Sentences with phrase «at competing on»

Our best chance at competing on even grounds against them will probably come after the game releases on consoles early next year.

Not exact matches

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

On the day of its launch in April 2014, Cotopaxi held a competition called Questival in Utah that asked teams to compete for prizes by completing challenges like hiking or volunteering at a local soup kitchen.

Getting in front of them at this stage is a challenge, but it is much more effective than trying to compete with big brands on the bigger stages.

While attending school at St Lawrence University in upstate New York, Todd competed on their Division I Alpine Ski team with several future Olympians.

In February of last year, the U.S. airline CEOs met with President Donald Trump at the White House and asked him to push Middle Eastern carriers to comply with Open Skies agreements designed to ensure all airlines compete on a level playing field.

You may also want to look at the economy on a micro level, particularly if your firm competes in a certain geographic area that has a unique set of factors.

However, rather than compete for market share on the merits or fulfill its statutory obligation to enable competitors to practice its invention after its patents expired, Green Mountain has abused its dominance in the brewer market by coercing business partners at every level of the K - Cup distribution system to enter into anticompetitive agreements intended to unlawfully maintain Green Mountain's monopoly over the markets in which K - Cups are sold.

While addressing tech executives at a White House - sponsored summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University, Obama said it is «hard» to navigate competing imperatives in the digital world's «sort of Wild Wild West.»

Over at AllThingsD, in outlining her three big takeaways from Nintendo's announcement, Tricia Duryee makes a great point that the new portable screen will almost certainly compete with Apple's iPad for face time, given its forward - facing camera, ability to browse the Internet, draw on the screen with a stylus, play standalone games like Othello, view photos and video chat.

The city might be in such a state that institutions of all types feel it's necessary to throw resources at it, creating opportunities for young entrepreneurs who won't have to compete with as crowded a field as they'd find in New York or Silicon Valley, but that doesn't exactly solve the problem of what to do on a Saturday night.

They told Moorhead that as part of the company's big reorg announced on April 19, Intel was killing some versions of its Atom line of processors, the multi-billion-dollar-losing line of system - on - a-chip (SoC) wafers aimed at competing with ARM - based chips in the least expensive tablets and phones.

The social media giant is working on at least one other product — a standalone smart speaker that would compete with the Amazon Echo and Google Home, said the people, who asked not be named discussing unannounced products.

Tesla's sudden change in fortune stands in marked contrast to Fisker Automotive, a competing alternative car company now on the verge of bankruptcy and at the center of controversy over $ 192 million in federal funding that it's unlikely to pay back.

And don't forget that at the level of racing where we compete, our team is often the first time where young drivers get an opportunity to race in front of the big teams on the big tracks.

U.S. Olympic wrestler Jordan Burroughs (right) competes at the 2016 U.S. Olympic team wrestling trials in Iowa City, Iowa on April 10.

At UNC — much as athletes need a minimum GPA to remain eligible to compete — each Greek house needs to achieve a minimum average GPA among its members to maintain university recognition and stay on campus.

For example, numerous retailers rely on a partnership with third - party delivery service ShopRunner for two - day delivery — and a shot at competing with Amazon Prime; Starbucks sticks cafes in Barnes & Noble; convention bureaus in places like Vegas and Orlando try to conduct a symphony of airlines, airport authorities, hotels, restaurants, and local transport providers.

To find out why, Kevin Hall, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, began following contestants on the TV show «The Biggest Loser,» a reality show in which overweight people compete to win cash by losing the most relative to their initial weight.

The bubbly 16 - year old finished second to Biles at the U.S. trials, but was kept out of the all - around earlier this week because only four of the five U.S. gymnasts could compete in qualifying on bars.

Only 11,000 apartments are registered, perhaps one - fifth the total available on Airbnb and competing sites, Ian Brossat, the mayor's deputy in charge of housing, told Agence France - Presse, hinting at a coming crackdown.

So is a guy who today competes at nearly the highest level of his sport... yet when he first drove on a big track, he had to hold his leg down to keep himself from lifting off the gas pedal.

In a study done last month in the journal Environment and Behavior, researchers at Cornell University manipulated the gaze of the cartoon rabbit on Trix cereal boxes and found that adult subjects were more likely to choose Trix over competing brands if the rabbit was looking at them rather than away.

Netflix, the U.S. video - on - demand company, will not be allowed to compete at the Cannes Film Festival after this year unless it changes its policy and gives its movies a cinema release, organizers said on Wednesday.

