Sentences with phrase «demanding bigger cuts»

So it's demanding bigger cuts in most of its operations.

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

And Amazon is already demanding a bigger cut in audio from self - published authors — the start of a shift in terms.

Not exact matches

The explosion in demand for these secondary cuts helped drive New Zealand's sheep meat trade to China to $ 550 million in 2013, up around five-fold from 2010, and a big boost for a farm sector that has seen sluggish demand from traditional markets in Europe.

The brand has been hurt by weak demand in the United States, its biggest market, and from competition from better - positioned rivals Nike and Adidas, which cut into Under Armour's profit and growth.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

The oil market is having a stellar month, continuing a rally fueled by stronger demand and expectations of bigger output cuts.

Florida's power outages will probably be a bigger story going forward, affecting electricity markets and likely cutting into natural gas demand for quite some time.

The trend away from energy scarcity and toward energy abundance creates big losers as well as winners and is only a net positive for global demand if the winners» boost in consumption offsets the losers» cut in consumption and capital spending.

IPG said that cutting and welding demand was the biggest reason for the improving numbers in the materials processing area, while telecom strength boosted the other portion of IPG's business.

The nation's biggest processor Murray Goulburn is being investigated by authorities after making retrospective price cuts, demanding back money it had paid suppliers throughout the season.

Their local election drubbing seems to have redoubled the Tories» ardour for ideological zealotry, with the Tory Right (and where they go, Cameron will soon follow) now hawking around their demands for even bigger public service and welfare cuts (when we haven't even yet had 90 % of the first tranche) which will reduce tax receipts still further and ratchet up the recession another notch.

HMIC says in its report, Demanding Times, that it will be a big challenge to make cuts without damaging the frontline.»

If they did, they might demand a big prize in return, such as PR for local elections, extended free childcare, progress on Lords reform and less brutal welfare cuts.

Another long - shot challenger, Green Party candidate Kevin Bott, suggests a different approach: Institute a progressive city income tax to raise more revenue, and demand that state leaders share a bigger cut of New York's income tax receipts with Syracuse and other cities.

In fact, the son makes trouble for the movie, demanding that Johnny, a longtime bit player excited to get his own big break in four scenes, is cut from the picture entirely.

A source had earlier told Reuters last month that Nissan would cut hundreds of jobs at its Sunderland plant, Britain's biggest automotive factory, due to falling demand for diesel models in Europe.

When sales are slow, manufacturers will usually try to jack up demand by offering cut - rate finance, lease deals or big rebates.

And as Kris pointed out in her blog, with traditional big publishers switching over to electronic books and more print - on - demand books, they get out from under shipping and printing and warehousing costs, and that ugly return system gets cut down.

Amazon may demand more co-op money from small presses than they can afford, and bigger cuts to Amazon are harder for them to do.

In «Integrating and Balancing E & P: Big Picture Issues Made Real,» moderator Michael Santangelo, Electronic Resources Analyst in the Collection Development Department at the Brooklyn Public Library led panelists through a discussion covering several challenges that libraries face as demand for ebooks continues growing, even as collection budgets get cut or remain flat.

Small side diamonds (or melees) are often single cut, because they are too small, although there is a bigger demand for full precision cut melees now.

If we cut, let's say, 50 % from our demands that would be a BIG improvement.

Its new executive director in charge of day - to - day ops is Julie Samuels, someone who cut her teeth as an attorney with the Electronic Frontiers Foundation and recently asked that the 2016 presidential candidates answer the big questions tech demands.

With the advent of next - gen VR headsets, 4K displays, and bigger, more demanding games, mobile GPUs just couldn't cut it anymore.

While most people are perfectly happy with the photos they get from their very capable smartphone cameras, pro photographers are bit more nit - picky, and of course, there's always that little sliver of the market that demands the biggest, bestest and most cutting - edge photo tech out there.