Sentences with phrase «foray as»

Analysts see the company's solar foray as a promising area of growth.

In light of that some folks might interpret your initial foray as purely reactionary.

This will be Soma Pieres» first foray as a solo competitor in the series, not counting her earlier outings as a co-pilot in the Gundam Arios and Gundam Harute.

And good for my first foray as a student teacher in 1976.

It only makes sense for me to snag a pair of small 90s-esque sunglasses, considering my fashion foray as of late (exhibit a, b, c).

It's the perfect base from which to foray as far afield as historic St. - Jean - Pied - de-Port.

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The foray into video comes as growth in wireless is slowing: On that February earnings day, even as it boasted record profits, T - Mobile startled investors with low forecasts for new - subscriber acquisition.

In 2016, Amazon, which unveiled its foray into air freight with a unit now called as Amazon Air, through 40 leased Boeing 767s.

The games are mostly on Wednesday afternoons but stand as another foray into live sports for the social media company.»

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal (first reported on by ZDNet), Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun spoke about the company's foray into the US, saying that the first smartphones might arrive as early as the end of this year, or in early 2019 at worst.

Robert Kozinets, director of MBA specialization in global retail management at York University's Schulich School of Business, says none of the challenges experienced by Target so far have been out of line with what should reasonably be expected of a brand making its first foray into international territory — certainly not a powerhouse such as Target.

As part of the arrangement that saw him relinquish Magna's reins last year, he insisted on receiving a controlling minority stake in Magna E-Car Systems, a nascent venture that's co-ordinating Magna's foray into electric vehicles.

Twitter's foray into live streaming of National Football League games and its presence in news gathering could interest media companies such as Disney, which owns sports channel ESPN.

Given Facebook's other forays into online commerce, such as the «Buy» button it launched earlier this summer, these new sections aren't surprising.

The 128 - year - old beauty company, known for products such as Skin - So - Soft and ANEW skincare, has been hit by a triple whammy: the rise in sales of low - priced beauty products at mass - market chains such as Walgreen (WAG) and Dollar General (DG), the apparent obsolescence of its direct - selling model for beauty items, and ill - advised forays into fashion, jewelry and pricier skincare products that alienated many customers.

A slew of deals has come out of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's foray to New York as part of the 2018 Saudi - U.S. CEO Forum.

But as the only service approaching 2 billion users, he called Facebook's foray the most promising by far.

The H&M foray into cycle - specific fashion comes after Levi's launched its made - for - cycling Commuter line in 2011, and as other cycle - specific apparel manufacturers expand beyond Lycra jerseys and padded shorts to create functional clothing that looks chic at the coffee shop, or even in a casual office.

We've also recently forayed into the Chinese market where we are looking at online as a new channel,» said Russell who hopes to increase the contribution from overseas sales to 30 percent in the coming years.

The company also recently announced plans to foray into «co-living» apartments as well.

Burger King is supporting its initial foray into dogs with its «biggest TV, digital, social media and merchandising blast that it has done in quite a few years,» said Macedo, which is no small statement for a playful brand like Burger King that has aggressively marketed new products such as chicken fries.

Despite helping to create media revolutions in radio and television, there were several unsuccessful forays into other industries, such as movies and consumer products, which helped to doom the company.

For Rachel Huse, whose days were typically spent homeschooling her kids, sewing children's clothing for her Etsy shop and co-leading a volunteer organization that took nearly 30 hours a week of her time, the foray three years ago into direct selling centered around one goal: «I definitely saw it as an opportunity to get a house cleaner,» she said.

Like other tech companies such as Amazon.com (AMZN), rumored to be considering a foray into checking accounts, Chime sees an opportunity in financial services amid a shifting customer base and widespread dissatisfaction with big bank services.

As part of the deal, Capital Float is likely to foray into consumer financing and start lending on Amazon's platform.

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google briefed its Brazilian advertisers last year on Amazon's forays into markets such as India and Mexico to help them prepare, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

Silbert — a long - time financier who cut his teeth on Wall Street as an investment banker for Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin — founded Digital Currency Group in 2015 to oversee his multi-pronged foray into the budding cryptospace.

This is Apple's first foray into wearable technology, despite many competitors such as Samsung and Motorola already releasing several smartwatches.

Alibaba's foray into self - driving cars comes as no surprise.

In 1982, Sicupira led Garantia's first major foray outside finance, the acquisition of an ailing retail chain known as Lojas Americanas, or American Stores.

«Be diplomatic about how you receive an angel's advice, adopting the tips on more «timeless» matters — such as how to find a good salesperson or how to launch a product — and politely ignoring the advice on matters specific to the investor's previous forays into business.»

The exciting times have just started as the binary arena continues to add traders at an exponential rate at the same time there are several brokers who have come to the foray.

The flashpoint for Neuberger's decidedly rare foray into dissenting solicitation appears to center on the board's rather intractable approach to the Company's strategic planning, particularly as applied to the firm's vaguely framed trajectory in the event 77 year old founder, president, CEO and COO Arthur Zafiropoulo withdraws from one or more key roles.

A foray into Southeast Asia through Go - Jek makes sense in that context, but Meituan - Dianping may also look to work with Go - Jek to expand its core service — known as offline - to - online — in Indonesia, which is the world's fourth most populous country with over 250 million people.

However, their foray into the business loan marketplace came to an end with the sale of their «Everline» brand to Orange Money (trading as Ezbob).

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

With combinations of beachy folk music, blues - inspired acoustic ballads and even forays into gospel, Ben Harper has crafted a career as one of popular music's most eclectic artists.

Every foray into this territory is regarded from the start with suspicion as a step towards integration.

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

It would be far from his first foray into the world of superheroes, having served as a both The Trickster in the CW's Flash and voicing the Joker in the beloved Batman: The Animated Series.

The second follows him to Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, where his fame as a preacher and public figure reached its apex and where he made his greatest forays into politics, particularly in the antislavery cause.

I will begin with the thought that Roosevelt's list of rights never caught on, the Court abandoned its tentative forays into a jurisprudence of redistribution in the late Sixties, and that our crisis today might be, instead, our individuals» inability to understand themselves as parts of any whole greater than themselves these days.

It still has the manual feel about it — which will commend it to many — but Fr Joseph can't resist forays into private revelations (such as St Faustina's on hell) and the phenomenon of incorruptibility of beati.

I want this to be an exciting first foray into the world of the biblical texts, so that as you enter this adventure the journey is fun and filled with meaning.

From Christ as workingman Faludi proceeds to a hasty and confused foray among authorities ranging from the twelfth - century churchman Bernard of Clairvaux to various feminists and social scientists in an effort to discover the psychological purposes served by the various images of Christ.

Hitchens is best remembered for his final (and most lucrative) foray into America's public consciousness as an outspoken atheist — or rather, as he insisted, anti-theist.

He regarded Muggeridge as a «failed novelist,» whose foray into intelligence work during the war permitted him to escape the unhappiness of family life for a life «where things were deceptive and dishonest by definition.»

My initial foray in Part One is into the biblical witness to One characterized very explicitly as a «living» God, tracing the dynamic interrelationship between God and God's creation, God's people, through the Old Testament into the New.

These days, such an enterprise suggests forays into the writings of such persons as Michael Polanyi, Peter Stuhlmacher, and Walter Wink - maybe even the poetry of William Blake.

My first foray into all this was in 1994 when, as a student, I travelled with Baroness Cox to the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh.