Sentences with phrase «of a hard sell for»

The objective for the retailer is to create publicity for the store and promote pet ownership without giving the impression of a hard sell for any particular product or service.

Battlefield Hardline has been a bit of a hard sell for EA and Visceral, with its last beta recieving a less - than - warm reception.

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You can even opt for eBay if you're feeling like you can auction off something that might otherwise have a hard time selling on one of the other sites.

You can convince stakeholders about coal's employment and economic benefits, but it is bit of a hard sell to claim coal is good for the environment.

«A bigger move, say outside of a 20 percent band, might destroy confidence and make it harder for small business to raise money, or even to sell to larger companies who might be more worried about their viability, or ability to deliver on orders placed.»

Whether via phishing (tricking someone into providing their financial account information — often via an attachment in an email or a fake website that purports to sell or give away tickets), an ATM skimmer (which reads and records the card's information, including password) or point - of - sale malware (like that used in the 2013 Target breach), it's not hard for cybercriminals to trick the unsuspecting.

«This is another effort from the operators to sell online services access to their customer base,» said Joe McNamee, the executive director of digital rights group EDRi, which campaigned hard for strong net neutrality laws.

For all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounFor all the talk of EMC Federation companies being able to sell both with each other and against each other, it's hard to see how this will work in the field given that Team EMC faces prodigious competition from Amazon (AMZN) Web Services and Microsoft (MSFT) for these accounfor these accounts.

For many people, it isn't a hard sell to get them to try samples of food during a trip to the grocery store.

«It's going to be a hard sell that this activity was either concerted or for mutual aid or protection, rather than simply venting or pitting one group of workers against the others, which does not sound very mutual,» Morantz said.

Despite the two - day trek it must take to China, Canadian lobster sells for about a third of the price of Australian lobster, which is getting harder to come by due to over fishing.

The puck of soap itself normally sells for around $ 20, or you could get it with a hard plastic bowl for another $ 10.

So yes, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy this brief relief rally driven by the fact that China is offline for the week and that the persistent source of overnight selling on Chinese «hard / crash landing» concerns has been gone simply due to an extended national holiday.

Electronics were one of the earliest consumer product categories to sell strongly online, resulting in price transparency that made it hard for physical retailers to compete.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

Established in late 2014, this business sells RAM - based hard drive software for gamers, which allows users to significantly improve the efficiency and processing speed of their hard drive with a few simple steps.

But while its a disaster for uninformed investors, its also a potential opportunity for unemotional investors who have done the hard work and can take advantage of indiscriminate selling.

It is harder to convince would be traders to spend a couple of hundreds $ on education that sell them the holy grail robot for $ 500.

The history of stock futures, in general, dates back to the 1840's, when regional farmers met in Chicago to sell wheat to dealers for cold, hard cash — a practice that was dubbed as «spot» pricing.

It is hard to find a more representative story of the ability of a software - driven business to swiftly rise to fabulous success while employing very few people than the messaging provider WhatsApp, a business famously sold to Facebook for $ 21.8 billion.

For example, with an average home price of $ 1,000,000 and a typical agent's selling commission of 2.5 %, you would end up paying over $ 25,000 of your hard earned money.

-- the current price at 12,35 EUR is ~ 1/3 lower than the expired take - over offer from Deutsche Annington 6 weeks ago — although the share will be delisted by the end of the year, I do believe that a squeeze - out under Luxembourg law is very likely within the next 12 - 18 months close to the initial offer price (~ 50 % upside from current price)-- the downside is that following November, the stock will be unlisted and hard to sell and that for some reason the Acquirer Deutsche Annington will not squeeze out the remaining minorities

There are a huge number of options to choose from and most of them go for a hard sell and make wild (and often exaggerated claims).

The time for a HARD SELL or FIRE & BRIMSTONE is out of place at that time.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

NO SANCTIONS: Last year, Wolf found it a hard sell to get Congress to restrict trade as a way of punishing the Chinese government for its abuse of religious people (CT, June 16, 1997, p. 54).

During the days when Hebrew speaking peoples were the only ones obeying God's commands, when a man fell on hard times provision was made for him to sell himdelf into slavery to another man, who was bound by law regarding the treatment of his laborers.

And yet no robber of temples condemned to hard labor behind iron bars, is so base a criminal as the man who pillages the holy, and even Judas who sold his Master for thirty pieces of silver is not more despicable than the man who sells greatness.

I believe passionately that if you do what you do with passion and dedication to the best of your ability and believe anything is possible you don't have to do a hard sell, I have believed in gentleness and led my work with the joy of food and my love for cooking and everything else has fallen into place.

This is against the trend, because of the gloom surrounding the fall in the British pound after Brexit, which makes it harder for wine exporters selling into the competitive UK retail market.

Thankfully I managed to get some from a world foods stall on a market for 1.99, but he said it's getting harder to get hold of cooking grade oil — probably because it's all being sold off at a premium elsewhere!

You know I was late for the shop: — LRB - Will you be getting more of ALABASTER MORTAR & PESTLE I loved that, but my hard luck Sold OUT!!

