Sentences with phrase «us testing ground»

THE Bank of Queensland will use Western Australia as a testing ground for a return to the use of mortgage brokers and a new branch model in an attempt to firm up its bottom line.

For alcohol conglomerates, Canada is a perfect testing ground for recreational marijuana.

Many American retailers use Canada as a testing ground for their international growth strategies before pushing further abroad into Asia or Europe.

Maman, hired by Amorepacific in 2015 from the perfume and beauty arm of LVMH's Givenchy, said the Paris outlet was «a good testing ground» as the label considered whether to open its own stores or offer its products through other shops.

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

Most unusually, he wants to open the door a little to public eyes, long curious about what really happens in the halls of the «McKinsey mafia,» and the Kumar debacle is his first testing ground.

For now, Facebook Stories is only available in Ireland, which has also served as a testing ground for some of the company's other recent projects, including a beta version of Direct.

Dean DeLisle from Forward Progress uses social media as a testing ground for email topics for his clients.

«This is tested ground.

The Internet isn't diverse enough to be a valid testing ground, they argue, so data gathered online is bound to be skewed.

But while there's not a whole lot of intellectual property involved in its offering, chief executive Kaplan says they have developed a technology platform to handle its interactions with customers and of course to provide a safe and private testing ground for its researchers.

Instead, he said he believed that because of its tumultuous political climate, «Ukraine was targeted by bad actors who are using it as a cyberweapon testing ground over the past couple of years.»

The testing of the U-2 ended in the late 1950s; but, Area 51 has continued to serve as the testing ground for many aircraft, including the F - 117A, A-12, and TACIT BLUE.

TORONTO — One of Canada's most prominent shopping malls will become a testing ground for luxury retailers after Hudson's Bay announced plans Monday to open a Saks Fifth Avenue department store at the Toronto Eaton Centre.

The fields and arenas of professional sports are a testing ground for the return on investment that's possible from data analytics, and nothing did as much to popularize the concept of big data in sports as «Moneyball.»

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

For the past two years, it has been in stealth mode, using the Stanford campus as a beta testing ground, according to GigaOm.

«Our province is the perfect testing ground for technical apparel — you don't have to go far to find inspiration.»

Based on testing grounded in statistical analysis, we expect to swing that drawdown back into positive territory within 2 months following that mailing.

The Kremlin's increasingly aggressive efforts to control social media, however, seem to have made Russia the immediate testing ground for Facebook's most complicated questions about balancing user rights, government demands and the quest for profit for shareholders.

Because Facebook gives you such specialized information about who your audience is, and what they interact with, it's a perfect testing ground for new ideas, products, services, or other innovations.

What Hassay sees is a testing ground for homegrown innovation that can be exported easily to meet similar needs across the country and around the world.

With over half - a-billion active users, the platform is an ideal testing ground for new products before mass distribution.

First, you'll get a kind of testing ground for your own ideas; you'll get to see which branding tactics work and which ones are falling flat.

Japan is also becoming an important testing ground for blockchain innovation.

«This gives Macy's a testing ground for new products and brands they might be able to bring into their store,» says Denise Lee Yohn, a branding consultant and author of «What Great Brands Do.»

The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main testing ground, with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.

China seems to be the world testing ground for some of the most ridiculous banking rules.

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

Is human life an obstacle course, a testing ground?

The undergirding theology of this viewpoint is that life is a trial, a testing ground, an arena where purification and redemption are achieved through endurance and courage.

The testing ground of metaphysical truths lies in their applicability to what is found in practice or experience.

El Salvador, and by extension the whole region, had been selected as «an ideal testing ground» for modern low - intensity conflict.

Perhaps science is a continuation on new and better tested ground to attain the same end.

Where you were placed is the testing ground or a garden where your free choice would reveal that true heart of all that you are.

testing ground» for low - intensity - conflict doctrine.1 The «crimes of the poor» manifest themselves clearly here, and the U.S. judges them harshly.

Henry James Young, in «Process Theology and Black Liberation: Testing the Whiteheadian Metaphysical Foundations,» suggests that experience is the testing ground of metaphysical truths.

Remembering Henry Young's point, we are compelled to ask, how adequate are the descriptions of concrete events which serve as the testing ground for metaphysical truths?

May be a testing ground.

The true testing ground for the implicate - order strategy, it seems to me, may indeed be biology rather than physics, where abstract methods are so powerful as to perhaps make it dispensable: just as the old style building - block materialist was refuted not by philosophical polemic, but by the one authority in which he trusted, i.e., by physics itself, so the nothing - but reductionist in contemporary biology will modify his views should it be possible some day to provide him with a mathematical language that fills the currently existing gap between our formal knowledge of gene structure and combinations, and our intuitive apprehension of growth and shape.

«We definitely would like to expand into the Latin American markets, and we think the Panama airport is a good testing ground for that,» he explains.

For others it will be a good testing ground to gauge the level of interest from buyers.»

Games at Arizona, Utah and Kansas — just part of the Longhorns» torturous schedule — will serve as the perfect testing ground.

Use those matches as a testing ground for their youth, or press on in the manner that made them champions?

As well as selling your crafts online, many makers start out at craft fairs and although they can be a bit hit and miss, they are a great testing ground — as long as you select ones appropriate for your products.

New Zealand's spectacular mountain trails are the brand's backyard, testing ground and constant source of inspiration.

Earlier in the year, Gov. Cuomo proposed using Broome County, which sits on an abundant section of the Marcellus Shale, as a testing ground

The Department of Transportation is using Staten Island as a testing ground for rubberized asphalt, paving a portion of West Fingerboard Road in Grasmere with the material last fall.

If you don't have competition in your party when you go to the national elections you'll also lose because you've not tested the ground, you've not actually activated your members.

«China plans to dominate the world, and has been using Australia and New Zealand as a testing ground for its tactics to assert its ascendancy in the West,» writes Prof Hamilton, a lecturer in public ethics at Charles Sturt University.