Sentences with phrase «at a great deal of»

Well, that just throws up so many questions; but I'll merely say that looking at a great deal of old figurative painting, from Giotto to Matisse, seems a lot more real and a lot less rhetorical than the experience of looking at Stella, particularly if you define «rhetorical» as something designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect, but which lacks meaningful content.

Not exact matches

Local forestry veteran Tony Jack has accused receiver McGrathNicol of using his bid for the collapsed Great Southern timber schemes to find a better deal for the bank creditors at the expense of out - of - pocket investors.

Due to the number of seasonal workers in Canada, there is naturally a great deal of seasonality in the data, so it is helpful to look at year - over-year numbers.

There's a great deal to be gleaned from people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.

An employee who decided to stay at Zappos wrote on Glassdoor on March 31 that Zappos is «still a great place to work» on account of its benefits, pay, and its employees, but that it's necessary to deal with a «disruptive atmosphere» and «bothersome social experiments.»

This doesn't mean there isn't a great deal of money to be made during the bear market (on both the long and short side), but at some point we must recognize that our global imbalances all remain.

At X.ai., we've invested heavily into and applied a great deal of effort in humanizing Amy.

Considering that we've been at this for two years now, this will require a great deal of editing.

«Not that he did a great deal of good, but at least he didn't make a mess,» one business leader wrote.

A small amount can ferment a great deal of good in the world at large.

But a prospective tenant has a great deal of leverage at the moment.

United flight attendants have a great deal of information for and about passengers right at their fingertips, Bingochea said.

Li Hang, head of Greater China equity capital markets at CLSA, said: «We really need sector specialist bankers to run biotech deals, otherwise everybody will say we don't know how to do the due diligence.»

«The rule is an important first step and will benefit some consumers who need relief the most, but a great deal of work is still needed to ensure that American families are no longer ensnared in the debt trap of high interest, abusive loans,» Michael Best, director of advocacy outreach at Consumer Federation of America, said in a statement.

Adding a million users every day in the week that Hurricane Harvey was active and still at the top of the charts, Moore says that the company has learned a great deal about what is required to support rapid growth, especially in urgent situations.

It will bring a great deal of attention on you, and the smaller the start - up the more likely it is that a major incident will kill your company,» said Matt Anthony, a senior vice president at the Herjavec Group, a security consulting company.

«These are sensitive assets with a great deal of nationalistic strategic pride,» says Steven Hansen, an analyst at Raymond James.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

A drop in energy prices helps nearly everyone, but it helps those at the bottom of the income scale a great deal more — which is good news.

Many independent contractors take a great deal of pride in their work, but not so much in the company they happen to be working for at the moment.

None of this would have been possible without the support of Michael Silber and Mark Vannuki, our friends and business partners at Great American Deals.

There is a great deal of volatility in the M2 money supply data even year - to - year, so I prefer to look at a three - year increase of the money supply.

«There is an enormous amount at stake here and my greatest concern is that the president is dealing with each of these pieces in silos, without understanding how they all interconnect and how we have to work out a comprehensive strategy,» she said.

In most deals with convertible notes or value - added co-investors who «want into the round» the negotiation re-opens after the term sheet and this is a source of frustration at a point where the founder and the lead investor should be feeling great about each other.

Customers at Chipotle Mexican Grill, for example, have a great deal of choice over the ingredients they want in their faux - Mexican bean slop.

«Offers is part of an ongoing effort at Google to make new services that give consumers great deals while helping connect businesses with customers in new ways,» said a Google spokesperson.

«We could point to this successful company and say, «Look at this great model they're using in the U.S. — wouldn't you prefer to deal with a Canadian company of local moms?»

Super Mario Odyssey or The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ($ 59.99 at Best Buy)-- Mario's latest adventure might be his greatest and Link's journey in the new Zelda game is breathtaking, but just like Walmart's «deal» above, Best Buy isn't discounting either title at all.

«You look at what Trump says about America First, and most of it is very international in character and has a great deal of continuity with, say, US national security policy under Clinton, Bush, and in many ways even under Obama,» he says.

«We care a great deal about making sure that a healthy news ecosystem and journalism can thrive,» Fidji Simo, director of product at Facebook, said in a blog post.

So if you look at the GIF, putting the TrueDepth camera system on the front of a pair of smart glasses would make a great deal of sense, since a pair of AR glasses would need to be able to capture depth information on an ongoing basis to work properly.

You can go online at your convenience and get great deals delivered directly to you (and most of the time delivery is free) or you can walk into a store and get a crazy deal that you never would have found 20 years ago.

But at many firms, as the HBR article referenced above noted, such hires cause a great deal of damage.

And through the end of the quarter, the fund has already collected over $ 225 million from interest, principal and asset resolutions at levels significantly higher and sooner than originally anticipated, as well as from a groundbreaking nonperforming loan securitization, which has received a great deal of industry attention.

Three megamergers (that is, deals valued at greater than $ 20 billion), with a collective value of $ 126 billion, accounted for more than one - third of the total (see Figure 2).

Very bad blood had developed between Mike Volpi, a partner at Index Ventures, and the Skype founders after it emerged that he'd tried to go behind their backs to arrange the deal without including them (not great diplomacy, because he was working for the co-founders at the time, as chief executive of video company Joost).

Looking back at the past 25 years, all of the trials and tribulations I've dealt with have led to my proudest professional accomplishment: founding Rose International and working diligently to take it to greater heights.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

«To the extent that we're not able to protect that, you're sacrificing millions or tens of millions of U.S. jobs, and U.S. companies should care a great deal about that,» Randolph Kahn, an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law, told the Washington Post.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

From what I have witnessed, the Foundation with Buterin at its helm, has exercised a great deal of rational thought in its decision making process, and I have not seen any evidence that it has chosen self - interest over the betterment of the Ethereum community as a whole.

There is a great deal of positive change already underway at NMSDC.

Because ICCR members and staff have been filing resolutions for over four decades, we have a great deal of expertise in how to write a strong shareholder proposal that will pass muster at the SEC and how to garner shareholder support at the AGM.

Meat producers, lobbyists, and other bodies have a great deal at risk when considering the effects of automation across the meat industry.

The issue looked definitive, of course, way back when Brian Mulroney's Conservatives beat John Turner's Liberals in the epic 1988 election — the campaign so bitterly fought over the trade deal with the U.S. that Mulroney secured at great political risk.

Understanding the opportunities of digitalization, Big Data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and so on — those are certainly things we're emphasizing a great deal at Rotman.

Everyone has a different explanation, but in the end a great deal of life boils down simply to being in the right place at the right time.

Management at a public company is under a great deal of pressure to meet quarterly earnings forecasts, because falling slightly short can cause a significant drop in the stock price.

While there's a great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 % loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less than half of the bull market gain).

They feel that Bitcoin has the potential to stay at the top of the market for a great deal longer, and that it is due another significant price rise which will leave competitors like Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple in its shadow.