Sentences with phrase «means of competing»

For all but the most cash - rich investors, one of the few means of competing is the hard money fix and flip loan.

It brought in a metallic frame in order to shed the «plasticy» criticism levelled at earlier phones and give it a means of competing against the likes of the HTC One M8 and iPhone 6.

The title of Michaels» book comes from a 1969 memo from a tobacco company executive: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the minds of the general public.

The approach was aptly described by one tobacco company executive: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the mind of the general public.

An infamous 1969 memo from a tobacco executive read: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the minds of the general public.

«Doubt is our product,» Brown & Williamson stated in an internal memo in 1969, «since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the mind of the general public.»

Telling quotes «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the mind of the general public... Victory will be achieved when... recognition of uncertainty becomes part of the «conventional wisdom».»

«Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the mind of the general public.

A famous tobacco industry document from 1969 spells out the strategy succinctly: «Doubt is our product, since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the mind of the general public.

Not exact matches

And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

While sponsoring posts in verified feeds is one approach, it often means the sponsored brand is competing with the «personality» of the feed.

But Choi finds meaning in the Olympic gestures, largely because of where these athletes will compete.

Seeking entry into this field at mid-life meant competing with established professionals or those much younger than me, many holding a degree in journalism or another directly related course of study, an experience - rich resume to support their interest, and the freedom to work long hours in an office away from home.

She noted that there was a lot of capital floating around and those getting allocations meant competing with trillion - dollar funds.

Here are some of the competing profiles and customer expectations that the retail environments of tomorrow (which actually means right now) will need to accommodate.

I compared my vision to the story of Red Bull in the Shark Tank: While I'm competing with industry giants (they were up against huge companies like Pepsi and Coke), success means that you have opened a new market (remember when there wasn't a section of energy drinks in every gas station and grocery store!?!).

It would mean that a 37 - year - old, drug - free Lance came in third in the Tour de France ahead of «at least a handful of other elite cyclists who themselves were later found to have doped — an alleged accomplishment that would raise further questions about his claim that he needed to use PEDs in his prime in order to compete in a culture of doping.»

This means that core elements of presentation planning, design and delivery often fall through the cracks, resulting in a mishmash of uncoordinated - and sometimes competing - objectives, repeated or missing information, wildly different styles in graphics, and the likelihood that the presentation will run significantly under - or over-time.

IBM (IBM) leads the $ 667 million worldwide market for flash storage solid - state arrays in terms of revenue, according to Gartner, but it's by no means the only vendor competing in this space.

The intention was to prevent the Internet service providers from hindering the rise of new services, perhaps online video that would compete with their own cable TV offerings, either through technical means or by imposing hefty fees.

Goulden also said Virtustream will be part of the vCloud Air Network, although it's unclear what, exactly that means given that Virtustream and vCloud would often compete for the same business accounts.

Cities constantly compete for firms, but the potential impact of Amazon means that the scale of this competition will be historic.

Amazon's lack of brick - and - mortar locations means that it can't compete with Walmart on these services.

When they're competing, it can serve as a source of great strength, meaning and perseverance.

A narrow plurality of offerors (49 percent) say the On - Demand economy should not be regulated and companies should compete to offer workers fair pay and benefits, even if it means less security, compared to 40 percent who say the government should regulate the sharing economy to guarantee independent contractors the same benefits afforded to full - time workers, even if it means fewer jobs.

In the airline industry, it means carriers don't compete aggressively (they keep fares higher and frequency of service relatively lower) in anticipation that competitors will respond in kind.

But the Cyclopean eyes of Canada's big banks have finally alighted on small business banking and, having decided that small business owners are a worthy market, the banks are actually competing with one another to create business bank accounts that small business owners will find attractive - and that means creating small business accounts with lower bank fees.

In this context, a competing business generally means any retail, wholesale, or merchandising business that sells products of the type sold by Walmart with annual revenues in excess of certain thresholds.

