Sentences with phrase «class position in»

HTC's position as an early pioneer in consumer VR affords it the opportunity to move to an upper - class position in the market where it can justify somewhat higher margins while newcomers such as Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality hardware partners scramble to gain traction in the more - affordable VR segment where competition is getting tough.

Not exact matches

«The result of that is this growing class of freelance employees but that's probably not most of their own choice to be in that position.»

The plight of the middle class was a major theme of his launch speech and the subject of his first position statement, published as a column in the Toronto Star entitled: «Canadian middle class left out of the growth equation.»

This class says you can in four easy steps: learn the model, apply to model to your position, test it practically and articulate your success via plan in action.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

For comparative purposes, 6 % of Harvard's class of 2016 took internships in investment banking, 8 % spent the summer in general management positions, and 15 % were in marketing summer positions.

On Thursday, Trudeau acknowledged the rise in online sales but repeated his government's position that imposing the sales tax on foreign digital platforms would amount to a tax on middle - class Canadians.

«If you want to maintain a position in the middle class, given the vagaries of the humanities job market... well, you may want to make sure you snare some lucrative stock options first,» says the post.

The mat has a mode with built - in workout options (that are read aloud from your phone or tablet) for home yoga, and can also be used in a class setting so you can monitor your balance and position in situations where an instructor might not be able to give you the one - on - one attention that you need to improve.

There are «extreme market positions in all asset classes,» according to Societe Generale.

How to qualify: Once they have spent some time in front of the classroom, teachers aiming for an admin position head back to class themselves — for a master of education degree or additional specialist and principal's training, which varies depending on the province.

CEO Kotick said in a statement, «We should emerge even stronger — an independent company with a best - in - class franchise portfolio and the focus and flexibility to drive long - term shareholder value and expand our leadership position as one of the world's most important entertainment companies... The transactions announced today will allow us to take advantage of attractive financing markets while still retaining more than US$ 3 billion cash on hand to preserve financial stability.»

«High frequency traders were first, but the new and more threatening class of entrant deploys capital and takes positions to support market making,» the two firms said in a joint report.

Regardless of your position in class, test your balance from time to time.

World - class asshole Martin Shkreli found himself in the news yet again when he resigned his position as CEO at Turing Pharmaceuticals.

On the other hand, a large temporary cash position makes sense for market timers, who believe they have the skills to move in and out of asset classes and profit from such actions.

Mining stocks are an extremely volatile asset class where the odds of any investor getting into a story, experiencing impressive gains, only to then take a round trip back to break - even... and finally into NEGATIVE territory are actually quite high (sadly)... In fact, that dreaded rollercoaster ride where you see all your once «hefty» profits in any single position later eviscerated into NOTHING is something that I've experienced more often than I'd like to admit.In fact, that dreaded rollercoaster ride where you see all your once «hefty» profits in any single position later eviscerated into NOTHING is something that I've experienced more often than I'd like to admit.in any single position later eviscerated into NOTHING is something that I've experienced more often than I'd like to admit...

Our experience has given us a unique market position and a comprehensive understanding of investing in this asset class.

Fixed - income exchange - traded funds set a blistering pace of asset gathering in the first half of 2017, easily positioning the asset class to top 2016's record inflows.

In my nightly stock and ETF pick newsletter, I generally use a minimum ADTV requirement of 100k - 500k shares for individual stocks (depending on share size of the position), but may go as low as 50k shares for ETFs (in order to achieve greater asset class diversityIn my nightly stock and ETF pick newsletter, I generally use a minimum ADTV requirement of 100k - 500k shares for individual stocks (depending on share size of the position), but may go as low as 50k shares for ETFs (in order to achieve greater asset class diversityin order to achieve greater asset class diversity).

Saskferco further strengthens Yara's scale and position in North America and is a perfect complement, bringing efficient production capacity from a world - class nitrogen fertilizer facility that is in close proximity to one of the key global fertilizer markets.

By combining Franklin Templeton's industry expertise with the diverse insights of our global workforce, we will better position ourselves to deliver exceptional investment performance and world - class customer service in an increasingly competitive world.»

The fund takes equal - weighted positions in three broad asset classes with the strongest positive price momentum.

A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the Class A common stock in the open market that could adversely affect investors who purchase in this offering.

With each class, you begin to understand each position and the subtle differences in each that provide you with the chance to engage your muscles in a slightly different way.

«We should emerge even stronger — an independent company with a best - in - class franchise portfolio and the focus and flexibility to drive long - term shareholder value and expand our leadership position as one of the world's most important entertainment companies.»

