Sentences with phrase «as cutthroat»

Not so for the mall's tenants, who operate in an environment best labeled as cutthroat.

Is it as cutthroat as I heard?

We don't normally think of legal research as a cutthroat industry, but...

It's not as cutthroat as other places and people don't dread coming in,» juniors told us.

If Buffett was to buy Suntech (nothing's done yet), it would be a great stamp of approval for the industry; We already knew that Buffett thought wind and solar were attractive investments as the owner of many wind and solar farms (see below), but this would also say that the great investor thinks the makers of solar panels will also bounce back to profitability over time and the industry won't stay as cutthroat forever.

There's still micromanagement and tycoon elements, of course, but the proceedings are more puzzle oriented and not nearly as cutthroat.

Modeling in Los Angeles is depicted as a cutthroat, catty industry, which Jesse has flung herself into the middle of.

To Campbell's credit, the film has some impressive action sequences, but it's ultimately the flimsy and derivative story by Robert King, screenwriter for such flops as CUTTHROAT ISLAND and RED CORNER, that handcuffs Campbell with material that could never get off the ground in the first place.

Towards the end of the year, McConaughey also appeared in Martin Scorsese's drama «The Wolf of Wall Street» as cutthroat businessman Mark Hanna; the brief role was most notable for an on - set improvisation in which Hanna leads Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort into a humming, chest - thumping routine in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

The various dating sites on offer are competing for your business in what's described as a cutthroat industry.

New York City is looked upon as cutthroat and the Heartland Nomads changed that.

As a result, with more New Yorkers discovering our charm, market pressures push rents ever higher, jeopardizing affordability and make unscrupulous landlords as cutthroat as ever.

Between the lines, we're meant to wonder, Can this man really run a city as cutthroat as NYC, or is he just too soft a waffler?

Douglas Elliman leads all residential brokerages on Long Island With $ 4.24 billion in sales in 2017, Douglas Elliman remains the largest residential brokerage on Long Island, even as cutthroat competition for top agents brings new challengers to the market.

Although 3DR faced tough competition in the drone market against DJI, Anderson believes that the enterprise software market for drones won't be as cutthroat and that there is room for multiple competitors.

With new refugees from corporate America setting up shop every day, few industries are as cutthroat as consulting.

While some view football as a cutthroat, dog - eat - dog industry, the anecdote shows that even the most stoic of football figures can make moves that benefit both their team and the player they're moving.

There's a gruesome edge to it in the opening, a prologue with David Arquette and Sid Haig as cutthroats who run into the savage tribe, and in the final act, where the tribe's sadistic brutality is shocking even this age of cinema violence.

Not exact matches

Having started nine years ago as a slide - show producer, the company has found itself in one cutthroat industry after another — from systems integration to photo - lab services to Web design, adding hundreds of services in nine different niches.

Trump defends his history of payment disputes as simply the expected cost of being a tough negotiator in a cutthroat business.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

Raised as brothers and princes of Egypt in the palace of Pharaoh senior (John Turturro), the two spend most of the movie opposing each other in a (quite literally) cutthroat manner.

To kick things up a notch, the affable eatery — located lounge - level in the Hotel Palomar situated in the heart of the historic Gaslamp District — recently appointed «culinary cutthroat» Jeremiah Bryant as Chef de Cuisine.

The competition is fierce, as they must impress Rachael and Fabio Viviani (Cutthroat Kitchen: Superstar Sabotage) to stay in the running.

Yet there are sometimes half a dozen cutthroats over three pounds directly under the wire, as those flimsy wires are enough to foil the attempts of even the most efficient bird of prey.

A project of the State Game and Fish Department, it was built with penitentiary labor and installed under the authority of the New Mexico Secretary of State, who handles such official items as the state's official flower (yucca), official mammal (black bear) and official fish (cutthroat trout).

Particularly as the economy tightens down, advertising revenue becomes more important to families, and more cutthroat.

Klein, a Bronx state senator and the IDC's leader, is a cutthroat tactician, as brilliant as he is disingenuous.

The spectacle of someone that smart dropping down through the weight classes to make a scientific pronouncement that could have been made by an untrained man drinking whiskey in front of the television struck me as, well, slightly unfair to those of us forced to try to make a living in the cutthroat and less - lucrative - than - you - might - think field of Easy / Obvious Science.

Other Pacific trout, including sea - run cutthroat and bull trout, which are listed as threatened in Washington, might also retire given the right ecological circumstances.

These days it looks as if the real problems could come from private enterprise as companies competing in the new, cutthroat world of Internet business use every trick they can to gain an advantage.

But as waters in the region warm, rainbow trout have swum up from the western lakes where they were introduced decades ago to cutthroat native grounds.

As rainbow trout meet and interbreed with dwindling cutthroat trout populations, the survival of cutthroat trout is at risk.

That means managers had been accidentally stocking streams with Colorado River cutthroat, which are not listed as endangered.

Introgression poses a serious threat to all 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout in western North America due to widespread stocking and invasion of non-native trout into historical cutthroat trout habitats (Trotter 2008); two subspecies are now extinct, five are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and seven have been petitioned for listing.

In times of war and in the cutthroat world of crowded public gyms, the end justifies the means, you said to yourself as you jumped on to the machine this guy got up from to search for another plate.

Being engaged with married lady is really a nice option as having a single girl by your side is like a cutthroat fight.

CBSNEWS — Jan 27 — As they face cutthroat competition several top sites have overhauled their online dating experience, and up - and - coming companies are wooing people like the marriage - minded, the security - conscious, and the religious.

As an international, white label dating solution provider that has a massive global database of users and helps people instantly set up their dating site, make money online, generate revenue and traffic, we at Dating Factory felt obligated switching to a system that will improve the performance of clientele and provide everyone who partners with a competitive edge in this cutthroat business.

Starring then - rising actor Timothy Bottoms as a first - year Harvard law student and Bridges» former mentor, Houseman, as a stern professor, The Paper Chase was an acerbic look at academia's cutthroat atmosphere that unexpectedly resonated with the popular audience.

It's a measure of The Aviator's complexity and ambiguity that it can be read equally as a celebration of rugged, capitalist individualism and as a leftist critique of cutthroat free - market competition.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

As Call of Duty prepares to enter into the cutthroat world of Battle Royale games through Blackout, can it take the top spot from Fortnite?

Meryl Streep was superb as a fashion editor of great ego and heartless ambition, whose career depends on cutthroat rivalry in «The Devil Wears Prada.»

It's not just bad art, it's unscrupulous, cutthroat capitalism; and just as we reject cheap knock - offs of quality product, we should probably look the other way when presented with something called Hellraiser: Hellworld.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

He followed these films up with such popular films as «The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine,» «Cutthroat Island,» «The Long Kiss Goodnight,» Cliffhanger» and «Deep Blue Sea.»

Zac Ephron is great as the innocent, fresh - faced Richard who's new to the cutthroat world of the theatre.

Red Water (August 17; 8 to 10 p.m.; TBS), with Lou Diamond Phillips as a Louisiana riverboat captain and Kristy Swanson as his scientist ex-wife, seems about to blame some of the carnage that occurs in this movie on an oil company as well as a bull shark, but then retreats to blaming Coolio and a gang of treasure - hunting cutthroats.

Nursery University (Unrated) Head start documentary explores the cutthroat competition among anxious parents trying to place their Ivy League - bound toddlers in one of Manhattan's most exclusive preschools, where tuition is as much as $ 40,000 a year.