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Schuman Cheese, with the help from marketing agency Emergent, is continuing to roll out its «True Cheese» program to tackle the issue of Italian hard cheese adulteration, which is estimated to account for roughly $ 375m of cheese sold in the US and 20 %...

Made a third offer of 45 million for him and i think they rebuff it, and Monaco are playing hard ball and with a few weeks to go who knows we may Get him, As for Alexis Sanchez sell him if he wants to leave, it could upset the changing room Wenger can't keep a player who doesn't want to play for the club,

i guess they've effectively retired and i think it would be hard for Nate to sell the idea of a trilogy if that's the only thing he's coming back for.

The hard sell for Heisman hopefuls has begun: Virginia has mailed out 800 orange highlighters bearing the name of senior tailback Tiki Barber, and San Diego State has set up a Web site for senior tailback George Jones.

@Fatboy Gooner The Ozil deal was far less that 40 plus million as has been exposed on football leaks it was more in the region of 32 million with verious clauses that enable REM to take a percentage of any profit we make on selling Ozil and I would assume there are similar attachments with the Sanchez deal, even our record signings are clouded in smoke and mirrors so let not run away with the idea that its all SWengers fault, if your employer is on your back and pushing for results then you perform at a higher rate and push harder where as Wenger has no push from above so does nt go out of his way Kroenke does nt have the culture around him to win trophies cos thats not his aim and that filters down to the grass roots at Arsenal and shows in Wengers transfer policy and in the players performance.

The art of sticking the ball in the onion bag is one of the hardest and most sought after in football, so I bet the Championship club Wolves could not believe their luck that we were willing to sell — and his eight goals in 13 games for them so far have only made our decision a bit harder to fathom.

The only element of a felony assault charge that his defense might be able to argue against was intent to cause physical injury but unless they go for an incapacity defense that's going to be a hard sell to a jury because only a total retard would believe that hurling a heavy metal dolly through a glass bus window wouldn't likely result in harm to someone.

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

Tactically it is frustrating that we lack creativity (which is competely ironic considering the attacking talent we boast in our team) we've become that predictable... the vast majority of Arsenal fans could guess the formation and line up and be entirely correct what more managers who's job it is to do so... And the transfer policy ohh boy... Rule No1 No one gets last minute deals especially for top class players... they're harder to replace for the teams selling..

I wish fans would appreciate that Elneny at # 5m represents very good value for money.He was bought as a back up player unlike Xhaka and Mustafi who were so called stars costing # 70m who were going to take us to a higher level.If Arsenal were to sell Elneny they would at least double their money whereas we would take a huge hit on Xhaka and Mustafi.In fact I very much doubt it we would recoup 50 % of our outlay.Enemy will never be a great player but he is the type of dependable, hard working standby that every top team needs.Please get off his back.

Wenger's problem is two fold IMO, some of his forwards get paid too much (Theo comes to mind) making it hard to sell them to create space for another forward (Morata, Griezman — I am dreaming).

Don't really understand lucas silvas» logic, yes I understand it's hard to say know to the lure of Real Madrid but surely the boy must realize that if the likes of khedira are struggling to get game time what hope does he have, why go to Madrid to rot on their bench only to be sold elsewhere for a inflated price in a few years, I think silva is the real deal imo and will likely into a Xabi Alonso type player, if we were to move for him a bigger stronger more experienced dm would have to be bought aswell imo

where people might take a strong dose of reassurance regarding ozil and Sanchez extending their contracts, possibly its motivated and essential because of the inflation for players that are being sold to English clubs, making it much harder to stay in the top four.

Like yesterday was as low as it gets for me as fan I didn't even care when Liverpool got 3 rd and fourth goals because we're dead our pride as fans is same as players we're just dead hurt, sad, weak and spineless then it gets better ox is going Chelsea today and now timers sanchez has put in transfer request haha when board said change they meant it change as in we're selling all players and we're going like Aston Villa laugh u mite we are rotten from top to da bottom and it will get better cause I bet by Thursday we will bring in nobody and promote young kids we mite chance van diik he's going for 60 million and by Thursday night sky sports will report arsenal came in with last min bid of 21 million for van diik it got flat out laughed at so at 1 min to 11 we came in again with bid of 27 million and add ons til 2029 its hard and it is only beginning haha ox starts at anfield and was shambles and he is sold today says a lot about wenger if that was me I'd say stay away till ur sold u little traitor thanks ox hope its worth it, loyalty me behind ahwell we still bellerin another little man and heart holding for Barca ahhhh I'm so mad we need Simeon's cum in and start bouncing heads off da canvas Jesus bring bk George graham at least we have defence??

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady really went for the hard sell of a personal foul here.

While I understand the sentiment of offering Sanchez a massive contract to keep him at the club, it would also be prudent to ensure that we don't end up with a Wayne Rooney problem — namely that a forward player heading into 30's on a massive long term contract who would be incredibly hard to move in a few years (with almost zero sell value and no club willing to pay for his wages).

Why should we sell him for just 20m ❓ it's hard to get his quality for 30m not to talk of 20m or 15m, this is rubbish.