Sentences with phrase «of poster child for»

iOS still has an edge in app quality, and perhaps it always will, but the Note 4 is nothing short of the poster child for the high - end Android market.

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And then it slowly but surely turned into this kind of poster child for the NASDAQ stock exchange, this way of monitoring people's employees, making -LSB-...]

Mooresville has become something of a poster child for computers in the classroom.

She thereby made Lady Bird a bit of a poster child for the slow fashion movement, kind of literally.

The center of rare - earth mining there is Baotou, a city in Inner Mongolia with 2.3 million residents that's become something of a poster child for mining's ecological wreckage.

«Cholera is sort of a poster child for a climate variability - sensitive disease,» said Aaron King, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of mathematics at the University of Michigan.

Not only does fluorescently - hued Trix yogurt contain high fructose corn syrup, potassium sorbate, artificial colors and artificial flavors, it was actually something of a poster child for bad school food here in Houston when HISD began serving it for breakfast last year.

Reporters, Internet columnists and even some scholars began parading Gutenberg before the public as a kind of poster child for...

There's pressure to maintain this role as kind of the poster child for recovery,» she told INSIDER.

First released in 2010, this ultra-hard platformer was one of the poster children for indie games, and comes to PS4 and Vita subscribers.

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More than anything else, BuzzFeed is the poster child for the multi-platform approach to media — according to the Fast Company piece, as much as 75 % of the site's output never appears on its website at all.

They'll have organized social and cultural events, and monthly team challenges in exchange for a year of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.

So you've got an easy - to - understand scandal that directly affected hundred of thousands of Americans, a slam - dunk political target in an election season, and a poster child for frustration about Wall Street's pay.

Democrats and environmental groups have sought to make the pipeline a poster child for the type of dirty energy sources they say are exacerbating global warming.

Silicon Valley is facing an identity crisis — once the poster child for futuristic innovation, it's increasingly seen as a bunch of rich white guys chasing money at the expense of everybody else, including their employees and society at large.

And, of course, there's healthcare.gov, which had plenty of issues of its own and became the poster child for what not to do for UX.

Capital One (cof), another of the nation's largest financial institutions, is already a poster child for Amazon's cloud.

Google, for example, is the poster child of a unique company culture, with its nap pods and free food for employees.

Consider the case of Jack Dorsey, a poster child for Silicon Valley who is the CEO of Twitter and payments company Square, which recently went public.

The company became a poster child for the dotcom crash, but Boyd restructured the company into a global travel - booking site, largely through the shrewd, $ 135 million purchase of Booking.com in 2005.

It's a poster child for how Canadian businesses can tap into the surging growth in South - South trading — trade between developing nations — one of the biggest growth opportunities in 21st - century global commerce.

The Lower Ninth Ward, the poster child for the worst the disaster had to offer, lost 80 percent of its population following Katrina, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau report.

It was no surprise that once the mammoth effort of building a company set in, he became the poster child for burnout — depressed, irritable, uninspired, and unproductive.

Back then, I was the poster child for bad HR, making decisions that protected my employees, instead of my business.

Even Steve Jobs, the poster child for fearless empire - building, reportedly felt insecure about his achievements much of the time.

Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

While Twisted Sister was - in the words of Dee Snider — «the poster child for the unsignable band», they had a true major label believer in the States: Atlantic Records» Jason Flom.

It may seem odd for Chesky, the CEO of the company that, along with ride - sharing giant Uber, has become the poster child for the so - called sharing economy, to seek advice from the man who signed off on the intelligence that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

«Talk about a poster child for an industry that has really kind of ignored customers and ignored customer cares and gouged at every corner,» Legere said of the pay - TV market during T - Mobile's earnings call Tuesday.

And in the larger context of the sharing economy that Uber had become the poster child for, the shakeup at the top levels raises questions about the health and sustainability of the growing community of younger, smaller startups as well.

«Xerox is the poster child for monopoly technology businesses that can not make the transition to a new generation of technology,» said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School.

Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

You might recall EpiPen as last year's poster child for out - of - control drug prices.

Let's start with Caterpillar, the maker of earth moving equipment that has for years been the poster child for global slowdown.

Oh, scotty... you ARE the perfect example of why God's «ambassadors» are, in fact, poster children for the atheist cause.

... switch from using a mac to using a pc and expect the same thing... or go back to religion and get the same shunning from the atheists that you got from whatever church that was that you blindly followed... now you get to be the poster child for atheists the same way a repentant drugged up rock star gets to be the poster child for church... except from the atheists» arrogant point of view, you went from uneducated, ignorant, bigoted, intolerant and stupid to being sophisticated, intellectual, open minded and free thinking... in their opinion you were formerly a stupid a s s...

@Tom Tom - The poster who used the phrase «the child of their dreams» was not among those who were advocating for adoption.

How can she be a poster child for Mormons??? According to their own teaching, she has a spiritual deficit due to the color of her skin.

The politician is a poster child for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints» campaign to present a more diverse face to a historically very white church.

«The politician is a poster child for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints...» In other words, the token black person.

Very early on, there are comments by Christians who showed no compassion for a couple of posters that lost children.

The poster child for wide - scale integration of friendly bacteria into all manner of foods and drinks has to be Ganeden, an Ohio - based supplier whose GanedenBC30 strain is protected by a «spore - forming» shell that allows easy integration into all manner of foods and beverages whose manufacturing processes would normally kill off bacteria.

BRL Hardy was the poster child of the Australian wine industry in its halcyon days, with Mr Millar taking it from a $ 100 million company in 1992 to a $ 1.9 billion buyout bonanza for shareholders in 2003.

In less than a decade it had gone from a Tasmanian family run business to the poster child for Australian success in China as it took advantage of surging demand for foreign infant formula which became known as «white gold».

Mr Norgate's assessment of the legislated monopoly is a poster child for MG: «Within two years of formation, Fonterra had delivered the cost savings and revenue benefits promised and had become a true «national champion» for the New Zealand economy.

As the poster child for the so - called Brazilian storm, a cohort of outstanding and ultra competitive Brazilian surfers, Medina is the key to that market.

For Hoogenkamp, this category has all the necessary elements to become the «poster child» of all plant protein ingredients.

This turnip salad is a poster child for Sean's foolproof formula: «The main components behind this dish are the richness and fattiness of the dairy, the spice behind the za'atar, the cooling effect of the cilantro, and the crunch, the surprise of someone finding themselves eating raw turnips --»