Sentences with phrase «by incumbents like»

Now, as Morgan Stanley outlines, there quite a few hurdles to overcome for the industry to see a real dissolution of the overwhelming dominance enjoyed by incumbents like Bloomberg (which, as this Financial Times article from last summer details, has a cult - like following among its faithful users).

The Leaf, which can drive 107 miles on a single charge, has lately been eclipsed by incumbents like the Chevy Bolt, a $ 37,495 car with 238 miles of range.

Not exact matches

But like everyone else, these awesome companies started small, dwarfed by the incumbents in their chosen industries.

Although upstart mattress companies are challenging brick - and - mortar incumbents like Sleep Country by offering lower prices and a hassle - free experience, the company plans to open up to 12 locations annually for the next five to seven years.

As a result, he argues, we should expect to see plenty more acquisitions like Walmart's purchase of Jet.com, as the incumbents wake up to the threat that smaller startups are posing and attempt to «hedge their own public valuations by buying the very same unicorns that keep them awake at night.»

Kalanick noted that this will significantly expand by Q1 of next year, although there have been some notable holdouts like Houston and Miami because of ongoing fights between Uber and incumbent local taxi organizations.

Of course there are instances where an anti-competitive business combination constructed as an ancillary restraint will survive antitrust tests, but this situation with the three incumbent consumer credit repositories looks like an illegal attempt to stifle competition — namely FICO — and create a vertical monopoly atop the existing horizontal data franchise shared by the three firms.

The AP called the tight race a few minutes later, and the pain was instead felt by Newman and the likes of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Emily's List, and Gloria Steinem — all of whom had endorsed Newman and together poured millions into this rare effort to oust a veteran incumbent from a safe seat.

His efforts were not enough to save House incumbents like Reps. Mike Arcuri, Scott Murphy, Mike McMahon and John Hall, who all lost to their Republican opponents last Tuesday (two more — Dan Maffei and Tim Bishop — are hanging by the proverbial thread).

This was the part of the country where, in 2010, the words «points - based - system» went down so badly on the doorstep that Labour failed to win seats like Colne Valley, now held by the Conservative incumbent Jason McCartney.

Like I said, the incumbent with the free press you get from being an incumbent can only be offset by the challenger getting their name out there.

Former Councilman Vinny Orlando, a 52 - year - old Republican from Southold, won the Highway Superintendent post vacated by 12 - year incumbent Democrat Pete Harris, who like Mr. Talbot opted to not seek re-election this year.

He didn't mention the incumbent by name, but buzzwords like «cooperation and coordination» were intended to get the message across that Gallo can be difficult to deal with.

It might be possible to make minor changes by statute, like preventing incumbent officeholders from double - dipping on their pension benefits while serving as a delegate, but most dramatic changes would require an amendment.

An «election» could, however, include a situation like that surrounding the adoption of the Magna Carta or the assembly of representatives of the various estates that was convened by the monarch shortly before the French Revolution in which the franchise is quite limited (e.g. limited only to aristocrats, or to elders, or to clergy, or to members of a political party, or to members of a particular tribe or caste, or to a council of leaders of tribes or castes) who are not all members of the incumbent's extended family and whose appointment was not primarily within the control of the incumbent as a practical matter.

Cuomo, as you'll recall, is generally pretty judicious with his endorsements, preferring to hand them out only in instances of 1) political expedience (like, say, the tight race for Westchester County executive where he would personally benefit from the defeat of incumbent Republican Rob Astorino, who has been mentioned as a potential future gubernatorial contender); or 2) almost certain victory by his preferred candidate; or 3) when his nod is highly likely to make the difference between victory and defeat in the 11th hour of a campaign.

Mr. Carvin said the Debt Clock, which increases by about $ 4 billion per day, «crystallizes» how reckless career Washington politicians, like 24 - year - incumbent Nita Lowey (D - WFP), have been to this country — and just how sorely new and fiscally responsible leaders are needed.

