Sentences with phrase «than any of its predecessors at»

Not exact matches

Before co-founders Logan Green and John Zimmer honed the concept of ride hailing at Lyft, which has 1,000 employees, operates in 200 cities, and has raised more than $ 2 billion in venture capital, they built its predecessor, a ridesharing upstart called Zimride.

With the Keystone bill, Obama's veto count stands at just three - far fewer than most of his predecessors.

Members of the class of 2011 have landed more jobs at higher starting salaries than their immediate predecessors, according to a new report.

He's been accused of spending at least $ 3 million on a round - the - clock security fleet, far more than his predecessors and higher - level cabinet officials.

For instance, you made a point of deciding that you would speak at the end of the FOMC meeting rather than at the beginning as your predecessor Alan Greenspan did.

Within a few months 81 seminaries applied for affiliation with the association, 27 more than had participated in the predecessor bodies at the time of merger.

«And that, I suspect, is why he's enlisted a much larger lineup of clergy to speak at the inauguration than his predecessors.

While this is at least somewhat consistent with what we might expect developmentally from teens, it is worth noting that this generation of young persons has less experience with religious institutions and formal belief systems than any of its predecessors.

But Ezekiel gives to his condemnation a new dimension of psychological depth which renders his prophecy at once more primitive and more modern than comparable words from his predecessors.

A key strand in neoconservatism, at least in America, is made up of Catholics who agree with the Pope and his predecessor about sex but not about economics, seem immune to the enormous amount of work that they have done and still do in explaining how these things are connected, and manage to present themselves, quite falsely, as somehow more orthodox than those who, with similar disregard, agree with the Popes about economics but not about sex.

The new Ishida CCW - RV delivers the highest levels of accuracy of any multihead weigher and, in addition to consistent weighing at close - to - zero giveaway, is now some 15 % faster than its predecessor.

Of the 58 men who have coached at least 100 NFL regular - season games, George Seifert is better than everyone else — including his storied predecessor in San Francisco, Bill Walsh — in two important categories.

(For the record, we had a lovely chat at the half) Regardless, his being there is more than I can say for a lot of his predecessors...

Both of these are far less accomplishments than his predecessor KS, who was classified by Pitt fan base as mediocre his last 4 yrs at Vandy.

ask Ancelotti or any of his predecessors............... At R.madrid, Garbages are well disposed / dispensed than do managers

De Gea recently won United's Player of the Year award for three seasons running and despite Jose Mourinho's claims that this was a sign of something wrong at the club under his predecessors David Moyes and Louis van Gaal, De Gea's amazing stats this season come as he's made even more saves than ever before, yet still sits top of the league for clean sheets, with 15 in total.

At this stage, Roy is fairing no better than his predecessor De Boer but until Palace have a run of games against some of the lesser teams, it's a little hard to predict how Hodgson will perform.

BABYBJÖRN Cradle is a modified version with a number of improvements, which we also sell at a lower price than its predecessor.

Interior birch panelling, which will be retained, was removed to get at the beam, and at no other time did Heritage Park carpenters come closer to their predecessors than when Zech gently pried the panelling away, revealing the signatures of five men and the words Montreal, Quebec hidden on the backside.

«While Security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, Scott Pruitt has received death threats because of his bold actions at EPA,» Trump tweeted this weekend, adding: «Record clean Air & Water while saving USA Billions of Dollars.»

But Cuomo's press management has been a political success: His public approval ratings, two years into a job that destroyed the careers of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, is at an all - time high at more than 70 % of New Yorkers approving of his job performance, according to a recent poll from the Siena Research Institute.

Mr Cameron's ratings are more positive than his Tory predecessors but fall significantly short of the satisfaction ratings that Tony Blair enjoyed at a similar stage of his own leadership.

«I hate to compare, but given the innovations he has carried out at IITA and how he has taken it a notch higher the development ladder, I must say that Dr. Sanginga understands the critical role of agriculture research institutes in our continent's grim battle against the scourge of hunger and poverty, more than any of his predecessors.

With the assistance of the Rockland IDA, family - owned and operated Raymour's Furniture Company — predecessor of Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, is purchasing and renovating an existing 893,000 square - foot - facility at 30 Dunnigan Drive in the Village of Montebello — a total investment estimated at more than $ 40 million.

At present, Hungary is bound by more than $ 20 billion of loan obligations to the European Union, World Bank and International Monetary Fund - loans conditionalised on the basis of the country committing to a austerity programme which has been implemented by outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai and his predecessor Ferenc Gyurcsany.

