Trump and Merkel later held businesslike talks on the sidelines.
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Progress was slow but businesslike, with North Korean Maj. Gen.
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Businesses should demand a more rational, predictable - and businesslike - approach.
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He said the conversations between Daniels and Trump were businesslike.
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On a wintry day in March, Chuck's is businesslike and friendly.
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More businesslike charities should be better equipped to survive and thrive.
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His brisk, businesslike tone was a stark contrast to her thoughts.
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Instead, the senator described Trump as businesslike and focused on taxes.
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A dream can be delivered in a brisk and businesslike fashion.
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And they have grown much bigger and more businesslike over time.
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The two have a businesslike relationship, officials on both sides said.
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The rumbling just continues, businesslike, a new normal of lateral acceleration forces.
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"The negotiations must take place in a businesslike, good climate," she said.
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Three more dates with businesslike endings would pass before frustration set in.
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The young terrorists are brisk and businesslike until the plastic explosives detonate.
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My toddler also finds the dispenser's businesslike toot to be inexplicably delightful.
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But, businesslike as usual, she did not want to dwell on it.
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They were much more businesslike and it was life or death for them.
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And she promised to bring a businesslike approach to reversing the league's troubles.
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"I think the push for everything to be businesslike is dangerous," she says.
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Biddle never played with Halladay, but found him serious and businesslike from afar.
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In a series of terse, businesslike emails, Ms. Keene enlisted Ms. Butina's help.
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For Wetzel, the businesslike nature and slower pace of college ball was challenging.
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Boats—both pleasure cruisers and those used for more businesslike purposes—bob up regularly.
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The heads of state expressed satisfaction with the conversation, which was businesslike and constructive.
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Meetings with Obama were at best cordial and businesslike, at worst tense and awkward.
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But inside the beautiful wood-paneled board of supervisors meeting room, everything was businesslike.
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I didn't want to sound too businesslike or as if I didn't care enough.
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Naturally, if China does agree to businesslike meetings, America has homework to do, too.
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Gillian, who was the most businesslike and got on with things, had grandchildren, too.
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Big airports were accessible, luxurious, masculine, feminine, businesslike, unbusinesslike—most things to most people.
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You've got a dang extra thumb, tapping their hand in a confident but businesslike way.
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Trump and Abbas appeared friendly but businesslike as they stood at side-by-side lecterns.
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And trust me — it's always delicious, always faintly businesslike, and the rice is always warm.
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Kit accidentally hurts Sunny's feelings; she's businesslike and offhand, ready for the girl to leave.
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Mr. Pruitt then sketches over the projection in white paint, with an adroitly businesslike hand.
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Before long, a kind but businesslike midwife came to my hospital bed to literally milk me.
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But as throughout the rest of the evening, she maintained a businesslike, if friendly reserve. video
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Indeed, all kinds of non-profit organisations have become more businesslike over the past few decades.
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Danny Garcia is mild-mannered, determined, businesslike, and happy to let his results speak for themselves.
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After leaving insurance he was chairman of Oxfam, bringing a businesslike approach to Britain's foremost development charity.
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But like his rival, Mr Kern is a businesslike type who reckons Austria's paternalist model is dying.
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In debates, she is often strong, her campaigning self-consciousness supplanted by an occasionally acidic, businesslike efficiency.
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As co-founders, Nikki and Darryl field questions, and their brusque, businesslike tones dominate the group's chatter.
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With a businesslike approach that emphasized accountability, efficiency and organization, Mr. Levy instituted a series of reforms.
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A decade later, GoDaddy has a new CEO, Blake Irving, with a more businesslike and inclusive mandate.
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The two leaders exchanged a businesslike handshake and had serious expressions as they sat down to talk.
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The model's disciplined, businesslike approach inspired Congress to subsidize the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.
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The overall aesthetic is much more businesslike and less "friendly" in that very curvy sort of Apple way.
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The woman smiled and sat down and looked at us with a gentle but still oddly businesslike expression.
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On the phone, Welch, who had been speaking in a businesslike patter all morning, sounded cajoling, almost motherly.
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If Dashlane's price and more businesslike look do not suit you, try Keeper, free for iOS and Android.
