Sentences with phrase «at cutthroat»

The second release from OnePlus hasn't got the blood pumping as rapidly as the OnePlus One, but it's still offering some premium specs at a cutthroat price.

Various jewellery shops and dealers across Mumbai offer gold at cutthroat rates throughout the year.

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The series follows a group of first - year associates (including Tina Majorino from «Veronica Mars») at a cutthroat Los Angeles law firm where the managing partners (including Billy Zane) are locked in a battle for control.

When my husband was briefly working at a cutthroat corporate lawfirm in the US, one of his colleagues, a married 30 - something year old woman, was called in for an evaluation in which the firm's managing partner essentially told her «You're doing great, and if you'd like to have a baby sometime soon, it's ok with us.»

Not exact matches

«The Deed: Chicago» explores a side of real estate that other property shows ignore — an unflinching look at how fortunes are really made in the unpredictable and cutthroat world of real estate flipping and development.

To find out, researchers from the University of London zoomed in for a three - year look at the assumedly cutthroat global reinsurance industry — a $ 260 - billion dollar financial market that insures insurance companies against large - scale losses.

All this was accomplished by building a corporate culture aimed at making running about camaraderie rather than cutthroat competition.

Today, she's called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she'd spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

Ann Curry, another former «Today» cohost who left the show after just about one year «felt that the boys» club atmosphere behind the scenes at Today undermined her from the start, and she told friends that her final months were a form of professional torture,» according to Brian Stelter's 2014 book «Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV.»

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.

So we're starting to orient some of our innovation at China first,» he added, highlighting the cutthroat competition.

In the age - old stereotypes about the business world, competition is always cutthroat, corners exist to be cut, companies are eternally at war with one another, and the bottom line is all that matters.

Football is a cutthroat sport, and at the very top level, which Liverpool is aiming to be, you have to make cutthroat choices.

Most who specialize at a young age (before sixth grade) don't know what they are getting themselves into: a cutthroat, high - stakes, business run by adults.

Yet it's Spitzer's temperament, even more than his biography, that truly embodies the city: He's restless, idealistic, and cutthroat at the same time, and always playing offense.

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

These results and those of Boyer et al. (2008) suggest that remaining non-hybridized cutthroat trout populations may be at greater risk than previously thought.

If you can avoid these, you can at least make yourself competitive in the cutthroat world of online dating.

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.

Huggins then is remade into a cutthroat mudslinger at the urging of a hired campaign manager (Dylan McDermott) with ulterior motives of his own.

Lionsgate has a new version of Renny Harlin's epic bomb Cutthroat Island (1995) that helped to kill the underrated Carolco production company and did not help MGM at the time either.

To distract us from that inconvenient fact, in «Cutthroat Island,» Harlin finds a way to shoot at, explode or otherwise destroy just about everything in his line of vision.

At first, Marty appears to be the unlikeliest possible choice but, with the help of his new benefactors» support, a cutthroat campaign manager and his family's political connections, he soon becomes a contender who gives the charismatic Cam plenty to worry about.

Maybe director Renny Harlin, who's her husband, rattled her saber enough to make her want to play the part with such pert zeal that «Cutthroat Island» seems at times like a dizzy Gilbert & Sullivan costume show without any saucy music.

How Scott Frank finally got his cutthroat look at our frontier nation on TV — and why you shouldn't consider this a «feminist Western»

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.

DeHaan plays a cutthroat Wall Streeter sent to retrieve his company's CEO at a luxurious spa resort in the Swiss Alps.

The first was, of course, «Cutthroat Island,» a movie so phenomenally unsuccessful it sunk Carolco Pictures and likely had the nabobs at New Line nervous about the $ 65 million they gave them for this.

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Scuttled in early Hollywood by the far more popular western, the pirate movie was left adrift for decades, coming into port every now and again only to find nary a piece of eight at the box office (cf. Polanski's The Pirates (1986), Cutthroat Island (1995)-RRB-.

Meanwhile, at Aldous» US label home Pinnacle Records, junior exec and big time Aldous fan Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) pitches the idea of resurrecting Aldous» career to his cutthroat boss Sergio (a never - better Sean Combs) by planning a 10 - year anniversary show of Aldous» mega-selling live album.

It's extremely difficult — and expensive — to film in water, and the price of failure can be massive (see Waterworld, which went wildly over budget and torpedoed Kevin Costner's career as an A-Lister, or Cutthroat Island, which performed so badly at the box office that its production company went bankrupt).

A cutthroat doubles match at an indoor tennis facility opens The Squid and the Whale and brusquely sets the stakes: Joan Berkman (Laura Linney) and her youngest son, Frank (Owen Kline), face off against her eldest son, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg), and her husband, Bernard (Jeff Daniels).

At first, Marty appears to be the unlikeliest possible choice but, with the help of his new benefactors» support and a cutthroat campaign manager, he soon becomes a contender who gives the charismatic Cam plenty to worry about.

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz): «Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night,» says diva supreme Bette Davis in this immortal take on the freaks of the theater, including Anne Baxter as Davis» cutthroat protégée, George Sanders as an acerbic critic and the young Marilyn Monroe as a budding talent who trained, claims the critic, «at the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts.»

It was also cheap compared to the Carolco original (by 1999 they'd gone bankrupt after Cutthroat Island) but at least The Return was a real movie.

These clothed cuties can be cutthroat at any given moment — an early scene features a humorous, yet heated, verbal exchange between the three acid - tongued sisters cursing at the local affable groundskeeper who dared to acknowledge them through a friendly greeting.

In spite of some truly cutthroat behavior at times, the characters here get along almost too well.

The last big budget attempt at an honest - to - god pirate movie (and I'm excluding last year's «Treasure Planet» because it was a mixture of genres) was «Cutthroat Island,» which was such a disastrous flop that it not only wounded director Renny Harlin's career, but his marriage to Geena Davis as well.

: The then husband and wife team of director Renny Harlin and actress Gena Davis came close to scuttling the pirate movie with 1995's «Cutthroat Island» — at least until Jack Sparrow would resurrect the genre.

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH By Graham Fuller British Filmmaker Terence Davies» magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of tragic social downfall is an emotionally devastating look at the hothouse world of turn of the century polite society — and its cutthroat values.

Green Room places a young punk band in the wrong place at the wrong time, up against a gang of cutthroat neo-Nazis led by Patrick Stewart.

At Stuyvesant, for example, students and teachers identified the cutthroat environment as a factor in the rampant dishonesty that plagued the school.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

The rich habitat around Ladder Ranch allows at - risk species, such as leopard frogs and cutthroat trout, to survive and also helps healthy species thrive.

«The world of high finance provides a thrilling setting for Hemphill's fine debut about survival in a cutthroat business where millions of dollars are at stake and the wrong comment can cost you your job.»

What tools as a novelist does Galassi use to paint a portrait of life in the city, both in and out of the publishing industry, that is at once cutthroat and romantic?

With its cutthroat multiplayer experience, pitting six or eight major powers in a competition for dominance, March of the Eagles should prove popular not just with novice strategists but with players at all levels of experience.