One takes direct aim at an issue that fell Heastie's predecessor, Sheldon Silver: The Assembly would limit attorneys to only making money for casework they perform, rather than from being «of counsel» and simply lending their name to a law firm.

Those close to and within City Hall argue Mr. de Blasio is still doing a better job at lining up supporters the old - fashioned way than his predecessors and judging him by the standard of national politics — surrogates freely defending a favored candidate under attack — is unfair.

Including Godsil and Rose, the de Blasio administration has now already lost at least nine of its handpicked appointees to top inner - circle posts — or three more than predecessor Mike Bloomberg lost his first four - year term.

He insisted on examining the workings of the world at a more rigorous level than even the most illustrious of his predecessors, until he was totally certain that the system made sense.

After his hero's flight is aborted, owing to divine disapproval, and he returns to Earth (at a lesser velocity than his predecessor Icarus, I'm happy to say), Lucian ends his tale by considering some form of flying chariot, «in which a man may sit and give such motion unto it... as shall convey him through the Air».

Corn hybrids with improved tolerance to crowding stress, grown at higher plant populations than their predecessors, have been a driver of rising field corn yields in recent decades.

With more than 40 million specimens in the museum's Department of Paleobiology, «We are always learning new things about the vast legacy built by our predecessors at the museum,» Pyenson said.

But flash has its limitations and will someday reach a scaling barrier that would leave subsequent generations of digital cameras and cell phones unable to store significantly more information or operate orders of magnitude faster than their predecessors — at least not without costing a lot more.

This allows the satellite to see more of the sky at a much faster rate than its predecessor, the Energetic Gamma - Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET), which NASA launched in 1991 on board the Compton Gamma - Ray Observatory.

It's at the forefront of what physicists call the «intensity frontier,» designed to deliver more than 40 times the rate of collisions between particles than its predecessor.

Although the new iceberg isn't as colossal as its 2010 predecessor, its birth has moved the front end of the massive glacier farther inland than it has been in 150 years, Andreas Muenchow, an associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware, said in a statement.

As the most powerful spherical tokamak in the world, the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade (NSTX - U) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) produces magnetic forces that are far greater than what its predecessor could generate.

There's little doubt that Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian ultimately fares slightly worse than its uneven yet agreeable predecessor, with the almost pervasively juvenile atmosphere and hopelessly thin storyline resulting in a myriad of lulls within the movie's ongoing narrative.

Unfortunately The Sleepwalker is nothing more than a tone - deaf attempt at the kind of psychological drama its predecessors did so well.

«The Strangers: Prey at Night» is an unexpected anomaly — a sequel that both is better than and fixes the problems of its predecessor.

An album more obviously influenced by urban music than its predecessor, which sees Sheeran gently, but confidently, pushing at the boundaries of what he does.

I wrote at the time that his music for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — while a very fine film score — wasn't one of his most engaging albums, with its dark tone and great length; and while he uses that score as a springboard (and reprises some of its material), Giacchino takes War off in different directions and in doing so solves the problems that led to its predecessor being better within the film than without it.

Creed follows its predecessor Rocky in contrasting the violence of boxing with the childlike guilelessness of the boxer, but Jordan plays Donny with even more vulnerability and innocent need than Stallone did: his tough fighter persona is a pumped - up performance, and not a very convincing one at that.

It's certainly a more serious and less intentionally campy effort than Escape to the Planet of the Apes had been, and it does continue the storyline that Dehn had set forth at the end of its predecessor, further cementing the series into what appears to be Earth's inevitable fate toward ape dominance.

Graphically, Bladestorm Nightmare does have improved graphics than its PS3 predecessor but even though it's a higher resolution, the game still looks a little dated and at times there is a touch of slowdown and dreaded pop - up.

When you run games in 1080p, they're either not too far removed visually from their predecessors (Smash Bros. on Wii U doesn't look THAT much better than Brawl) and cut a lot of corners, or they're remakes of GameCube games (Wind Waker) running at 30 fps.

Having to travel in a country at war, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II features a different tone than its predecessor, which featured a school setting.

Such comparisons may be unfair, but they were also inevitable, and although «The World's End» isn't as likely to become an instant classic as its predecessors, the movie is an incredibly fitting end to the trilogy that's every bit as funny at times and still vastly better than a majority of Hollywood comedies.

Resident Evil Revelations 2, like its popular predecessor, emphasize the series» roots of traditional horror rather than focusing on over-the-top action, producer Michiteru Okabe said in an interview at Tokyo Game Show.

Clocking in at 161 minutes, a whopping eight minutes shorter than its predecessor, «The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug» is a lengthy journey, but moviegoers can rest assured that at the finish line is a reward.