Sentences with phrase «move up the food chain»

Susan Lyne, a co-founder of BBG Ventures, confirms that «the biggest issue is not the number of women starting companies, but the access to capital as you move up the food chain.»

When you've met those groups, move up the food chain and visit everyone who attends regularly.

Toxins like PCBs and dioxin travel through the food web in fat and become more concentrated as they move up the food chain.

«She was doing her own thing regardless and maybe wasn't «Conservative party enough» to move up the food chain.»

PCBs have a tendency to bioaccumulate in fatty tissue as they move up the food chain.

The toxic form of the element is methylmercury, which is toxic to the nervous system and can move up the food chain as higher organisms accumulate the methylmercury present in their prey.

To see how much nitrogen the ants get from these microbes, Currie and colleagues measured the ants» levels of an isotope, nitrogen - 15, which accumulates as organisms move up the food chain.

The substances can become biomagnified, or concentrated in tissues and internal organs, as they move up the food chain.

After being absorbed by plankton, the mercury moves up the food chain: The plankton is eaten by small fish, which are then gobbled up by larger predators, each bigger animal accumulating more mercury with every meal.

That plastic can then move up the food chain as seabirds, seals and other marine predators eat those fish.

In some cases, this trash moves up the food chain, and studies at a California market found plastics in 25 percent of the fish sampled.

Additionally, the chemicals tend to bioaccumulate in organisms as they move up the food chain, and can eventually lead to tainted populations of fish that humans regularly consume.

Carbon - 14 moves up the food chain as animals eat plants and as predators eat other animals..

Moving up the food chain, we run into perhaps the most interesting device yet — the Transformer Book V. ASUS is calling this the first 5 - in - 1 device thanks to its ability to run both Windows 8.1 and Android either in tablet or laptop mode, as well as an Android phone that can be docked inside the tablet.

The Seattle giant keeps moving up the food chain, from controlling ebook distribution (in addition to selling print books), to competing against publishers and even agents by luring bestselling authors.

This move shows that the idea of free hotel Internet access is moving up the food chain to higher - tiered hotels and across entire hotel brand families.

Looks like Nintendo's Doug Bowser is moving up the food chain.

Players can form groups or go solo as they perform live shows and earn «fame» (i.e., experience points) in order to move up the food chain of the hip - hop world.

In the early days, I developed games for other companies and moved up the food chain to become a publisher so that I could make games «my way.»

And the same tendency for artists to move up the food chain means that, inevitably, they take the bait from the higher end of midlevel galleries as well.

However, as we move up the food chain, I think you can be sure that ocean species will be more and more affected by the lower oceanic pH due to their inability to adapt within the timeframe of the change.

As these fibers move up the food chain, the toxins that have been absorbed bioaccumulate.

It is being driven primarily by the 3 billion people who are moving up the food chain, consuming more grain - and soybean - intensive livestock products.

The problem is not so much population growth, but China's rising affluence, which is allowing its population to move up the food chain, consuming more grain - intensive livestock, poultry, and farmed fish.

Along with this is the growing demand for grain as 80 million more people are added each year, as people in emerging economies move up the food chain, and as grain is funneled away to produce fuel for cars.

«Offshoring is «moving up the food chain» Main The 1st Amendment, the Brown Act and why LAPD's «Impact» can't hold closed meetings»

As non-lawyer solutions move up the food chain and take on more complex legal matters, lawyers will be forced to become hyper - specialized to remain relevant.

Are you an experienced professional looking to move up the food chain or make a splash in a new office pond?

Love to hear stories of people believing in themselves to take action and then taking measured risks to move up the food chain.

Not exact matches

But as large companies shore up their security systems in response to high - profile data breaches, that means «the bad guys are moving down the food chain, where folks are not as prepared,» says Brian Casazza, CIO at Vistage, a training organization for small - and mid-sized businesses.

«The real value added is when you keep moving these people up the food chain on any issue,» Brandon said.

Torres, 26, is moving nicely up the political food chain, after spending a few years on the staff of Assemblyman Kevin Cahill before signing on with fellow Democrat Auerbach.

Rice is frustrated prosecutor who is bored with Nassau County's crap and wants to move up the political food chain.

As you move up the lab food chain, become a mentor yourself by offering to supervise an undergraduate's research project.

«This kind of study adds to the evidence of the way that climate moves its influence up the food chain,» says Arthur Miller, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.

As toxins move higher up in the food chain, from invertebrates to fish to marine mammals, they become more concentrated.

Even if the level of other characters» own development decreases as they move down the food chain of plot importance (Some speak of their lack of feelings of worth and act upon them, others give themselves neat nicknames and show off their abilities, and one seemingly appears only as fodder for the villain (After the pronouncement that said character is dead, we half expect the follow - up to be «And we have killed him»)-RRB-, there is at least this conflict of ideas between its central characters playing out as though it, instead of nifty superhuman talents, is what matters the most.

Joe is carrying out petty crimes to finance his lifestyle, gradually moving up the crime food chain.

When it goes on sale in Australia mid-2016 it will move up the family food chain, demoting the hardtop Cayman to entry - level status.

Next, you want to move up to food chain and get a secured credit card.

And they always aspire to move up the value chain into branded / processed food products.

But as you progress, you move further up the food chain, and the megafauna get more and more charismatic.

London is split into boroughs; starting in the slums of Whitechapel and then moving your way up the food chain to Westminster.

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I can't believe it was a smart move not to pass Carlin's report up the food chain and trust that one's superiors would correctly judge its value.

Those that can up and move are the lucky ones — for now — but each relocation affects food chains and habitats, often in ways we can't yet predict.

This type of disruption begins at the bottom of the food chain and moves up — relentlessly.

The story says the accounting firms are «quietly» taking the more commoditised work away from mid-tier firms, and, according to the head of legal services at the Royal Bank of Scotland, are about to move up the law firm food chain.

(Jordans) which is 150 years old this year, launched Jordans Corporate Law Ltd on Tuesday in a bid to move up the legal food chain from selling commoditised services to providing legal advice to corporate clients and accountants, as well as legal process outsourcing to law firms.

They're destined to be the ones from whom market share will be taken, as the disruptors get traction in the new market and move steadily up the food chain.