Sentences with phrase «leapfrog past»

It would also provide a way for the industry to quickly leapfrog past its current systems which often rely heavily on paper - based transactions and record - keeping.

We are particularly hopeful that nations where electricity is still scarce may be able to leapfrog past some of the dirty, outdated technologies of yesteryear that the rest of us are saddled with.

Japan is poised to leapfrog past everyone in the quest for model power.

The fourth quarter of 2016 saw Apple leapfrog past Samsung to secure the No. 1 global smartphone vendor position (see Table 1).

The Americans have now leapfrogged past Canada.

The 7 points actually leapfrogged them past quite a few teams in the Standings.

That Larry the Cable Guy has nearly acquired name - above - the - title privileges for Cars 2, leapfrogging past even the first film's Owen Wilson in star billing, should tell you all you need to know about Pixar's crass and uncharacteristically threadbare cash - grab, spun not so much from the thread of 2006's Cars as from that feature's spawn of short films, each of which stars Larry the Cable Guy's stupid, bucktoothed tow truck.

This is the lesson that can be gleaned from the meteoric rise of the young Buffalo - born artist Jacob Kassay, who beginning in 2010 saw his shiny monochrome canvases — made with a chemical process that gives them a dirty - mirror - like sheen — become the status symbol for emerging - art collections, leapfrogging past one auction estimate after another by wild multiples.

• Georgia leapfrogged past Arizona, Florida, California and Nevada to post the nation's highest state foreclosure rate in May, the first time since February 2006 that Georgia's foreclosure rate has ranked highest among the states.

Not exact matches

The U.S. and Germany both «leapfrogged» past the previous second - place finisher, the publication adds, after ``

The U.S. and Germany both «leapfrogged» past the previous second - place finisher, the publication adds, after «India's threat of a 70 % tariff on imported solar panels and low power bids sparked «investor concerns» regarding its «over-ambitious» 2022 solar power goals.»

We are cut off from our past and so we must leapfrog back to the past of King David and try to replace our roots in Europe with roots in the state of Israel.

The JRs did enough this past week to actually leapfrog their SOs and go from # 3 to # 1, while the SOs will stay at # 2 for another week.

When it comes to communications technology, at least: in a Netroots Nation panel today on political organizing in rural areas, Mindy Diane Feldman mentioned that some rural areas in this country are effectively leapfrogging a generation of communications technology, skipping past dial - up and even...

And the industrial nations commit to helping the developing ones «leapfrog» past the inefficient and dirty - energy technologies that fueled the industrialization of the former but mortgaged the environ - ment in the process.

Where there was little temporal sense, other than a vague sense of the present, elsewhere in the Arsenale, time, in most works in «Utopia Station», was an elastic term, leapfrogging between past, present and future.

We need to leapfrog over the past and into a clean - energy future.»

I'd love to see poor and fast - developing countries leapfrog, Slinky - style, past our fossil - binge solution to progress.

Technology is opening up new ways to manage the potential strains on both the energy and water sides, with creative solutions that leapfrog those used in the past.

As for SpaceX, how about delivering the manned capsule without delaying it past 2019, so they can, you know, get back to the level of Soyuz and Gemini, before claiming things like having «leapfrogged the entire space industry»

If you've been on a solid career trajectory for the past 15 years, you can easily spend a year or two doing consulting work or taking on «leapfrog» positions without upending everything.

In past years, converting an attic into a bedroom was a project that landed squarely in the middle of the rankings, but this year it leapfrogged over other categories into third place.