Sentences with phrase «same as winning»

Nevertheless, this is the same as winning a lottery.

«The odds of anyone calling you on the phone with good investment advice are about the same as winning the Lotto without buying a ticket.»

Should you have more serious credit problems, your chances of landing a loan are nearly the same as winning the next Olympics.

He has won the «anti-Clegg, anti-Establishment» argument, but that is not the same as winning the EU argument.

It will be the same as winning a trophy... blah blah blah.»

And they'll be using a number that values a win over a 7 - 5 team (by one point or by 50) the same as a win over a 12 - 1 team (by one or by 50).

W - L records aren't accurate because a win against the Tennessee Titans or Cleveland Browns (in the eastern-most time zone) is not the same as a win against the Patriots or Steelers.

Not exact matches

It seems like every day there's a new breakthrough in A.I., whether it's a system that consistently renders the same verdict as trial judges or a computer capable of winning millions of dollars from the world's best poker players.

The difference is likely due to testosterone levels: Men who win in competitive situations feel emboldened to try again, even as the odds of losing grow; women don't exhibit the same tendency.

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

Kathryn Bigelow may have won the directing Oscar over James Cameron in 2009, but «The Hurt Locker» wasn't even in the same box - office ballpark as «Avatar.»

Though it didn't win, the same can't be said for some other movies that are just as terrible.

The odds of reviving the 85 - year - old iron foundry Foster bought were about the same as those of the nearby Indians, Browns, and Cavaliers all winning championships in the same year.

Just as President Obama's Affordable Care Act was seen as a boon to hospital and other health care stocks, President Trump's desire to roll back his predecessor's health reform law has threatened those same companies» share prices since he won the election.

So, we can't win on straight price comparison because then we're the same as everyone else.

He lost his bid to replace Harris as party leader in 2002, his seat in the 2003 provincial election, his bid for the leadership of the Conservative party in 2004 and his first attempt to win a federal seat later the same year.

Trump partly won the White House by arguing deals such as the TPP hurt manufacturing workers in the Rust Belt, and many Democrats have opposed trade agreements on the same grounds.

Motivated now by a burning desire to avenge his treatment and to win recognition for his originality, he launched a company that competed in the same space as his former employer.

He scored a big win in 2015, if you recall, when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to include it in its basket of reserve currencies, placing the yuan in the same league as the U.S. dollar, British pound, Japanese yen and euro.

The big winning number that shocked Wall Street, however, was same - store sales — up 3.9 percent as opposed to the 2.9 percent for which analysts were looking.

As Adele explains, even if you have two distinct audiences with two distinct buyer profiles (e.g., the CMO and the CIO of a company), if their decision criteria or insights (i.e., those turning - point factors instrumental to winning them over) are primarily the same, you may be able to use one persona to create content that will meet the needs of both buyers.

On the same day, a then little - known British company based in London sent out a press release: «We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data - driven communication has played such an integral part in President - elect Trump's extraordinary win,» Alexander James Ashburner Nix was quoted as saying.

French's strategy would have yielded the same risk - adjusted return as Peter Lynch's legendary run and beaten Bill Miller's famous 15 - year win streak against the S&P 500.

Coworking also «wins hands down» in terms of budget and ease of management for FinTechs, according to Ian Wright, founder at merchant comparison site Merchant Machine, who said: «The added benefits to FinTechs are that many of your potential customers may also work in the same building / coworking group as you.»

But, if you have decided to do so on your own, without the benefit of trading signals, you most likely will not achieve nearly the same win rate as you will with the best signal providers.

Let's be blunt... Retail Forex, since it's inception, has been structured around the same principal mantra as Casino Gambling, «The house ALWAYS wins.»

And he's the only author to have won both the ABBY (American Booksellers Book of the Year) Award and the Southern California Book Publicist Award in the same year — honoring him as both an outstanding writer and a consummate book marketer.

Season highlighted by his win at the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial (the 11th win of his PGA TOUR career), winning the same week as he reached No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time.

