Sentences with phrase «little upstart»

The company played catch - up to both Google and this little upstart called Pebble.

This little upstart from Canada is trying to compete with the likes of Amazon, Google, Apple and Barnes & Noble.

Now this little upstart called Ford, on the other hand...

Ma Bell herself — the prebreakup AT&T — fought tooth and nail against the feisty little upstart.

Not exact matches

In a little over a decade, it had expanded from a scrappy upstart into a thriving outfit with dozens of employees, a database of 1,500 contractors and such industry giants as Lowe's, Home Depot and Canadian Tire as clients.

But there's a more important reason why Apple and its MP3 cohorts have little to fear from the upstart that will at best serve a niche market akin to vinyl records.

Upstart little New Zealand, its boat near perfect in America's Cup trials, is giving its challenger rivals something to worry about

and I still reiterate my sentiments, many players are better suited to playing for smaller clubs with very little expectations and less pressure and I can name loads of very very talented players who just don't have the big club mentality, players who bloom and shine when they are the main attraction, the big fish in a small pond but who will whither and fade once they make the step up to bigger teams... with Arsenal Afobe will just be another player, another upstart who will find the pressure of delivering week in week out or be out of the team hard to deal with... at Bournemouth he has time to settle into his pace, if he misses chances like he did on his debut for the club he will still be given chances after chances, just like it happened withn him

Continue reading «Peter Bone brands Returning Officers wanting Friday election counts as «tin - pot, upstart little town clerks»»»

The fight between Mr. Cuomo and Ms. Nixon has emerged as an early flash point in the battle to define the future of the Democratic Party in the age of President Trump: a contest between an accomplished and pragmatic governor who controls the classic machinery of Democratic politics, and an upstart challenger with little track record but white - hot rhetoric of unfiltered liberalism to rally the base.

So it takes more than a little moxie for an upstart not only to take on a veteran, but to run strong.

Over the last 10 years, however, as the internet expanded, low quality overseas manufacturing spawned numerous upstart sauna companies importing containers of infrared saunas with little to no understanding of the therapeutic benefits of infrared therapy.

I love Clark shoes too but was introduced to a little tiny upstart brand, Adrian Allen, which is very comfortable.

Character design (especially that of the generic - looking Mary, with her big eyes and standard anime proportions), locations and even the overall story arc do little to assert a new identity or fresh creative possibilities for the upstart outfit.

But even after five features, she's still treated in some corners like an upstart, a spoiled little girl who owes her career to her famous father (Jason Reitman, by contrast, has earned everything he's ever had).»

Reynolds, on the other hand, is disappointing — he never quite convinces, and seems more than a little out of place here in the «young upstart trying to prove himself» role.

Suggesting that overall industry favorite «The Shape of Water» might fall to Oscar season upstart (and BAFTA / WGA nominee) «I, Tonya» could be inching out too far onto a limb, but let's live a little.

The Big (i.e., irrelevant commercial) Publishers, the Random Houses and HarperCollinses and Simon & Schusters and Hachettes, wheeled and dealt multimillion - dollar con - tracts among themselves, though increasingly the agents were holding on to their authors» foreign rights, stalking the halls and booths like hyenas, or even, egregiously, like the upstart McTaggart, setting up their own stands with spiffy little tables and printed catalogs several inches thick handed out by demure young people, aping the publishers themselves (the nerve!).

This makes Upstart a little more expensive than the other lenders on this list.

If you recently graduated from college and have little to no credit history, Upstart personal loans are worth looking into.

Anna explained that Upstart secured differentiated underwriting targeting a demographic of younger borrowers early in their career or with little credit history in order to offer more options.

If you have a good job, a good savings account and little to no payment delinquencies on your credit history, Earnest may be a better option for you than Upstart.

Higher One grows to dominate college debit card market — A little - known upstart has quickly grown to dominate the campus debit card business, but it is now drawing heat from Congress, regulators... (See Higher One)

And then the complaint against Dr. Jefferson was filed and the eyes of the Vet Board settled squarely on her, the leader of this upstart little non-profit that has been consistently rocking the status quo.

Control the little sky - Viking upstart with the [arrow] keys.

It is also during this time that the MBB firms start to see competition from upstart mid-tier firms such as Arthur D. Little, A.T. Kearney, Booz Allen Hamilton, Booz & Company, L.E.K. Consulting, Monitor Group, and Roland Berger leveraging strength from their niche practices.

As an upstart home insurance provider with a focus on online quotes and paperless service, Square One has little option but to embrace social media, but Mirkovic says legacy insurers and brokers would also benefit from getting over their fears and engaging with their customers, even unhappy ones.

But while Spotify remains to this day a plucky upstart from Sweden, albeit a rather popular one these days, Tidal has since been acquired by little - known rap star «Jay Z» (ahem) for 56 million American dollars.

Events of currently unpredictable potential will tend to happen when the little people seriously become uppity upstarts in the minds / hallowed halls of the CREAcrats.