Sentences with phrase «of big figures»

Further, like LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham will make use of big figures for characters such as Killer Croc and Solomon Grundy.

There's a lot of big figures being bandied around here.

Now the company has been touched by two scandals involving two of the biggest figures in state politics.

As the largest collection of African - American film critics in North America, the AAFCA is highly respected by some of the biggest figures within the industry, including Spike Lee, Jordan Peele and former AAFCA publicist Ava DuVernay.

A veritable pop - art boutique, the offerings range from affordable home décor ($ 60 Basquiat mugs) to rare editions ($ 10,000 for a set of 4 prints by Michael Heizer) to an in - store Leica camera shop, and, of course, tome upon hardcover tome of books and catalogs on some of the biggest figures in Modern art, such as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.

Not exact matches

Figuring out how to start is one of the biggest hurdles.

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission figures show that this segment of the investment and trading community are now holding the biggest...

But the boys in class have far bigger dreams: By 2030, nine - figure earnings like Messi's could be within reach of many players.

Breaking the figures down further, the EIA estimates that «space cooling» — in other words, air conditioning — was the single biggest use of electricity in the U.S. residential sector.

The consumers are part of the big three credit bureau's estimate of 145.5 million people affected by the breach, a figure it marked up from an original September estimate of 143 million.

Non-farm payroll report: Cramer said that if the number is big, the likelihood of a severe slowdown in the economy is slim, but maintained that the figure «will be even more important than usual.»

Segura won't put a dollar figure on what Completely Normal did for his career (he retained 35 percent ownership of the program), but he says it paved the way for bigger paydays — and that's been the case for other comics as well.

Figuring out what customers want is a $ 21 - billion industry in the U.S., according to IBISWorld, and many major brands solicit advice from polling firms such as Ipsos Reid or the legacy research arms of advertising agencies like JWTIntelligence to help them spot the next big thing before it arrives.

Banks and other big companies employ lots of smart people to figure out ways to game the system.

-- Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google and now CEO of ZestFinance, a big - data startup that uses more than 100,000 data points about an individual to figure out if he or she will pay back a loan.

Steve Buckley figured that out and thought the best way to make some progress on this, and I think he's right, wasn't to go out and hire a consultant as we often would have done, but rather get some of these people in from the DMZ and so on who are spending their lives developing these things that will hopefully be a big score for them one day.

The biggest piece of advice I would give a young person is to try to spend time with someone who has had a career like the one that you want, and then do your best to figure out how they do what they do.

That's almost all coming out of Pavel Durov's pocket, and the figure is only getting bigger, rising to $ 100 million this year and $ 220 million by 2021.

Buckman also sees big advances already being implemented in load balancing, using new mathematical algorithms to figure out optimal distributions of passenger and cargo weight within the plane for a better flight trim and therefore a more efficient flight.

Liu estimates the Big Apple has a marijuana market of $ 1.65 billion — though any estimate of illicit markets, given that there is no standardization of pricing and a lack of reliable figures of supply and demand, are always very rough guesses.

But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.

If, instead, like many, you apply the 80/20 rule and figure that fixing the 20 percent of your most egregious cases will cover 80 percent of your problems, you've missed a big point of the exercise — both in how you communicate and your learning.

We likely won't see many of these changes reflected in Google's next big event — Pichai has been a regular figure at Google's events in recent years as it is.

Of course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his film, but the truth of the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in theOf course, there will always be skeptics who claim Nolan cast the singer to help market his film, but the truth of the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in theof the matter is, the director's films have always contained concepts (like «Inception» and «Interstellar») or iconic figures (Batman and The Joker) who are far bigger than any actor who has appeared in them.

The latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau show that the third quarter last year was the biggest ever, with a total of $ 17.6 billion spent on digital ads.

«Part of it is fear, a bigger part is inertia, and a third part is... never quite getting around to figuring out who the ideal [succession] partner is.»

But many of them bombed when it came to actual mobile performance, indicating that plenty of big brands haven't yet figured out how to deliver a mobile website that's both fast and beautiful.

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.

«We've got to figure this out, because — let's be frank — there are going to be more of these drugs coming to the marketplace for even bigger populations.»

Your company's budget and needs will help you figure out how big of a team you should hire to achieve your goals.

He read the Billings Gazette and the St. Paul Pioneer Press to figure out which high school students were putting up big points in rural parts of the country.

The family's bank of choice has long been Deutsche Bank, which was the only bank willing to loan to Trump after he lost others money in a series of bankruptcies — something he figured «was the bank's problem, not mine,» he wrote in his 2007 book, «Think Big: Make it Happen in Business and Life.»

David Gaud of Pictet Wealth Management says the official PMI figures out of China for April were positive, with the contribution from the non-manufacturing sector being «the big surprise.»

Cannon figures that the average credit quality of a the big banks lending portfolio probably falls halfway between high - yield debt and investment grade.

To me, that's been the big success of Oracle (orcl): his ability to see the roadmap quicker than other people and then figure out what pieces he's missing.

State - sponsored hackers had a big year, the Middle East continued to spiral out of control, numerous beloved public figures died, and venture capital stopped gushing at its previous levels, among a long list of other things.

The latest figures are another indication of a key trend in modern IT, and one that's got traditional server makers — the Dells, the Lenovos (lnvgy), the HPEs (hpe) of the world — on the defense: More big web - scale companies are designing their own servers and having them made by contract manufacturers instead of buying name - brand servers.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

From fitting everyone into the physical space, to growing and shrinking staff, to figuring out how the big personalities involved will get along, Mad Men looks as if it will face many of the same management and administrative challenges that any growing business faces in real life.

Again, based on figures compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics from congressional disclosures, the three biggest recipients of Pfizer funding in 2014, the latest year for which complete figures are available, were Joseph Crowley (D - NY), Corey Booker (D - NJ), and outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R - OH).

As LaVar Ball increasingly became a national media figure for his outspoken and sometimes controversial promotion of his family brand, Big Ball Brand, some felt that he may be a distraction and unwanted voice around any team that drafted Lonzo.

It's a big drop on the first quarter's $ 82 million (# 52.2 million) but compares pretty well with last year's second quarter figure of $ 45.5 million (# 28.9 million).

It's also end of days for startups whose big idea is to raise a mountain of money now and figure out a business plan later, and for investors who think clever deal terms or the wisdom of crowds is a substitute for diligence and judgment.

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The big challenge for a new owner will be figuring out how to balance growth efforts between residential sales (say, a $ 1,000 skylight for a bedroom) and lofty projects (like a $ 385,000 contract to install a huge 10,000 - square - foot skylight in the roof of a landmark building).

«You ought to be willing to raise the tax level and even slow down the speed of that adoption somewhat to figure out, «OK, what about the communities where this has a particularly big impact?

«The biggest thing,» Sanwal said, «is, no matter what type of content you put out — longer - form or more snackable pieces — is to figure out what's trending and interesting to the market and apply their data to create something interesting.»

Carey Smith, «Chief Big Ass» of Big Ass Solutions, a leading manufacturer of fans, lights and controls for commercial and residential use, figured out that giving his employees ownership led to a high - performing culture.

Their last big winner, a mash - up of marbles and action figures called Bakugan Battle Brawlers, was a huge hit when it launched, but slowly saw its sales slump from a high of $ 250 million in 2008 — 09 to between $ 20 million and $ 30 million before it was pulled from store shelves last June.