Sentences with phrase «moat around»
They won't tell you their goals or timeline or whether they'd prefer a ranch, a two - story, or a castle with a moat around it.
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From now on, think of your marriage as a castle with a moat around it (your boundary) and a drawbridge.
Meanwhile,... the Southern Ocean, which serves as a moat around Antarctica, is losing its ability to take up additional CO2, reports an international team of researchers in the journal Science this week.
The moat around games is partly of game makers own design.
A moat around the walled city was added in 1603.
There is something really peaceful about wiggling your toes in the sand; building a moat around a sandcastle or sitting still on the beach as waves soften the sand.
The view is made doubly impressive as the towers of the temple reflect in the still water filling the moat around the complex.
Second, I expect our value oriented venture capitalist to devote some time to studying the prospect that this startup can create an economic moat around itself.
«[You want] a business that has a moat around it, where it's competitively insulated to some large degree.»
Despite this fact, Ark Restaurants was able to create an economic moat around its business, and this is evidenced by the returns on equity below.
If keeping a «snow - free» moat around your house is a bit too much, consider shovelling snow away from areas more prone to water damage, such as basement windows and concrete steps.
The type of business Warren Buffett would say has a moat around it.»
In short, the company is a cash - gushing powerhouse with thick, consistent profit margins and a huge competitive moat around its business... it pays an above average yield (and a dividend that's steadily growing)... and it continually buys back its own stock.
There might even be a moat around it.
The car was for many years «on display» floating above the moat around the Gaydon production facility.
They'd made a little moat around themselves using picture books and were snuggled up together reading «Trumpet of the Swan.»
Claim: The Telegraph says former cabinet minister Douglas Hogg submitted claims for more than # 2,000 to clear a moat around his Lincolnshire estate and # 14,500 for a housekeeper.
That field looks awful with the moat around it, and this game just feels more CONCACAF than normal.
Completely agree, its tough to see 10 yrs down now but, it holds promise due to movement towards mobility and FB developing a wide moat around it, we'll see.
These firms shared a few key traits: They all produced prodigious cash flow, and they all had a fairly wide competitive moat around them.
CVS should thank their stars they're being provided a rare opportunity through this temporary exit of Amazon, to build a moat around their business.
It builds a big moat around ESPN in terms of competition.
«As the battle over consumer spending between Amazon and Walmart intensifies, we are concerned Amazon's Prime membership program is fortifying an impenetrable moat around its customers,» the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote.»
«Investments in mobile search, mobile cloud, location - based services and consumer produces like mobile games are helping to build a moat around Baidu's business.»
Investing time and resources early is a great way to build a competitive moat around product and brand.
«The companies that are going to be able to withstand this are the ones that have a sort of moat around their businesses,» he said.
The best way to protect against that, Woodman says, is to build a moat around the company in the form of its content ecosystem.
If you've already achieved some financial milestones by your 30s and earn a strong income, you may be tempted to build a moat around your savings and pare down your risk.
The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.»
Their dense bodies sink rather than float, prompting some zoos to stop putting moats around enclosures — too many have drowned.
He likes firms that have wide moats around their businesses which they can use to fend off competitors.
The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.»
Things changed at that point and all of a sudden blossomed into these photographic substrates that are covered with either glaze or kind of amber or green resin with sunken moats around them, because he always called them moats, and then put within these kind of stained modernist frames.
The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.»
Not exact matches
The longer the relationship lasts, the more of a moat you create around yourself,» Foley says.
A Reinvestment Moat company has the strong competitive advantages around their core business as seen in the Legacy Moats, but their market is not yet saturated and the company has the ability to reinvest the cash they generate into growing.
And the rhetoric is gonna be mighty loud, Jeremy, and dig a bigger moat all around the traditional church and its businesses!
Her half - naked body was dragged around the city and thrown into a moat.
We'd go out for dinner and wind up in a cigar bar singing karaoke with Jackie Chan or go for moonlit strolls around the moat of the Forbidden City.
He buys the dogs as a fence, as a moat, as a line drawn between him and the incursions of the world... and yet his dogs, because they are dogs, can do nothing but live up to their end of the original contract: They preserve his innocence, if only because they are innocent, they are pure, and as long as they are around, the boy — now hero, now icon, now goat, now bum — must remain a boy, close to his boyhood heart.
The campaign for PR has been around for a long time, but it's only since the expenses crisis that it's built up a head of steam again, yet the Tories used a primary to select Boris Johnson for London Mayor and many of the current crop of parliamentary candidates were selected by primaries before anyone knew about duck houses and moats.
Black hole theory says they should have moats of fire around them, but this violates general relativity.
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«The river always had a stink about it, but the moat [around the gaol where Esther is imprisoned] was truly noxious, for the soldiers used it to dispose of their waste.
Around Christmas in 1994 in Nagasaki I got off at a wrong tram - stop and stumbled upon a greenish moat and cluster of warehouses from an earlier century.
As Warren Buffett might put it, we are trying to determine the size and depth of the «moat» that exists around the business franchise.
Warren Buffett has spoken often of preferring companies with economic «moats» around them that make a challenge from a would - be competitor a challenge.
For my dividend growth investing portfolio I try to buy stocks that have wide moats and that I feel will be around for years to come.
The checklist for a small investor who focuses on buying good companies with durable moats would revolve around three factors — business, people, price.
Heineken offers a broad economic moat and stable free cash flow of which around 30 % is returned to shareholds each year.