«Early on, this race looked like it was going to be one of the closest in the state, a former Democratic City Council member taking on an embattled incumbent Republican under federal indictment in a district that is, at least by enrollment, dominated by Democrats,» Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg said in a statement.

Actor and activist Cynthia Nixon launched her challenge to two - term incumbent Governor Andrew Cuomo by calling him a fake Democrat who has governed like a Republican and only takes progressive stances when they are politically expedient or he has no choice.

There may not be a primary battle for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but the mayoral runoff election in Chicago - triggered Tuesday by incumbent Rahm Emanuel's failure to get 50 percent of the vote - looks like it is going to serve as a proxy, with netroots progressives and unions on one side backing Emanuel's challenger Chuy Garcia, and high finance and the Democratic establishment backing Emanuel.

Voters will have an opportunity to hear and ask questions of three contenders who would like to run for election to the East Hampton Town Board in November: Kathee Burke - Gonzalez, an incumbent seeking re-election, Jeffrey Bragman, an attorney and first - time candidate, and Zachary Cohen, who lost a 2011 bid for supervisor by just 15 votes.

A reformer who won the lion's share of labor endorsements in the race, including that of the Working Families Party, Torres was supported by State Senator Gustavo Rivera, who ousted disgraced and jailed incumbent Pedro Espada, Jr. in 2010, as well as by the Bronx's most popular elected official, Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. (who has broken with his father on social issues like LGBT rights and marriage equality).

By comparison, Cuomo, who has had the Democratic field to himself since Gov. David A. Paterson decided not to run and Levy switched from Democrat to Republican earlier this year, has been collecting money like a seasoned incumbent and is expected to report at least $ 20 million next month, according to campaign aides.

She has not declared any intention to run for another office, like Manhattan Borough President, Public Advocate, or Mayor, all of which are held by Democratic incumbents all - but - certain to run for re-election in 2017.

When not required by a film script to dress like a crazy person, Taika Waititi... still sometimes dresses like a crazy person, because God only gives you one life and it's incumbent upon you to live it to the utmost.

But it looks like electoral consequences might also be confined to the Hoosier state; according to Emma, in Ohio, a key anti — Common Core challenger was defeated by the incumbent.

In the mid-1990s, Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen coined the term «disruptive innovation» to describe how large and well - resourced industry incumbents like U.S. Steel and RCA were toppled by upstarts like Nucor and Sony.

The Author Earnings numbers also tend to support Thompson's broader point, based on what he calls «aggregation theory,» which is that digital platforms from companies like Amazon are ultimately dis - intermediating existing industries like book publishing, by allowing content creators to do an end - run around incumbents and sell directly to consumers.

Canadian banking is not like the wireless industry where the mighty incumbents are seeking help from public (Judiciary is also for the people and by the people) to stop foreign competitions from entering Canada.

«Definition of law firm merger - poorly managed; driven largely by overpaid incumbent management with little real support from grass roots; justifed rarely on good logic but instead on catch words like «scale», «footprint» and «globalisation»...

But Peckham argues that» «Newness,» «sameness» and «valued» aren't always the same things, and even where they are, it's surely not incumbent on consumers who buy a digital object to protect the copyright owner's market by sacrificing a time - honored practice like being able to resell it, is it?»

... which ends with «So it is bad policymaking — no, terrible policymaking — to allow the incumbent telco industries to prevent this economic growth (and their own replacement) by giving them any kind of control of the Internet, like with the upcoming coup attempt at the ITU's meeting in Dubai, or trusting them politically with Internet rollout.»

Stripe will find itself up against the likes of incumbents like CCAvenue and Razorpay, the latter of which is funded by Tiger Global and Matrix Partners.

Regardless of the success of platforms like Twitter and Facebook (and Amazon in snatching the Thursday Night Football deal away from Twitter last year) getting these games on their platforms, the big primetime moments still elude those platforms and are all but locked up by incumbents.

Organisations like YCombinator provide a welcoming environment for talented and dynamic young Europeans in California while the EU's regulatory structure is dominated by massive incumbent multinationals like Goldman Sachs that use the Single Market to crush startup competitors.