Sentences with phrase «against giants like»

It's a place where startups (like Kickstarter darling Pebble) still have a fighting chance against giants like Samsung.

The study was commissioned by civil - rights attorney Cyrus Mehri (a classmate of mine from Cornell Law» 88) whose firm, Mehri & Skalet, has been behind successful multi-million dollar class action employment discrimination suits against giants like Texaco, Coca Cola and Smith Barney.

Moving 3.1 million units globally in less than half a week makes it the fastest - selling exclusive, a pretty surprising feat when you consider it's stacked against giants like Uncharted 4 and last year's out - of - left - field hit, Horizon: Zero Dawn.

It's always good to win games, especially against the giants like Bayern.

Game company Looney Labs is winning customers against giants like Hasbro Games with the help of the Mad Lab Rabbits -500-plus fans who volunteer to work their tails off at trade shows, conventions and local appearances.

Both one of the best at their jobs and a formidable power duo who helped us hold our own against a giant like fergie's Man utd.

They will assert that they can't compete against a giant like OPG that just happens to have the government in its corner.

Not exact matches

Case against Fox's Rosen, in which O admin is criminalizing reporting, makes all of the other «scandals» look like giant nothing burgers.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

This will affect other cases the Commission might build against the internet giant's various businesses, like Google Images.

Whitman said that the spinoff of HPE's IT services business will be finalized in March 2017, so its likely more restructurings may be coming as HPE tries to keep up in a fast changing technology market against cloud computing giants like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft).

This follows on from EU proposals to remove barriers in online services to improve European companies» chances of competing against U.S. tech giants like Google, Apple, and Facebook.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

That puts them up against the giants of the beer industry — like Anheuser - Busch and Molson Coors — as well as national craft brewers who are nearly as well known, including Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, and privately held Sierra Nevada.

Media giant Time Inc.'s acquisition by Meredith is key to boosting its digital business, offering it a fighting chance against «giant tech monsters» like Facebook and Google, the company's chief content officer, Alan Murray, said Thursday.

But Workplace also faces off against established email and collaboration software giants like Microsoft (msft) and Google (goog).

Breen and Dow CEO Andrew Liveris have vowed to cut R&D and break the combined company into three smaller firms, leaving it a weakened player in a competition against global chemical giants like Germany's BASF and Bayer, and China's Sinopec and Sinochem.

Digital giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple (AAPL), and Microsoft (MSFT) now compete against each other in up to 11 business areas, including content development, artificial intelligence, e-commerce marketplaces, hardware devices, messaging, financial services, and advertising.

Buying growth from the likes of SAB makes much more sense than pouring money into markets like Africa and India to compete against a rival giant.

What can be said that will not seem like tossing little words up against a giant mountain of ineradicable evil?

At first, the offense struggled against the New York Giants, with quarterback Sam Bradford throwing an interception, dropping a fumble and going three - and - out more times than the home crowd liked during the first half.

Again, he would not let himself be bullied like United's defenders were against Leicester and would be able to command the respect of his team mates after several excellent years at the top with the German giants.

Yes we did but against easy teams, but his inability to consistently overcome hurdles like Manchester United and Chelsea (just look at our head to head record for the last 3 seasons, its deplorable) leads me to the conclusion that the only silverware under him we could muster is a novelty competition famed for its giant killings as opposed to a title that establishes your credentials as one of Europe's elite...

The Italian giants have quality players like Paul Pogba in their ranks and will have the confidence to grab a point or more against a City side that so often struggles to look its best in Europe.

If you like games where Ronaldo is poised to absolutely dominate, you'll enjoy the possible scoring show he puts on against the Swedish giants.

The Italian international has been quoted as saying he would like to bow out at Juve with a win in the Champions League final, with his side edging Real Madrid 2 - 1 in the first leg of their semi-final against the Spanish giants.

Mrs. Norman fears the rough games, like this one against the Giants, and the one that would come after.

