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.