Sentences with phrase «big lead at»

Leto reportedly had a big lead at one point, with a surge of Franco votes causing the tie late in the voting.

The reasons for the difference between Labour's big lead at Westminster and almost non-existent lead for the mayoralty is partly down to the Liberal Democrat vote, which breaks in Johnson's favour, and partly down to there being more «Labour for Boris» voters than there are «Tories for Ken».

If im not wrong chelsea took a big lead at the start of last season, set the standards then basically cruised to the title tbh.

Depay is in the middle of a superb season, the speedy wide - man topping the Eredivisie goal - scoring charts, helping PSV Eindhoven to a big lead at the top of the table.

In many cases, the team with the big lead at halftime is playing an inferior opponent and isn't looking to completely embarrass them.

If you can't give Poe the chance to be the heaviest man since JaMarcus Russell to throw a touchdown pass and the first defensive lineman with a sack, a rushing touchdown, and a passing touchdown in the same season with a big lead at the end of a game against a division rival, when the hell can you run that play?

The Rams went on an 11 - 0 run just before the half and looked to be on their way to a big lead at intermission before the Hoosiers» Christian Watford scored eight unanswered points, including back - to - back three pointers, to bring the deficit to just one point.

Not exact matches

Years ago, under Paul Martin, Finance stopped using its own forecasts, opting instead to base the budget on the average prediction of a group of outsiders, mostly the lead economists at the country's biggest banks.

Unless there is some unlikely action on this issue by the end of the year, his inability to get AMPs established — and thereby get supposedly world - leading net neutrality rules to be taken seriously by ISPs — will easily go down as his biggest failure at the CRTC.

Soon after, Kallop — a big spender whose recent acquisitions have included at least seven yachts, eight residences, and three jets — ran short on cash, leading him to lay off employees and try to sell assets.

Joint - venture partner Cummins, a leading engine manufacturer, and big - name clients such as GM, Volvo and Caterpillar give credibility to Westport's technology, notes Mike Newton, senior vice-president and portfolio manager at Macquarie Private Wealth.

With rare exception, they all worked their tails off and rose through the ranks to become executives at bigger companies before starting their own ventures, being chosen to lead others or becoming VCs.

Not long ago Gregersen asked Guy Wollaert, former chief innovation officer and chief technology officer at Coca - Cola, about the questions that made him challenge his assumptions — and subsequently led to big - picture insights.

Johnny Avello, the director of race and sports operations at the Wynn Las Vegas casino, handicapped this year's Oscars race for USA Today, with The Revenant taking the lead with even odds that outpace Spotlight (8 to5) and The Big Short (6 to 1).

Since arriving at the chain in September 2014, Shelagh Stoneham, Shoppers» senior vice-president of marketing, said her team has been engaged in market research and strategic planning that has led to a bigger marketing spend, an increased television presence, more online video and new partnerships with Women of Influence and the entertainment show ET Canada.

That strategy will help producers pay for the big, transformational deals they made in 2016, aimed at overhauling their business to contend with low prices, said Curt Karges, who leads consulting firm PwC's corporate finance team in Houston, in a year - end report.

Three years ago, Gartner cloud analyst Lydia Leong took a look at what Verizon was planning and was impressed with its ambitious scope, although even then she was unsure if Verizon could take on the big public cloud players led by Amazon Web Services.

Here's a look at how Amazon propelled itself into this leading position in the first place, where its biggest rivals still have room to overtake it, and why Apple needs to move in on this sooner rather than later.

It is crucial to look at the big picture and how you can build up excitement leading up to the big day.

The United States took home the gold medal at the men's 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay in Rio on Sunday night, led by Michael Phelps's big second lap.

The new product is «one of the biggest bets across Kraft Heinz,» says Greg Guidotti, head of marketing for Oscar Mayer at Kraft Heinz, who is leading the launch.

Manshoory scored big when he managed to woo Adam Chapnick, a former principal and employee of the leading crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, into leaving his position to come on board at AssetAvenue.

