Sentences with phrase «as being at the top»

The Gunners have several players who are seen as being at the top of the game, such as Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil.

Being the best just isn't the same as being at the top of the card, but no one tries to deny that the man was a draw.

Consequently, it is an elite level study of an elite level attitude which is being assessed as it is at the top of the Labour Party where the important policy decisions are made.

Two researchers found the largest targeted group are women over 50 as they are at the top of the salary grid.

When stocks are priced at the times fair value (as they were at the top of the bubble), only $ 350 of each $ 1,000 you put into an index fund is going to the purchase of shares of businesses.

It is a major problem as a solo traveler as we are at the top of the list when it comes to who gets bumped first.

He's a fan of winter as long as he's at the top of a mountain with a board under his feet.

All 12 of the up - and - coming barristers selected by their London peers as being at the top of their game are passionate about proactively promoting the law, even though the way they each do this differs.

Ive was one of seven individuals recognized by the university as being at the top of their respective fields.

As long as you're at the top of the food chain, things are great.

Not exact matches

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee and led Tuesday's hearing, chuckled at the idea America's legislators are out of the loop.

So you put what's known as a stretch goal at the top of the page.

He headed up Bausch & Lomb until the eye care specialist was snatched up by the (now - infamous) Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); sat at the top perch of Forest Laboratories before becoming CEO of that company's acquirer, Actavis, in 2014; and, finally, took over as the top dog at Allergan after Actavis bought it and adopted the Botox - maker's name.

Disappointing as this may sound, the lack of women at the top is not the biggest issue here — it's merely a symptom of something far more insidious: unconscious bias against women.

As I like to say: it's lonely at the top, but at least it's not crowded.

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

Former Viacom senior executive Tom Dooley was named as Dauman's replacement, but he announced last week that he will be leaving the company soon, which leaves a leadership vacuum at the top of Viacom — a vacuum that makes a merger with CBS even more likely, some believe.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

On top of things like people chatting and rattling service carts, engine noise levels inside the cabin can be as loud as 85 dB at cruising altitude — that's nearing levels that can be dangerous with extended exposure.

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

While top - down channels are used to communicate vision and strategy in order to get policies and processes aligned with them, bottom - up processes are necessary too, in order for leaders to be aware of the issues faced at the lower levels, as well as to measure the impact of the policies and practices implemented.

Your goal at this point is to motivate them to make a purchase, so your messaging doesn't have to be as gentle and indirect as it was in the content you create for people at the top of the funnel.

She was on the short list of candidates to take over the top spot at Uber as recently as late 2017 but opted out of the running.

It stands above the chief executive just as the CEO is at the top of the organizational chart.

During my time as a consultant with Intel, I was witness to one of the first true wearable collaborations of a Silicon Valley technology company, Intel, and a high - end NYC fashion company, Opening Ceremony — both at the top of their game in respective industries.

Facebook's latest conquest, the Oculus Rift, got top billing at this year's Comic - Con, as event goers were able to use the headset to hunt virtually for X-men mutants.

If you can, place the interviewer's video window at the very top of your screen so it is as close to the camera as possible.

As the job market rebounds and top talent enjoys greater opportunity, we need a better way to ensure our managers are performing at a baseline level across the board.

His main role at IAC over the years was in M&A as Barry Diller's top deals man.

At the top of the leaderboard, shares of Smurfit Kappa rose over 18 percent after Europe's largest producer of paper - based packaging rejected an unsolicited proposal from International Paper — arguing it is better to remain as an independent business.

Meanwhile, Adidas, which is not often associated with golf in the U.S. (although the German corporation owns TaylorMade, the top golf equipment maker), has branding potential as well at this year's Open in current top contender Dustin Johnson.

At the other end of the European benchmark, Cobham was a top gainer, jumping 10 percent by the close as it reported a pretax profit in 2017, after having registered a loss in the previous year.

They are at the top of myriad engineering and technology micro-markets, such as manufacturing the metal carriage that holds champagne corks in place or the machine that makes the scooper for Italian gelato.

The top scorer with more than five years at the helm was chosen as CEO of the Year.

When Jobs resigned from the top post at Apple in August, Slywotzky blogged that he was seen as an inspired savant who took big risks on personal hunches.

The command from the top could be as obvious as «I've got the ball on the Tipton account,» or as subtle as «Let me know when you're done with your analysis of the Tipton account — I want to take a look at your recommendations.»

What I can say though, Wolf, is, as you said, we were public about the fact that we were dealing with cyber intrusions and the State Department was public about that, but the fact of the matter is that we have different systems here at the White House, so we have an unclassified system and then we have a classified system, a top - secret system.

Whether it's doing the daily cross-word, conversing on difficult subjects, learning a language, or simply doing an interesting manual task, keeping active is at the heart of mental health, and the sine qua non of keeping on top of memory as you age.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Ms. Huffington about the sleep crisis and a world where you can sleep your way to the top and you won't be looked at as an unsavory character, where you're encouraged by management to snooze at work, and where sleeping longer will earn you a cash reward from your employer.

When I set out my 2014 to - do list (I don't set goals), getting published as a writer was at the top of it (and I have no idea why because I had never written anything before).

Basically if you, as a programmer, spent time at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, or Harvey Mudd College, you're viewed as a top candidate even if you didn't stick around for the diploma.

The San Francisco Bay Area, recognized as a global hub of tech finance and innovation, may be at risk of losing top tech workers if they can't afford to live there, even on six - figure salaries.

But flattery or, to be blunt, sucking up to superiors appears to be at least as useful in the climb to the top.

As the saying goes, it's lonely at the top.

He also had a top flight Wall Street reputation: In 2011, he had reportedly been approached by Steve Jobs for the CFO role at Apple but turned it down, according to Bloomberg; he was at one point named as a possible successor to Stephen Schwarzman.

With SpaceX hoping to make its rockets completely reusable, the company has been upgrading its payload fairings — the nose cone at the top of the rocket — as part of these efforts.

The resulting ranking — which puts HEC Montreal in the top spot — offers 10 schools worth considering if you're looking to do an MBA in as short a time as possible at a relatively low cost, while still attending an institution with a reputation that will make your degree stand out.

As you're looking for candidates to fill top positions at your company, set your sights on growth opportunities — both for your employees and your company's human capital.

«I look at them as kind of the top - down voice to this audience, and we're one of the bottom - up voices,» Levin says.