Sentences with phrase «quality against quality»

Not exact matches

The executive told analysts on a conference call on Friday to discuss the sports retailer's abysmal second quarter results that he wasn't concerned about companies like Adidas and Nike (nke) selling on Amazon.com (amzn), saying that quality in - store experience remained a crucial protection against the massive online retailer.
As the battle for talent continues to heat up, startups and small businesses are competing for quality employees against big corporations that have serious advantages working in their favor.
Industry experts and retailers credit music fans for the focus on vinyl, saying a small backlash against digital downloads has led some customers toward searching out higher sound quality, as well as the more authentic experience of physically putting on a record.
After outlining what drives customers to the category of high - powered yet user - friendly computing, Jobs goes on to identify NeXT's key competitive strengths against Sun, namely: the customer need for a specific custom app, the high quality of productivity apps offered, and a superior capability to communicate and network.
This quality of believing passionately in the change you are seeking — politically, socially, or in business — has power even when many are against you.
So, memo to Neil Young: when you attempt to bring the world a better quality of media experience, know that you're battling against more than a century of business experience that shows the best - quality formats seldom, if ever, win out in the mass market.
One reader suggested that Nokia's new phone / camera went against that grain — its 41 megapixels and loss-less image quality might be enough to drive that final stake into the heart of point - and - shoot cameras.
But as he vetted options for his proposal, he kept running up against the same problem: The high - quality, expensive conferencing apps were often too complex for kids to use, and most were not aimed at tablets.
Buchholz also argues against policies like France's 35 - hour cap on the workweek, conceived to promote a better quality of life among its citizens.
Essential says that using a dual - sensor camera setup allowed it to make the cameras sit flush and flat against the PH - 1's back without affecting image quality.
Policy or no policy, wearing your face - computer to the movies probably constitutes as Glasshole behavior, a quality Google itself warns against in the company's handy Google Glass do's and don'ts guide.
They can also go and fix it, if they want, as well, but their specific job is to file a bug against it, because now there's a bug in the documents and we hold our documents as accountable in quality as we do the rest of our product.
Judge Andreas Korbmacher said on Thursday the country's highest federal administrative court would rule on Feb. 27 on an appeal brought by German states against bans imposed by local courts in Stuttgart and Duesseldorf over poor air quality.
Their use of acidity, the quality of their food has the best of Asian cuisine and the best of sort of what happens when really good Asian food... island Asian food brushes up against Spanish culture.The Spanish had colonized the Philippines for almost 500 years at one point.
His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.
To make sure we give the broadest possible view of program quality, then, we've stacked our rankings up against those published by other major organizations and broken down which factors go into each.
Weighing shareholders» expressed preferences against its fiduciary duty to act in the long - term best interest of the Company, the Committee recommended, and the Board has concluded, that the continuity and quality of leadership that results from a classified board contributes to long - term shareholder value and is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.
Against this environment, our strategists remain bullish on equities and continue to favor emerging market currencies and, in the fixed income space, prefer local markets over external debt and maintain their higher - yielding yet better - quality bias.
In his committee testimony, Giancarlo wrote that the tech has «the potential to enhance economic efficiency, mitigate centralized systemic risk, defend against fraudulent activity and improve data quality and governance.»
While these results during recent cycles are impressive, just as important is the way quality performed against other factors.
The quality factor has demonstrated long - term outperformance against the market, but it has not received the same attention as the value, size or momentum factors.
By integrating sales solutions to work for you instead of against you, sales teams will increase productivity and quality of outreach with all data easily accessible in one place.
We are very proud of the work that we have done thus far and we will continue to focus on widening our quality gap against traditional QSR.
Again, the initial impact of the Fred update yet again highlight's Google's crusade against low - quality content.
Google's algorithms, from Panda to Fred and beyond, all work to help searchers find what they're looking for while battling against low - quality content.
However, building links too quickly can work against you, because doing so often decreases their quality; instead, it's better to slowly escalate the authority and frequency of your link posting efforts.
But the complaint against Citi offers a brutal account of the drive for profit squashing quality control.
Although credit quality outside of CWB's portfolio of oil and gas loans remained stable, higher provisions for credit losses resulted from losses recorded against oil and gas loans.
