Sentences with phrase «working the phones trying»

In the meantime, Bandy has been working the phones trying to find four replacement opponents for previously scheduled February games that fell through for various reasons.

As she works the phones trying to bend lawyers, bureaucrats, medical personnel and bystanders to her iron will, the movie goes wider and deeper, and we see Cornelia not just as another mother from hell, but as an avatar for Romania's heedless new elites.

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If you become so immersed in work during intense launch periods that you literally disappear into a haze to emerge six hours later, hungry, irritable and overworked, try cognitive - behavioral tools such as a scheduled phone call or a timer with a bell.

To put this habit to work for you, try putting down the smart phone and focusing on the people you're with.

Wearable devices that work with augmented reality «will give people a way to play the game and not look at their phone all the time and look around them at the interesting places we are trying to help them discover,» Hanke said.

No surprise, she has trouble getting to sleep, goes through the day fatigued and is often trying to monitor what's happening in her company's manufacturing plant through the window while working on her office computer and fielding phone calls.

If your children go to school, try to get done the work that requires phone calls when they're out of the house.

If you're working off of a sales script on the phone, try not to read from it directly.

They also spoke by phone last Friday as their lawyers were working together to try to shield materials seized in the FBI raid.

A senior executive said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday that if the government found the method did not work and tried to force Apple to help break into the phone, Apple would have questions about what was tried, in order to keep its products as secure as possible.

While much business and consulting work can take place over the phone or over the internet, face - to - face communication is still essential, particularly when trying to land a new client or obtain sources of venture capital.

It's like doing low - order police work, if you will - making phone calls, checking sources, trying to figure out what's going on» Ralph Wanger

The late E. M. Jellinek once said, in effect, that a therapist who had not tried to work with alcoholics usually recommends long and intensive psychotherapy when he encounters such a patient; but the therapist who has had some experiences in attempting to work with alcoholics will be more inclined to phone the nearest AA group.

Granted, we have a (very beloved) baby - sitter for our littlest girl two mornings a week while the older two are at school, so that I can make phone calls, do interviews, and work uninterrupted for a bit of time, but I am usually at home, trying to get in a full - time job at the edges of our life.

Like, we're in the middle of a long distance relationship right now, but we Skype and talk on the phone every night, and I try to make plans to visit it, but things just never work out, so we're on a break right now, but I know Bonuts are the one.

Lots of early morning meetings, presentations, phone calls overseas, offsite meetings, after work dinners, juggling the dogs, seeing old friends, and trying to stick to our 5:30 am workouts.

I got 3 apps on my phone that you can watch football on and luckily I've been watching the 3 pm Saturday games as well and they both got bt sports on it 1 is world tv and the other is pak India and u stream and they work with the wire from the phone to tv so u can see it on the tv hope this helps cause trying to stream football online is quite annoying COYG

If only 2 have been taken, you work the phones and call teams like Arizona, Buffalo, New England and Miami to try and get a deal to move back and load up on more picks.

Levis, the lovely local Sunwing representative really tried to get me home early, and arranged for me to use the internet cafe at the Grand Hotel in downtown Trinidad, when I could not get internet access at our hotel — the person selling internet and phone cards was not working that day.

you might get irritated for very small matters like people talking to you might irritate you, if any of your things are misplacing you might feel annoyed, if you expected a call from anyone or if you are trying to call someone and they are not picking up your phone or just busy or maybe if you are trying to work on a project or just a housework and if it's not working then you might feel crying and anxious.

When you are pumping at work try looking at pictures of your baby or even watching a video of him on your phone.

They artificially try to make their polls have enough people who vote like cell phone users and who vote like people who work a high number of hours.

Now it appears Clinton might be trying one more time to make phones work to her advantage.

The prosecution showed Adam repeatedly, if ineptly, trying to cover his tracks by asking his dad to call back on his mom's cellphone (didn't work; Adam was being bugged) and using various phones to call White (who, Adam was unaware, was cooperating with the FBI, wore a wire when meeting the junior Skelos, and allowed his phone to be tapped).

