Sentences with phrase «of global rivals»

When we stand in our own way, we fall behind, to the delight of global rivals eager to take advantage of our self - inflicted wounds.

Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien mounted a similar defence in February, blaming the entry of global rivals such as Aldi for pricing pressure on suppliers and saying Woolworths» future was at risk unless it responded to changing market conditions.

FCA still lags many of its global rivals in profitability, and it has more debt than most.

The online source also indicates recent success of its global rival, Telegram, to raise hundreds of millions of dollars during an initial coin offering (ICO) has prompted Kakao to take a harder look at the investment opportunity.

Not exact matches

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

A Perth company that has become a global leader in the education software market is facing uncertain times as main rival Blackboard takes over two of its biggest partners.

Prologis, a logistics company with a global footprint, will acquire smaller U.S. rival DCT Industrial Trust in an $ 8.4 billion all - stock transaction, including the assumption of debt, the two companies said on Sunday.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

By studying the long history of Chinese energy companies in the global marketplace, study author Margaret Cornish determined «their organization and strategy reflect and respond to their global rivals rather than the Chinese state.»

Its chief rival, the National Post — which endured eight years of ever - deeper cost cuts after being sold to the now - bankrupt Canwest Global Communications empire in 2001 — has racked up nine - figure losses since being launched in 1998.

The price of bitcoin, the world's most well - known virtual currency, lost almost one fifth of its value to $ 15,800 this week after peaking as high as $ 19,666 on Sunday, as feverish demand ebbed slightly after the exchange giant CME Group and its rival Cboe Global Markets listed bitcoin futures.

Neither of the rival plans offered by Boehner in the House and Reid in the Senate seemed to have the necessary votes in Congress amid a bitter stalemate that could have far - reaching repercussions for the fragile U.S. economy as well as global markets.

Amazon Channels are just one piece of the company's ever - expanding portfolio of streaming video content, as Amazon looks to better compete with streaming rivals such as Netflix on a global scale.

Rivals Hasbro and Lego also face challenges, as all three struggle to stay on top of the $ 49 billion global toy market.

Some of Uber's largest rivals Friday announced a global ride - sharing agreement that they say will cover nearly 50 percent of the world's population.

The Q400, with a backlog of 50 planes, has about 25 percent of the global market in small commercial planes and comes second to European rival ATR, the world's largest maker of turboprops.

Thursday's announcement follows similar price cuts of the console in Asia, including its home market Japan, and adds pressure on rival Microsoft (MSFT), whose Xbox One system has lagged the PlayStation 4 in global sales.

After all, we were told at the time that if taxpayers didn't open their wallets and bail out the banks, we could face a complete meltdown of the global financial system and an economic fate rivaling the Great -LSB-...]

The acquisitive owner of Hainan Airlines is building a portfolio of minority stakes in global rivals.

NYSE and its rivals Nasdaq and Cboe Global Markets have hoarded those licenses in recent years, in part because each gives them another vote on deciding the fate of important parts of the market's infrastructure, including the lucrative data feeds that traders can't operate without.

But while Apple Music includes some interesting features, such as a global radio station, the package fails to offer enough differentiation from rival services to attract a disproportionate share of the market, he said.

The round saw Ola's valuation dropping 30 per cent from a peak of $ 5 billion, as global rival Uber significantly stepped up its challenge to the Indian firm.

As the corporate wrote in its weblog: «Customer polls last year revealed the popularity of Litecoin as a rival alternative crypto to Bitcoin... It's faster than Bitcoin, has lower blockchain fees and may become a global payment option available on dozens of big brand websites in coming months.»

But the president of Nasdaq rival Cboe Global Markets Inc cautioned last week at an SEC roundtable that giving exchanges a monopoly on trading certain stocks could lead to higher market data and exchange connectivity fees, due to the absence of competition.

Glencore Plc's billionaire Chief Executive Officer, Ivan Glasenberg, underscored his belief in the longevity of the global commodities boom by beating his biggest rivals in handing out surplus cash to investors.

Competition for Uber is intensifying in the global ride - hailing market, as rivals like Lyft and Didi Kuaidi raise billions of dollars in to expand as quickly as possible.

Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion in a deal creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S. fuel export markets.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

He said: «We are on the verge of trashing our global name and brand in an act of self - mutilation that will leave our international rivals stunned, gleeful and discreetly scornful».

