Sentences with phrase «predecessors though»

Both are lighter than their predecessors though, partly thanks to the use of Gore fabric to maintain low weight but still dissipate heat from the new internal hardware.

That's not to say there are not improvements compared to their respective predecessors though.

Uncharted 3 is very different from it predecessors though which actually suprised me, I du n no how infromed you guys have been but there is a shit load of changes, first off the animations..

Jürgen Klopp's arrival set transfer policy on a different course to his predecessors though; it may have seemed like much of the same as Liverpool failed to secure Alex Teixeira from Shaktar, but the interest in Teixeira was already a subtle change in policy — as Liverpool actively targeted players which addressed a deficit within the team, and who were also of Champions League quality.

Also, as can be expected, both the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo feature several enhancements over their predecessor though the biggest surprise here is the... [Read more...]

It's actually taken a step backwards from its predecessor though, while in the previous game you could kill the lower generals to weaken the big boss Crackdown 2 simply asks you to activate Absorbtion Units around the city and then defend a bomb.

Unlike its predecessor though, this new adventure starts you off on a more even keel with the world's inhabitants (there's no boss to topple five minutes into the tutorial this time).

As demonstrated by its predecessor though, looks can be deceiving and Yomawari: Midnight Shadows certainly proves that itself with the frightening little adventure it offers.

It gets the job done like it's predecessor though, and you never have to wonder about whether you actually pressed the button.

The Moto G will be considerably cheaper than its predecessor though — the device will be available unlocked and contract free from Motorola.com in the US, for $ 179 / # 135 / $ 169 with 8 GB of storage or $ 199 with 16 GB.

It is a tiny bit smaller than its predecessor though.

Not exact matches

Menear, who took the reins three years ago, has had the enviable though difficult task of building on his predecessor Frank Blake's remarkable run by finding new avenues of growth and preventing the company from falling into complacency.

Legrand does have a leg up on his predecessor, though: He's trilingual.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, the Republican Party seems to have consolidated behind the Trump administration's still - fuzzy, though apparently less - extreme vision for the agency — one that still represents a significant departure from the status quo under Trump's predecessors.

He moved aggressively as soon as he took over in 1981 to remake GE with his own imprint — even though it meant undoing predecessor Jones's legacy.

Though in some ways, the Liberals are doing a better job than their predecessors.

Bitcoin was the spy agency's «# 1 priority,» the documents show, though the agency was also targeting two other digital currencies, one of which was a Bitcoin predecessor called Liberty Reserve.

Investors, though, appeared energized by prospects that the Trump administration will pursue more - business friendly initiatives than its predecessor.

A federal court on Thursday upheld the Labor Department's Fiduciary rule, in defiance of a Trump executive order signed on Feb. 3, which sought rescinding the rule enacted by his predecessor The executive order, though not taking effect immediately, sought the Labor Department to review options...

You claim your religion is one of love probably because Jeebus was a peace - loving hippie communist, though his predecessor «Father God» was a tempestuous tantrum - throwing child.

Civil liberties are still quite high (though W tried to do them in), medical science has allowed people to live longer and better, crime has generally been trending downwards for decades, and the average American lives far, far better than his predecessors 70 years ago.

When Watkins took the helm in 2014 she said CCA had no plans to sell SPC, even though her predecessor Terry Davis had cleared the decks by writing down SPC's goodwill by $ 400 million.

Ms Watkins is also expected to reiterate CCA's commitment to her predecessor's alcoholic beverages strategy, even though earnings from beer and spirits will fall short of forecasts this year.

And Pellegrini's predecessor, Roberto Mancini, claimed shortly after his dismissal that he «never expected what happened», even though he'd stood, glowering, through an FA Cup final, listening to his own fans sing: «You can stick your Pellegrini up your arse».

The second, though, was the suggestion that he'd somehow «redefined» goalkeeping through his hyper - aggressive interpretation of the sweeper - keeper role, a claim that rather ignores the sterling work done in the field of silly goalkeeping by plenty of his predecessors and colleagues, from Jan Jongbloed through René Higuita and on to Víctor Valdés.

Though widely regarded as a decent manager at Championship level, Warnock had never before been appointed to a top - flight position, and Palace's poor form this season marked a regression from the obdurate yet effective game instilled by his predecessor towards the end of last season.

