Sentences with phrase «very lives on it»

That's the sort of hard - headedness that I used to love about NASA — the idea that humans, if they just kept plugging away, could figure stuff out — and that other humans — astronauts and test pilots — would stake their very lives on it.

He may have even saved my very life on more than a few occasions without my apparent knowledge.

Something that you can bet your very life on and win every last time.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

The Canadian dollar has been very volatile so far this year, jumping from a low of 68 cents (U.S.) on Jan. 20 to a short - lived 80 cents on April 29.

But the jobs that require math skills and social skills — communication, working with others, all of these things you're supposed to learn in kindergarten, those end up being valuable because they're very hard to reduce to code or assign on a spec sheet to people living overseas.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

They should remain something that complements your existing strategy or indeed allows growth, but you should not be reliant upon them as they have the power to change the very rules you live by... They could increase commission or block sellers in your category and even undercut you on your best - selling product.

We can cut down the waste of a person's life to try a medicine just because it was tried on average statistics over a very large number of people.

«For Sergey and me this is a very exciting new chapter in the life of Google — the birth of Alphabet,» Google chief executive Larry Page wrote in a blog post on Monday.

On Thursday, facing mounting pressure on his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddlinOn Thursday, facing mounting pressure on his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddlinon his company from Congress, the Justice Department and others, a very serious - looking Zuckerberg took to Facebook Live and pledged to take a range of actions to make sure future elections, in the U.S. and elsewhere, will be safe from clandestine meddling.

After selling Iams to Procter & Gamble for $ 2.3 billion in 1999, Mathile could very well have retired to a life of margaritas on the beach.

Paul adds that you can find out how others view by: «googling yourself, holding a focus group (of close friends), or asking a life coach or business coach to conduct a 360 analysis on your behalf (we do this for all of our clients and it's very effective).»

I don't have any hard data to back this up, but I'm increasingly getting the feeling that if you were to inform yourself of what's going on in the world solely by using Twitter, you'd probably go through life as a very angry individual.

Here are 13 microbes that are very likely living on or inside of you at this very moment, and whether or not each can cause illness.

The cassette player's demise in the face of evolving technology was inevitable, but its branding lives on in the iPod and the very idea of music - on - the - go.

After all, Bev's mom lived until 92, and her grandmother until 94, so the odds that Bev could keep on trucking into her mid-nineties are very solid indeed.

Students might not be swimming in cash or connections, but the very fact that they aren't established yet in full lives with mortgages, kids and car payments is actually a huge advantage, according to Feld, who reflected on the sandbox analogy in his post:

As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects of life, boosting joy with very little effort.

Developers have blogged about some very easy fixes that could radically reduce harassment and a couple have actually stepped up and released an app called Block Together that has already made Gandy's life on Twitter dramatically better.

On May 18, Swiss voters will decide if they want to introduce the world's highest minimum wage to their country where the cost of living is extremely high and the unemployment and poverty rates very l...

But I am very bullish on energy and business in the U.S., especially in life sciences and technology.

«This is an exceptional company with great pay and benefits, a real focus on work - life balance, and a welcoming culture that makes you feel like a vital part of something very special.»

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Most of the limitations people erect around their lives are artificial but they can have very real negative effects on how they do business and live.

«Suddenly they get caught living on very expensive property and can't pay the taxes,» says Cross.

«I'm very bullish on longer life cycles for consoles,» House said.

[But] for people who have it, student loan debt is something that weighs on them very heavily and prevents them from moving onto other life milestones, so this is a really impactful benefit that employers can offer.»

Battery life on many of the top Android phones is very good, especially on the Pixel 2 phones.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

Purchases, we all know, can sometimes make us very happy, the choices afforded by financial security (or lack thereof) have a huge impact on quality of life, and trying to keep up with the Joneses is generally regarded as a recipe for misery.

Lyne: A suburban life was very comfortable, lots of great clubs around, lots of good schools for kids, but for somebody who grew up thinking, «I want to do something, I want to have an impact on the world,» it was not necessarily the place you could do that.

Delve, which is part of Microsoft Office, is a dynamic page of data, communications and information concerning your contacts, community, documents and business life that is very likely of interest to you based on your activities — kind of like a mashup of Facebook and LinkedIn.

But the «yes» part comes from reminding yourself that there are a few basic rules you can live by in terms of how you interact with others, and if you keep these absolute essentials in mind, things will go a lot easier for you — and be a lot easier on those employees of yours who are, in many respects, very much at your mercy.

«And then after a suitable period of time, he should come out with a very clear statement about where he is going with his life both on a personal and a professional level.

And those conditions later on their life, could turn out to be very difficult,» Pieter van der Does, CEO of Adyen, told CNBC in a TV interview.

«Perhaps it's because I live a very boring and uneventful life and doing anything is be better than the alternative, or perhaps it's because that during the time I was doing Random Acts of Pasta, the only thing on my mind was who I was going to take pasta to,» Tribe said.

«Millennials have a reputation — obviously not earned, or deserved — that they «live in the now,» and that they're very focused on having a good time,» says Williams, «and I think these results prove that they are just as worried about their retirement as every other demographic.»

A close friend of the couple's told Vogue that «Family is very important to Jeff, and he absolutely relies on her to create that stable home life.

A couple can live very comfortably on about $ 3,000 a month, but it's also possible to live on less than $ 2,000 a month.

We mostly sell online, but I think offline is very important too — we get to see people's reactions when they look at the jewelry in real life, and we want to capitalize on that as we grow.

This morning, we'll tackle that issue head on — in what I'm expecting will be a fun, raucous conversation with the always - engaged Chip Bergh, the charismatic CEO of Levi Strauss & Co.; Dr. Nicholas Gettas, chief medical officer of Cigna — who has some very cool and thought - provoking ideas on this subject; Amy McDonough, VP and General Manager of Fitbit Group Health and Rick Valencia, president of Qualcomm Life — both of whom have great insights into the technologies that may shift the wellness paradigm; and a full roster of Brainstorm Health delegates to join the discussion.

I always reflect on the life of this strong woman who was tough as nails, who for two years lived in a hole in the ground that could very well have been her grave.

Apprehension has also grown in recent months about the negative impact of record - low yields on the solvency of pension funds and life insurers and how this in turn could undermine financial stability, demand, and the very goals QE aims to achieve.

In fact those who have followed him most memorably in history led very tragic lives here on earth.

Second, it would be very helpful to develop a longitudinal perspective on the use of retirement savings vehicles, especially during the period of mid - to late working life;

jobs that provided an income beyond what I needed to live on, although I will admit that I've actually lived very well by most standards; 5.)

Don't live stream on a very trivial subject.

2) the stair counter doesn't work well — gets very confused when I get on an elevator (I live on the 30th floor of my building and sometimes just taking the elevator up in the morning after a run gives me my full 10 story step goal) 3) the heart rate monitor doesn't seem particularly accurate 4) the sleep tracker doesn't do a good job of figuring out when I go to sleep and when I wake up.

I would like to work on generating more passive income with very little risk and the confidence that our «nut» is solid and I can enjoy life with the confidence that we are doing pretty darn good.