Sentences with phrase «pitch battles»

Business - plan competitions have expanded into elevator pitch battles and industry - specific contests.

But CJNG has proven willing to directly engage the Mexican military and police in brazen pitched battles, sometimes in broad daylight.

Furthermore, it's difficult to pit SEO and PPC against each other as if they were the only two contestants in a pitched battle over search.

But it's certain that if Tim Hortons had not entertained Burger King's offer, Ackman, an activist investor famous for his pitched battles with companies — whose stake in Burger King has already earned him an additional US$ 200 million on the takeover news — would have sparked an ugly shareholder battle over Tim's.

Worse, the lack of direction frequently led to pitched battles between Burger King's Miami head office and individual franchisees — an uncomfortable parallel with Tim Hortons» own fights with its franchisees — including a class action lawsuit brought by franchisees over a $ 1 double cheeseburger.

Pitched battles are going on right now between accountants and companies.»

Re: Mrs Thatcher, I am running multiple pitched battles on Facebook currently.

By JEFFREY BELL AND RICH DANKER There is thought to be a pitched battle raging within the White House over President Obama's pick to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke when his term expires early next year.

But it was over the cost of the mission in Iraq where the Conservatives fought a pitched battle with Opposition parties.

The culture feeds a mentality that crowds out a necessary give and take — the very concept of good - faith disagreement — turning every policy difference into a pitched battle between good (us) and evil (them).»

Financiers fought pitched battles for possession of the railroads.

At times the debate about religious language seems like a pitched battle between political camps of the left and the right.

The hook also favors near encounters and narrow escapes over pitched battles, whereas the movie revels in brutal and bloody warfare.

But today it is seldom that one denomination pitches battle against another.

That was the last pitched battle, though.

In the early part of the 20th century the Liverpool - Everton games were pitched battles, until the situation became positively inflammable and the city fathers began to fear for the lives of the citizenry.

His fan club boasted tens of thousands of believers, who held pitched battles with nonbelievers in the streets.

Things were not quite so transcendental for Cindy Dalrymple or Doreen Ennis - Schwarz because they found themselves in a pitched battle for the women's prize.

While we get to see the pitched battles for Cuba with Guevara and his men facing off against Batista's army, we never really get inside the head of the man himself.

Those are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

NY - 19 is larger than a single race: It's going to be ground zero in the fight for America's future — a pitched battle between trendy, modern day «progressivism» and traditional American conservatism.

It's not like the army was divided between those supporting Congress and those supporting the courts, and the court faction won a pitched battle.

Behind the facade of Cuomo's high poll numbers is a pitched battle with entrenched Albany legislative leaders.

Peaceful pictures of students walking past Downing Street and through Parliament Square makes poor TV, compared to pitched battles with police and masked yobs.

Counteracting President Trump; bolstering the Affordable Care Act; and publicly funding campaigns are the issues at stake for the Independent Democratic Conference in a video released Monday as the lawmakers in the breakaway bloc seek to re-affirm their support for liberal causes they believe has been lost in the pitched battle being waged by progressive advocacy groups to pressure them into forming a coalition with mainline Democrats.

Cuomo had tried to get the exchange passed in June, but the pitched battle over his same - sex marriage bill last year forced the administration to put the measure on hold.

The New York Road Runners club and its insurers have been waging a pitched battle the past four weeks over how much money race organizers will be able to reclaim in the wake of last month's canceled New York City Marathon.

The government is preparing for a pitched battle with unions, who have declared a campaign of co-ordinated industrial action in opposition to the austerity drive.

Filings at the state Board of Elections show the committee transferred $ 400,000 to Balance New York ahead of what is expected to be an increasingly pitched battle for control of the state Senate.

Welfare reform is the «pitched battle» of the reforms planned by the next government, he says.

In NYC, which is seemingly exhausted by a long - running construction boom, the number of pitched battles over new developments appears to be growing.

Cuomo has held up his collaboration with Senate Republicans as an example of post-partisan governing in contrast to the pitched battles between the GOP and Democrats on the national level.

Amid the backdrop of a pitched battle over immigration on the national level, Assembly Democrats on Monday once again pushed for the passage of the Dream Act, a state - level bill that provides tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants.

And then there are issues like law enforcement and the pitched battle over policing.

Any plan to close the crumbling facilities, which have been the site of brutal episodes of violence and are now subject to federal oversight, would probably require Mr. de Blasio to embark on a yearslong political war fought in many pitched battles.

Every summer, a pitched battle of wills unfolds within the acorns and hollowed - out twigs of the Northeastern United States.

UC, on behalf of several parties, has been in a pitched battle with the Broad Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, over CRISPR patents, and the new decision marks a sharp departure from the position of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

The placenta is also the scene of a pitched battle, with paternally derived genes pushing it to invade more aggressively while maternally derived genes try to hold it back.

As recently as 1857, the Pimas, who still live near Phoenix, fought a pitched battle against the Quechua, wiping them out almost to a man.

Rather than coming off as an empty paean to the fans, though, the filmmakers» desire to focus on the characters as real people even in the midst of pitched battle keeps even the shallowest viewer of the series engaged in what could have easily been just mindless action set pieces and explosions.

I mean these two had a pitched battle across most of the school.

In 1971, during the height of the pitched battles between draftees in the British Army and groups of Catholics, we are led to understand that while many British soldiers did not want to be fighting there, «oppressing» the Catholics, and on the Catholic side were young radicals called provisionals that wanted no peace and nothing less than pitching the Brits out versus the older moderates who believed in negotiations.

That is too say, it's an unruly mess, which spends too much time justifying its own existence, and time staging pitched battles.

But the action sequences, while cutting a spectacular path of destruction, go on far too long (an ongoing «Transformers» issue), including the final pitched battle, which displays dazzling firepower but extends for roughly an hour.

Born in the midst of a pitched battle, he grows up fierce and proud under tutelage of his papa (Ron Perlman), until the bad guy du jour (Stephen Lang) slaughters his entire family in search of a fabled mystical mask.

The most engaging moments of Faults lie in these scenes, a pitched battle between Leland Orser and Mary Elizabeth Winstead that is just as mental as it is physical.

You won't soon forget the sequence when she drives away from an airport, fighting a pitched battle on her face between point - proving rancour and regret.

The warfare at the heart of «71, the new film from director Yann Demange working with a screenplay from Gregory Burke, is as personal as it gets, a pitched battle on the streets of Belfast in the middle of its most bloody riots between Protestant and Catholic sects of the city.

The opening attack is handled with breathtaking fluency, as Inarritu's camera dances and skips through the pitched battle hardly dwelling on the shocking violence that's an everyday part of frontier life.