Even though the FIA had prevented the MP4 / 13 from having the advantageous second brake pedal that had been found on its predecessor, the 1998 McLaren emerged as a dominant car in the opening race.

Though their # 1 pick Markelle Fultz is following in the footsteps of his injured top - pick - predecessors, Philly's 2016 # 1 draft pick has blossomed into a star after just a couple weeks of NBA action.

This is exciting though unsurprising news for the new venue, considering its predecessor, the Vicente Caldéron, hosted the last two Copa finals.

Things have been so bad lately that Dalglish's recent league form has matched that of his predecessor's; Roy Hodgson recorded an average of 1.25 points - per - game at Liverpool, and the Reds have the same figure from their previous sixteen matches this season too (though as the first eleven games this term yielded 1.73 points - per - game, things haven't reached Hodgson-esque levels overall just yet).

Though Hary's predecessor in Orland Park's K - 9 Unit, who worked with the department's SWAT Team, also had a ballistic vest, police dogs often don't receive the $ 950 protective gear, said Sgt. Scott Malmborg.

Dicker laid low Cuomo's two predecessors in a series of scandals (though the The New York Times broke the news of the prostitution arrests that ended Spitzer's career), and has been the target of Cuomo's courtship for the better part of a decade.

He and predecessor David Paterson remain the only state or local politicians in New York who've received donations from individual members of the family, though they have also made some sizable checks to charter school groups that support Senate Republicans.

Though he certainly wouldn't be the first executive to feel that way, Cuomo is now taking more definitive steps to sideline the Legislature than his predecessors did, especially when it comes to budgeting.

At the same time, though, he steered the office in a different direction from his predecessor, who built his reputation — not to mention his candidacy for governor — on the back of a ceaseless barrage of high - profile Wall Street prosecutions.

One of new acting Erie County DA Michael J. Flaherty Jr.'s first moves was to assign an assistant DA to «take a fresh look» at one of the cold cases that his predecessor didn't prosecute, though he wouldn't reveal which case.

His immediate predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, did not sign the letter, though it was during Bloomberg's tenure that New York City received mayoral control.

Grijalva's district was renumbered as the 3rd District after the 2010 census, and made somewhat more Democratic than its predecessor even though it lost some of its share of Tucson to the 2nd District (the reconfigured 8th).

And he labeled de Blasio's predecessor, Mike Bloomberg, a «visionary» for having fought as mayor for congestion pricing even though he couldn't get it through the state Legislature.

Home secretary Jacqui Smith has now denied any involvement in the decision to arrest Damian Green, though her Tory predecessor, Michael Howard, says he finds it hard to believe that the HO's senior civil servant, Sir David Normington, would not have consulted here before calling in the police to find his leaker.

And though Commissioner James O'Neill has focused on community neighborhood policing, he has signaled continued support for his predecessor's focus.

Rockefeller created the predecessor to the Empire State Development Corporation, and Moses, though controversial, is a colossus of urban infrastructure.

But the predecessor to Michael Grimm, the indicted Republican representative, would not say whether he wanted to go back to Washington — even though every public step he's taken so far indicates he's hungry to get back in the political arena.

Even though the statutory authority for GORR's predecessor organization — the old Office of Business Permits and Regulatory Assistance — has expired, the program has been continued through the budget process.

The dinner can thus be seen as a call to George Osborne to follow this example (though the Chancellor has made his own cut in the top rate, and is following the example of another well - known Thatcher budget - that of 1981, in which Lawson's predecessor, Geoffrey Howe, cut the growth in spending and raised taxes).

Though he wants to enforce a no - trespassing curfew at Lafayette Park in Albany, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told his predecessor today that the Albany version of the Occupy movement was easy to handle.

Gillibrand is occasionally mentioned as a potential 2016 candidate, though she has encouraged her predecessor, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to run again in four years.

Though the Tories are keen to stress the errors of their predecessors for the «mess» they've found themselves in, this is not to say that Labour have not acknowledged the error or their ways.

Even though satellite imagery produces higher resolution, it has the same limitation as its predecessor.

Yet Lister was a fine observer, a worthy predecessor of Gilbert White, and the species he described, though he gave them numbers rather than names, remain identifiable now from his descriptions.