Sentences with phrase «facto king of»

Despite the lackluster success of Microsoft's Skype app, Slack has become the de facto king of online workplace collaboration platforms.

Up to this point every seven - inch tablet is going to get compared to the Nexus 7 — while that may be familiar territory for companies like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, the fact that Apple is no longer the de facto king of a market segment (even if it's just the seven - inch version) is pretty big news within the quickly - changing tech sphere.

The de facto king of Staten Island politics, now 85, eased himself out of a wheelchair on Saturday, bracing his frail body against the stage of the quaint New Dorp Moravian Church.

Not exact matches

We've got to really get to the issue that Martin Luther King said right here at this university in 1965, «If cities like Syracuse up North don't deal with segregation — de facto segregation he called it cause they're getting rid of Jim Crow segregation in the South — you're going to lose generations of kids, and that's what we have.

The King amendment inevitably would have created a «race to the bottom» whereby the most abusive and dangerous rules in the country would become de facto national standards ---- since producers «doing it on the cheap» in one state always would undercut the prices of domestic producers in those states that care more about public health and animal welfare.

The game was named after the de facto villain, a gorilla (which was named after the classic 1933 movie monster King Kong), instead of the player - character Mario (or «Jumpman», as he was named at the time), because designer Shigeru Miyamoto felt Donkey Kong had to be the strongest character in the love triangle displayed on - screen - the game used then - innovative techniques to tell the on - screen story of how the stubborn pet gorilla of «Jumpman» the carpenter steals away his girlfriend, Pauline, and it is up to the hero to save the damsel in distress.

The first (and de facto) Queen Regnant, Lady Jane Grey, conceded that she would make her husband a duke, and specifically Duke of Clarence; but he could not have the title of King, unless Parliament was to grant it to him.

Even though King of Prussia is not the formal name of the area, both the Post Office and emergency vehicles carry the name and it's the de facto form used locally.