Sentences with phrase «has a leg up by»

The iPad has a leg up by being first to the party and, in business, for having a set of applications already up and running, and management capabilities on the way.

In the end, it's all about who can offer the best rates, and certainly CoverHound could have a leg up by automating comparison shopping and removing the friction.

Not exact matches

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.

In 1986, I pulled the music industry's leg by telling Music Week, a British music publication, that Virgin had set up a giant computer in Britain, on which we had stored every music track we could find.

«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.

Students at California schools have a leg up when it comes to getting hired by the top tech companies.

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.

Mormonism was a cult that was started by a paedophile (look it up people... when he was already married, he told his wife he was going to marry a 14 year old girl) that has legal records on him over his illegal boot - legging and thievery.

But some Bunyan, writing Pilgrim's Progress in a prison where it was so damp that, as he cried, «The moss did verily grow upon mine eyebrows»; some Kernahan, born without arms and legs, but by sheer grit fighting his way up until he sat in the House of Commons; some Henry M. Stanley, born in a workhouse and buried in Westminster Abbey; some Dante, his Beatrice dead, he himself an exile from the city of his love, distilling all his agony into a song that became the «voice of ten silent centuries», or some more obscure and humble life close at hand where handicaps have been mastered, griefs have been built into character, disappointments have been turned into trellises, not left a bare, unsightly thing — such incarnations of fortitude and faith have infectious power.

When I visited Amanda in Hyderabad back in 2006, I had my «poverty tourist» moments — being shocked by the slums, throwing up all the time, taking an absurd amount of photographs, crying like a baby when the rickshaw driver ripped us off — but Amanda never looked down her nose at me or chided my efforts, even though a few weeks before she had held a dying little girl in her arms and a few weeks later she would severely burn her leg on a motorbike.

Luther described to Spalatin how a baby rabbit came racing up to him and he tried to save it: «I had rolled it up into the sleeve of my cloak... the dogs found the poor rabbit and biting through the cloak broke its hind leg and killed it by choking it.»

So when in middle age I come at last to believe that a nation builds up a moral treasury of merit by the sacrifices of its people in war and I begin to worry, like the ancient moralists did, that we grow fat, lazy and contemptible amidst our plenty, I don't have a leg to stand on.

My oven has heating coils on the bottom, held up by little legs to elevate it from the floor.

BUBBA»S BBQ JOINT — You're seated at a Formica - topped table that must have been stolen off the Sanford & Son set - one metal leg broken but held up by an upended tomato juice can, cobwebs dangling from the underside of one chair, a sticky substance on one corner of the table attracting a marching band of ants, another corner chewed away with obvious teeth marks.

It's obvious the players think there's no pressure in the first leg, they can make up for it in the second... Well clearly they can't, we should have learnt that by now.

He was a decent footballer, he wasn't unlikely to lose his bottle or his legs in the course of his run up and, by the time he stepped up in the last minute of this fifth round tie, he'd already scored four from the spot that season.

Chlesea beat us on their home ground when we were 2 men short by scoring from a set play and a deflected shot, we were and are the better team and we will prove it during the season... this was our game until Dean messed it up... Gabriel didn't need to react immediately with the spotlight obviously on him, I would have appreciated the red card if it was one of his trademark slides to take out costa's legs, I am sure Costa is stupid and would have reacted as well.

Jack needed to go as he has 3 games in 2 seasons and needs to build his body up and his legs and by playing once a week he will do that.

If Wilson had just two or three more first downs with his legs, it would have opened up the running game for Lynch by creating bigger cut back lanes and wear down the Patriots defense.

Morgan Schneiderlin, who reportedly wanted to join the Gunners [via Standard Sport] was snapped up by United on Monday afternoon [via BBC Sport] and another reported transfer target in William Carvalho has been ruled out for up to three months with a broken leg [via Telegraph Sport].

Who is this guy, no Ozil and Cazorla in ur line up, do u think we are playing Fulham???? this is Swansea and they can be stubborn... I'm nt sure u watched the 1st leg, if u had watched it, u wnt put Chambers at ryt waiting to be torn apart by Montero..

I support you on the fact that Araenal need a player who can make an immediate impact.However, it's also naive to try to create an impression that he's going to fail due to similar playing style and stature of the players you mentioned above.Even Eduardo would have world class and possibly better than Van Persie if not for his leg breaking.It's likely Mbappe is going to succeed and if he gets signed up by another club we'll be chasing him on the future.The same gamble being taken on Mbappe is the same that was taken on Henry.If Henry had failed I don't think Arsenal would've been this great club today.This is a very similar situation to Mbappe.Weneed players now to have an immediate impact but we should not be inclined to think Mbappe would fail if Arsenal should sign him.

Louis van Gaal and the United squad are in Denmark ahead of the first leg of their Europa League clash with FC Midtjylland and in his pre-match comments reported by Sky Sports the United boss revealed that the reason their captain Wayne Rooney was not with the squad was because he has picked up a knee problem.

Lucas Vazquez was adjudged to have been brought down by Mehdi Benatia in the box, and Cristiano Ronaldo stepped up and scored to secure a 4 - 3 aggregate win for Los Blancos, after they had spurned a three - goal lead from the first leg in an incredible game in the Spanish capital.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Even if we some how managed to beat Munich 3nil away in the 1st leg, you can guarantee that we would go and lose our home leg by a bigger score line, in other words we'd still end up getting dumped out of this competition lol?

