Sentences with phrase «most of us beat»

I think in college you get sort of insulated, because most of the beat writers are kinda homers, and if you're a really successful player like Baker, you probably haven't been exposed to a lot of critics, but in the NFL that changes no matter who you are.»

It wasn't about playing a Championship side, it was about capitalising on an opportunity to lift a competition we won habitually in the early part of the century, it was about making the most of beating Liverpool, Everton and Spurs to get here (isn't it remarkable that people say the cup has opened up for us, when it is us who have knocked out most of the big boys?)

They take most of the beating since they're coming in contact with the toughest, hardest parts of the animal.

Most of us beat around the bush, date, and don't specify what we want.

The show has some unorthodox elements, but feels fairly cliched in most of its beats, largely serving as an excuse for bouts of grisly violence and gratuitous sex.

Most of these beat - the - market approaches, and especially the well researched ones, are backed up by evidence from back testing, where the approach is tried on historical data and found to deliver «excess returns».

Jim Newman, after witnessing ragtag cooperative artist galleries come and go in San Francisco (East / West, King Ubu, Six, Spatsa), opened Dilexei Gallery, which gave most of the Beat artist their first exhibitions in a professionally run gallery (meaning it was usually open as announced).

The Web player streams most of the Beats library at a CD - quality 320Kbps, with a small selection of songs streaming at 256Kbps.

Most of the Beats products we test offer solid, if very sculpted, audio performance, and the BeatsX earphones are no exception.

Not exact matches

Chen concedes that there are plenty of startup folks who complain about Snippets but insists that when pressed, most of the grumblers will agree that the process — despite being a minor inconvenience — beats alternative ways of monitoring staff and aligning progress.

That performance, plus the new production plans, would put the Switch on track to compete with, or even beat, the most successful consoles of the current generation.

By most accounts, Beats controls about 70 percent of the high - end headphone market, and has helped accelerate a redefinition of studio - size, over-the-ear headphones as a lifestyle item.

Walmart, which has stepped up its competition with rivals like Target on a variety of fronts of late, is expected to beat analysts» sales expectations for the most recent quarter while Target's numbers are expected to disappoint.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

Mitchell's most recent poll for the GOP had party frontrunner Donald Trump beating Ohio Gov. John Kasich by a spread of 41 % to 23 %.

Based on personal testing and research, the Skip Hop Duo Signature is the best diaper bag for most parents, with a reasonable price tag, loads of pockets, several stylish patterns, and easy - to - wipe fabric that can take a beating.

Yes, of course you need to get through your requirements, but after that an idiosyncratic pick with an inspiring or thought - provoking teacher («When I think about the classes that shaped me the most, I think about my Marxist Canadian history class, taught by a socialist ideologue,» says Blattman) beats on on - topic one taught by a snooze - inducing robot.

We believe fundamentally that investors — and most of our investors are long - term, sophisticated institutions, so pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, central banks — what they're looking for from their investors is somebody who's actually going to be able to beat their benchmarks and add excess return for them.

The «confined, ritualistic nature of the White House beat makes it a difficult slog for even the most adversarial reporter,» he says, and with dozens of journalists jockeying for the same stories, very little unique coverage emerges.

Shares of the company are flat for the year after its most recent earnings report failed to beat Wall Street estimates for the first time in two years, but Marshall said that he expects its revenue to continue to grow at above - market rates.

In the highest profile and most globally significant of job interviews, cocky beat capable.

Having steered largely clear of partisan politics for most of her career, Winfrey became an enthusiastic backer of Obama when he looked a long shot to beat Hillary Clinton to the 2008 nomination.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

When one ReD researcher asked an 11 - year - old German boy to show him his most prized possession, the boy displayed a beat - up sneaker, then explained how each wear - and - tear mark reflected the accomplishment of a new skateboard trick.

Opinion polls show independent centrist Macron is set to beat National Front candidate Le Pen in Sunday's second round of voting, in what is seen to be France's most important election in decades.

