Sentences with phrase «enough stakes for»

They pay very little attention to any backstory to the characters or give them high enough stakes for what they may lose if they don't make it out.

Not exact matches

Berkshire's operating profit, excluding investments and derivatives, has fallen short of Wall Street forecasts for eight consecutive quarters, while its cash stake swelled to $ 116 billion because Buffett could not find enough worth buying.

We see this kind of widely - distributed but unaddressable pain in all kinds of political and community situations where the powers that be just can't or won't be bothered to try to build a solution and no individuals have enough of a stake (or enough at stake) to take on the larger problem for the common good.

As if Nooyi wasn't facing enough pressure, she soon had to contend with a major activist investor: Nelson Peltz, who took a stake in the company and began agitating for PepsiCo to undo its merger of Pepsi and Frito - Lay, just as Kraft (KRFT) had spun off Mondelez after a similar campaign by Peltz.

Though he would not confirm whether he would want a personal stake in a Clinton prosecution, Giuliani stood by the evidence he believes is enough to cause significant setbacks for Clinton.

At one time, the sheer size of Johnson & Johnson would prevent an activist from successfully building up a large enough equity stake to agitate for change.

Instead, they've run their finances conservatively enough that they can sit on depressed valuations for years at a time, knowing that they are still earning a good rate of return when measured as the cash flow that belongs to them relative to the price they paid for their ownership stake.

It is also good to opt for family counselors who would definitely be the right person to show as wells guide the right way of thinking and acting in such crisis times of life The right thing would be to take control of oneâ $ ™ s emotions and act prudent enough because the life of not one but two are at stake in problematic affairs.

If Usmanov was to up his offer or ask for enough of Kroenke stake to take control of the club and keep is offer Kroenke won't change?!

Form should go out of the window with so much at stake for our side today however, but confidence will be high, and that should prove enough to win the match, especially with our rivals stuck in seventh in the division regardless of the result.

There is alot at stake in the final and since it is only taking place couple of weeks after league season conclude Spain and Italy which provide enough time for both teams to recover and put their focus on the big final.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: Part of What's at Stake series on the 2012 Farm Bill Enough to Eat: Food Assistance and the Farm Bill

But in competitive districts the new targeting scheme makes it possible for campaign assemblages to leverage their considerable resources to actually expand the electorate in significant ways, both in terms of persuasion efforts and get - out - the - vote efforts — and when the stakes are high enough, even through voter registration efforts.

Washington (CNN)- Despite his low poll numbers, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said he is committed to competing in the Iowa caucuses in February and will have enough money to execute his plan for the high stakes Ames straw poll.

The school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high - stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.

Slow Focus has the sheen and seemingly high stakes of a blockbuster movie — and enough easy thrills to compensate for the stakes being, in reality, pretty low.

The stakes are a bit lower than your standard Studio Ghibli fare, but the moral presented in the end is enough to make up for the lack of world - ending consequences in the conflict.

That's not to say that the main storyline doesn't have enough at stake (a man's life is certainly important), but it lacks weight in its other narrative elements to keep one fully engaged for its 118 minute runtime.

The initial set - up seems overcomplicated but it raises the stakes high enough for the action to be entertaining.

Ending with Leonard Cohen's «Everybody Knows,» War Dogs congratulates the audience for being smart after a couple of hours of The Hangover misadventure with stakes no higher than whether or not David will win back the wife he doesn't deserve and walk away with enough money to never have to be a massage therapist again.

Following up the one - two punch of «Gone Baby Gone» and «The Town» won't be an easy feat, but Affleck's proven himself to be an assured craftsman behind the camera with both outings, so a period - set mission movie with political stakes and filmmaking itself as part of the plot seems like a sound enough, intriguing enough next step for his directorial career.

The stakes are high enough that I cared, the characters are funny enough that I want to see them again, there's an abundance of heart and a real flair for the absurd that bring a quirky script alive in ways I hadn't quite expected to see.

Bellflower (Director & Screenwriter: Evan Glodell)-- A ballad for every person who has ever loved and lost — with enough violence, weapons, action and sex to tell a love story with apocalyptic stakes.

