Sentences with phrase «few of the rivals»

During recent transfer windows, the Blues have been outspent by a few of their rivals and they are no longer the financially dominant team in the division.

It was something that he and many rival explorers had long been seeking — but few of those rivals were prepared to accept that he had really found what he said he'd found.

The Maserati Quattroporte may not pack the ultimate wallop in terms of ripping acceleration that a few of its rivals do, but definitely there is enough performance on tap to satisfy the most speed - hungry enthusiasts.

There's a lot of space on offer, not more than competition but on par with a few of the rivals.

Well, its chassis lacks the dynamic polish of the very best cars in the class, but few of its rivals will get as much attention.

Not exact matches

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Rival Coca - Cola is also in the process of a gradual and targeted launch of its own reduced - calorie, stevia - sweetened Coca - Cola Life, a cola that has 35 percent fewer calories than its flagship Coke.

Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of current models, give rivals more time to begin on a competitive response, and lead to fewer sales when the new product launches, according to the memo.

But CP recently reported its lowest - ever operating ratio of 65.9 %, only a few notches behind rival Canadian National Railway.

Leaked information about a new product can negatively impact sales of the current model; give rival companies more time to begin on a competitive response; and lead to fewer sales of that new product when it arrives.

Few people would say the streaming TV landscape is lacking for options, but that has not stopped a seemingly endless stream of new services looking to rival Netflix and Amazon for streaming supremacy.

The new report comes a few months after WSJ also reported that Facebook would be willing to pay up to $ 3 million per episode for potential high - profile shows — an amount that rivals the price of top shows on premium cable channels — as well as smaller outlays for original sitcoms and other scripted shows.

Apart from a few brilliant authors and composers, not much good has ever come out of Russia; and unless there is a sharp improvement in the outlook for that country it could drag the rest of the world, including Australia, into a crisis to rival that of 2008.

Audio quality — which only a few years ago sounded as if you were talking into a tin can — now often rivals that of traditional telephone systems.

No complicated device has ever beaten a simple one — and history is full of examples where the machine with fewer options (iPod, iPhone, Google, Gmail, Sonos, Wii) wiped the floor with their more complex rivals.»

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

Given that Donald Trump «wrote» the best - selling «business» book of «all time,» it's surprising that Hillary Clinton in the last few weeks has proven to be the better dealmaker in at least one case: how they have dealt with their main political rivals.

Rival Amazon, which has beefed up its own portfolio of original content recently, also won a few major awards that night for its comedy series Transparent.

Analysts say the CVS - Aetna and Cigna - Express Scripts deals are different, because they are not mergers of rivals but rather vertical deals which would not result in fewer competitors in the medical or pharmacy benefit markets.

In a series of initial rulings over the last few months, the Commerce Department decided to levy duties of nearly 300 percent on the Bombardier CSeries, an early victory for Boeing that would increase the price of the rival plane in the United States.

Part of the appeal of Whitehead's metaphysics lies in this, that through his conception of pulses of experience as the ultimate facts, he invests the passage of time with life and motion, with pathos, and with a majesty rivaled in no other philosophy of change, and in few eternalistic ones.

A few months later I traveled to the once - closed city of Sevastopol, an august Soviet Sparta, the chief station of the Black Sea Fleet and heart of Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's attempt at a global navy to rival the U.S. Navy.

Few of them will rival the sheer scale and ambition of Carlos Eire's new survey.

Deloitte's Mr Harvey said during the past few years rival wine companies such as Argentina and Chile had made strong gains in the key US and UK markets at the expense of Australian producers because their own currencies were so weak and their bottled wine prices were extremely competitive on the shelves of liquor retailers in the US and Europe.

So now, quite a few years later, I decided that it was finally time to develop a recipe of my own that rivaled — if not surpassed — those oatmeal raisin cookies.

The acquisition follows a difficult few days for Dairy Crest, which saw its share value plummet by more than 6 per cent at the beginning of last week, after reports surfaced that it could lose out on a new contract to supply Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest multiple retailer, with fresh liquid milk to rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies.

