Sentences with phrase «than an arms race»

It will become like the old Cold War scenario — a spending race rather than an arms race.

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Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

This would lead to an arms race, in which political parties work to create partisans faster than their opponents.

So it's a great time to write to your reps reminding them you're far more interested in your privacy being protected than Facebook winning some kind of surveillance arms race with the Chinese.

The Jatravartids, who live in perpetual fear of the time they call «The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief», are small, blue creatures with more than fifty arms each, who are therefore unique in being the only race in history to have invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.

It was the soul of his entire race that had shuddered within him: an obscure memory of a first sudden awakening in the midst of beasts stronger, better - armed than he; a sad echo of the long struggle to tame the corn and to master the fire; a rancorous dread of the maleficent forces of nature, a lust for knowledge and possession... A moment ago, in the sweetness of the first contact, he had instinctively longed to lose himself in the warm wind which enfolded him.

Rather than viewing upheavals in Central America in isolation from those in the Middle East, for example, observers are inclined to ask how both may reflect debt patterns in the world economy or the competition among superpowers for energy supplies or the arms race.

Football is not quite there yet, but when entering in to an arms race and spending more money than your rivals is viewed as the ONLY measure of «real ambition» and the only way to improve a team then football will eventually eat itself.

before you bash me, I wish everyone of our players the very but I love the club more than any one individual, and ramsey injury is a big shot in the arm for our title race.

In an arms race, we have no shot at being better than that.

Last Saturday's goalless draw against Lazio enabled Spalletti and co. to stop the rot they had fallen into and keep the Biancoceleste at arms» length in the race for Champions League qualification, but with no win in over a month and just 1 goal scored in the last 6 games (in all competitions) the risk is that it does little more than delay the crisis for a few days.

But we serve neither ourselves nor our children when we think of either anxiety or high stakes testing as an arms race to be won, rather than an affliction to be avoided.

To date, the federal government has spent more than $ 7 billion compensating people made sick by the government - run nuclear program that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War arms race.

There's an arms race going on among insects in the Arctic, where temperatures are increasing faster than anywhere else on the planet — and mosquitoes are winning, according to a new study.

She soon scored «younger» than I, and the brain age arms race was on.

And when two people want the same item (which happens more than once every year), instead of a catfight, we end up with an arms race of politeness — «You take it!»

Matai Shang (Mark Strong), of a race of beings called Therns that purport to be messengers of the planet's goddess, offers Than an ultimate weapon — a wiry death ray of sorts that attaches to the user's arm and emits the same mystifying blue plasma that Shang can control.

Rather than engaging in an arms race on education funding, the Coalition has so far stood firm in its position that it will not engage in a «fistful of dollars» election campaign.

The economic arms race is about degrees for the many, rather than O - levels or GCSEs for the few.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

I would no sooner arm - wrestle Vin Diesel than I would race my old VW against a modern Porsche, so the Scirocco's first two speed partners aren't exactly exotic.

Happy Hup — Our publisher samples a landmark American runabout of 1910 — the Hupmobile Model 20 / Hunting the Snipe — JonathonWood tracks down a quality car that helped keep the flag flying for Humber / Glorious Goodwood — David Venables reports that this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed was better than ever / Golden Apples — Anthony Pritchard visited Richard Gaylard Shattock now a spritley 86 at his home in Cornwall where he reminisced about his Atlanta racing days / Racing Double — Champagne corks have been popping in Norfolk and in Belgium; Douglas Blain joined the celebrations as both contestant and reporter / Arms and the Argonne — The Argonne forest in the North - East of France saw fierce fighting in the final months of the Grearacing days / Racing Double — Champagne corks have been popping in Norfolk and in Belgium; Douglas Blain joined the celebrations as both contestant and reporter / Arms and the Argonne — The Argonne forest in the North - East of France saw fierce fighting in the final months of the GreaRacing Double — Champagne corks have been popping in Norfolk and in Belgium; Douglas Blain joined the celebrations as both contestant and reporter / Arms and the Argonne — The Argonne forest in the North - East of France saw fierce fighting in the final months of the Great War.

Paul Hardiman looks into the convoluted history of this car, which has recently been re-created in its final, Brooklands racing form in Arms Race / In SS Seduction, John Warburton discovers the appeal of the Jaguar SS100 when he meets a man who has restored one from a pile of bits / Stefan Marjoram visits the 75th Goodwood Members» Meeting / In Arrivederci, Fuoriserie, Douglas Blain ponders the lost years of automobile body design in Italy, as documented in two new books, and renews his friendship with well known stylist Tom Tjaarda in Turin / For this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a rare 1909 Briton 10hp which was laid up for more than 40 years

Trying to charge the same price (or nearly the same price) for a product with more restrictions than the alternative just gives people an incentive to violate the terms of the more restrictive license, which is the last thing you want because that in turn just triggers an arms race, and then everyone loses.

The only thing I've heard or thought of to deal with this arms race is either built - in execution delays or going back to session - based call auctions rather than continuous.

If it's referring to the arms race then, once again, the concept is more at home with chapter one than chapter two as that's the chapter which actually features nuclear weapons prominently.

My opinion's also that, as @google -75 b01ca07f65fad60c1abd1c21d655b2: disqus mentions below, casual game dependency is a far smaller threat than the technology and content arms race.

In 1845, Victor Robert exhibited Religion, Philosophy, the Sciences and the Arts Enlightening Europe, while in 1846, no less a figure than Baudelaire himself deigned to notice the Universal Charity of Laemlein, a bizarre confection representing a personification of Charity holding in her arms three children: «one is of the white race, the other red, the third black; a fourth child, a little Chinese, typifying the yellow race, walks by her side.»

Because our legs are stronger than our arms, pedal powered «grinding» allows for quicker tacking and gybing in a race, but it could also be useful to reduce the required manpower for commercial sailing ships.

Photo: Toyota Update: Toyota Introduces the Yaris HSD Hybrid Concept Should have Better MPG Than Prius There's a new kind of arms race on the road, except that this one doesn't involve bigger vehicles and more horsepower.

Therefore, the Act is much broader than just advocating gender pay equity, instead, the Act expands equal pay on the basis of membership in the protected class which includes, among others, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, civil union status, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, genetic information, pregnancy or breastfeeding, sex, gender identity or expression, disability or atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait of any individual, or liability for service in the armed forces.

Its chunky 11.3mm - thick frame marks a deliberate attempt to step out of the thinness arms race, and its mix - and - match snap - on covers — in materials like wood and ultrasuede — make it clear that this is more than just a rebranded reference design.

In addition to ensuring your phone maintains a full battery, there are additional software techniques you can use (although, as you can imagine, these are less than ideal and not guaranteed to work given the constantly evolving arms race of security exploits).

More than 50 AI experts have boycotted a South Korean university, over fears that it could be looking to «accelerate the arms race» by building so - called «killer robots».

And the promise of turning big payoffs from buying Bitcoin into real - world cash has created a technological arms race among currency miners, a shortage of computers for scientists, and that, in sum, is worse for the environment than gold mining.

High Dynamic Range (HDR) is the latest buzzword in the smartphone displays arms race, promising enhanced colors, superior contrast, and an overall better viewing experience than Standard Dynamic Range equivalents.

Armed with a strong determination to win the race, Jake used his unique skills on the Internet to find a flaw in the invite system, which allowed him to defy his current ranking of 335,000 and land on the highly desirable number of 1,694, which is even better than the first ranking that he earned.