Sentences with phrase «big figures so»

This summer, Mourinho brought in some great players, three of whom have settled and have been performing; Eric Bailly and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have been big figures so far this season.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

You need to ask yourself the hard questions now so that you can get busy and figure out how to position your business on the strategic roadmap with the big guys — without ending up as road kill.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

Despite its size and power, the biggest challenge for the company isn't all that different from what other media companies are facing: Its core business is slowly fading, due primarily to competition from the Web, so Bloomberg has to figure out how to transition from that business to a different one.

Looking back, I am so grateful that we were able to be so nimble, shifting our entire to - market strategy on a dime and figuring out how to deliver on the original promise in a big way.

So figuring out where to focus has been a big challenge.

In the last couple years interesting things have happened, so I feel like in 2016 people will figure out answers to big questions and will implement tactical changes.

Woodman was so confident that he didn't make a big marketing push for the Session, figuring it would just go viral.

While that sounds easy enough — after all, all you have to do is figure out which stores have the biggest discounts on the items you want, and when they open — it's getting more complicated to do so every year.

In the last 2 years, HSE and Training has been set back 20 years, why MONEY of course, that is the only thing that counts, so constant cut backs from the big 3 Iron Ore producers, want everything as cheap as possible, as a result, standards have dropped to appalling standards, but they are cheap, and that is all that matters, and injury figures are easily falsified.

So while the dollar figure is relatively small, the symbolism is big.

Thomson Reuters figures earlier in the month showed investment banking fees rocketed to a 10 - year high in the first quarter, thanks to big mergers and acquisitions and the so - called «Trump bump».

So straightforward that one of the biggest puzzles here is why it took so long — and the help of a whistleblower — for regulators to figure it ouSo straightforward that one of the biggest puzzles here is why it took so long — and the help of a whistleblower — for regulators to figure it ouso long — and the help of a whistleblower — for regulators to figure it out.

However, those constraints DO make a difference when you're playing in the big leagues, so figure that you'll have to step up to the next category, before there really are NO practical limits to what you can do and how you can live.

The banks figure to put up an epic battle because the stakes are so large and no federal bailout of big banks seems likely in this political climate.

But I will say this, the best ideas are solving interesting problems and needs for other people, whether it's a Chris Rock joke or Amazon product, so you need to be able to figure out those needs and problems as quickly and strategically as possible, and there are methods for accomplishing this — whether it's being able to identify needs as an anthropologist might, smallify big problems, or utilize constraints.

So when we talk about how big that market cap could be there's people thrown around trillions of dollars as figures that are in the realm of possible here.

It has single - handedly helped me over the biggest hurdle to investing so far (that is, figuring out how to buy!).

Today, there are so many websites and platforms available for offering your products or services for sale, your biggest challenge will be figuring out where to begin.

The United States regulator of accounting firms said on Thursday that a Big Four firm, Ernst & Young, had been too willing to trust figures supplied by corporate executives instead of evaluating them independently and had failed to improve its procedures even after being told to do so.

The irony of this whole big flap about Jesus is that He is just as mythical a figure as Santa Claus, maybe even more so, thus making the whole argument moot.

There is so much order in this universe but yet the scientists can't figure that out, they are looking at the small picture instead of the big one.

Besides, you're pretty good bandying about a flamethrower, so I figure my brandishing a Bic in your direction isn't going to be a big deal.

I used to have several of those, but then I found this book, and I figured that it must be the king of all promise books because it was so big.

Modern western Christians are so infatuated with sin, that we see sin everywhere and believe that our biggest problem in the world is sin and that God is sitting in heaven trying to figure out how to stop us all from sinning.

Investigate the evidence yourself, there is nothing at all that truly suggests that the Big Bang happened, the only thing they have used in order to come up with the theory is that in their observances, the Universe appears to be expanding from a central point, it doesn't prove that a Big bang occurred, we know so little about the universe, that we don't even know everything about our own world, and you really believe that our science has figured out the riddle to the beginning of the Universe?

So we had to figure out how to sort of upgrade and build a bigger facility while we're actually working on the facility.»

He is a big wings guy and hasn't met a taco he didn't like, so I figured he would be super into this recipe.

So I figured, if I'm going to make a dish with peas, might as well go BIG.

Last week was Thanksgiving so in preparation for the big day, I spent hours trying to figure out what I could make.

:] I'm a big fan of this idea because this blog was pretty much a private blog for so many years, there are tons of recipes that have gotten lost in the archives (until I [a] finish with boards and get on self - hosting this blog, and [b] figure out a good way to archive my recipes / have an awesome recipe index).

We never know what we're getting, so even as we watch the door on Big Green go up we're already planning recommended recipes and trying to figure out who could get the most use out of it of all the people we support.

I have been on a big whoopie pie kick since Thanksgiving, so I figured I would keep it going by turning my all - time favorite Christmas cookie into one!

By now you might have figured out that black tahini will be making an appearance into almost every Halloween dish this year, so go to your nearest asian grocery store and get yourself a big bag of black sesame seeds, it's worth it!

That life is really just one big puzzle all the adults (even the mature 90 - year - olds) are still trying to figure out day after day, so chill and don't fret because you haven't got your life all mapped out yet.

I love me some really good cheesy pizza and buttercream and all that goodness, so I thought cutting out dairy was going to be a big problem — but I've figured out some amazing alternatives to my old dairy stand - bys that have made the transition a breeze!

It took me a few tries to figure out exactly how this works (the cupcake after all gets bigger on top) but sliced just so it's almost like a puffy whoopie pie.

«I think people are tipping probably more precisely because there are so many apps out there to figure out what your tip is, but I haven't seen a big change,» said Darren Cardosa, a New York waiter who blogs under the alias The Bitchy Waiter.

Ash buildup is probably a big issue, so figure out a way to make some more room under the fire, and devise a way to clean it out as you go.

I figured it was worth a try, so we went and got that and went back to the church with the big bike and she got that down right away.

I figure, since you speak so authoritatively on what big players can and can't do, you're a strapping 7 - footer yourself.

One can easily figure out a scenario where four or five teams are battling it out to win the conference at 7 - 2 or so, so this week's two big conference matchups — Baylor at West Virginia and Texas at Oklahoma State — are not exactly elimination matches.

«You had a smaller figure on the horse, so the horse looked even bigger and more surreal.

I originally sent it to the Suns front office and figured their head space may be «time to win now» so they draft a big and sign a 20 point scorer.

Chambers has not figured too much for Arsenal since Xmas so should be fairly fresh, and he is looking forward to testing himself in his first big international Fnals.

So it's no surprise that the upcoming match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao figures to pull in the big bucks — in a big way.

The only other United player to reach double figures in all competitions is Martial so the news that Rooney will miss the game against us at Old Trafford next weekend is a big boost.

Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now

And just to put a little cherry on top of Man United's cake of trouble, their financial figures have shown that they are down by a lot more money than they expected, and so van Gaal will not be allowed to spend big in January.