Sentences with phrase «who risked their jobs»

He's drifted into the corporate - dad mode that's ensnared Fred MacMurray, Robin Williams, Eddie Murphy, and Nicolas Cage, and requires a star to mug or mope or go manic to play a guy who risks his job in order to make amends with his kids then risks the kids to make amends with the job.

CLOSING NIGHT Suffragette For its Closing Night Film, the 38th Mill Valley Film Festival has chosen Suffragette, the story of the women who were foot soldiers in the fight for the right to vote in the early 20th century, ordinary women who risked their jobs, homes, children and even their lives.

Premise: Michael Shannon plays a husband, father, and pillar of his community who risks his job and his family when he begins to obsessively plan and build a well - stocked shelter in his backyard, prompted by a vivid recurring dream about an apocalyptic storm.

The caregiving sector is reliant on the work of migrant workers, primarily women, who risk their jobs and their hopes of permanent residence in Canada if they complain about violations of their rights.

Not exact matches

Research has shown that those who kept their day jobs while starting their businesses were 33 percent more likely to be successful than their risk - taking counterparts.

«Your best person is the person who just screwed up,» she says, «When people fear for their job, they aren't going to [take a risk].»

«We found that entrepreneurs who quit their jobs to found companies did have higher risk tolerance than those who remained employed.

People hear about how great Slack is — from friends who have it in their offices, or from co-workers who used it at their last job, or from people they follow on Twitter — try the free version inside their teams, then get so hooked on it, the corporate IT buyer is obliged to pay up or risk mutiny.

«There are a lot of things going on right now, but body cameras are a great tool to provide the vast majority of cops who risk their lives and do a great job with a way to help restore trust.»

Like Steve Jobs, they're smart, creative, and passionate risk - takers who generate an astonishing amount of jobs and revenue in the U.S.

But through all of this I'm always reminded that in tough times some people pull up their socks and help get the job done while others turn to being critics: Even some who don't actually take risks or accomplish things love to opine.

«These are people who somehow believe that they can make the world different and better,» he said, «and they're willing to take their own lives, their own time, and so forth, and their own risk capital, and put it together to create literally millions of jobs and ultimately trillions of dollars of wealth.»

Douglas Hyndman, who heads the Canadian Securities Transition Office that Flaherty set up to push this file, even told Maclean's in an email that the Supreme Court, by directing federal policy - makers to consider regulating systemic risks, shifted their attention «precisely where Canada needs to do a better job to get regulation right.»

The slowdown in job growth and the absence of any significant wage pressure could strengthen the arguments of those who see little risk in keeping borrowing costs exceptionally low and waiting not just for more encouraging data but also for unruly markets to settle down.

Why you shouldn't quit your day job — We're conditioned to think that entrepreneurs are willing to risk everything they have to pursue their passion, but the most successful entrepreneurs are actually the more conservative individuals who are more inclined to hedge their bets.

Doing so means we can avoid the risk of stranded assets and minimize the number of Canadian workers who will need to transition jobs in the future.

Having one's job and a portion of one's wealth in the same firm can create undue financial risk for workers, as it does for individuals and families who use some or all of their life savings to start their own businesses or otherwise invest heavily in one asset.

And in a bear market, those who have expensive toys they don't need will feel the weight of 1000 boulders on their shoulders because their jobs may be at risk.

Creating more confusion around corporate tax increases, a PC press release from April 9 stated «Prentice pointed out that more than 95 % in Alberta are small businesses, employing fewer than 50 people, and questioned those who would put those jobs at risk with a corporate tax increase.»

He appears to still have the support of Huffington, who has publicly said his job was not at risk.

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

It could still be argued that these roles impose strain on womanly nature; that they are not what women are made for; that they show a certain lack of respect for God's work of creation; that in fulfilling them a woman is likely to treat men maternally, which will impose undue strain on masculine nature; and that the woman's womanly dignity and worth are to some extent at risk while she does these jobs; but it could not be maintained that she and those who gave her her role have sinned by disobeying God's command.

A pastor who publicly weighs in on the subject could divide his or her congregation or risk their job.

In addition, almost 450 Victorian jobs1 are under threat from the container deposit tax in drink manufacturing, distribution and packaging hubs, including those around Shepparton, Niddrie, Altona, Broadmeadows and Carrum, who will be most at risk of job losses.

In addition, 400 NSW jobs1 are under threat from the container deposit tax in drink manufacturing, distribution and packaging hubs, including those around Auburn, Campbelltown, Penrith, Parramatta and Smithfield, who will be most at risk of job losses.

