Sentences with phrase «taking big stakes»

Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B - TSX; TECK - NYSE] and Suncor Energy Inc. [SU - TSX] are taking a bigger stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta, Teck said in a progress update....

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The people did not say how big a stake the Chinese would take in the consortium that would make the bid.

The MCNs behind some of YouTube's biggest stars have grown to become quite valuable to major media and entertainment companies: in just the last year, Disney bought Maker Studios for $ 500 million, German - based broadcaster Prosieben invested in Collective Digital Studio, Otter Media took a controlling stake in Fullscreen and Europe's RTL Group bought a majority stake in StyleHaul.

So if he buys up a chunk of your company, take it as a mark of confidence: The sale of CPPIB's stake in auto parts manufacturer Gates Corp. for $ 1.5 billion and its $ 128 - million purchase of 115,000 acres of Saskatchewan farmland are just two recent examples that show no deal is too big or small for the CCPIB head honcho.

Back in July 2012 at the CNBC - Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference, Ackman talked about the big stake he took in Procter & Gamble and then pushed for management changes.

At that time, taking on a bigger stake in Apple seemed like a potential misstep: The company's stock had been swooning amid three straight quarters of profit and revenue declines due to decreases in iPhone sales.

Last week, former Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said he has taken a 4 percent stake in Twitter, making him the third - biggest individual shareholder in the social media company.

Some big names took stakes in Snap during the first quarter, including billionaire George Soros» hedge fund, activist hedge fund Jana Partners, Daniel Loeb's Third Point and Daniel Och's Och - Ziff Capital Management.

Or you could take a stake in a firm that plays a big role in your issue of choice, like Exxon with climate change, to try and push them in the direction you want.

When Mr. Icahn took on the advisory position this year, critics complained that it was a conflict of interest because he owns a big stake in an oil - refinery business called CVR Energy.

The investor, who is notably averse to technology, is taking ever bigger stakes in companies such as Apple.

In addition, Bennigan's is rolling out a delicious new Pork Cutlet Sandwich and daring its guests to take the Big Irish Challenge, with t - shirts and other prizes at stake.

Liverpool's high pressing game will come to not in this big PL game because the Gunners have more than prepared themselves to negate whatever the Reds have on offer against them in the game by making themselves bigger in the game than the Reds have imagined by inflicting on them a heavy punishment on the field of play during the playing of the match to make them pay for the sin they've committed against Arsenal by giving them a dose of their own medicine for having the audacity to come to the Emirates Stadium and took away all the 3 points that were at stake in an opening day PL game without at least leave a point for Arsenal to collect in the match..

Their record in big games, for instance, suggests they might not quite have what it takes to deliver when there's so much at stake.

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Therefore, the Gunners must take that into cognizance a head of their visit to Old Trafford to collect all the 3 points that will be at stake in that would be epic big game encounter on Sunday evening and condemned Man Utd UCL playoffs.

Therefore, the Gunners must take that into cognizance a head of their visit to Old Trafford to collect all the 3 points that will be at stake in that would be epic big game encounter on Sunday evening and condemned Man Utd to UCL playoffs.

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

With such a lot at stake the question will be whether to take a chance on anybody who may be almost ready to return as opposed to being outright fit and available will be a big decision to make.

While baseball season is in full swing and has reached the first weekend of Inter-League play, the biggest sporting event taking place this weekend is the Preakness Stakes.

Taking a player and molding him into what you want can work some times but such a gamble is far too risky in today's world of high - stakes and big money football, the fact that Wenger is forced to resort to such strange measures, proves that there is something inherently wrong with the club.

There is alot at stake in the final and since it is only taking place couple of weeks after league season conclude Spain and Italy which provide enough time for both teams to recover and put their focus on the big final.

Trusting Steve McLaren's tactical nouse and the leadership skills of Fabricio Coloccini is not for the feint of heart but I will take the Geordies in this spot... just not for big stakes.

The publisher of Holland's biggest daily newspaper «De Telegraaf», recently took out a 70 % stake in Relatieplanet.nl.

I'm a big stakes gambler on the side and love taking big risks for big payoffs in business as well.

Malcolm's small familial unit, including son Alexander (Kodi Smit - McPhee) and whatever they call a girlfriend after the pretty - much Apocalypse, Ellie (Keri Russell), get even less fleshing out, but still provide just enough to give Clarke's Malcolm the needed stakes to take big risks.

Like all good sequels it took the ideas and set pieces of the first film and made them bigger and properly raised the stakes.

«Instead of waiting four weeks, hoping you taught it right, hoping the kids got it, then taking the big high - stakes test and then realizing nobody got what you wanted them to get; every week we just check real quick, «Are they getting the skills?

You can start to experiment with marketing and PR with a lower stakes effort (so that bombed on that post, no big deal, compared to the fear of taking a step on a 2 year investment of time).

Take for instance yet another big move yesterday: a high - stakes winner - takes - all bet in Macau casino operator Melco Resorts (NASDAQ: MLCO).

However, if I have a bigger stake, then principal preservation would be more important than taking a loss.

I think it would help to see two things: First, when the stakes are big, we ALL should live up to our responsibilities as humans: scientists don't have any real excuse to only go to «B» and not to «C», «D', or whatever it takes to bring about responsible action.

It simply puts a stake in the ground now and affirms that we will take no more big steps backward.

Lawyer A, because of the fundamental fact that large, high - stakes, fast - paced exit deals tend to consume lawyers» attention (for understandable reasons, big fees at stake) is going to take a lot longer.