Sentences with phrase «of being in contention»

For the third edition of our Game of the Week poll, we are going to combine releases from the past two weeks because developers are taking it easy during this early part of the year and we've had a hard time finding games worthy of being in contention for the award.

With the noterity that this duo brings just by being themselves, the movie will have a good chance of being in contention.

He did and now, following a season - opening performance of 6.63 in France at the end of last month — his first race since June — the 2014 world indoor champion has every intention of being in contention to find out what it feels like to win at a major championships in front of a home crowd in Birmingham in a few weeks» time.

Rory McIlroy conceded on Sunday that the pressure of being in contention for his first win since before he banged up his ankle got to him as he faltered down the stretch of last week's Turkish Airlines Open.

Tiger needs mental reps of being in contention.

Not exact matches

Canada's dairy market is protected by high tariffs and has been a key bone of contention, but experts expect only slight concessions from Ottawa in NAFTA talks.

The price of crude is on the rise, but in Canada, new carbon taxes, regulations and pipeline hurdles may take the industry permanently out of contention

That's the contention of a classic article in the UK's Telegraph newspaper (hat tip to VC Fred Wilson for the reminder that it's still very much worth a read) by University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman.

According to analysts, if and how Tim Hortons alters its expansion strategy and capital structure will likely be the main point of contention amongst the company's shareholders in the near future.

They've become such a subject of contention, in fact, that he wonders whether it might have been better if they'd remained lost.

One area of contention is the matter of Apple paying taxes on the profits it recorded in Ireland as well as sending money back to the US to pay for research and development.

Both the Cowboys and the Lions were eliminated from playoff contention with losses last week, but for teams like the Seahawks, the Chargers, the Bills, and the Titans, a run to the Super Bowl is still possible with a bit of luck in Week 17.

He acknowledges that this is a point of contention — there are Wheat Board loyalists out there who will highlight cases of farmers suffering in the wake of deregulation.

«Defendants have not denied any of these statements or produced any evidence, beyond the text of the EO itself, to support their contention that the EO was primarily motivated by national security concerns,» Brinkema wrote in her opinion.

For instance, one point of contention in the current talks is NAFTA's chapter 19, titled «Review and Dispute Settlement in Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Matters.»

Weill is also among the bankers in contention for CNBC's most influential of the past 25 years, along with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, former Goldman CEO and former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl.

A main point of contention in the race was the state's stance on the «bathroom bill» which denies transgender people the right to use the bathroom of their choice.

One major point of contention between both parties is a deposition video that was leaked to Business Insider, in which Spiegel admits that Brown did conceive of the disappearing photos ideas and that he «may deserve something for some of his contributions,» none of which will help Spiegel's and Murphy's cause.

Years later, when Corcoran was in contention to be one of the judges on Shark Tank, she had the job, lost it to another female entrepreneur, and then won it back by writing a letter to the production team telling them what they would lose out on if they didn't hire her for the team.

Curiously, in covering this effort, USA Today published a map highlighting cities and states that should be out of contention, yet added a footnote about Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which both offer nondiscrimination protections although their state does not.

The last eight employees of Berkshire Hathaway and its subsidiaries who remained in contention were eliminated on Friday when Marshall beat Wichita State.

Next, I want to address the potential impact of new GHG policies on oil sands projects — in short, I want to show that the Prime Minister's contention that it would be crazy to impose new GHG regulations on the oil sands sector is incorrect.

If the contention strains credulity, it is worth noting Dollarama employees have an earnest, almost evangelical belief in the value of the goods that they sell.

Although he has never concealed his own fringe political views — such as his contention that human freedom and representative democracy are incompatible — Thiel's open embrace of Trump has inspired some soul - searching in the proudly progressive technology sector.

The Oil Crescent Area has been in the hands of Haftar's LNA since 2016 and is a bone of contention for Libya's main political parties.

