Sentences with phrase «of a big deal as»

I don't think lack of Champions League football is as big of a big deal as some people suggest.

And he had a somewhat disappointing season in the winter because he got really sick before championships and missed two weeks of swimming which is kind of a big deal as far as training goes.

A new or redesigned Rolls - Royce is kind of a big deal as they don't come around very often.

Even though the next version of the operating system is set to go live in the next couple of months, this is sort of a big deal as a tenth of the market is now on the latest stable build of Android.

Considering the fact that it is a hybrid model, the mile range isn't much of a big deal as the car can always switch to the petrol engine.

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After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

With the Acceptable Ads Platform, the publishers deal with the big exchanges as usual — they get their 80 % cut of ad revenue from Google or AppNexus, and Adblock Plus collects its cut of the remaining 20 %.

As of now, the company has made only one big enterprise partnership public — a November deal with Microsoft, in which the software company offered 300 New York City employees a WeWork membership.

A bit of stolen merchandise is no big deal for Amazon — it recently hit a market value of $ 500 billion — but the snafu may serve as a rather embarrassing wake - up call for the retail giant.

As the agreement involves 40 percent of the world's competing economies, it's a big deal for business owners.

On the other hand, and assuming they're destined for critical acclaim, having completely new and exclusive games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Fire Emblem Warriors, Snipperclips, Arms and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 available as part of your launch year holiday lineup could prove a much bigger deal than anyone's yet realized.

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

And business thrived last quarter thanks to the introduction of a bigger version of its Big Mac called the «Grand Mac,» along with a smaller version called «Mac Jr.» as well as $ 1 and $ 2 deals.

He described the families of people with such difficult diseases as «so close to breaking,» and said that «science is going to catch up... But a big piece of that is... changing the paradigm of [medicine], dealing with costs, and dealing with availability.»

As big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitionAs big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitionas Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitions.

But while the numbers are certainly big enough to justify the billing, the deal is almost certainly not what it appears at first sight — and the still - murky reality of it most likely has as much to do with geopolitics as with business.

Here are the 10 institutions that most frequently approved the biggest CEO pay packages, according to As You Sow, with dollar amounts under management (in millions) and the percentage of outsize CEO pay deals they opposed:

That accomplishment would be a big coup for Under Armour, which is Spieth's biggest endorser — and would likely bring Spieth a generous bonus as part of his 10 - year deal that is rumored to be worth as much as $ 200 million.

As word of the giveaways spread, Woodman decided to make a bigger deal of them by gathering friends of the company in front of his booth at 3 p.m. each day of a show.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

WASHINGTON, March 7 - An economist who believes that Chinese goods are literally poisoning Americans, advocates ending Washington's «One China» policy and says trade deals have weakened the United States economically with the connivance of U.S. business has emerged as the big winner from renewed turmoil in the White House.

As part of the deal between Volkswagen and China's biggest ride - hailing service, expected to be signed early next...

It also became apparent that profitsharing didn't compensate for a deal structure that benefited the private investors at the government's expense — a lot of SBICs made big profits even as the SBA lost money on its investment.

People have made a big deal about the idea of «binge - watching» as the embodiment of the changing way we consume media.

As he told a crowd of employees and customers in 2015, just after explaining the merits of the EMC deal, «Go big or go home, baby.»

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is their biggest deal to date, and is 14 times as big as their second - largest acquisition of Twitch in 2014.

The rollback of these privacy rules wouldn't be as big of a deal to people if they had a choice between an ISP that collects data en masse and one that makes it a point not to serve up targeted ads.

ESPN president John Skipper maintains that cord - cutting isn't as big a deal as some industry critics make it out to be, insisting the network is having some success retaining subscribers by being part of skinny bundles, such as Dish Network's SlingTV package.

When asked how much money would be spent on immigration advocacy, Lima declined to give a monetary figure, but said the advocacy efforts would be «as big of a deal» as tax reform.

It's an area that CEO Marissa Mayer has identified as critical to revitalizing the Web portal, and the Flurry deal marks one of her biggest acquisitions during her two - year tenure.

The service boasts lots of big names as hosts for its shows, most notably Howard Stern, who agreed in December 2015 to a new contract to host his show for another five years, in a deal worth at least $ 80 million per year.

The tower deal comes ahead of an announced merger of Vodafone Group Plc's Indian unit and Idea Cellular which could potentially overtake Bharti Airtel as India's biggest phone carrier.

Amazon is already offering a variety of deals as part of its celebration ahead of Black Friday, but that's not stopping the company from offering specials on the big shopping day.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

But that's a big deal: business owners need to have the discretion to save and invest retained earnings as they see fit, to meet the burdens of responsibility they bear for their employees and new demands to grow their businesses to meet an emerging future.

«Maybe the smaller things don't seem like as big of a deal, but if everybody did it then it would ruin the landscape,» she said.

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

The deal was part of a broader trend of Chinese resource companies making foreign acquisitions as part of a global strategy to gain better access to the key commodities needed to fuel China's economy, the world's second biggest.

So in one sense, losing Epix now isn't as big a deal for Netflix as it would have been before the Amazon deal, because that content is now in multiple places (the rights that Netflix relinquished have been picked up by Hulu, which is owned by a consortium of TV networks).

So, all of a sudden, it doesn't seem like such a big deal if we make the right decisions so long as the right people are in the room.

While most of our conversation revolved around start - ups, seeing as Monday's deal was Google's biggest acquisition ever, I thought I'd post a quick excerpt from our chat:

That sort of efficiency is a big deal, given the nation's sky - high health care costs — costs that are likely to increase in the short term as the new wave of Obamacare - covered insurees hits the system.

Many of the recent Big Pharma deals and acquisition proposals have been motivated by the companies» desire to lower their tax rate by acquiring a foreign rival and moving their headquarters overseas in a process known as an inversion.

It's funny to see news outlets continue to trumpet the impending arrival of smartwatches, a movement that will surely be led by Apple, as some sort of big deal.

Crown - of - thorns starfish eat tons of coral and there have been big outbreaks recently, so it's no surprise that the Australian government sees dealing with them as a big priority.

Giddying merry - go - round of pharma deals continues as Israeli company creates the world's biggest maker of generics.

Because of this, employees are a big step closer to being able to bargain with franchises collectively on issues of pay and alleged mistreatment, as opposed to dealing with individual franchisees.

Hart said that the problem of insider threats is as «old as the hills» and that every organization, from big businesses to the National Security Agency, has to deal with the possibility.

As part of that bigger deal, he said, Republicans would be open to additional revenue, so long as it was paired with deep spending cuts and didn't come from higher tax rateAs part of that bigger deal, he said, Republicans would be open to additional revenue, so long as it was paired with deep spending cuts and didn't come from higher tax rateas it was paired with deep spending cuts and didn't come from higher tax rates.

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