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Parents often become more distant and businesslike with each other as they attend to the details of parenting.
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Is he thinking that he can do this and it will be a less violent, more businesslike endeavor?
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Like Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Lemons considered Mr. Trump's straightforward, businesslike approach a badly needed breath of fresh air.
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This is not businesslike ... If China and India will truly decarbonize, cargoes bound for those countries will grow fast.
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He doesn't even let anger interfere with his appraisal of Vladimir Putin, praising him for being courteous and businesslike.
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I imagined the brothel experience to be businesslike, with sex as an integral part of a purely transactional relationship.
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Their cold-blooded concern for public safety has been converted into a businesslike approach to protecting their criminal assets.
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"We didn't want someone to be too formal, because Zegna is already too formal, too businesslike," Mr. Zegna said.
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Instead, she's remained a businesslike and dutiful counterpoint to Trump's brash pronouncements, particularly when it comes to the European Union.
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It feels solid despite weighing less than an iPad Air, and the matte black plastic body looks neat and businesslike.
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Dean took a businesslike view on the experience of pitching against the team he had rooted for as a boy.
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Not quite Bonnie and Clyde — too disciplined, too businesslike — but with more than a hint of old Hollywood gangster style.
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The paper's businesslike tone stood in contrast to Playboy's obscenity, which was repelling advertisers even as it was attracting readers.
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Mr. Hammond, who has been nicknamed "Spreadsheet Phil" for his businesslike demeanor, sought to liven his speech with several jokes.
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He has vowed to bring a more businesslike approach to government; his list is dominated by businessmen — including several billionaires.
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Costa told MSNBC Trump said the final decision was his own, and that he sounded businesslike on the phone, not angry.
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Relations were strained, if businesslike, for the last few years as the Obama administration distanced itself from Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule.
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Peter Sagan, a Slovak with the soon-to-be-disbanded Tinkoff team, was as charismatic and flashy as Froome is businesslike.
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"The powers of the head of state have been turned over to me today," Putin said, his tone calming and businesslike.
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The ascenders and descenders are consequently short; in her view that gives the font a clinical, businesslike air unsuited to fiction.
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Google Hangouts, Slack, and Twitter are designed to be small, low-impact, and businesslike, while producing an endless stream of potential distractions.
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But the effusive expressions of bonhomie that once colored their interactions were gone, replaced by businesslike handshakes and wooden declarations of cooperation.
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She felt she had to prove herself, so she had decided to dress in the businesslike, anhedonic manner of serious American feminists.
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As Madame Apo, she was businesslike and hoped to be seen as someone who carried herself with grace, even in denim overalls.
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ET, as Trump was discussing trade and Brexit in a businesslike phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at his Florida club.
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Their meetings are "businesslike" and "cordial," Ms. Sturgeon said in an interview on Friday in Bute House, Scotland's No. 22015 Downing Street.
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German officials said Ms. Merkel was studiously pursuing a businesslike relationship with the president as part of their shared call on Saturday.
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Aides said they expected Merkel to appeal to Trump's sense of businesslike efficiency in an attempt to win over the new US leader.
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My recollection with Andrew was that, my sense was, he seemed more businesslike in his approach to it, and that's fine with me.
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She quits community college but uses what she'd learned in class to make TechSolu's PowerPoint approach to hacked customers more businesslike, almost presentable.
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"Typically, the tone of our meetings are candid, blunt, businesslike -- and this one was no different," was how Obama described it to reporters.
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KAJA KALLAS, a former competition lawyer and member of the European Parliament, is just the sort of businesslike politician one expects in Estonia.
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Pale Rider doesn't do much to complicate its portrayal of violence, but it does offer an unusually anonymous and businesslike take on heroism.
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A skepticism of entangling wars and a businesslike approach to strategic partnerships has been met with hysteria by the establishment in both parties.
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The meeting between the two men was expected to be "broad, blunt and businesslike," a senior official told CNN ahead of the meeting.
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But Mr Ashton argues that he has also been forced to become "more businesslike and entrepreneurial" to plug the gap in Somerset's finances.
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The kingdom's news media have built his image as a hardworking, businesslike leader less concerned than his predecessors with the trappings of royalty.
