Sentences with phrase «as granddaddy»

But as the granddaddy of the major social networks, Facebook boasts more than 2.2 billion users — nearly 30 percent of the world's population, a community vastly larger than any nation.

As the granddaddy of all gesture - based keyboards, Swype has seen quite a few updates in its day.

Developed by id Software, in conjunction with Saber Interactive, Quake Champions is a return to the frenetic, fast - paced first - person shooter competition that established Quake as the granddaddy of all eSports games more than 20 years ago.

Developed by id Software, in conjunction with Saber Interactive, Quake Champions is a return to the frenetic, fast - paced first - person shooter competition that established Quake as the granddaddy of all multiplayer shooters more than 20 years ago.

No worries as the granddaddy of Corvette shows is offering a smaller version (the...

It's unbelievably not competing for the Palme D'Or and I'm not sure how that happened, but I've got an inkling that it will wind up as the granddaddy of the UCR; with more experience and wisdom captured in a few frames than entire films in the section.

The closest she came to a feminist statement was when I referred to the DNA adduct, in use for more than 20 years, as the granddaddy of biological markers.

Hard Fork will Make Bitcoin Cash Faster As the granddaddy of all cryptocurrency Bitcoin was a revolutionary idea built on groundbreaking technology, devised by...

Everyone knew Harley as the granddaddy of motorcycling, but there was a low degree of relevance for them.

Not exact matches

Storage industry granddaddy EMC (EMC) entered the game by buying the firm ScaleIO in July 2013, and there are a number of competing startups, including Nexenta, Maxta, and Nutanix, as well as Red Hat Gluster and Ceph.

Likewise, we use leftover biscuits from the day before, but you can also use sliced white bread like my Grandmother showed me one day when Granddaddy had grabbed the last couple of biscuits she'd stashed away for her dressing as a «snack.»

Inside the world's biggest dating agency It started out as the pet project of a cryogenics enthusiast and grew into the granddaddy of a billion

Launched in 2007, MMIYC has aired Inside the world's biggest dating agency It started out as the pet project of a cryogenics enthusiast and grew into the granddaddy of a billion

The granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho - thrillers will never have the same impact as it did on first release.

In a previous interview, McBride has gone on record as saying that their Halloween is not a «reboot», but rather will continue the mythology set up by the first two movies (Carpenter's slasher granddaddy and Rick Rosenthal's fun, flawed follow - up):

The Skyline is viewed as the «granddaddy» of the Nissan GT - R.

Project Gutenberg, the granddaddy of all eBook libraries, announced today they have put number 40,000 of internally produced free eBooks online as of March 1st.

But try as everyone might, there is no topping the granddaddy of awards shows the one that has spanned seven decades and continues to generate breathless guessing games.

Smashwords, the granddaddy of eBook distributors, sends its books to Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo, as well as sellers in India (Flipkart) and Germany (txtr).

He doesn't quite understand how that could actually happen, but his granddaddy told him that mortgages are bad, and Nick believes his granddaddy, so he goes with a small mortgage — as small as possible.

The original Wolfenstein 3D is the granddaddy of all first - person shooters, and The New Order is looking to breathe new life into the franchise, as it is a reimagining of the classic tale of soldier versus Nazis (this time they will be alternate reality 1960's Nazis!).

BALTIC, Gateshead, until 26 February 2017 The critic Jane Harris, writing in Artforum some years ago, described Italian artist Monica Bonvicini as «something of a heckler», who is «taking aim at the granddaddy of all aesthetic boys clubs: architecture».

What if we viewed painting of the last 60 years with her as the progenitor, rather than the more commonly named granddaddy, Jackson Pollock?

A June 2000 Business Week article referred to physicist Frederick Seitz as «the granddaddy of global - warming skeptics».

The Japanese carrier is a veritable granddaddy as far as the technology goes — it has been deploying LTE commercially as far back as 2005, although it only launched it first LTE - enabled smartphone in November 2011.

But Bitcoin remains the most popular out of it as it is the granddaddy of all the cryptocurrencies.