Sentences with phrase «better than our division»

If you think adding a Cockrell, Smith, Poe and Searcy makes as good or better than our division rivals more power to you.

But at least they'll know that in 2018, their Opening Day starter was way better than a division rival's Opening Day starter.

Not exact matches

In Tuesday's earnings, Exxon reported that its downstream division contributed around two - thirds of the company's earnings in the fourth quarter, which were, overall, better than analysts had expected.

Still, even with better - than - expected performance in the iPad and Other Products divisions, the combined revenue of the two divisions is nearly $ 6.8 billion, or only 13 % of Apple's overall revenue.

Then a combination of buzzy tech announcements, better - than - expected sales of the electric Chevy Bolt, a far - reaching EV strategy, and some tough calls by CEO Mary Barra (mainly selling the money - losing Opel division) finally moved the Wall Street needle.

PARIS, April 12 - L'Oreal posted better - than - expected sales growth in the first quarter on Thursday, driven by luxury cosmetics like Lancome and demand in Asia, though the French beauty giant is still struggling to kickstart its weaker mass market division.

Traditional structures are built around levels of people rather than around the work itself, often creating artificial divisions and departments as well as distance from really knowing what's going on.

Revenues were $ 444.68 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, and $ 444.68 million in the same quarter this year (although that was still better than Wall Street Journal publisher News Corp., where revenue for the newspaper division sank by 8 %).

IF TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS), an Indian outsourcing firm, wanted to impress its customers with its dedication, it could do no better than take them to its engineering - services division in Bangalore's Electronics City.

Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Curran said the increased number of claims was driven by more claims from its marine and fire risk division in Asia as well as higher - than - budgeted crop losses in Ecuador and ongoing «issues» in its Colombian third party motor insurance book.

My husband does a very good job in staying on good terms and trying to encourage rather than cause division.

Sometimes it feels we draw lines of division better than we draw circles of inclusion.

She also says there's hope for the future and says she would like the next 500 years to be better than the past 500 in terms of division:

John Danforth regrets that religion has often been deployed to deepen our divisions rather than to seek the common good.

The prepared foods division of Simmons is a farm - to - fork poultry producer operating three hatcheries and two feed mills, as well as more than 20 managed firms raising 200 million birds a year.

Clondalkin's Flexible Packaging Division comprises more than 20 production sites in Europe and North America using the latest production techniques, including cast and blow extrusion, coating, metalizing, laminating and a wide range of printing techniques as well as state - of - the - art cutting and finishing processes.

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The Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs have a combined five losses this year — less than half of any team in the Atlantic Division — and they play Saturday night in San Antonio in what should be one of the best games of the early season.

IMHO Playing in a lower league or division is a lot better than warming the bench in the premier league.

Baltimore last won the division in 2012, and they currently have slightly better odds than Cincinnati to take home the crown this season.

There would never be a better time for Jones to have another big game than on Sunday against the suddenly resurgent Raiders, a hated division rival, to try to get himself and his team back on track..

Even with Ceballos's scoring, Phoenix, which was 30 - 14 and trailed the Pacific Division - leading Sonics by four games at week's end, needs good health more than anything.

But other than RDA before he became the beast we know him as, he hasn't fought the absolute best of the division.

The 21 year - old has more than 90 appearances in the Argentinian Premier Division to his name, making him a particularly experienced player for his age who should be a good capture for City.

The reality is the Bears are not contending this year... 9 wins are probably the ceiling considering the division and the strength of the NFC, presently having far better teams than the AFC.

Bottom line for the Bears is that their offense has been strong and their defense has been better than expected, but they're in for a dogfight in a tough NFC North division.

He clearly still cherishes the time he spent in North London, and it is a huge statement to hail him as better than Sir Alex Ferguson, who dominated the top division for a number of years.

Also, the Bears are going to become a really good team probably sooner rather than later then the whole division is going to be a juggernaut.

But with only days left in the transfer window, it would be better to give an impressive lower division / lower table defender a chance rather than leave the club completely exposed for the next 5 months.

Was a team who failed to win its division and counts its best win as a victory over a good - not - great LSU team more deserving of a final four spot than multiple Power 5 conference champions?

But they assume every other team from last year's playoffs and the division will be better than they were the year before, when the playoffs alone see an average 50 % turnover in teams from year to year.

The players have to recover from that poor result in the derby and there's no better fixture to restart the winning streak than against the worst team in the division — who's manager is expected to be sacked if his team loses against us.

With Jones out for who knows how long and AJ retired, you have ONE exceptional fighter in that division and ONE guy who can present a challenge to exceptional fighters... literally everyone else in that division is a gatekeeper at best... the HW division also has a big drop off after the top, but there are still like 6 guys who could conceivably win the title in that division, so it is WAY deeper than LHW... I think you will be one of the many who drinks the LHW kool aid that will be surprised at how easily Stipe beats DC.

Alexa decided to go to the ring and brag about how much better she was than everyone else in the division.

Miami would then have a better record than New England within the division, although both clubs would finish 10 - 4 overall.

Whether the Open Division in girls volleyball works out well for the top teams will be hard to determine, but it's clear to see that many more teams from other divisions will now have better odds at winning a CIF state title than they did previously.

THE OUTLOOK: With better pitching than last year, Cardinals could certainly make first division, possibly threaten for the pennant.

In most sports, underdogs playing a division opponent tend to do better than when they play a non-division opponent.

The weight class is very underrated on the whole and the average fighter in the top 10 is more well rounded at FLW than in the heavier divisions.

The Dragons don't have to win to have their best team in school history, but hope to do better than they did when they played NCS Open Division runner - up Freedom - Oakley last year.

In this better world, we have learned to love each other, to celebrate differences rather than see them as reasons for division.

They were playing for a lot more than payback, but the Bengals did get some revenge against the Steelers in the best rivalry in football and set themselves up as top cats in the NFL's toughest division

The first playoff games were less than 48 hours away, but not one of the four opening - round matchups had been determined, and the Boston - Buffalo brouhaha for first place in the Adams Division — and a bye in the best - of - three preliminary series — still had not been decided.

The MSU job is commonly regarded as the hardest in the SEC West — the facilities are good but no better than that of division peers, there's less history to sell, and Starkville is small and isolated.

Michigan has made Football Outsiders» division title projection look wonderful so far, and they are more well - stocked for a BCS run than other undefeateds like Illinois or Kansas State, but they still have to be considered a longshot.

The stakes for Duke are enormous — division title, 10th win, etc. — but UNC's been a better team than Duke of late.

Even a slowed down Floyd still reacts a lot better than pretty much all of the welterweight division.

Even though Tom Brady has been suspended for the first four games of the season, the New England Patriots -LRB--240) have better odds of winning their division than any team in football.

OKC could have finished better than Portland clinched division if they won few more games during the first 28 games when Westbrook shot badly.

He boasts a better victory than everyone else in the HW division (Joshua essentially beat a more aged Klitschko w / a long layoff) and Fury is in general a bigger name than Wilder in the UK.