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But in a brisk, businesslike manner, the US Catholic bishops adopted four measures designed to create more accountability, transparency and trust with lay Catholics.
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Our businesslike efforts to measure and improve quality are now blocking the altruism, indeed the love, that motivates people to enter the helping professions.
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Despite the businesslike title, it was actually a dating reality show executive produced by Trump, where Omarosa courted 12 potential suitors in Las Vegas.
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"The conversation was in general businesslike and constructive, aiming to restore the traditionally friendly mood of the multi-faceted bilateral cooperation," the Kremlin said.
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When his phone rings, which it does constantly, he adopts the brisk, businesslike tone of a performer too busy for all of his fans.
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It said the two leaders agreed to maintain contacts on different levels and expressed satisfaction with the "businesslike and constructive nature" of the conversation.
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"Very collegial and very businesslike," said Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota on a radio interview back home with talk show host Joel Heitkamp.
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Her Twisted Seamstress scissors snick shut into a businesslike dagger, with the sensually curved pivot between blades and handle encased in corset-stitched leather.
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Distinguished Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, negotiations with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, took place in a frank and businesslike atmosphere.
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As a fiscal conservative and from a businesslike approach, the White House, nor I, want to create a deficit rebuilding and updating our infrastructure.
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Trump and Xi, politicians with distinctly different styles and experience levels, appeared cordial and businesslike in their initial interactions, with no outward sign of tensions.
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While that dispute grew out of real grievances and ended with the tragic deaths of both men, these days feuds often have a businesslike feel.
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At the Golden Globes the other week, the red carpet was flooded with celebrities dressed in black, the color of mourning or of businesslike seriousness.
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Her adorable curls and brightly colored outfit paired with her businesslike expression might just have the world wondering why she doesn't take over more often.
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Locally based, broadly supported and businesslike, the scheme provides a model for managing climate change that is well-suited to American pragmatism and civic traditions.
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Tall, businesslike and better known for his taste in fast cars than fine wine, Mr. Fox often dealt with Premier Cru's biggest clients and orders.
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These guys are more businesslike about it—they pay you a set fee each time they see you, or give you an allowance each month.
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Chummily businesslike, with a polished spiel about his love of art, Mr. Hill talked about his inspirations and approaches in the Blackstone offices last month.
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Since being called up, Glass has maintained a day-to-day, businesslike approach and has avoided becoming awe-struck in a room full of superstars.
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TUESDAY PUZZLE — Peter Gordon brings us a puzzle with a businesslike demeanor that follows a top-to-bottom gradient in difficulty (to me, at least).
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And Obama, in a podcast interview with Politico reporter Glenn Thrush that was published on Monday morning, unequivocally backed Clinton's businesslike, transactional view of the presidency.
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And so it's very different from a businesslike MoviePass, where I'm not totally certain about the economics, but it feels like ... And Amazon will say this.
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Before "factory farming" became a pejorative, agricultural scholars of the mid-20th century were calling for farmers to do just that — become more factorylike and businesslike.
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" The summary of the call released by the Kremlin said the "two heads of state expressed satisfaction with the businesslike and constructive nature of the conversation.
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"I was looking for a kangaroo originally, but it's tricky to find a GIF of a kangaroo reading a paper or looking vaguely businesslike," he said.
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Trump and Macron shared a businesslike handshake and some serious-looking asides as their spouses greeted each other and peered out at the Bay of Biscay.
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It was the first time Mr. Tillerson had been in the same room with Mr. Zarif since taking office and he described the session as businesslike.
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Staffan de Mistura, the United Nations mediator, told reporters that he saw "less rhetoric, a more businesslike atmosphere" in the talks, but little, if any, progress.
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"I'm running to shorten our wait times and to protect democracy," Benson explained, her tone businesslike, to a dreadlocked 22-year-old woman who goes by Fey.
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The M5 has 560 hp and 500 lb-ft of torque from a 4.4-liter turbo V-63, but it retains a more luxurious and businesslike feel.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump appeared Monday to bask in the back-and-forth over a health care plan to replace Obamacare, describing the talks in businesslike terms.
