Sentences with phrase «of feats in»

It is said of these kite observers that some of their feats in this connection would compare most favorably with those of a trained tight - rope walker.»

Yet the Ukrainian fell short of that feat in Brussels as he saw rival Barshim set Asian and Diamond League records, plus a world leading mark for 2014, not to mention the Diamond League title for the event.

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Omada Health has accomplished a rare feat in the crowded world of digital health hopefuls: it's backed up lofty claims with actual results, helping the company score federal government reimbursements for its high - tech diabetes prevention program.

It's no small feat — in a given weekend Eat24 could get hundreds of mentions on Twitter alone.

In this year's surging stock market, the big news is the spectacular performance of a clutch of tech titans, whose feats have won them a popular nickname: the FAANGs.

He bested a world record time of 2:02:57 by Dennis Kimetto of Kenya, a feat achieved at the Berlin Marathon in 2014.

The company has achieved many impressive feats in its 17 years of existence.

China is trying to transform itself from an agrarian backwater into a modern industrial power in the span of a single generation — a feat that took the West a century of ups and downs, harsh lessons and hard - won victories.

Several months after that meeting, Peter Diamandis, a space - travel fanatic in St. Louis, announced a new competition, the X-Prize (later named the Ansari X-Prize), for the first manned, non-government-funded flight to reach an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, and then repeat the feat with the same vehicle within two weeks.

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

Already, China accounts for a third of Uber's global business, an impressive feat accomplished in less than two years.

Post seemingly constant annual revenue growth of 50 % or more, manage the same feat with your gross margins, enjoy the fourth - highest sales per square foot of all retailers in the U.S. (behind Apple, Tiffany and Coach), exceed your own earnings estimates on a regular basis, and sooner or later someone will attempt to compete with you.

Taylor Swift demonstrates that it's possible to be both highly visible and humble, the type of feat that, as Fortune «s Jennifer Reingold noted in March, is associated with many successful CEOs.

It's a huge feat in a country where illiteracy is high and fewer than 10 % of the population has a bank account.

Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, who has also worked closely with Snowden, said the newspaper had «achieved an ignominious feat in U.S. media history: the first - ever paper to explicitly editorialize for the criminal prosecution of its own source.»

The bad news for passengers is that despite all these feats of engineering, more legroom in coach is not one of them.

Meanwhile, in many places in the Mountain West region, such as Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, people have more than a 16 % chance of accomplishing the feat.

Scaling up, however, can be a difficult feat for small players in the industry, says Evan Armstrong, the president of Armstrong & Associates.

Not only is «Blockers» one of the few women - directed movies coming from a major studios this year, but it's sex - positive message about consent and societal pressures around people losing their virginity make it an incredible feat in the midst of the #MeToo and Time's Up movement.

Surviving the release of nine gigabytes of data from your party consisting of email and other documents dumped in a pastebin location on the eve of a runoff election is no mean feat.

In an amazing feat of precise planning and dedication, the small spacecraft traveled 3 billion miles over nine and a half years to reach our most distant celestial neighbor.

Operating with a team of just 10 (though it's expected to grow to 40 in a matter of months), the startup has already cultivated and harvested edible beef, chicken, and duck in its bioreactors, a feat no one else has achieved.

Audrey MacLean, in fact, has quite a track record including the impressive feat of getting her first company funded back in the early 80s when not only was nobody giving money to females, she was pregnant to boot.

He believed in them, and then willed them to super human feats of product development and programming.

What's impressive in terms of the above references is not only that any of us could have pulled off the same feat but that many of us still are.

Steib said it's been proven that «if you have a lot of stress, at the extreme end of the range, you become a poorer decision maker, you have a very hard time performing tasks, and you underperform other people in cognitive and physical feats when you're highly stressed out,» Steib said.

(In a fatherly feat, Huang manages to wring one out of her.)

All members will be among an elite organisation of business leaders that have demonstrated drive, passion, and dedication to achieving outstanding growth in revenue across Europe — a remarkable feat by any measure.

To arrive at the final big number, Deloitte performed acrobatic feats of arithmetic and logic all while offering almost nothing in the way of transparency about their underlying data.

And in an incredible feat, he crammed all of the information into one chart.

And there was the steady decline in the bitcoin market price, which accomplished the remarkable feat of making it an even worse investment than the Russian ruble last year.

Establishing a business is a challenging feat in the United States, a place where eight out of ten businesses fail in the first 18 months.

Establishing a business is a challenging feat in the United States, a place where eight out of ten businesses

In the face of a category 5 hurricane, Delta Air Lines meteorologists, dispatchers, pilots, cabin crew, and ground crew accomplished an incredible feat on Wednesday.

As one of 12 keynoters, David kicked off our «UNlearn» conference and mesmerized 450 business marketers from 27 states, earning the # 1 speaker rating in our post-conference survey from among 55 keynoters and panelists in all, no small feat when you consider the many top marketers and authors who graced our podium.»

A team from the Haskayne School of Business has won the Eller Collegiate Ethics Case Competition for the first time — an impressive feat that rounds out three consecutive years among the top three teams in the international competition focused on promoting ethical behaviour from business leaders.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

Doing so will be no easy feat since buyers characteristically have difficulty in clearly articulating values and goals — oftentimes they are couched in the unarticulated world of thought.

Nevertheless, Wingstop is well on its way to achieving its 12th consecutive year of domestic same - restaurant sales increases, no small feat in the ultra-competitive fast food business.

Making Microsoft an attractive resource to new companies is no small feat: While Nadella has spearheaded a massive effort to transform the company, it had to overcome a tough image of being stodgy, difficult to work with, and stuck in the past.

On Friday, Bitcoin hit a new record high, falling $ 2 short of $ 8,000 in the start of the day and finally attaining the $ 8000 feat.

As his latest budget, released Monday, makes clear, Trump wants growth of 3 percent — or more — a year for the next seven years, a feat that hasn't happened since Ronald Reagan was president in the 1980s.

Musk has a way to go before he can say he's fulfilled many of those ambitions, but this year he's accomplished some considerable feats in pursuit of those goals.

Beginning in the spring of 1918, a flu virus that in a rare feat had evolved to be both highly contagious and extremely lethal swept the planet.

That's quite an impressive feat — according to Mike's calculations, there are around 20,000 studios in the world, meaning he already has more than 5 percent of them!

This has resulted in a nearly unbroken string of profitable years for Micrel, a feat unheard of in the semiconductor trade.

It's an impossible feat to calculate which party is «priced into the market» to win the November election, or how shares would react in the case of an upset to that view.

This is no easy feat — a quickening pace of rate normalization in the past has often led to spikes in volatility.

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