Sentences with phrase «most cutthroat»

I may be the editor of the country's most cutthroat celebrity magazine, but I'm not a completely heartless bitch.

The kind that can hit numbers, close tough deals with demanding customers, and compete effectively against the most cutthroat of their peers.

LG's third V - series phone is a work that has aged nicely, even in possibly the most cutthroat year in the market.

Now, with the new management, it is the most cutthroat, relentless caricature of a car dealership I've ever encountered.

Let's face it, I'm a 23 - year old assistant merchandisers in one of the most cutthroat industries in the world.

«You're talking about one of the most cutthroat businesses in the world,» he says, pointing out that dessert is the last thing a diner eats before leaving the tip.

Even with boatloads of pre-launch buzz, Jet is still going up against Amazon, one of the most cutthroat competitors in the history of American capitalism.

Not exact matches

While some view football as a cutthroat, dog - eat - dog industry, the anecdote shows that even the most stoic of football figures can make moves that benefit both their team and the player they're moving.

His reputation for cutthroat business tactics in the past led The Hollywood Reporter to dub him the «the most hated man in Hollywood.»

Medline said Sobeys prefers to focus on margin improvement than «empty calorie» same - store sales, which are most easily achieved in the cutthroat industry through steep price cuts.

Raised as brothers and princes of Egypt in the palace of Pharaoh senior (John Turturro), the two spend most of the movie opposing each other in a (quite literally) cutthroat manner.

Bryan himself was a champion of the common man, and had actually supported two of the ACLU's earlier campaigns against threats to individual liberty» superpatriotism during World War I and cutthroat capitalism afterward» but the Scopes Trial and the subsequent treatment of it made him anathema to most of the liberal bien pensant left.

Yet there are sometimes half a dozen cutthroats over three pounds directly under the wire, as those flimsy wires are enough to foil the attempts of even the most efficient bird of prey.

The Cutthroats, who have one of the most unique names in sports, went on to win the game in the shootout.

Most who specialize at a young age (before sixth grade) don't know what they are getting themselves into: a cutthroat, high - stakes, business run by adults.

Then in 2007, genetic analysis suggested that most of the fish being protected belong to a much more common subspecies, the Colorado River cutthroat trout.

Our results present a paradox — genetic introgression reduces fitness but progresses rapidly in most situations, where rainbow trout are introduced into native cutthroat trout habitats.

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), the most widely introduced salmonid in the world (Lever 1996), produces fertile offspring when crossed with cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii), and introgression often continues until a hybrid swarm is formed and the native cutthroat genomes are lost (Allendorf & Leary 1988).

The settlement capped a decade - long effort by the Center's scientists, attorneys and activists to safeguard 1,000 of America's most imperiled, least protected species including the walrus, wolverine, Mexican gray wolf, fisher, New England cottontail rabbit, three species of sage grouse, scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, California golden trout, Miami blue butterfly, Rio Grande cutthroat trout, 403 southeastern river - dependent species, 42 Great Basin springsnails and 32 Pacific Northwest mollusks.

The most punishing aspect of «Cutthroat Island» is that it just wears down the viewer with a helter - skelter, needlessly overblown quality.

On Geena Davis (a rare tangent into the living, precipitated by his memories of Oliver Reed on Cutthroat Island): «Perhaps in a long laundry list of ludicrous events I have witnessed on film sets, the one I most treasure is watching my leading lady having her makeup and hair assiduously attended to between each take of one scene.

Towards the end of the year, McConaughey also appeared in Martin Scorsese's drama «The Wolf of Wall Street» as cutthroat businessman Mark Hanna; the brief role was most notable for an on - set improvisation in which Hanna leads Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort into a humming, chest - thumping routine in the middle of a crowded restaurant.

Partner this with Lee Smith «s cutthroat editing and Hans Zimmer «s most intense score in decades, and you have what could be the most visual treat of the year.

His daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan) blames his cutthroat salesmanship for the death of her brother, and refuses contact with him, but she nevertheless is involved with an investment shark herself: Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), a young, idealistic trader who devotes most of his waking hours to pitching alternative energy futures.

Nursery University (Unrated) Head start documentary explores the cutthroat competition among anxious parents trying to place their Ivy League - bound toddlers in one of Manhattan's most exclusive preschools, where tuition is as much as $ 40,000 a year.

Syndicate features the talents of celebrated actors Rosario Dawson (Sin City, Men in Black II) and Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity), who take on the roles of cutthroat executives working for the biggest and most aggressive syndicate.

What most people don't realize about the Amazon - Hachette dispute is that there are two issues involved: (1) Traditional publishing has problems with the way publishers treat authors (those profit margins come out of advances and royalties), and (2) Amazon's cutthroat business practices.

Among James's credits are: RuneScape (the world's most popular free MMORPG), Dead Space 3, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Freelancer, Evil Genius (BAFTA Nomination, 2005), Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Terraria: Otherworld, Nintendo's Art Academy, Transformers Universe, Microsoft's Brute Force, Republic: The Revolution (BAFTA Nomination, 2004), entries in the Warhammer and Space Hulk series, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. 4, Reign of Fire, Grand Prix, Cutthroat Island, Catwoman, The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince (BAFTA nomination, 2010), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2, the technically groundbreaking Privateer: The Darkening, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Digital Anvil's Conquest: Frontier Wars, Frontier Developments» Infestation, entries in the F1 & FIFA series» - and numerous others.

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

In other words, the most highly - contested and cutthroat market segment.

But with the Pixel name still an unknown to most customers, Google should have its work cut out for it when it comes to carving out a place at the top of the cutthroat phone market.

The company, which relies on e-commerce as its main sales channel, has grown to be the fifth most popular smartphone maker in China, no mean feat considering the market's size and cutthroat competition from both big brands and no - name manufacturers.

When this process centers on a child custody dispute, it can become even more cutthroat and desperate, and the person who will suffer most is the child in question.