Sentences with phrase «loyalists as»

SoundCloud stumbled because it neglected these hardcore loyalists as it wrongly strove to usurp Spotify as the streaming home of music's superstars.

As those brands dither, Honda is jumping in with both feet, making a new buck with the HR - V in the short run and hoping to create another corps of loyalists as the CR - V, Accord and Civic did decades prior.

Despite the pressure being mounted on him by his loyalists as well as the various endorsements he had received among the chieftains of the ruling All Progressives Congress, including state governors, Buhari has maintained a dignified silence.

The Labour leader handed promotions to a number of loyalists as he tried to re-assert his authority over his warring MPs.

That move, which was seen by some de Blasio loyalists as a shot at de Blasio - allied public relations firm BerlinRosen, has been challenged by a group of public relations firms in a federal lawsuit filed in March this year.

Offer an image and a company personality that no one else in your industry can showcase, which should give you the chance to draw more customers and brand loyalists as a result.

The former party chief of southwestern Chongqing was previously considered a contender for top leadership until he was unseated in July by a Xi loyalist as part of Xi's anti-corruption drive.

Denham was instrumental in getting Ed Miliband elected as leader, and so his speech is about as loyalist as it gets.

New York WFP Director Bill Lipton said the following about the IDC challengers: «Unlike the incumbents who voted to install a Trump loyalist as leader of the state senate, these Working Families Democrats are committed to supporting the progressive leadership of Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins on day one.

She is a real IHG Spire loyalist as am I and am a Spire Ambassador (sounds impressive) but I also branch out with Hilton and Marriott a lot.

Not exact matches

The problem is that Apple's savvy investments in iOS seem to be leaving the Mac business as an afterthought — alienating Mac loyalists.

But that's not the final word, apparently, because other evidence suggests that brand loyalty is as strong as it's ever been: Fully 77 percent of consumers in one survey, for instance, said they return to the same brands over and over again, with 37 percent of them qualifying as «brand loyalists» — the segment of customers who will stay true to a brand even if offered a superior product from a competitor.

While social platforms have established themselves as incredibly powerful resources for building that sort of relationship with fans, followers, readers, and loyalists, we've seen over the past few years that many of those platforms become pay - to - play.

«The Senate must be reformed or, as with its provincial counterparts, vanish,» said the speech, delivered in the very chamber that Harper has packed with appointed loyalists — several of whom have caused his government no end of grief.

Bitcoin loyalists argue that Ethereum's fatal tradeoff is that it's not as secure, and they point to the DAO hack as Exhibit A. Even in the Bitcoin community, though, there's some envy for the flexibility of Buterin's creation.

If you're a sports fan or ESPN loyalist, the idea that Yahoo's broadcast of a single, largely unimportant (Bills vs. Jaguars) NFL game could pose any kind of threat to the network probably strikes you as laughable.

Combine that with extremely sound material and plenty of additional resources, and you've now got a high - ticket item that engages current loyalists and attracts new ones as well.

As his illness progressed, Chávez anointed Vice-President Nicolás Maduro, a staunch loyalist, as his successoAs his illness progressed, Chávez anointed Vice-President Nicolás Maduro, a staunch loyalist, as his successoas his successor.

Your goal should be to offer your loyalists continuous improvements in your business benefits, and you just might pick up some new customers with your innovations as well.

«Thin Mint - y Gate,» as Harquail calls it, has GSUSA loyalists indignant — «Knock - offs are destroying one of our nation's greatest non-profits» — and capitalists fighting back — «Wal - Mart saw a market for the cookies.

ISIS also benefits from crowd - sourced efforts: loyalists serving as ISIS poster - children in the news (e.g., «Jihadi John», Sally Jones), remote sympathisers posting supportive messages on social media (such as Shami Witness), and dedicated disseminators sharing links between content - hosting websites.

Once again the Sunnis, armed, trained, funded, and employed to good effect by the U.S. during the surge just a few years earlier, were utterly disenfranchised and aggrieved as Maliki de-professionalized the army, replacing once - U.S. allies with Shia loyalists.

Tanks manned by fighters for Libya's interim government shelled loyalists holding out in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown as NATO jets circled overhead, ready to renew air strikes.

Efforts to launch an outside group supporting Trump's agenda have stalled amid fighting between Kushner loyalists, such as the campaign's data and digital strategist Brad Parscale, and conservative donor Rebekah Mercer, according to people familiar with the tensions.

