Sentences with phrase «controlled as franchises»

And that pressure will be there whether the investor owns one law firm or a string of law firms controlled as franchises.

Not exact matches

Franchises have a number of controls to ensure uniformity, such as restrictions on goods and services you sell, suppliers, how you operate (hours, employee uniforms, signs, bookkeeping and accounting procedures), sales area (limited to a specific territory) and rights to termination and resale, and renewal.

Brands that aggressively franchised haven't performed as well as those that control their own stores, according to Tristano.

Healthy Acquisitions, Inc., which owns controlling interest of the award - winning fast - casual restaurant franchise UFood Grill, has named former Boston Celtics player and coach M.L. Carr as a board member.

Moving on from his most recent role as CEO & Director of Brotzeit ®, the world's leading German franchised restaurant casual dining concept, Aidan will be responsible for planning, organizing, directing and controlling all activities of company - owned domestic operations.

Lester sat there in 2004, a minor leaguer controlled by a franchise of doom, watching as the doom swirled around his parent club, knowing what to expect, the pain that was going to happen.

Control of the franchise has been taken over by point guard Steve Francis, who at 6» 3» is nine inches shorter than Olajuwon but has a chance to reach just as high.

When the idea of bringing franchises back under national control as they fall free was put to voters, three times as many Tory voters (60 %) backed the idea as opposed it (20 %).

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.

Very loosely based on the video game franchise of the same name, «Rampage» manages to screw up the source material's signature idea: The 1986 arcade cabinet was so popular because it flipped «King Kong» on its head and allowed players to control a trio of gigantic monsters as they fended off military forces and reduced Earth's cities to rubble.

These new game controls should keep the Zelda franchise fresh for veteran fans, but may also make the Zelda game more inviting for new players as well.

The rise of franchise - minder figures such as Marvel's Kevin Feige and Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy in roles that are an unusual blend of producer, production chief and showrunner, initially looked to be pointing toward a homogenous sameness from film to film in the name of quality control and brand management.

This is where I remind you, yet again, that Catherine Hardwicke excelled as the director of Twiight (the first film in the Twilight series) but as soon as Twilight became a box office success, control of The Twilight Saga was ripped away from Hardwicke and the FOUR additional films in the franchise were all helmed by male directors.

As soon as players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchisAs soon as players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchisas players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchise.

A spin - off to the successful Saints Row franchise, this game has you play as an assassin and gives you full control over your fired bullets.

You'll start off with the traditional first - person shooting (which can be altered to third - person if you prefer, which I do) but you'll also spend a significant amount of time navigating starfighters in space and playing as the game's «heroes» in a third - person mode where you control the most famous characters in the franchise.

As a result, we needed a bigger team, so we'll have arguably one of the largest Avengers teams in the history of the franchise and things just spiral out of control from there,» Hickman said.

The game will no doubt feature the Wii motion controls for the bat and ball interfaces as well as the expected cast of characters that spans pretty much every Nintendo franchise you can think of.

While this certainly doesn't act as confirmation of next year's Fable III being Natal enabled, we would be surprised if Peter Molyneux, who loves to use the «innovate» word in his presentations, would miss the chance of making his franchise one of the first to use the 360's motion controls.

At times you will be asked to precisely control Mario as he tiptoes on a giant ball across a world full of holes (in an obvious tip of the hat to the Monkeyball franchise), or walks a narrow tightrope path without falling off into a literal black hole of oblivion.

Godzilla has been developed by Natsume Atari Inc. and gives players control of over 20 different Kaiju from the Godzilla franchise, which include classics such as Anguirus and Rodan.

Players will be controlling the iconic Mario as he runs through a number of different environments, all of which are themed from actual areas from the Super Mario Bros franchise.

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There are five alternative control schemes including mirror, green thumb, jumper, cold shoulder and puppeteer with a number of changes made in each which is an extremely positive design choice as it will certainly allow for players from different first - person shooter franchises to find the control scheme that is appropriate for their play style such as the mirror control scheme that switches the actions of L1, L2 and L3 for R1, R2 and R3 in comparison to the default control scheme.

After flushing your business, you head outside to South Park to see a war raging on in the streets as kids fight for control of the Stick of Truth from the previous game, but just as we get close The Coon jumps into the fray to warn all the kids of a danger ahead, a missing cat, whose capture could reward the heroes $ 100 to fund their superhero franchise.

But now the Assassin's Creed franchise has shifted away from the intriguing contemporary science fiction plot — with revisionist history serving as both a backdrop and a foil — and onto an out of control metanarrative using «the real world» as the barest of framing devices.

