Sentences with phrase «years of work because»

The likelihood of missing months or years of work because of an injury or illness may seem unlikely, especially when you are young and healthy and you work at a desk.

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My dad worked for 35 years at Stelco in Hamilton, before watching a once great company dragged into bankruptcy, in large part because of a pension plan it could no longer fund.

About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The senators originally promised to include the measures in a year - end spending bill, but because Congress is only working to pass a short - term extension of federal government funding this week, Collins and Alexander say they will include the bills in an omnibus bill in January.

As I have repeatedly said over the years, I do not believe that the overwhelming majority of advisors - be they wirehouse, hybrid, independent or RIA - have gotten into this business because they want to work against their clients.

Because a few extra years of work will boost your retirement income more than higher investment returns will, once you take the risk into account.

«You see these little companies building out service brands because they want to have account executives who work with customers,» Atkinson adds, «so they try to spin their products into serving three different groups in the first couple of years, and that's a very adverse situation to get into.

I'm sure of the value of this experience because it's how I learned — I worked for a small startup for four years before becoming the CEO of Manhattan Prep when I was 30.

Under its current asset - buying and lending tool, the BOJ limits the duration of government bonds it buys to three years because it wants to push down the cost of borrowing for companies, many of whom work in three - year investment cycles.

«I explained how for the past couple of years I've kept Wednesdays clear on my calendar, usually worked from home, and used it as design / writing / solo - thinking time because the other four days get consumed with collaboration,» Schweikardt explained to the board, but lately «the collaboration days had gotten so busy, that Wednesdays had turned to email and administrivia catch - up days.»

«All of the information of how a planet formed is still there, whereas with much older planets it could be harder to [work out] how it formed, or how it got there because it could have changed over billions of years.»

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

A 60 - year - old immigrant from the Philippines, she's worked at the same Seattle hotel for most of her time in the U.S. because the pay and health benefits beat the alternatives.

Claims for Social Security Disability Insurance — which pays out $ 143 billion each year to more than 11 million Americans unable to work because of a serious illness or impairment — have been ticking upward.

And with the advent of the Affordable Care Act, even if you'd been working in the U.S. market for 20 years, you didn't know any more than someone that had been in the U.S. market for one or two years because so much had changed so quickly.

The two - year study revealed that the employees who worked from home had a «massive, massive» (Bloom's words) increase in productivity — almost equivalent to an additional workday — primarily because of fewer distractions and fewer pointless conversations.

Because Social Security benefits are based on your past 35 years of earning, it is important to return to work if possible to offset past low - income years.

This epidemic of disengagement poses a serious problem to employers, who lose an incredible $ 450 billion to $ 550 billion in productivity a year because their employees are not «enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace.»

Instead say, «I've been working with startups for X years, because of this I've been able to see a need in the market that my product can address.»

In fact, for most of the five years we were in business, I was turning business away because I didn't have the capacity to take on new work when I was already growing nearly 80 percent a year.

Successful applicants would later be able to apply for a five - year residency permit if they needed to stay for longer periods because of work or study, the South China Morning Post reported.

Because his company had been operating for more than a year in Israel and doing business in the U.S., Pinhas was able to come here in 2013 on a nonimmigrant L - 1 visa, which allows executives of established foreign companies to set up or work for a U.S. office.

A broad measure of joblessness that includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part - time because they can not find full - time employment fell to a fresh six - year low of 11.4 percent from 11.5 percent in October.

Possibly because many entrepreneurs tend to underemphasize «work - life balance,» for better or for worse, most entrepreneurs will devote most of their energy to meeting business goals in the new year.

Though the artist didn't originally refer to her work as specifically for adults until the trend gained traction within the past two years, Morrison recognizes how adult versions are different from more elementary editions because of their complex and intricate designs.

«This is key, because if you're young it means you have 30 - 35 years left of working life, so you are going to be working for a few decades, and that means paying taxes for a few decades,» Vargas - Silva said.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

University of Houston research professor Brene Brown has over the past few years rocketed in popularity because of her groundbreaking work in the areas of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.

