Sentences with phrase «were for nothing as»

All the talk of Paris Saint - Germain's Javier Pastore or Liverpool's Daniel Sturridge were for nothing as Pastore is staying in Paris and Sturridge was sent out on loan to West Bromwich Albion just before the transfer window closed.

Not exact matches

For new business - owners, the bar to growing something from nothing is lower than ever... as long as you keep your cash - flow fluid.

As for the big players like Google and Amazon, which pay Adblock Plus a large and unspecified amount of money for unblocking their ads, nothing's changed.

As for LinkedIn, I have been active on it for years and nothing really happens.

While Miscavige and his organization have held up the media complex as a valuable tool for spreading the message of Scientology and recruiting new members to join, the new facilities have received criticism from opponents of the religion — including some former members — who claim the complex is nothing more than a propaganda machine and a ploy to attract donations.

It's not so much a case of being instructed as it is one of needing to be regularly reminded that (a) nothing good happens by itself and (b) you are the person primarily responsible for making the right things happen.

«I'd love to be proven wrong here, but for the moment, let's assume... every Friday is a tale of woe and every Monday rolls back some of those losses as the market breathes a sigh of relief if nothing catastrophic occurs,» the «Mad Money» host concluded.

Meanwhile, Microsoft (MSFT) is also pushing Skype for Business as nothing less than a replacement for existing corporate private branch exchange (PBX) systems — and it's offering «Fast Track» funding to help businesses make the switch.

Line Deslandes served as chief compliance officer for one year, and was taken aback to find O'Leary was nothing like the ruthless businessman he appeared to be on television.

As someone deeply entrenched in this industry, I can say from experience that merchant services reps aren't called the «used car salesman of financial services» for nothing.

Many of the public - health events she attended were derided in local newspapers as nothing more than «supper parties» for «female physicians.»

What if I told you that you don't have to imagine, that tapping into critical data that could change the way your company operates for the better was as simple as a web search and costs you nothing?

There are myriad online tools available for entrepreneurs (nothing better than Entrepreneur.com, of course) such as Startup -LCB- ery and Efactor that serve as consortiums for best practices.

Other people will automatically like you for it — and remember you as someone who engages even when there's nothing in it for you.

So many companies create email lists that are nothing more than avenues for promotion — rather than seeing email as an opportunity to engage and build true loyalty over time.

As Mike Lazaridis himself recently said, «Nothing has prepared you for what we are about to see.»

The present French agitation for a «competitiveness pact» is just a classic French ruse for jacking up their own influence as gatekeepers of the inner circle, and has nothing to do with competitiveness, except to reduce it.

Food banks, Saul argues, serve as a kind of «moral release valve» for government, permitting it to appear as if it were doing something about hunger when it's doing nothing to address the poverty and social isolation that lead people to food banks in the first place.

The watch is made for those kinds of conditions, but nothing as extreme as deep water exploration.

So, a $ 30 stand that does next - to - nothing isn't exactly surprising coming from the Apple store, but it's serves as a reminder that many accessories made for Apple products are often pricey and / or unnecessary.

Life as a start - up employee is nothing like putting in your daily graft for a big corporation.

I believe that the re-orientation of British politics under Corbyn and in particular of the Labour Party is highly beneficial, not only to the large strata within British society that have been discarded in the last 20 to 30 years, but interestingly also for British business that produces real stuff as opposed to the City of London and various other service sectors that produce precarious jobs and nothing much of substance.

But this chart is as interesting for what it doesn't show: nothing beyond 2011.

I fear, at least for the moment, history will judge this meeting as nothing more than a Potemkin summit — filled with countless photos designed to pull at your heart, when in fact, zero was achieved.

I was deflated because I knew if I hired again as I had been doing for the last eight months, nothing would change.

There is nothing more gratifying then striving for greatness with a sense of humility where your reputation isn't based in how loud you are, but rather, in the quality of your work and the quality you possess as a person.

It's also been helped by a proliferation of Internet - based broadcasters such as Ustream, Livestream.com, and Justin.tv that small business owners can use to stream their feeds for little or nothing.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to thNothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to thnothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

It's as simple as closing your eyes for five minutes without any distraction and focus on your breath and nothing else,» he writes.

While she has nothing against Sandberg, whom she praises as super smart and extremely supportive of women's ambitions, Trunk still has questions about whether Sandberg's success is actually an appealing option for the vast majority of women.

Nothing kills team morale more quickly than a member who can't admit a mistake, can't share credit, and can't see that perfection is often possible — as long as you're willing to work for it.

No spec work: The practice of marketers asking prospective agencies to provide creative for free (or next to nothing) as part of the pitch process has long been a sore spot in the industry, yet the «spec work» practice persists.

The fields and arenas of professional sports are a testing ground for the return on investment that's possible from data analytics, and nothing did as much to popularize the concept of big data in sports as «Moneyball.»

It has been a rough few weeks for United Airlines, as the company probably wishes nothing more than to erase its recent mishaps, including the latest one involving questions over the death of a giant rabbit.

For nothing commends itself so well as kindness; and courtesy is kindness.»

There's nothing in marketing as exciting as offering people a chance at winning a prize in exchange for a little effort and personal information.

Deleting the message is important for damage control, but you'll hurt your reputation by acting as if nothing happened.

And part of the problem is that there's no «real» or «natural» price for CEO labour (or for anything else), nothing to serve as a comparison point to figure out if such labour is being sold at the «right» price.

If the U.S. were to implement a border tax on Mexican imports to pay for Trump's wall, would it really be in Canada's interest to say nothing as the other junior partner in NAFTA was so abused?

Charging little or nothing for software is a common practice in the «software as a service,» or SaaS, business.

I stand up for the things that I believe in and the things that I'm passionate about, but I like to keep my personal life as private as possible when it comes to dating and sexuality and all that stuff just because it has nothing to do with my music.»

I took the same approach: I knew nothing about air travel, but as I'd flown back and forth from Britain to the United States on business for Virgin Records, I'd become convinced that there had to be a better way.

Trying to clean up a supply chain is nothing new — big corporations have been at it for years, mainly as a way to mitigate risks and dodge the next big scandal.

I guess nothing can be more personal than body contact, but for me a hug says, «This isn't about you or me individually; it's about us as a team.»

Johnson's new role as a representative of philanthropic efforts is nothing new for her.

As is typical for this age in which nothing of importance is thought to have happened before 1993, pundits are deeming this a trend and even mocking it a little.

Not for nothing, Gucci Chief Executive Officer Marco Bizzarri and Bottura are childhood friends as well.

But that was nothing compared with the self - inflicted pain Hanrahan suffered through in early 2016 as he waited for his self - service onboarding initiative to stop bleeding and start being profitable.

Despite the Liberals» big margin in Canning, the government is taking nothing for granted as the by - election nears.

I said nothing of the sort, I only pointed out that census data was misused by Nazis for their own evil purposes, as it was misused by the American government (and possibly the Canadian government) for the purposes of interning their citizens of Japanese descent (which, to the credit of the US Census bureau, it has apologized for).