As soon as players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchisAs soon as players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchisas players are left on their own, following a frankly excessively long tutorial section, they can control of their fully crewed ship, the Morrigan, and pretty much go wherever they want, which is a big change from previous entries in the franchise.

On top of the blistering one - on - one brawls the franchise is famed for, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 4's multi-stage battles will let us summon and control characters that are dozens if not hundreds of storeys tall, laying waste to entire forests and towering over the scenery as we take on similarly monstrous opponents in outrageous escalating anime showdowns.

Praised for highly tactical combat, an innovative territory - control resource system and varied single and multiplayer campaign design, Company of Heroes is consistently regarded as the one of the greatest real time strategy franchises of all time.

Halo Wars 2 brings the franchise back to the real - time strategy genre, allowing you take control of huge armies of soldiers and vehicles as you battle for tactical supremacy against a menacing new enemy faction.

While the Call of Duty franchise has been about fast - paced action with simplistic controls, Red Orchestra can be described best as a war simulator because it's focus on authentic World War II weaponry is second to none.

«So as you go through this collaboration with Nintendo, a company that is very protective of its franchises that always likes to have total control, what was that like?»

But I actually think Watch Dogs as a franchise has the potential to go further in terms of game world interaction mainly due to the level of playful control you can eventually exert over the city's systems.

«Infamous: First Light» lets players control «Second Son» co-star Abigail «Fetch» Walker, marking the first time you'll get to wield the franchise's insanely destructive powers as a female protagonist.

By reworking the destructive antics of the Angry Birds franchise into a three - dimensional, Kinect - controlled environment, recent XBLA release Wreckateer risks being dismissed as derivative.

It may have the character, control and theme down to a tee, but the dungeon design is nowhere near as tight as those from the main franchise.

OotP Baseball puts players in control of an MLB franchise as they control the lineups, trades and roster moves as they try to build their favorite team into a dynasty.

The gameplay has been described as being similar to controlling a squad in the Mass Effect franchise.

It's great that Tecmo Koei have revisited this franchise again and although the gameplay is reminiscent of Dynasty Warriors, it's really fun controlling these powerful mobile suits as you engage a variety of enemies and massive boss battles.

I have always been a huge fan of the Fable series and Fable Legends brings the franchise into the modern era with multiplayer and the option to play as the villain and run the dungeons and control enemies.

Launched in 1987 by tabletop gaming specialist Games Workshop's Rick Priestly as a sci - fi - themed follow - up to highly successful orcs - and - elves franchise Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 puts the player in control of squads from the Imperium of Man, Eldar, Orks, or Daemons - equivalent to men, elves, orcs, and demons from fantasy literature - in a dystopic future known as «grimdark» after the franchise's tagline of «in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.»

Control as fluid as the motion of the Great Sea, multi-avenue combat that never grows dull, inventive and immersive dungeons, items that don't have a use - by date and the closest thing to a truly open world that the Zelda franchise has ever seen all make the criminally underplayed Gamecube title a bona fide masterpiece.

I love Olimar, I love the Pikmin, and the multitude of pathways available to me in the game is fantastic, but slow pacing, clunky controls and the inability to send my party off in different directions to do different jobs results in a Pikmin game that doesn't hit the mark as other games in the franchise have.

Taking the popular Dynasty Warriors style of hack - and - slash gameplay, Fire Emblem Warriors will likely allow players to take direct control of their favorite Fire Emblem characters, defeating enemies as they make your way across different stages, similar to what Hyrule Warriors did with the Zelda franchise.

This side - story of the Ghosts «n Goblins franchise puts you in control of Firebrand, that red demon that hounded you as Arthur.

Visually stunning, easy to control gameplay, familiar villains from the batman comics, Arkham Knight firmly establishes itself as the premier Arkham game in the franchise 4.75 out of 5 stars

The game includes all the options as the other console versions including lead blocking, create - a - player / team / fan, hall of fame, tons of training sessions including two minute drill and NFL network, and a full - blown franchise mode just to name a few, and throws in an intuitive learn madden tutorial, multiplayer competitions including the amazingly addictive 2 - on - 2 and Y.A.C. Attack, as well as tons of motion control specifically built for the Wii - mote and nunchuk.

Madden 06 includes an expanded franchise mode, which gives you more control of your team as you progress through a season.

Longtime fans of the MX vs. ATV franchise may be disappointed by this news, but honestly the airplanes and monster trucks and other vehicles never controlled particularly well anyway, so putting the focus back on MX and ATV racing is a welcome change as far as I'm concerned.

Besides, we've seen more than once that he didn't have much control over the franchise overall; while he's done some good moves over the years, I don't think that his input is as critical as some have made it to be.