Singeing your customers
with disappointment for a few dollars of short - term profit simply isn't worth it.
Not exact matches
After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors
with little to show
for their money except
disappointment and a tax write - off.
«While he expressed his
disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis
for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting
with Secretary of State John Kerry.
He said that he was friendly
with President Putin, expressed
disappointment with U.S. - Russia relations under President Obama and hopes
for a better relationship in the future.
Along
with Fenty, Graham also expressed her
disappointment in seeing no curvy models walk the runway at shows
for Philipp Plein and Baja East.
The great
disappointment of the last half century has been the account owner's unwitting surrender of personal responsibility
for retirement to someone else, anyone else, surrendered
with the hope that the elective someone else cares more about their money than they do.
When company leaders practice vulnerability, sharing their
disappointment about bad news or their passion and excitement
for a company's new direction, then employees can better identify
with the leadership.
Speaking
with The Globe and Mail, CPAA president Brenda McAuley expressed
disappointment at the arbitrator's decision: «We've been the CPAA
for more than 100 years and we feel getting a defined contribution pension plan is selling out our new members,» she said.
Be prepared
for the continuous trials and tribulations of staff management,
for working
with clients and their demanding needs and schedules, and
for much joy when you sign a new site and
disappointment when a client chooses another resource.
With Fox selling ad space at more than $ 5 million
for each 30 - second spot, companies seeking brand visibility on the world's largest stage are risking an expensive
disappointment if their commercials fall flat.
The latest labour market release was a big
disappointment,
with only 169,000 jobs created in August, and a hefty downward revision
for July, to 104,000 jobs from 162,000.
The vast number of start - ups receiving capital today from inexperienced investors combined
with excessive levels of funding at over-optimized valuations sets the stage
for significant investor
disappointment which puts us all at risk.
The greenhouse gas result was a
disappointment for sponsors from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of investors
with $ 100 billion in assets, which had helped rally institutional investor support
for the measure.
Moreover, the discontent expressed at last year's AGM was also connected to other factors, including pay -
for - performance concerns raised by a proxy advisor and a general
disappointment with the (not so restraining) effects of the Minder regulation.
Now,
with that out of the way, the more important factor is what the Bank sees as the trajectory of economic growth
for Canada, because that will be fixed income investors» guide
for how it will react to
disappointment or surprises along the way.
Market reactions like that to short - term
disappointments sometimes present buying opportunities
for investors
with long - term outlooks.
Fort McMurray, Alberta — David Yurdiga, Member of Parliament
for Fort McMurray — Cold Lake and the Official Opposition Critic
for Northern Affairs, today expressed his
disappointment with Employment Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk's comments that «you don't have to pay tax usually if you're up North.»
The drumbeat of
disappointment is continuing
for the U.S. economy,
with the latest numbers showing the third quarter looking a lot like the first quarter.
If you want a great rewards credit card
with a big sign - up bonus, you might be setting yourself up
for disappointment.
As
with a single company, the more investors expect, the greater the scope
for disappointment.
Investors were also registering
disappointment with the European Central Bank after it failed to fulfill hopes
for a dramatic step to...
But it was
with shock and
disappointment that I read Lancelot
for the first time.
I ask this because I've struggled
with similar feelings throughout my life — processing various failures, weaknesses, and
disappointments as practical signs that God is not
for me, but against me — either toying
with me, cursing me, punishing me, rejecting me, or choosing not to bless me
for not living up to his standards.
It helps manage the
disappointment when the cool new group you find yourself
with is eventually revealed to be full of flawed and fallible human beings, and it helps to free you from the initial desire to rationalize shitty behavior within a group merely
for the sake of identity politics.»
At age twenty - nine,
with two graduate degrees but no wife, I am the perfect target
for Frederica Mathewes - Green's
disappointment with the rising age of marriage.
The situation is bizarre: a hostile pagan king asks an impossible favor
for his generalissimo, thereby setting the stage
for disappointment and what might well be the next political disaster: «Just look,» says the king of Israel, «and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel
with me.»