Glasgow Giants Playing against football super powers like Falkirk, Queen of the south, Morton, Alloa and Dumb - Barton Dumb Barton v Allo Allo Alloa attendance 715.

The Gunners forward has joined the Dutch giants for the entire 2015 - 16 campaign after finding himself behind the likes of Olivier Giroud, Danny Welbeck and Theo Walcott to lead the line at the Emirates Stadium and scored a hat - trick for Ajax in a behind - closed - doors friendly against Qatari side Umm Salal on Monday.

The striking department needs a short term striker to input another dimension in wenger's tactical acumen because I'm not comfortable with a slow Giroud against a formidable team like bayern munich and even against swansea a small but giant slayer team.

Just like Boreham Wood did in the last round as they managed a giant killing against former winners Blackpool.

Mourinho has taken a liking for the three - at - the - back formation in the United States, but he could stick with his preferred 4 -2-3-1 setup against the Catalan giants.

Their squad is strong enough to qualify for KO rounds against the likes of European giants Napoli and Dortmund.

After that heroic fight back against Everton, the rejuvenated Bournemouth team won their next three fixtures in the league and defeated Premier League giants like Chelsea and Manchester United in back to back games.

Made by Adidas, the new Milan third shirt was officially unveiled a couple of days ago and made its debut in their friendly fixture against Bayern Munich over the weekend - a game the Rossoneri won 4 - 0 with the likes of Kessie and Calhanoglu netting for the Italian giants Continue reading →

The likes of Kuyt, Jamie Carragher, Luis Garcia and Robbie Fowler will also be playing against Bayern, while the German giants will be able to call on the services of Bixente Lizarazu, Martin Demichelis Owen Hargreaves and Giovane Elber, among others.

To tell women that their choices, even ones viewed as «traditional» or «selfless» in nature, are «wrong» and «anti-feminist» just because they don't look like a giant middle finger to the patriarchy, is to go against everything feminism stands for.

Then, she fell sleep against my chest, and I tried to lay her down in her crib, like Indiana Jones gently placing an artifact back in place to avoid a giant rock crushing him.

After Communications Workers of America won its battle against corporate giant Verizon, labor unions may be giving companies like Macy's a run for its money.

«It's been really good for progressives that there's been kind of a race among potential presidential candidates to not just be on board, but be leaders on issues like Medicare for all, fighting for Dreamers and fighting against Trump's giveaways to billionaires and giant corporations,» said Adam Green, a founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal advocacy group.

«The main driving engine in the system is the movement of the Indian plate, which winds up the Greater Himalaya like a giant spring compressed against the Himalayan plateau.

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

As previously noted by Doug McCuiston, Mars Exploration Program Director NASA Headquarters in Washington, «The Viking mission looms like a legendary giant, an incredible success against which all present and future missions will be measured.»

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

They face huge opposition — big corporations with lots of money and bad manners — and stand like a small but brave army of science soldiers fighting against a giant army of greed and more bad manners to promote the truth: without healthy oceans, our planet could not sustain life.

It's a scary moment when you realize just how dangerous the world really is, especially if your day - to - day life involves battling against giant monsters, like the teens in Digimon Tri's second film.

It's an approach remarkably free of nuance, and one that requires the filmmakers to ignore giant swaths of information — from the hardcore «loops» (including her notorious adventures in bestiality) that she made before Deep Throat to her later charge that «all the feminists and Women Against Pornography — I kind of feel like they used me, too,» to her 2001 pictorial in Leg Show magazine.

The world's most prestigious film festival, unfolding over a dozen days against the sunbaked splendor of the French Riviera, can sometimes feel (or at least look) like a giant, glamorous,...

However, most Academy voters are just like you and me, and they'll choose the film because silly - looking pirates and talking polar bears don't stand a chance against giant f ****** robots!

The more serious compelling drama jarringly shifts to battlefield wide - shots were poorly rendered CGI giants (The Watchers) war against the rest of humanity in a series of scenes that look like they have been pulled from The Lord of the Rings archives.