A few months later I traveled to the once - closed city of Sevastopol, an august Soviet Sparta, the chief station of the Black Sea Fleet and heart of Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's attempt at a global navy to rival the U.S. Navy.

Lion's rival, Carlton & United Breweries, which is now part of the Anheuser - Busch InBev global conglomerate, expanded its Great Northern Super Crisp beer into a national brand from early 2015 from its original Queensland origins.

With the UK described as a «shop window on the world of wine», Harpers Editor Andrew Catchpole brings together leading figures at the forefront of NPD, exploring the latest consumer focused developments, the economic imperative of embracing research and change, while asking why wine appears to be lagging behind rival categories of spirits and beers, plus the advances embraced in other global markets

The 21 + only, fan - favorite event comes courtesy of Brew Ha Ha Productions and Synergy Global Entertainment (SGE) and will feature the festive combination of live music from The Offspring, Sum 41, Lit, Rival Sons, Unwritten Law, and Metalachi.

«The Indy 500 is one of the most famous races on the global motorsport calendar, rivalled only by the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Monaco Grand Prix, and it's of course a regret of mine that I won't be able to race at Monaco this year.

Liverpool simply can not rival this level of power; over the Ferguson era, Manchester United developed into a truly global club, with it being traded on the NYSE, dominating English football during the growth of commercial football, and with a club value of the same calibre as Real Madrid and Barcelona.

There is also the construction of a new stadium to rival the finest in the world and boost Spurs» global reach and brand (areas where United are significantly ahead, admittedly).

Saudi Arabia has the most economic and political clout, but the Emirates - principally Dubai and Abu Dhabi alongside Qatar and Bahrain - have first - class connectivity and aspire to become global cities to rival the likes of Hong Kong and Singapore.

The feeling that somebody has just passed away whose horizons and global appeal extended the international significance of this country is omnipresent — as well as the prevailing idea that his death marks an end of one era... Even the other Vaclav in the presidential office, his successor Klaus, who has been Havel's rival and critic ever since 1989, is now giving him credit — to the degree of admitting that we owe his predecessor «like nobody else for the international position, prestige and authority of the Czech Republic in the world.»

About 15 minutes into the Channel 4 undercover video here chief executive Alexander Nix, managing director of CA Political Global Mark Turnbull, and chief data officer Dr. Alexander Tayler appear to be slyly suggesting they're ready and able to broker the use of prostitutes and bribes to entrap and blackmail a client's political rivals, and imply they have in fact also successfully completed such assignments in the past.

But he accuses his rival of opposing all the major, long - term decisions needed to ensure Britain swims, not sinks, in the global race.

«Until around 100,000 years ago, a dispassionate observer would have no basis for predicting either the extinction of rival human species or Homo sapiens» current global ecological dominion,» Shea says.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

In the meantime the environmental health groups note that the health impacts of pollution rival diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis but lacks similar systematic global systems to combat it.

It was a global endeavour to rival the space race: billions of dollars invested, a massive international effort of singular scientific, medical, industrial and societal significance.

«At this stage, there are no on - demand dating services that could rival apps like Tinder because of its incredible growth and prevalence in the online dating world,» says Edmunds of Global Dating Insights.

However, his plan is not to offer a hand at some form of global reconciliation, but an all out war that will destroy the west with Wakanda's stockpile of vibranium, an alien tech that can create weapons that rivals the strongest deterrents human technology can come up with.

It's true that English language productions have a substantial global advantage, that only three current Spanish actors rival Watts and McGregor in international fame (Antonio Banderas and real - life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem), and that film is as much of a business as it is an art.

The new film picks up not long after the explanations and surprise twists that ended the last one, and sends the hero Thomas (played by Dylan O'Brien) out into a ravaged post-apocalyptic landscape, where he and and fellow Maze - escapees try to get to the bottom of a global conspiracy, while dealing with storms, monsters, and rival survivors.

I, Tonya is a story covering the rise and fall of Tonya Harding, a former American figure skater, who first gained prominence due to her immense skating talent, and gained global notoriety for a single, shocking act of violence — an attack, in January 1994, on a rival American figure - skater, Nancy Kerrigan, that was orchestrated by Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly.

Beyond that, the feature can hit the ground running by presenting the character in any of the classic adventures he's experienced in the comics — be it involving his position as a diplomat and representative of Wakanda on a global scale; doing battle with the various rival tribes that live on the border of his nation; or protecting the country's most valuable resource: Vibranium.