Sentences with phrase «more than the events»

Humans have a tendency to place particular events into mental compartments and the difference between these compartments sometimes impacts our behavior more than the events themselves.

More than any event I've witnessed in two decades of living in and writing about this city, this snowstorm underscores the horrible history of suburban sprawl in the United States and the bad political decisions that drive it.

I can see how the build up would have been more than the event itself.

Women supported each other, birth being more than an event that happened to an individual woman but rather an experience that united all the women of a community.

There's nothing that the games development industry loves more than event fights: Gamescom vs. Leipzig, London Games Festival vs. GameCity, and here GDC Europe versus the European Developers Forum.

But it's a policy that protects you against far more than the events of this week.

The awards are more than an event, but a digital outreach platform that connects blogs with brands.

Not exact matches

What could be seen as a one - off, bucket list experience is anything but; more than 50 % of Mudders return to run more events, in large part because of the communal experience.

The president left the event to attend a meeting on school safety for more than a half - hour.

«Maintaining civil and respectful dialogue within the big tent is more important than any particular session,» the event's director said in a statement.

«Is it possible that all of these events and reports are completely unrelated and nothing more than a entirely unhappy coincidence?»

A new wave of companies are looking to sell consumers more than a storage locker, with event spaces, on - demand delivery services and more

According to Ned Desmond, TechCrunch's chief operating officer, last week's event drew in more than 3,000 registered attendees — its biggest conference yet.

She noted that she held more than 25 campaign events in the Keystone State while having major surrogates like Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make appearances as well.

The rare event will be visible in certain regions within more than a dozen states.

PHOTO ESSAY: A month before the Telstra Perth Fashion Festival, more than 150 models fronted an industry panel in the hope of being selected to walk the runway in one of the fashion parades during the six - day event.

This year, South By Southwest is embracing the gamer spirit with the SXSW Gaming Expo, a three - day affair taking place from March 8 through 10 at the Palmer Events Center in Austin, Texas, with more than 50 exhibitors.

Tesla (tsla), the idiosyncratic electric - vehicle maker — which more often than not passes on these industry events — brought a house.

According to the social network, more than 350 million people talked about soccer's World Cup during that event last year.

-- Jayna Cooke, CEO of EVENTup, an online marketplace for event venues that has listed more than 15,000 venues and attracts more than one million consumers a month.

The study found «that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.»

In the article, a man with a red tie at a black - tie event was viewed as being more successful than the others.

To get an idea of its scope, consider that the company sold more than $ 14 billion worth of goods at its annual Singles» Day sales event on Nov. 11, a 60 % increase from last year.

Later in the day, the company is throwing an event called YouTube FanFest, a live performance in downtown Toronto featuring more than a dozen of the video platform's biggest names.

While studying, he and classmate Dan Adams decided to stage the concert and got sponsorship from Australian telco Optus as well as airtime from broadcaster Channel Ten, but they hadn't thought it would be anything more than a local event.

For some, the ads are more exciting than the main event, with 25 % of Canadians reporting that they are more likely to discuss the commercials than the halftime show on the Monday following the game.

Part of a national corporate events franchise, AlliedPRA's New Orleans location more than doubled its staff between 2012 and 2015, to 52 from 20.

For me, it's a chance to learn from some of the best and make some personal connections in a more intimate setting than a BlogWorld - type event typically offers.

The event opened the floodgates to some amazing stories from these people, who, it turns out, wanted to share their stories with other veterans even more than they wanted to promote their businesses.

As a result, it's fairly easy to bump into a colleague on a night out at the pub — a much more casual atmosphere than your usual networking event.

«In sum, social media users are not any more likely to feel stress than others, but there is a subgroup of social media users who are more aware of stressful events in their friends» lives and this subgroup of social media users does feel more stress,» the report states.

With the SBA funding, the Gwinn, Mich. - based aviation cluster hosted networking events that helped it create about 50 jobs and obtain more than $ 2 million in new contracts, Kulju says.

Sharks injure more people than they kill, but both events are extraordinarily rare — especially compared to other threats that people face.

By now, it's no secret that firms that create recurring revenue streams are valued far more highly than companies that rely on more transactional revenue events.

Since its launch, Eventbrite has generated more than $ 8 billion in gross ticket sales, processing up to three million tickets per week for live events around the globe.

Considering recent events — in which hackers exposed the personal information and account details of more than 33 million of its members — you'd think it may be time for the company to throw in the towel.

For Vonn, who has four World Cup championships and raced in more World Cup events than any other American in addition to her Olympic medals, monetary success came in the form of lucrative endorsements.

In other words, it's more than just a figurehead position — it can involve appearing at events, flying to other countries to represent the brand, and meeting with people about potential partnerships.

Founders who were once in a race to get to a liquidity event such as a buyout or IPO now have viable options for continuing to add value beyond a Series B or C. Private investors also offer a more efficient transaction than going public and are more likely to offer lucrative valuations based on potential, vs. actual, performance.

This year, more than 1,000 retail brands, representing 180,000 stores in 330 mainland cities, will participate in Alibaba's event, according to a recent press release.

He sends his product and reps to more than 100 events a year nationwide, attending a few himself.

The 2017 edition of Entrepreneur Middle East's Enterprise Agility Forum, presented by du, saw more than 300 people come together for the fourth edition of the annual event, which was held at The St. R...

Nowhere is that persistence more evident than in the events that transpired last winter in Chicago.

Finally, with the Pan American Games a little more than two months away, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) is jumping on the marketing bandwagon and using the event as a springboard for its 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics advertising campaign.

Many new entrepreneurs spend more time at networking events than on their businesses.

But sitting down for an interview at the event, Waugh warned some of the blunt tools preferred by regulators would do more harm than good.

Without relevant background, he could do no more than attend industry events.

The event, now in its 27th year, is one of the city's largest — more than 170,000 people pile into the growing desert locale to make deals, listen to copious amounts of music and explore this always - active college town.

There are planes flying in from all over, hotel rooms aplenty, amenities fit for the King, and more event space than you can shake a feather boa at.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.