Sentences with phrase «strategy after its attempted»

For Aetna, the deal would mark a change in strategy after its attempted tie - up with Humana was blocked by a federal court on antitrust grounds.

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Cory Haik, who recently joined Mic as chief strategy officer after working in a similar capacity at the Washington Post, says a big part of what she and Mic's director of growth and editorial products, Marcus Moretti, are working on is an attempt to marry traditional measurements of reader activity with newer ways of determining if readers are getting long - term value from what the site is providing.

Former Credit Suisse banker James Dunphy and pal Michael Rhodes started a campaign against the Company in March 2016, after they considered prior engagement attempts to have failed, arguing that the typically conservative Spark did not follow its acquisition strategy and lost discipline in purchasing the TransGrid stake.

The strategy after that defeat was to commit to paying the two biggest transfer fees in football history last August to sign Neymar and Kylian Mbappe for a combined 402 million euros ($ 499 million), an attempt to buy immediate success on the biggest stage.

Maybe this amounts to the chipping away that forms the Right's alternative strategy, i.e. to lay the basis for a further election attempt after several more years of frustration in political advance.

That echoes City Hall's strategy of a year ago, which was adopted after de Blasio became a polarizing figure amid his discord with Cuomo and his failed attempt to help wrest control of the Senate away from Republicans.

And his supporters are right to say that last year's shambolic coup attempt damaged the party: it was both outrageous and the mark of a farcical absence of political strategy to cripple the opposition at a time of national crisis immediately after the Brexit vote.

Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease.

After receiving Knights in the Nightmare — a game that attempts to fuse strategy - RPG with bullet - hell shooters — for review, this disconnect makes a lot more sense.

The last half - hour or so of the movie stumbles and fumbles, as Calvin grows more morose and attempts to contact his sister to help get him out, a strategy that eventually succeeds after she goes to the newspapers and blares out his story to the world.

The final, most compelling reason I don't care for the Student Achievement Partners questions is that although they teach the reading — the content of the text — there's no attempt to teach the reader strategies by which that reader can pursue meaning independently, yes independently (notice my repetition for emphasis modeled after Because of Winn - Dixie).

He added that he respects Amazon's need to pursue its business strategies, but that the company had clearly gone after authors in an attempt to pressure Hachette.

Don't mistake this occasional check - in as an attempt to abandon our strategy of buying and holding stocks for a year, after all it's worked pretty well so far (see chart below).

I sometimes gleaned abilities or strategies after several frustrating attempts to complete a level that, upon discovering, made me feel simultaneously like a drooling idiot and a strategic genius.

After repeated attempts at taking down the winged T - Rex lookalike with all but the blades on my back, I was forced to recoup and rethink my strategy.

But not all law firms will have the capital, management, or time to execute this competition strategy, and after making some half - hearted attempts to do so will increasingly face the reality of needing to run a different race.

He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad - tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad - tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch.

After attempting every possible troubleshooting strategy with Nest, I tried a second Nest Secure kit at the same location with the exact same result.

After an unsuccessful attempt to sell the company, Crown American management is establishing an acquisition - based external growth strategy driven by a $ 50 million equity offering last month.