«There's a technical question, which is, could you comply if you wanted to, and then the bigger meta question is why would you want to cooperate with this politicized drive to suppress freedom of expression,» said Andrew McLaughlin, Google's former director of global policy and now leading content organization at Medium.

It stands at 16 % today, which Hurst believes is market - leading penetration with the exception of big pizza chains, which can derive almost half of sales from digital sources.

But the biggest flaw that business owners and entrepreneurs no doubt see is that it takes direct aim at entrepreneurship and free markets, and fails to see how taking your economic future into your own hands can lead to success.

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

In her accomplished career (which has included executive roles at the CBC, Twitter and, currently, Diply) she has come to appreciate like few others what it takes to effectively lead teams through big changes — including exponential growth.

In this position, George will be our lead anchor for major special events and breaking news at ABC, driving our live network coverage for the biggest stories.

«The biggest issue for those companies is that the dollar will strengthen, and that will lead to a fall in competitiveness,» says Roberto Rigobon, a professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

He has very successfully led Goldman's (gs) risk management at a time when many bigger and better capitalized banks are stumbling, and perhaps more importantly, he has unassailable integrity.

At first, Apple seemed like the clear favorite, with a big lead on its competition and the well - respected CEO, Tim Cook, at the helm, Cramer saiAt first, Apple seemed like the clear favorite, with a big lead on its competition and the well - respected CEO, Tim Cook, at the helm, Cramer saiat the helm, Cramer said.

Brilliant investors started all the big firms — Sir John Templeton at Templeton Mutual Funds, Warren Goldring at AGF, Bob Krembil at Trimark, for example — but their investor - led ethos ebbed away.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Second, a rethinking of corporate models since the Great Recession has led to a more agile lean way of doing business that abandons the «corporate monolith» model once again makes small - time entrepreneurship a realistic career alternative to the nearly - obsolete ideal of getting a job at a big company, staying for 30 years to retire with a pension and gold watch.

«If the Russians start backing the Pakistanis in a big way at the political level, then it creates a problem for us,» said Sushant Sareen, a leading expert on India's relations to Pakistan and Afghanistan with New Delhi - based Observer Research Foundation.

Ramani, who's led teams at Oracle and other big firms, shared a story of being «mansplained» and how it changed her career outlook at AOL and Adweek's MAKERS conference in September.

Design skills are leading to big job promotions and corporate success stories at companies as diverse as Ford, Intuit, Nike and Whirlpool.

At the point the growth began to slow, the multiple would contract, meaning that even if its earnings do grow 600 % in the next few years, if it becomes subject to the law of big numbers - that ever increasing amounts eventually forge their own anchor - the result would be a market capitalization substantially similar to today, leading to no increase in the stock price over a long period of time.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

In the lead - up to his dinner at the White House planned for Thursday night, Chinese premier Xi Jinping met with the people who really run things: Leaders of the world's biggest tech companies.

GigaOm reported Snapchat is in the middle of closing a big round of funding led by Benchmark Capital, and our sources indicate it's raising over $ 10 million at a $ 70 million valuation.

One of the big announcements made at Summit & Salute is our new partnership with Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), a leading public policy organization which advocates on behalf of women business owners.

OMG, what a big surprise; ether is leading the pack, advancing nearly 15 % at the time of this writing.

«I don't see any new militancy emerging, at least not in B.C., but big cuts may lead to resistance.»

By leading in support for cloud, big data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise of self - service BI at scale.

Educated professionals like scientists and architects could use their skills more productively, while many less - educated workers, like bank tellers and travel agents, saw their jobs being displaced by technology.6 This led to bigger employment shares for high - and low - skilled jobs at the expense of middle - skilled jobs in Canada, along with a modest increase in income inequality.7

We'll take a big picture look at the gold market this week and the interplay between the market's players and price before finishing with an option play that could capitalize on multiple factors leading to increased volatility in the December gold futures contract.

The kindness of Avery Huddleston, 7, led to a bigger surprise than anyone imagined at a school in the city of Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

Not surprisingly, «unlike Square's previous financing rounds, which prominently featured big venture capital names like Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers,» its most recent round was not led by a traditional Silicon Valley backer, The New York Times reported at the time.