Sentences with phrase «wonders at getting»

The torque - vectoring rear differential, which carries over virtually unchanged from the previous model, still works wonders at getting this big vehicle to rotate under throttle.

Not exact matches

«And you wonder where he gets all of the time and energy and discipline to do it because human nature says that after you've been good at something for a very long time, you typically either get distracted or your intensity or focus wanes.

While Watts» thinking is, at times, obscure (and one wonders how to actually apply it to life), it's insightful nonetheless and will certainly get you thinking outside the bubble.

Your friends may wonder why you're not hanging out with them as much and get angry at you.

As an Illinois ex-pat living in New York and looking on at one of my favorite cities from afar, I have to wonder, how did we get here?

You've got to wonder how it is that all the smart people at Cadbury (including their PR department) and at their ad agency (Fallon), didn't see this coming.

It's complicated, hugely competitive and if we add the digital world of marketing with constantly evolving consumer habits and it's a wonder we get any new customers at all.

Then, after Brown left, the school and the boosters couldn't agree on who to hire and now, at least some of those boosters are wondering what they got for their money.

After my traditional line of questioning and selling the great points about the career ahead for anyone lucky enough to get this position, I launched into my full disclosure and she sat staring at me like one does a child who is walking a fine balance atop a 4 - foot brick wall — with anticipation, excitement and a heaping does of sheer shock and wonder all mixed together.

Fortune got an early peak at the app and couldn't help but wonder: Isn't this just a glorified shopping app?

While at Stanford, Spiegel sent emails about advising his frat brothers on how to get sorority girls drunk (Jell - O shots) and spent a lot of his time wondering whether his teaching assistant had even been urinated on during sex.

I shutter at the mention of «catastrophe insurance» and wonder how much worse things can get for the world economy.

While wondering why Verizon would want to spend a billion or two to get into a market where it might see only $ 4 billion to $ 5 billion in annual wireless revenue, at best, they have seemingly ignored the bigger picture: Canada's overall $ 59 billion communications market.

You've got to wonder what was going through his mind when Dan Price, the founding CEO of Gravity Payments, decided to raise the minimum salary at his 120 - person credit - card - processing company to $ 70,000 over a three - year period.

The segment — which aired during Wednesday night's episode of The Late Late Show — shows Corden picking Obama up at the White House before jamming out to songs such as «Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours» by Stevie Wonder, «Get Ur Freak On» by Missy Elliott and Beyoncé's «Single Ladies» while driving around the White House grounds.

Before, I was always anxious when I got a delivery notice because if I wasn't at home I wondered if my packages would still be on the porch.

There are a lot of moving and complex parts to Dell's $ 67 billion proposal to acquire the data storage company EMC — so many that analyst Maynard Um of Wells Fargo wonders if the deal will ever get closed at all.

Anyone wondering why Canadians sometimes lose faith in government's ability to get anything done should read a report that the country's auditors general released at the end of March.

Just like we look back at a time before email, before the mainstream Internet, before Amazon, Google, Facebook, iPhones and the like, we'll wonder how we ever got along without these electronic mediums of exchange.

So is there situation where you are getting a bit more help from vendors in terms of support and then totally separate just wondering if there are any examples, if there are any retail competitors out there where you have seen them close stores that you could look at and say we are clearly seeing the pickup in volume in one of your stores that are nearby to that close store and what are those retailers that you are seeing them.

If you're in your 20s or 30s there's a strong chance that you are getting puny paychecks that never seem to stretch far enough, and you may look at everything your baby boomer parents have and wonder if you'll ever catch up.

Mr. Cassell said they wondered, «Are we under a Mumbai - style attack, where we've got multiple things going on at multiple properties?»

I wonder if Gaga is at all irritated that she hardly got any press for her performance?

I often wonder if there will ever be a time when the poison that was in my life at that time will ever work its way out of my mind so that I can «get over it» because I feel that until I'm «over it», «it» has control over me.

I used to wonder why I was so «weak» and would get so emotional when the people would leave and even mad at myself for not being able to just become tough and stay more emotionally distant with the people but a few close friends in the church told me not to change because my reaction simply shows what a caring shepherd I am.

