Sentences with phrase «of good competition»

Though we cover some of the good competition below, if you need something that keeps your iPad extra safe, the Zagg Rugged Book — available in versions for the iPad Air 2, the iPad Air, the 9.7 - inch iPad Pro, the iPad mini 4, and the three previous iPad mini models — is a favorite around the Wirecutter offices.

The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their e-books higher than the price Amazon charges for the print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored, low - priced e-books; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.

The shift to agency pricing (in some cases, publishers have priced their ebooks higher than the price Amazon charges for the print versions); the rise in sales of indie - authored, low - priced ebooks; device fatigue and a slow renewals cycle; a lack of good competition to Amazon; adoption rates decreasing; reading time diminishing; and output reaching saturation point.

The Asus ZenPad Z10 benefits from a lack of good competition at this size and screen quality.

We had a beautiful race car today and a lot of good competition.»

All our players got a decent number of minutes of good competition, so overall the preparation of the squad looks good.

In 2014, we also established an Innovation Best of the Best competition category to highlight our focus on successful innovation.

Each year Hormel Foods facilitates an Environmental Sustainability Best of the Best competition, which recognizes internal teams of employees who identify and implement ways to help us operate more efficiently.

They've taken care of business three straight weeks and against some of the best competition the League has to offer.

It appears that with a lack of better competition, we are reminded just how often animated films are capable of excelling in generating profit.

Today, Autoweek announced the winners of our yearly Best of the Best competition with the Porsche Boxster S and Mercedes - Benz GL taking top honors.

We've thankfully had plenty of opportunity to really flex the BRZ's muscles, most notably for our under - $ 30,000 roundup this past summer («Seven Performance Cars,» June 14, 2012) and more recently, for our annual Best of the Best competition, for which the BRZ was a finalist.

People of all ages can enter and visitor's travel far and wide to take part in what Queensland considers, one of the best competitions in fishing.

So if you're eager to test your skills against some of the best competition in the world, be sure to register soon.

BA is considered one of the best competition indexes in the literature (6).

Martin Klusmann is praised as «one of the best competition lawyers in Germany, if not Europe, and continues to be a dominant presence in international merger control and private enforcement matters.»

Not exact matches

Ultimately, the Competition Tribunal proved unsympathetic to the retailers» plight — which is good news for all of us.

The notes, which were photographed as one of his aides closed the binder during a short break from testifying, were extensive and covered issues of data scraping, data safety, and matters surrounding disturbing content on the platform, as well as broader issues of diversity, competition, Facebook's business model, Apple's business model, and «Election Integrity (Russia).»

It's good to have a powerful financial sector in Canada to deal with foreign competition but Canadians need protection from excessive use of market power.

I was just thinking about this and I think that this happens because people don't really think this through and believe that the marketing strategy will make their product a better choice than those of the competition.

Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of KIND, says that competition is good because it motivates entrepreneurs, but if left unchecked, it can become a hindrance in creating a team.

They typically react (slowly at best) to three outside drivers: (a) their competition brings a new offering to market, and they need a quick competitive response; (b) their customers see and begin to adopt new processes and solutions, and the customers demand that their products and services conform to the new ways of doing business; or (c) they see a new tool, product, or service in the market offered by a new player and they quickly determine that this is a game - changer which they need to own (rather than try to build themselves) because they lack the internal capacity to do otherwise.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

Let's face it, there are a lot of lawyers out there, and competition for good clients has become very difficult.

«What is the best thing to do in the face of market distortions to arrive at free and fair competition?»

Sony's problems were many: brutal competition for its once - dominant television group; being bested by Apple's (aapl) iPod, a humiliation for the Walkman pioneer; high - cost manufacturing in Japan; a failure to seize the music - streaming initiative despite years of trying.

And thanks to the ambiguous, specifics - free nature of the throne speech, they could still embrace competition, rather than regulation, as the best way to aid consumers.

I sometimes become an informal mystery shopper inside my own stores as well as those of the competition to see what works and what needs improvement.

Others pointed to more fundamental concerns of competition, suggesting that CVS Health needed Aetna (or something like it) to better compete with UnitedHealth Group, which has both a managed care organization (MCO) and a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) under the same roof.

They have also fought to win over a new breed of backer: conservatives skeptical of climate change but interested in supporting homegrown energy alternatives that increase national security, boost competition, and create well - paying blue collar jobs.

The Web is likely to be one of the first places customers will visit to research your competition, so you should start there as well.

Anything that keeps them low ought to be considered a good thing, regardless of what the Competition Act says.

You should look into what kind of competition there is for the business, as well as the failure rates, and any other special requirements.

'' We are incredibly proud to be bringing home both the Beazley Designs of the Year Award for Architecture and this year's Grand Prize — especially in a year with such intense competition,» Johan Karlsson of Better Shelter said in a statement.

Instead of just startups, we'll open the competition to any company, small or big, tech or non-tech, that is using technology to make the world a better place as part of their normal business operations.

Then again, a peek under the covers of similar cases suggests the best interests of consumers are wholly irrelevant to Canadian competition law.

Regardless of the politicking and petty feuds, the success of Aequitas will likely hinge on a fundamental choice every market participant will have to make: How is a stock market, that hallmark of capitalism, best served — with unbridled competition or mutually agreed restraint?

I'm a free enterpriser so this might be me saying, well look, I don't think it is fair now to say to people that have made those investments — it's a number of companies not just Bell and Rogers, it's Telus and so on — that the city is going to facilitate more competition or invest in it.

The key to beating your competition, according to Jeremy Fain, of pioneering neural network technology Cognitiv, is having better data - not necessarily more of it, but the data that your competitors do not have.

Cons Well, there's no shortage of competition ready to nibble at your customer base.

The inaugural U.A.E. Drones for Good competition awarded more than $ 1 million in prizes in February as part of an effort to seed the Middle East's drone industry, with more than a dozen such startups launching in the emirate.

The broadcaster revealed Tuesday morning on «Good Morning America» that it has given a greenlight to a 16th season of the long - running music competition.

If you believe pop culture, the top of the business world might seem something like the 80s movie Wall Street — competition is fierce, rivalries are plenty, and greed is good.

Top executives should be encouraging employees to share best practices or else the company will be stuck with what Hollis calls «incessant competition» with different parts of the same company.

First, at the end of Apple's presentation that saw not only a new iPhone, but new iPods too, CEO Tim Cook emphasized that «what sets them apart and what places us way ahead of the competition is how well they work together.»

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly advanced and more widely adopted, we'll start to see a lot of companies - big and small - turning to AI in order to come up with better data strategies and win customer adoption, and to better compete against their competition.

Amazon's family of intelligent speakers has a lot of competition, but the Echo has diehard fans who insist it's the best — including BI deputy editor Dave Smith, who describes it has his one of his «favorite tech gadgets ever.»

Over the year, our experts shared their best practices on gamification, staying ahead of the competition, and more.

In an effort to spread the beneficial impact of having a canine companion at work, in May video marketing startup Wistia conducted a global competition for the best startup office dog.

Also, what's going to make us better off is not kind of zero - sum sports - like competition between nations.