Sentences with phrase «arms race of»

And in the arms race of ever - shrinking business laptops, size really does matter.

Technology companies do not want to risk being involved in an arms race of mining farms with Chinese miners.

Live streaming companies like Sling TV and PlayStation Vue have been engaged in an arms race of sorts over building the most robust lineup of TV Everywhere app support.

OEMs of all sizes (including Samsung, HTC, Sony, and LG) took part in this arms race of attempting to fool users without getting caught, but thankfully they eventually stopped their benchmark cheating after some frank discussions with industry experts and journalists.

In addition to ensuring your phone maintains a full battery, there are additional software techniques you can use (although, as you can imagine, these are less than ideal and not guaranteed to work given the constantly evolving arms race of security exploits).

Just as the slow food movement is all about really getting into food and the community it engenders, we think we need a slow business movement that's about the quality of work and the experience of doing it — as opposed to the alternative — namely the tendency to turn work into an ever - escalating arms race of longer hours, quicker email responses, and an obligation to be checking your Blackberry at your kid's birthday party.

Discussions about the future are being reduced to an arms race of gimmicks that appeal to the very same fear that they generate.

There's always an arms race of sorts outside the LA Convention Centre when E3 is in progress: a struggle to grab the most prominent banner - advertising spot.

«The Collection is an instantaneous embrace of past and present that combines gaming's powerful sense of nostalgia with its perpetual arms race of processing and graphical power,» Nathan Ditum wrote.

In the arms race of bigger and better credit card rewards, card issuers are showering cardholders with annual bonuses such as an airfare certificate, tens of thousands of points or a free night at your favorite hotel.

There, Tamblyn developed a couple of his most compelling phrases — he's always an effective speaker — as he tried to impress on the publishers gathered in Germany for the event that they are in «an arms race of monetized distraction.»

But Streitfeld covered that subject in greater length in a post he wrote last year for the Times, In a Race to Out - Rave, 5 - Star Web Reviews Go for $ 5, describing how the enormous demand for reviews — on everything from hotels and restaurants to car dealerships and handymen — has led to a kind of review - factory involving little evaluation of services and products, writing, «the boundless demand for positive reviews has made the review system an arms race of sorts.

And as we trundle out onto this unholy, «unpresidented» battlefield, I want you to think about this brilliant phrase that Tamblyn lobbed at us like a mic - drop: «It is an arms race of monetized attention.»

Yes, indeedy, Verizon is definitely looking like the front runner in the smartphone arms race of the 2009 Holiday Season.Read

The increasing popularity of hot - hatches in Europe has given rise to an arms race of sorts among automakers in that part of the world.

While GM continues to wage a battle with Ford in the arms race of insane power and hauling numbers, it'd really be nice to see some forward progress on the interior.

And when two people want the same item (which happens more than once every year), instead of a catfight, we end up with an arms race of politeness — «You take it!»

The arms race of sequencing has always been about throughput.

That was the verdict last week by the chairman of the UK's Treasury Select Committee on the war being waged over the country's European Union membership, which he says has become an «arms race of ever more lurid claims and counterclaims».

In the arms race of life, a number of animals use venom as a weapon to paralyze prey and jump - start digestion.

But since so many aspects of our physique — from eyesight to strength, endurance to pain tolerance — contribute to athleticism, the arms race of doping won't lose steam any time soon.

Schaffer's team knows it is entering an arms race of sorts: even consumer - level imaging tools could help oppressive regimes.

Cooper told Labour party delegates that it wasn't «rightwing» to be worried about immigration and renewed her promised not to engage in «an arms race of rhetoric» but to put forward practical policies that help manage migration.

Utah's defense makes it easier for an offensively challenged team like Utah to compete in the offensive arms race of the NBA.

The Players has been the most lucrative single event on the PGA Tour for several years now, but a 2013 announcement the PGA Tour made in conjunction with the PGA of America set off an arms race of sorts.

With the arms race of spending soon to begin amongst City, Manure and Checlsea why would Arsenals best players remain in the England to play for the least ambitious and most frugal club

AT&T's $ 29 charge is steep, but it could kick off an arms race of sorts for privacy services that could ultimately lead to lower prices and better protections for all.

Technology is always striving to be just that little bit better, parents are exhausted by an arms race of activities and engagement, and workers, fearing a perpetually droopy economy and the specter of competition from abroad, are bombarded with never - ending pressure to be more productive, efficient and ever connected.

The one - upmanship that leads to such brutal adaptations isn't unique to the animal kingdom; we see it again and again in the arms races of our own species.

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

Not exact matches

Such a development, should it come to fruition, could have a larger impact of minimizing the threat of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, Katz said.

It's a concept another Canadian, Brad Katsuyama, has already championed on Wall Street, and one embraced by an emerging faction of securities markets participants beleaguered by the ongoing arms race for ever - faster trading technology.

Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

Finally, it's tempting to think there's a sort of arms race going on here: that restaurants in this category (and some individual waitresses) will compete by having skimpier and skimpier outfits.

The end result of this benchmarking was a salary arms race: between 1936 and 1980, the average CEO salary increased from $ 970,000 to $ 1.1 - million, according to a 2010 study.

«Last year, we realized that the arms race had taken off to such an extent in the U.S that we really needed to up the platform of our high - end product,» he said.

The war for tech talent has engendered a bit of a benefits arms race lately.

The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East.

The swinging arms may come back out during the final moments of the race to give the skater an extra boost for the finish.

In the arms race run - up to this year's conference both released new versions of their iPhone apps and Gowalla launched an Android app while Foursquare brushed their existing one up.

In contracting Deloitte to produce the report, there appears to be something of an economic impact arms race brewing in tech.

One of the biggest names in high - frequency trading wants to erect a communications tower in rural Kent as high as The Shard as it steps up the millisecond arms race against rivals.

«But there's currently a bit of an arms race between the two tests, with both making changes to be more reflective of the critical thinking necessary in business school.»

«I want to tell all those who have fueled the arms race over the last 15 years, sought to win unilateral advantages over Russia, introduced unlawful sanctions aimed to contain our country's development... you have failed to contain Russia,» Putin said, later adding that «any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies... any kind of attack... will be regarded as a nuclear attack against Russia and in response we will take action instantaneously no matter what the consequences are.

The increasing push to assert ownership of broad technologies has led to a destructive arms race, engineers say.

A study from the University of Cambridge earlier this year found that 58 percent of Bitcoin mining comes from China, describing «an arms race amongst miners to use the cheapest energy sources and the most efficient equipment to keep operators profitable.»

And so because of the dearth of talent the Republicans were getting murdered in the tech arms race.

And China doesn't have to build a blue water navy or engage in an arms race to take a big slice of the U.S.'s energy pie.

So it's a great time to write to your reps reminding them you're far more interested in your privacy being protected than Facebook winning some kind of surveillance arms race with the Chinese.

«There's a kind of arms race on batteries around the world.