The worry with the return of the «Star Wars» franchise was that it wouldn't do enough to alter the landscape or take any risks because there's too much, financially, at stake for Disney to mess with their cash cow.

Because the other standardized tests are «low - stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low - stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that schools and students won't prepare enough for a low - stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).

Financial stakes aren't what they're in for, and the amount isn't enough to make a real difference anyway.»

We did some whole school sample work and some pilot studies and, in a nutshell, our kids weren't writing enough — which meant that our teachers weren't planning enough low stakes writing for opportunities for them to actually develop their skills.

According to a recent report published by Sir John Holman, president of the Royal Society for Chemistry, high - stake exams are preventing schools from carrying out enough practical science activities.

What that means is that the true education issues at stake — for instance, whether the standards for English and math are challenging enough or, conversely, age appropriate — are taking a backseat to arguments over macropolitics and ideology.

Observations on their own are not reliable enough to make secure judgements about the quality of individual lessons for the purposes of «high - stakes» judgements.

One must also look to other traditional notions of educational measurement: reliability / consistency (which is not at high - enough levels, especially across teacher types), validity (which is not at high - enough levels, especially for high - stakes purposes), etc. in that «replicability» alone is more common than Flowers (and perhaps others) might assume.

The 3.7 - liter V6 engine makes plenty of hay for everyday chores and is quick enough upon acceleration, though the 4.7 - liter V8 engine ups the stakes considerably paying off in power when you need it.

Entrepreneurs take advantage of the opportunities available, they are anxious for material gain, and they are savvy enough to know what the stakes are when escaping the «Darkness».

Since in this liquidation bankruptcy your creditors can stake claim on your properties, make sure that you don't have assets that are valuable enough for the creditors to file against.

The CEO, Owen Killian, has dug a real hole for the company that's gonna be painful to climb out of... and if that's not enough, the fact he was abruptly forced to sell most of his equity stake to meet a margin call last month is more than reason to fire him on the spot.

For those that invest, avoid companies that play it to the limit, unless you are an investor with enough of a stake that you can control the company.

You can best avoid fighting if you provide a large enough cage for all the hamsters to stake out their own little space or for a fleeing hamster to run and hide from any aggessive hamsters.

There is enough mystery w / Drake's parents & early years for characters like Sully or Marlowe (or any other villain for that matter) that the stakes will still be there.

The two seem like an unlikely pair, but with the life of an innocent girl at stake in Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the two heroes join forces to tackle an enigmatic mystery big enough for both of them.

At stake is India's ability to bring electricity to 400 million rural residents — a third of the population — as well as keep the lights on at corporate office towers and provide enough fuel for 1.5 million new vehicles added to the roads each month.

«I have found no case anywhere that deals with facts remotely like those at issue in this sordid affair, [leaving] what one can only hope is not an indelible impression that lawyers, even very prominent ones, will do almost anything to prevail if enough money is at stake and available for their use.»

For a single all - inclusive fee, firms can have Web - KEA's slightly acclaimed Web designers create a Web site marginally different enough from your competition's site that you'll feel like you've really staked out your firm's identity in cyberspace.

The security of the networks of various organizations are at stake but the potential for innovation using social media is a large enough incentive for the discussion of how to properly utilize the medium continues.

And, the financial stake for SiriusXM is large enough that they have an incentive to make sure Pandora rights the ship and figures out how to fight back against Spotify and Apple Music.

The stakes are high enough when you're vying for a new position.

Overview & Guidelines Your reputation for at least the next 2 years is at stake if you don't write a good enough cover letter to apply for your first job.

Your reputation for at least the next 2 years is at stake if you don't write a good enough cover letter to apply for your first job.

It is therefore up to the veterans, those with a real stake in the business, to make enough noise to make up for the lack of same from the apathetic types, because the CREAcrats count on the general apathy of the great unwashed newbies to keep their cash laden ship of fools sailing merrily along with ears plugged tight.

Others are concerned that Chinese investors who didn't bail out of stocks quickly enough will be a drag on international property markets, particularly after Beijing on Thursday banned shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling for six months.