Sentences with phrase «something bigger at»

I said some time last year that, when you're in a legal battle, it always helps to have something bigger at stake.

But it's always fun in a legal battle to have something bigger at stake than a mere victory.

First, if your instinct tells you that there's something bigger at play, connect with someone trained in breastfeeding support.

Malloy is obviously angling for something big at the national level in the event his gubernatorial bid should prove unsuccessful.

The Minions boxes are the start of something big at Amazon.

The gaming world expects someone to say something big at the upcoming E3, and I don't mean «get ready for Kinect Star Wars 2.»

As the first of the big three, Microsoft tends to come out swinging — and with so many rumors of new hardware swirling around this year, you can expect to see something big at this year's show.

We've lots of things crossed that Sony will do something big at IFA 2015.

Not exact matches

The only good news about the big guys is that there is another group of them (think AOL and Yahoo for starters) who are so lost, so behind the curve, and so desperate to deliver something for their shareholders that they are constantly running around and throwing money at the shiniest new things in a panic.

But Karl Martin, co-founder of Bionym, the company that makes the Nymi, has his sights on a bigger goal: «persistent identity» — the idea that the Nymi, or something like it, could make the wearer instantly recognizable to wireless devices everywhere, whether at home or at a coffee shop in London.

Disappointing as this may sound, the lack of women at the top is not the biggest issue here — it's merely a symptom of something far more insidious: unconscious bias against women.

With every Mars rendezvous we will be sending a Dragon — at least a Dragon to Mars, and ultimately the big spaceship — so if there are people that are interested in putting payloads on Dragon, you know you can count on a ship that's going to transport something on the order of at least 2 or 3 tons of useful payload to the surface of Mars.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

Consider the possibility that you're making all of that money so you can do something that's bigger than you and whatever it is you're supposed to be focusing on at work.»

«When you look at why people are still getting hacked or breached, I think a big contributor to that is either not knowing if you were patched or if you were patched and you were secure at one point, but something happened in operations that caused you not to be patched again,» Mong said.

«Unless something big happens, [Apple] doesn't deserve to trade at 20 to 25 times earnings anymore.

Whether it's a new product or something as benign as a store layout, you don't have to look hard to find examples of (largely white) men at tech companies siloing themselves off to develop The Next Big Thing, only to discover a major, avoidable flaw after the fact.

In short, the company has created something entirely new for the computing world that is designed to handle the big data jobs that companies are trying to throw at today's specialized hardware and cloud offerings.

«Our conversations with investors certainly indicated a «have» and «have not» view of media stocks domestically, with [bigger companies](the Haves) able to leverage their large breadth of content into something near full carriage on emerging distribution packages like YouTube TV, perhaps at the expense of the Have Not [small to medium companies],» RBC analyst Steven Cahall wrote in a note to clients Monday.

It's better to bring a mixup into the open so as to be able to then return to the topic at hand instead of letting a small misunderstanding spiral into something bigger.

The big idea is something almost anyone with a cell phone can understand: The need to break the nonstop addiction of looking at your phone.

Herjavec says at 22, he didn't dream big enough — and that's why he didn't quite understand how to channel creativity into something tangible.

It's not easy finding a connection between a big Australian cattle company, an American business that makes jet engines, and the Western Australian government's insurance arm, but if you look closely they're all doing something at the same time — selling property.

«I'm a big proponent of simplicity and efficiency, so rather than own a car and use it infrequently, I've opted to use car sharing services that provide wheels when I need them and take the hassle and expense out of car ownership,» she notes, pointing out that «we're focused on something similar at Sunrun.»

«The biggest turn - off is if someone says they are «best - of - breed» or something similar in their given profession,» says Monica Roy, recruiting manager at a Seattle - based marketing and tech consultancy POP.

His big idea for 2017: combine your product with an experience — something Aston Martin has been known to excel at under his watch.

For difference makers, it's about more than money — it's about meaningful work and being a part of something bigger than the task at hand.

As sales gets on the phone, the face changes, a big smile, he has found something, or at least he thinks he has.

The festival is a buffet of FOMO — that's «fear of missing out» — and everyone you talk to is looking over your shoulder or glancing at their phone, worried they're missing something big.

So seek out opportunities to feel dwarfed by something much bigger than yourself and your problems, such as gazing at the night sky, hiking through inspiring landscapes, reading up on the mysteries and grandeurs of physics, or even checking out an awe - inspiring YouTube video if you're stuck at your desk.

When your team is looking for guidance from the guy / gal at the top, you've come up with something that may have a big impact — potentially beyond your specific unit.

Great Big Story, a new initiative developed by the best digital minds at CNN, is an opportunity to capture that spirit again and to really be on the frontline of something new.

But if a brand is big and ubiquitous, a CEO puts her enterprise at risk by engaging at all, something for which no - one will thank her if the result is a decimated stock price and shuttered factories.

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Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

As Congress returns from recess this week, the big question is whether the shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed at least 17 people, and injured more than a dozen others, will push Congress to actually do something on guns.

Each team member brings their own unique style to the table and the team collectively strives to achieve the goal at hand — accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself.

As Todd Tucker, a trade expert at the left - leaning Roosevelt Institute, argues, the move could be productive if it was actually a bargaining chip for something bigger: negotiations with the global community over how to deal with China's cheating on steel production.

Something on the wrist that was really good and simple at making sure they took their medicines, or at least reminding them to do it, could make a big difference.

That may help alleviate some of the tension at JFK right now, but given the size of the crowds and the uncertainty surrounding those who have been detained by customs officials, it will take something much bigger than a working AirTrain to bring calm to the scene.

After a brief lag, the drug is now being prescribed at the rate of at least 10,000 scripts a day, outpacing such famous quick starters as the antidepressant Prozac (which went on to become one of the biggest - selling drugs in America) and the baldness remedy Rogaine (which has been something of a disappointment after its initial blaze of popularity).

In 2007 something went wrong with the Ponzi racket certain big institutions had going, in which they enriched themselves at the expense of the public through an officially supported commercial credit bubble.

As with the stock market outlook, a big part of this will come down to the macro / earnings pulse remaining on the positive side - and indeed this is a key focus for us at this point, and something we've been talking at length to clients about.

Many seem to be waiting for «the big kill,» the sucker who proverbally is born every minute, but whom a Russian only needs to meet once in a lifetime to dump his assets at an inflated price (something like the Rockefellers finally being able to dump their money - losing Rockefeller Center on the Japanese when the once - in - a-lifetime spike of New York real - estate prices occurred in 1988).

While I believe markets are efficient when it comes to stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities and reflect all known information at the time, in the case of bitcoin, and a few other instances like the ONLY stock I've bought in over a year (now up big), when I start to see the mainstream media reporting on something, google search volume through the roof (chart below) and lastly, when your mom asks about it — it may be signaling mainstream acceptance and further expansion of a major bubble.

Everyone has a different interest, but the reality is if the big picture way of looking at things is hey there's too much debt then central banks are going to be forced to devalue their currency to finance that that you're probably going to want your money in something of tangible value as opposed to something based on that currency which is going to be devaluing.

Now, she's onto something big with her work as the Director of Civic Innovation at the City of Toronto.

And no one out there in big brand land wants to stick their head over the media parapet and decry the current scandal because, quite frankly, there is something relatively similar going on at many big corporations.

«You look at other, bigger ecosystems that have entrenched relationships and a dogma in place; whereas, we're able to mobilize and react faster — see something, do something.

I am a big fan in putting your faith into something that you believe in, even at the cost of being wrong.