Sentences with phrase «one swoop»

When a new product swoops in, things change and that change can be hard; just think of keyboard shortcuts, trackpad gestures, and even the position where buttons to close and minimise windows are (top left on macOS, top right on Windows).

The startup's stock price was languishing around $ 36 on April 10 when AT&T swooped in with an offer to buy the company for $ 95.63 per share.

Late last week, nearing the Friday 10 a.m. shareholder vote that was supposed to determine Dell's future — a vote Michael Dell was widely predicted to lose — the founder swooped in with minutes to go and put a new, more lucrative offer on the table.

Rather than launching new stores in carefully selected spots and building slowly, Target acquired 124 locations in 2013 in one fell swoop by buying all the outlets from a defunct discounter called Zellers.

Perth - based information technology company Datacom has swooped on the failure of its peer XciteLogic to expand into new territory.

stores in carefully selected spots and building slowly, Target acquired 124 locations in 2013 in one fell swoop by buying all the outlets from a defunct discounter called Zellers.

That left Burton vulnerable to bad snow years, when sales would drop, or to new rivals who could swoop in and steal a chunk of the market.

Of course, it's hard to resist giving in to a more cynical suspicion that reports like these are a vague attempt to drum up a bit of fear within the VC industry, which, in turn, will provide lucrative contracts for the branding agencies that will swoop in to «refresh» a VC's look.

Then Zillow swooped in and bought the company.

It's a story oft repeated, where a foreign giant swoops in to buy a Canadian resource company at the top of the market, only to regret it later.

In a surprise move in October, Airbus swooped in and said it would take a majority stake in Bombardier's C Series program.

According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg swooped in on Tencent's talks to acquire WhatsApp while Ma was recovering from back surgery.

Neither wanted to pay the full monty, but they certainly weren't going to sit back and let the competition swoop in and grab so much first - rate sports programming, particularly given the recent run Rogers» Sportsnet took at Bell's top - rated TSN.

Most of its customers would be covered by government insurance, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions would ensure an orderly death, and vultures would swoop in quickly to grab the valuable assets.

Original series like House of Cards, Orange Is the New Black and BoJack Horseman are redefining how television is distributed and consumed, making available complete seasons of new episodes in one fell swoop, to the delight of binge - watchers everywhere.

Perhaps Inspector Gadget or Paddington Bear swoops you back to childhood.

«I think there's a false opposition set up here,» said West, swooping in to mediate the exchanges.

«We went from having 150 to 200 consultants placed at clients to 100 in one fell swoop,» McGovern says.

In one fell swoop and with no immediate sales boost to offset it, Narodick would have to increase payroll 20 % to hire the brood.

In the demo I saw, saying «Hey Siri, good morning,» would trigger a synchronized ballet: the coffee maker turned on, the blinds went up, and the heat turned on in one fell swoop.

According to the bulls, the influx of smart money could eclipse all the wealth currently invested in Bitcoin — theoretically more than doubling the market value in one fell swoop.

Take everything you've been avoiding and get it done in one fail swoop.

Before a faux Twitter feud could ignite, model Chrissy Teigen swooped in to save the night in the event West were to ever «get rid» of Kardashian.

Then everyone else saw what he was looking at — a two - foot - long model of SpaceShipOne, banking and swooping through as pretty a sky as can be seen here on earth.

That's according to industrious Twitter users, who quickly swooped in following the announcement to take jabs at the company that will include Yahoo's 15 % stake in Alibaba and its 35.5 % stake in Yahoo Japan.

We were in a strong negotiating position since our party of eight freed up a chunk of oversold seats in one fell swoop.)

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

It would be tempting to sell VMware — given the company's $ 34 billion market cap, doing so could wipe out a chunk of Dell's debt in one fell swoop.

I had no trouble controlling the drone, landing, and even doing a few cool swooping maneuvers.

Even as U.S shoppers are eyeing fresh foods, they continue to swoop up snacks in their corner store, in the airport or on their way to the office.

However, in one fell swoop, Amazon could be the catalyst for the rebuilding of one of America's great cities.

Following this result, financial markets were sent into a tailspin with futures diving overnight, the British pound collapsing, and US stocks, after finding some stability early in the day on Friday, tumbling into the close as the Dow and S&P 500 wiped out all of their gains for 2016 in one fell swoop.

When aspiring actress Heloisa Vinhas was struck by a car in a hit - and - run in 1996 in Santa Monica, California, Tom Cruise happened to be passing by and swooped in to help.

You don't need to swoop in and solve issues for everyone.

In one fell swoop, with GoodData you can make and manage your target analytics for an enterprise or your SMB.

There's no excuse for it not being on the tail, in place of that hideous tricolor swoop.

To complicate matters, in late February, Comcast swooped in with a higher rival bid.

With new carriers Mobilicity in creditor protection and Wind pulling out at the last minute because of a lack of funding from its Russia - based backer Vimpelcom, the path was clear for the Montreal company to swoop in and grab licenses on the cheap.

Only when companies prove to be a problem, like paint company Benjamin Moore, has Buffett swooped in.

Will it keep raising money, or will a current investor swoop in with an acquisition offer...

In October, it swooped in to grab a majority stake in the struggling C Series program of Canada's Bombardier.

But the admissions consulting industry quickly swooped in.

As the popularity of crowdfunding grows, it's going to it ever harder for investors like Alexis Ohanian to swoop in with a their magic bag of money and make demands of cash - starved entrepreneurs.

But before he even sent his letter, he tells Fortune, McDonald got wind of the plan and swooped in.

Juno is expected to continue its highly elliptical orbit around Jupiter for months, swooping close every 53 days to map the planet's interior so scientists can learn more about how and where Jupiter formed.

Threatened by the prospect of a combined Broad - Qual, the company is said to be waiting in the wings, ready to swoop in and make a bid for Broadcom if the Qualcomm coup looks likely to succeed.

So while a network may have a successful run, or a movie franchise, over time, there's little to stop a competitor from swooping in (think Fox News disrupting CNN).

ALPA said WestJet has tried to bypass the union by negotiating directly with pilots to fly for Swoop under different working conditions.

This year she took on the traditional «competitive male» view of business and shattered it with one quick swoop and really showed the importance of having a small business that balances masculine and feminine qualities.

The grant announcement comes weeks after the Canada Industrial Relations Board issued an interim order for the airline to stop recruiting pilots through two - year leaves of absence to fly for its new ultra-low cost carrier Swoop.