Kazakoff and Rose have poked fun at business schools» growing acceptance of the GRE exam (dismissed by them as a ploy by schools to compete for more female applicants) and donned powdered wigs, ruffled shirts and tailored Victorian jackets, bantering in British accents for a recent segment on the invention of capitalism.

There are really three factors that go into the ability to pay off indebtedness: first, the size of the debt itself (including the rate at which it grows); second, the ratio of one's income or assets to the debt; and third, the competing demands on your financial resources.

Meanwhile, the two companies have also been the subjects of merger rumors, with Fortune even arguing at one point that DraftKings and FanDuel could join forces to defeat their legal problems and not have to also focus on competing with one another.

European politicians and some competing companies have complained that Google's dominance allows it to promote its own services at rivals» expense, and attacked it on a range of issues including its tax and privacy policies.

On Wednesday, Hulu named Joel Stillerman as its chief content officer, a newly - created role that will oversee the streaming company's overall content strategy at a time when Hulu is looking to expand its original series and film offerings to better compete with rivals such as Netflix and Amazon.

The goal of the mobile app is not to compete with Apple (aapl) Pay so much as it is to improve in - store customer experience, reduce hassles at checkout, and getting people to shop more often on its website.

«In an industry like this one, where competitors fly the same planes on the same routes at the same price points, you really are competing on culture,» he says.

At its Build 2015 conference, the company announced that its new Windows 10 will allow developers to easily reconcile both Android and iOS apps on the Windows platform as well as incorporate older Win32 - based apps (which compete with desktop OS platforms).

China's Huawei unveiled its flagship smartphone, the Ascend P6, at its first standalone launch event on Tuesday, underlining its ambitions to compete with Apple and Samsung in the top tier of mobile technology.

The fact that O'Kelley, 38, and McKelvey, 41, have remained friends 20 years after competing for stardom on the basketball court is a testament to how they learned to handle conflict at South Eugene.

How do you compete against a competitor that big, when — on the surface, at least — the products look quite similar?

The South African paralympic runner inspired millions when he competed in sprint events at the 2012 Summer Olympics on two prosthetic legs, and so a partnership with Nike was a natural fit.

«Here you can work condensed work weeks; we have many [employees] that do part time; we have an internship program that focuses on moms reentering the workforce,» said Chrissy Toskos, vice president of campus recruiting at Prudential Financial, the 140 - year - old insurance company that uses nontraditional work schedules as one way to compete for millennial talent.

USA's Michael Phelps competes in the Men's 200m Butterfly Final during the swimming event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 9, 2016.

With more than 4,000 active projects competing at any one time on Kickstarter, these campaigns need to invest in ways that help them look polished and get noticed.

As Slashdot points out, the incident comes at a bad time for Microsoft, which has been recently focusing its attention on Azure in an effort to compete with the cloud platforms offered by Amazon, IBM, and Google.

The service's new ad - free subscription model, expected to be announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, could help the tech giant compete with leaders like Spotify, who already dominate the space.

A Russian speedskater looks on before he competes in the Mens 500m race on day two during the ISU World Cup Speed Skating held at Thialf on November 11, 2017 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

At the same time, Chinese contractors that operate on an entirely new model — exporting thousands of their own low - cost workers to foreign job sites, for example — are starting to compete in the markets where Bechtel is strongest.

The issue of Dodd - Frank's impact on small banks is part of a broader debate at play about whether small banks have what it takes to compete in today's financial markets.

As T - Mobile and Sprint announce their merger and T - Mobile CEO John Legere believes their union is necessary for the US to compete with China on 5G, we took a look at what exactly 5G is and what it means for you.

You can catch the real - estate mogul, who's competing for the mirrorball trophy with pro partner Keo Motsepe on season 25 of Dancing With the Stars, premiering on Monday, September 18, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.

That's meant that first - time home buyers have been competing heavily with developers to snatch up the 700 to 800 square - foot bungalows priced, on average, at just under $ 423,000.

Sloan realized that GM couldn't compete on price, so GM created multiple brands of cars, each with its own identity targeted at a specific economic bracket of American customers.

«There's a lot of companies in Ontario, and indeed in other parts of Canada, who are wonderful at technology and can develop the software, the sensors, the security systems that these cars will need and they will be able to compete on a huge multi-billion-dollar global market.»

This year, the cohort will again compete in the EY WBENC SEP Pitch Competition on Thursday, June 22 3 - 5 p.m. at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino and is open to conference attendees.