Sentences with phrase «better than their successors»

The consoles don't even really need to be cheaper as they're far better than their successors at the moment.

Not exact matches

The Russian president's connection to Spain dates back to the 1990s, when he allegedly took no fewer than 37 secret boat rides to meet with several well - known Russian mafia leaders living in southern Spain — all while he was the head of the FSB (the successor to the KGB).

Elsewhere in asset management, Bill Gross's successors at Pimco are doing better than he is.

Well before you put your company up for sale, you should be both grooming your successor team and «institutionalizing» clients so they are used to working with company representatives other than you.

It was the successor of the pagan festivals, but still something new, because the news was so much more unambiguously good than anything the pagans ever heard.

I was, however, devastated when I realized that I'd left my champurrado recipe tucked into the restaurant's copy of Dulce, probably to be found by my successor (who I pray had better luck implementing interesting recipes than I did).

wenger could do no better than to nominate a new younger successor to bring fresh ideas, greater scope and win over the fans..

Elneny may not quite fit the profile of the diminutive Spanish ball - player who usually takes on the job of masterminding Arsenal's midfield play from deep but against Spurs he showed why he was more than just the best option at hand but perhaps exactly the kind of Arteta successor that fans have been calling for.

The worst same - party successor is better than the best opposition successor.

In BBC One's Sunday Politics poll of more than 500 Lib Dem councillors, 38 % said he would make the best successor.

The poll of more than 500 Lib Dem councillors saw 38 % name him as the best successor, ahead of Tim Farron, Danny Alexander, Jo Swinson, Ed Davey and Steve Webb.

Theoretically, a Labour / SNP / Lib Dem block would have 330 seats and an overall majority of ten; but I doubt that Nick Clegg (or his successor) will think it wise to team up with a Labour Party that does little better overall than five years ago.

Former President Bill Clinton is currently more well - liked by Americans than both of his successors.

But the vast sums of cash REBNY and its associates invest on the political scene — which according to good - government group Common Cause New York has totaled more than $ 44 million in state and local races since 2005 — should help Spinola's successor quickly find his footing with Cuomo.

«It's unfortunate that this matter is being made a media issue because my successor has my telephone number and could have called me for any clarification or even sent me a text message rather than addressing the media on an issue well documented in my handover notes.»

Certainly Quinn sounds a lot better to the real - estate world than some of the other would - be successors to Michael Bloomberg, like, say, Comptroller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, co-sponsors of a retail rent control bill that's anathema in the real - estate community.

Where Labour MPs are replaced by Labour successors, good employees who are loyal to the Labour Party are often replaced by less good for no better reason than to reward supporters in the selection process.

No sooner had Peter Dundas been announced as the new creative director of Roberto Cavalli on Thursday (a bit of well - timed succession planning for Mr Cavalli, who will turn 75 later this year) than Massimo Giorgetti was named as Dundas» successor at Emilio Pucci on Friday morning, signalling that Pucci will take a younger, fresher stance in a bid to free itself from the shackles of its iconic prints and make the brand more relevant to a younger audience.

A more than worthy successor to the mayoral throne, and by far the best in the series, except for slow - down issues.

He certainly succeeded better at the role in Batman than would successors Val Kilmer in Batman Forever (Batman as smooth ladies man) or George Clooney in Batman and Robin (Batman as affectionate daddy) but not nearly as well as he would in Batman Returns.

With remarkable turnaround, the Kings and their collaborators have delivered a spinoff drama, The Good Fight, which, in its first two episodes, proves to be a more - than - worthy successor, with the potential to surpass the original.

Pikmin 3 was well - renowned for being an overall excellent game; I'm more than eager to see what its successor will bring to the table.

Liman and his successor, Paul Greengrass, reasoned that deliberately chaotic shooting and editing could transform an otherwise ordinary fistfight or rooftop sprint into something disorienting and, when done well, pretty exciting, and the Bourne films handle that sort of cut - and - paste mania better than just about any film not directed by Tony Scott.

«In many ways FighterZ is a better Marvel vs. Capcom successor than the solid but deeply flawed Infinite.»

Marge Gunderson, her levelheaded, bighearted police chief in the 1996 film Fargo, was a more than worthy successor to Stewart's and Cooper's aw - shucks heroes — and the performance won McDormand a well - deserved Oscar.

If that's to be the case I'm counting on my successor to do a better job than me when it comes to the 2022 plan.

