Sentences with phrase «more up my street»

This one is way more up my street

Reading something funny and needing to reply I'd say was more up my street.

Trips to Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City didn't bore any fruit for Brendan Rodgers» Swans − surprise, surprise − but a venture to Carrow Road to face a fellow promotee is certainly more up their street.

If you're going to have small children thundering down the staircase on a morning or their older siblings stomping up the stairs in the evening — perhaps a carpeted option is more up your street.

Giggle parenting sounds even more up my street!!

However Renault's Geneva concept is more up our street, as it packs 456bhp and lightweight carbonfibre bodywork.

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If sandy beaches and sea views are more up your street, Bulgaria has those in store for you too.

If IndyCar racing is more up your street, then you'll be pleased to know that four teams competing in this year's IndyCar championship - Andretti Autosport (featured in the screengrabs and teaser trailer), Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, Target Chip Ganassi Racing, and Team Penske - will be represented with their own Dallara IndyCar in Forza 5.

Then maybe this will be more up your street.

If the idea of decorating with gold seems garish to you, this demure rose - gold scheme should be more up your street.

Not exact matches

Though it is acknowledged that both retail giants failed to keep up with the times, they have also been accused of failing to provide adequate online presence or more importantly, competitive prices for their customers; what can be learned from the fall of two former high street giants?

Netgear CEO Patrick Lo explained that the fast - growing Arlo unit needed to «aggressively acquire new users,» Wall Street speak for racking up big losses, while the rest of Netgear had to «deepen engagement» with an already large user base, a signal that customers would be squeezed with higher prices for more profits.

The investment banking giant's upgrade injects some more confidence into Valeant's reorganization plans, which the company announced Aug. 9, sending shares up 25 %, despite second - quarter earnings that missed Wall Street expectations.

Results exceeded Wall Street's expectations and rosy outlook targets for the new year also helped send Constellation's stock up more than 7 % in Thursday morning trading.

However, for those that did, such as Line and Twilio, the results have been promising, which many experts have taken as an indication that Wall Street has built up an appetite for more tech IPOs.

In the future as these capabilities become more sophisticated, home security systems may send an alert in situations where, for example, a person comes to your door and does something suspicious, like peer in a window, or a car drives slowly up and down the street several times.

His performance Wednesday revealed his willingness to bite the hand that feeds, ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks who tried to pinpoint how he'd live up to his promises to build more Model 3 sedans and generate cash in the second half of the year.

They're not out to fuck up your day any more than a stranger is on the street.

Since December, venture capitalists have invested more than $ 90 million in start - ups that mix marketing and social media, writes the Wall Street Journal, but questions remain about how much social media marketing is really worth.

«We've got a lot more merchants to sign up, we've got a lot of banks to sign up and we've got the rest of the world,» Cook told the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference, in the company's most extensive comments on the blockade so far.

A Wall Street Journal report suggests that SoftBank's founder, Masayoshi Son, may have since become more willing to give up control amid mounting pressure on Sprint to roll out 5G technology.

Followers: 23,988 Tweets: 2,669 The China Real Time Report is an up - to - the - minute blog from The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones China offering insight and analysis on Chinese economics, politics, culture and more.

The beermaker's financial performance has earned Brito high marks from Wall Street — the stock is up more than 150 % over the past four years, compared with the S&P's 68 % gain — but it is Brito's management style that has earned him a place on Fortune's 2013 Executive Dream Team.

Tesla has already sought this month to play down Wall Street speculation that it would need to return to capital markets this year to raise more funds as it ramps up production of the Model 3 sedan seen as crucial to its long - term profitability.

Expectations had run high for Twitter since the messaging service, which for years had fought to revive growth in users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter by signing up 24 percent more people globally.

Axios notes that Spotify is likely on track to go public in the first quarter of 2018 through a direct listing, rather than going the more traditional route where Wall Street banks help a company line up investors.

Head - high snow drifts quickly piled up along the roads, leaving no place for street plows to push more snow.

More characters will start showing up on streets near you in December.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

Because not only is she begging the Wall Street Journal and other papers to come after her and start scrutinizing even more, she's opening it up to health agencies, like the FDA and other regulators, to be extra careful when they're examining the company.»

Beauty products giant Estee Lauder (EL) is expected to post second - quarter sales and profit that more or less line up with Wall Street's expectations this morning.

And more recently, the Wall Street Journal alerted the public to what it considered an alarming development: Groupon investors were dumping their shares because, as the newspaper put it, the daily deal company and other «young Internet firms» hadn't «lived up to hopes.»

Tall, well - tailored and fit — he gave up boxing for rowing not long ago — Mr. Gorman still bristles at being described as a consultant and is quick to note that he has spent more time on Wall Street than he did at McKinsey.

I live in a city, and frequently visit more than one place when I go on vacation, so having something I can carry up and down subway steps and on uneven streets is crucial.

On a final note, Boeing — the world's largest aircraft manufacturer — hit fresh new highs last week after the company crushed Wall Street expectations, reporting record operating cash flow of $ 13.4 billion for 2017, up more than a quarter percent from $ 10.5 billion in 2016.

Not willing to call Twitter's bluff, the city offered a deal to the company, which now works out of space in the gritty but fashionable South of Market district where many Internet start - ups begin: move to a building in the even more gritty and decidedly less fashionable mid-Market neighborhood — on a section of Market Street that is marred by drug dealing, homeless encampments and shuttered storefronts — and get a payroll tax exemption.

The results sent Facebook's shares up more than 7 percent in aftermarket trading on Wednesday, reflecting Wall Street's willingness to shrug off the company's privacy issues as long as the money keeps flowing in.

European stock markets surged almost 2 % while Wall Street jumped more than 1 % after a breakthrough came early on Monday when Donald Tusk, president of the European council, announced that the 19 eurozone leaders had unanimously reached agreement to keep Greece in the single currency, adding that Athens had signed up to «serious reforms».

The recent kerfuffle about Bernie Sanders purportedly not knowing how to bust up the big banks says far more about the threat Mr. Sanders poses to the Democratic establishment and its Wall Street wing than it does about the candidate himself.

The Wall Street consensus estimates for the iPhone appears to be that last quarter's sales will be up 2 %, and that revenue will be up by 13 %, with more to come...

McQuaig also notes that, right up until the financial crisis, Bay Street was lobbying for permission to operate more like Wall Street.

President Trump, 7,000 miles away from the action but never out of frame, summed up the dynamic in one line during a Tuesday conference call with Senate Democrats — a Trumpian slip, perhaps not quite unintentionally revealing, that the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday: «You're going to like it a whole lot more,» the president said of the forthcoming Senate version.

New Crowd - Funding Site Raises More Than $ 1 Million For The Arts Ed Ruscha summed up the the experience of the artist bluntly when he said «Most artists are doing basically the same thing — staying off the streets.»

The CBOE VIX, Wall Street's preferred measure of investor anxiety, is up more than 80 % since the new year.

More people would be able to keep their jobs even as the PE drops, bitcoin drops, hedges and credit default instruments drop, real estate drops... BASICALLY YOU PROP UP MAIN STREET AND WORKING CLASS WHILE WALL STREET AND REAL ESTATE DEFLATE BACK TO THE MEAN.

FRANKFURT — Stocks in the United States were up slightly Tuesday morning after a tough day on Wall Street had sent the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index down more than 10 percent from its recent peak.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

Children growing up in Selamta homes were healthier, did better in school, and reported feeling safer and more loved than children growing up in orphanages or on the street.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.