I could have quoted Chesterton's poem in praise of Cromwell
for his toleration of the Jews and his poem of bitter
disappointment with republican France in the wake of the Dreyfus affair.
With all reasonable caution against trying to imagine Jesus» thoughts and feelings, one is surely justified in pausing to consider how profoundly discouraging the situation must have been
for him, and to be grateful that there are such clear reflections of his
disappointment and disillusionment.
Then on Sunday at St. Patrick's: «
For all of us, I think, one of the great disappointments that followed the Second Vatican Council, with its call for a greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious fami
For all of us, I think, one of the great
disappointments that followed the Second Vatican Council,
with its call
for a greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious fami
for a greater engagement in the Church's mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family.
The faith of the Church adapted itself to the
disappointment of its first expectations
with little disturbance, beyond a deepening of the conviction that through the Spirit Christ had already «come again'to His people, (John 14:16 - 23) to reign over them
for ever «until the consummation of the Age».
If we are praying to get some thing or some result
for ourselves or others, then absolutely be prepared
for disappointment, but when prayer is just an ongoing conversation
with the compassionate, understanding deity bubbling out of a growing relationship
with the said deity then you don't give a shit about the results because they are no longer the point.
One key group is Christians United
for Israel, which has more than a million members and politically conservative leaders who have expressed
disappointment over Obama's sometimes tense relationship
with Israel.
We should avoid the tendency to allow many particular
disappointments with the results of the great drive
for social revolution, of which communism is but one expression, to cause us to swing to the conservative extreme.
The «in spite of,» which holds us ready
for disappointment, is only the reverse, the dark side, of the joyous «how much more» by which freedom feels itself, knows itself, wills to conspire
with the aspiration of the whole of creation
for redemption.
Ashimolowo says one of the main reasons
for his
disappointment with white church leaders was his perceived silence from them on the issue of same sex marriage when the law was changed in the UK.
Then I wonder that you have found has worked
for helping
with disappointment over people stuff?
The next time you find yourself in an argument
with your spouse or feel an all - too - familiar
disappointment, step back
for a moment.
Behind that sentence was his
disappointment that biologists,
for the most part, had ignored his book and went on
with their mechanistic analyses willy nilly.
In describing and accounting
for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives
with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships
with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent
disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation
with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing
with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid
for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
But
for most Americans it is probably a time of
disappointment mixed
with relief.
There is a heavy focus on meats and, while I found a little
disappointment in the complete lack of fish preparations (save
for things
with anchovies), I especially loved the guides on how to cook most fresh vegetables in the simplest way.
Same case to me, last year after I saw a nice picture of this custard mooncake by a famous restaurant here, I have been looking
for a recipe of it but end up
with disappointment.
Upon my insistence, Pierre called home the next day to check on her and was told that she passed a wonderful day out
with her grandparents and enjoyed herself thoroughly and that she didn't asked
for us once (to my surprise and a bit of a
disappointment - Am I being selfish to want her to miss us just a little bit?).
Dairy farmers have reacted
with shock and
disappointment to Glanbia's decision to cut its milk price by 3c / L to 32c / L
for February milk supplies.
I have been experimenting
with grain - free bread recipes
for the past month, most
with huge
disappointment.
So sorry
for any inconvenience or
disappointment with this guest post recipe.
But
with such a high valuation and a heavy reliance on raising capital to grow, there's no room
for disappointment.
Those wishing to attend the prestigious awards dinner are urged to book early to avoid
disappointment,
with tickets
for previous years selling out in under two weeks.
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini showed up to home court Etihad Stadium fighting
for a win to close out his final chapter
with Man City, instead he thanked his fans, those who hadn't left already,
for three great years while expressing a measure of
disappointment that he couldn't go out
with another win.
End of the day, we as fans are the customers, I don't care if I don't live in England, I can empathize
with the ticket holders paying crazy amounts
for those tickets just to experience the same
disappointment every season.