Sentences with phrase «be first in line in»

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From his first meeting with Xi, Trump promised that if China would cooperate in tightening economic sanctions on North Korea, the US would refrain from taking a hard line against what it perceived to be China's unfair trade practices.

HTT, which lays claim to the brand name «hyperloop» — a futuristic transport system that essentially involves sucking people through a vacuum tube at high speed — says it is «building the first commercial line in Abu Dhabi.»

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

The forums are already being used to let users answer each others» questions about the social software itself — a tactic that Apple has deployed with success in the as a first line of customer support.

The bottom line is that Slate screwed up by publishing this in the first place, and by adding more kooky misinformation to an already addled election season.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

Anthem's contribution to Express Scripts» revenue has been increasing, from 14 % in 2014 to 18 % in the latest first quarter, in line with the company's expectation of a bigger contribution as the contract neared its end.

The jacket, which comes in four different iterations (sweatshirt, blazer, windbreaker or bomber) and ranges from $ 109 to $ 129, is the first in a line of BauBax products, says Sanghavi.

This is the first step in building bonds between front - line staff and senior managers, which helps to create easy and open communications.

Admittedly, because a government entity is counting the real people standing in real lines, the first count is usually inaccurate.

Here are the first 17 people in line for the crown behind Queen Elizabeth:

«If you line up the previous El Niño outlier of 1998 with this March 2016 El Niño (as we might do in lining up bull market highs) it gives an idea of when 2 degrees Celsius might first be broached in a future El Niño effect: just 17 years!»

The company was introducing two additional products in 1993 — the second release in its early - learning line, and the first in a new line that Stanger had dreamed up for four - to eight - year - olds, called Thinkin» Things.

«Our first quarter results were in line with our expectations and reflect the solid growth of our proprietary commercial products and the continued strength of our royalty and manufacturing business,» commented James Frates, Chief Financial Officer of Alkermes.

Heins said RIM plans to use its existing BlackBerry 7 line to upgrade feature phone users to their first smartphones in overseas markets where the brand is still wildly popular.

In the army, this means being the first one to storm into the line of fire.

With the exception of the first two, his words do not appear to cut cruel; indeed, one has a sense these are well - used lines he might employ in his other career: as a successful, in - demand motivational speaker, giving at least 30 speeches every year, here in Canada and around the world.

Dig Deeper: A more detailed definition of a code of ethics How to Write a Code of Ethics for Business: Setting Priorities The first step a company has to take in laying out a code of ethics is deciding what values are important to it and what lines it won't cross.

My first Inc. 5000 conference experience began with a 2 am arrival at Washington's Union Station to a taxi line that snaked around the corner with not a taxi in sight.

Because of its proximity to the International Date Line, Sydney is one of the first cities to welcome in the New Year.

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

Robert Kozinets, director of MBA specialization in global retail management at York University's Schulich School of Business, says none of the challenges experienced by Target so far have been out of line with what should reasonably be expected of a brand making its first foray into international territory — certainly not a powerhouse such as Target.

Request DSL managing director Greg Pennefather said that the trial was the first step to providing the company's asynchronous digital subscriber line service to homes and businesses in regional and metropolitan areas nationwide.

«I fell in love with being able to cross the line first with my hands up and maybe getting into the paper the next day.

& # 9660 Earlier this year, when Microsoft killed its new line of Kin smartphones in less than two months, its own employees were among the first to admit the Redmond, Wash. - based company had screwed up.

However, as any seasoned entrepreneur will tell you, establishing a viable business is only the first in a long line of challenges an owner will face.

Call me when the battery life actually lasts a full day and I'll be the first in line.

In his third at bat he got hit by a pitch, but was later doubled off first base when he wandered a little too far from the bag on a line drive.

The company's first Instagram account, Oh Joy, has 386,000 followers, and its second account, @ohjoyco, which was created in 2016 to give the company's fans updates about its product lines, has more than 50,000 followers.

Drawing on a survey of 14,720 executives, the researchers found communal qualities were highly valued in first - line and middle managers.

Take a step back instead to see if there might be a silver lining in the form of a big organizational change you probably needed to do to avoid the crisis in the first place.

The first production Ford Transit commercial van waits on the assembly line to be unveiled at the Ford Kansas City Assembly Plant April 30, 2014, in Claycomo, Missouri.

JG: What we do is described in three lines: First, we do service performance, which looks at the result.

WALINI, Indonesia — Indonesia broke ground Thursday on a new rail line between the capital Jakarta and Bandung, officially marking the start of three years of construction on what is expected to be the first high - speed rail service to operate in Southeast Asia.

That's because the combo treatment would become a go - to, first - line option in patients regardless of whether or not they have the biomarker PD - L1 (Keytruda is far more effective in people who express high levels of the biomarker).

About a month before rolling out its first line of pants late last August, for example, it asked Hunt Club members for their size, brand preference and whether they would be interested in purchasing pants in the first place.

Last week, Quirky and GE released the first products in that line, including an app - enabled personal dashboard that displays an array of digital information that's most important to you.

Depending on the airline and airport, these may get you access to special check - in or security lines (which are often faster), or early boarding on the flight itself (for first dibs on overhead bin space), said George Hobica, publisher of AirfareWatchdog.com.

Birchbox opened its first physical retail store in New York back in 2014, and in line with a number of other prominent entrants to the brick - and - mortar world from the digital realm, Birchbox is looking to double down on its presence in the offline world.

When he returned in 1997, one of Jobs» first goals was to review the company's bloated product line.

It was the first new product line from Apple in some time, and many were excited to see what the company would do to make a splash in an already crowded smartwatch market.

In some of those states, eager consumers celebrated the first day of legal recreational pot sales by lining up at their local dispensaries in order to be among the first to participate in the newly - legal marijuana economIn some of those states, eager consumers celebrated the first day of legal recreational pot sales by lining up at their local dispensaries in order to be among the first to participate in the newly - legal marijuana economin order to be among the first to participate in the newly - legal marijuana economin the newly - legal marijuana economy.

That was in line with growth rates in the first through third quarter of last year and well above that posted in the fourth quarter, he said.

This isn't a retail model, as we are not a wholesale / resale relationship; this is more in line with sharing the cost of opening a pop - up for a bunch of direct - to - consumer brands, with the majority being digital - first.

Apparently, it's possible to analogize a business startup to nearly every stage in the human life cycle: There's an article «Starting A Business Is Like Asking Out A Girl For The First Time» and a line in another post declares, «Starting a business is like falling in love.&raquIs Like Asking Out A Girl For The First Time» and a line in another post declares, «Starting a business is like falling in love.&raquis like falling in love.»

Although both product lines are in the late stages of their development (Bombardier obtained the permit for the Learjet 85's first test flight in February), they both follow the CSeries jet in the company's release queue.

The purest manifestation of Alibaba's online / off - line ambitions is Hema, a digital - first supermarket chain it incubated in Shanghai.

These days, we don't write a line of code until we've already done the roadmapping and the validation to answer the questions of exactly what the app needs and whether there's a strong enough market for it in the first place,» Lee explains.

«They have really high - quality food, and when they first opened, there were long lines to get in,» Tristano says.

It was during one of the first events Great Circle Works attended in Nuremberg, Germany, that a distributor approached Cahsens, voicing enthusiasm for Great Circle's popular line of mini sleds.