Sentences with phrase «others hedged their bets»

Instead, the crisis comes from the fact that the old - guard religious right political establishment normalized an awful candidate — some offering outright support in theological terms, others hedging their bets and whispering advice behind closed doors.

Not exact matches

Instead of hedging away from gas, as TransCanada and many other companies appear to be doing, it's a bet that gas will play a much bigger role in our energy future, probably at the expense of oil.

Like some other hedge funds betting on economic trends in developed markets, a lack of volatility amid years of central - bank stimulus made it difficult to make money.

As the U.S. - based industry awaits that ruling, companies are looking in other countries to hedge their bets on a global, import - export industry.

And he says that the hedge fund industry's bets on the ever - embattled Valeant Pharmaceuticals was a mistake of epic proportions, rivaling the losses from Enron and other spectacular failures.

But others who've worked with the Pakistanis fear coercion could backfire at a time they're hedging their bets, unsure America will win in Afghanistan.

In addition to hedging Disney's bets, Iger's comments also serve as a very obvious warning shot across the bow of cable companies and other distributors.

In the bet, Buffett picked a Vanguard fund that tracks the S&P 500, while Protégé Partners, a firm that puts clients» money into funds made up of hedge funds, took the other side of the bet with five of its funds.

After working briefly at Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunities.

Hedge funds and other money managers have stepped up their short bets on crude oil ahead of the OPEC meeting, covering against a steep downfall in prices should OPEC fail to come to terms.

You may want to consider studying the world's other relighions, so that you can «hedge your bets» with regards to the afterlife.

While I hedge my bets and remain agnostic, rather than athiest, the fact that others are so intolerant of your view is sad and pathetic.

When confronted with Dark Matter atheists had to contrive multiverse (an unproven speculation that there must be other universes) or it's time to hedge my bets.

The other problem overhead is if you only beleive to hedge your bet then you really don't believe and may go the the other for being false or lying in your faith.

Second, and more crucially, that secular objection (as in the hippie saying I heard so often in my youth: «Don't lay your value trips on me, man») rests on the assumption that someone can authentically sexually donate himself to another without making a definitive commitment to the other person; that is, he can «hedge his bets,» so speak, without paying the consequences ¯ a foolish assumption given the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, the divorce rates, the numbers of children born out of wedlock, and so forth.

There is no real answer to the question you have posed because this club has once again hedged their bets on doing the bare minimum then hoping for the best... if they were serious about changing the stagnant culture that has permeated the club since our move from the Highbury, we would have immediately released and / or moved several players in the early days of the window... this would have demonstrated to the fans that they were serious about addressing our obvious inadequacies... likewise this would have forced them to bring in replacements because they couldn't have used the lame excuse Wenger is presently spewing about having too many players... we functionally have the same amount of players as we did when the window first opened but he didn't say jack about it then... he simply waited until the inevitable happened then pulled out his excuse Rolodex, closed his eyes and randomly drew the «too many players» card... the more he opens his mouth, the more I understand his «god» complex when it relates to all things Arsenal... what other manager could continually do the same dumb shit, not address obvious concerns for years, speak to the fans in such a condescending manner, face enormous criticism from many of his former star players and be the architect of so many failed player signings yet be one of the highest paid managers with the longest tenure in Europe... maybe Kroenke is colourblind and instead of seeing all the red flags he can only see the GREEN ones ($ $ $)

Comes in second to some other bloke who pulls off the same trick — hedge his bets with team most likely to win the league and make doubly sure by spending mega — Mourinho.

And at least he was brave enough to put his neck on the line, unlike many other agency bosses who preferred to play it safe and hedge their bets.

«We think there will be dynamic bet hedging in many other species,» says Crean.

«This strategy allows a colony to hedge its bets by enabling individual cells within a population to assume high levels of resistance while others avoid this extra work.»

Others were still hedging their bets, arguing there was room for doubt.

«Assume there are other women,» «How long do you hedge your bet?

Mercedes - Benz and BMW, the other European automakers with diesels still on the menu, have hedged their bets by offering a very limited selection of diesel engines stateside.

I've definitely hedged my bets, because I'm still conventionally published here in the UK, but I love this model of being a hybrid author and I think people will go both ways: successful self - pub authors will become hybrids in the other direction.

Perhaps, this bodes well with Douglas County but I hedge my bets to say with the average income of Americans hovers around 34k annually, I highly doubt folks are rushing out to purchase ebooks, e-readers and other electronic devices.

But in the future, I'll be hedging my bets by putting some money to work in Canada's other royalty trusts.

On the other hand, since taking more risk sometimes pays off, I've hedged my bets by keeping some of my fixed income in bond funds, including some of those shown in the comparison table.

Other firms also offer bearish bets that clients can use to hedge their stock portfolios.

«Hedge funds and others speculating on litigation are making more and larger bets.»

With the high frequency of tornadoes, hail, high winds, and other risk factors OK homes are subjected to, insurance providers have to give quotes and rates that are higher than average to hedge their bets.

The answer is, it would allow traders who are worried about the long - term viability of one token over the other to hedge their bets by owning one or the other or a little of both.

Diversification at its very core is about hedging your bets by spreading the risk over assets that will counterbalance each other.