I mean, he's worked with him on, for example, tackling the problems of all the phone - hacking and the Tories trying to rig the boundaries, so actually when we've put forward a proposal that the Lib Dems are prepared to support then they do work with us.

Bloomberg and his former Albany lobbyist, Micah Lasher, aggressively worked the phones before last Thursday's vote, while top aide Howard Wolfson was dispatched to the Capitol to try and kill the bill — which released scores without names, giving both only to parents.

He really was asking me about poll data, and I got down a little bit to work on that; so I sent him a bunch of information, we had a number of contacts, e-mail and phone, and I sent him a lot of stuff to try to help him understand the issue so that he would do a better job of course, and he came out to my office to interview me later on in the month.

«For South Asia, mobile phone usage shows how the informal worker tries to do her best to adapt to increasing uncertainty about both work and wage,» he said.

«Most desk work requires non-movement — typing, writing, even talking on the phone (as one can run out of air trying to complete a sentence!).

The biggest thing I do is — I'm trying to do and working on it is one, throwing your phone or iPad into airplane mode, and then also clicking the night time button.

You can't just jump straight to 5 - HTP supplements and think everything's gonna work, especially if you're intermittent fasting and you're doing CrossFit at 8 PM and trying to go to bed at 9 PM while you're scrolling on your phone.

I would love to win the Gymboss — I currently use (or try use) the Gymboss app on my iPhone, but when I am working out, my 3 year steals my phone and runs away to play games — LOL.

Then I'm not fiddling with my phone while try to work!

I try to apply this advices as much as I could, but the thing that works best for me is making quick doodles in my notes on the phone when I'm on a queue or taking the metro!

My husband tried calling my phone to see if I had made it to work and I wasn't even aware that he was calling me b / c remember I never got a chance to take my phone out of my purse so he was a little worried and called my work phone to see if I had made it to work safely.

I'm trying to stay off of my phone except for photos (and the occasional work E-mail!)

Just try to avoid statement phone cases - while I absolutely adore statement anything for casual or weekend wear, it will most likely not be appropriate for work, or project that cool and fun but professional vibe I know you're shooting for.

At some point I tried to change the relationship status on facebook at that point because we were getting serious and he didn't mind when I asked so why not, but he couldn't accept for some reason, He said it wasn't working on his phone and I got this feeling but pushed it away because why would he lie?

If a member tries to pressure you into giving out your last name, email address, home address, phone number, place of work or any other identifying information, then walk away.

Im sure there are thousands of cheesy pickup lines to try and secure a womans phone number, but lets be honest, they do nt work.

This is how we are introduced to Bell's character, she receives a phone call asking if she could work with Eva Longoria to develop her cockney accent — the auditorium is in fits of laughter as we hear Longoria trying to pronounce «slapper», just a few seconds into the film.

The last time I tried to call Mauricio, none of the phone numbers worked.

If so, bear in mind that mobile users have now overtaken desktop / laptop users, so it's highly likely some will be trying to study on their phone or tablet and you'll need to find a Learning Management System that works well on any device.

Advances in cell phone technology and the explosion of the industry made phones less of a luxury item and more a convenience, particularly for working parents trying to keep track of children.

Disappointments: only one key and fob, rear floormats missing, lighter not working (to plug in my cell phone for the two hour drive home), aftermarket rain shields over the windows not removed like I asked when the car was cleaned up, final bill of sale as initially presented didn't match handwritten one (multiple typos - they weren't trying to pack the deal at the last minute, which I have experienced in the past elsewhere).

Tried the cellphone charger with all our phones, only worked on one briefly, too bad, a nice feature, but perhaps I am missing something as it doesn't work.

It was after hours so I call tomorrow (Saturday) and lady on phone recommended Martin shop.So Monday after work I stop by International Motor and tall them for parking Brake.Some guy try to fix but he couldn't.

Author Solutions (which runs Balboa Press for Hay House) is based in the USA, but outsources a lot of its work to the Philippines — so they aren't trying to make it easier for Australians; that's just where most of their solicitation phone calls come from.

With the password reset, they logged into BlackBerry Appworld on PC first of all and then tried it on their phones and it worked!

«I tried to phone you but there was no answer, and your machine, it's not working.»