Sentences with phrase «than a spot on»

It was a deserving bunch of winners, but there were genuinely many more equally deserving companies than spots on the podium.

For a man earning his money he deserves nothing more than a spot on the bench.

Also, some of those spots are much bigger relative to the star's size than the spots on our Sun.

These brownies are more than spot on.

The bad news is that it is much more labor intensive and time consuming than spot on type treatments.

The bias against introverts in American society is well documented, including research that shows that a spot on the cheerleading team foreshadows career success much more reliably than a spot on the honor roll.

Not exact matches

Take the $ 2.2 - billion over three years on child care, including to provide free licensed daycare spots for kids older than 2 1/2 until kindergarten.

Rather than being proof of malfeasance by Sears or gullibility on the part of consumers, that the store sold so few tires at a high regular price suggests buyers are perfectly able to spot a good deal.

More than 1.5 million people take in the world's premiere spot for getting an early start on the festivities, but there's more to see than just fireworks.

Spots for the Shake Weight have been viewed more than a million times on YouTube, thanks largely to the suggestive way that women in the infomercial hold — and shake — the weight.

One other potential bright spot on the horizon for AWS carriers is the arrival of so - called pentaband phones, which have chip sets that can run on five different frequencies rather than the four that many smartphones currently accommodate.

Stranger Things led the social - media pack out of 65 different brands, which ran 104 spots in 49 ad breaks on Fox for just under 49.9 minutes of dedicated ad time, according to iSpot.tv, which measures activity from more than 10 million smart TVs and tracks responses to TV ads on social and digital platforms.

Because everyone had ready access to inventory and order information, employees spotted the problems more quickly than they might have and, accustomed to a collaborative work style, were able to collectively brainstorm on solutions.

But it's hard to describe just how different the journey feels now that we focus on developing the bright spots rather than rethinking and reworking ideas that just won't stick.

«My broad base of lateral thinking comes from being a mechanic,» says Reimer, whose Winnipeg firm, FXR Racing Inc., has more than doubled its sales over the past five years, earning it a spot on the 2014 PROFIT 500.

Teams get to this spot because they are more focused on what has gone wrong in the past, than what they can do about impacting the future.

Yet it's not, and the DevFacto workforce is more engaged than ever: The firm has earned a spot on the 50 Best Small and Medium Employers (BSME) in Canada ranking for the third consecutive year, and its average annual employee retention rate is 98 %.

Greenfield said passionate sports fans are focused on their mobile or tablet during commercial breaks rather than watching ads on TV, so it creates a new way to monetize viewers who are less and less interested in ad spots.

As of the close on Thursday, the stock has risen more than 8 percent since Najarian spotted the activity on the «Halftime Report.»

With Walmarts reliably saturating most of the suburban United States, RV tourists, weary drivers on a budget, and more than a few open - road eccentrics can count on being able to find a spot to park their cars — and themselves — for the night.

Verbal data dumps, though, are almost always meant to overwhelm the audience with facts they can't quite check on the spot, and Redford's wasn't any more dishonest than most — let alone those of some of the Keystone opponents.

With Fox selling ad space at more than $ 5 million for each 30 - second spot, companies seeking brand visibility on the world's largest stage are risking an expensive disappointment if their commercials fall flat.

With three - year revenue growth of 790 percent — and 2014 total revenue of more than $ 2 million — PrepNow has earned a spot at No. 590 on the Inc. 5000.

The next patient requires an endoscopic procedure, and Apstein performs it on the spot, something he prefers to do whenever possible rather than wasting both parties» time juggling schedules.

I have more than I need but I am always happy to find a spot on our team for more great agents.»

Take, for example, CDnow Inc., a Web - based music retailer that spent more than $ 1 million to air three spots during the February 1998 telecast of the Grammy Awards on CBS.

Less than a day after its release this week, StephMoji shot to the top spot on the iTunes paid apps chart.

No one really likes annual performance reviews, yes they serve a purpose, but most people like to have on the spot feedback, and in today's always on, always connected the world the demand for that type of feedback is higher than ever.

From 1997 on, it was solidly in the second place spot except for a few dips and never sank lower than third, battling it out with Microsoft / MSN for the most part.

