Sentences with phrase «as major player on»

Overall, it seems that Microsoft has managed to establish its platform as a major player on the market (thanks to Nokia) and their platform has occupied the third place after Android and iOS.

«The real trigger for the rise of the Wildrose party as a major player on the Alberta political stage was Ed Stelmach's royalty review,» Bratt explained in the Calgary Herald in 2012.

Obviously Al Gore could explain it as a major player on the wealth creation side.

Uncertain art and shaky footing combined with enormous potential at the fair's debut — and there were signs aplenty that San Jose could emerge as major player on the international art circuit.

When the Xbox 360 launched in 2005, the system became popular on the market and further solidified Microsoft as a major player on the...

The Silence of the Lambs opened up the Best Picture categories genre requirements, Miramax established itself as a major player on the indie scene with Best Picture squarely in its sights, and Steven Spielberg went from being official Oscar bridesmaid to one of its all - time favorites.

This award is well deserved and will establish the Laboratory as a major player on the world stage in regenerative medicine.»

For tonight, however, Liverpool fans will just be focused on a good result against Porto as they look to establish themselves as major players on the European stage once again.

Not exact matches

The site's coach pool currently includes dozens of players on Major League Soccer and Major League Lacrosse rosters, as well as thousands of former college athletes and a slew of retired pros.

Major players involved in the telecommunications industry have signed on as partners of the Internet.org initiative, including Ericsson, Samsung, and Qualcomm.

Deployed on 19,000 sites across the world, it has attracted a 65 % of the Industrial Fortune 500s as customers, including major players in industries like energy, chemicals, manufacturing, pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, transportation and more.

In response to albeit leading questions posed to many of the integral players in the company who were on hand for the premiere of General Magic, most focused on climate change and lack of diversity in tech (not of the ideological kind) as major problems.

Things within the industry may change as a result — a shakeout of weaker players, perhaps, and a renewed focus on the most profitable customers — but overall the credit card industry remains a major player in the U.S. economy.

Evangelicalism, with as many students in the 15 schools represented as all the rest put together, along with para-church networks and mass - media outlets, is a major new player on the theological scene.

Personal care and cosmetics companies are increasingly focusing on recyclable and sustainable packaging, as evidenced by recent moves among major players Unilever, Procter & Gamble and Lush Cosmetics.

Now, as an influx of innovation comes from startups looking to get in on the new movement in coffee, the major players in the beverage industry are also now seeking a stake in the game — and they have the resources to quickly dominate the field.

My stating that a decision made on Dotson will have his health as a major determining factor doesn't mean that I'm dismissing poor play by other players.

The poll also answers other burning questions of our time, such as which golfer his peers would want on his back in a bar fight (hint: it's not Bubba Watson), who has the «prettiest swing» on tour («Not the Americans, that's for sure,» noted one LPGA voter), whether the PGA Tour should ditch Doral because of Donald Trump's controversial positions (nope), and whether LPGA players believe Michelle Wie will win another major (not so much).

NBA players have five times as many road games as their NFL counterparts and far more free time on trips than do major league baseball players.

Depay is unlikely to be the last major arrival at the club this summer as rumours have seen United linked with a host of players including Borussia Dortmund's deep - lying playmaker Ilkay Gundogan, who is set to make an announcement on his future in the coming weeks according to the Manchester Evening News.

Lionel Messi will go down as one of the sport's all - time greatest players, but the one major knock on his career resume is his lack of international success with Argentina.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

With all the strange goings on this season, I think there is a good chance that at least two of the players targeted by Arsenal for a transfer move to north London last summer will be regretting their decision, as both Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez were wanted by Arsene Wenger after playing major parts in the amazing Premier League title win of the Foxes.

Injuries are of major concern but more importantly when the game is not going how you expect you don't leave it till the final ten minutes to change the dynamic, and you don't field your best 11 against the lesser teams (unless you don't trust the players on the bench, in which case you should sell them) sometimes I wish he was as brave as mourinho who is not afraid to take a player off at half time if he thinks it provides him with a better chance of winning.

The fact that the England and Germany international forwards did lift the home crowd and the other Arsenal players so much coming on as subs is one of the major reasons why Arsene Wenger will be happy to have them on the bench tomorrow.

The owners want a draft as a way to control the costs of a burgeoning international landscape, while the players association can use international amateurs as a bargaining chip to negotiate for other things in the CBA that might help current MLBPA members, the players on 40 - man major league rosters.

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

As things stand now, a Tour player must be 40 and have 10 victories or two majors to get on the ballot.