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These underexperienced outsiders, like Trump himself, are not infusing the government with new ideas or an exciting businesslike pragmatism that's breaking logjams in Washington and getting things done.
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Wang's trip was more businesslike than that of Abe, who has a close personal bond with the firebrand Philippine leader and had breakfast in his humble Davao home.
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PRESIDENT PUTIN: (As interpreted.) Distinguished Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen: Negotiations with the President of the United States Donald Trump took place in a frank and businesslike atmosphere.
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For Theresa May, her first meeting with all the other European Union leaders since she became British prime minister ended up being described by most merely as businesslike.
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Now the app has made the leap to iPad, bringing its smart notifications, natural language search and other powers to the larger more businesslike screen of Apple's tablet.
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"Putin thought of Kadyrov the father as a person with whom he reached a particular political agreement—their relations were honest and businesslike but ultimately political," Chesnakov said.
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In retrospect, one former executive at his company wondered if the change in dress was intended to create a businesslike persona as he struggled to stay financially afloat.
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His sober, businesslike instructions for how to proceed unaccompanied through the complex have the air of a recording intended to be played in the event of his untimely death.
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Lucas's, in particular, has an almost businesslike tone: George Lucas, in a statement, praises Carrie Fisher as "our great and powerful princess - feisty, wise and full of hope." pic.twitter.
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Also, since the demise of the Derg, it has been seen by many as evidence that the "China model" of an authoritarian but businesslike state could work in Africa.
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A look at Putin's first meetings with Trump's predecessors: The Issues: nuclear arms control, conflicts in the Balkans and North Caucasus The Tone: "Businesslike", "congenial", "easygoing", per the NYT.
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The preparations — described by top aides as businesslike — are part of a deliberate White House strategy to ignore the fact that Republicans have refused to even consider his nomination.
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He has been down-to-earth, businesslike and courageous, decrying Robert Mugabe, the former president of his much beefier neighbour, Zimbabwe, when most leaders in Africa winked at his horrors.
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The across-the-board freeze - fulfilling a campaign promise to supposedly reshape the federal workforce into a businesslike operation - was lifted last week, having served its temporary public relations purpose.
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And his voicemails are more businesslike in nature than they are conversational: Every message begins with him stating his full name followed by the time and date of the call.
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Sanchez bought fractions of Bitcoin - which are worth around $10,000 each - through a startup founded a year ago by Cubans in Brazil that aims to make crypto purchases more businesslike.
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Forster's brief, characteristically businesslike turn in "Better Call Saul" is like a blessing, and it reinforces a tone: laconic, no-nonsense, amused by life's absurdities but rarely taken by surprise.
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They met in person only once, during the state funeral for President George H.W. Bush, exchanging businesslike handshakes in the front pews of the National Cathedral before the service began.
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Trump's businesslike approach to establishing an administration, which was not a political operation as much as a clean and fix problems approach, has caused a great deal of anxiety everywhere.
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JERUSALEM/AMMAN (Reuters) - A new airport planned by Israel near its border with Jordan is clouding the usually businesslike relationship the two neighbors have built since making peace in 1994.
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Remnick acknowledged that in the 17 years that he has run The New Yorker, the business of making a magazine has become, for lack of a better word, more businesslike.
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With a businesslike demeanor, he admitted not only to arming a 200-man militia in Somalia but also to hatching plans to use mercenaries to overthrow the government of the Seychelles.
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In Austin, Mr. Perry told reporters that the court's ruling proved the indictment was "nothing less than a baseless political attack" as he struck a businesslike demeanor at a news conference.
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Gingham and leopard are still the reigning champions as far as prints go, but this spring, look for businesslike belts and ladylike smocking as subtle details that make a big difference.
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Later, as questions mounted over the health both of Trump and his rival Hillary Clinton, Bornstein offered a more businesslike assessment, listing things such as Trump's height, weight and prescription medications.
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She seemed relatively at ease both in the rather sober and businesslike forum with Ms. Merkel, and in the rowdy atmosphere of Parliament during the question session for the prime minister.
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Which is just brutal in how it tries to be businesslike and cordial about the dangers they face from public scrutiny as gay men while still making clear his true feelings.