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.

The company has also been profitable of late after many years of losses: Most recently, Sirius reported positive quarterly earnings two weeks ago, posting revenue of $ 1.3 billion and earnings of $ 0.04 per share, which beat analysts» estimates.

As the busy summer travel season starts in June, the best way to beat the misery is to steer clear of the most miserable airports.

A western manufacturer beating the Chinese competition, in one of the most labour - intensive industries on earth, at a time when regulatory barriers have just been pulled down?

Most of the time your heart rate will stay within a few beats per minute.

While not all gossip is bad — one can share secrets about wonderful things like a suspected pregnancy or job promotion — Epstein points out that «useful gossip is, in the minds of most people, not what gossip is really about,» and so the majority of the book focuses on the more naughty kind of tattling, the kind that makes your heart beat faster when the subject of ridicule comes around the corner.

In its previous earnings report, Apple recorded its most profitable second quarter ever, with revenues of $ 58 billion, handily beating a consensus estimate of around $ 56 billion.

To beat perfectionism, you need to be the most authentic version of yourself you can be.

Yet its online store still managed to grab the No. 5 spot in comScore's ranking of the top 20 most visited retail sites on Monday Dec. 1, handily beating not only Dell (DELL) and Hewlett Packard (HPQ), but such full - fledged retail outlets as Best Buy (BBY), Toys «R» Us and Circuit City (CC).

Beats is one of the most prominent headphone makers in the world and sells a wide array of both wired and wireless headphones.

In a Pitchbook survey of the schools with the most billion - dollar companies, Berkeley beat out legends like MIT and Michigan and placed third behind Harvard and Stanford.

Most of the girls sing one song and the boys sing two, and even though I am sitting behind McKnight, you can tell he is pleased with certain performers as he nods his head emphatically to the beat of the music.

We've finally begun beating back a disease that's been called «one of the world's most intractable human afflictions» — and the simple bed net is one of the key reasons for this success.

Most ecommerce retailers take the beaten path of showcasing their products on their websites exactly how they would showcase them inside a real store.

Last night's ratings were also up 7 % from the most recent Game 7 of an NBA Finals series, in 2013, in addition to easily beating out already strong ratings from earlier games in this year's NBA Finals, which saw just over 20 million viewers tune in for Game 5 last week.

When you look at well known applications of AI like Google's AlphaGo Zero, you get the impression it's like magic: AI learned the world's most difficult board game in just three days and beat champions.

One of the most powerful aspects of the hyper - active and serendipitous environment at 1871 are the hundreds of planned, programmed and accidental interactions, intersections and connections that are constantly taking place between the 1,600 + members, mentors, sponsors, investors, partners, educators, government officials and just plain - old visitors and guests who spend time here at the fast - beating heart of Chicago's technology ecosystem.

There is not a better example of this then the most recent summer Olympics with the Phelps beating out the South African swimmer who so focused on beating Phelps and slamming Phelps in the media.

Pfizer landed one of 2016's most sought - after biopharma deals with its $ 14 billion acquisition of cancer drug maker Medivation, beating out the likes of Sanofi.

After all, there's a reason why a movie about an eccentric scientist who transforms a beat - up DeLorean into a make - shift time machine has become one of the most iconic films of all time.

The truth is that there are millions of people all investing in the same relatively small set of opportunities, and beating the market means you have to have an edge over most of them, including the people who do it for a living.

Its unemployment rate is lower than the majority of cities on our list, and the median home price also beats most places.

A big earnings beat might cause a lot of «Transient» investors to buy that stock, pushing up the price, but most of these investors will sell their stakes not long after, pushing the price back down.

In the most recent quarter, Apple's revenue rose 32.5 percent to $ 49.61 billion from a year earlier, beating Wall Street expectations of $ 49.43 billion.

It's chasing the illusion of beating the stock market that nearly always results in the investor giving up most of their real return.