Sentences with phrase «few powerful companies»

The majority of mining equipment is now in the hands of a few powerful companies and entities.

I truly hope the final week of negotiations shows that governments represent not just a few powerful companies, but all of their citizens, including industries that want action on climate change, and HFCs, now.

Major reasons for lack of control of violence in TV are monopoly dominance by a few powerful companies, the drive for profits, the lack of accountability and a lack of the FCC to exercise oversight.

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During the first few days of an associate's career, amid those nervous, impressionable moments, a company should lay the groundwork for a lasting powerful relationship with the person involved..

The 50 Most Powerful Latinas are executives running Fortune 500 companies, large private firms, and a few impressive entrepreneurs leading global companies.

It doesn't matter if you are a fixed income investor considering purchasing bonds issued by a company, an equity investor considering buying stock in a firm, a landlord contemplating leasing a property to an enterprise, a bank officer making a recommendation on a potential loan, or a vendor thinking about extending credit to a new customer, knowing how to calculate it in a few seconds can give you a powerful insight into the health of company.

«Unfortunately (women) may be less powerful and make less money and run fewer companies, but they're not less important, and they may be more important because they're the soul and well - being of our communities.»

Despite a few setbacks — the river's powerful flow damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades — the company has managed to keep two of the turbines operational, supply electricity to a nearby supermarket and, more recently, attract $ 8.5 million in funding from sources including the U.S. Department of Energy and the Canadian government to further develop and test its technology.

As I mentioned a few months ago, I'm good friends with the owners of a nutritional company, and I actually helped them design the formula for what I think is one of the most powerful (and synergistic) antioxidant blends you can get.

It fails miserably when compared to Pixar and those few top animations done by rival companies (Bolt, Monster House et cetera) but one can't deny that Astro Boy is a powerful piece of science fiction.

«Some of the most notable fantasy authors create powerful reads with slower beginnings that lead up to a crescendo of gripping action — such as this story... Much like the acclaimed fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss's productions, In the Company of the Dead evolves slowly for the first few chapters... perfect for the fantasy fan seeking depth, who appreciates a slow build - up before the fiery action begins.

There will be fewer checks and balances on our news (and even our entertainment), and we're coming one step closer to giving just one powerful company, institution, or even person the right to influence what we believe, what we want, how we vote, and what we value.

In fact, there was a startup a few years ago called Findings.com which tried to enable readers to share their highlights in Kindle books; they were quickly shut down by a rather large, powerful company in the northwest.

We believe that altering allocations — even when using plain - vanilla index funds (which by the way are ultra low - cost and highly liquid)-- is a more powerful strategy than trying to understand business fundamentals of a few companies better than others.

A few bad actors and many powerful opponents force businesspeople to double as citizen lobbyists, spending time, money and other resources engaging with lawmakers, the media and activists instead of running their companies.

Global Witness's work has focused on the corruption that allowed the Kyrgyz economy to fall into the hands of a few powerful individuals, with the help of a network of international shell companies.

«ExxonMobil, the world's largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.»

But with federal incentives and a powerful «Buy American» mentality — as well as a growing national desire for energy efficiency, or so we like to think — to motivate renewable energy companies, at few of them have headed for Detroit and the Northeastern industrial states to set up shop.

«When you can trace the lion's share of humanity's carbon emissions from fossil fuel use since the invention of the steam engine to a few dozen companies that have produced those carbon fuels, the story becomes more powerful than just looking at emissions on a country - by - country basis,» Heede explained.

While there's no guarantee that you'll save hundreds a year by switching to a different company, the fact that some people do is a powerful incentive to test the waters with a few free, easy - to - get homeowners insurance quotes.

Being able to search among a visual record is a powerful tool, and one few companies have unlocked in any kind of powerful way.

Motorola's latest cheap but powerful phone is the company's third attempt at a budget handset, and while there are no big differences over previous phones a few tweaks have improved this model, and it offers an impressive spec list for this end of the market.

Many in the community feel that putting control of the transaction process into the hands of a powerful few is dangerous, and for Corem, represents a problem not only facing the bitcoin community but the hardware companies themselves.

Only a few years ago, the idea that for - profit companies and foreign agents could use powerful data technologies to disrupt American democracy would have seemed laughable to most, a plotline from a Cold War espionage movie.

After surprisingly announcing a few weeks ago that the OnePlus One will have a better processor (Snapdragon 801) than initially expected (Snapdragon 800,) the company's CEO explained in a post on the OnePlus forums his motivations behind the choice, revealing in the process that the handset will pack the powerful 2.5 GHz version of the Snapdragon 801 — namely the 8974AC chip that's found on the Asian version of the HTC One (M8).

Many had been expecting the game - focused company to release a smartphone but few had expected it to be quite so powerful on paper.

Wink: Wink is a very powerful addition to Google Home and Assistant, because Wink is one of a few companies that strive to connect various smart home devices using various means of communication.

«We've presented Remote Way to companies with as many as 200,000 employees and as few as three employees, and they see it as a powerful tool for retention and recruiting,» Cronin wrote.

This can be attained by inserting a few powerful adjectives that are descriptive of the job relevant personal traits of the individual while also mentioning the specific title of position being sought along with the name of company where it is being sought.