Sandicor asked for another key term — that the MLS's 8,000 or so active residential listings not be automatically included in the feed, but only when brokers expressly chose to opt in — but that was not a point of contention with Zillow, Ewing said.

Early in the morning of October 5th, negotiators in Atlanta were busy ironing out the final creases of contention between the 12 parties to the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP)-- an ambitious deal that will help liberalize trade, increase market...

Hassett's contentions, in other words, are well outside the mainstream of economics.

The incident highlights another issue, that verge's approach to privacy has long been a point of contention in the cryptocurrency space.

: A classic point of contention for risk parity is that interest rates, in general, are too low, and that while the approach may have performed well in the past, it is only because of an historic bond rally, which is unlikely to happen again.

Boston and neighboring Somerville remained in contention Thursday to serve as host city for Amazon's second North American headquarters, but a number of other prospective sites in Massachusetts were eliminated.

We'd like to note that in the document, Hsieh seems to take issue with some of our reporting over this past week, such as our contention that he has stepped down as leader of the Project, and even the basic premise that he is the project's founder.

But given the existential threat of climate change, or for that matter, the general state of our public goods, I find it awfully hard to accept the contention that there's nothing productive in which to invest the excess savings surplus countries continue to send our way.

Top Trump administration economic officials are headed to China in the second half of this week to discuss trade contentions between the two nations.

However, even with those legal guidelines in place, executor fees are a common source of contention with heirs.

Independent contractor status has already been a point of contention in recent years.

A big point of contention from nay - sayers and those in the trucking industry who understand logistics was the lack of announcement of the Tesla Semi's actual weight.

Of course, forecasts can be wrong, but there's simply no support for Young's contention (or Steyer's ad) anywhere in the data.

The privatisation has been a point of contention in relation to the $ 11 billion Tabcorp and Tatts merger, with the potential transaction raised as a potential competition issue given both companies would likely have bid for the WA TAB.

About a year before Ms. Judd was in contention for the «Lord of the Rings» role, Mr. Weinstein had her meet him in a hotel room in Beverly Hills — under the guise of discussing business — where he appeared in a bathrobe and, among other things, asked her to submit to a massage and watch him shower, the complaint said.

«The memo's primary contention,» the Times writes, «is that FBI and Justice Department officials failed to adequately explain to an intelligence court judge in initially seeking a warrant for surveillance of Mr. Page that they were relying in part on research by [Steele].»

But the engineer's refusal to turn over documents in the case — which hinges on Waymo's contention that key elements of Otto's tech was built off 14,000 documents stolen by Levandowski shortly before he left Google — may not delay Waymo's request for a temporary injunction that would prevent Uber from using its intellectual property.

Plus, in a white paper published earlier this month, a system for achieving zero - knowledge without compromising trust — a point of contention in some earlier iterations of the tech — was released, an update which could have exciting consequences.

Without intending any any disrespect to your contention, I wonder how the use of a school building by a religious group at a time or day when students and teachers are not using it is likely to result in a situation in which the «religious group becomes identified with the school, which appears to be promoting that brand of religion».

To say that evolution was «proven» 100 years ago is to disregard the fact that even Darwin doubted his own contentions (as he states in origin of species), for every bit of scientific evidence for evolution there is scientific evidence against it.

One of the areas of contention is the contemporary university, home both to anti-religious hyperrationalism and to the shape - shifting contemporary progeny of Nietzschean relativism (usually in an apparently unthreatening soft democratic or egalitarian form).

His contention was that capitalism is not just an economic system but an order within which culture, politics, and economics form a triad of «political economy» that is one of the great achievements of humankind and is best exemplified in the American republican experiment.

What of the dozens of other world wide sites that have been in contention since the beginning of time?

The Wolverines are the most frustrating of teams, almost always in contention but seldom quite at the top.

At the heart of To Empower People is the contention that those most immediately affected by the decision (notably parents and families) are in the best position to decide which institutions will best serve their needs - in education, health care, housing, and other areas.