Sentences with phrase «as more entertainment»

While ancient Romans did not discourage the practice, they appear to have been much more reserved in their opinion, brushing off ropewalking as more entertainment than sport.

As much as we want to talk about what we love, we should avoid doing so, and think of our profile as more entertainment.

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That's certainly true at big entertainment sites, such as YouTube and MySpace, where clicks directly translate into more ad revenue.

Sousa has also written to the federal government asking them to delay HST input tax credits that would have allowed companies with $ 10 million or more in sales to claim certain expenses such as meals, drinks and entertainment until 2018.

Younger adults are far less likely to subscribe and even older families are cutting back, as more and more viewership shifts to online entertainment like Netflix (nflx), Hulu, and Google's (googl) YouTube.

Cord - cutting, instantly - available highlights on social media, increased viewing options and changing viewing habits... all those factors and more make «business as usual» an untenable strategy not just for sports but for the entertainment industry in general.

VR also helps those new to the workforce pick up concepts more quickly, as it leverages a learning platform built upon technology they're already using in social and entertainment settings.

Sirius has focused on original content as a way to draw in more subscribers, which is right out of the playbook of Netflix and other entertainment streaming services.

Goldman Sachs is expected to dismiss more support staff such as tech workers and reject spendings such as entertainment and hotel stays unless it's directly necessary for serving a client.

Months later, an agreement had yet to be reached, even amid talk of more consolidation throughout the entertainment industry, including Lionsgate being mentioned as a potential suitor for Viacom's Paramount Pictures.

NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke made it clear that he sees DreamWorks as much more than just a creator of family - friendly entertainment it can fold into its animation arm.

With the advent of the smartphone came a boon for the gaming industry, and new niches within the indie - gaming scene have created a whole new lens through which games can be viewed; we are more aware than ever that games can teach us or exist as experiential art in addition to the entertainment they provide.

Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, is in a great position to capitalize on this trend as it owns or controls more than 100 of the most popular music venues in the country and gets a cut of ticketing fees to boot.

The group addressed the situation on the cover of the May 3, 2003 issue of Entertainment Weekly, where they appeared naked and adorned with some of the more creative slurs that had been lobbed their way, such as «Saddam's Angels» and «Dixie Sluts.»

Caesars Entertainment was taken private in one of the largest and ill - timed leveraged buyouts in history, and the company has struggled under the weight of the debt used to finance the move along with increased competition as more jurisdictions legalize gambling.

«The emphasis on sports is part of Kim Jong Un's strategy to construct and highlight more of what makes life fun, such as culture and entertainment,» explained Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, associate scholar at the Philadelphia - based Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing in consumer and advertising behavior were more than just a speed bump.

With more and more televisions interacting with the smart home, the TV could become more than just the entertainment centerpiece of the home, transforming into the control hub as well.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) will host the Middle East's biggest ever pay - per - view event in Saudi Arabia on Friday, as it looks to capitalize on the kingdom's more open stance to foreign entertaiEntertainment (WWE) will host the Middle East's biggest ever pay - per - view event in Saudi Arabia on Friday, as it looks to capitalize on the kingdom's more open stance to foreign entertainmententertainment brands.

The previously sleepy conglomerate — which owns properties like Nickelodeon and BET — exploded into life earlier this year, as 93 - year - old billionaire and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone seemed to be taking a more active interest in the goings on at his entertainment business.

CEO Kotick said in a statement, «We should emerge even stronger — an independent company with a best - in - class franchise portfolio and the focus and flexibility to drive long - term shareholder value and expand our leadership position as one of the world's most important entertainment companies... The transactions announced today will allow us to take advantage of attractive financing markets while still retaining more than US$ 3 billion cash on hand to preserve financial stability.»

The Trump brand, as developed by The Donald, spans a wide variety of industries including real estate, hospitality, entertainment, mortgages, restaurants and catering, ice cream, online travel, menswear, fragrance, golf, home furnishings, transportation, model management, vodka and more.

Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar said 31 million homes in the United States could cut the cord on pay television or drastically scale back on such services as more consumers opt for Internet - delivered entertainment.

He has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, including serving as the longtime business editor for the Oakland Tribune and sister papers of the Bay Area News Group, as well as covering public entertainment companies for Hollywood trade papers Daily Variety and Variety.

As an industry content leader, Participant annually produces up to six narrative feature films, five documentary films, three episodic television series, and more than 40 hours of digital short form programming, through its digital subsidiary SoulPancake — all aimed at entertainment that inspires social awareness and engaging audiences to participate in positive social change.

LDJ Capital (http://ldjcapital.com/) is a multi-family office that invests and manages investments for partners and clients in the areas of hospitality, real estate, energy, pharma, tech, telecom, mobile, entertainment, media, publishing, advertising, compliance services, aerospace, shipping & transportation, and more recently digital assets, such as cryptocurrency and blockchain firms through ICOs.