Tubby, you called it mate, we have the most fickle fans on the planet, last night doesn't mean all of a sudden were crap, what it does mean is certain players need to take a long hard look at themselves as Arsene is taking serious heat by showing his loyalty to them namely, ozil and per, just not good enough and as for welbeck he should never been given an arsenal shirt, Giroud had a mare but he has proven this year that he is a great squad player but can not be our first choice striker, gooners keep the faith and hope that Monaco try to play ball in second leg cos if we turn up we could still hammer them.

Story for the gods... they don't need Van Persie to beat us, just get some kids off the streets in a Man U, Chelski or hell, even Monaco kit, top it up by putting the moaning one [or just about any brash folk like Berbatov] in the picture and we are in deep s ** t, our players will quake in their boots and lose the plot; we only beat Man City «cos their manager is almost as studious and gentlemanly as our prof. kindly remind me of one feisty game we've won in recent times, ok maybe Stoke [it took a broken leg to Ramsey and constant harassment before our players thought it was necessary to stand up to Stoke].

By the end of Friday... we'll know whether UCF has sewn up a BCS spot and whether the increasing «Mark Helfrich's not up for the job» rumblings (incredibly silly at this point) are going to grow legs.

The point I was making is that Arsenal is owned and run by billionaires that would sooner take money out than put money in and while you might not need a cash injection at this moment in time, anyone with half a brain cell will know that your club has had financial leg - ups in the past so to accuse City of being somehow different to what's gone on in your history is both hypocritical and incorrect.

They have never previously lost 4 - 2 away in the first leg, but on the four occasions that the margin of defeat has been by two goals, they have prevailed only once, recovering to win 3 - 0 at home against Sporting CP in the third round of the 1993/94 UEFA Cup — they went on to finish as runners - up in the competition.

Then came the second leg match - up at the Camp Nou, and the furore surrounding Van Persie's dismissal and the abject performance by the midfield, with the exception of Jack Wilshere, has put Arsenal in a familiar state of helplessness yet again, with their chances of a trophy now cut into half.

With Fulham trailing by a Van Damme goal early on, the Cottagers» Saturday afternoon quickly went from bad to simply catastrophic, as a firm but reckless challenge by Karl Henry on Bobby Zamora, arguably the club's most influential player last season and a player which had he been a few years younger would have almost certainly been snapped up by a bigger club elsewhere, resulted in the England international suffering both a broken leg and ligament damage leaving Fulham's most prized asset sidelined until at least the new year.

This second - leg will play right into their hands, with Chelsea having little option but to set - up in an offensive manner, meaning United should find space easy to come by at Old Trafford as the Blues go in search of that calming opening goal which would restore parity to the tie.

Studies have found that static stretching weakened muscle strength by as much as 30 percent and that stretching the leg muscles in one leg reduced strength in the other leg for up to 30 minutes after stretching.

Then by this fall she had decided she really didn't like leggings... and I ended up buying her things she did like.

If your BABYBJÖRN Baby Carrier Original has straps and buttons by the leg openings, then your carrier is up to date.

What this means is, by switching to an overnight drainage bag you will be able to sleep through the night without you or your caregiver having to get up to empty a leg bag.

They do this by being tightest around the ankle and having decreasing compression strength up the leg.

Your child's safety seat need to ideally have the complying with functions: a five - point harness — one band each for the shoulders, upper legs, as well as between child's legs, and also the reduced supports and also tethers for kids or the LATCH system which must be straight set up to the lorry as well as not simply protected by the auto's safety belt.

my little girl is just a little over 6 months, she can sit up on her own, we helped her learn that by putting her up with pillows around her for support, we put her on the floor every day for a half hour to an hour to help her with crawling she can get her back legs up she just cant get them moving together, she eats everything she can get her hands on but shes been going back and forth on her teeth, she drools and chews on her hands but hasn't gotten any broken in yet.

Firstly, aesthetically the navy material faded so it looks old and work when it's not, this happened within a couple of months, the green dot where you know to push the brake release forward rubbed off within seconds so now when others try to help me out when pushing the buggy they push the release the wrong way, needless to say the brake mechanism is now half broken, the canopy struts are awkward and don't flip up or down evenly and often pull out of their sockets, this is super annoying, the seat has a flimsy strap underneath supporting the legs, on occasion this has undone and I've found my infant in the storage section underneath hanging on by a tether, bad bad design, the viewing window on the canopy is only good on a non windy day.

This really cracks me up as I think the question really should be, «How do sleep deprived mothers who have not shaved their legs in 3 weeks, have not slept in 2 months, showered in 3 days and can not even pee by themselves actually have the energy to have sex?»

As your pregnancy progresses, you've probably learned to accept that your feet and ankles will always be swollen by the end of the day, your nightly leg cramps will routinely wake you up and those varicose veins may just be unavoidable.

«Wendy already has a leg up on them by being the nominee of the Conservative Party and because she garnered nearly 48 % of the vote at the March 16th Republican State Convention.»

That fact, coupled with the GOP enrollment edge in NY - 26 and compressed time period of the special election (even with the new timeline established by Gov. Andrew Cuomo), Corwin is going to have a serious leg up in this race.

The Kogi State governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has spoken up on how he sustained injury on his left foot and had his leg bandaged by doctors...

For example, James Caan, businessman and former television Dragon's Den investor, was by appointed by Nick Clegg this year to help promote the Open Door initiative for getting young people into work without leg - ups, only to be revealed as having given employment to his own children.

Whoever is nominated might be in limbo for a year or more, if the Senate fails to act, but also might have a leg up on being nominated by Hillary Clinton, if she wins the Democratic nomination and the general election.