You get better mileage than many of its successors.

The successor to the best - selling racing car of all time built in a production series of more than 1,400 units is based for the first time on the 911 GT3 RS, with the weight of the racing model reduced significantly versus the lightweight road - going version.

The CT4 or whatever will have better rear seat packaging than the current ATS due to the fact that Cadillac engineers discovered few years back in the architecture of the upcoming revisions of more rear seat space for the successor models.

Well, all because of this Tab's successor, Galaxy Tab 7.7 and 10.1, all of which are bigger than the original one.

The mighty successor of the second best selling tablet (after iPad) Nook Color, was officially launched today and for the price, it delivers a significantly better kick than its predecessor.

Writing in this year's letters to shareholders, Berkshire vice chairman Charlie Munger said that Berkshire would «almost surely remain a better - than - normal company for a very long time» even if Buffett left tomorrow and even if his successors were «of only moderate ability.»

«For example, it is superior to be a successor holder for TFSA for a spouse, and our best advice is that a spouse be named a successor holder rather than a beneficiary of the TFSA,» says Caskey.

The following details come from a new Wall Street Journal article... - Mr. Kimishima sees his successor as someone good at building consensus among all employees rather than relying on a few «geniuses» - had been eyeing Mr. Furukawa for years as a future CEO - Mr. Furukawa on Nintendo: «should focus on things that only we can provide.

- Mr. Kimishima sees his successor as someone good at building consensus among all employees rather than relying on a few «geniuses»

The successor to the NES needed to offer more power and better software than these upstart competitors while simultaneously maintaining the adoration of the legion of gamers who had grown up with Nintendo's 8 - bit console and now — quite rightly — demanded more complex experiences.

Andrew: I can definitely see this happening, although I think true successor to the DS would need more than just being «another DS with better graphics.»

Seems like you guys will make a better spiritual successor to D2 than the Blizzard of today can.

Many beloved games / series, Super Mario World and A Link to the Past come to mind, were an example of «better» game design after the move to SNES, LttP especially (to the extent that some have written that the Souls games are more successors to Zelda and The Adventures of Link than LttP).

Like Rylock said: this is a far better spiritual successor to Diablo and Diablo II than Diablo III can ever be, Diablo III open beta felt like a singleplayer version of WoW to me...: (The dark, grim feeling of Diablo combined with the awesome gameplay and multiclassing of TQ... What more can an ARPG - lover ask for?

Rather than a true successor to 2011's DiRT 3, DiRT 4 is probably best seen as an amalgamation of DiRT 3 and DiRT Rally which aims to appease the sim racer and the more casual gamer alike thanks to its two distinct handling modes of Gamer and Simulation.

Sadly, it's successor, the Wii U - despite featuring a number of brilliant games — could not replicate the Wii's success, and is Nintendo's least - selling home console to date, as well as being unfairly berated on the internet (once again, it's probably a better console than the N64, or even the GameCube, but I guess it doesn't have blinding nostalgia on its side).

Though less well known than some of her successors (Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Gregory Crewdson), Callis was one of the first photographers to work extensively with constructed sets, arranging models and tactile objects in ambiguous, often unsettling tableaux.

Dada artists may also be said to have invented Performance Art, and Happenings, as well as Conceptual Art, more than fifty years ahead of their postmodernist successors.

Any agreement that comes out of Copenhagen or its successors will be better than no agreement.

In some firms, rather than asking all leaders to groom their successors, it may be better to select just the best leader - mentors and have them work with a group of junior leaders.

I heard that this phone is a successor of mmx canvas xpress 2 so it should have been better than previous one going backward but this problem will be solved if battery maker could make 3000 - 4000mah as alternative for this phone.

The successor to the OnePlus 5T is hence expected to deliver more screen real estate than the previous handset while retaining the same physical footprint, as well as its dual - camera setup, with the firm already hinting its new flagship will run an OxygenOS version based on Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box.

The iPhone X (center) took on all comers with its OLED screen last fall, but the Galaxy S9 will be a real challenger.With more than six months between now and the release of any new iPhones, though, it's possible that the successor to the iPhone X will offer an even better display.

In short, what Google is working on could be even much better and faster than the Galaxy S8 in terms of performance and given that it'll be backed by pure Android O OS, you can expect a deserved Google Nexus 7 tablet successor — if at all the Taimen is indeed a tablet.