At this point, Dyson decided to go and work at his father's enterprise, and over the course of two years, he worked on a project from concept to just before manufacture - but it never went into production, because, as Dyson remembers it, it was too contemporary for the time (and it may be still be so today, he adds).

Because, to be clear, much of the bridge of trust Facebook has worked years to build has already fallen apart.

Contrary to Trump's and Republicans» claims that Page became a subject of scrutiny only because of the dossier and his work on the Trump campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported last week the Page had been on counterintelligence officials» radar since 2013 — more than three years before he joined the campaign, and the same year he sent the letter touting his Russia connections.

Because its books are in the EPUB format, though, Kobo promises they will work on any open platform — your PC, your Mac, your BlackBerry, your iPhone or iPad, any of the dozens of dedicated e-readers that were unveiled at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, or any of the slews of tablet computers that will follow in the iPad's wake.

Because of caps and incentives in Obamacare, even with contributions from the employee, these workers would take home $ 33,908 a year, or almost the same as if they worked 40 hours.

Just because something has worked for a number of years doesn't mean that it will continue to work, or that you can't find a better way to do it.

However, a BIA / Kelsey representative told the paper that more businesses are shifting from using free online applications to paid services in the year ahead because of the amount of work required to monitor online reviews and comments.

Traditional publishing is a slog — find an agent, pitch a book and if it's picked up by a publisher, sign away the rights to your work, then spend years doing edits and waiting for the book to slot into a publishing schedule — and the majority of these people don't score a deal, because most entrepreneurs «aren't in a position to be commercially published,» says Sattersten.

«Part of the reasons active measures have worked in the US election is because the commander - in - chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,» Watts said, pointing to Manafort and Trump's citations of fake - news stories pushed out by Russian - linked entities last year.

Because of the extensive VFX work required, it makes sense the movie won't open for a year after the cameras stop rolling.

I couldn't physically rehab more than a few houses per year because each took hundreds of hours of work.

Nate Kontny, an entrepreneur, discusses the importance of luck in his success: «I got lucky a writer with a lot of clout took interest in my project — interest that started because he once worked on a similar project seven years prior, so he understood the challenges I was addressing.

It was something I did so they'd know I was thinking of them and it was also a little strategic because I could use the same email to inquire about new work in order to line up projects for my return in the New Year.

«You'll work for us [during those four years]; we believe you'll stay longer because of what we did; and even if you leave the day after you get your degree, we believe you're going to be a lifelong customer of Starbucks.

Later that year, Quest moved to Brooklyn, but because of the damage to his reputation, he could only find part - time work in what he calls a non-design-related field.

Tavonia Evans, who worked in the tech industry for nearly 20 years before launching her own cryptocurrency, called $ Guap, sees those women too and says they're raising the bar because of how they've been held back in the past.

«I bet that the Republicans follow the short - term tradition of forgoing debate and simply voting to disapprove the rule, dumping years of work down the drain because an industry lobbyist asked them to.»

The makeover has corrected many past sins, but it will take two to three years for the ratings to move up to reflect it because of how the organizations work their rankings, and even longer for consumers to trust.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

A friend of mine recently realized that she was eligible for spousal Social Security because she was married for 10 years, even though she is still working full - time and even though she has been divorced for decades.

I am extremely lucky to work in a job which causes me to be thanked countless times a day to which i have always replied with «no problem» or «no worries» and although my customers never seem to mind it drives me crazy mostly because I spent many years learning to speak and have spent many years teaching my children and think the constant use of one or two phrases over and over is limiting so just recently I have tried to use different phrases such as «your welcome» and «my pleasure» and anything else which springs to mind and is more suited to each scenario.

«In China, many people come from the western provinces and their goal is to work seven days a week 16 hours a day, because in five years they want to have a pile of money to go home with and start a business.»