Sentences with phrase «pulled off»

Similarly, Apple pulled off this strategy when it introduced the iPod.

I pulled off the highway, and gave into the cognitive dissonance.

But that morning at Next, he knew what he needed to do — to make his machine seem exciting again — and he pulled it off.

As you watch Ive walk off, politely thanking people, you recall that he closed up his private presentation by asking you to listen closely to a watchband as it is pulled off and then reconnected.

What's impressive in terms of the above references is not only that any of us could have pulled off the same feat but that many of us still are.

(It's pulled off over 70 in its history.)

The aerospace company, founded by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, has pulled off 16 rocket launches in 2017.

The chain on Wednesday will introduce a new pizza that comes surrounded by 16 semi-circles of cheese that can be pulled off and eaten separately.

Entrepreneur: What's the craziest sale you've ever pulled off?

He pulled off the road and decided to do something different with his life.

To counteract the unplanned distractions that occur and overcome the tendency to be pulled off track, I've made a small shift in how I approach my schedule.

Along with the incredible expansion of the universe Ridley Scott first brought to the screen in 1982, the movie also pulled off that crazy Rachael scene.

She pulled off quite a feat.

Online building supply marketplace BuildDirect has pulled off the venture capital equivalent of Irish twins, staging two large funding rounds in the same calendar year.

He and his team did indeed transform Penney — from a sleepy behemoth known for serving the needs of Middle America into something quite different: an ambitious wannabe startup that fancied itself cool, with a radical pricing and merchandising model that had never been pulled off before.

Twilio (twlo), for example, pulled off a successful IPO in late June.

With that, the NASA team that watched her land knew they had just pulled off a daring and nerve - wracking touchdown on the Red Planet unlike any ever attempted before.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

She pulled off a triple turn without a hint of hesitation early in the routine and later added a turn that reversed fields and headed back in the other direction.

The New England Patriots may have pulled off the most shocking victory in Super Bowl history — but it seems that the team's owner is still hung up on a loss.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said about 5,000 of the most dangerous tank cars will be pulled off the tracks within a month, part of a series of measures in response to recommendations by the Transportation Safety Board in the wake of last summer's deadly derailment and fire in Lac Megantic, Que.

The two streaming services pulled off a bit of a coup at Sunday night's Golden Globes, unseating Netflix for streaming supremacy at the awards show by each winning two awards despite only being nominated three times apiece.

Responsible for some of the greatest visual effects pulled off on screen in the last 40 years, he's done everything from James Bond movies like «Moonraker» and «GoldenEye,» to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy and «Inception» (which he won an Oscar for).

«A # 1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider - trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Four years ago at Google I / O 2012, Google pulled off the most ambitious live product demonstration, perhaps in history.

«People kept asking how we pulled it off.

Yet, the B.C. Liberals just pulled off the remarkable feat, with February's budget promising $ 327 million in new taxes for 2013 - 14 and a further $ 585 million - worth in 2014 - 15.

«Black Panther» pulled off excellent world building for Wakanda, and although the movie mostly takes place in the fictional and tech - savvy African country, we wanted to see more of it once the movie ended.

In an era when you assume anything amazing that happens in a movie is courtesy of computer - generated imagery, it's always exciting to learn when a memorable scene was pulled off by practical effects.

Lubezki, of course, pulled off the crazy single take that makes up the entirety of «Birdman.»

«Den of Thieves» tells the full story of the insider - trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice.

Loncar argues that, unlike companies that abuse their prerogative to dictate whatever list prices they want in the U.S., Novartis has actually pulled off the kind of scientific innovation that the biopharma industry claims as its beating heart.

Corbould added that some of the excitement for him is seeing if a practical effect could even be pulled off.

In March alone, James has pulled off an insane run of unbelievable passes, handles, and dunks other players would be happy to have had over the course of their entire career.

He pulled it off by sheer determination, although it took nine years.

But Mrs. Van Dyk is probably half of the reason that I've pulled off as much as I have in my career.

The aerospace startup, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has successfully pulled off 16 rocket launches in that last year, about double the amount from 2016.

Have less intelligent people done this before and pulled it off?

It wasn't until 2016 that the Sony Betamax was finally pulled off the market, even though it had lost its battle to VHS long before.

Amazon pulled off innovation by example — and continues to do this — better than most companies.

The ad was a social media fiasco for Pepsi, which quickly pulled it off the air.

US Airways captain Chesley «Sully» Sullenberger became an instant hero when he pulled off an emergency landing on New York's Hudson River, saving everyone on the flight.

Any advice from someone who actually pulled it off?

Tesla has pulled off plenty of impressive engineering feats, but its skilled hype - based marketing schemes are also changing the way cars are sold

The growing profitability of specialty channels isn't surprising: the classification includes some of the buzziest names in Canadian television, from Orphan Black - host Space to Rogers» Sportsnet suite, which pulled off a huge small - screen coup by wresting NHL rights from the CBC (Rogers owns Canadian Business).

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.

Kraft Heinz is claiming it has pulled off a rare food industry coup: Almost no one noticed the quiet rollout of the company's reformulated recipe for its iconic macaroni & cheese.

That's very hard to pull off.

We can't assume that buyers alone are responsible for evaluating whether the team behind a campaign can pull it off on their own, he argues.

Though their rockets didn't quite make it to suborbital space, the group did pull off dozens of successful launches.