Sentences with phrase «for than against»

Measures pass if more votes were for it than against it.

Better he «s for us than against us....

So it would be much nicer to have him playing for you than against you and Arsene Wenger clearly agrees, according to a Metro report which claims the Prof has personally instructed the Arsenal board to get the young Frenchman to north London in the upcoming summer transfer window.

Not exact matches

Canada's Big Six banks themselves are less likely to feel the need to innovate, insulated as they are against the competitive agitation of fintech companies by their market position and regulatory balustrade, and cognizant that Canada's venture capitalism industry — usually the fuel for fintech — is far less fulsome than America's.

In addition, as Spielberg's shop moves more into the family space, it could run up against part of the deal that forbids DreamWorks from making animated films for any company other than DWA.

The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»

Some of those rachets, says Fenwick & West partner Barry Kramer, do more than protect against a decline in price — they're locking in profits for late - stage investors.

Faith Popcorn has been helping companies see what trends they will come up against for more than 40 years.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

A movement by scientists to march on Washington as a protest against the Trump White House's treatment of science has gained traction, with more than 115,000 supporters joining a Facebook (fb) group for the cause.

I employed this strategy with a few of our salespeople, and we had a 90 percent win rate against competitors with a very similar product while also selling our product for significantly higher prices than our competitors.

Overall, the character plays more like a potential antagonist for the next season of «Silicon Valley» than anyone who should have been going up against the likes of Superman.

The currency, which was down on the day against the dollar, was on track for its biggest daily loss in more than four months.

This one issue — benchmarking against peer groups — has been responsible for CEO pay increases more than any other.

When he's not pretending to be sneezed on, Holiday is the marketing strategist for American Apparel, the made - in - the - U.S.A. clothing company that has become better known for its racy ads and the sexual harassment lawsuits levied against CEO Dov Charney than its workaday T - shirts.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska was in the meeting with the president this week and said TPP would be a smarter way than tariffs for the U.S. to build alliances against unfair Chinese trade practices.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

To start with, the peso tumbled this year by more than 20 % against the U.S. dollar, curbing the advantage of a depressed loonie for Canadian manufacturers.

It is imperative for brands to consider how to support and participate in collaborative consumption, rather than compete against it.»

Early Thursday morning, the average ticket price for the Yankees» final 2014 home game in New York, scheduled for Sept. 25 against the Baltimore Orioles, was listed at more than $ 1,200 on TiqIQ, an online ticket portal.

As with past hype cycles, there are far more people cheering for bitcoin than against it.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces struck Syria with more than 100 missiles on Saturday in the first coordinated Western strikes against the Damascus government, targetting what they called chemical weapons sites in retaliation for a poison gas attack.

Taking this drug daily has shown to offer more than 90 % (and as much as 99 %) effective protection against HIV in clinical trials, and certain New Zealand residents will soon be able to get a three - month supply for just $ 5 (oh, and that's five New Zealand dollars, which is about $ 3.64 in U.S. money).

Within two hours of Jeter's announcement that 2014 will be his last season, the average ticket price for the Yankees» last regular - season game — scheduled for Sept. 28 against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park — jumped more than 160 percent to $ 803.

Specifically, Utzke explains he ran a computer analysis against the IRS's repository of hundreds of millions of tax records, and found fewer than a thousand people filed a Form 8949 to account for a «property description likely related to bitcoin.»

Macron has said he hopes to pool liability for various kinds of debt: a completed banking union would ensure bailout costs for individual financial institutions would be distributed across the continent rather than borne by individual countries, and the so - called Eurobonds would allow national governments to borrow money against a joint continental credit rating.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

A renowned campaigner against the rising level of poverty in the U.S., his rivals were left speechless after the media reported that he had paid more than $ 400 on two separate occasions for a trim at a popular Rodeo Drive salon.

For more than a decade and a half, the U.S. has been engaged in an overseas war against non-state actors.

More than $ 516,000 in bonuses was paid out, including «knockout of the night,» «submission of the night,» and «fight of the night» — the latter going to Thamesford, Ontario native Mark Hominick, who picked up $ 129,000 for his (unsuccessful) shot at the UFC featherweight belt against Brazilian - born Jose Aldo.

More than 100 groups and individuals show support for another effort against legislation they say threatens free information sharing online.

As a result, Mackey now finds himself facing off against his own customers for the second time in less than a year.

He's been waging a war against the traditional real estate industry for more than a decade.

The uptick in the shares reflects a belief that Netflix is now in a position to sign up more subscribers this year than analysts had previously anticipated, generating additional revenue that the company can spend on TV series and movies as it bids against rivals such as HBO, Amazon.com, YouTube and Hulu for licensing rights.

Devora Zack, author of Networking for People Who Hate Networking (Berrett - Koehler, 2010) says introverts can still enjoy holiday parties by understanding and working with, rather than against, their natural temperament.

European stocks are sliding sharply for the fourth day in a row, and the pound sterling is at a two - month low against the dollar, having now lost 3 % in less than a week.

Under former president Barack Obama, Transcanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline was rejected in 2015 after environmentalists campaigned against the project for more than seven years.

By using their own models, big Wall Street banks can, for instance, minimize their capital requirements by combining the potential risk of two trading positions that offset one another, rather than holding capital against the risk of each one going sour.

Nike's pro forma surely doesn't account for the impact of the Pro Hijab sales as anything more than marginal against its $ 34 billion top line.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who aspires to using his business for a «higher purpose» than just raking in cash (though he's doing that, too), took a public stand against President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, describing them as akin to «fascism.»

Games like «Mario Kart 8 Deluxe» can easily be expanded out for more than two players, and even buying just one extra controller enables three players to play against one another because the Joy - Con can act as two separate gamepads.

«For more than two years, he has spent over $ 75 million orchestrating a false and fabricated attack against Herbalife, all in an effort to enrich himself.»

I'm going to work for people who are at least in the ballpark of going against hate rather than in favor of it.

While that statistic might be alarming, you can save your startup from this fate by restructuring your cash collections to work for you rather than against you.

For what it's worth, more than three - quarters of that spending was in favor of Romney or other Republicans (or against Democrats).

If tax policy should be doing anything to change the income distribution, I would prefer it lean against these strong winds of inequality rather than making life still easier for those at the top.

Rather than compete against Best Buy when it expanded into Canada, the chain chose to sell out to the U.S. retailing giant in 2001 for $ 580 million.

The New York Giants» decision to bench Eli Manning in favor of Geno Smith for Sunday's game against the Oakland Raiders is being met with harsh criticism, and no critic is louder or in possession of a larger megaphone than long - time New York sports talk radio host Mike Francesa.

A few months before taking her company public this summer, Arista Networks (ANET) CEO Jayshree Ullal told Fortune she'd never compete in a «conventional way» against Cisco (CSCO), where she worked for more than a decade.