete directly with Match, the industry leader, he created a website that cost almost nothing to run and was aimed at the sort of people who wanted to browse a few profiles but weren't ready to take out their credit cards.

But, unless you're an artist who needs to have a sketch pad handy, or you're someone who still writes out notes — I try to avoid handwriting at all costs — it's something you'll likely forget about quickly.

«There are companies that try to use brute force to solve these issues, such as employing hundreds of low cost, low quality workers in developing countries to look at each product image and annotate the details.

At All Pro Franchising International, we try to keep start - up costs relatively low, while maximizing the potential for a return on your investment.

If you're trying to figure out which behaviors will get you ahead at work — and which you should avoid at all cost — here's are six slides of things you should never do on the job.

By offering mid - to high - end quality equipment, we provide customers the opportunity to «try out» bikes they may wish to purchase at a later date, providing additional incentive (besides cost savings) to use our service.

Had Amazon tried to buy Whole Foods three and a half years ago, the deal would likely have cost at least double.

The human tendency to hope for the best and try to avoid failure at all costs gets in the way, and organizational hierarchies exacerbate it.

If you're a high - tech person trying to build a small business around a dynamic web site and you need advanced control over the programming and site configuration, as well as excellent speed and scalability at minimal cost, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET may well be perfect for you.

Try to arrive at a ballpark estimate of how much your future will cost and how much you hope to save by various points in time — say, by age 55 and again by age 65.

«What is perhaps different now is that the message that they're trying to create is not one just of low cost but that we are innovating, being creative, trying to meet consumer needs with new products but doing it in a value - oriented way,» says David Henkes, senior principal at Technomic, a restaurant and food industry consulting firm.

However, even this strategy has skeptics.324 While established brick - and - mortar retailers like Target have tried to lure online consumers through discounts and low delivery costs, 325 Amazon remains the major online seller of baby products.326 Although Amazon established its dominance in this market through aggressive price cutting and selling steeply at a loss, its actions have not triggered predatory pricing claims.

As we extract more and more oil from EOR plays, and at the same time are trying to increase quantities stored, we are going to have to move to more expensive capture opportunities and toward pure storage plays, which both increases capture costs and turns EOR revenues into a storage cost (you are not going to make money injecting CO2 into saline aquifers unless you are being paid to do so).

The real value of dollar - cost averaging is that investors don't need to worry about investing at the top of the market or trying to determine when to get in or out of the market.

Rather than try to pick out individual stocks, he said it makes more sense for the average investor to buy all of the companies of the S&P 500 at the low cost an index fund offers.

«The USA has a debt and deficit profile which is unsustainable; the Euro Zone has to decide whether it can forge a fully fiscal union or whether the costs are too great, in which event membership will be restructured; and China is trying to put its economy on a more sustainable growth path at a time of leadership change.

He adds: «Produc [ing] the highest - quality products at the lowest cost or consolidate [ing] their industry [is] trying to improve on best practices.

Firstly you should try to fund your startup costs independently if at all possible.

If you don't want to select individual dividend stocks but still want to try your hand at making money with dividend investing, you might want to consider a low - cost index fund that specializes in dividend paying companies.

Rather than trying to outperform, they merely match the market, but they do so at such low costs that they end up outperforming most actively - managed investment funds that charge high fees for lackluster performance.

So we've seen deflation, magnified as periphery countries are trying to cut costs at the same time banks aren't lending.

My knowledge basically stops at efficient asset allocation and low expense ratios... I was just trying to formulate what I understood the cost / benefits of TLH to be at Betterment.

More commonly, as the business became more profitable and the owner begins making more money, he will leave wages where they are, but try to find a way to cut down on overhead adn production costs (potentially at a loss of worker salary or through layoffs when outsourcing is utilized), and will pocket the increased profits until the business is positioned well enough to be sold to a larger conglomoration for a substantial payout that NONE of the workers will see a dime of.

In this context, the only realistic option for other regions of the world will be to try to attach themselves, at any cost, to one of the islands of the archipelago in the hope of becoming an integral part of it.

They pursue their own interests at any cost, or they try to dominate others; or they may tend to be cruel and so they create inhumane situations; or they are obsessed with power and pride; etc. if we believe that Jesus Christ alone is Lord and Savior, then we should not be astonished or scandalized when such things happen.

We view happiness as a right, and we're willing to try to track it down at great cost.

I didn't start globalization, I can't stop it — except at a huge cost to human development — and I'm not going to waste my time trying.

In the eyes of nostalgic Russians, Cuba is almost home territory, a last outpost of a lost Soviet empire that Putin is explicitly trying to reconstruct at great political expense and human cost.

If there is any one indispensable insight with which a young married couple should begin their life together, it is that they should try to keep open, at all cost, the lines of communication between them.