Sentences with phrase «biggest feather in»

According to BitPay's chief commercial officer, Sonny Singh, the biggest feather in the company's cap was to rope in Menlo Capital as an investor.

Noah Baumbach doing Noah Baumbach things, the biggest feather in the cap of The Meyerowitz Stories is the resurrection of Adam Sandler as a true blue actor.

While speculation has been that Kojima would likely land in some sort of relationship with Sony when he was finally free of Konami, analysts say the announcement is still a big feather in the company's cap.

Taking the top spot was a big feather in the firm's cap, given that so many other brokerages saw a drop in deals.

Winning the Freedom 100 in front of 80,000 people was a big one, winning British Formula 3 was also a big feather in my cap.

«This is a huge honor for Anitra but also a big feather in our chapter's cap to have a representative from our program,» says Don Miller, Executive Director of The First Tee of San Joaquin, which operates a partner program at Greenhorn Creek Golf Resort in California's Gold Country.

The results in London exceeded expectations, a big feather in the cap of mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan.

And while a fancy fellowship isn't a necessity to get hired at most institutions, it's a big feather in a fledgling scientist's hat — just one of many possible feathers, but a feather nonetheless.

While that might sound like a bad thing, it's actually a big feather in Honda's cap.

Apparently, one of the biggest feathers in Amazon's developer friendly cap is its in - app purchasing system, which it claims generates more than twice the revenue of the average paid app transaction.

It's likely a big feather in the cap for Essential and it could persuade many people to consider this new phone that's now available to pre-order.

One big feather in its cap is that it will work as a fully wireless headset (although again without surround - sound) with a Nintendo Switch in its docked mode.

Not exact matches

Don't blame the results on the fans who have been more loyal than you will find at any other big club where Wenger would have been carried out of town in tar and feathers 10 years ago.

Yet Schembechler did ruffle a few feathers by saying that a win over the Irish wasn't as important as a win over Michigan State, Ohio State or anybody else in the Big Ten.

The birds are busy in our garden collecting sticks, moss and old feathers to build and line their nests and have been since later February early March — however our biggest joy this year is that they are using a bird box that the kids made themselves with our help.

In the animal world, these qualities include things like thick, well - groomed fur, long feathers, big antlers, or, in the case of the stickleback fish, the size and hue of the red spot on his bellIn the animal world, these qualities include things like thick, well - groomed fur, long feathers, big antlers, or, in the case of the stickleback fish, the size and hue of the red spot on his bellin the case of the stickleback fish, the size and hue of the red spot on his belly.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

They found the biggest difference in the genes that make pigment, which are active in the skin tissue and control feather color.

Lush soft curls, big bold curls, feathered curls, long curls, curly locks — all of these styles are «in» and have been flaunted by celebrities time and again.

From jeweled to feathered to studded, these tiny bags stood out in a big way.

The Dress My dress was a San Patrick, I loved the feathers so much and completely fell in love with it when I put it on even though I was convinced I didn't want a big dress.

Maybe it's because in grade school during November we would make a big cut out turkey and write what we were thankful for on the feathers, but there is something about the entire month of November (not just Thanksgiving) that reminds me to give thanks.

(In my favourite gag in the film, because I'm intellectually twelve years old, Harry's meth - eating cat Butthole — so named because he has a butthole, duh — flatulates a big gust of feathersIn my favourite gag in the film, because I'm intellectually twelve years old, Harry's meth - eating cat Butthole — so named because he has a butthole, duh — flatulates a big gust of feathersin the film, because I'm intellectually twelve years old, Harry's meth - eating cat Butthole — so named because he has a butthole, duh — flatulates a big gust of feathers.)

Featuring a mix of international intrigue and sweat - inducing subterfuge against the backdrop of the twentieth century's most decadent decade, THE INFILTRATOR should put a mighty feather in Cranston's big screen cap.

Fiat Chrysler says it is spending about $ 1 billion to retool the Michigan plant, and the announcement coming shortly after President Trump signed the GOP's 2018 tax reform bill was seen as a feather in the cap of one of the White House's biggest legislative victories.