Following the announcement that Tillerson had been fired — which came from the president, via tweet — the State Department released a truly stunning response and is faced with the prospect of Trump loyalist Mike Pompeo as the incoming replacement.

To avoid the second pitfall, consider the advice of persona expert Tony Zambito who suggests recruiting research subjects with a clear problem statement in mind and to recruit from customer types such as early adopters, defectors, non-retention groups, users of customer support, prospects and loyalists.

Other California Republicans in Clinton - won districts such as Reps. Mimi Walters and Dana Rohrabacher did not receive contributions from Mercer and the other Trump loyalists.

Now, pro-Trump loyalists such as Robert Mercer, a billionaire who supported controversial conservative Steve Bannon's ascent to the White House, are showing up on the congressmen's latest campaign donor lists.

This means that, in defending the Dictators, they are also banking their own influence as loyalists to elevate the entire network of individual and organizations in this negative support system, and not just the Dictators.

She went to Spain during the civil war, determined to lend support to the Loyalists» cause, though as part of her ethical commitment she refused to fire a gun.

Such as the British and Loyalists attempting to disarm the Colonial Patriot Militia.

Rather, our students graduate as thoughtful loyalists holding to the affiliations they arrived with.

Many in Israel, perhaps most, looked on the innovation favorably, as reflected in the «A» or earlier source; but we do not doubt that even at the time the step was regarded with disapproval among conservative Yahweh loyalists.

The news seemed to sadden Kotite loyalists such as Chrebet, who credits Kotite with giving him the opportunity to play in the NFL, but it did not exactly plunge the dressing room into a state of grief.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

This is something on which all Belfast — be they Protestant - Unionist - Loyalist or Catholic - Nationalist - Republican — can agree: Nothing is quite so universally appreciated as a socially acceptable punch on the nose.

Even as an advanced stats loyalist, I'm not exactly going to call for a three - loss team to get a CFP spot, even if said team was unlucky in every loss and ranks first in S&P +.

When George W Bush scrawls his signature on his final batch of Christmas cards as President in under six months time, one long - time loyalist will be missing from the approved list.

To further advertise unprofessionalism, ignorance and wanton desperation to malign a leading light, loyalist and committed party stalwart, the reporter also alluded that Senator Ojudu belonged to a faction in the Ekiti APC that was on a collision course with the present Exco and as such could not get the party's ticket in the primaries.

But in a quick reaction, Ojudu said as a loyalist of the APC, there was no contemplation on the platform where he hopes to contest for the governorship seat.

The New York Times described her as «a retired librarian and a longtime Democratic Party loyalist with a string of previous unsuccessful campaigns under her belt.»

The inscription on the base reads: «By the loyalists of Ulster as an expression of their love and admiration for its subject».

However, as a result of the Rawlingses inexorable and senseless attacks on the Mahama - led NDC government, functionaries and activists of the governing party feel reluctant or have refused to mount a defense for the former first family whenever NPP loyalists make reference to the sordid past of the NDC founder and his wife.

In «Explaining Judiciary Governance in Central and Eastern Europe» (forthcoming in Europe - Asia Studies) I show that, once the judicializing institutional design template is in place, CEE politicians do tinker with them at the margins in self - interested ways, as by packing the courts with loyalists.

Instead of ousting Jacobs, Cuomo chose to supplement him with an on - again / off - again loyalist, Charlie King, as party executive director — a post the former LG and AG contender took on during the 2010 campaign.

Given her history with the Cuomo family, there was some speculation very early on that O'Neill might be brought back to re-take the reins from Jacobs, who was seen as a David Paterson loyalist, particularly after Tom Suozzi's surprise loss to Republican Ed Mangano in the 2009 Nassau County executive race.

Cox loyalists have insisted this isn't true, noting former Gov. George Pataki ran on independent lines in both 1994 and 1998 as well as the GOP and Conservative lines (this is something of a time - honored tradition; Mayor Bloomberg has done it in all three of his elections, too).

GOP consultant Roger Stone, a Trump loyalist, is set to testify before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its Russia election meddling probe in late July, according to his attorney.

Rebel forces in Libya have rejected the offer of UN peacekeepers as they prepare for a final stand with Gaddafi loyalists.

One Alan loyalist who was at party's Asylum Down Headquarters, identified as Nana Kwame is a victim of Akufo - Addo's thuggery and Violence addiction.