Sentences with phrase «had a leg up in»

Like other researchers before them, Wong and Penner found that go od - looking people have a leg up in the workplace: Attractive individuals earn roughly 20 percent more than people of average attractiveness.

By understanding the needs and demands of their target audience and buyers, marketers have a leg up in planning marketing campaigns and initiatives this year.

Unlike large companies with many stakeholders, a focused entrepreneur in a niche market has a leg up in building community by virtue of their common bond around a narrow topic.

Optimism is protective — we all know that confident people have a leg up in realizing their ambitions, and «fake it till you make it» can often be a successful strategy.

And while Otezla's competition may have a leg up in the efficacy department — England's cost watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, last month declared that Celgene's product was «a less effective treatment» than existing rivals — it has its own distinguishing feature.

These Guys have a leg up in experience over many of the Teams on the gridiron and it's likely to pay off over the last weeks of the Regular Season.

But with other big teams in the Champion's League, Liverpool as well as Chelsea should have a leg up in these December fixtures.

I do think it's interesting (if coincidental) that the names referring to to two states (Dakota, Carolina, and Virginia) seem to have a leg up in the rankings!

After all, you never know how it is going to go, and having your legs up in stirrups while your baby crowns doesn't always make for the perfect wall art for the family room.

Although incumbents tend to have a leg up in fundraising, the Campaign Finance Board's public matching funds program ensures that first - time candidates and those with little access to wealthy donors can run serious campaigns by matching small dollar donations at a 6 - to - 1 ratio up to a certain amount.

Good news, Virgos and Libras: If you were born in the month of September, new research indicates that you may have a leg up in society.

Match.com definitely has a leg up in the sense that it already has one of the largest community of singles online.

I also knew that I kind of had a leg up in the business because I'd already been acting for a decade and a half.

TCA 2016: Sean McManus tells TheWrap his group has a leg up in the ongoing bid process, but isn't necessarily the «frontrunner»

«When it came time to create a cover for my novel, I felt like I had a leg up in knowing how to speak the language of these exotic creatures.

In most of the other modes it becomes difficult to play against the bot players which seem to always have a leg up in every aspect of the game.

Some are fortunate to have a leg up in the business by having an averagely sized professional circle.

Spotify has said in the past that even though other music services will build Discover Weekly clones, Spotify will still have a leg up in terms of personalization because of its use of streaming data.

The Agora has a leg up in that it supports LTE connectivity, but will that be enough for it to secure the cash from a prospective buyer?

While other blockchain projects are based around solutions that are in development or have never been tried before, DADI has a leg up in this respect: they have a working basis already released after a few years of working on it and also the technology is being worked on by other companies.

But the Note 8 has a leg up in wireless charging, which the Mate 10 Pro doesn't support.

The ZenFone 2 has a leg up in that most of its apps are updated through Google Play, but that's a small victory.

Through your internship and / or co-op, you'll have a leg up in learning about the company, understanding the corporate culture, processes, and procedures and may even have some great mentors to help guide you to your success.

Agents who are able to understand and strongly convey the benefits of these features to the ecologically aware buyer have a leg up in helping their clients find properties that are a good fit, both economically and environmentally.

Not exact matches

You're going to have to do a lot of leg - work in the form of networking with friends and friends of friends as well as getting yourself up to speed with the latest web development changes.

Having an exit strategy (in place or at least sketched out) gives owners a leg up so they can be prepared, educated about the process and able to recognize a valid offer and achieve success in the end by finding a good suitor and a good sales price.

For example, if someone comes aggressively running up to the person wearing the device, the legs would move in a manner to ward off the approaching person.

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In business, if you wait for the perfect moment, you're too late — the competition has the leg up on you.

Now you have a leg up on the competition so take strategic action in order to achieve your desired outcome.

I wondered if Amazon, the company's biggest competitor — at least in the U.S. — might have a leg up there because it has more user data to draw on.

(Trump didn't explain why he thought net neutrality would specifically target conservative media, but it's worth noting that, in principle, preventing ISPs from giving a leg up to any online source would seem to ensure that a conservative news outlet could deliver stories without technical handicaps.)

One way for Chronicle to get a leg up in the market would be to use Alphabet's deep pockets to undercut the competition on price.

While the iPhone 7 Plus performed better than its smaller counterpart in Consumer Reports» still image testing, the iPhone 7 had a leg up when it came to video.

But having a great story and an ability to shout it from the rooftops may be almost as important in giving a new venture a leg up.

Last year, he donned fishnet stockings to dress up as the leg lamp from «A Christmas Story,» and in 2010 he was a gingerbread man whose leg had been eaten.

It's a subject most of us could benefit from studying up on, but in an interview Vanderkam explained that when it comes to thinking about personal finances in a constructive way, entrepreneurs generally have a leg up over salaried workers.

«We believe expectations around the M&A cycle have become overly pessimistic and we reiterate our call for a flatter and longer M&A cycle than those seen in the past with the next leg driven by a pick - up in European and sponsor M&A as US growth slows,» Serrao writes.

4) It doesn't need to: Although buying Netflix would give Apple a leg up in the subscription services area, the company doesn't have to acquire the company in order to get most of those benefits — it could strike a licensing deal with Netflix, while also building its own subscription offering similar to Amazon's Prime Video.

Glickman, 27 at the time, quickly zeroed in on phone costs: like almost all countries other than the United States, Argentina had a state - run phone company that charged an arm and a leg for international calls, and Amex Argentina was running up a monthly bill of $ 25,000 in international calls.

Even if their first business went under, they've likely made investment contacts and client connections necessary to give them a leg up in a new enterprise.

But several have said they want the freedom to give preference to certain kinds of internet traffic and some have already begun giving a leg up to their own sites and services in other ways.

Anyone looking to boost their chances of really connecting with a valuable new contact can give themselves a leg up but adopting this simple trick — before you walk into the meeting spend some time considering what you and your new connection have in common, no matter how different you might seem at first blush.

The company actually beat Wall Street profit estimates largely thanks to its superstar cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda, which has been shown to best chemotherapy in helping lung cancer patients live longer and given Merck a leg up over rivals like Bristol - Myers Squibb's immune therapy Opdivo.

This would allow police to «identify suspicious transactions in close to real time» and «give law enforcement a leg up in acting fast to stop illegal transactions,» she wrote.

«The leg - up in the US 10 - year yield since April 18 has lifted the US dollar and caused most of the major - economy exchange rates to decline, and test the lower - end of their recent ranges against the US dollar,» he noted.

Uber has also contemplated a bigger push into the travel business, in December 2015 securing a patent for «Uber Travel,» a trip planner à la Expedia or Kayak, that would tap into airline networks, hotel listings, and shared accommodations providers like Airbnb to help people plan their trips and line up their Ubers with each travel leg.

After several massive swings in price, the most recent leg of the bull market has seen the S&P 500 (GSPC) go from 2,038 at the beginning of the year to a low of 1,810 on Feb 10 all the way up to 2,080 this past week.

So the only way you're going to be able to see it is that if you're if you're behind him then you've got to stand up and the next thing you know everyone in the entire auditorium or wherever they're watching this is now standing up and the only thing that's happening is that everyone's legs are getting weaker and they're more annoyed that they're having to stand up and they can't get high enough to see the show because everyone around them is taking advantage of this.

All of a sudden, your competitor has quite a leg up when it comes to getting his article ranked in search ahead of yours.