Sentences with phrase «battle than the battle»

Not exact matches

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

«It's a very tricky battle we've chosen to taken on, but I'd rather pursue this than just ignore it.»

The battle involved more than 250 ships and 100,000 men.

It will own a vast distribution apparatus; have the rights to more comedy programs than most of its competitors; and be producing much of the material they need to do battle with one another — as well as, inevitably, with Dynamics itself.

Parents and teachers have complained that children were becoming addicted to the multiplayer online battle game, which, according to the company, has more than 200 million users, making it the world's most popular game of its kind.

As long as you understand this and both embrace your stress rather than battling it and reach out for social support when you're under pressure, «the harmful effects of stress on your health are not inevitable,» McGonigal concludes.

If can figure out the niche correctly, then more than half the battle is won because from there you can create your customer base and expand your business.

The site of fierce battles during the Korean War, Gangwon's mountains remain a focal point for recovery missions searching for the remains of more than 7,700 American soldiers still unaccounted for, according to Pentagon figures.

But Bing holds on to just a tinyfraction of the giant search market in China — less than 1 % — and it faces an uphill battle in attracting more users.

Rather than battle over Black Friday leftovers in overcrowded department stores, here is a selection of a few of the more interesting pop up shops around the country.

But Burkeman insists it's not just digital clutter that needs to be accepted rather than battled.

«Rather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action,» Trump said in a statement.

So, memo to Neil Young: when you attempt to bring the world a better quality of media experience, know that you're battling against more than a century of business experience that shows the best - quality formats seldom, if ever, win out in the mass market.

It's more than half the battle!

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

Markets are now focused on the raging battle for Libya, which produces more than 1.6 million barrels per day.

Nowhere is that grind - it - out mentality more evident than Ohio, the most battle - tested of battleground states.

«The AIC experience has left a very bad taste with a lot of people, and I think it's even more of an uphill battle than it would be for a startup, to rebuild that confidence, if it can be done at all.

Over the last few years, there has been an increasingly competitive battle for people's attention, and there is more noise than ever as brands clamor for the all - important commodity of attention.

So far the battle has entailed more words than action, with the tax's supporters trading charged public comments with representatives of the tech companies such as Weinberg's Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation, which represents Salesforce, Google, Pinterest, Twilio, and others.

Not in Mexico, where neighbouring state Michoacan has become a battleground, with armed vigilantes battling the Knights Templar drug cartel and a federal investigation into the possible corruption of more than 1,200 local police officers.

Pro-Trump outlets including Breitbart and the Daily Caller have taken up the banner of opposition to net neutrality, apparently more as a proxy battle than on the merits of the rules themselves.

He can be mightier than Zeus in the American gay pantheon, particularly in the South, where Cook hails and where the battles can be so brutal.

«It has more [monetization] than we expected; as users build their Pokémon inventory, spending money becomes needed to store, train, hatch and battle,» Macquarie Securities said in a note to clients, adding that purchases so far in Australia were not being driven by big spenders but by a large number of users.

Now, more than ever before, currencies are emerging as the everyday investor's weapon of choice in the battle to gain an edge.

Rather than resist Ackman, a brash, aggressively charming billionaire who likes to make huge bets on big companies and doesn't hesitate to wage proxy battles against those that rebuff him, Penney invited Ackman and Roth to join the board.

But somewhere in the heat of battle, when there seemed little to lose, when doing whatever it took felt more heroic than sticking to your guns, for one unfortunate moment at the 11th hour, it made all the sense in the world to ask, «Is this a prime minister?»

A merger with Mylan would create a generics powerhouse with more than $ 27 billion in revenue and would give the company the heft it needs to cut costs and battle rising competition.

Spin Master's Bakugan toys were launched in 2007 in conjunction with a Japanese - Canadian anime series called Bakugan Battle Brawlers and, according to the Toronto company's claim, global sales reached more than US$ 1 billion.

«If your decision - making loop is more streamlined than your enemy's, then you set the pace and course of the battle,» says Major General John Admire, who commands an infantry division at Camp Pendleton.

Starting your retirement savings accounts is just half the battle — sure, it's a great first step, but a lot more goes into growing and sustaining your wealth than just contributing to a 401 (k) or IRA.

To capitalize on the Starwood deal and his expansion plan, Marriott must battle harder than ever to lure a growing share of fickle travelers.

He said Blankfein would sometimes send his loyal soldiers to fight his turf battles rather than fight them himself, and this could be especially unpleasant and was seen as cowardly.

UK - based Sky, with more than 20 million customers for its sports, entertainment and news channels across Europe, is at the centre of a three - way battle for control...

No study like this is perfect, but we hope we've brought some attention to the perpetual battle among states for economic development, and answered the question we posed at the beginning: Why do some states do it better than others?

UK - based Sky, with more than 20 million customers for its sports, entertainment and news channels across Europe, is at the centre of a three - way battle for control between Murdoch's Twenty - First Century Fox, Walt Disney and Comcast and their veteran bosses.

It's become a particularly sensitive battle to Oracle because when businesses turn to databases in Amazon's cloud, they to tend to favor products that are much cheaper and more flexible than Oracle's.

Harold Feld, a senior vice president at Public Knowledge, a nonprofit group that supports net neutrality, said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

One advocate said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years, NYT reports.

One advocate said the biggest tech companies were less vocal because they are facing more regulatory battles than in past years.

The Parti Quebecois» uphill battle may be steeper than it realizes.

In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country with more than 250 million people, it's in a fierce battle for customers with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.

With more than 250,000 drug - and alcohol - related deaths a year nationwide, our society's battle against substance abuse is far from over.

Redstone's battle with the IRS would drag on for more than two and a half years, culminating in days of sworn testimony in Boston and Los Angeles.

Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months of criticism of the company, will still own about 20 million shares, less than 2 percent of the Internet media company's common stock.

Yet shoppers stayed away in droves, and JC Penney is now faced with an even bigger uphill battle for its survival than it faced before.

In sum, business gifting during the holiday season is an uphill battle, and it's more likely that gifts in December will be seen as tokens, rather than a sincere show of appreciation.

From 1997 on, it was solidly in the second place spot except for a few dips and never sank lower than third, battling it out with Microsoft / MSN for the most part.

In the latter battle, the SHE ETF remains a bit player: A little more than a year after its debut, it has only about $ 300 million in assets under management.

But at a talk at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, Brendan «PlayerUnknown» Greene, the game's original creator, says he's more flattered by the success of «Fortnite: Battle Royale» than anything.