It's been my view since circa 2003 that «they» would hold up the system with printed money and credit creation until every last crumb of middle class wealth was swept off the table and into the pockets of those in position to do the sweeping: Corporate America, the very wealthy («wealthy» = enough disposable cash to buy a few politicians and Federal judges) and the political elite — the latter of which are compensated pawns for the first two cohorts.

Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.

In the fourth - quarter 2017 issue of Investment Strategy Quarterly, we take a look at global infrastructure, outline the defining characteristics of the asset class, and discuss why this might be a good time to consider initiating new positions in this asset class or adding to existing oneIn the fourth - quarter 2017 issue of Investment Strategy Quarterly, we take a look at global infrastructure, outline the defining characteristics of the asset class, and discuss why this might be a good time to consider initiating new positions in this asset class or adding to existing onein this asset class or adding to existing ones.

Nearly 20 years on, KBC has been in the advantageous position of being able to offer an unusually broad range of product and service choices to its customers, pushing it to the head of its class.

Here are their current top positions and please keep in mind that they own multiple securities / asset classes in each name: - Chrysler - Delphi Corp - CIT Group - Dana Holding Corp - PHH Corp As you can see, there's a bunch of automotive names listed above and we highlighted back in August 2009 how Loeb favored select auto plays and obviously they've performed well over time.

For time - series portfolios, they take an equal long (short) position in each asset within a class - strategy according to whether its expected return is positive (negative).

«With the lack of significant new construction in the Columbia area, newer Class A assets like 7021 are well positioned to meet the market's demand in the coming years.»

Companies that make the publication are best - in - class within their respective sectors based on our assessment of their competitive position and underlying business risk.

When asked if Syrah was a takeover target at its current share price, Mr Slifirski said: «Anytime you see a company with a world class resource in terms of scale, quality and position on the cost curve, which is exposed to a disruptive technology and has an open share register, it makes absolute sense as a takeover target.»

The Marxoid assumption that the economy is the variable in the ordering of public life» together with the language of class warfare and redistribution of wealth» is still firmly established among leftists now in high political position.

For four years, until his departure for his present eminent position at Munster, Professor Barth remained at Göttingen, and during that time he saw his theology, set forth in further books and in lectures and addresses, sweep through the universities of Germany, and today there seem to be hardly more than two classes of religious thinkers in the country, Barthians and anti-Barthians.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

Indeed my basic position is that for the understanding of human behavior in society the whole controversy as to whether material conditions (appetites, interests, «drives,» or in Marxist terms, the «means of production» and the consequent «class struggle») cause men to act is at bottom pointless and unprofitable.

The ministerial courses, at least in my program, included leadership and organizational classes that have been beneficial for me in management positions.

Certainly it is a fact that the relation between classes is one of violent competition for positions of power in the nation, for «a bigger slice of the cake» — that is, of the national revenue.

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she liveIn preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she livein a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

In a summary of Whitehead's position, mathematics is abstracted from human experience to become ideal objects which initially represent general things that are symbolized in classes by variableIn a summary of Whitehead's position, mathematics is abstracted from human experience to become ideal objects which initially represent general things that are symbolized in classes by variablein classes by variables.

In consequence, that class of person who were recognized as learned in the Law, and made it their business to expound it, acquired a position of peculiar influence and prestigIn consequence, that class of person who were recognized as learned in the Law, and made it their business to expound it, acquired a position of peculiar influence and prestigin the Law, and made it their business to expound it, acquired a position of peculiar influence and prestige.

As a social scientist Berger avoids taking the position that religion is an irreducible reality sui generis (i.e., in a class all its own), as does someone like Ninian Smart, the popular professor of comparative religions, in his book The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge (1973).

The criticism did not, surprisingly, change the clergy's assumptions about their position in the class structure.

This position is predicated on the view that in the hierarchy of human values and needs, aesthetics is near the top and therefore beyond the experience of all but the cultured and leisure classes.

Now Spaniards conquered a large portion of the Americas, including the West Indies and the Philippines, and became the ruling classes in these lands; the Portuguese established themselves in a similar position in Brazil and sprinkled themselves along the coasts of Africa and here and there on the shores of India, in the East Indies and in Malacca and Macao; the French planted colonies in parts of North America and the West Indies; the Dutch, with an intermingling of French Huguenots, began a permanent colony in South Africa, and Dutch.

Effectively, though we have given the Bible back to the people in their own language, in actual practice we have maintained the power, position, and authority of the priestly / clergy / pastoral class as the accurate interpreters of Scripture.