Sentences with phrase «years getting to this place»

«They've spent years getting to a place where they can wire things to their benefit.»

Not exact matches

«It's taken us three years to get to a place we feel good about,» Lowden said about the development process.

In a New York Times article last year, Perdue compared Trump to Winston Churchill, the former UK prime minister, saying that like the legendary World War II - era leader, Trump was «nobody's choir boy» and «a historic person of destiny at a time and place in America when we've got to make a right - hand turn here.»

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

«I went down to Silicon Valley a number of years ago, and there were places where you just get [hit] with this entrepreneurial energy when you walked in the door,» recalls the business graduate.

The way we get things to places has not really changed that much for hundreds of years, so there is room for disruption.

«What we've had to do at Harry's is actually think out multiple years ahead and say, how big do we want to be, in 2018 and 2019 and 2020 and start buying equipment today so that it gets put in place and we can train people on it and we can have them up and running by the time we're that size.»

«And the amount of travel far exceeds the vacation time I used to get, where I was lucky to see one new place a year.

I got to sample a lot of food from the places that we lived or visited and during my middle school and high school years in Nairobi, Kenya, where I went to an international school.

Because the average salary for a woman still lags behind men's (the American Association of University Women says women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man makes one year after graduation) and lenders favor two - income households over single earners, Lautz says women are «making the most sacrifices to get into a home, but they're still placing a high value on owning a home of their own.»

I want to, in the next 10 years, get to this place where we can sell end - to - end trips — and have hundreds of millions of people every year booking end - to - end experiences where the home [stay] might be a minority of what we're doing.

First - place CEO Gerry Schwartz's $ 87.9 million is tens of millions higher than last year's first - place entrant, CP Rail CEO Hunter Harrison, who got $ 49 million (Harrison has dropped to No. 57 this year, at a below - average $ 7.2 million.

While many of the space industry's heavyweights — Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic — spent 2016 talking up their respective ambitions to go to Mars or build a space tourism business, Moon Express might be the company closest to getting humans to a place they haven't visited in 44 years.

Tesla has stated that the microgrid will offset the island's previous use of 109,500 gallons of diesel per year, along with the import shipping costs to get that fuel there in the first place.

But they were not dissuaded; Castillo and Rigor are getting married later this year and wanted to secure a place before their wedding date.

Over the years, Amazon has come under plenty of fire for being a tough place to work but it's also got some great programs, particularly around retraining.

If people decided to actually get going on their new year goals and resolutions instead of just talking about them they would begin to see an amazing shift take place.

Many major retailers, including Kohl's (kss) and J.C. Penney (jcp), have set the deadline earlier this year for placing an order and being sure it gets delivered by Christmas, in a move aimed in part at handling the record volume of packages retailers and shippers expect to handle.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

Coinbase was supposed to be the safest place to store your digital currency... until it got hacked earlier this year.

While the transition will take some getting used to, having solid systems in place in your home can help you ease the stress, and focus on the enjoyment of an exciting new school year.

«They have talked about trying to rebalance the economy for 5 or 10 years now, but the imbalances got even worse, so you simply fall back on the model that got you into the difficulty in the first place,» said Peter Elston, head of Asia - Pacific strategy and asset allocation at Aberdeen Asset Management.

«As I get a little older, I want to be certain that all the necessary building blocks are in place for Virgin Atlantic to continue to prosper and grow for the next 50 years,» Branson wrote.

Part of our five - year plan was to spend the first year getting our brand up and running, to make a name for the Pochetti brand, but eventually we'd like to make Pochetti the place to go for pocket squares of any brand.

«We had actually tried three or four years prior to try and pay off debt, and we did not have that safety net in place, so when we got discouraged or when something would happen, we just quit,» Cherie tells CNBC Make It.

With the mileage points we get, we've been able to book 10 international, $ 5,000 first - class flights to see clients in places such as the Persian Gulf since last year.»

