Sentences with phrase «stake in the ground»

But slice the data slightly differently, and you'll find an unexpected trend: The group of business owners who are really putting stakes in the ground are women veterans.

The SPF was intended to communicate our core values and our non-negotiable stakes in the ground for what we expected kids to know and be able to do and what adults were expected to do in service of children.

Create a mini golf course using glow sticks staked in the ground as «holes.»

Small but mighty, this blanket also boasts weighted corners to stop it blowing around, loops that can be staked in the ground if camping, and a water - repellent coating to protect from spillages.

«The Commission has put a global stake in the ground on carbon pricing,» said Roome.

Sure, but I think it's an important stake in the ground.»

«Pinterest is putting a huge stake in the ground by setting specific, measurable goals, targets and a 2016 timetable to achieve its diversity and inclusion goals,» he said in a press release.

You won't prove your point worthily with through yet another ad hominem stake in the ground.

«Dilly Dilly» puts a cultural stake in the ground that drives category demand, or overall demand for beer.

This Fifth Avenue boutique is Aritzia's stake in the ground marking its ambition to become a world - class retailer.

The first type, as I indicated, was simply a sharpened stake in the ground.

I happened to walk across Boston Common and the sight of thousands of flags staked in the ground caught my eye.

... I took a trip once to one of the inland glaciers in the Canadian Rockies, and there were stakes in the ground showing how much it had receded since the 1800s.

Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent has acquired a majority stake in Grinding Gear Games, the publisher of Path of Exile (think a free - to - play modern take on Diablo II but in a huge online world, with regular expansions, adventure leagues, and other evolving content).

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put two stakes in the ground yesterday in support of next - generation digital learning: one in the postsecondary school space and another in secondary schools.

Stopping any new coal export off the West Coast continues to be a major stake in the ground for the climate movement.

Individuals at my company will put stakes in the ground and let ideas evolve after they've been touched and retouched.

«Sure, but I think it's an important stake in the ground.»

That statement, that huge stake in the ground, gave us a foundation to do a bunch of other things.»

You won't prove your point worthily with a cautious but firm ad hominem stake in the ground.

Baby elephants, it seems, were traditionally trained by tying one of their front legs to a stake in the ground.

«Five or six years ago,» says Pat Perkins, VP of Marketing for HMS, «we really started putting a stake in the ground in terms of Hendrick - generated original content, in terms of utilizing social and digital platforms... and in the process we defined what success would look like, and developed a series of checklist and filters that would guide us in evaluating projects.

It gets even more complicated when you try to put a stake in the ground and commit your team to certain important ideas and values.

In 2004, this technology didn't exist, this was Apple planting a stake in the ground.

«The technologies and practicalities to create less environmentally harmful alternatives exist, and so Iceland is putting a stake in the ground.»

«Michael put a stake in the ground and said I'm not varying and I'm not going to deviate,» says Dan Richards, president of consulting firm Clientinsights.

Cycling was like a stake in the ground that kept me engaged in school.

You've got to put your stake in the ground.»

«Facebook has clearly put a stake in the ground that user experience is more important than the brands that pay them,» HubSpot's senior product marketing manager Marcus Andrews said in a statement.

While it has been quiet on the cryptocurrency trading side, one or more regulator will put a stake in the ground.

Often, we see organization put a stake in the ground about a particular tactic or strategy with respect to social media and digital marketing.

And on Friday Goldman Sachs put a stake in the ground.

SO your certainty is just based on your obstinate posturing, this is your stake in the ground so to speak, and not on anything objective at all.

----- I freely admit I have a stake in the ground.

You have to put a stake in the ground because if you are for everybody, you are for nobody.

«We do make a couple ales that are of German descent — that's our history — and so that's sort of where we've put our stake in the ground,» he says.

The organization will use those additional funds to promote the game's character and culture — «to put that stake in the ground that says, «This is what we are,»» says Stenersen.

One rope pulls one way to a stake in the ground, while another pulls the other way.

The internet has been empowering and democratising in many ways, but we haven't yet got the stakes in the ground to help people navigate safely around it.»

«This is where my administration would put a stake in the ground if we had a billion dollars,» Miner said.

«This is putting a stake in the ground that says U.S. policy is committed to ending the epidemic,» says Warren.

Metal disks stamped with letters and numbers, and nailed to stakes in the ground, identified the graves.

To take action is to put your stake in the ground and say, Yes, I've arrived.

If we are going to reinvent the supermarket, we must put a stake in the ground that can become a benchmark against which new, informed and passionate brands can develop their products, and shoppers can choose with safety and informed consent.

I want to put a stake in the ground here and hopefully you and I will talk again about how excited I am about product and how I think there is a modern version of product to bring to the market that is ours to go after.

«My hope is that it'll allow millennial women who want relationships to actually put a stake in the ground and say «This is what I want, this is the type of treatment I want, and this is what I expect.»»