Sentences with phrase «predecessors who»

The Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus sold approximately 9.8 million units in their first two months on the market, already being behind their predecessors who performed around 20 - percent better during the same period.

Thanks to new technology and business models now viable because of that technology, a new breed of law firm is emerging that (unlike their predecessors who attracted attorneys by offering jeans, MacBooks, and a more relaxed atmosphere at the cost of lower compensation) can compensate their attorneys on par with and in many cases better than larger firms.

Ingrid Berthon - Moine & Jessica Mallock acknowledge their predecessors who counter such a position — Valie Export, Jo Spence, Sarah Lucas and Cindy Sherman — wrestling primarily masculine conventions from the grip of the mainstream to reapply them playfully to their own ends.

But it wasn't only Klee's predecessors who informed his work — his peers were integral to his artistic development, too.

Like the work of Glenn Ligon and Christopher Wool, artistic predecessors who have worked with black - and - white textual accretion and erasure, Rasheed's installations probe the limitations and fissures of linguistic self - expression.

Her history of art demands a break with the past, and it refuses to accept predecessors who may have tried to force one by the sheer strength of talent and ego.

Enables me after years of remote collar training (unlike her predecessors who responded well to pronged collar training).

Today's indie authors stand on the shoulders of those predecessors who put their talents and hard work on the line to demonstrate an independent alternative to traditional publishing.

All the Jamesian paraphernalia is there: the clueless governess at the remote country estate who narrates the story; her predecessors who meet violent ends; the nervous bystanders who infuriate both the heroine and the reader with their stupendous reserve.

He's doing only slightly better than his predecessors who outright blamed parents for negative outcomes.

It's obvious that giraffes developed long necks because those giraffean predecessors who received random mutations for longer necks had a survival edge.

Unlike his non-interventionist predecessors who were content to see market forces decimate what was left of a declining industrial base, Heseltine has never made a secret of his desire to back winners where necessary and to intervene to create the right conditions for a vibrant industrial base.

Schurin says unlike Joe Lieberman and Richard Blumenthal, Jepsen's high profile predecessors who went on to become U.S. senators, Jepsen focused on policy and kept a low profile.

It was his Labour predecessors who made the Iceland decision, not him.

We also protected the public's health by passing a local law regulating e-cigarettes, thereby expanding on the work of our predecessors who passed the County's Clean Air Act two decades ago.

Over the last several years, dozens of legislators have gone to jail, including Skelos» two Democratic predecessors who had also been in the room.

Unlike some of their predecessors who were challenging entrenched, often white, elected officials, Grassroots was basically a reaction to Art Eve and the Art Eve machine,» O'Donnell said

Mr. S.D Dombo was a Northerner, LISTEN TO NANA AKUFFO ADDO «Akans must eschew the perception among other groups in the country that they are cowards and would ran away from any little threats «Our predecessors who started the Party that has made us the largest party in the country (i.e Mate — Meho people who used to CUT OPEN THE STOMACHS OF PREGNANT WOMEN AND THROW BOMBS) were not people who were hiding under beds «AT The Atiwa Bye - Elections, we showed a little bit of what we are made of.

The so - called «militant atheist» is an insufferable trend — maybe not paramilitary, but certainly far more vociferous than their predecessors who tended to ponder their godlessness in silence (or on paper).

Also, the President's ethics record is immaculate compared to his predecessors who pandered to religious sentiments and fears.

They've done this before, he claims: Think of «their predecessors who opposed legalizing divorce but lost,» and who then «accepted divorce» in practice if not in theory — for example, by hiring divorcées.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is getting some unsolicited advice on how to turn around the long - struggling Internet company, just like some of her predecessors who tangled with investors dissatisfied with management's performance.

Fallon, who «pulled a hammy,» tagged in his predecessor who told a few jokes about the 2016 field and the

He welcomes me and speaks briefly of his predecessor who had ordered the words «Father forgive» engraved.

Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey wrote to his predecessor who has been sent to Virginia on assignment asking him to return to Ghana latest by December 31, 2015.

But such hires disappeared for 12 years under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, de Blasio's billionaire predecessor who bankrolled his own campaigns.

Unlike his predecessor who has shunned the national spotlight, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has made himself very available to the country's cable outlets.

Also present are his predecessor who is also the Senate majority leader, Godwill Akpabio and former governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam and his Anambra counterpart, Peter Obi.

«Our thanks for this occasion must also go to my predecessor who followed in the worthy footsteps of his illustrious predecessor.

Come Out and Play (both the 2013 American version and its Spanish predecessor Who Can Kill a Child?)

In an interesting twist, Tony Bennett, Ritz's predecessor who staunchly supported the Common Core standards in Indiana and who is now Florida's education commissioner, said Florida could opt out of PARCC as well.

(A) The Past President twice removed of the National Association or his or her most recent predecessor who is able and willing to serve;

Not exact matches

Speaking with CNBC, Martin Earp says the demand is mainly driven by baby boomers who have a very different set of needs and wants as compared to their predecessors.

In a bruising five - hour session, the FBI director also knocked down Trump's claim that his predecessor had wiretapped his New York skyscraper, an assertion that has distracted White House officials and frustrated fellow Republicans who acknowledge they've seen no evidence to support it.

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.

New prime minister Malcolm Turnbull brings with him a better working knowledge of how Western Australia functions than any of his predecessors since the days of war time PM John Curtin, who died in 1945.

He may not have the swagger of predecessor Mark Carney, but he still wield tremendous power as the man who directs monetary policy.

According to Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Sarkozy is at a crossroads, and «everything indicates that he will follow the path of renouncement and confirm the unwritten rule of his predecessors, who took the Elysée with promises of revolution but preserved their hold on it with the «marche tranquille.

Hortons chairman Paul House, who was Schroeder predecessor as chief executive, returned to the corner office on an interim basis.

Tillerson's predecessor, Lee Raymond, tried to buy Russia's most profitable oil company Yukos from the oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had gained control of it during the highly corrupt privatizations under Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s.

Toshiba Chief Executive Satoshi Tsunakawa, who only took the helm in June after his predecessor embarked on a series of restructuring steps to clean up Toshiba «s books, said the conglomerate would look at some kind of strategy to boost capital.

In 2014, Chaudhry says, MOOCs will come of age, thanks to new entrants who have learned from their predecessors» mistakes and figured out how to make students stick with a course.

They do not want to be dictated to by the younger generation, who in turn are also very respectful and submissive given the success of their predecessor.

Williams's confidence may come from his predecessor, Rick George, who used periods of low oil prices to snap up assets, exploit economies of scale and accrue shareholder value.

Unlike her predecessor, Christie Smith will not directly report to CEO Tim Cook, but rather to Deirdre O'Brien, who is Apple's human resources chief.

But, what makes the car a triumph of engineering also threatens its place in the hearts of those who adored its predecessors for their rough edges and imperfections.

In Colombia, the reign of large, hierarchical cartels gave way to that of paramilitary groups, who were eventually replaced by more criminal groups, or «bandas criminales,» that are more compartmentalized, dispersed, and autonomous than their predecessors.

To this, Blair replied that the change was partly generational — her predecessors were «of a generation of girls who didn't get educated.»

Dominic Grieve, who was attorney - general under May's predecessor David Cameron, has called the bill an «astonishing monstrosity.»

But closer scrutiny reveals a man who managed to thrive as an exception to a corporate culture built on type - A personalities — the very kind that his predecessor embodied.