Sentences with phrase «arms race with»

That's because, also starting today, Maingear — a less common contender — is joining the arms race with its power - packed «Drift» Steam Machine.

Phone manufacturers are constantly in an evolutionary arms race with chancers who find new back - door entrances into devices.

Unable to compete in the technological arms race with Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo instead decided to take controllers into a whole new area.

But really it's just an arms race with end users who are looking for areas of weakness to exploit or reacting naturally to financial rewards built into the system.

Currently Amazon and Barnes and Noble lead the e-reader arms race with Kobo not even in the top 5 of global e-reader sales.

That doesn't necessarily mean the end of the Nook, but it appears that B&N has blinked in its arms race with Amazon.

Better still, Mate Rimac has an even greater desire to one day produce a car that isn't taking part in the performance arms race with Bugatti, Koenigsegg et al — the new Alpine A110 and products from Lotus both came up in conversation.

Pursuing parity has seemed at times like an arms race with various festivals touting their male - to - female ratios.

With each scientific paper, researchers are discovering just how chillingly impressive viruses can be: They're the freshly sharpened point of an evolutionary arms race with hosts like ourselves.

SOME female dolphins have evolved a secret weapon in their sexual arms race with males: vaginas that protect them from unwanted fertilisation.

«This new locomotor behavior could have been part of an arms race with monkeys for fruit resources, with a later increase in body size being another step in this race,» Grabowski explains.

Fans and experts alike can get focused on improvements or changes for the team that they follow and don't realise that it's an arms race with other teams who are also improving.

Its great an all with soldiers being protected in full armour with exoskeletons but i can see yet another arms race with those who do have them being able to do what they want, and those without being unable to stop them.

Implicit in the duplicate - and - mutate model is the assumption that the toxins need to evolve rapidly to be effective because many venomous animals can be locked in an arms race with their toxins» targets.

And that, researchers report July 7 in Science, may be when wheat started to lose an arms race with blast fungus (Pyricularia oryzae, also known as...

Arms race Most legal and grey - area synthetic drugs are thought to originate from China, and the laboratories producing them are in a constant arms race with the legal systems of countries fighting the drugs.

From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal cortexes — the region of the brain that integrates visual imagery and motor coordination — because of an evolutionary arms race with increasingly wary prey.

Recently, Malik and his colleagues recently discovered that a primate gene, TRIM5alpha, appears to be locked in an evolutionary arms race with HIV1.

Thuma declined to disclose the size of the campaign's operation, citing an unwillingness to get into an arms race with other campaigns.

«This had to be done because we are in an arms race with unscrupulous landlords who will stop at nothing,» Levine said.

The Oregon Ducks started an arms race with the development of multiple uniforms and other teams are looking for ways to compete and take their gear to the next level.

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.

Not exact matches

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.»

At times, it feels like an absurd arms race, with colleges and universities building bigger stadiums and more grandiose practice facilities, then feeling the pressure to fill those seats.

She said even «robust» defenses are not enough to defend against state - sponsored attacks and compared the fight with hackers to an «arms race.»

LG has taken the high - def arms race for entertainment eyeballs up a notch with the world's biggest ultra-definition television to support next - level 4K picture format.

LG has taken the high - def arms race up a notch with the world's biggest ultra-definition television.

Meanwhile, Trump announced Tuesday that he plans to «get together in the not - too - distant future» with Putin in order to discuss the international arms race.

But with Amazon promising to one day use delivery drones there is a clear tech arms race between the two retailers.

In longer races, speed skaters may place both arms on their back and swing only the outer arm on the curve, which helps with balance.

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.

«This is a forever process, because security is always an arms race,» Sandberg said during an interview with Bloomberg.

«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.»

Where the nuclear arms race pits the larger countries against each other, the cyber arms race includes a much larger number of combatants since it is open to almost anyone with cash and a computer, according to a front - page article in the Wall Street Journal.

While some users might take umbrage at websites borrowing their electricity and CPU cycles, if done right, this innovation could end the ads / adblock arms race and alter the way individuals interact with websites.

And in what could emerge as a self - driving - car arms race, the players are investing in, or partnering with, or buying outright the specialty companies most focused on the requisite hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call «The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief», are small, blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

At the level of international policy, it is desirable to fire up the arms race and to create nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, because that activity may make things worse and thereby hasten the end.

For example, in «game theory,» an aptly named part of high academic economics, it has been discovered that games (such as the nuclear arms race or participation in an economy) can not be played with prudence - only rules.

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

Psychologists David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, in The Caveman and the Bomb: Human Nature, Evolution, and Nuclear War (McGraw - Hill, 1985), express this view with their useful observation that «the nuclear arms race goes on because people allow it» (p. 22, their emphasis).

Girard's primary example of such hypocrisy was the mythological (according to his elaboration of myth as the perpetrator's justifications for violence) notion of Mutual Assured Destruction of the Cold War arms race that was contemporary with the writing of his book in the late 1970s.

Fourth, an interminable arms race must follow, with no end in sight.

Certainly I would say, «There can be no peace in a world whose obsession with security leads to a never - ending arms race.»

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

It may also help us to keep in view the risks of an unlimited nuclear arms race as compared with the risks involved in disarmament.

Some involve substances introduced into the body, such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, caffeine, salt and sugar — substances that can be mood - altering — but others involve a process: extreme preoccupation with relationships, money, sex, religion, gambling, romance, violence, the arms race, television and so on.

And if a armed man follows a child with a gun, gets into a fight with him and ends up shooting him, he should go to jail regardless of race.

Landing Beckham would be a big way to keep up with the Joneses in Los Angeles, with the Rams recently jumping ahead in the NFC West arms race.

CaughtOffside Says: Seems Martin Jol is keen to keep pace with Wenger in the promising youngster North London arms race.