Sentences with phrase «noble one»

Substantial merchants were reduced almost to beggary, and many a representative of a noble line saw the fortunes of his house ruined beyond redemption.

The company was founded by Henry John Heinz and his neighbor L. Clarence Noble in 1869.

The plan laid out on Friday «is not sufficient,» said Larry Noble, a former general counsel and chief ethics officer for the Federal Election Commission.

It goes without saying that having a lawyer and the noble hacker guy who tried to quit out in front is not the most flattering look for a company so synonymous with its leadership team, namely Zuckerberg and Sandberg.

Barnes & Noble learns that it pays to be small.

Other C - suite executives will take over his responsibilities while Barnes & Noble conducts.

The sudden departure of Boire creates new challenges for Barnes & Noble at a time it is trying to renew itself.

The pursuit is noble and could have a tremendous impact globally by helping curb the evolving appetites of the growing middle class in developing countries towards fewer animal based products.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 ended in April, Barnes & Noble's comparable - store sales fell 0.8 % and the company expects those figures to rise only modestly in the current fiscal year.

The Marlborough moniker given to the soap above by D.R. Harris alludes to a dukedom and the very same noble house from which Winston Churchill was descended (google «Duke of Marlborough» and «Blenheim Palace» — the latter being only one of a couple non-royal estates in England to be called a palace and a mansion I'm sure most gents will say they've seen in film or on television more than once!).

While Barnes & Noble's business has stabilized as the growth of e-books has slowed, the retailer has pulled back on its Nook e-reader business and last year spun off its college bookstore division, putting fresh pressure on the company to prove it can make its core bookselling business grow again.

In the future, restrictions could ease to allow Amazon shoppers to read on a device from Barnes & Noble or another third - party manufacturer.

In a turnaround plan Boire unveiled to Wall Street analysts barely two months ago, Barnes & Noble announced initiatives such as opening four concept stores in fiscal 2017 that will feature bars offering wine and beer, along with better food, in cafés twice the size of its usual food spots, among other efforts to rejuvenate its business.

But on the whole he considers it a noble way to serve a country and spend a life.

«I couldn't afford to buy books at the time, so I would spend all my weekends sitting at Barnes & Noble,» Everett, now 29, says.

Barnes & Noble (BKS) fared better, launching the Nook and eventually benefiting from the revival of print book sales.

The Starbucks located inside the Barnes & Noble bookstore is sharing the same customers as the bookseller in a more cost - efficient manner than if each were operating separate, stand - alone locations.

«The last company I started sold to Barry Diller for $ 120 million, I went to Harvard Business School, I have led massive companies,» says Foley, who was the president of Barnes & Noble's online division when he decided to launch Peloton.

There are noble solutions to these problems provided that we use the ability of technology to solve them,» says Carbone.

Just about every week I can be found reading a stack of magazines at Barnes and Noble, running the gamut from Kafka to Kardashian.

How big a piece of that pie Kobo will carve for itself remains in question; they say they've currently got about 10 % of U.S. e-book sales, roughly the same as Apple's iBooks store and well behind Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

«We need to better articulate that this is a noble profession,» says State Street's Blake.

Comment: Barnes & Noble stocks remains overshadowed by fears Apple will knock the Nook out of the market, according to Seeking Alpha.

Hours spent sitting in pointlessly long conference calls, or unnecessary meetings, are nothing but «disguised and ineffective leisure time» no more noble than sitting numb in front of the television.

For those of us willing to take up a noble cause, the six industries above offer a myriad of opportunities to build disruptive businesses that will have an overwhelmingly positive social impact.

The Kobo eReader Touch, an Amazon Kindle, an Aluratek Libre Air, and a Barnes & Noble Nook, left to right, are displayed in this photo, in New York.

Trump, according to the Daily Beast, spent more than $ 55,000 at Barnes and Noble buying copies of the book, which not only funnels money to the candidate but also pumps up the books sales totals.

After years of squabbling with the powerful boyars (Russian noble families), Ivan stormed out of Moscow in 1564.

Noble Group Ltd. has announced plans for its CFO Robert van der Zalm to step down for health - related reasons.

Buy it now: Amazon Barnes & Noble IndieBound

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Bellevue, Washington — a garage heated by a potbellied stove — and negotiated contracts at a local Barnes & Noble.

The quest to «change the world for the better» is a noble idea, but too broad to be a goal.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

It was a noble vision of entrepreneurship, and a lot of these entrepreneurs shared it.

Meanwhile, as noble as the desire for universal health care is, Obamacare was the wrong answer to the wrong question.

That's a noble aspiration, certainly.

Sales dropped 20 % to $ 18.7 billion, Noble said.

Made in the USA is a noble cause and a potential revenue booster, but isn't for the faint of heart.

Barnes & Noble shares closed down more than 3 percent Monday at $ 4.70 apiece.

At Barnes & Noble, 2017 holiday sales fell more than 6 percent to $ 953 million, compared with the year prior.

Noble had said the paperwork was not valid.

Abu Dhabi - based Goldilocks, which holds an 8.1 percent stake in Noble, filed lawsuits in Singapore last week, saying Noble is not recognising its «legitimate legal rights» as a shareholder.

The news came abruptly for many workers who showed up Monday morning at various Barnes & Noble locations to be notified that they no longer had a job, the people said.

'' [Barnes & Noble] has been reviewing all aspects of the business, including our labor model,» a spokeswoman told CNBC about the layoffs.

Beer aside, Constellation Brands is expanding its liquor and wine portfolio as well, adding bourbon brand High West, high - end tequila Casa Noble and Ruffino wine to its mix.

Once Asia's largest commodity trader, Noble's market value has plunged to just $ 88 million, from $ 6 billion in February 2015.

Noble said on Sunday it expects to submit to the Singapore Exchange soon a draft shareholder circular related to the restructuring special general meeting.

Goldilocks, the trader's third - largest shareholder, sought to halt the AGM after Noble rejected its nominations for five new directors to Noble's board.

Barnes & Noble is still under pressure to make a move before it's too late to save the company.

A very cool and noble idea, but not one targeting the biggest market.