Sentences with phrase «big pieces of pie»

It goes after the big pieces of pie first: Buildings and cars, and not just by improving efficiency but actually changing the ways that they are designed and used.

Now Starbucks is looking for a bigger piece of the pie.

How big a piece of that pie Kobo will carve for itself remains in question; they say they've currently got about 10 % of U.S. e-book sales, roughly the same as Apple's iBooks store and well behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

With all the consumer plastics used by Americans, you'd think the U.S. would have the biggest piece of the pie.

The cryptocurrency has taken a bigger piece of the pie in recent weeks as investors cut speculative bets on altcoins.

But I think we'll start to see the acceleration of new Qdobas going forward, and that'll end up being a bigger piece of the pie, and spur the growth.

First, he'll tell you that what the elite get may look like a lot of money, but it's still a small share of the total - that is, when all is said and done the rich aren't getting that big a piece of the pie.

And if someone were to get a big piece of the pie, it would mean less for everybody else.

So because the fight is on Showtime, in partnership with Mayweather Promotions, he gets a bigger piece of the pie.

The expiration of the sales - tax agreement between the City of Kingston and Ulster County is almost a year away, but already the towns are agitating for a bigger piece of the pie.

ALBANY, N.Y. — It's been well established the state is running on a tight budget this year, but mayors from across New York are trying to get the biggest piece of the pie they can.

As they grow older, children behave less like Ernie and more like Bert — although they are not always happy when others get more, they would much rather give the bigger piece of pie to others than waste it, as long as the decision about who gets the smaller piece of pie comes from them rather than someone else.

In one episode of Sesame Street, Ernie takes a bigger piece of pie for himself and gives a smaller piece to Bert.

They are actually happy to give the bigger piece of the pie to someone else, even if it creates inequity and puts them in an inferior position.»

«If there was a big piece of the pie that was coming from calving, that would make it harder to predict what's going to happen in the future.»

It can also lead to resentment if one of you is shelling out a bigger piece of the pie.

If you crave that big piece of pie on Thanksgiving, use portion control.

Just curious, as I would expect it to make up a bigger piece of the pie.

There are small and micro presses that will do everything the legacy publishers do and still give us a bigger piece of the pie.

This insures that the publisher, store and Marvel all get a bigger piece of the pie.

And of course now we live with the consequences, which is Amazon constantly, because it's wildly successful, wants to get a bigger and bigger and bigger piece of the pie.

This approach is certainly bound to help sell books, but seems to be missing the biggest piece of the pie: people who have already made up their minds what to buy before even logging into Amazon.

The further suggestion that anyone else in the e-book market could step up their game and begin earning a bigger piece of the pie is treated as heresy.

And since neither form seems to be going anywhere, this sort of rights split seems inevitable (and has been delayed only by publishers trying to maintain a bigger piece of the pie).

So that's a big piece of the pie we're looking at as far as who our potential clients could be.

We are confident it will be a large, competitive market with millions of customers and we want a big piece of that pie.

Amazon finally gives you a bigger piece of the pie when you list your book at $ 2.99 or above.

When you have a smaller group of people eating a bigger piece of the pie, aren't they each getting a bigger helping?

The biggest piece of the pie will be eaten up by interchange fees, which are collected mainly by credit card issuers.

And going forward, with the increased federal regulations and tougher lending rules, we may actually see brokers take a bigger piece of this pie.

It is just like you said, they want the biggest piece of the pie weather we can afford it or not.

Or bring your own commercial rental insurance and take a bigger piece of the pie.

With Call of Duty and Battlefield dominating the online arena for the past decade, it's hard for most other games to get a big piece of that pie anymore.

This is partly because transportation is often not a very big piece of the pie — in the EU, transportation accounts for only 20 percent of GHG emissions, and in South Africa it is just 9 percent, compared to 45 percent in Washington and 36 percent in Oregon.

As to younger lawyers wanting a bigger piece of the pie, McEwen argues that today's firms are far better off than those of decades ago, which kept older lawyers on without any detriment to younger partners» earnings.

Earlier this year, Coffin Mew completed its merger with Charles Lucas & Marshall; this highlights a growing trend of larger firms continuing to grow as they seek a bigger piece of the pie.

Josie Beets: Mobility is definitely the biggest piece of the pie because... The way I explain it to lawyers is imagine if you had to take the bar exam every two years just so that you could live with your family.

For those law firms getting the bigger piece of the pie, this is great news.

Or bring your own commercial rental insurance and take a bigger piece of the pie.

The cryptocurrency has taken a bigger piece of the pie in recent weeks as investors cut speculative bets on altcoins.

In other words, despite making a lot of sales, Dell doesn't get a bigger piece of the pie.

Most altcoins today are based on the ERC20 standard, so it's no surprise to see Coinbase trying to grab a bigger piece of the pie.

What this company does is assist small islands with building their own booking platform, so as to claim a bigger piece of the pie.

Part of the problem is that the traditional divorce system treats the end of a marriage as a contest, in which the wife's lawyer and the husband's lawyer battle to obtain «the biggest piece of the pie,» for each client, too often ignoring the financial and emotional costs of «winning.»

My goal as an entrepreneur is to build a bigger pool of resources so all can share in the bounty — not just carve a bigger piece of the pie for myself.

Housing costs in the Los Angeles - Long Beach - Anaheim, San Jose and San Francisco, Calif., markets gobble up the biggest pieces of the pie: 43.0 percent, 42.6 percent, and 42.2 percent of the median household income, in order.

«Commercial and multifamily lenders anticipate a market in which lending continues to grow and their firm gets a bigger piece of the pie,» says Jamie Woodwell, MBA's Vice President for Commercial Real Estate Research.

If the Government was getting a bigger piece of our pie (similar to fuel companies) rest assured we would be protected from the Big, Bad Wolf — The Competition Bureau.

Not exact matches

Gap's Athleta isn't the only U.S. company that's expressed interest in carving out a piece of the fitness fashion pie, and other big brands like Nike and Adidas have launched yoga lines with a similar focus on style.

But there are other big players that want a piece of the pie.