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It's also decent fun, in the leathery, businesslike, self-satisfied manner of this kind of movie, which soothes the hurt places in the male ego with sentiment strategically disguised as toughness.
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Joseph J. Lhota, the newly reinstated chairman of the authority, served as a businesslike master of ceremonies, moderating a panel discussion with transit officials from cities including Toronto, Paris and Zurich.
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BEIJING — The short, unexpected honeymoon that China enjoyed with President Trump seems to be in trouble, dashing hopes in Beijing that the two countries had embarked on a new, businesslike relationship.
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"I got a lot of dead kids, because I'm really good at talking to grieving parents, apparently," said Ms. Phraner, who grew up in California and has a tranquil, businesslike manner.
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"I think whatever we do should be limited and businesslike and, frankly, always accompanied with the caveat that none of this absolves him from previous wretched behavior and statements," said Rep.
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Whereas most business jets fly very businesslike profiles—steep climb, straight line at high speed, steep descent—Cirrus wants the Vision Jet to be as enjoyable to fly as it is efficient.
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And there was little to dislike Thursday night at Moda Center, where they won their season-high fifth game in a row in mostly businesslike fashion, defeating the Houston Rockets 117-107.
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Sitting stone-faced at his paper-strewn Resolute Desk Saturday, Trump sipped from a glass of Diet Coke as the businesslike German chancellor Angela Merkel explained US obligations under the Geneva Convention.
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It was a surprisingly businesslike operation: Abu even offered a grace period for the Syrians to obtain a refund if they didn't make it to the United States within a certain time.
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But I worked hard, and told New Mexicans what I would do if elected: Reduce the size of the government, cut taxes and apply businesslike common sense to the job of governing.
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According to the lawsuit, "When customers began to complain about the Pandora Logo, PayPal immediately raised their concerns with Pandora in a private and businesslike manner," via letters and attempts at conversation.
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The 39-year-old French leader and Putin exchanged a cordial, businesslike handshake and smiles when the latter stepped from his limousine, with Macron appearing to say "welcome" to him in French.
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The new guidance, to be issued by the Office of Management and Budget, is the next step in fulfilling Mr. Trump's ambition to reshape the federal bureaucracy into a lean, businesslike operation.
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Duplantis, who hopes to vault 19 feet 8 1/23 inches this year — just over six inches shy of Lavillenie's world record — speaks in a sober, businesslike manner of his career goals.
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Since the formal Article 50 talks began in Brussels on June 19th between David Davis, the Brexit secretary, and Michel Barnier, the European Commission's Brexit pointman, the mood has been businesslike, not hostile.
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His approach to door-knocking is equally businesslike — he's left his dress shoes sitting in the front seat of a staffer's truck, changing into Allbirds sneakers so that he can make better time.
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Naturally reserved and quietly confident, he gives interviews (conducted mostly through an interpreter) that reveal as little as his businesslike home run trots: head down and carried out with an absence of ebullience.
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The show ran from 21993 to 1946, with Della — Ms. Hale in classic businesslike fashions and her trademark short, dark hair — as a steadying and infinitely reliable presence, if not a constant one.
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More than a decade ago, I got rid of cable TV, then network TV. I cut out personal phone calls (unless the person is a continent away), then anything other than businesslike emails.
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The point of underscoring the species of Mr. Bloomberg's sexism is to posit that it's not simply the result of businesslike pragmatism, but part of a long legacy of historical hostility to mothers.
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And since Trump has no political track record, tends to look at issues as businesslike transactions, and has expressed more interest in domestic than foreign affairs, his actual policy toward Russia remains relatively unknown.
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When the government invited foreign firms to take stakes in the country's biggest banks in the early 2000s and encouraged them to list on stock exchanges, its ambition was to instil a businesslike mindset.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's backslapping diplomacy with French President Emmanuel Macron gave way to an altogether more businesslike encounter with another European ally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the White House on Friday.
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Sturgeon said the meeting had been businesslike and cordial but that there had been no guarantees from May that any powers coming back to the UK from the EU would be devolved onto Scotland.
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Engler, who was cautious and businesslike, with slicked hair and a graying goatee, had been mayor for three years, though he had lived in Laconia for almost 17 and owned The Laconia Daily Sun.