On July 10, Juno returned one of the closest - ever views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot — a larger - than - Earth storm that is actually shrinking.

In the Olay spot, a swaggering young military pilot hits on his female instructor, only to discover to his astonishment that she is a former teacher of his, and so, we are to surmise, quite a bit older than she looks.

But if you want to take a small step toward the digital future, what could be a simpler way of building your grocery store list (or reordering commodity goods on the spot) than swiping that empty can, package or container past a simple bar code reader that lived in your kitchen.

(Pssst... you might spot brands other than Tech Nation on your journey through our website.

These organizational strategies have helped Macy's woo and energize technology stars, increase its e-commerce revenue growth to more than 30 % a year over the past two years, and attain the top spot on the 2011 L2 Digital IQ Index for specialty retailers.

This article is brilliant for the clients i have who are more computer literate than others, and interested in trying to re-establish their rankings, spot on!!

Natural Gas Natural gas futures were among the quarter's key decliners -LRB--7.5 %, to US$ 2.73 per million British thermal units) as production growth outweighed seasonal consumption and higher exports of the fuel.1 Spot prices saw an even larger drop of 20.6 % (to US$ 2.81) as the support of December's weather - related demand spikes faded and a more normal winter pattern developed.1 Natural gas generally took its downward price cues from elevated US production and growth in the natural gas - focused rig count, which increased from 179 to 194 in March alone.2 Despite the price drop, traders remained optimistic given surging US shale - gas exports and a supply deficit that was 20 % larger than the five - year average at March - end, the biggest in four years.3 Moreover, total natural gas inventories of 1.38 trillion cubic feet were nearly 33 % below their year - ago level.3 Meanwhile, the market appeared focused on an anticipated production surge (2018 is projected to be a record growth year for gas supplies) and may have overlooked intensifying demand as US exports increasingly helped drain supplies.

Well, we thought it would be useful to review everyone's predictions for marketing in 2014, and it turns out that more than a few were spot on (or close enough that we'll count it).

With better - than - reported fundamentals, a long history of dividend growth, and undervalued stock price, this firm earns a spot on this month's Dividend Growth Stocks Model Portfolio and is this week's Long Idea.

Even the beginner student of nutritionism will immediately spot several flaws: the focus was on» fat,» rather than on any particular food, like meat or dairy.

In her exclusive 2011 interview, Stormy told In Touch that they kept in touch (no pun intended) because he was offering her a spot on The Apprentice, which she was more than interested in.

Edward Jones moved up to 444 on this year's list, up 47 spots from No. 491, with more than $ 5.7 billion in revenue for 2013.

Apple wants to cash in on more than 2 million apps in the App Store by letting developers pay for the top promotional spot in its search results.

DBC's differentiating factor is mainly that it dynamically picks the futures contracts it holds in an attempt to mitigate contango, which occurs when futures contracts are priced higher than spot with each successive month on the futures curve.

And its new approach to ads calls for a focus on regional, 15 - second TV buys rather than national, 30 - second spots — the brainchild of Chief Marketing Officer Richard Lennox, who joined last year from Toys R Us.

If the market for a particular commodity suffers from strong, persistent contango, an ETF that buys futures contracts on that commodity will perform worse than the spot price of the commodity itself.

But if the main bright spot in our economy is so dependent on the Federal Reserve, we should be wary of getting too giddy about a recovering housing market, and be aware that reversing central bank influence once the economy recovers may be more difficult than the Fed claims it will be.

[I disagree with the assertion that Mars Hill is a cult, but I think Fred's point about our tendency to see sexual betrayal as bad «because it involves sex rather than because it involves betrayal» is spot - on, and his concerns about Driscoll's preoccupation with sex and power are, of course, warranted.]

I can again assure you that NP is spot on in most cases, and that what he's experienced over his lifetime is (unfortunately) closer to the norm than the exception.

Thanks Gary and Carol, your responses satisfy me that we're very close to being on the same page, maybe standing at nearly the same spot, back to back, defending it from attacks in opposing directions; that is to say we differ more in emphasis than in content.

even if he remains in his home, perhaps on the same spot — through the loss of the wish, indeed, it may be as if he were among strangers, so that to suffer the loss of the wish seems to him heavier and more critical than the loss of his mind.