Sentences with phrase «about competing against»

Today we're going to talk about competing against cash offers.

The series has always been about competing against friends but it's now being taken to the limit.

Global leaderboards are featured, of course, but this is a game about competing against friends.

How can we ever be serious about competing against teams who don't have such a drain on their resources.

We don't need to worry about competing against other organic wineries in established wine states in Australia.»

Not exact matches

The conversations may be about Amazon taking a role in drug purchasing, competing against distributors like McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and Cardinal Health

If anything, they see the current upheaval being about cutthroat competition that will hasten the onset of «grid parity» — the day when solar can compete on a level playing field against other energy sources.

Here are a few other realities about refusing offers you, as the saying goes, can't refuse — meaning someone wants to buy you and if you demur, they will compete against you and perhaps crush you.

Amazon's «Transparent», a comedy - drama series about a transgender father, won the award for the Best TV Series — Musical or Comedy, the first time the e-commerce giant's in - house studio had competed and won against the big guns of Hollywood since its creation in 2010.

And although he talked about putting a bit of money in himself, and he did put some money and some in as cash, most of it as loans, that's my understanding, you know, you were competing against the machine and she had dollars coming out of everywhere.

During the college years a student's religion must fight its way against the high - pressured tempo of the modern campus, the welter of competing social claims, the campus gods of football or fraternity or romance that leave little time or energy to think about religion and the Church.

I am extremely excited about this opportunity and can only hope I will receive enough votes to fly to New York on November 19th (yes, the day after WFC) and compete against 3 other bakers for a grand prize of a professional video shoot for my recipe!

The Hassad company went on to buy another 12 major farming properties spreading across Victoria, NSW, Queensland and Western Australia, competing against local buyers and raising questions about whether Australia needed a foreign land register and whether regulation of foreign investment was sufficient.

I never said anything about Shields competing against sub-par competition.

Amarillo Slim, one of the world's best poker players, claims Riggs has approached him about the possibility of competing against a woman in poker, but Riggs says it was the other way around.

You're not the only happy man I'm excited about the prospect of Szcz development now we have a truely world class keeper for him to compete against and learn from, I feel sorry for Ospina but I do think Szcz has more potential.

Still people bang on about klopp... yet Arsene who competes in the worlds toughest league, against several hugely bankrolled teams, with the same injury problems, with our players bought off like nothing Klopp has ever faced from Bayern — still finishes top four year in year out and has never languished at the bottom of the league.

Unlike many on this site, I don't seek to set one AFC fan against another... unlike the divisive tossers who actually seem to revel in our losses to try to make their points (not fans, just self obsessed idiots) but rather be honest about what we need to do to improve and compete for the title.

You sit and make every excuse under the sun about why we haven't competed — you're an apologist who is happy to shrug his shoulders and say «was too much stacked against us», rather than sit and challenge the running of the club.

If you look at the biggest stars in other sports (Tom Brady, Sidney Crosby, Cristiano Ronaldo, etc.) they're all consummate professionals because mainstream sports make it all about the best athletes competing against each other.

for example the bayern - madrid game robben was marked by two players almost all game he was neutralized by a disciplined marcelo does wenger even watch such games at home to learn a thing or two about tactics coz when we play bayern robben always scores the same exact goals against us with his left foot ffs, we shouldnt yearn for top 4 as we do nt deserve to be competing at that level honestly, sad to be writing this..

No one is questioning Wenger's past achievements, but he has had three seasons and 5 transfer windows to get the necessary players i.e a top sttiker and a dm which are glaring deficiencies in our squad and yet he ignores it and this summer was an example of how delusional he has become, by making statements like there no players available which could improve our squad, while treble winner barca even with their transfer ban get couple in, same with Bayern, Madrid and all other big clubs because they know you have constantly improve their squads to compete, and by making that statement he implied that he has one of the best sqauds in Europe, so can you please tell me whether you are optimistic about our chances against Bayern?

«We're competing against the World Cup and Finals, so let's talk about dirt and grass» doesn't seem like a good strategy.

Upon winning the NCS title, McCollom and his players were fully aware of the tough competition that lied ahead, but remained optimistic about the opportunity to compete against some of the best teams in California.

«I'm not very surprised, it helps to explain a lot of the suspicions I've had about particularly Russian athletes who I used to compete against.

We all know about the unofficial Mommy Olympics; the way we're all pushed to compete and parent against one another.

And Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week unveiled Chicago's response to concerns about the health effects of sugary soft drinks: Chicago will compete against San Antonio for a $ 5 million grant that a national beverage lobbying group will give to whichever metropolis's workers get healthiest.

