Sentences with phrase «own downfall»

- The story came to the public in part with the help of the National Enquirer, the same paper that played a prominent role in Hart's downfall in the run - up to the 1988 Presidential election..

Weak language is the downfall of so many conversations, and most of us don't even realize when we're using it!

But despite the downfall of many, a few Hollywood relationships have withstood the test of time.

But the latter might have led to its downfall.

«The downfall might be having to make little changes in the store, and you don't have everything in place right away like other franchisees will,» she says.

This investigative reporter smells a rat in Edwards's downfall.

As The Verge wrote of the bot's downfall: «It's a joke, obviously, but there are serious questions to answer, like, how are we going to teach AI using public data without incorporating the worst traits of humanity?»

Every start up business has their own downfall, it's just nice to see that posts like these encourages small businesses ACTUALLY to do something for the better.

Marketing was my downfall, which I also see a lot of.

Failure to respond to the voice of the customer only serves to increase their frustration, ultimately leading to the downfall of a product, brand or business.

In a conference call with employees on Wednesday, CEO David Brandon blamed some of the downfall on a devastating holiday season, when sales were less than half of the $ 600 million usually made in a year.

Though every organization is exposed to its own array of circumstances, risks and situations, at least one of the seven issues above is almost always implicated in the downfall of a company.

Ackman scoffed at the idea that such bulk customers could actually exist, and predicted the change would be the downfall of Herbalife, destroying its ability to recruit new distributors.

But while AIG's defenders have vilified Goldman Sachs for collateral calls that seemed timed to inflict maximum damage, Boyd pins the blame for the insurer's downfall on a handful of AIG executives too fixated on securing power and maximizing their bonuses to realize that their company was lurching along on a death march.

The retailer's downfall triggered a US$ 3.8 - million bad debt expense for Dorel, which reports its earnings in U.S. dollars.

We think a lot about Nixon's downfall in the wake of Watergate, but few recall he won the job by commanding electoral landslides (and even beat John F. Kennedy in the popular vote back in 1960).

Dr. Martin Antony, professor at Ryerson University in Toronto and author of «When Perfect Isn't Good Enough,» says, while some aspects of perfectionism can be helpful in reaching one's potential, the perfectionist attitude also has some downfalls that can seriously hinder both personal and professional growth.

In some ways, the brands» mega-popularity contributed to their downfall.

With only 8 million people and a GDP one - tenth the size of Germany's, Austria couldn't bring the EU down directly, but its disenchantment with established parties and popular anger at the management of the migrant crisis make it a microcosm of the angst that could spell the union's downfall.

The same traits that makes them attractive hires are also their downfall.

Just as it was reaching its highest heights, the disruptor got disrupted and its downfall wasn't pretty.

No one's predicting the downfall of the iPad — there's a fine line between bold and stupid — but Amazon's Kindle Fire will singe away tablet market share from almighty Apple, to say nothing of Samsung and Motorola.

This week, President Trump reiterated his disdain for Amazon, arguing that the tech giant has led to the downfall of the United States Postal Service.

When asked about the recent and spectacular downfall of Theranos, the blood diagnostics unicorn whose founder Elizabeth Holmes was recently accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of fraud, Roberts said he doesn't think there will be another Theranos.

Langone, billionaire co-founder of Home Depot, told CNBC on Wednesday that the downfall at GE has been a «colossal failure» in board leadership.

Make sure to take a step back, analyze your progress and resolve any identifiable bottlenecks, shortcomings or downfalls as soon as possible.

Maude Barlow, national chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, has called the deal a «resource grab» by a faltering EU that's resisting its own economic downfall.

One of the downfalls of the standard liquid liner that a lot of new beauty devotees gravitate to?

For some time now, speculation about the demise of Google + has been mounting, while Google redesigned its features over and over in hopes it would revive the network or soften the blow of its downfall.

Beyond Syria, France has expanded its counterterrorism operations throughout North Africa as Jihadi groups have proliferated in the aftermath of the downfall of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

More from The New York Times: A Wall St. Executive's Downfall Seemed Sudden.

So thinking of a particular shift within the system as «anti-capitalist» makes about as much sense as thinking that the discrediting of a particular scientist or the fall of a particular scientific theory amounts to the downfall of science, as a whole.

Some circles have lamented the downfall of the online auction as being bad for price discovery.

It also held tens of billions of dollars worth of mortgage securities on its books, which proved to be its downfall.

Robinson's lengthy, but fascinating, article traces the origins of the idea of the 40 - hour week and it's downfall and is well worth a read in full.

The development appears to cap the downfall of a firm that once sponsored high - profile events and wooed new clients in Davos, Switzerland.

But the T2's forward driving position proved its downfall: front - seat passengers fared poorly in head - on collisions.

«Either of those actions was unthinkable to us back in 1999, for we understood that President Richard Nixon's attempt in this regard ultimately led to his downfall,» Katyal wrote.

His strange downfall and subsequent rebirth as one of the most bankable movie stars all began with an innocent act of love.

In business, trade - offs exist all around and can be the downfall of an attempt to realize a critical change in an organization.

The way traditional journalists talk, you'd think that the list post, or listicle, is a sign of an impending downfall of civilization.

The most thorough numbers I've seen were compiled by Internet Filter Review a few years ago, before the deluge of YouTube porn clones kicked the downfall into high gear.

This gives speculators a chance to make money by betting on Bitcoin's downfall.

Skilling, 59, was the highest - ranking executive to be punished for Enron's downfall.

But RIM's downfall is the result of very human mistakes — complacency, hubris, arrogance — that the current crop of startups needs to avoid repeating in order to succeed.

«The taste was not appealing, and it left you feeling bloated,» one drinker told Bloomberg in a 1997 article charting the downfall of the beverage.

Meme accounts are a convenient way to introduce Zima to people who may not have been old enough to drink the beverage in the»90s — or old enough to remember its spectacular downfall.

The company's acquisition of carbon steel company Severstal Dearborn appears to have precipitated its stock downfall last year, wiping out most of its 2013 gains.

That's according to a feature by Fast Company's Austin Carr that details the story of SolarCity's rapid ascent in the early 2000s, its downfall, and the skepticism surrounding Tesla's eventual acquisition of the solar - panel installer.

But that is wrongheaded, warns Wright, who created today's NBCUniversal under then - owners GE and served as GE's vice chairman for much of its downfall period.