Sentences with phrase «at a gaining ground»

Spotify is experimenting with a new podcast initiative that's said to be aimed at gaining ground on the current leader in the field, Apple, as a way to convince Spotify users on iOS to stick around in the Spotify app, and not migrate over to Apple Podcasts.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

The face - off between the two countries gained ground after Russia warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down.

«The U.S. economy is doing well, the manufacturing sector is gaining ground, the economy is at full employment, but inflation pressures are rising,» said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics.

In a February report, Synergy Research Group noted, «Amazon Web Services (AWS) is maintaining its dominant share of the burgeoning public cloud services market at over 40 percent, while the three main chasing cloud providers — Microsoft, Google and IBM — are gaining ground but at the expense of smaller players in the market.»

* Conventional wisdom is that Obama gained at least a tiny bit of ground on Wednesday night.

Analyst Josh Sullivan at Sterne Agee CRT said that while Alcoa's value - added businesses gained ground in the aerospace and automotive markets during the third quarter, declines in premiums and alumina pricing keeps him cautious on the company, and prompted him to cut his 2015 EPS estimate this week to 71 cents from 83 cents and his 2016 outlook to 72 cents from 90 cents.

Uber claims Waymo's lawsuit is baseless and is only suing because they were upset they were losing top talent at a time when competing companies began gaining ground.

Any productivity gains would have to be allocated to equity owners at the expense of bond holders and workers who would merely tread water or lose ground as the economy expands.

... the market will either moves sideways (consolidates) while it digests its gains and then regain its strength or move directly into higher ground with little consolidation at all.

But know that when you submit your link report at the end of the month to your client and / or direct reports with a roster of these kinds of links — those with high potential to be acquired by your competitors in the future — you will not have gained ground — you will have only ran uphill in quicksand.

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

I am tempted to stop colouring my hair, to let go of my red hair at last, admit defeat and welcome with open arms the grey that is gaining ground on my coarse mane.

When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»

If you look at the Middle East and the rise of ISIS and targeted attacks against Christians, then you can see also where the Islamic extremists have been gaining ground in Egypt.

This abusive, shame - based theology that responds to disaster, abuse, and pain with calloused flippancy at best and perpetuation at worst, all because suffering is what people «deserve» anyway, has gained far too much ground within evangelicalism.

As a result it is made easy for the secular law to gain ever more ground at the expense of the religious.

A veritable Ego at the summit of the world is needed for the consummation, without confounding them, of all the elemental egos of Earth... I have talked of the «Christian view», but this idea is gaining ground in other circles.

The origin of the grilled ground beef patty on a bun is a matter of some dispute, but what's certain is that they first gained widespread popularity with hungry patrons at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri.

Most of us would probably prefer the two big title rivals to draw and claim just a point each, which would let Arsenal gain ground on both, assuming we win our own game at home to Brighton of course.

[The ACC] is gaining ground on everybody,» saysDavid Cutcliffe, the first - year coach at Duke.

And if you are Isco, who is gradually gaining ground at Bernabeu, you will leave for Arsenal,?

I am more upset at how the club is being ran into the ground for the short term gains and how sporting side has to cover the business side for profits, I honestly believe that we could have Klopp or Pep right now and we would still be moaning about the players in the squad, difference is the manager might also be moaning and finding his way out the club pretty quick for something better.

For the very qualities that make them indispensible at the time of crisis prevents them from gaining a higher ground.

As for the AL wild card, the Twins loss meant the Angels had a chance to gain ground on them, but instead, they dropped their game to the Indians, clinching the guarantee of at least a wild card for Boston.

With the Gunners having dropped three points at Everton and facing Man City on Sunday, United have a huge chance to gain ground with a win over Crystal Palace tonight.

In 10 straight games last year between Sept. 20 and Sept. 30, Mattingly drove in at least one run as the Yanks battled to gain ground on the Toronto Blue Jays.

AC Milan were held to a frustrating 1 - 1 draw at home by Sassuolo on Sunday night, as they missed an opportunity to gain ground on the top four teams in Serie A.

Speaking as a 59 year old experienced supporter who has attended many NLD dating back to the early seventies I can honestly say that prior to the kick off and gaining entry into the ground at White Hart Lane was my worst ever experience ever at that ground.

There will always be the odd gripe here and there, but this divide is huge, a fan - base that just shouts at each other to gain the moral high - ground.

Norwich proved a sterner test at the weekend than what was desirable with this crunch Champions League tie approaching, but the confidence gained from grounding out a result after going a goal down and spurning numerous chances shows that this Arsenal side are vastly different from previous years.

We parked up around a quarter of an hour's walk from the ground and, for the first time this season, gained entry with no sign of a queue at the turnstiles.

A trip to Old Trafford is always a daunting experience, however Norwich will surely feel they have nothing to lose but everything to gain this weekend as they boldly go in search of their third consecutive league win at a ground where they last triumphed in the league back in 1989.

Third - placed Liverpool can gain more ground in the race for a Champions League place, whilst Southampton are still precariously positioned just two points above the relegation zone despite a first league win since November last week at West Brom.

It was former Inter men that proved to be the bane of Luciano Spalletti's existence Sunday as Inter Milan failed to gain ground in the race for a Champions League bid in a 1 - 0 loss at Torino.

NEW LENOX — The New Lenox Park District's Sanctuary Golf Course, which became an issue in the April election, is steadily gaining ground financially, park officials said at a press conference Tuesday.

I suggest taking it slowly; gain confidence at home first and then quietly stand your ground, leading by example.

While football players are considered to be the most at risk, females are gaining ground in every sport from soccer and volleyball to basketball and cheerleading.

Following Labour's defeat at the 2010 general election, a new intellectual movement, close to the new leader Ed Miliband, began to gain ground within the party.

He added: «Obviously, I am disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground, but if you look at the overall picture, Labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country; we gained a lot of votes in places we never had those votes before.»

But a dark horse may well come out of the military, which has gained stronger ground in North Korea through Kim Jong - il's «military first» campaign aimed at excluding any possibility of collective leadership based on the Party.

Compared with the result of the elections in 2009, Labour and UKIP have gained ground at the expense of the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and BNP:

Elsewhere, the party gained ground in parts of Surrey and Hertfordshire largely at the expense of the Conservatives.

Meanwhile, an opinion poll commissioned by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft in the 40 most marginal Tory - held seats suggests that Labour remains on course for a comfortable overall majority at the next election — not because the party itself is gaining ground, but because Ukip has tripled its share of the vote, mainly at the expense of the Conservatives.

«New Populus poll has all three main parties gaining ground at the expense of «Others» Main Hague MkII writes a more cautious Conservative foreign policy»

The underlying figures on economic competence and who would make the best leader also show the Conseratives gaining ground — Labour now have only a 3 point lead on which party would be better at running the economy well and Blair is only 1 point ahead of Cameron on who would make the best Prime Minister.

Nick Clegg has been judged by some media this morning to be the winner of the first debate as pre-debate polling shows Liberal Democrats gaining ground at expense of the Conservatives.

The bold strategy at the very least gives him some name recognition, though it's unclear if that will help him gain any political ground against his rival.

«Obviously, I am disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground, but if you look at the overall picture, Labour gained a lot of seats across the whole country, we gained a lot of votes in places we never had those votes before.»

Now, two more processes have gained ground as possible culprits, according to new work presented here last week at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).