They will be competing against thousands of pink footed geese who are about to move into these areas to join those already here.

But they will care about who has resources to compete against the well - funded Gillibrand, and probably won't care very much about where it comes from.

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One of my liquor store friends is really excited about the opportunity to sell gift baskets with NY cheeses, and other specialty foods which would allow him not only to compete against the grocers but the huge mega liquor stores who are trying to put him and all the other small liquor stores out of business.

So when wine is allowed to be sold in grocery stores I think the liquor stores instead of fighting this to the bitter end they should be embracing the change and start to approach this like every other business in the US that has competitors and learn what their customers like, and learn about customer service, do a marketing plan, figure out how to compete against the grocer like most liquor stores in other states where wine is sold in grocery stores do.

«I'm somewhat at a loss, because, you know, you heard the governor be very eloquent about the family of New York and how we all have to share each other's burdens and then in the same speech talk about how he's going to pit very poor regions of the state against each other to compete,» Miner said.

Once my profile is created, I read about the other five scientists I'm competing against: Walaa, a Ph.D. student studying honeybees; a paleobiology Ph.D. student named Sophie; Sarah, an air quality specialist; a biomedical scientist named Gabriel; and Breandan, a geohazard specialist.

Such behaviors had flummoxed no less an authority than Charles Darwin: How could cooperation and other selfless behavior arise if natural selection was all about individuals competing against each other in the struggle to survive?

He also spoke about SpaceX vying for government contracts, and how the Dragon V2 will be competing against other big players (most notably Boeing) for NASA's Commercial Crew Program to take astronauts to the ISS.

I prefer my workouts to be something I can look forward to, rather than something to compete for, however, I can adopt this by competing against my own best running times or thinking about an upcoming social event.

And if your ego is up for it, you can then brag about how healthy your sex life is on social media or compete against your friends to see who gets the most strenuous workout during sex!

AP: I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the brands competing against each other.

Today's post is about the last round of the blogger battle where I'm still competing in against to other bloggers.

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As everyone in the entire world knows by now, the hit TV show American Idol is about talented and not so talented singers making it through the American Idol tryouts by impressing the American Idol judges and then competing against other American Idol contestants in order to be given the coveted title of American Idol winner.

You feel guilty for being you: «If you're in a relationship with a guy who's competing against you, belittling your dreams, and not being excited about your success, you don't need to be with that person» she shares.

«No Country for Old Men,» a crime saga about a drug deal gone bad, and «There Will Be Blood,» a historical epic set in California's oil boom years, will compete for best picture against the melancholy romance «Atonement,» the pregnancy comedy «Juno» and the legal drama «Michael Clayton.»

In the top category, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking, «Citizenfour» will compete against the Steve James» Roger Ebert documentary, «Life Itself»; Ian Forsythe's and Jane's Pollard's «20,000 Days on Earth,» about musician Nick Cave; Jesse Moss» «The Overnighters,» about workers flocking to oil fields in North Dakota; and Orlando von Einsiedel's «Virunga,» which deals with threats to a national park in the Congo.

WHY: It's a shame that «Mustang» had to compete with Best Foreign Language juggernaut «Son of Saul» at this year's Academy Awards, because the Turkish drama (although it was technically France's official submission) is a beautiful but tragic movie about a group of free - spirited young women pushing back against the oppressive, misogynistic older generations set in their ways.

Expect Pixar's jubilant toe - tapper Coco to compete against the Angelina Jolie - produced, Afghanistan - set drama The Breadwinner, the animated Vincent van Gogh biopic Loving Vincent, a movie about a boss who is also a baby, and a movie about a Batman who is also a Lego.

His work from «Phantom Thread,» about the complicated relationship between an exacting fashion designer and his headstrong muse, will compete against music by Hollywood veterans such as John Williams («Star Wars: The Last Jedi») and Hans Zimmer («Dunkirk») at the Oscars ceremony on March 4.

Still, he'll be competing against himself with David O. Russell's American Hustle, so Marion Cotillard, as the only thing critics agreed on about this movie was that her performance is stellar, remains the best bet.

In the end, the latter's welcome victory mostly corroborated film critic and unlikely awards pundit J. Hoberman's tacit acknowledgement, in an article for the Los Angeles Times about Hollywood's relationship to the Holocaust, that the only way for a film about the Holocaust told from the perspective of its victims to lose an Oscar is for it to compete against a film, like The Virgin Spring, whose breaking into the mainstream so clearly meant that it was destined for greatness.