Sentences with phrase «work as the middle man»

As you might imagine, Apple's digital assistant Siri is intended to work as the middle man between the user and the connected HomeKit hardware, but just what tasks can consumers realistically expect Siri to be able to execute from a home automation perspective?

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She tackled this question by writing about her experience at the World Bank working with clients in the Middle East, highlighting her confidence in being able to present as a woman even in environments that were dominated by men.

It's not meant to be an attack on men, or white men, or white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages than women in the same line of work.

(Studies by Bernice Neugarten of the University of Chicago show that both middle - class men and women tend to see middle age as a time of rewards and prime activity, whereas working - class men and women tend to see these as years of decline.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

During Splash's youth, Wauwatosa had been a small bedroom suburb on the western outskirts of Milwaukee, a quiet, tidy enclave whose middle - class affluence was as sturdy as its stone houses, as neatly clipped as its putting - green lawns, a town where men often took the streetcar to work, or else walked whistling under the elms.

Its hard to believe that manu lost 6 - 1 to man city, take nothing away from man city but every club uses manu as a measuring stick to compare themselves too, I really wish it was arsenal that gave that drubbing, I remember not long ago I was watching arsenal lose to manu by that you know what scoreline and my father (a manu fan) walk away, when it was 3 something becoz he couldn't watch a far one sided match, so I guess he is feeling what we are feeling that day, manu is always a side that neva lose by a huge margin no matter what, but tell you da truth I don't like man city becoz I do nt like a side that will spend and replace every single player and still have classy players on the bench, they can say that we won that and this but that becoz of the huge wages that we are paid, I just don't like football to be won by having money to spend there should be a mixture of everything good, middle and work in progress players.

As Orr's works show, the great chaos of British life doesn't just exist in the guilded chambers of Westminster - whether they're populated by aliens or just middle - aged men.

Its core support comes from a mix of financially insecure working - class men, who were traditionally loyal to Labour but who feel they have been «left behind» in modern Britain as mainstream parties chased the middle - class vote, and strategic Conservative sympathisers, who are keen to express hostility to the European Union but much less loyal to UKIP in general elections.

The authors raise the possibility that for men without a four - year college degree, frontline allied healthcare jobs may be the ticket to a stable middle - class lifestyle as they pay better and are more stable than blue collar work.

Spielberg's «Lincoln» tries to work the middle ground between the two, but it can't help coming down on the side of Lincoln the Saint most of the time, painting him as a font of wisdom who flits about the White House dispensing the wisdom of the ages as he pokes and prods men to do the right thing and tries to keep his hands clean in the process.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

That play ushered in a new era in British theater, often qualified as «kitchen - sink drama,» which featured «angry young men» railing at the confines of working - class and lower - middle - class life in the Britain of the fifties and early sixties.

The director has worked long days — and nights — at the head of a 600 plus strong production team that includes 60 animators and the considerable voice talents of a stellar line - up of actors — including Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill — who portray the dastardly Megamind (Ferrell) and the dashing Metro Man (Pitt), and those caught up in the middle, as they battle for control of Metro City.

The film follows Eddie Harnovey (David Wenham), a middle - aged family man and all - around nice guy who works as a chemical engineer in the Department of Environment.

As a teenage girl obsessed with selfies trapped inside the body of a rotund, middle aged man with more bodily hair than you'd ever probably want, Jack Black is impeccably wonderful while Bobby Cannavale (one of the best actors working in film today) has the time of his life hamming it up as the villain of the piecAs a teenage girl obsessed with selfies trapped inside the body of a rotund, middle aged man with more bodily hair than you'd ever probably want, Jack Black is impeccably wonderful while Bobby Cannavale (one of the best actors working in film today) has the time of his life hamming it up as the villain of the piecas the villain of the piece.

The family dramedy stars Ben Stiller as a middle - aged man working for a non-profit who suffers something of a mid-life crisis as his musical prodigy son (Austin Abrams) begins applying to colleges to start his own life.