So overall, yeah, we've probably been too harsh on Markakis as fans, and he's shown that he is still a Major League - caliber player.

With Ramsey, wilshere, le coq xhaka ozil and santi to cum back Jesus he's even pooping elneny into defence to make him feel part squad there's one more coming in there be no defender coming no midfielder it prop be lemar or whoever one more player guys he said 3 players tops we could be even finished as it is but I do think one more is on way so I don't get people who say get sari get Kieta get van diik get mahrez haha it's all rubbish wenger to loyal I love wenger since I was 15 I'm now 35 he's being major part my life like my grandad but let's be real I wouldn't be surprised if he brought diaby back it is wat it is not FIFA we got good squad lemer prop coming if we're lucky Sanchez prop going out

A D - III player transferring, on scholarship, to a high - major D - I happens as often as NBA teams sign players straight out of, say, the Philippines» pro league: never.

A player Spurs must hold on to, Hugo Lloris has been linked with Manchester United this summer but will no doubt be a major figure as number one goalkeeper if he stays.

Every season you lose your best players to injury and while you haven't found a way to solve that you wishing another club the same curse... mind you they were able to rush back their top players to full fitness before their supposed comeback dates... what do you think would have happened to Arsenal if Sanchez spent the same time as Harry Kane on the sidelines in the 2016 - 17 season... We have always been praying that others have poor performances so that we can scoop the «top four trophy» every season but we fail to solve the major problem which will make us strong contenders for both domestic and European Cups.

However, any potential move could be put on hold for the time being as the player's wife is expected to give birth to their second child soon so he may want to wait until after the new baby has arrived until he makes any major decisions.

With Thomas Tuchel bringing in a wealth of quality young talent though, it remains to be seen how long Reus is a part of their plans as a major offer could tempt them into selling and focusing on developing the young players that they've signed over the last year or so.

With some major doubts over the futures of players like Robin van Persie, Radamel Falcao, Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj, it looks as though some quality attackers are on the agenda, as well as reinforcements in other areas.

He's back as a legit top - 5 player, finishing second and third in the final two majors of the year before going on that postseason run (which we may never see again).

We had major financial retraints and on top of it, Wenger had to rebuild our squad every new season as our keys players all left, yet we remained in the top 4.

One major plus point in the forward's favour is that he is a versatile player, but the problem is that his two best positions are playing on the left of a front three or playing through the middle as our centre forward and those two positions are currently occupied by the in form Olivier Giroud and the brilliant and almost undroppable Alexis Sanchez.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

So what is it about returning starters on a 15 - 18 team that puts it on the same level as a 24 - 9 team that lost 1 major player?

While they did splash out # 75m on defender Virgil van Dijk, as noted by BBC Sport, which does incidentally address a major weakness in the current squad, it doesn't cater for the loss of one of their best players.

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This will no doubt come as a major boost for the Reds as they look to improve on their attacking options for next season, with players like Mario Balotelli and Rickie Lambert failing to adequately replace the goals of Luis Suarez and the injury - prone Daniel Sturridge upfront.

The Belgium international was not even on the bench for Spurs as they won 3 - 1 at Stamford Bridge yesterday — seen as a major signal from Mauricio Pochettino that he's ready to sell the player.

Nevertheless, Monaco will be desperate for him to focus on the remainder of this season as they go for glory on various fronts, but it will be a major loss for them to see him leave so early in his career as they continue to produce quality young players.

According to a Daily Star report, Ronald Koeman has suffered a major blow in his hopes of holding on to his star player, as the 25 - year old has rejected the offer of a new contract with his current club.

Excatly, arsenal fans will always amaze me, we started good in the league with some of our major players to come and all our fans can focus on is chelsea, chill out guys the season just started and the window not closed yet, arteta and giroud are injured and verm is gone wenger will sort either of arteta and verm and might sign a striker if he does great if he does nt so what, he said he signed sanchez as a striker, sanchez isnt good enough for you???

One more person has to go as soon as and thats ShadyStan, usmanov is an arsenal fan and will spend our own money whilst balancing books (getting rid of deadwood players and staff on the ridiculous wages most are on) he likes wenger but fans would mean more to him if he was the owner i could near guantee it we would see major ambition changes at the club... its funny though he would only be spending what we already have in the bank after this season is over and there will be more than the 200m quoted time n time again by the media.

Three of the four players who won this year's majors — Tiger Woods (Masters), Justin Leonard (British Open) and Davis Love III (PGA)-- are on the U.S. team, as are seven of the top 12 players in the World Ranking.