And as time goes on, you keep asking it for more information and for more entertainment.

For more than a decade, he was behind every crucial decision as Apple rolled out blockbuster hits from the iPod to the iPad, changing how people listen to music and watch entertainment, reshaping entire industries and making Apple the world's most valuable tech company.

Think of it as slightly more than entertainment value but far less than a reliable guide to investment.

Some speculate that the live streaming service will shift its e-sports focus (in Chinese) and use the new money to build a pan-entertainment platform encompassing entertainment programs, variety shows, e-sports and more, as the exorbitant costs related to purchases of e-sports tournament royalties, salaries of starring presenters (the signing bonus of a famous presenter can be as high as tens of millions of RMB) and content distribution network charges (can be as high as RMB 20 million every month) have made e-sports a cash - burning business.

As the cost of goods continues to rise, so should the investor's dividend payments which in turn allow them to buy the same amount of basic goods such as food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment as they have in the past — if not morAs the cost of goods continues to rise, so should the investor's dividend payments which in turn allow them to buy the same amount of basic goods such as food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment as they have in the past — if not moras food, shelter, clothing, and entertainment as they have in the past — if not moras they have in the past — if not more.

These new features make Alexa even more valuable as an entertainment voice assistant, which is key to Amazon and Alexa integrating with more video service providers and third - party manufacturers.

As consumers, we're spending more and more on entertainment and travel, and that plays right into MGM Resorts» (NYSE: MGM) hands.

And, as the current leader in the space, Netflix has a good shot at accruing more than its fair share of profits as home entertainment morphs into an internet - based service over the coming decades.

As consumers look for more awe - inspiring entertainment, we'll see nongaming revenue grow.

you can have a court system that is supposed to deal non-violently with solutions to these dillimmas but mostely it is entertainment and laughable in it's core justice to begin with humans are human so how does the newer muslim prophet propose to become more than human in response to violence and as a tool for enactment for change — if necessary?

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

To perhaps reframe Hanson's concern so it is more in line with Jacques Ellul, what we now understand as «entertainment» has become so radically alterted by our technical rationality and the deep problems associated with it that it is deadening in ways that we do not realize.

C. Urge local public broadcasting stations to carry more programming from other nations, particularly developing nations, such programming to encompass artistic and entertainment programming as well as news and information.

In a cinematic era where blond - haired, green - eyed Emma Stone can be cast as part Chinese and Marvel inexplicably replaced an Asian man with a white woman in Doctor Strange, it will be a welcome change to see more diverse faces in entertainment.

~ the music and visual entertainment that resembles more to something spewed out of the pits of hell, then something human beings would dream up, unless they are demon possessed... ~ the perversion of God's natural order and His intent for human kind, and justifying of it, calling it good, even using the Name of Christ to justify it, such as this article is clearly showing...

The Liberator Devil therefore encourages more democratic forms of desecration that combine moral outrage with entertainment, as is the case with rap artists like Ice - T or the rock singer G. G. Allin, who, in an expression of artistic freedom, once defecated on stage and threw the feces at the audience.

Evangelical Phill Butler, for example, has criticized a large percentage of paid - time programs as «not much more than a glossy pabulum — spiritualized entertainment with little of the tough stuff of discipleship in it.»

Making sense of Christian history as a living resource, peopled not with venerated abstractions but men and women as alive and individual as you or I, seems critical at a time when storytelling and imitation are more the province of secular entertainment than sacred order.

Bro, put even 10 percent of your efforts, and all you other readers as well, just 10 percent of effort towards cutting down death in the media in entertainment form and you will do FAR MORE than by taking away guns from the people.

«There is a lot more lounge space and an entertainment area in there, as well as bigger private dining areas,» Humphries adds.

«The facility in Middleton will be repurposed into more of an entertainment venue, and we will do more special events and private events, such as wedding receptions, award ceremonies for local companies, graduation parties, things like that.»

With more than 40 years of success as a nationally recognized leader in family dining and entertainment, Chuck E. Cheese's has been revamping its decades - old menu to stay relevant and bring its items up to today's industry standards.

To help fund continued commercialization of the PlantBottle technology and make it more economically viable for all, Coke has collaborated with a number of suppliers - as well as consumer packaged goods (CPG) partners, including Heinz and SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment.

From corporate events with dinner, dancing, and entertainment to more intimate occasions like a brunch, breakfast, luncheon or supper - for business or pleasure - businesses, corporations, and associations as well as families, friends, and co-workers, discover that Temecula Valley's group venues and restaurant dining are ideal for holiday celebrations making Temecula Valley a favored celebration destination.