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Popular fancy may depict the life of a touring rock musician as a whirlwind of orgiastic intoxication, but it tends towards the mundane and businesslike, and it involves a lot of downtime in hotel rooms.
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Though the size of the effect is disputed, psychological research suggests that nudging people to think in terms of money when they make a choice encourages a "businesslike mindset" that is less trusting and generous.
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The familiar sights and sounds — the arrogance and avarice of Americans, the inevitable presence of sharp objects on desktops during fights to the death — are presented with a businesslike restraint that makes them reasonably credible.
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So it was surprising on Friday when the Washington Post's Robert Costa reported that the president had sounded businesslike, not angry, when he called to say he'd pulled the vote on his GOP health care bill.
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Top seeded Paire was businesslike in his 03-20 26-23 dismissal of Prajnesh Gunneswaran, crushing his 14 ace on match point to avenge his loss to the 29-year-old at Indian Wells in March.
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She regretted wearing her stiff, formal sandals and the silk jacket and long, full skirts that she'd kept when she'd sold the rest of her clothes, with the intention of looking as seriously businesslike as possible.
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The pace is brisk and the menu offers the Business Lunch, a bento meal that changes daily; it's a good deal at $15, and a chance to role play if you are not really very businesslike.
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Their 40-minute encounter, described as "businesslike" by a State Department spokesman, John Kirby, came 12 days after Washington suspended bilateral contacts with Moscow and called for a war crimes investigation into Russian actions in Syria.
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Some of these frustrations boiled over into a tense, seven-day teachers' strike in Chicago in 2012, which was widely seen as a flash point in the national debate over more businesslike approaches to managing schools.
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The delays represent a stumble for the incoming Trump administration, which has vowed to run government with a businesslike efficiency, and highlights how in several respects its preparation to take office is behind that of predecessors.
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Of his party's presidential nominee—with whom Mr Portman, a lean and businesslike first-term senator for Ohio and former trade envoy for President George Bush, will share the ballot on November 8th—there is no mention.
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Several said they appreciated Robson's businesslike approach to the first tee — greeting the players, introducing them and getting them down the fairway with expediency — but also noted that his inimitable cadence made them feel, somehow, at home.
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Annoyed with such coverage, she has begun wearing her hair in a businesslike updo, but she is determined, whatever controversy may come, to enact a law that would make street harassment punishable by an on-the-spot fine.
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By contrast, Paul D. Ryan's disclosure on Wednesday that he would step aside at the end of the year was quite calm and businesslike even as he gave that most Washington of reasons — more time with the family.
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Tom Cheshire, a reporter with the British network Sky News who has dealt with Fancy Bears, said they behaved "almost more like a P.R. firm, really" and were "very businesslike," doling out scoops and trying to shape coverage.
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Along the way, he could thank Harry Reid for eliminating the filibuster on Presidential appointments, and promise to have his entire cabinet in place by the end of next January for the most efficient, businesslike transition in American history.
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Trump's businesslike willingness to make deals on the world stage is becoming a central pillar of what could be seen as an emerging Trump Doctrine — that building personal relationships with rivals, adversaries, and even enemies can advance American interests.
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One other group of patients met a provider who seemed highly competent but remained businesslike and distant throughout the interaction, and they did not respond to the placebo cream as much as when the provider acted warm and competent.
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Even the British Parliament bowed to current reality, with John Bercow, the speaker of the House of Commons, telling members it was no longer necessary to wear a tie, acknowledging that looking "businesslike" did not have to involve neckwear.
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Yanukovych's return to power was guided by the American political strategist Paul Manafort, who helped to reinvent his client as a businesslike manager—not necessarily likable but an antidote to the disastrous political circus overseen by Yushchenko and Tymoshenko.
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On the one hand is the white-collar professional, who travels like a ghost through the city's infrastructures that were constructed under capitalist models of corporate, financial, and commercial behavior to assist her in developing and sustaining her businesslike livelihood.
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Hard working and businesslike, Pernkun cagily boxed behind a tight guard and dominated the formidable Prajanchai over five rounds to get the nod from all three Thai judges at ringside (who scored the contest 49/47 in favor of Pernkun).
