Sentences with phrase «of as a contender»

You shouldn't expect it to be close if you regard one of them as a contender.

The move makes sense on a couple of levels, even if the Phillies still lost 96 games last year and aren't exactly thought of as contenders.

Making three points in either statement form or formatted with bullet points allows you to provide a well - rounded presentation of yourself as a contender for a chef position.

Not exact matches

There's a long list of contenders — or pretenders — looking to dethrone cupcakes as the latest food craze.

On March 15, one of the contenders to become China's president for the next decade, Bo Xilai, was sacked as the Communist Party boss for Chongqing, an inland megalopolis with a population roughly equal to Canada's.

The daughter of Cuban immigrants whose relentless career trajectory has included, among other things, running the network Telemundo, building her own television empire and appearing as a contender on The Celebrity Apprentice, she is a devout advocate for women taking control of their own destinies («I built my career on being loud and brave,» she said).

The new contender for Silicon Valley North has displaced Waterloo, Ont., as the country's innovation hub, playing host to some of the biggest names in Canada's booming technology sector.

Rempel is now being talked about as a contender for the Conservative leadership, a prospect she addressed in a series of sardonic tweets last year, including, «All your DMs with DO IT aren't helping.

Startups are considering alternatives now for several reasons: Standard cloud computing and storage services from the three top players are all seen as competitive, and no one thinks any of the three major cloud contenders is going away.

The so - called «Nobel Prize in Economics» (more accurately known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) will be awarded Monday morning and two Canadian economists are considered to be top contenders.

In August she was a top contender to replace Travis Kalanick as CEO of Uber, in which Whitman was an early investor — a job that could have teed her up to eventually lead an unprecedented third Fortune 500 company.

This year was no exception, as we've seen the Cavaliers bring back most of their title - contender roster, the Spurs shock everyone by landing LaMarcus Aldridge, and the Clippers and Mavericks battle it out for DeAndre Jordan.

New York «s culture website Vulture wrote recently about the difficulty in forecasting this year's Best Picture Oscar race for reasons that include an especially diverse crowd of contenders, as well as last - minute controversies and an all - around «politically charged moment» in time.

Thompson and others, however, argue that given the amount of resources Facebook is throwing into video, it is bound to solve these problems eventually, and doing so will make the platform — as well as other strong contenders such as Snapchat, which claims 10 billion video views a day — far more competitive when it comes to bidding for traditional consumer ad spending.

While cost of living may make this a longer shot, Washington, D.C. is not to be ignored as a legitimate contender.

Vrionis's firm is just one of many that have been betting heavily on enterprise storage startups — including contenders such as DataStax and PernixData, which recently drew fresh funding of $ 106 million and $ 35 million, respectively.

He's often cited as one of the top contenders to replace CEO Jamie Dimon after former front - runner Michael Cavanagh left the bank.

The main contender for the substance is a type of hypothetical particle known as a «weakly interacting massive particle» (WIMP).

The former party chief of southwestern Chongqing was previously considered a contender for top leadership until he was unseated in July by a Xi loyalist as part of Xi's anti-corruption drive.

The scene came back to me on a recent flight to Florida — Cadillac country — when, flipping through Esquire, I discovered the editors had nominated the new Cadillac CTS VSport as a serious contender for car of the year.

Several other prominent contenders are viewed still as possibilities to jump into the race, including Richard Cordray, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

This was a close contender, but we felt it didn't have the explosive growth potential of some of the MAVINS have, nor the vast commodity advantage of a nation such as Australia.

But while those suffering severe memory problems are obviously the first contenders for treatment with devices of this type, Science Alert also notes that these findings are part of a more general push toward performance - boosting brain implants that may soon be used by the healthy as well as the impaired.

This week, Trump condemned Clinton's involvement, even as sources close to the former Democratic contender told CNN she had no knowledge of the arrangement.

Hardy is set for a heavyweight matchup against Brandon Sayles on June 12, as a part of Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender Series, Doyle reports.

The lack of strategy between other GOP contenders has been seen as fostering a political environment that's allowed Trump to secure more delegates than he would otherwise.

While the senator is indeed far less wealthy than many of his Senate colleagues — as well as his fellow presidential contenders — he is not exactly a man of modest means.

As the well - connected head of the country's largest bank for the past 11 years, Gord Nixon is naturally a top contender for any list of Canadian movers and shakers.

On Wednesday, Texas senator and presidential contender Ted Cruz announced at an Indiana rally that he had chosen Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett - Packard as his vice presidential running mate.

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One of the two top contenders for the job is current Fed vice-chair Janet Yellen, whom a colleague famously described as «a small lady with a large IQ.»

Given Forbes» designation of SeedInvest as one of the «leading players in equity crowdfunding» a few weeks ago, it may not have come as a surprise that SeedInvest was included on the list of Top Contenders in 2013.

Even as the failed Republican presidential contender finally began to engage with discussions about whether Kraft Heinz might rethink its decision, and whether the plant could be sold to another processor, Walker seemed to be most interested in ensuring that he was not blamed for the latest in a string of setbacks for Wisconsin industries.

«In this case, Fields has been perceived to be the front - runner for several years, and, as president of the Americas [region], several of the other contenders were directly or indirectly reporting to him, so I don't see too many «bruised egos» getting in the way.»

The number of these contenders is steadily increasing, and a few, such as Acer of Taiwan and Samsung of Korea, have become household names.

Looking at its accomplishments, it is not hard to imagine it as a powerful contender competing with the likes of Facebook and Reddit.

It would be transformational for the winning city, of course, and in less than a month, Brooklyn has risen to present itself as a serious contender.

And the politics of a bitter conservative establishment festered as aspiring leadership contenders jockeyed for power.

But, adding up the sheer volatility of cryptocurrencies with liquidity issues facing this infant and unregulated market, it does not take long to figure out why institutional players do not see cryptocurrencies as a serious contender for an investable asset class.

Following his election as party leader, Stelmach announced a new cabinet that included all of the leadership contenders who had supported him in the second round of voting.

«We believe Bitcoin awareness, high liquidity, ease of transport and continued market outperformance as geopolitical risks mount, will make Bitcoin a strong contender for investment at a consumer and investor level.»

They said, «We believe Bitcoin awareness, high liquidity, ease of transport and continued market outperformance as geopolitical risks mount, will make Bitcoin a strong contender for investment at a consumer and investor level.»

-- On the bond / fixed income market: as you mentioned, bonds could be a key contender in the year of what asset class loses the least this year — but who knows?

Since Benedict XVI resigned at the end of last month, some American names have circulated in media reports as possible contenders for the papacy, including U.S. cardinals Sean O'Malley of Boston and Timothy Dolan of New York.

Today we make no record of the teachings of this gospel of the kingdom lest, when I have gone, you speedily become divided up into sundry groups of truth contenders as a result of the diversity of your interpretation of my teachings.

Two months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk published an essay in the New York Review of Books (titled «The Anger of the Damned») in which Pamuk, who is often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize, tried to explain the violent resentment that Muslim societies feel towards the West.

This does not mean that such discussions have accomplished nothing, but it does mean that no exact and reliable estimate of what they have accomplished (though it is, I believe, a great deal) is possible until we have granted full «belligerent rights» to second - type theism, as a no less qualified contender than either of the others.

His unlikely rise as a straight - talking White House contender was pegged largely to the popularity among fiscal conservatives of his «9 -9-9» tax plan.

In the classical expression of the problem of adjacency, of which the story before us is a splendid example, the ensuing conflict of interest between A and B proves to be irreconcilable, and the weaker B is effectively eliminated as a contender.

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