Sentences with phrase «was at hand from»

Thankfully, help was at hand from a top media attack dog.

But help was at hand from the Liberal Democrats, who agreed to enter into a coalition on condition that a referendum take place on electoral reform.

Help, however, may be at hand from a more independent approach.

Help is at hand from the Electoral Commission, which has agreed draft standards with the main parties about adopting a comment set of standards.

And help is at hand from the International Dark - Sky Association, based in Tucson, Arizona — a bright light in a very dark desert.

Experts will be at hand from the American Cancer Society, as well as licensed physicians and nurses.

Help is at hand from of a local member agent in the Trusted Choice network.

Help is at hand from OnePlusOne's Parent Connection online service — it's free, available 24/7 and offers reliable information and support.

Not exact matches

I get my flash briefing from Alexa, which gets me a hands - free summary of what's on fire in the real world, and I do a quick check of Slack on my phone, which gets me a quick summary of what's on fire at work.

Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016 about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.

Made from pasta, eggs, and cheese fried into a donut shape for hand - held ease, this creation originated at New York's Smorgasburg, a spread of fusion curiosities and Instagram food trends that could be the birthplace of next year's hot combination, too.

When Emily first told Marge of her intuition, which she'd realized had been present at so many points in her life, including meeting her husband, she said that Marge told her of the house's history of being handed down from fortune tellers to psychics, beginning in the early 1900s.

The agreements — don't gossip, don't take things personally, don't make assumptions, and do your best — help me start from a rational position of trying to understand the issue at hand, without bringing any negative mental baggage that may come along naturally if I weren't aware of them.

If the back - up you are looking for doesn't need to be physically close at hand, you have a whole lot more options to choose from.

If these elements float to the top of all the spin and bluster that will be reported from Europe over the next 48 to 72 hours, an agreement likely is at hand.

It's the idea that by developing strict procedures and guidelines and sticking to them, you will actually benefit from a freedom to focus more clearly on the objective at hand, rather than how you're going to attack it.

Then again, the financial situation of their business is such that they could benefit from more regular financial review and planning and up - to - date accounting — instead of leaving every invoice, receipt, and ledger to hand off to the tax preparer at the close of the fiscal year.

Third, a catering vehicle can be used to transport the foods, which are then handed out from inside the truck or set up at the event or gathering, typically on trays or buffet style.

Salespeople at established organization are often handed warm leads on a daily basis, and their goals are oriented more towards taking orders from existing accounts rather than closing new business.

Now that we know where our corks come from, we can get back to the question of what the heck are we supposed to do with it when someone hands us one at dinner?

The marble - clad one in the Peninsula Suite, at the top of the Peninsula Tower, features high - tech amenities like a hands - free wireless telephone, a TV, and a digital radio system, but it's the view of Hong Kong Harbor (and the tiny boats scurrying across it) from 26 floors up that steals the show.

«Ending the cost - sharing payments would be a clear signal from the Trump administration that they are not aiming to run the ACA marketplace effectively, so insurers would likely just throw up their hands and leave the market,» said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank.

At the Rio Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday, the International Olympic Committee handed off the games from Rio to Tokyo, where the next Summer Olympics will be held in 2020.

«So much of this game — from the outfits to hairstyles to accessories — are all inspired by looks that I love and hand selected,» Kardashian West said at the time of the app's launch.

People arrested for being members of the MS - 13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang, among other crimes, flash their gang's hand sign from inside a jail cell at a police station in San Salvador, El Salvador, October 12, 2012.

On the other hand, Lucas and Lee Brown, 22 - year - old twin brothers and students at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, made the decision to close down a fashion business they'd been running from February to October 2005 when it became clear that their inventory wasn't selling.

Pros: Hand - rolled colored edges offer an interesting visual contrast, you've got a myriad of colors to choose from to suit almost any outfit, and it's priced right at just $ 10 per square

«So, on the one hand, we know from research that people are much better at work when they feel empowered, which consists of having meaning on the job, a sense of autonomy, a sense of confidence, and also an impact on what you do and the people you're trying to help.

While the moves, if successful, would keep the Pentagon running at last year's levels, they are far from Republican hopes of handing Trump about $ 634 billion in fiscal 2018 funding for the military's regular operations, $ 85 billion above last year.

Protecting police from lawsuits, however, isn't the problem at hand.

Add to all of this the positive comments from execs at the late 2016 all - hands meeting, and you can understand why Quidsi employees are confused by Amazon's explanation for the decision.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

Meanwhile, social media was buzzing after images emerged of Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb at the inauguration ceremony of a new center for combating extremist ideology — instigating comparisons from fantasy epics to science fiction.

After all, Stenebo has watched Kamprad's «incompetent» male spawn move into the top spots at Ikea, being groomed to run the show, while the 20 years he spent working his way up from a German Ikea warehouse, to upper management, to being Kamprad's right - hand man have run their course.

This Alexa «skill» allows a universe of podcasts, shows, and even audio clips from news stories to be pulled up at home in a hands - free way, said 60dB co-founder Steve Henn.

Also, the massage and spa industry is growing rapidly and I had the opportunity to open in, at the time, a relatively new market for Hand & Stone which was good from a development standpoint.

It came from an off - hand remark about a diner really being a «PB&J girl at heart» despite all the fine food she had eaten in her life.

If you want to be successful, you have to find strategies that will help you focus despite all of the distractions that prevent you from doing the task at hand.

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal.

From discounts on iPhones to some great savings on televisions, the deals we share each week are aimed at helping you get the hottest tech in your hands for the cheapest price.

A separate experiment involving the willingness to sign up for a flu clinic found that people with lower levels of emotional intelligence can also block unrelated emotions from influencing their decisions about risk, simply by making them aware that their anxiety was not related to the decisions at hand.

Google is to hand chief executive Eric Schmidt $ 100m (# 62m) as he steps down from his top job at the company, according to a regulatory filing.

Our lemonade is hand - crafted at each restaurant and made from scratch daily using fresh lemon juice, pure cane sugar and water.

A changing of the guard is under way at prominent CBD agency Burgess Rawson, with founding partner and joint managing director Geoff Potter stepping down from the position he has held for 21 years and handing over the reins to fellow joint managing director, Andrew McKerracher.

Advertising is designed to distract away from the consumer's task at hand, while context seeks to match it.

But at least a few of TDCJ's other claims seem suspect: TDCJ posted to Facebook a series of photographs and videos of staff handing food and water to inmates in a dry prison yard, but inmate family members and NLG assert that some of the employees pictured were no longer working at those units, and allege that TDCJ must have recycled the photographs from a previous event.

Investors, meanwhile, aren't thrilled with Tesla's plan to pay US$ 2.6 billion for solar panel installer SolarCity, run by Musk's cousin, lest it distract Musk from the missions at hand.

The problem when you want to look at the Dividend Achievers performance is that the index has changed hands in late 2012 (it was bought by Nasdaq from Mergent).

The task of rhetoric is to divert attention from the fact that the financial sector aims not to «free» markets, but to place control in the hands of financial managers — whose logic is to subject economies to austerity and even depression, sell off public land and enterprises, suffer emigration and reduce living standards in the face of a sharply increasing concentration of wealth at the top of the economic pyramid.

But few trade economists would say that a trade war is good or that it should be sought out; most think of trade wars as something to be avoided — or, at most, endured for the sake of protecting an industry that needs a helping hand from the government.