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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - A revamped but businesslike Croatia topped their World Cup Group D as Ivan Perisic's last-gasp goal helped them maintain their perfect record with a 2-1 win that also ended valiant Iceland's tournament on Tuesday.
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His 303S capsule seamlessly intertwines masculine and feminine references; a structured sky-blue blazer comes with a cinch-waist belt, while a traditional collared shirt with an affixed businesslike tie in emerald green is rendered in a daring see-through mesh.
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Hot Tang Tang noodles may sound like cold sesame noodles run through the microwave; they are something completely different, short strands of noodle in a steaming cup of sour-and-spicy broth that has a businesslike edge of roasted dried chiles.
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She delivered two businesslike addresses to the nation, the first expressing an appropriate mixture of outrage at the atrocity and pride in the response, the second announcing the decision to raise the threat level to "critical" and deploy troops on the streets.
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HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - A meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a G20 summit in China on Monday had a "businesslike tone" and went on longer than anticipated, a senior U.S. administration official said.
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But, in speaking with Mr. Cooper, she chose businesslike attire that was in keeping with the seriousness of the legal case she is making, that she had been silenced in a cover-up effort to protect the presidential prospects of Mr. Trump.
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As dominant as he was on the field, Gronkowski was equally larger than life off it, frequently standing out among the businesslike Patriots, led by Coach Bill Belichick, with his love of partying and his frequent sophomoric humor, delivered with an exaggerated wink.
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There is one alma mater whose name is always announced by its alumni with the same words and in the same way, in a businesslike tone mixing seriousness and pride, and with no room for doubt about which team they are referring to.
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I believe he meant it but now with the Board of Directors in the U.S. House and Senate, he is being prohibited from using a businesslike approach to reform a broken federal government and elected officials landscape in the swamp of Washington.
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And rather than devise some exciting new way to turn the GOP into a populist tribune of working-class economic interests, he's simply taken up the business-first policy agenda of Mitt Romney while stripping it of the veneer of businesslike competence and respectability.
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It's a testament to Wilson-Lee's skill as a writer that the businesslike trips Hernando took during the rest of his career, whether in service to his family or to his king, are nearly as engaging to read about as his exploits in the Caribbean.
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His people reportedly proposed to Mr. Trump's people, businesslike, that new talks with Israel could start where Mr. Abbas and Mr. Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, broke off in 2008, having covered most major issues — security, borders, Jerusalem and refugees — and leaving potentially bridgeable gaps.
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"We consider them the crown jewel of our values-led sourcing program," said Unilever spokesman Sean Greenwood, pointing out that Greyston, while founded by a Buddhist monk with a mission to do good, has balanced its social mission with being a reliable, businesslike supplier for decades.
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Contrary to what the businesslike pronouncements of Vote Leave might suggest, for swathes of the Leave camp—exemplified by the burghers of South Wonston and by Nigel Farage, the UKIP leader—the upcoming referendum is about more than the best economic and geopolitical posture for Britain's future.
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Ms. Weigel's "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating" finds the roots of our modern efforts to pair off in the late 19th century, when courting shifted from a businesslike, family-monitored activity in parlor rooms to a wilder free-for-all in very public spheres.
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Mr. Trump — who sold himself as a winner who could turn around a country that "doesn't win anymore" — has endured a litany of missteps, controversies, resignations and investigations, all of which have dented his "I alone can fix it" vow to remake government with businesslike efficiency.
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It had gained 20.3 percent the previous day on relief that Xi's speech was businesslike and non-confrontational, but lost some steam on Wednesday on concerns over how long it may take the world's two biggest economies to hash out a compromise on trade, if one is possible.
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After a meeting on Friday with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain, in which she warned against removing sanctions on Russia, Mr. Trump had on Saturday what appeared to be a businesslike call with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, and a testier call with President François Hollande of France.
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Before their departure, Singleton lingers over the funny and painful details of their lives at home and at work, sketching a portrait of working-class black life that looks back to the radical neo-realism of the L.A. Rebellion and forward to the businesslike striving of the "Barbershop" franchise.
