Sentences with phrase «years of doing nothing»

Because I'm trying to apply for entry level jobs I think a functional resume will work, but I'm not sure how to justify my lack of experience and the almost two years of doing nothing since I moved.

OFGEM decided a while ago that customers are confused, that they're not clear on the benefits that green electricity tariffs really bring and this is preventing larger scale take up (of green tariffs)-- so they've decided to intervene, after 12 years of doing nothing at all in this sector, and set up an accreditation system that will give customers confidence in what they are being offered.

If you want to achieve anything you need to be central Sunny just wants to be a media bore and it may work (Christ that many years of doing nothing and you'd hope so), but politically he has already covered himself with tramp stamps

Mike do you really believe the American people want another two years of a do nothing Congress divided over investigating an idiot?

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Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

«Encouraging people to shop small just one day out of the year does nothing to help my business grow.

«We do think that in the first quarter of next year, this could potentially be a stumbling block, because there's very high unemployment, the Five Star Movement is neck - and - neck with the democratic party so there's nothing to suggest that the political risk in Italy has abated,» Nossek said.

That turned out to be the wrong angle, and Virgin Cars ended up shutting down just five years later,» Branson says, adding that in retrospect, «the biggest potential for disruption in the automotive industry had nothing to do with the process of selling cars, but rather with how cars were powered.»

There's nothing wrong with eliminating information from your résumé that you don't think will help strengthen your candidacy (whether it's an unrelated master's degree or a job outside your field), but having a bachelor's and five years of experience isn't the type of thing that is going to make people think you're shockingly overqualified for and unhireable for a tutoring job.

«We don't want to have a situation where nothing changes and 20 years from now 42 % of the workforce is out of a job.»

But after at least eight years of it, perhaps the market has had its full of the do - nothing Washington.

In his book «The All - or - Nothing Marriage,» Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

Motor Trend didn't name it Car of the Year for 2017 for nothing, and it's certainly a front - runner for Business Insider's Car of the Year award for this year (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tunYear for 2017 for nothing, and it's certainly a front - runner for Business Insider's Car of the Year award for this year (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tunYear award for this year (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tunyear (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tuned).

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Three - dimensional - printing enthusiasts have said for years the technology will do nothing short of revolutionize industries.

Yet the signal contribution of Porat, a Silicon Valley native who turned 60 this year, has nothing to do with whimsy.

Whilst externally the aircraft is almost identical, the avionics of the current A-10C has virtually nothing to do with the old «Hawg» that became particularly famous as the «Tank - buster» during the first Gulf War 25 years.

The bigger issue is that Facebook had known about the data leak as early as two years ago, but did nothing to inform its users — because the violation was not a «breach» of Facebook's security protocols.

Otherwise if you do nothing, you'll end up missing an opportunity in your area of expertise and waiting another 15 years from now for the next opportunity in your specific field.

[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

I got hosed on adwords express last year, charging me for all kinds of crap that had nothing to do with my page.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for yodo starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for yodo nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

So investors might have believed that the extraordinarily depressed market valuations of 1974 and 1982 were «justified» by recession and high interest rates, but that did nothing to prevent the S&P 500 from enjoying remarkably high returns in subsequent years.

Nothing raises Americans» ire more than tax increases, but most of us don't know that we face a hidden income - tax hike almost every year that the economy grows.

Budget balance has been achieved despite a slowing economy and new tax cuts mainly by doing almost nothing new on the spending side for the coming fiscal year of 2015 - 16.

Do they not recognize that the absence of yield on short - term money is exactly why stocks and bonds are now also priced to deliver next to nothing over the coming 10 - 12 years?

In January, he said that 2017 would be a good year to discuss a «plan of action» to «slim» the balance sheet, but that nothing should actually be done until rates hikes were «further along.»

In years past, there was nothing binary options traders could do but wait for their trades to expire — we were essentially at the mercy of the market's moves.

She want on, «And despite a mountain of evidence that these incentives were leading to the creation of fake accounts, the board did nothing for years.

The regulatory community has been caught completely off base over the past year and more, but can do nothing for fear of ragin contagion.

For the past year and a half, British ministers have been assuring us that the MAI does «not affect the rights of signatories to carry out normal regulation», that it will «weaken neither environmental regulation nor worker protection» and that it contains «nothing... that gives investors the right to be compensated for lost profits».

There is nothing that we humans can do to avoid bear markets and economic crises except to permit discussion of the last 36 years of peer - reviewed research in this field and thereby prevent bull markets from developing in the first place.

Revelations in recent years by former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden about widespread surveillance of communications have done nothing to dispel the wariness of civil libertarians and privacy advocates concerning sovereignty over data.

Once an investor buys a stock (or a portfolio of stocks), there's really nothing left to do but wait for the investments to become profitable — years or decades later.

«For years, the B.C. Liberal government has known that federal support is expiring for co-op housing, yet they have done nothing to provide certainty for families worried that they too will become casualties of Christy Clark's housing crisis,» said Horgan.

«Most Americans are having a tough times making ends meet, and they are sick and tired of hearing people talk about a deficit, when most of the people sitting here talking about the deficit have been sitting here for 20 years and have allowed the deficit to occur and have done nothing about it,» Rep. James B. Renacci (R - Ohio) said.

RELIGION - there has always been this invisible magical man with no explanation, got bored and thought hey i want some company and * POOF * created everything from nothing besides man that he used dirt to make and women that he used a rib to create then for the next generation a lot of incest happened and now we are at 6 billion people in only 6,000 years were the majority of people will suffer for eternity to do not believe in him, even though he could easily save them...

«We have done nothing wrong» Tell that to the countless victims of christian genocide over the past 2000 years.

Their study found that Americans waste 160 billion pounds of food each year — often because of simple misunderstandings about expiration dates: Many Americans refuse to consume food after the dates on packaging passes, even though in many cases, the dates have nothing to do with food safety.

Unfortunately in my case, I've probably gone to excess the other way... after 43 years of being (in my view) threatened with hellfire for every cotton - picking thing (including the «sinfulness» of being born in the first place because it's a well - known scriptural fact that every human is born sinful and separated from G - d, with a heart that does nothing but desire evil and no way to please G - d even when righteous), threatened with being «left behind» in the rapture (should I fail on some doctrinal (belief) point at the crucial moment)... I refuse to consider ANY possibility of hell at all.

Patriots hope to see the flag wave for another hundred years and may we do nothing in our time to make future patriots ashamed of our actions.

«The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing — is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.»

The universe is 13.7 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism Life emerged from non-life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism

She was actually named after yeast FUNGUS and a plant; Again, I need to do more research, but in order to take a article seriously, you need to address the source first This woman, as educated as she MAY be, (having a degree, and knowing how to use it are two different things) spent her earliest, most developmentally crucial years under the direction of at least one parent who thought NOTHING of saddling their kid with this name.

In my opinion, and the opinion of many others, religion is nothing more than a tool, created by mankind (not suggested by god) thousands of years ago to do nothing more than control people through force and fear.

I have spent thousands of years surrounded by millions of sycophanty people like Frederica and HeavenSent, all doing nothing other than brown - nosing me endlessly and repeating the same old cliches over and over.

If Jesus came to be the savior of the world, why did he spend the first 30 years of his life doing nothing?

The truth is, everything on this list is worth doing in your twenties (or your teens, if you're so inclined) but we talk about it like this because though nothing magical happens on your thirtieth birthday, 30 years is enough time to work out some of life's kinks and pick up on some good habits.