Sentences with phrase «with fits and starts»

The recovery from the deepest recession since the Great Depression has been filled with fits and starts and has generally been perceived as lackluster.

Precession / obliquity — Precession very favorable while obliquity is lessening and becoming more favorable as compared to the Holocene Optimum period of time and this is why I think the global temperatures in general have been on a decline overall since the Holocene optimum however with fits and starts due to solar activity changes / volcanic activity and enso superimposed upon this general trend.

Clearly, the accumulation of pension wealth is not smooth and steady, but rises with fits and starts after age 50, due to rules of eligibility for early retirement and the like.

It was a bumpy ride, with fits and starts as technologies were exhausted and new ones created.

But the effort was filled with fits and starts, as funding was secured, then dried up.

Prepare yourself — this transition will come with fits and starts.

Global growth has accelerated modestly in recent months, but we're seeing few signs that this upturn is anything more than a momentary uptick in a cycle replete with fits and starts.

Not exact matches

«It smacked of an institution starting with a conclusion and shaping any arguments to fit it.»

If you've seen your battery life start to slip, Egoway's replacement option will fit most 13» MacBook Air models, and comes with all of the tools you'll need to open it.

Doing your own research, working with a personal trainer, attending group exercise classes or utilizing an online coach is a great way to find and get started with a program that is best fit for you.

An onboarding process is linked to and in some ways starts with the employer brand that you create to attract people who are the right fit for your company's overall goals.

My mom has been a scrapper for years and since she had a ton of their products I thought it would be a great fit for me at the time and I wanted to start my first professional blog along with it.

Instead of creating a role for people to fit into, Sandberg is all about starting with a role and having that role mold to their employees» strengths.

I started with CEO and chose Jeff Bezos because he fits all my criteria — self - made, dominated every industry he's entered, a real disruptor.

Now that you've set your terms and have your line sheets ready, start with local companies where you see a fit for your brand.

Disney and Marvel obviously know what they're doing with superhero movies — they've brought some of the biggest franchises to screen — however, at the same time, making every single film need to fit inside the already established franchise starts to limit the amount of creative license any one director can have on future characters as Marvel's Cinematic Universe only grows larger.

If you're interested in getting started with optimizing your website for search engines and how social media has the power to fit within that strategy, this is a great place to start for beginners.

Trump, in fits and starts, has indicated his support for the broad federal investigation of Russian meddling, but he has more often bristled at the notion that Kremlin operatives were working on his behalf or that his campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election.

Asked if he thought Bird made mistakes with its launch, VanderZanden answered carefully: «Our approach is to work with cities very early on in the process, so we reached out, started a dialogue with Santa Monica the week we actually launched... Any time there's new innovation it's never clear exactly where you fit into the permitting and regulatory scheme.»

These factors will at times seem tangled; they will proceed in fits and starts, as the ambitions of an untested President interact with the interests of a recalcitrant conservative block, a determined opposition, and the will of a divided public.

Indeed, it fits with his belief that company culture needs to start at the top and come to life through front - line managers.

Starting with this foundational step will help you eliminate the noise and rule out prospects that aren't a good fit for you, right away.

«We look for a lot of qualities but the two most important are: 1) integrity — without integrity, it doesn't matter how otherwise talented you may be; you won't fit on our sales team, and 2) resiliency — the ability to stick with it even when things get tough; and the fortitude to come back tomorrow to start all over again.»

Fit Studio was unique in its development approach because it started with minimal features and allowed users to develop profile data that later informed content development on the site.

These values and principles must be fully developed prior to starting the hiring process in order to find the most superior employees who are not only qualified but also fit with your workplace culture.

The U.S. economy, which was stuttering with a «fits - and - starts» recovery following the Great Recession of 2007 — 2008, has now reached a state of steady, stable growth, with the pace of growth centering around a new normal rate that is lower than its historical norm.

Narrow down your selection of possible franchises based on what fits in with your free time, and research how much time (on average) you will need to devote to the business to start seeing the returns you would like.

I definitely should have done my own work, started with more skepticism, and only made the investment if it fit with my carefully selected rules.

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ID starts with the conclusion and tries to find evidence and observations to fit it, a sort of reverse engineered hypothesis.

Religion starts with a conclusion and finds evidence to fit it, science observes evidence and follows it to a conclusion.

Funny enough, I'd been listening to a series of messages that fit with a particular conversation I'd heard, and I started telling him about those as well.

If you want to be «real» and have substance it starts with the word of God, you can not embrace certain parts of it and discard what does not fit your life agenda.

I also left out the people, such as yourself, who find the bible so completely true, they enter in on bias and start extrapolating and inferring to make sure the bible fits in with reality even when theres no trace of that inference.

As with most religious statements, you start with what you know and make your thoughts and life fit that model — self - reinforcing.

The book gets written in fits and starts, great strides curiously coinciding with the aforementioned weight gain.

True, his creation had started with the playful donning of Fatty Arbuckle's huge trousers and a contrasting tight - fitting coat.

You have started with a conclusion, and try to make logic and reason fit your conclusion, which is false application of logic.

You say answers come when one questions yet your own religion starts out with an answer and builds questions to fit that answer.

As soon as the 2nd amendment starts becoming modified to fit the times we live in, that will be the moment our freedoms start to become watered - down, and consequently, after more and more efforts are made to further limit the meaning of the 2nd amendment, we will find ourselves with such a weak interpretation or effictive realization of the 2nd amendment that it will be too late, and we might as well arm ourselves with BB guns.

Before you start any of your usual self - righteous hissy fits, look at ALL the 8 methods of abortion in detail — in technicolour, and tell me those bodies with heads, legs, arms and features are NOT babies.

Whilst this approach was disturbing for many Christians at the time, it again meant that defenders of Christianity, instead of calling for a leap of faith, could start from historical events and argue from them to the divinity of Jesus Christ His divinity was seen as the perfection of his humanity and this fitted with the approach of Schleiermacher, who saw Jesus, whose consciousness was entirely taken up with awareness of God, as «the ideal representative of religion».

I believe we can start by accepting as much of Him as we understand, but I believe that continuous obedience toward Him and contact with Him will steadily convince us that shallow, humanistic interpretations of Him do not fit the facts....

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

As he told New Scientist, he'd started with the idea of using Coca - Cola's supply chain — «I was working in a remote part of Zambia and I could always get a Coca - Cola» — and designed medicine kits that could fit between the soda bottles in a crate.

And curiously, as we relax, we find that we are much more than we thought we were, and become much more, starting from where we are, and with no sense of being bullied or made to fit into schemes which really have nothing to do with And curiously, as we relax, we find that we are much more than we thought we were, and become much more, starting from where we are, and with no sense of being bullied or made to fit into schemes which really have nothing to do with and become much more, starting from where we are, and with no sense of being bullied or made to fit into schemes which really have nothing to do with and with no sense of being bullied or made to fit into schemes which really have nothing to do with us.

The book was filled with disjointed fits and starts that tied up his argument and nearly strangled it.

To see it differently you must start with a conclusion and find a way to interpret it to fit your preconceived notion about what it means.

--------------------------- — To see it differently you must start with a conclusion and find a way to interpret it to fit your preconceived notion about what it means.

We started a conversation with Slater's 50/50 on how its burger could fit into retail and that's how this plan was born.»