Nihat (Olgun Simsek) is a middle - aged man who begins working in Dipsizgol as a watchtower guard.

Now she looks to Jonathan Ames» novella about a grown man whose experience growing up in the shadow of the domestic battlefield of his parents and his later experience on the very real battlefield of the Middle East informs his work as a vigilante whose choice of weapon is a «Master Series» ball - pein hammer.

by Walter Chaw As a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevanAs a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevanas Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevant.

It follows the surreal exploits Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller), a lonely middle aged man who works as a negative assets manager for LIFE magazine (aka he's in charge of photos).

The two periods are blended together as we (and Brian) bounce back and forth between the struggle of a budding musical genius working to release the sounds in his head, and a middle aged man so heavily medicated that speaking, eating and even getting out of bed are such overwhelming obstacles that music rarely registers.

This is middlebrow Pacino, heartwarming but not especially emotional, written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his debut as a director — though Fogelman is well known as a screenwriter for such works as «Crazy Stupid Love,» also starring a middle - aged man, but that one trying to recover from his wife's asking for a divorce by picking up girls in bars.

Today, there's no way a middle - class working man could cruise around, as Delamater has, in Ferraris and Maseratis and Lamborghinis and Bizzarrinis and Intermeccanicas and Iso Grifos and Siatas and De Tomasos and Lancias and Alfas and Fiats, to name just the Italian marques he's bought and sold.

Middle Men brings to life a series of unforgettable characters learning what it means to love and work and be in the world as a man

Middle - men get locked - up, since undefined - work is hedging - risk of invalid - work as Law - boundary - break among invalid - donations, so I hashed the bar - soap to the ground - floor jail - window during the hours up - to my - birthday.

As for Inkubate, they started up recently as one of several middle - men type websites posting new work by writers to attract agents and publisherAs for Inkubate, they started up recently as one of several middle - men type websites posting new work by writers to attract agents and publisheras one of several middle - men type websites posting new work by writers to attract agents and publishers.

The upshot is that recording footage and working with it becomes a lot easier as you get to cut out the middle man (PS4) and that players more at home with a keyboard + mouse can game in their natural habitat while playing PS4 exclusives.

There are teenagers who perfectly fit the stereotypical image that the media loves so much of comic - book fans, little kids who love anime, young boys and girls out with their confused parents, cosplaying parents out with their confused children, entire families dressed up as the cast of Firefly or as Star Wars characters,, bemused grandparents being lead around with a smile on their face that suggests while they are a little baffled by the entire thing they're having a good time, middle - aged men and women who look like they've just come straight from work and enjoy a good comic and every other type of human in - between.

12 In the middle of the century, there were only a third as many women as men artists, but even this mildly encouraging statistic is deceptive when we discover that out of this relatively meager number, none had attended that major stepping stone to artistic success, the Ecole des Beaux - Arts, only 7 percent had received any official commission or had held any official office — and these might include the most menial sort of work — only 7 percent had ever received any Salon medal, and none had ever received the Legion of Honor.13 Deprived of encouragements, educational facilities and rewards, it is almost incredible that a certain percentage of women did persevere and seek a profession in the arts.

Drawing from his personal, as well as a collective, wellspring of experiences living as an African American man in the South through the middle of the twenty - first century, Dial's work captures struggle and oppression, but also joy and wit, and challenges viewers to wrestle with their own preconceptions, prejudices, as well as ironies of being an American.

Using blockchain as the primary source behind its inception, cryptocurrency remains completely anonymous, while not needing a middle - man to work in between the consumer and the company.

No middle man also ensures that you're working with a professional resume writer on your level, who knows your technology and tech language as well as you do.

Since the mid-90s, women have obtained a larger share of college degrees than men and increasingly earn as much or more than their partners, especially in the middle, working, and lower classes (Glynn 2012).

as if we need middle men to get the job done (when the MLS works fine).