Indeed, one might imagine the Demiurge's definition of hell as a place where the inmates are condemned to playing the same Nintendo game forever, knowing before each play that they are doomed to suffer once more the reversal of the expectation that they might win.

Even while preaching absolute truth, propositions, sin, and hell, Keller will quote the Apostle Paul in the same breath as a quote from Bono, and all to make a point meaningful to his congregation, not to win cool points.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and leading Supreme Court advocate Paul Clement — the same legal team that won Hobby Lobby — filed the petition on behalf of the Little Sisters as well as the Christian Brothers Employee Benefit Trust, Christian Brothers Services, Reaching Souls International, Truett - McConnell College, and GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention.

me personally i don't care either way; they deserve the same treatment as any other human in america, just a flashback what if the majority had won out during the whole segregation / voting rights of minorities?

Last summer my cousin Antwyn Golden was murdered and I wrote a song about forgiving his killer as Christ forgave me, it wasn't an easy or overnight process and I turned to other things to fill the empty void but they were unsatisfying and only left me emptier, Christ was truly the only reason that I didn't go crazy, retaliation is never the answer its just continuing the destructive vicious cycle of nothingness and putting another family through the same pain that you experienced and no one wins in that.

A New York Times story over the weekend chronicled how some individuals and organizations eager to see same - sex marriage legalized have stopped trying to win others to their point of view through reasoned argument and have turned, instead, to emotional epithets as their main rhetorical tool.

The same way we're in a propaganda war against Islam, as Bloomberg put it, we have been fed propaganda about Hamas, the group which was almost unheard of until they won parliamentary elections in 2006.

In his memoirs, he and his family have always viewed religion the same as mythology (as it should be) and joined a church when running for office because for some absurd and ignorant reason you can not win an elected office without professing Christian beliefs.

And it's a contest that PowerPoint always wins because, as Richard Lischer has observed, when the brain is asked to listen and watch at the same time, it always quits listening.

Secretary Anderson called for a «simple spiritual mission of proclamation of the gospel so as to win souls, gather them into churches, and enlist them in the same mission.

He keeps making this same flawed argument, like his other flawed arguments, over and over in hopes that his audience will get tired of giving the routine refutation and let his comments slide, which he takes as a «win», also like Craig.

Keen, who once shared a house with alternative country crooner Lyle Lovett while the two were at Texas A&M, has not met with the same mainstream recognition as his more famous college roommate (who, after all, has a marriage to an Oscar - winning actress on his resume).

In the light of that experience, we have read history again, noting the rise and fall of nations and cultures in cycles which in the perspective seem as short and are apparently as final and futile as the life - span of a man, evil manifesting itself continually in the same hideous forms, good winning its victories but also suffering its defeats, as century follows century and our tiny planet is hurled on its precarious way among the stars.

The fact that Jackson used the words «asparagus» and «good» in the same sentence is a total parenting win as far as I'm concerned.

It is a sport so cruel that its popularity is anything but a credit to those that patronize it, / a number of plump ganders, whose necks are well - greased, are suspended at the regulation height, in much the same manner as rings arranged at ordinary tournaments The «knights» who enlist from the prizes dash out on their horses in courtly fashion and grab each of those down - hanging necks in succession as they pass, the most skillful rider and «puller» winning the prizes.

Hearteningly, a University College London study showed how the steps taken to eat more healthily, such as cutting out meat, were the same as those to curb climate change — a win - win situation that more governments would do well to heed.

At the same time, it makes me nostalgic for the pies I devoured after winning a T - ball game as a kid, combined with the traditional ingredients and flavors of the pizza I fell in love with on a trip to Naples years ago.

Their latest winning platform is Porcellino's, a part - café, part — butcher shop in the same complex as their other spots.

Those can help but it won» t be the same as a properly cooked good quality steak.

If you're not a Nutella fan, the same method would be great with peanut butter, since peanut butter and banana are a winning combo as well.

And getting these muffins baked at the same time as I am marking tests is what I call winning.

As a long - standing seaside San Diego eatery nearing its 25 - year anniversary at the same location, Pacifica Del Mar Restaurant is well - known by locals and perennial tourists, alike, for its award - winning fare.