Salesforce tops this year's list, thanks to its efforts to create a Great Place to Work For All, its commitment to philanthropy (employees get paid 56 hours per year to volunteer, for example), and for creating a globally - cohesive culture (in addition to this list, it also ranks on each of our national best workplaces lists in Australia, India, Ireland, Japan, Singapore, and the U.K.)

FINALLY, last July, six whole years after moving out of the place, the prices got back up to about $ 280k.

He started over 40 years ago addressing a significant need in the small business market: businesses owned primarily by people with technical skills but few business skills, and no place to go to get meaningful help.

Our Grower's Technology Roundtable, which took place at Cisco's headquarters this year is another example of how we bring key stakeholders to the table to define the industry's most pressing challenges and generate field deployment opportunities in order to get new technologies to market faster.

Still, many of these people may see Vegas as a short - term place to get some funding and perhaps live for a few months or years, but once they get funding, they often leave.

Realizing VCSY was 95 % luck and 5 % being in the right place at the right time, I sat on the cash for a couple years, watching the NASDAQ implode before finally getting the guts to use all my after - tax proceeds to buy a $ 580,000 condo in San Francisco with a $ 464,000 mortgage in 2003.

Tesla has over 400,000 Model 3 reservation holders who each placed a $ 1,000 deposit to get a place in line when the vehicle enters production later this year.

They hired a management consultant named Vicente Falconi, who put in place a system where, instead of basing budgets on the previous year's, managers started at zero every 12 months and had to make a case for why they should get more.

As with the other second - place finisher, Kalispell, Libby's top two least expensive options were State Farm, at a rate of $ 115 per year, and GEICO, at $ 119, so renters in Libby should look at these companies first to get the best deal.

EverBank is worth considering for its CDs and its one - year introductory offer, but you can find better places online to get a checking account or money market account.

My primary source of income is far from passive (even if I get to set my own hours) so over the past few years I've been looking at places I can put extra cash and areas I can invest in to grow passive income streams.

It may be the furthest out, but any good financial plan starts with calculating how much money you'll need to live on during your retirement years, putting a strategy in place to get there, and then addressing your shorter term needs.

Our cyber liability and data breach insurance starts at just $ 250 per year for a pre-underwritten instant issue policy that provides $ 100,000 in protection against first - party damages as well as many third - party damages offering a fast and economical way to get protection in place.

I have never been to Oregon so know very little about it other than it is supposedly one of the most beautiful places in the U.S. and that a lot of people from Texas have moved there in recent years to to get away from the ultra-conservativism here.

and we need to acquire furniture and art — we have none: married a year ago and rented a furnished place as we couldn't afford to get married and buy furniture!

He has slightly amended the 500 - year - old policy on pope selection to get a successor into place more rapidly.

As a pastor I've been getting help for years, from a psychiatrist, from a clinical pastoral course I took years ago, from small groups over the years, from dear friends who are honest enough to speak into my life, from my medical doctor, from the elders in my church, from my wife (mostly) from an adult children for alcoholics group I started only because there was nothing in place in my community.

It took me years to get through this process to a place where I have peace of mind.

In one area alone, ice cores, the science can not be twisted enough to get any closer than 700,000 years in some places.

She's smiling because she's thrilled to finally get to visit a place she's studied for years.

I think we have gotten to a place of understanding over the last 10 - 15 years that God doesn't expect perfection from us, and He does meet us where we are, and that He can handle our big questions and our wrestling and our doubts.

Nobody can get any relief from you — you follow us to our places of refuge, stomp all over our boundaries because you don't see any boundaries but your own as being legitimate, and basically rub a pound of salt in the raw gaping bloody wounds that you have given so many of us over the years.

And I really wish Christians would make up their minds about Jesus's place in the big scheme of things: is he a co-equal third of a trinity of ent.ities who somehow make up one large god, or is he a lesser god sent by his greater father god to suffer in order to straighten out the weird sin situation he created and didn't get around to fixing for thousands of years (the whole John 3:16 thing people are so fond of quoting only makes any sort of sense in the second situation).