Arsenal is run by a risk averse billionaire who is happy to keep Wenger in a job as he doesn't want to spend the extra money on a new regime.

Either way, the FA have chosen to look ridiculous now rather than risk looking more ridiculous later, and have ended up in a situation where Gareth Southgate, who specifically stated he couldn't do the job a few months ago, will take charge of the next four games, while the FA's CEO Martin Glenn, who happily admits that he's «not a football expert,» looks for a permanent replacement.

Color me skeptical that Ball will risk tens of millions of dollars to get his little brothers NBA jobs (especially LiAngelo, who even LaVar acknowledged would have trouble getting drafted).

Will a manager who knows his job depends on winning something on a season take such mighty risk?

It was a strange feeling I had as the new season approached: the Leeds job looked like a poisoned chalice, and I wondered who with any true managerial quality was going to risk their reputation on a job that they will most likely lose before the Halloween masks are on the shelves.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

We fight hunger differently by providing the high - quality nutrition kids relying on school meals need to learn and grow while sustaining meaningful, living - wage careers for at - risk adults who have completed our Culinary Job Training program.

''... in a new Council on Contemporary Families briefing paper, the sociologists Margaret Usdansky and Rachel A. Gordon report that among mothers of young children, those who were not working and preferred not to have a job had a relatively low risk of depression — about as low as mothers who chose to work and were able to attain high - quality jobs.

Women who center their existence around their children believing that the job of parenthood is sacred and all that is required to feel fulfilled may be at risk, says psychologist Kathryn Rizzo.

Even «ordinary» people who have escaped all those risks and are able to hold a job and raise a family, but have not fully developed their ability to regulate their emotions, are handicapped by their lack of emotional intelligence.

Proponents argue it would boost New York's natural gas supply to help keep energy costs down while creating jobs and generating tax revenue, while opponents, who rallied this month ahead of the decision, say it would increase fossil - fuel use, harm sensitive ecosystems and put the state at inordinate risk of dangerous methane leaks.

The Regents tabled a proposal that would have offered more protection for teachers and principals who could risk losing their jobs as a result of Common Core - based tests after Cuomo blasted it.

So while we will never hesitate to act where businesses aren't operating as they should, let this party celebrate the wealth creators, the risk takers, the innovators and entrepreneurs - the businesses large and small - who generate jobs and prosperity for our country, and make British business the envy of the world.

Judge Mitting, who presided over the hearing, said: «I am very keen she should be free to work in a job that does not, in the view of the secretary of state, propose a risk to national security.»

Under the Regents plan, which was tabled under pressure from Cuomo, teachers and principals who were at risk of losing their jobs because their students performed poorly on new, harder exams would have an additional defense at their disposal during disciplinary proceedings.

We can see the logic in that — though there is the more important issue of who is best to deal with the economic crisis, an issue which will surely resonate at a more personal level with voters if their jobs are at risk, or their homes likely to be repossessed.

City Comptroller John Liu, congratulating advocates and Brewer, released a statement saying, «many more New Yorkers will soon be able to take care of themselves or a loved one who gets sick without risking their jobs or paychecks.»

It seems to me to be a very big difference if somebody who's putting up their own money and taking a big risk and creating wealth and jobs for the economy - well that's fair enough, that's the old British «good luck to them» argument.

Terri Bright, the city's former top lawyer who ultimately lost her job because of a Destiny battle at city hall, said those who fought against the project were risking their political careers.

Bill Baroni, a former Port Authority official who was indicted in the George Washington Bridge scandal, said, «I would never risk my career, my job, my reputation for something like this.»

Students who resided with fewer than two parents, who earned over $ 50 per week from sources other than a job, or who go out 4 - 7 nights per week for fun, were at significantly increased risk for use.

«While it was the same rate as people with other types of disabilities who used the program, the wages, hours worked and range of job types for people with autism were low — placing them at risk for poverty.»

Those traditional statistics jobs aren't going away anytime soon, as long as society continues to need workers who can advance statistics theory, assess drugs» risks and efficacy, or do any of the other things statisticians have done for years.

Evidence emerged in the three studies that companies may face a greater risk of losing female employees who experience female - instigated incivility, as they reported less satisfaction at work and increased intentions to quit their current jobs in response to these unpleasant experiences.

One study of over 7,300 employees found that those who stood for their jobs had double the risk of heart disease than those who mostly sat.