Throughout the day we find it ridiculously easy to nuance the torque output of the Power Wagon's big Hemi in low range because that mode includes a softer throttle pedal calibration that's easy to feather as we ease up and over obstacles.

Leaving the nest Australians Margaret Wild and Julie Vivas team up again in Puffling, the gentle tale of a baby Puffin and his attentive, loving parents, Big Stripy Beak and Long Black Feather.

That's why it's important to protect all animals; big or small, feathered, scaled, hoofed, pawed, or otherwise — and to understand the key ways in which to care for them in their time of need.

Rio Carnival is the world's biggest carnival with over 2 million bodies dressed in outlandish sequins and feathers gyrating to the beat of 100,000 samba drums.

Fire Fly (Sleeps 2) Close to the edge, this lovely, cosy cottage for two also has spectacular views, two comfy chairs in front of the log fire - place, a king - size bed with feather duvet, and a bath big enough for two!

Sonic the Hedgehog: Episode 1, tower defense classic Plants vs Zombies and ubiquitous feather - flinger Angry Birds are among the grandstanding titles heading to Windows Phone 7 this Spring in a big new games push just announced by Microsoft.

Since then, plans for a big anniversary gala on Nov. 9 at the new World Trade Center building in New York, a major fundraiser, have ruffled some feathers.

Gregory Coates» use of feather has been a big influence on my incorporation of black feathers in recent work.

Hailing from a prominent family of Black Masking Indians and son of the Chief of Chiefs Allison «Big Chief Tootie» Montana, he uses sequins, beads, pearls, marabou, feathers and stones to create multi-dimensional Mardi Gras costumes for each year's carnival in New Orleans.

Miró has no paintings in the studio, but he shows Calder a collage consisting of «a big sheet of heavy gray cardboard with a feather, a cork, and a picture postcard glued to it.

The print is based on Kjartansson's performance piece, Du Holde Kunst, in which he sings a slow, repetitive version of Franz Schubert's An Die Musik accompanied by a pianist, brass quartet, harp, timpani, large crash cymbal, and showgirls with big feather fans.

Monica Banks uses porcelain to create Big and Small Moments, 2015 - 2016, cakes carrying miniature animal figures and objects such as bees, feathers, stones, and distressed dinnerware to both celebrate and grieve events she observes in nature and domestic life.

When turned on, the visitor becomes a witness of the robbery that is taking place right in front of his eyes: all birds have multi-coloured little pills in their beaks which they are about to steal — they are all feathered thieves caught in the act: there is a parade of six seemingly dancing smaller birds that appear to be surprised by their discovery and that seem to run away from the crime scene; a big blue pelican strides away gingerly with his loot in his beak whereas a dark brownish owl seems to pause and reconsider her deed; a bright red and orange bird on one leg almost falls off the table while trying to escape the crime scene... Their facial expressions are manifold but their actions are always the same: to flee their discovery and the nosy glance of the beholder and to leave their sites of crime behind.

i'll embrace my choices, guard against envying morally bankrupt attorneys» loot, and live to see these criminals tried for funding disinformation on climate change in the same way big tobacco was rightly tarred and feathered for their inexcusable practices.

It's a bit of a feather in the cap for Apple, as the big change is to the screen size: not only larger, but the 4:3 aspect ratio parrots that of Cupertino's slate hero, the iPad Air 2.

Why ruffle feathers and give users a reason to not upgrade when you're already in need of big sales?

Birds of a feather don't always fly farthest: Similarity in Big Five personality predicts more negative marital satisfaction trajectories in long - term marriages.

She used to put those big yellow fluffy bush flowers in a vase with peacock feathers.

I let out a big sigh of frustration at the same moment that I noticed who was driving the pickup: a person in a big, floppy straw hat with a pheasant feather bobbing in the band.

We have nine hens (all ex-battery farm) which were in a woeful state (scrawny, no tail feathers, debeaked etc) but have morphed into fat, fluffy hens — «the girls»; and two dogs as well (one big, one small — both believing they are human).