Rather than lobbying against the new fiduciary rule, brokers should be looking for new ways to deliver cost - effective and high quality advice.
So how does Quality and Price stack up against the Magic Formula?
We still don't have enough evidence to warrant a fully defensive stance against market risk, though there is an increasingly tenuous quality to market action which I am watching closely.
In this context — where the platform's linchpin is the quality of its deal flow — who is it really competing against in the long run?
On asset quality, gross non-performing assets (NPAs) stood at 0.33 per cent of the loan assets as on March 31, 2018 against 0.22 per cent as on March 31, 2017, the company said.
Publishers have been expecting Facebook to take a harder stance against low - quality content, and some of the more established publications have been hopeful changes would help them.
To cushion against a potential downfall, I have been focused on high - quality stocks that may offer less upside potential, but may be able to produce more predictable gains.
A «hermetically sealed container» is a container which is designed and intended to be secure against the entry of microorganisms and to maintain the safety and quality of its contents after processing
Morality has an objective aspect but that objective quality is to be measured against the world God created more so than any collection of inspired writings.
Grey and the conservatives agree in their insistence on «no expansion of gambling,» although the evangelicals are against it on moral grounds while Grey's opposition is based on «quality of life.»
Self - impose a moratorium on polls about religion for a sufficient period that the savings could be used to conduct a high quality poll with a high response rate in order to have a benchmark against which to compare other results.
Besides, are you suggesting that we suppress anyone's right to free speech because if you are than you need to move to one of these bass ackward countries where a less than middle school quality production of a total farce can insight people to act as a pack of rabid dogs blaming America for why they live in dirt... We are LUCKY and BLESSED to live in a land where we can smile and walk away from an opinion that we disagree with... that South Park can but Jesus in a boxing ring against Satan and depict Moses as a glowing spinning dreidl... and these nutcases want to burn and pillage because one lunatic makes a childish and stupid play on videotape?
Furthermore, of itself it furnishes no antecedent evidence whatever against the viability of at least some form of metaphysical system which would postulate a world of interrelated, dynamic Entities which endure in time as essentially self - identical individuals, which move themselves to their own activities, and which, precisely by themselves changing, change their accidental qualities over time.
One argument against this is that such a practice would dilute the quality of scholarship.
Moreover, since God is infinitely good to all who truly seek him, I do not see how anyone's experience of grace or formation by grace can settle the truth of one confessional position as against another, and I doet want to look as if I think that the quality of my Christian experience or the strength of my Christian convictions should be decisive in persuading others to accept my views.
The Solidarity movement, born in the wake of John Paul II's first visit to his homeland, brought to the history of dissent against communism a new and decisive quality.
They have not lifted human quality primarily by thundering against sin; they have lifted it by heightening the positive conception of life's dignity and value.
Israel's rebellion against God is shared by all peoples, to be sure, but her rebellion is uniquely and totally conditioned by the quality of her relationship to God and is therefore, in prophetic judgment, the more heinous.
It is, in particular, the second of evangelicalism's two tenets, i. e., Biblical authority, that sets evangelicals off from their fellow Christians.8 Over against those wanting to make tradition co-normative with Scripture; over against those wanting to update Christianity by conforming it to the current philosophical trends; over against those who view Biblical authority selectively and dissent from what they find unreasonable; over against those who would understand Biblical authority primarily in terms of its writers» religious sensitivity or their proximity to the primal originating events of the faith; over against those who would consider Biblical authority subjectively, stressing the effect on the reader, not the quality of the source — over against all these, evangelicals believe the Biblical text as written to be totally authoritative in all that it affirms.
Here, the psychic act of distancing was applied to that quality of experience which gives rise to man's sense of the normative, and this was conceived as standing over against man, possessing just the objectivity that belongs to a visual form when it is distanced in aesthetic experience.
And these qualities set us up against the outside order, which has a multitude of ways to persecute those who do not follow its own operating instructions.
It depends on how Ivan is defining «local community» and how he envisions it being proposed as the «arrangement for us today,» but against his basic note of resignation I join Mr. T. (Tocqueville) and the A-Team (Aristotelians) in insisting upon the greater naturalness and liberty - fostering character of township / polis life, and thus upon our unavoidable duty to cultivate whatever qualities and institutional features of that life that we can in our circumstances.
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