Sentences with phrase «gambits by»

These are just opening gambits by an outfit aspiring to own trillions of dollars in assets.

Called simply Surface, the sleek Windows 8 tablet with an innovative touch - keyboard cover was a surprisingly alluring gambit by the lumbering giant of Redmond, Wash..

He then repeats the Leigh gambit by quoting an old Lib Dem leaflet at Clegg.

You'd think that journalists who've been covering national politics would be thoroughly familiar with this gambit by now.

But Aereo is also the tip of the spear for a bigger gambit by media mogul Barry Diller (s iaci) to blow up what journalist Peter Kafka calls the «TV Industrial Complex.»

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It's a similar gambit that's been employed by Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Jack Layton and every other politicians striking a populist pose in the last decade.

This gambit and others — like additional senior hires and the use of tech to engage clients — is expected to increase Goldman's investment - banking client base by 10 %, to more than 9,000 by 2020 and to contribute $ 500 million of the $ 5 billion in new revenue the bank is chasing.

Wylie's gambit seeks to resolve two issues: the assumption by publishers that existing contracts written before the advent of e-books automatically confer digital publishing rights, and the assumption that authors» royalty rates should remain at historic levels despite lower e-book production costs for publishers.

It turns out that even those who stress particular negotiation behaviors and attitudes see those things not as hollow gambits but as the natural performance traits of the smarter negotiator you must become — by way of better preparation, rational thinking, and so on.

He and other analysts said Icahn's gambit may enrich investors by pushing up the share price, but the ultimate goal of activist investors is to make money for themselves.

Varoufakis sought to squeeze aid from the rest of the euro area accepting the full slate of EU demands, a gambit rejected by the group's leader, Jeroen Dijsselbloem.

Cobb's gambit in presenting his interpretation of the extensive continuum was to make it appear that the extensive continuum in the future has a kind of reality such that it makes no sense to speak of its regions originating with concrescence, This effect was obtained by quoting Whitehead (PR 103) to the effect that «the extensive continuum... underlies the whole world, past, present, and future....

All of Wolterstorff's engagement with Scripture appears to be shaped by his gambit: If same - sex sexual intimacy isn't inherently unloving, then opposition to same - sex marriage can only be due to a misbegotten commitment to divine command theory.

This half of the gambit is a variation on Yogi Berra's dictum that one can observe a lot by just watching.

The North has the weakest W / L record by division and Team Maione already ran the gambit once in their own division (whom they will close the season against)-- so the question becomes — can they go undefeated?

Whatever their logic, the gambit paid off — Szczesny was instrumental in Roma's success last season — yet this seven million dollar kid with the resplendent beard demanded attention, and with Woj's price tag soaring over $ 10 million (eventually reaching $ 16 million), Alisson almost became the number one by default.

Deflection is his first gambit, rolling fluidly into anger, then denial, followed by bitter disappointment, and finally despair.

Now, by NDA's latest gambit — an ecological equivalent of cutting your nose to spite your face — they are preparing the Niger Delta (whether in or outside Nigeria) for a future of sustained underdevelopment.

If the Biafra fiasco (1967 - 1970) didn't curb land hunger, by making the East retain its best within its homeland, what guarantees a future Biafra gambit — success or failure — would?

From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge on the single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven largely by British politics.

At the same time, Cuomo had called on lawmakers to «make the case» for a pay increase by personally testifying to the commission — a gambit only a handful took up in an election year.

So, those swearing by Baba Iyabo's latest CN gambit, especially after strafing both the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the power - obsessed People's Democratic Party (PDP), are entitled to their naivety.

The gambit, unveiled by George Osborne in today's Budget statement, will mean Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will have no choice but to reveal their position on future austerity.

Yahya's political party, in the latest gambit, has gone to court to halt the inauguration of Barrow, on the basis that Jammeh's challenge of the electoral result, has not been decided by the country's Supreme Court.

«We all note the absence of the deputy prime minister from his place,» he said, by way of an opening gambit.

Cuomo's nuclear gambit comes as he has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to convince Entergy Corp., owners of the money - losing James A. FitzPatrick nuclear plant near Oswego, to shutter the 40 - year - old facility by January.

