Sentences with phrase «initial positioning as»

Some businesses may have been put off by Alexa's initial positioning as a consumer - focused assistant built into smart speakers for the home, Tsai said.

But do you think that Jerome Powell... You know I go back and read some of his earlier stuff and of course his initial position as a Fed governor, he had a lot of issues with the massive build - up of the balance sheet.

«We still hold our initial position as released in June of this year, in which we classified virtual currencies as products with a very high - risk profile, and because of the anonymous features, a high - integrity risk.»

Matt is the office manager and former Rockceptionist (a term coined to bring together his former life as a b - list rockstar and his initial position as receptionist for the company).

Not exact matches

Initial reaction in the industry positioned the move as a temporary spat between the Belarussian and Russian producers.

• Investors are seeking liquidity as the company begins to position itself for an acquisition or an initial public offering.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

As much as I like the initial look of Jay Powell, I have to say that I think he is in a no - win positioAs much as I like the initial look of Jay Powell, I have to say that I think he is in a no - win positioas I like the initial look of Jay Powell, I have to say that I think he is in a no - win position.

As such, we alerted subscribers to exit the position on the December 14 open and netted a 14 % gain on the initial entry, with a 12 % gain on the shares that were re-entered.

As the value of the network rose very quickly, and much higher than I anticipated it rising, I had to revise my initial position that this network would likely remain a fringe network for nerds online.

As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) starts to take a hardline proceed to cryptocurrencies and initial silver offerings (ICO), many companies are holding a different position than formerly seen with regards to their ICOs.

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

A year after writing The Mass on the World, Pere Teilhard further defined his thought, in Mon Univers: «To interpret adequately the fundamental position of the Eucharist in the economy of the world... it is, I think, necessary that Christian thought and Christian prayer should give great importance to the real and physical extensions of the eucharistic Presence... As we properly use the term «our bodies» to signify the localized centre of our spiritual radiations..., so it must be said that in its initial and primary meaning the term «Body of Christ» is limited, in this context, to the consecrated species of Bread and Wine.

In Whitehead's final position in Process and Reality as reconstructed by Ford, then, the provision of initial aims would be a matter that concerns the primordial nature only, and not the consequent nature, as traditional interpreters have thought for a few decades: «Concrescent occasions prehend only initial aims from God, and these are purely conceptual.

The 28 - year - old is set to report back with the club on Sunday before initial checks are made on Monday to kick start pre-season preparations, and based on this report, he's likely to find himself in an awkward position with Conte next week as Atleti aren't even close to Chelsea's demands.

He said: «Arsenal aren't moving from their initial positions and Campbell is unattainable as of now.

A variety of stances should be included, as well as variations in height (low stance feet apart, half kneeling, etc.), initial hand and arm positions (arms overhead, at side, etc.) and various other aspects of the initial stances.

As the initial spark of love settles into solid companionship, do couples» preferred sleep positions change as welAs the initial spark of love settles into solid companionship, do couples» preferred sleep positions change as welas well?

The owner of Dangote Cement fell to 71 place from his initial 46 position on the billionaire list as he lost $ 3.7 billion after Naira dipped again Monday

Prior to devolution in December 1999 the position was referred to as the Initial Presiding Officer.

In Bohm's model, the quantum weirdness that had so captivated Bohr, Heisenberg, and the rest — and that had so upset young Bell, when parroted by his teachers — arose because certain variables, such as the electron's initial position, could never be specified precisely: efforts to measure the initial position would inevitably disturb the system.

The rate at which particles are kicked out of the reactor and the location where they hit the wall is a complex combination of each wave's position when the particle reaches it, as well as the initial particle position.

If phototrophs keep their photosynthetic apparatus for landing, the red - edge position of the land surface on M - dwarf planets show just like as on the Earth, at the initial stage of land vegetation.

The position is available immediately (February / March 2018) as an initial fixed - term contract.

Exhale and raise one arm at a time; stop when you reach shoulder height and then inhale as you return to the initial position slowly.

