Sentences with phrase «of moat»

Their jobs might therefore be terminated, as in Frustration they tried to Breach from the muddy depths, arms full of the Real Property Statues that they scooped up from the bottom of the moat, to be sold as souvenirs in order to supplement their Gross Incomes rendered as such by the onerous Real Property Taxation levied upon them by Fee Simple taxation simpletons hired by the government in answer to Invitations To Treat misrepresentative advertisements for help.

On a boat (on a raft in the remakes), the player reaches a lily pad in the middle of a moat, blows the horn, and the Faerie Palace is rendered visible and can be accessed.

Objectives: Visit the market's shops and villagers, talk to Malon in the market, get the egg from Malon near the castle gate, slip past the guards to reach the right side of the moat, wake Talon in the morning with the hatched egg, slip past the guards in the courtyard, get the letter from Princess Zelda and learn Zelda's lullaby from Impa.

There isn't much of a moat to this sort of business.

Now, go to that large structure in the center of the moat.

Even though Daily Star did not do the fact - checking they should have, they did manage to make the effort to grab a comment from a relative of one of Moat's victims about the game.

This Manor deluxe room has one king - size bed in front of a flat screen TV, a Jacuzzi, and views of the Moat Mountain Range.

This Manor room has one queen - size four - poster bed in front of a wall - mounted flat screen TV and views of the Moat Mountain Range.

Large windows have a view of the Moat Mountain Range.

This Manor deluxe room has one queen - size four - poster bed in front of a wood burning fireplace and a view of the Moat Mountain Range.

On the west side of Chang Pheuak Gate on the outer ring of the moat you'll find another cluster of street stalls with lots of seating.

Well one thing that isn't a source of a moat is technology because that can be duplicated and always will be, eventually, if that's the only advantage you have.

Even the fate of the smallest business like a bakery or shoe store will be determined by whether they can create some form of moat.

That definition of a moat is the one provided by Heather Brilliant, Elizabeth Collins, and their co-authors in Why Moats Matter: The Morningstar Approach To Stock Investing.

BB: As for characteristics that we look for, it all comes down to the quality and durability of the moat compared to price.

But Buffett here is not just talking about the moat of a business, but in the endurance or sustainability of that moat.

So switching cost is an important source of Moat for a business.

While companies with rapid growth might contribute better returns to the portfolio, it's important to remember, that growth is not necessarily an indicator of a moat.

You need to be aware of those forces almost at a subconscious level to be able to evaluate the resilience of a moat.

Many investors simply look for quantitative evidence of a moat relying on the wisdom of these words of Warren Buffett...

There are all sorts of business decisions which the management can take that will increase the size of moat of a business over time but will also reduce its near term earnings.

Relaxo earns a pre-tax ROE of more than 35 % a year so there is evidence of moat, but the remaining questions still need to be answered.

About bambooinnovator KB Kee is the Managing Editor of the Moat Report Asia (www.moatreport.com), a research service focused exclusively on highlighting undervalued wide - moat businesses in Asia; subscribers from North America, Europe, the Oceania and Asia include professional value investors with over $ 20 billion in asset under management in equities, some of the world's biggest secretive global hedge fund giants, and savvy private individual investors who are lifelong learners in the art of value investing.

In general, I look for industries with a slow rate of change, companies with some type of moat, and companies with hard assets.

In reality companies with this kind of moat would probably grow faster than overall economy but as a conservative investor you have to keep your margin of safety.

Buffett likes to use the concept of a moat to describe the quality of a company and its ability to defend itself from other businesses.

There are many types of moat on display.

Morningstar does the calculation company by company, but then aggregates the results by super sector, sector, industry, aize of moat, fair value uncertainty, and equity index.

When they took a sediment core from a lake originally created as part of a moat in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, they found centuries» worth of dirt, refuse and pollution particles, with the earliest mud layer dating to 1649.

A breakout star of the expenses scandal, Hogg was last heard of claiming for services including the cleaning of his moat

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has already begun an inquest into the death of Moat, and in particular the use of tasers against the man, as he sat with a gun pressed to his head in the rain.

Douglas Hogg, the former Conservative cabinet minister who played a notable part in the MPs» expenses scandal after it was alleged that he had claimed money for the clearing of the moat at his country house in Lincolnshire, has emerged as a frontrunner to win a hereditary place in the House of Lords.

The former agriculture minister made perhaps the most infamous expenses claim when he put in a bill which included the cleaning of his moat in his country estate, and was awarded the dubious honour of being the first MP to step down over the scandal.

Arsenal game some of the moat delusional in the world so we always have a multitude of excuses ay the ready to explain away another melt down instead of facing up to the reality of the issue..

The existence of a moat is critical to reducing competition risk.

Providence's investment comes on the heels of Oracle's acquisition of Moat, a digital measurement company known for its role as an independent third party hired to measure ads across platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat.

«The companies that are going to be able to withstand this are the ones that have a sort of moat around their businesses,» he said.

The longer the relationship lasts, the more of a moat you create around yourself,» Foley says.

Usually when people talk about different kinds of moats, they are referring to the elements of the business model that give rise to the company's competitive advantages.

And if you insist on characterising all 50,000 protesters (some of whom were academics) as rioting students then why not use the same reductionist metonymy to characterise all cats as grey or all Conservatives as the owners of moats and duck houses?

The Lib Dem leader added that, in rejecting proportional representation, Cameron was «defending a political culture of moats, duck houses, Ashcroft, party funding scandals and a system where you have hundreds of Labour and Conservative MPs who can completely dismiss and ignore their constituents».

Louisa Moats, Ed.D., is President of Moats Associates Consulting, Inc. and has served as a National Board member and Vice President of IDA.

The number and types of moats that can be built to protect the existing castles and fortifications just got reduced drastically.

Likewise, while I can make a strong case for the quality of the moats of any of the new entrants, I could just as easily make a strong (or stronger) case for most of those exiting.

Other parts of energy value chain such as chemicals, lubes & retail etc are relatively straight forward and have characteristics of moats.

I think its very important to have these five forces in mind when thinking about resilience of moats.

Test the strength of moats.

Wholesale transfer pricing power, also sometimes called supplier bargaining power (e.g., in the Michael Porter five forces model) is a potential destroyer of moats.

For me, questions related to the creation, maintenance and destruction of moats are the most fascinating and challenging aspects of the business world.

My understanding of moats and price continue to evolve.