Sentences with phrase «big spending on»

The electricity industry recognises that increased retail prices have been due to big spending on the power transmission system.

The multilateral development banks are supposed to be eliminating poverty, but instead they're exacerbating it by driving climate change through big spending on fossil fuel infrastructure.»

This means that, unless you're lucky enough to have some big spending on Virgin Atlantic coming up, you'll be using this card mostly on things like:

I wrote an eight part series on the perks of Big Spending on a credit card — from hotel elite status, bonus points, airline elite status to companion passes.

Big spending on biodefence has given research into new vaccines and antivirals a massive shot in the arm.

It's with all of the rich teams using their pre-arbitration and arb - eligible players as a way to save money, not as a way to justify extra big spending on free agent veterans.

Whether you believe the lack of big spending on transfers like we see all the time from our big rivals in the Premier League is down to the cautious approach of Arsene Wenger, the policy of the Arsenal board or because the man at the top silent Stan Kroenke wants it that way, the results are generally the same.

Telecom analyst Troy Crandall said Rogers needs a strategy for its big spending on spectrum and the NHL deal, and may end up offering sports fans new packages for their mobile devices.

the whole idea o competativ sport is the «Competition» and winning if we were to have the one big spend on the three we need then we as aclub would not need to spend again for seberal seasons, if financial prudence is what is all about why on earth do we still have Diaby on the books when its clear to all he will never play competitive football at top level again?

Konami's brass just doesn't see the point in the «old» way of doing things — the big spend on the big product for an audience of a few million.

Not exact matches

MONTREAL — Watching television on the Internet is cheap and convenient, but so far only a small number of Canadians have cut the cord on traditional viewing as TV providers offer discount prices and spend more on programs to keep customers who pay bigger monthly bills.

Have someone stay constantly on top of the situation so that you can kill off the bad spends and double down quickly on what's driving actual results and purchases; and (b) use these channels and your content to drive traffic from the big guys to sites you own and control so that all your efforts and all your dollars aren't wasted just working to make money for Zuck.

It's a big win for Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., whose officials spent years pushing to scrap a ban on weighted - voting rights, which give founders and executives control even with minority ownership.

They fear that new bitcoin startups that don't yet have revenue will have to spend big money on legal fees and approval processes.

Investors expect faster returns from Walmart's investments compared to Amazon, said Yarbrough, a move that limits the brick - and - mortar retailer's ability to spend big on acquisitions in growth markets.

The five biggest insurance companies in the U.S. spent around $ 3 billion on advertising last year, which of course got passed on to customers.

Money is a big deal to most new small business owners, and it is understandable that you don't want to spend a lot on a background check.

As Twitter spends big bucks on deals with America's top sports leagues, Facebook has been beefing up its own live - streaming offering.

MUMBAI, April 19 - India's Tata Consultancy Services Ltd expects a rebound in spending by its key banking, financial services and insurance clients this financial year, it said on Monday, as it posted its biggest - ever profit, helped by deal wins.

Sure, it's an online giant grabbing for a big slice of the $ 2.7 billion a day — that's $ 1.9 million per minute — that travelers spend on trips to and within America alone, according to the U.S. Travel Association.

Particularly in a startup, it might seem silly at first glance to spend time on small things that delight your customers, when you have so many big problems.

Obviously in this hypothetical situation, MegaAle Pubs has a bigger budget and can spend more on Web site design, copywriting, and search engine optimization than Alter's Ale House, and will likely get many more visitors because of it.

He took a big leap, and instead of making a standard commercial, he took the budget allotted to make the FuelBand advertisement and spent it on a 10 - day trip around the world.

«The best way to make some progress on this... wasn't to go out and hire a consultant, as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day,» says Toronto Mayor John Tory.

If your goal is to be a homeowner in five years or to purchase a car next year, then you probably want to stop spending on little items so you can save up for the big ones.

Spending your time in a relentless pursuit of self - improvement is the best way I know of to miss out on all life's big make - or - break moments.

Spend your time on things that matter — focus on the big picture and the long run instead of giving in to instant gratification.

Most of the big businesses are known to spend even more than 10 percent of the total revenue earned on improvement of products and introducing new ones.

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.

I spent $ 150,000 on the first restaurant, then more and more to make each one bigger and better.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

Though Portugal is one of the fastest growing euro zone economies, problems with non-performing loans and high debt among businesses, individuals and government are a big hurdle - mainly at a time when the government's strategy is focused on consumer spending.

At a Thanksgiving dinner party in 2012, four Harvard Business School MBA students had a plan: Rather than spend their upcoming summer interning at big corporations or traveling the world, they were going to drive around the United States consulting entrepreneurs with a social purpose on key business issues.

Athletic apparel contracts are also getting bigger and bigger in the professional realm, as Nike can attest, having recently agreed to spend a reported $ 1 billion on a deal to outfit the NBA and WNBA, supplanting Adidas from that role starting in 2017.

Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four years to host new software on AWS rather than in its own data centers.

Moreover, there's bitterness over retailers like GameStop, the biggest player in used games, because they devote so much floor space to used games in spite of the huge marketing dollars spent by publishers on new products.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump has not given details on tax reform and infrastructure spending — two of his biggest campaign pledges.

The biggest chunk of money will be spent on print advertising.

It's much better to learn the lesson of money poorly spent on a $ 15 toy than a bigger - ticket purchase as an adult, she said.

It meant the company's biggest spending priorities wouldn't be on code, but on steel, machinery, and workers.

These two segments of aggregate demand reinforce each other because buying a house or an apartment triggers spending on consumer durable goods («big ticket» items) such as furniture, appliances and even automobiles because relocations typically change commuting patterns and lifestyles.

In his paper «Mega-Events: The effect of the world's biggest sporting events on local, regional, and national economies,» he writes: «A local resident who goes to an All - Star Game when it is in town is spending money at the game that likely would have been spent locally elsewhere in the absence of the game.

Based on responses to the 3 - Hour Web Site Plan hiring someone to build your Web Site has hit the big time with small business owners who are realizing that often the time and energy spent doing - it - yourself may not only be better spent other ways, but also may not provide the results you want.

These tend to be more expensive, but it's worth spending more on an ad that is going to make a bigger impact.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

A.T. Kearney research found that spending on big data hardware worldwide may grow at a compound annual growth rate of 30 % through 2018.

And I was completely happy with my Windows laptop (believe it or not, I'm a big Windows 10 fan) until the hardware broke, less than two years after I spent a thousand bucks on it.

The bigger impact for Boeing and other companies may come if a Trump Administration clamps down on defense spending.

Branson could spend all of his time on Necker Island, but he's using his billions and voice (he's got over 2 million followers) to try and solve some of the world's biggest problems, like the HIV / AIDS pandemic and global warming.