Swisse's ASX - listed rival Blackmores watched its share price rise by a factor of 10 to more than $ 200 during the same few months as the Swisse sale process occurred.

The shortage, exacerbated by the big LNG export plants off Gladstone in Queensland that have been set up during the past few years, has fuelled plans for two rival LNG import projects for the eastern seaboard of Australia, by AGL Energy in Victoria and the Andrew Forrest - backed Australian Industrial Energy in NSW.

Few could have imagined the impact of Columbus» discovery of a spice so pungent that it rivaled the better known black pepper native to South Asia.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

He's had a fantastic opportunity of the last few years to win the league, what with the finances, and the manager merry - go - round at our rivals, and still he hasn't!

If I had asked this question of the Arsenal fans a few weeks ago, before Petr Cech made a late dash up and down the pitch in the final minutes of our defeat to Swansea, then I think that the young Poland international keeper Wojciech Szczesny would have got the lion's share of the vote ahead of his Colombian rival.

Although a move for Toure to join one of City's main rivals would have been unthinkable a few years ago, it is now thought that Chelsea and United are monitoring his situation with interest.

The report goes on to say that there are a few of our big Premier League rivals keen to snap up the player so it seems pretty odd that Arsenal and Wenger are giving him any reason to consider whether it might be better to move on.

Imagine if a driver strategically works his way up the field, undercuts a few rivals in the pit - stop window, and then this is all undone because of a slow getaway on a lap 55 race restart?

Although the home side did have a few chances of their own, they were simply outplayed by their rivals as the pressure continues to build on Gary Neville.

The Chelsea team of Jose Mourinho went a long time unbeaten a few years back and Man City have looked a bit unbeatable at the start of this season and the last one, but the only side yet to lose an EPL game so far this season is Tottenham and it just so happens that our north London rivals are heading to the Emirates to face Arsenal next.

Just did a quick scan of the Rivals Top 100 and there are a few guys on there that are still «undecided» that had scholarship offers from Duke.

Man was a true competitor and one of very few at a rival who held hands up and said Vieira is just different class.

As already noted, with City so far clear at the top of the Premier League and with almost all their rivals in disarray, it could mean Guardiola can really focus on this competition like few other managers of English clubs have had the luxury of being able to do in recent times.

And i get it and supported it as i realized a few frustrating years is a small prize for future glories but we are still recording 25 % more injuries than our direct rivals in average and i think this is the real unspoken problem at the root of our misfortune.

So there is more bad news today for Arsenal fans hoping that Arsene Wenger is still going to come up with the goods in the last few days of the summer transfer window, according to the Evening Standard, which is reporting that Jose Mourinho is not going to allow the Manchester United defender Phil Jones to sign for the club managed by his rival manager.

unless he thinks the our league rivals are staring to get a little bit weaker, and he thinks he can take advantage of it in the next few years to compete for more titles easier, i think that is taking a massive chance on his reputation.

It's been a fair few years since Arsenal were last forced into selling one of their best players and brightest talents to a rival and those days are supposedly over for good now, given that the stadium debts have finally been paid off.

Brazen coach Lane Kiffin is winning few friends in his new job at Tennessee — raiding SEC foes for assistants, running off staffers and accusing a major rival of a recruiting violation

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

For one thing, our seven points is just one fewer than the tally of Tottenham and our north London rivals are up in fifth spot so you can see why it will not take much to start racing up the table.

It a lot of money for a young player but that football these days could be a great signing or a Flop, it be interesting to see what happens but we get lazarette And mpabbe it be a signal to our rivals we mean business but also we have to sell a few to get them both

The Romanian international recently emerged as something of a shock target for the Gunners, with these two north London rivals not known for selling to each other, despite a few notable and controversial exceptions throughout history.

Only 160 miles away, the tiny liberal arts school of just over 600 students is one of Haskell's few true rivals.