Our agreements with our partners are generally non-exclusive, meaning our partners may offer customers the products and services of several different companies, including products and services that compete with ours, or may themselves be or become competitors.

In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.

To be a trader today means competing against titans like Goldman Sachs, with their legions of PhD quantitative analysts, plus some of the most advanced networks and intellectual property in the world.

Of course there are plenty companies that are upset with that policy because it means they can't compete on price.

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

SegWit would use a mechanism called a soft fork to enact its change, meaning that those using the network would not be forced to pick between two competing versions of the software when an update is introduced.

While the large scale of PNC's operations mean that your local branch will give you a standardized level of support, your experience here probably won't go above and beyond what competing lenders can provide.

This means that Stion would still have to compete globally with thin film makers like First Solar, which has long been one of the lowest - cost producers and in recent years has increased efficiencies dramatically.

The destruction of the voting assemblies of the eastern cities, which came about as a consequence of their inclusion in the empire, effectively left competition in the practice of benefactions as the only means by which the civic elites could compete for power in their localities; and success in this was dependent upon attaining the patronage of the man who sat at the top of the social pyramid.

As long as politics is solely a means to decide which among competing and complementary preferential interests will be honored and denied, political activity is defined independently of any particular preference.

It wants Christian meanings to shape the whole of life rather than compete with others arising from other sources.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Based on passages from the Gospel of Matthew, this book considers what it means to be «called» in a time when Christians have so many competing claims for their time, love, and commitment.

We are not seeking to present the NT as a series of contradictory and competing Gospels; we are trying to se how those who wrote it were witnessing to what Jesus Christ meant to them so that we may be moved to see what Jesus Christ means to us.

If God is «omnipotent in the sense of being the only power there is... where there is not competing power, omnipotence means little... The power that counts is the power to influence the exercise of power by others.»

Any person who reads into the history of Christianity will find that there were many competing schools of thought when the religion was founded, and there are nuances of meaning within the text that were lost in translation.

A woman's right to choose opens upon the necessity of choosing one of competing interpretations of the meaning or sanctity of life — thence, actually, to become dependent upon it.

While they write of their qualified moral acceptance of deterrence, they mean only, as Cardinal John Krol testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, that they consider deterrence to be for now the lesser of competing evils.

They sought total authority, which means getting rid of religions which would compete with that authority.

Latest was explosions in India marked as «Islamic Jihadists» and another in Pakistan although I was surprised that it was not marked as «Hindu Jihadists»... That would have had both Great Countries confront each other serving the purpose of other competing nations over the Rich Indian Peninsular... Believe me no nation fall back unless people of her own are traitors to it's nations principals and beliefs for the reason of Hate, Envy, Revenge, or Greeds towards material wealth even if by selling their Dignity and integrity or their family, tribe, community, the nation and the country it wouldn't mean much to them... and those can be found among every level of the one Society...

I will put Cobb back on the defensive by saying that I fail to see how the model of an all - encompassing, regionally inclusive experience is compatible with the hiddenness of competing drives, aspirations and fears which psychoanalysis reveals in the» «depth» dimension of the psyche,» by which term I mean something broader than the unified experience of the analogue to the «soul,» namely, the restless depths of the complex societies which support the regnant nexus and which have a «life» of their own, which is in some instances incorporated into, melded into the conscious experience of the occasions in the regnant society, and sometimes is not.

There emerge, however, from the «periphery» (so to speak) rather than from the center, pockets of order, meaning, and value which grow, spread, and die — that order, those values, and those meanings which gradually grew and spread until they constituted the various Kingdoms of Ancient Egypt would be an example of how order, value, and meaning emerge from the «bottom» and spread «upward» and «outwards» into dynamic pockets or aggregates of order, meaning, and value which prosper - overcoming and absorbing other pockets of order — until they no longer embody the imagination, vigor, and zest required for continued vitality and find themselves absorbed into other competing orders or gradually disintegrating into the silence of a Dark Age.

Incommensurability, we are told, means «the absence of a common moral standard by which to evaluate competing moral vocabularies.»