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Hangzhou, China (CNN)President Barack Obama wrapped up his final G20 meetings Monday confronting two of his prickly global counterparts, saying his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was "candid, blunt and businesslike" and that bombastic comments from his Philippine counterpart could lead to a planned meeting this week being scrubbed.
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Jones's iridescent Easter egg of a suit is a perfect balance between festive and sober: That playful, joyous fabric would be on the verge of overly sweet or even twee in a gown, but the dapper cut of the suit is just businesslike enough to make it work for Jones.
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The changes in the play's central relationship are nicely recapitulated in Ms. Wilhelmi's performance as the daughter with a mission of her own; echoing her mother as played by Ms. White, she is more instinctive and apparently guileless in her manipulation than was Ms. Rashad, who echoed Ms. Metcalf's businesslike brutality.
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They never ask about your personal life or family, always keeping conversations professional and businesslike If you notice that your boss speaks with everyone else about their kids or hobbies, but never brings up these topics with you, then they're probably just not interested in hearing about your life, says Kerr.
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British Conservative lawmakers who have known the former interior minister for years say she is "unflashy" and "businesslike", adopting a no-nonsense approach that her aides hope will ease tensions with the EU. At her closing news conference, May was clear that she would not allow the EU to make decisions without her.
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The speech was at turns optimistic and businesslike ("Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to"), but most of all it was mercifully short: According to CNN, at around 1,000 words, is thought to have been delivered in just ten minutes.
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"We have a long ways to go, but all the off-the-field stuff and the entertainment value that people are looking for, hopefully they don't find it here," Gruden said, adding, "We're very businesslike in our approach, and we're trying to rebound from last year's loss to the Packers and repeat as N.F.C. East champions and go a little bit further."
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It was better than in 26, when they clinched despite being beaten on Mark Teixeira's walk-off home run, but it was nevertheless a businesslike celebration: players and coaches congregating near the mound and then turning to their fans behind the third-base dugout, who cheered them as Frank Sinatra crooned over the stadium speakers about those little town blues.
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"To mock his stolid behavior and the surprising conventionality of his values is to conceal his commitment to thirties' belief in technological progress, businesslike efficiency, and a naïve adherence to the benefits of 'growth,'" Bookchin wrote, lacerating Sanders's "macho" manner and "narrowly productivist" view of the world—a manner and a view that have remained essentially intact in the three decades since.
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They have had to deal with the facts that their games have been somewhat overlooked in the United States — although certainly not by the announced 43,002 fans who jammed the park on Saturday night — and that their more businesslike approach on the field has been unfavorably contrasted with the unabashed enthusiasm (and the occasional bat flip) of Asian and Latin American players.
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In fact, nearly all of the violence being acted out in Westworld (save the Man in Black's businesslike brutality with Kissy, the specific purpose of which, it seems, will eventually be revealed) is quite literally programmed, because it's what the park guests come for—which, if anything, is biting, extremely meta commentary on screenwritten gratuitous violence itself, as well as our appetite for it as viewers.
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But I can't help noticing that the menu is easier to scan; that the cooking, as good as ever, has moved toward small, colorful plates; that the prices stand firmly in the middle ground; and that the drab, businesslike design of Paowalla has been engulfed by paper marigolds, fruit-patterned oilcloths and a mural painted in comics style by the Pakistani-raised Canadian artist Maria Qamar.
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Over the past several years, a phenomenon has quietly taken hold in the art world, flying in the face of its consolidation and more businesslike bearing: Art book fairs have sprung up around the world, many of them as mobbed as rock concerts, packed with young and old — but mostly young — publishers and book lovers who come together for the increasingly rare chance to exchange well-made art objects (in book form) for just a few dollars.
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Nisall says the main factors that apply to travel blogs include:Whether you carry on the activity in a businesslike manner and maintain complete and accurate books and recordsWhether the time and effort you put into the activity indicate you intend to make it profitableWhether you depend on income from the activity for your livelihoodWhether your losses are due to circumstances beyond your control (or are normal in the startup phase of your type of business)Whether the activity makes a profit in some years and how much profit it makesLooking over this list, it's easy to see where people might have issues right off the bat — particularly with the time, income reliance, and profitability requirements.
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