Sentences with phrase «larger predecessors»

However, after the iPad mini review embargo lifted, reviewers noted that the iPad mini, unlike any of its larger predecessors, had stereo speakers.

In almost every aspect, Hyundai's subcompact is better executed than its larger predecessors.

The report showed higher graduation rates at the new schools compared with their much larger predecessors.

In fact, like its larger predecessor, it is betting pretty much on selfies to carry it through.

The back is similar to that of its larger predecessor with, very slightly textured with bands on the top and the lower part and a square - ish camera with dual LED flash, with a square - shaped fingerprint sensor below it.

All of this fits into a frame that is just 7.9 mm thick, something that ASUS is very proud of, especially considering how large the predecessor was.

Not exact matches

He leaves the bank vastly larger than when he inherited it from his predecessor, Peter Godsoe.

In Colombia, the reign of large, hierarchical cartels gave way to that of paramilitary groups, who were eventually replaced by more criminal groups, or «bandas criminales,» that are more compartmentalized, dispersed, and autonomous than their predecessors.

Bowman's predecessor, Rand Wentworth, calls syndications «large - scale, multimillion - dollar tax fraud.»

If Trudeau is looking for a playbook on how to conduct relations with his country's largest trading partner, he could study his predecessor's approach and do the opposite.

Leat has completed some of the largest acquisition financings and built numerous profitable businesses at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and their predecessor companies.

«And that, I suspect, is why he's enlisted a much larger lineup of clergy to speak at the inauguration than his predecessors.

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For large portions of the season, the Dutchman hasn't been much of an improvement on his predecessor David Moyes.

The Venezuelan striker has arrived in the city of Turin and will look to fill the admittedly large shoes of his predecessor Ciro Immobile, who recently signed for Borussia Dortmund after becoming the Serie A's Capocannoniere.

After moving from a small district (1800 students) to a much larger district, with over 15,000 students, Jason was charged with implementing breakfast - in - the - classroom after the program had been approved by his predecessor.

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There is also the argument that those receiving passed - down money did nothing to earn the money, but to many a large incentive of earning money in the first place is so they may pass is along to their predecessors to have a better life than they had.

Let's also remember that de Blasio's predecessor (who, admittedly, was the single largest individual contributor to the Senate GOP conference at the time) got seven years for mayoral control.

This new commission is larger than its 1987 predecessor and includes a significant number of active prosecutors.

The Lib Dems and their Liberal and SDP predecessors have suffered especially, [143] particularly in the 1980s when their electoral support was greatest while the disparity between the votes and the number of MPs returned to parliament was significantly large.

I had large shoes to fill when I took the office many years ago, as Senator Klein was a predecessor.

Sheehan and her predecessor have sought extra funds from the state for years, arguing that Albany is uniquely deserving because of the large amount of tax - exempt, mostly state - owned, property within its borders.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito promised a fairer distribution of discretionary funds than in the days of predecessor Christine Quinn — but the largest piece of the pie still went to her and her friends.

Commenting on Prime Minister Teresa May's speech to the Conservative Party Conference today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «We welcome the fact that the Prime Minister clearly recognises that the education, social and economic policies of her predecessor have led to inequality across education and other public services.

Studies have shown that students in the new schools have fared better than their predecessors in the larger schools, but some other large schools have suffered from having to absorb more struggling students.

«The coalition government has inherited from its predecessor the largest budget deficit of any economy in Europe with the single exception of Ireland.

As pioneered by his predecessor, Gov. David Paterson, Cuomo reiterated last night that he would use his budget extenders to pass large swaths of his preferred budget or have the Legislature risk a government shutdown.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito promised a fairer distribution of discretionary funds than in the days of predecessor Christine Quinn — but the largest piece of the pie still went...

Commenting on the information released today that the Government will not be proceeding in this Parliament with the Education for All Bill, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Secretary of State has again shown a determination to not blithely follow the path marked out by her predecessors, and to, instead, put her own stamp onto the future policy direction for education, for good or ill.

Cuomo since taking office has sought to exert a more business friendly attitude than his immediate predecessors, seeking to turn around a business climate that has been described by the fiscally conservative as hostile due in large part to the state's taxes.

We have also retired a large chunk of the NHIS debt left by my predecessor, and the NHIS is working,» the president said.

But Bharara's blistering attack on politics, writ large, must sting a little for any number of people — including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who, in his previous job as state attorney general, pledged to clean up Street State, much the way his predecessor, Eliot Spitzer, had taken on Wall Street.

We have also retired a large chunk of the NHIS debt left by my predecessor, and the NHIS is working,» he said

But Hammond will reject calls to reverse the other key plank of his predecessor George Osborne's cuts: the much larger, # 3bn - a-year reduction in the work allowance — the amount recipients can earn before their benefits start to be taken away.

De Blasio's predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, created a bullpen on the second floor of City Hall, and placed his desk as the center of the large network of desks staffed by his top aides.

«The gradual evolution of smaller and smaller body size would have allowed the bird predecessors to explore novel niches and body plans off limits to their larger relatives,» he says.

Decades of searches at two previous generations of accelerators — Europe's Large Electron Positron collider (predecessor to the LHC) and the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois — failed to find the Higgs.

Dunn cites Ramon y Cajal as an inspiration, and his painting of Purkinje cells — large branching neurons in the cerebellum — evokes his predecessor's ink drawings of the same.

The Hubble and TAOS surveys, along with their predecessors, indicate that some mechanism seems to curb the population of KBOs that have diameters of about a kilometer to tens of kilometers, relative to what one would expect from extrapolating downward from the observed population of large KBOs.

Things began to change when the big colliders were built — LEP [the Large Electron Positron Collider, which was the predecessor of the Large Hadron Collider], the Tevatron and now the LHC.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

URS has provided engineering and construction services for the installation of nuclear power generation since the 1960s in the U.S. and abroad through its heritage companies Ebasco, United Engineers & Constructors, and Gibbs & Hill, and pioneered the concept of nuclear contract maintenance and modifications, and large - scale modular construction through predecessor companies Catalytic and Stearns - Roger.

«For example, while modern man's brain is not particularly larger than that of his immediate predecessor, Neanderthal man, most experts acknowledge that it represents a great leap forward in its improved organization and its infinitely wider range of abilities.»

The look: Right away, you'll notice that this model's display is four times larger than its predecessor (the easier to see you with my dear!).

MGS 3 turned its predecessor's design upside down, giving players a series of large, complex environments to navigate and a vast array of tools with which to conquer them.

The movie doesn't truly hit the wall until it arrives at its interminable, aggressively larger - than - life finale, which is so overloaded with computer - generated effects that it feels as though it'd be more at home in a cutting - edge video game - thus ensuring that Insurgent ultimately falls right in line with its hopelessly mediocre predecessor.

With its fantastic special effects, a cast that has perfectly settled in to their respective roles, a determination to keep a larger sense of narrative, and a detailed examination of a world at war, The Two Towers deserves what its predecessor was denied.

Dead Space 2 expanded on its predecessor in every way by delivering a deeper story, more scares, cooler weapons, and a far larger environment to explore.

It's a considerably funnier movie than its predecessor, thanks in large part to Kat Dennings (who returns as Jane's intern), the always - amiable Chris O'Dowd (who shows up as a decidedly underpowered rival for Jane's affections), and a sneaky - good cameo by Chris Evans, a.k.a. Captain America.