As soon as you have established the initial position, begin to firmly hug your shoulders with your knees so that your legs stay high on your upper armAs soon as you have established the initial position, begin to firmly hug your shoulders with your knees so that your legs stay high on your upper armas you have established the initial position, begin to firmly hug your shoulders with your knees so that your legs stay high on your upper arms.

Keep pulling that back hand as you drive its elbow down behind you, with the hand near the sphere pressing through to the front until you are in an uppercut ready position on the opposite side of the initial rotating reach back.

Exhale as you return to the initial position.

400 % Bonus in all deposits a bonus will be giving to the client's all deposits; this bonus can not be lost but can be used as leverage to trade with, the client positions will be closed if the client loses his initial deposit.

New Mutants is directed by Josh Boone and written by Boone and Knate Lee, and is positioned as more of a horror movie than a superhero movie, as evidenced by the film's initial trailer.

As a result, new teachers in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Michigan form only moderately accurate pictures of their schools, prior to accepting their initial teaching positions.

At the time, Kline saw it as a speedy way to pass an initial bill and position himself with a strongly conservative proposal as a starting point for conference.

These include: the number of phonemes in the word; phoneme position in words (initial sounds are easier); phonological properties of words (e.g., continuants, such as / m /, are easier than stop sounds, such as / t /); and phonological awareness dimensions, including blending sounds, segmenting words, and rhyming.

A benchmark such as the following is an inappropriate expectation for all kindergarten children: «Recognize sound - letter correspondence including beginning consonants, two - letter consonant blends, and two - letter consonant digraphs — all in the initial word positions.»

All this talk of China as savior points back to the initial problem: the high cost of developing new models as too many players jockey for position.

Their position (as stated on the phone) was that it was cheaper in the long run for them to make a fair initial offer and retain a happy customer, rather than haggle.

Having been recently launched late last month in the wake of the cancellation of the CDMA version of the Nexus One, the Incredible has gone on to become more popular than Verizonâ $ ™ s initial expectations, with an initial sell out on launch through its online store and further online availability now slated in the middle of June as a result of both its position as Verizonâ $ ™ s current flagship Android device and the component shortage.

However, since initial options investments usually requires less capital than equivalent stock positions, your potential cash losses as an options investor are usually smaller than if you'd bought the underlying stock or sold the stock short.

This is because of the low barriers to entry such as low initial deposit and small position sizes.

In overvalued, overbought markets, the potential for whipsaws is much higher, so we'll tend to establish an initial constructive position (as I did on weakness early last week), and work into a larger position over a period of weeks, or more quickly if the market retains good internal strength on the next meaningful decline in the major indices.

Before the contract expires you will need to relieve your contractual obligation to take or make delivery by offsetting (also known as unwind, or liquidate) your initial position.

A hedger achieves protection against changing cash prices by purchasing (selling) futures contracts of the same or similar commodity and later offsetting that position by selling (purchasing) futures contracts of the same quantity and type as the initial transaction.

As the gap has increased your trade risk, your initial position sizing is invalid.

When you hold to maturity a long future contract position with physical settlement, you pay the final settlement price as calculated by the exchange for the underlying you receive and not your initial purchase price.

A few types of margin are singled out: initial margin, margin requirement, i.e. the one locked up in the account as a guarantee in case of losing position, and minimum margin, maintenance margin, needed to keep the position open.

For instance, if our $ 15,000 account equity grew to $ 25,000 and we sold one or two stocks, we probably wouldn't want to take new initial positions to replace them that were as small as we originally took.

As your account value grows, you will have to periodically adjust the size of the initial positions you are taking in a stock.

An investor with a long position can set a limit order at a price higher than the current market price to gain profit while investors with short position may set this type of order below the current or present price as the initial target to manage risks along the way.

However, the presence of a margin call should act as a final warning that you have let your position go as far as you conceivably can (unless the initial margin is out of line with the volatility of the contract).