Sentences with phrase «battling for»

So maybe we're right to flock to multiplexes to see uncertain heroes battling for the right path, with untrustworthy allies, betrayals, double - crossings and challenges.

Spain is to fly home a priest who is battling for his life after contracting the deadly Ebola virus whilst... More

In this perspective, whilst battling for the radical reduction in working hours, the major objective remains full employment across the world and on a world level;

Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our Selves in an Age of Machines by Steve Talbott O'Reilly, 281 pages, $ 22.99 As Francis Crick (he of Watson and Crick) put it, «You're nothing but a pack of neurons.»

With gang culture on the rise and 26 teenagers stabbed to death in the capital last year, we meet the Christians battling for peace More

With gang culture on the rise and 26 teenagers stabbed to death in the capital last year, we meet the Christians battling for peace

They are battling for their financial survival.

«I studied philosophy and law and then practiced law in big international firms in Amsterdam and Brussels for seven years before dramatic circumstances in my life brought me and my wife to consider an invitation from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and Grand Chancellor of the ITI, to come to Austria to help him with building up and professionalising the ITI, which at that time had existed for only 7 years and which was dealing with serious financial problems and battling for its survival.

Thank you... been battling this for many years.

More than a dozen foreign banks have licenses to operate branches in Saudi Arabia, battling for business resulting from the...

The dollar DXY, +0.03 % is battling for direction, as the yield on the 10 - year Treasury TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.06 % hovers around 2.92 %.

Finally, battling for new iPhone customers is likely to become a bit more fierce, as Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) announced last week that it will begin selling the new version of the phone in mid-October

In fact, looking at Amazon's impact in its current headquarters city is a good way for the 20 cities battling for HQ2 to be catch a glimpse — for better and for worse — of their own futures.

Battling for market share, cloud - service providers are expanding data - center facilities worldwide, boosting infrastructure shipments to record highs, Canalys reports.

So in other words, if clear hierarchies keep teams from wasting time negotiating roles and battling for turf than they can actually help them get more done more quickly.

Hiring has a lot of similarities... except employers» «brackets» are made of candidates competing for a position, instead of basketball teams battling for a title.

With companies battling for Gen - Y talent globally, Sheahan's 2005 book, Generation Y: Thriving (and Surviving) with Generation Y at Work, was a hit.

Leonardo DiCaprio's bear brawl and a steamy smooch from Fifty Shades of Grey are among the movie moments battling for popcorn - shaped accolades at the MTV Movie Awards, where cheeky humor and naughty acts often upstage the winners at the youth - orientated event.

In February, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick admitted the ride - hailing app is losing some $ 1 billion a year battling for market share in a fiercely competitive Chinese marketplace.

Reddit and its Redditor users have been battling them for years.

Battling for customers who want to buy an iPhone X could bring back some of the deeper discounts and sweeter deals of 2016, they predicted, particularly from smaller carriers Sprint (s) and T - Mobile (tmus).

These are frenetic days for many - shopping for gifts, hosting and attending parties, battling for parking spaces in crowded malls, and more.

Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has an all - cash offer on the table for $ 9 billion and has been battling for Oncor with fellow billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Management, which is Energy Future Holdings» largest creditor.

Veteran goers tried and failed to depict the magnitude of the operation: 3,300 companies under one roof battling for the attention of a handful of retailers.

It is an exceptionally crowded market place, and you are battling for someone's time.

Long - haul airlines have been battling for rich customers by decking out their first classes with opulent suites.

«Impropriety in the Texas prison system goes unnoticed by museum visitors, making contemporary inmate battles for human rights seem unwarranted,» she reportedly wrote.

While former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and U.S. Senator from Vermont Bernie Sanders are expected to duke it out in an intensifying battle for the party nomination, themes of the weak economy and the struggles of the middle class are likely to take center stage.

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.

Top - end machines from both iRobot and Dyson currently cost an arm and a leg, but with the two engaged in a battle for consumers» floors, robovacs will presumably get better and cheaper quickly, to the point where they may become something every household is going to want.

The total number of dead were 127,000 Germans and 700,544 Soviets — that's over 800,000 killed in the battle for Kiev.

Then again, there is a third possibility: You are locked in a battle for digital supremacy with Google (GOOG), and don't give a whit about who gets hurt in the process.

In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.

«This means the battle for video audiences isn't over yet.»

First, the battle for 5G.

Swan Taxis has announced a 10 per cent discount for the next three months on bookings made through its flat fare app as it continues to battle for market share against Uber.

While everyone had been focusing on Netflix and Amazon's battle for streaming dominance, Hulu had launched a sneak attack.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

As the battle for talent continues to heat up, startups and small businesses are competing for quality employees against big corporations that have serious advantages working in their favor.

Ron Diebert considers himself unfortunately lucky in that he has a new book out, Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace, that's all about the sort of government privacy abuses currently making big headlines.

The new reality TV series follows 10 hungry millennials as they perfect their startup pitches, then battle for big bucks from billionaire investor Tim Draper.

But the battle for Congressional votes isn't just heating up behind the scenes.

Verizon, which claims a high - quality cell network, is locked in a battle for subscribers with AT&T Inc /, Sprint Corp. and T - Mobile US Inc. in a saturated U.S. wireless market.

As the battle for dominance in the auto industry heated up, the Motor Show became a pivotal event.

NAIROBI, May 1 (Reuters)- A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world's unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on one side, with Qatar backed by Turkey on the other.

It's a small number, but it constitutes a success story in the battle for workplace gender parity.

Today, neither the mantra of «calorie is king» nor the allure of fad diets appears to have won out in the global battle for our waistlines.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

The battle for 4G mobile gear is long over, but the war for the next generation of faster gear 5G is just getting started.