No there will be no new atheists at 6:01, just a lot of people scratching their heads wondering how they got the math wrong.

even as a child getting indoctrinated at church and at sunday school I kept looking around puzzled, wondering if all the other children actually believed this nonsense they were telling us.

When we are surrounded by people who, at least on the surface, believe the same things we believe, there's often no impetus for wonder — no cause to dig deeper and get to the roots of our tenets.

Says Durant: «I never got over my wonder that out of the ape and the jungle should have come at last a man able to conceive all humanity as one, able to love it, and suffer for it, without stint».

The Hebrew people have just experienced the wonder of Exodus, and as soon as they get good and hungry they start grumbling against Moses: «At least in Egypt we had full stomachs.

You know, sometimes when I look at one of your Sophia drawings, the woman in me can't help but wonder if she ever gets cold and uncomfortable (physically) because of her nakedness.

We get to hold the wonder and sleepiness, the boring and the magical at the same time, the work and the delight, the mundane repetition and the ferocious love altogether, it's not one or the other.

They make me smile, chuckle, sit back in my chair, ponder, get angry, think, re-think, defend, wonder why I'm defending, get perplexed, get confused, get more clarity, get more obscurity, saying YES out loud, saying NO out loud, most of all looking forward to my inbox that says «Naked Pastor» everyday, and opening it like a sneek peek at my Christmas stocking before mom and dad get up Christmas morning.

So, when a kid gets older, does she yell at Santa, wonder if Santa hates her, think of Santa as evil, or just realize Santa was a made up story.

I wonder how many mothers with their children at their feet in the gas chambers, knowing they were all going to die, wished they had had a submachine gun when the government authorities came to get them.

RELEVANT looks at the movement of twentysomethings away from volunteering and wonders how we can get back to volunteering more often — even at a smaller scale.

I wonder if he got that number at the Creation museum he describes visiting... they would be likely to inflate the number.

If there is a God up there, he's got to look down at those praying, then driving away in their gas - guzzling American cars, and wonder how he provided such a capable brain but why so many refuse to use it.

So you've been wondering whether and when you'll get to hear me at the political science convention in DC over the Labor Day Weekend.

Some riders look scornfully at the wave watchers, wondering why, if they like to watch surfing so much, they don't get out of their beach chairs, and try surfing for themselves.

As someone who believes in God whole heartedly and feels he is the way through alot of the darkness on this earth but also the way to celebrate our greatest joys.I am happy she has found the love of God.But I to find the choice of religion somewhat suspiscious.As others have pointed out the dicotomy makes one wonder if the fact that her boyfriend is a Catholic has alot to do with her choice.Alot of women and men for that matter find conform to what their partners religion is because it is just easier and more comfortable at home for them.Now I am not saying this is what happened in this case.but it is somehting ti ponder.For me loving God and your neighbor as much as yourself are the most important part of believeing in a Supreme Being and all the rest of the Dogma just gets in the way and even is the cause of alot of the strife and wars in this world.So I hope she is happy but UP God for me... but no thatnks on the religion!!

Gee... I wonder where we Christians got such a reputation for «checking our minds at the door»?

I can not help but wonder, «Did they choose the way of weakness to get where they are at?

«So we've got a thing called «mountain pilgrims» which is sort of beginning to be a fresh expression of church which is encouraging people to make a link between natural beauty and the sense of awe and wonder which they feel at that and then a sense of awe and wonder at the Creator who created this wonderful beauty.»

I wonder if they would endorse the FREE SPEECH of having a SIGN at these meetings that state: END THIS TIME WASTING, NONSENSE RITUAL, AND GET ON WITH DOING THE (NAME OF GOVERNING BODY»S) BUSINESS!

Try to be quiet - quiet - quiet so that your daughter will magically keep sleeping through the boy's laughter but look, there's the door opening and a blonde pixie is blinking out at you, wondering if she can get up too?

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I wonder if CNN would hire me... at least they would get some stories on this page that haven't been recycled every day for the last week.

So when I would get to the unit on the prophets in this introductory biblical studies course, I would be up there ranting and raving about justice, and the passion for justice, and my students would be sitting there not looking excited at all, taking notes, wondering what was going to be on the exam.

Ok now I know most atheists are live and let live and couldn't care less about what other people believe, but whenever you get defensive and wonder why «theists» often call atheism just as much a religion as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, etc look at things like this.