Sentences with phrase «year like trying»

I asked James what we should say in this post about her and he said: 1) she's done a lot of goofy things last year like trying to copy whatever he's doing, and 2) it's amazing having a little sister.

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The federal government and private organizations have tried to encourage sharing in recent years through initiatives like the Genomic Data Commons, a «unified data repository» intended to hasten cancer cures by making research public.

But in doing so, they tried to impose conditions that are designed to help streaming services like SlingTV — which Dish Network launched last year — and Netflix (NFLX).

Last year, I tried several pieces from Olivers and liked it better than clothing from big - name sportswear companies.

UPS took a stake in Optoro last year, as the company, like FedEx, tries to generate revenue from not only returns but from placing unwanted items in channels where they're most likely to sell.

In changing a core part of Facebook — the 7 - year - old «like» button has become synonymous with the social network — the company said it tried to keep things familiar.

I'd like to think I'm still evolving, trying new things each year.

(I am facing that problem head - on every day as I try to write my new book on what the world will look like in 20 years - knowing that I'm going to be laughably wrong at various points along the way.

That's why most business owners would rather do just about anything than sit down with a spreadsheet and try to forecast what their sales, profits and cash flow are going to look like next year, next quarter or even next month.

Unless you have a startup that's trying to change the world, like Apple in its early years, I find personal goals that also benefit the company resonate better with employees than big - picture company goals.

The term — coined by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their 1996 article «Building Your Company's Vision» — refers to the 30 - year game changing goals, like Sony trying to change the worldwide perception of Japanese products being of poor quality.

«Mad Money Manifesto» by Jim Cramer: For years I have been trying to help people like you, who own stocks and feel like they're on the outside looking in, become better investors.

Over the years, CAISO and other electricity operators have been trying to resolve the obvious limitations the industry faces during major events like eclipses.

«Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.»

Rather than trying to reconstruct the terroir and conditions those grapes experienced, though, this San Francisco start - up, founded by two bioengineering grads last year, is foregoing things like grapes and yeast altogether.

If you were born before the 1990s and are like me, you probably spent most of your grade school years trying to build a secret alphabet to exchange messages with your friends.

The BLO, backed by the powerful and violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, has tried to reassert control in Acapulco since late last year, clashing with local groups like the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA), according to The Associated Press.

That's an instructive example because publishers and entertainment conglomerates for years have tried to claim what they see as their rightful share of the digital - content - rentals business, but most of their efforts have been failures, while tech «middle men» like Amazon, Netflix, Apple, and Spotify have flourished.

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Make a plan and create a budget, like these millennial parents who are trying to pay off $ 600,000 in five years.

I tried to describe to my brother, who was also a test pilot — we had the same astronaut training, I just happened to fly in space about two years before he did — and I tried to explain to him for a couple year, «Hey, this is what this is like.

In recent years the search for yield has left many investors feeling like travelers lost in the Kalahari desert, wandering in the blistering sun, canteen in hand, trying to find a place that can reliably provide more than a trickle of water.

With names like Wowder (face powder) and Cloud Paint (blush), «now girls are Googling our trademarks,» trying to sleuth what Glossier's next release might be, explains Weiss, the founder and CEO of the breakout beauty upstart that experienced 600 percent year - over-year growth from 2015 to 2016.

Earlier this year, Amazon launched a freight - delivery service, and is said to be building out its own Uber - like app for booking carriers, to try to penetrate the more than $ 150 billion industry.

Rather than looking forward, trying to set goals through the lens of your current hectic situations in life, pretend like it's one year from now and you are actually looking backwards at the best year of your financial life.

So I really hope that people like the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office in the UK which rules on data privacy for individuals], who are suddenly trying to catch up on the last five years of data.

You might of course cite expectations — I know the Fed must try to see around corners — but your own staff models are predicting growth and inflation to proceed in like fashion to the above for the next few years to come.

I was kind of like I said interested in gambling or at least speculating or figuring things out and then taking a calculated gamble and what they were telling me was don't try, there were saying that no one can beat the market and the stock prices are efficient and just through simple observation looking at the newspaper and they used to have the 52 - week high low prices in the newspaper, it seemed unreasonable that you know the fair price was 51 day and eight months later, it was 120, and that was pretty much every stock had that kind of range every year and it didn't make sense to me that the fundamentals of the underlying businesses were actually changing that much.

What I'm doing: I use this site to write out goals like 1) Generating $ 200,000 a year working 4 hours a day or less, 2) Trying to make winning investments, and 3) Keeping track of my passive income streams with free financial tools.

Instead, I would like to try and grow the $ 400,000 into $ 1 or $ 2 million dollars over the next 10 years and then start withdrawing at age 45 or thereabouts.

I like index funds if you don't want to pay an adviser, and since you have 15 or so productive years ahead you should try to find ways to make extra money, and put all that extra towards retirement.

The Canadian Association of International Development Professionals has been trying to talk to government for some years about the importance of the trade in services (like those of our members) in building relationships and Canadian exports and developing high value added jobs for Canada's well educated and multi-ethnic work force.

23 years ago, the April 1993 Reid Report found more than half — 57 per cent — thought minority groups should be encouraged to «try to change to be more like most Canadians»:

Over the years since she joined Facebook in junior high school, her perception has shifted, and Facebook now feels more like a place that tries to «exploit» her personal information, even as it fails to, in her view, adequately address the harassment and hate speech she and her friends see on the platform.

Moderate Tories have tried for 17 years to grab the nomination from Mr. Anders, sending high - profile candidates like Alison Redford, Jocelyn Burgener and Donna Kennedy - Glans to run against him, to no avail.

ELKHART, Iowa — Though it's been around for a few years, crypto currency like Bit - Coin is just now working its way into mainstream culture; and when there is a new trend there are people trying to run schemes off the hype, as one Iowan found out.

Yeah, it look likes HitTail has evolved a bit since I first tried them out years ago.

Just like last year, I'll try to list the best link building related posts of the year.

The students should go to local, try to ramp up security, get more video coverage at these schools, maybe would with some veterans groups to see if we can get a volunteer program like Neighborhood Watch in areas 20 years ago that had high crime.

when i got into investing a few years ago after graduating college, i tried the whole scheme of investing in speculative stocks like some biotech's and i have lost out on many of the great returns shown in the strongest companies.

I try to live my life like a Christian, but have been turned off with churches for several years.

I'm not trying to sound like everything is relative, but I am saying these are issues that have been debated for thousands of years, and the arguments on both sides of the coin are really strong.

you don't attend a church like rev.wright's for 20 years and try and say he did not sway your thinking.

Once I know someone is a thiest, I can not treat them as an equal, more like a 6 year old trying to converse with adults.

Reality... his bones would have been produced and marveled at as proof that he did not resurrect the Jewish leaders at that time for sure would have produced them... providing of course that they were available... why do nt you take the time to study, read the evidence for yourself before spouting like so many other bitter atheists (that I once was for many years)... give love a try you might enjoy it, it gives live meaning and true purpose, everything finds its place in Christ... I hope you find hope some day...

-- On a lighter note my brothers and sisters in Christ should stop acting like 2 year olds whose parents are trying to take their Pixie sticks away.

There were of course some who saved records, but for the most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes of plagues and poisoners of wells trying to wipe out any alternate religions that remained in Europe through much of the last two thousand years.

If we don't like him after four years, we'll try again.

It's not anger you're seeing, it's Atheists finally having a voice... a voice that people like you have tried to stop for far too many years.

Like, when they try to get your attention when you're talking to someone and they're tapping your leg repeatedly to tell you about a cake they saw three years ago and just remembered how tasty it was and they want to talk about it right then?