Sentences with phrase «stakes for what»

They pay very little attention to any backstory to the characters or give them high enough stakes for what they may lose if they don't make it out.

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«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.

Niel's NJJ Telecom Europe and French telecommunications company Iliad did not disclose what they paid for the stakes, but said the deal put Eir's enterprise value at around $ 3.5 billion ($ 4.1 billion).

By setting up deals in which Lunar would receive equity - based compensation from its clients, the founders could tap into «the power of the multiple» — the ability to turn what might have been simply a fee - for - service payment into an equity stake worth much more in the long run.

What's more, Alibaba has been around for decades, and Yahoo's sizable ownership stake also bolstered its presence in the U.S. and confidence in its offering.

That's what's at stake for businesses in a case called Spokeo, Inc. vs. Robins, which the high court agreed to hear on Monday.

It has staked its future on doing so through devices like its Google Home smart assistant device, a competitor for Amazon's Echo, which sits on a table and responds to voice commands like «What is the weather like today?»

So, I think for our purposes it was really just about keeping the motivations clear about what the stakes are.»

What is clear is that if the TPP gets completed, it will set the new rules for global trade, in which Canada has a critical stake.

When you're determining ownership stakes among business founders and new investors, how do you do what's fair and equitable for everyone?

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

Guests explore their greatest challenges and failures, which makes for a very humanizing and yet somehow encouraging discussion about what business can be when the stakes are highest.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis takes a look at what's at stake for the energy industry if the U.S. imposes an import tax on oil.

Other investors include Silicon Valley fund Technology Crossover Ventures, which invested $ 250 million in 2014 for a 10 % stake, and 21st Century Fox, which in 2013 bought what was then a 5 % stake in Vice for $ 70 million (it now owns about 3 %).

Tune in to find out what's at stake, and how investors are positioning themselves for the future.

That research process is so important in brands raising the stakes, we need to be the pioneers for our consumers to deliver an experience based on what our brand has coming.

So he knows what it's like to compete for high - stakes talent.

They can easily see what stakes they have in companies and what those shares are worth now, and then use eShares to create financial reports for their limited partners (the people or institutions whose money they manage).

In the meantime, what's at stake for Mike Dunne just seems to keep him focused on the hard, grinding work ahead.

Cramer said it's just crazy that Coppola turned down a 36 % premium for Macerich's shareholders, especially given that Simon's offer was a 50 - 50 cash and stock deal that would have netted Macerish shareholders a big stake in what would've been a combined mall REIT titan.

As Zillow Group and multiple listing services (MLSs) have been scrambling to come to terms over direct feed agreements ahead of today's deadline, a couple of deals — one successful and one unsuccessful — show what's at stake for brokers and MLSs.

What's at stake for big cell phone companies with the iPhone 6 hitting stores in one week as they fight to sign up more customers?

Whatever the topic, we show your employees what's at stake for them, personally.

But it let the public know what its officials had at stake in the policies for which they advocated.

Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

Last month, Mr. Ackman sold his firm's entire stake in Valeant, resulting in a $ 4 billion loss, and apologized for what he called a «huge mistake.»

Phil LeBeau is in China taking a look at what's at stake for car companies.

What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

If you never raise another round of venture capital (a big if) and if your company is sold for the normal venture exit ($ 50 million on average for 200 or so annually that get sold) then what is your stake?

To get a sense of what's at stake when you pull out of the market, even temporarily, during a bear market, the Schwab Center for Financial Research compared the returns from four hypothetical portfolios:

From online to bricks and mortar, the very concept of what stores are, how consumers shop them, and even the core economic model for revenue, will be will be profoundly reinvented; changes sure to affect not only retailers large and small but any business with a stake in the global retail industry.

Despite all this, however, Ver remains one of the more captivating proponents of bitcoin, advocating for what any of his supporters see as their stake in the network - and their vision for its use.

In what is considered a first step for even bigger foreign direct investment to Sri Lanka, TPG Capital announced in August it would invest $ 113 million to buy a majority stake in Union Bank, a small distressed financial institution based in Colombo.

What's at stake for California?

What matters for stock behavior are the marginal effects of trades, not simply who has the largest stake

According to this article, he still holds a large personal stake in WR Grace (and what must be a massive personal deferred tax liability of something close to $ 100 million — he bought the stock for $ 2 in the early 2000's).

«The answer may be entirely innocent,» Mr. Denton said, musing on the question of whether Mr. Harder was paid by someone other than Mr. Hogan, «but I think in order for people to understand what's going on here, what the stakes are, I think it's important that it be out in public, or at least that he'd be asked the question in public.»

Once employee owners learn, for instance, how cash flows through the company and what factors affect the bottom line, most will gain a different perspective on how their personal actions relate to the company's success and, by extension, the value of their ownership stake.

What you will do is set the amount you want to be the maximum stake for each individual trade.

It just doesn't bother us because what we're doing is building a collection of long - term cash - generating ownership stakes in firms that we want to hold for a very long time.

Arthur — good issue raised.The candidacy of Hollande will not make much difference for French policy for it was Mitterand who pushed for Maastricht even though the referendum barely passed — the French are terrified of decoupling from the Germans for as DeGaulle famously said — EUROPE IS FRANCE AND GERMANY — all the others are mere trimmings.Also, Germany is the coach and France the coachman — there is so much at work here — the media does a greart disservice by measuring it in sound bites.Sarkozy is bringing Merkel in to campaign for him to subtlely remind the French citizens what is at stake in the upcoming French elections.The tear gas is in Athens but game is in Paris

So what's at stake for the three countries in a NAFTA 2.0?

This must not become an either / or debate, and anyone who turns it into such is vying for «pork» or pandering to folks who are afraid and unaware of what's at stake.

Average people taking a stand for what is right, with the stakes being darkness ultimately winning if they didn't take a «stand».

What finally emerged in the summer of 1518 from this frantic rethinking — recall that Luther was trying to work through the theological issue while at the same time explaining to the world why he shouldn't be burned at the stake for heresy — seems to have been shaped primarily by reflection on texts such as Matthew 16:19: «Whatever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven.»

For years and years the Church abused the power they had.They screwed over my Ancestors who were not Christians, forced people to convert, burned people at the stake, tortured people, stole lands, and who knows what else.

In the letter, Cook explains what is at stake for the security of all Apple customers if they were to carry out the wishes of the FBI and hack one of its users.

What is at stake in this for Whitehead is the achieving of a new concept of entity that he believes can reside only in these ultimate events.

Whether «love» alone is a sufficient basis for ethical behavior, particularly when the larger society has a stake in what happens to a marriage, is a matter which Sinks does not address.

for our time, raises (up) what Philip Rieff refers to (in contrast to the question of one's parents) as the «parent question», the question of the moral stakes involved in human creaturehood.