But if the example of their sister party across the North Sea is anything to go by, the gambit will not necessarily work.

But some Tory MPs I spoke to yesterday were sceptical: very simply, they are weary of what they see as an excessive reliance by Number 10 on tactical gambits.

A similar gambit for expanding the civil law enforcement authority of the governor's Department of Financial Services should be rejected by the Legislature as well.

Cuomo's gambit is a way to keep higher - income New Yorkers who pay high local property taxes from facing much higher federal taxes under a new tax law signed by President Donald Trump in December.

The 1975 referendum gambit was deployed by Wilson to patch up splits between opponents and supporters of European integration within his own Labour party.

Silver also left out already required financial disclosures, which would only likely be caught by the Grandeau gambit.

This is not the opening gambit from some Hollywood kids - out - smart - the - grown - ups movie, but video footage of a real maths lesson for teenagers devised by educationalists in California.

In the Season One finale, a disgraced Cardinal Wolsey tries one last, desperate gambit to resurrect his career by allying himself with the similarly fallen Queen Katherine, but the king's new advisors learn of their plot.

Treachery and action still abound on 24 — its brand is crisis, after all — but the nail - biting, espionage - like first four hours erect a scenario that promises a recharged season built on smarter suspense gambits than the tiresome 24 (and, by extension, Bushian) tropes of outlandish risk, torture and Armageddon - mongering.

Based on a real piece choreographed by Ohad Naharin and appropriately scored to the classic Passover jam «Echad Mi Yodea» (a fun song that simplifies an age - old struggle), this opening gambit offers a prime example of the forcefulness missing from the rest of the film, even though Padilha finds a way to bring Batsheva back.

Director David Yates clearly has his sights set on franchise country again — since rounding off the POTTER cinematic saga he ruffled the BBC's feathers by putting a new Doctor Who film in development, with TARZAN perhaps forming another opening gambit until that can be finalized.

The script, by Lem Dobbs, knows that it is not reinventing chess but, rather, letting a grand master play a different set of openings and gambits in pursuit of victory.

The Coen brothers were inspired by the 1966 GAMBIT film with Michael Caine when writing the new screenplay for GAMBIT and the brothers then...

The Times - Picayune confirms a report by Omega Underground that Channing Tatum's GAMBIT is set to start filming in New Orleans

Ambitious sci - fi romance Passengers has been rejected by critics and audiences alike, in large part due to its badly misjudged central gambit.

And with its kaleidoscopic Douglas Trumbull effects and its trippy score by Gil Mellé, not to mention Wise's own stylistic gambits (lots of split screens), The Andromeda Strain takes on an amusing artifact quality.

While Porterfield's aesthetic gambit with Putty Hill — utilizing documentary techniques to convey a fictional narrative — resulted in a remarkable hybrid form of experiential cinema, I Used To Be Darker arguably ups the ante by pairing a similarly observational naturalism (sans interviews) with more traditionally - plotted melodrama.

Her flirtatious gambit is quickly followed by the admittance that she was estranged from her parents after taking a lesbian lover.

Many of the gambits employed by directors Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2) and Chris Buck (Tarzan) work, including the naturalistic voice acting and the clever mockumentary touches, like fake archival footage with film scratches and washed - out color.

Aside from Lupe Ontiveros, absolutely terrific as the theatre manager who becomes the director of Buck's play, the main players are all played by non-actors, a gambit that mostly pays off.

He is an ego run amok; he is this cosmic conqueror where everything, where literally everything in the multi-verse is about him.There's something interesting about this confrontation of this little, tiny guy who has this power of time and this monstrous conqueror who is trapped by a clever gambit.

Maybe it was a conscious decision by Rodat and Spielberg to objectify the squad much like how most who serve in military combat are seen as walking statistics, but it makes the risk of their lives a gambit curiously low in emotional involvement.

By engaging in this waiver gambit, the Obama administration has lost plenty of high moral and intellectual ground on the reform front — and has weakened reform efforts for at least a decade.

This time around, Kline's proposal resembles the teacher quality reform efforts being advanced by the Obama Administration through the sensible Race to the Top grant competition and the counterproductive No Child waiver gambit.