Sentences with phrase «quality has taken»

In practical terms, it's hard to discern the extent to which build quality has taken a hit.

Unfortunately, an A / B comparison between the new Echo Plus and the original Echo reveals the sound quality has taken a slight turn for the worse.

It's nice that voice acting returns for more important cutscenes and the catchy, memorable Dragon Quest music is all here, though audio quality has taken a hit across the board, optimized for the 3DS speakers, and not a decent pair of headphones.

Interior quality has taken a big step forward too with the overall fit and finish easily rivaling anything with a Volkswagen badge.

The design amplifies the width, but it's also a more efficient use of space, while quality has taken a big leap over its predecessor.»

It's also more spacious inside, now proving to be a truly practical family car, while interior quality has taken a significant step up.

the first few trailers had proper real time lighting but now the game looks flat and too cartoon like, the texture quality has taken a big hit and the character models look like PS2 or Wii games upscaled!

Yes, there have been moments of play of such aesthetic quality they have taken the breath away.

Melissa's chameleon - like qualities have taken her down a path of great success, and she attributes much of her journey to the simple act of «saying yes.»

Not exact matches

We've taken everything into consideration and read the buyer reviews to find the best hair straighteners that will help you achieve salon quality results in your own home.

Creating repeat customers takes all the steps Nesi has taken for Roar: creating a quality product, marketing it so customers will actually try it and creating a brand that keeps them around.

And while your choice of wardrobe can be an important signal to your colleagues of how seriously you take your job, it may also be having a more direct effect on the quality of the work you do.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

Each shared car, she explains, can take up to 30 cars off the road and «have a big impact on decreasing congestion and improving air quality.»

The plant in La Pocatiere, Que., will lend a hand by taking on work transferred from an operation in Mexico where there have been quality issues.

In a statement to the Journal, a Theranos spokesperson noted that «excellence in quality and patient safety is our top priority and we've taken comprehensive corrective measures to address the issues CMS raised in their observations.»

According to Klimscha, Hitbox's 4K picture quality, as well as the fact that the platform offers the lowest latency (the time it takes for streaming video to reach your screen through your internet connection), has helped Hitbox grow to 6 million viewers and counting.

«And they have departed from their traditional sort of approach — with lots of mass and lots of submarines but of sort of varying quality — and they are taking a page from our playbook, which is go for quality instead.»

Personal branding has become a requirement for anyone looking to grow their business, get a better job, get noticed by the press, take their career to the next level or meet new, high quality friends.

We've taken the worst quality, least safe feeding system in America, one that is potentially hazardous and potentially toxic, and taken it to a level where it's U.S. food grade and certified for human use.

With the increase in High - Quality Investors (HQIs) courting the sector, young women jewellery designers have taken to entrepreneurship to seize opportunities in market

To see how this works, all you have to do is take a look at any Trump interaction with his supporters, whether through Twitter or Facebook (including his «Trump TV» broadcasts, which critics have attacked as low quality, thereby missing the point).

If you take advantage of Twillory, a men's clothing company that makes high - quality dress shirts at competitive prices, it doesn't have to be quite as expensive as you think.

It comes clad in a CNC - machined aluminum housing that The SSD Review finds «capable of taking all the abuse you can give it,» while Forbes says they'd be perfectly comfortable with throwing it out a second story window due to its sublime and sturdy build quality.

Remember that in order to understand the quality and fit of a candidate you must ask tough questions, demand elaboration, give assignments — whatever it takes to understand the scope of what they have to offer.

Good photographs are good news because it means the host has taken the time to take quality photos that showcase their property and that they have nothing to hide.

This year she took on the traditional «competitive male» view of business and shattered it with one quick swoop and really showed the importance of having a small business that balances masculine and feminine qualities.

Through my study of successful entrepreneurs, I've consistently observed the following traits and many startup leaders take pride in these qualities and identify with them on a personal level:

He points out that while the Internet has slashed or even eliminated the price of entertainment, people have historically enjoyed many leisure activities that didn't cost much money, including taking solitary walks in the park and spending quality time with family members who weren't perpetually distracted by Twitter.

In the mid-tier price range, Oppo and Vivo have released high - quality but lower priced devices and are aggressively taking market share.

Among the other steps that Twitter has taken to curb abuse is a new filter that tries to weed out harassing or «low quality» replies to user's tweets.

The good news is that you don't have to put up with exponentially high fees if you take the time to put in quality research.

We're a lean company — we don't have a whole bunch of people sitting around waiting to take over a company — so we're very much concerned about the quality of the people in the business, the quality of management.

Office workers are often judged by petty things completely unrelated to the quality and quantity of the work they do, such as what time someone gets to and leaves work, the number of breaks they take or if a passerby happens to notice they've got Facebook open.

In fact, I've found that slacking off makes me more productive because I slack strategically — meaning that I take breaks at designated times, for regular intervals, in ways that sharpen my focus when I sit back down to work,» she argues, asserting that «strategic slacking has enabled me to dramatically increase both the quality of my work and the amount I get done in a given day.»

Take advantage of the light - hearted, festive atmosphere to have a group feedback session, where every team member has to state one positive quality and one area of improvement for every other teammate.

Easterbrook, who has vowed to remake McDonald's as a «modern, progressive burger company,» has been taking steps to bolster the taste and quality of McDonald's food by using butter instead of margarine on Egg McMuffins and switching to cage - free eggs and chicken from animals raised with fewer antibiotics.

If anything, society's increasing techo - ification has made people more appreciative of quality food and the time it takes to make and enjoy.

The investigation stemmed from allegations that UNC had a system in which students took an African Studies course that never met, had little instruction, and required only one paper that received high marks, regardless of quality.

A team of psychological scientists from George Mason University has found that interruptions don't just take up time; they also degrade the overall quality of people's work.

A PERTH audience has been given a crash course in taking massive action to change the quality of their bank account by Canadian author Gerry Robert.

Google is developing a larger, higher - quality, and assumably higher - priced Google Home that would take on the likes of the Sonos Play: 3, according to two sources familiar with the project.

We have developed long - standing relationships with a number of our vendors and take great care to ensure that they share our commitment to quality and ethics.

«If these mergers were to take place, the competition among insurers that has pushed them to provide lower premiums, higher - quality care and better benefits would be eliminated,» Loretta E. Lynch, then the United States attorney general, said in July.

For example, some investors may have taken on more risk in their portfolios in recent years by moving into lower - quality bonds or dividend stocks, in an attempt to generate additional yield.

A buyer who knows or suspects that property has an underground storage tank should take appropriate steps to protect his own interests, including seeking information from the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and, if necessary, consulting with an environmental hazards specialist or attorney.

If valuations are favorable and quality of market action suggests that investors have a robust preference to take risk, a substantial exposure to market fluctuations can be very rewarding.

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But by learning how to take control of these forces, you can take massive action and can create the quality of life that you've always wanted.

The lackluster performance has revealed a hard truth about the quality of investments made during the peak years: A large number of inexperienced funds bought at inflated prices and settled for taking minority stakes, which left them little room to maneuver when growth slowed in markets like China and India.