Sentences with phrase «ground for years»

Able to digitally distribute games to consumers before those same channels opened up through app stores and desktop computers, console platforms held the high ground for years, the huge corporations behind them setting the terms for smaller companies who wanted in.

I know that other grass root organizations are feeling the same shut out situation even though we have been the boots on th e ground for years.

This is certainly a legitimate concern but Green has been trying to get this film off the ground for years and so far is the only person with enough guts to attempt to bring this to life.

After the LHC comes online, old accelerators will stand by, just in case they're necessary, get salvaged for spare parts, or just lie untouched in the ground for years.

The SNP has operated from the moral high ground for years, characterising Labour and Tory opponents as sleazy and self - interested.

A big hole has sat in the ground for years at the northern end of the former Memorial Auditorium site in Buffalo.

And MacArthur has had her ear to this fertile new ground for years.

They could be at it grinding for years before they make the switch.»

My comfort pets have kept me grounded for years.

Less expensive models, with 1080p and slower processor, won't feel modern for as long, but they'll be fast enough to handle the usual day - to - day grind for years.

Not exact matches

Given that the opinion polls at the moment have a small Conservative lead and given that four years ago when most of the seats were up for grabs there was a small Labour lead, if indeed the Labour party is gaining ground in London it must be losing ground somewhere else.

It debunks the idea that small business is a 30 - year - grind, and introduces the concept of building a business in just three - to - five years that can run for extended periods without the founder being physically there.

But when he got the idea to start making Greek yogurt in the U.S., the company fixed the factory up and ran with it, and Ulukaya said he practially lived in the plant for five years to get Chobani off the ground.

«Five or six years ago,» says Pat Perkins, VP of Marketing for HMS, «we really started putting a stake in the ground in terms of Hendrick - generated original content, in terms of utilizing social and digital platforms... and in the process we defined what success would look like, and developed a series of checklist and filters that would guide us in evaluating projects.

Everyone wants to know whether you are laying the ground work, not necessarily now, but perhaps four years from now, to run for the big office.

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

Sales for the last quarter of 2001 were up 35 % over the same period the previous year, surpassing a projected increase of 20 %, which Marchica considers outstanding considering that his sales reps were grounded for weeks after September 11.

The company's shares sank for years as the BlackBerry lost ground to the iPhone and phones running Google Inc.'s Android system.

For years, psychologists and other academics have argued that the best way to change a person's mind is not to attack their position but, rather, to find common ground.

The news and publishing industries are on no firmer ground than a year ago as the quest for a sustainable business model continues.

In an essay for Time earlier this year, Jay - Z announced that he would be donating to organizations like Color of Change and Southerners on the New Ground to advocate for the release of jailed fathers who have not been convicted of a crime but are unable to afford bail.

With their 30 - year history, CDFIs are the original impact investors, serving as lenders, financial intermediaries and technical advisors in «risky» areas to prepare the ground for mainstream capital.

Last year, Ontario slashed the purchase price for ground - mounted solar generation under the feed - in tariff and summarily tossed out more than 10,000 applications.

«They struggled for 30 years to get a business off the ground and could never access a bank loan without refinancing their mortgage,» Ringelmann says.

«It is like being first on the ground in Canada years ago,» Jones says, adding, «There is no local technical knowledge in Egypt because no one has been exploring for what seems like forever, back to ancient times.»

As part of the spending plans for this year, UPS will open or retrofit 18 ground delivery facilities in the US, including three new major hubs, the first ones added to its ground network in two decades.

The family suffered a major loss this year with the death of their matriarch, Marilyn Thomson, who had been a grounding figure for her three children and, in many ways, inspired their ambition.

For years, marketing has been grounded in qualitative results.

In a post laying out several tips for start - ups in the new year, Blumenthal separates the big data hype from the reality on the ground for many small businesses, and offers sensible - sounding advice on how founders can avoid being overwhelmed by walking a middle way.

If it wasn't the best of year for you, there's incredible opportunity ahead because you have a whole year to absolutely crush it and make up for lost ground in 2014.

Jao says the law firm that counsels Retention Science provided it with discounted advice that the company didn't have to pay for during the first two years of getting off the ground.

It's been more than 25 years since the Internet went public, but we're still debating the ground rules for the World Wide Web.

The Ottawa native started DwellStudio from her apartment in 1999 after grinding it out for years as a fashion intern in New York.

Google of course pioneered 360 photos years ago with Street View, the ground - eye - view function of its Maps app that has since become indispensable for people trying to find their way around.

Bean Town has always been a breeding ground for innovators and trailblazers, and this year is no exception.

Since the SEC rejected the application for a Bitcoin ETF a year ago, similar products have struggled to get off the ground, with two other Bitcoin ETF sponsors withdrawing their proposals last fall.

Within nine years, a combination of word - of - mouth customer recommendations and mail order sales that spread brand awareness (and provided intelligence on which cities and neighborhoods were fertile ground for outlets) had made Starbucks the largest specialty coffee retailer in North America.

More and more luxury multiplexes, fertile ground for Imax screens, are opening in India every year.

Levesque said there is lots of potential with the 10 - year Saudi deal, including possible hiring local talent, opening a training center on the ground and producing localized content for its WWE Network streaming subscription service.

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

A year earlier, baby - faced Camp sold StumbleUpon, a web - curating service he and two fellow grad students at the University of Calgary built from the ground up, to eBay for US$ 75 million.

«We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,» Obama told reporters that year.

For a bill that took over 10 years to move beyond the walls of the Parliament, the preparation on - ground was one that couldn't boast of as it took a lot of time.

A Low - Cost iPhone Could Mean A Deal Between Apple And China Mobile (Bloomberg) China Mobile and Apple have been trying to reach an agreement for years, but the high cost of the iPhone and China Mobile's unwillingness to provide a subsidy for the phone meant that a deal never got off the ground.

The United States, Britain and France have all participated in the Syrian conflict for years, arming rebels, bombing Islamic State fighters and deploying troops on the ground to fight that group.

Billed as the Trump administration's new strategy on Syria, the announcement will prolong the risks and redefine the mission for the U.S. military, which has for years sought to define its operations in Syria along more narrow lines of battling Islamic State and has about 2,000 U.S. ground forces in the country.

For the past two years, it has been in stealth mode, using the Stanford campus as a beta testing ground, according to GigaOm.

For 2015, Wall Street sees stocks gaining some ground, but few strategists are calling for the fourth straight year of double - digit gains from stocFor 2015, Wall Street sees stocks gaining some ground, but few strategists are calling for the fourth straight year of double - digit gains from stocfor the fourth straight year of double - digit gains from stocks.

I always reflect on the life of this strong woman who was tough as nails, who for two years lived in a hole in the ground that could very well have been her grave.

«It's going to be caught up in the courts for years and it's going to be ugly on the ground.