Sentences with phrase «than any of its predecessors did»

Cuomo has earned admiration from local leaders who say he understands issues faced by the Adirondack Park's economically stressed hamlets better than some of his predecessors did.

Localytics is predicting the Phone X will end up grabbing more of the overall iPhone market share than any of its predecessors did during their first few months on the market, even if it didn't do so for the launch weekend.

Yes, the OnePlus 3 is better than anything OnePlus has made before, but it also faces more competition than any of its predecessors did in the Indian market — the OnePlus One, in comparison, had no real competitor when it arrived in India.

Not exact matches

Trump has parted with more top - level staff in his first year than any of his five most recent predecessors did in their respective first years.

Rather than hoarding their money or creating family dynasties as many of their predecessors did, a growing number of wealthy Americans are pledging their fortunes to benefit society.

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.

As far as I can tell, President Obama has greater respect for the limitations of the office than did his predecessor, President Bush.

The most innovative gesture in Jones's feminist remap - ping of sin is her linking sin to the eschatologically oriented doctrines of sanctification and justification rather than to creation, as many of her feminist predecessors have done.

We know today, much more vividly than did our philosophical and theological predecessors, how important economic arrangements are in shaping the values, ideologies and cultures of various states.

Not all did so with enthusiasm, and for that matter, Trump received a higher percentage of black and Hispanic votes than did his predecessors, Republican candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain.

Pope Benedict evinced more awareness of this particular deficit in orthodox culture than did either his predecessor or successor.

Pope Paul did more travelling than any of his predecessors — visiting six continents — setting the stage for the international journeys of Blessed John Paul II, and Pope Benedict.

Nor do I rest content in the mere spotting of an historical error in Popper, for Sir Karl's (as, indeed, Whitehead's) place in history is secure on grounds far more weighty than a reputation for faithful reiteration of the words written by one's predecessors (important as such accuracy may be).

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 alleged third Quest, while no more uniform than its predecessors, rejects Bultmann's double verdict about Quests, and is determined to know as precisely as possible what Jesus did and did not say, and to understand the critically certified Jesus as a historical phenomenon in the social landscape of his time.

Infantino isn't doing a good job of crafting a better public image for FIFA and himself than his predecessor.

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

Theo may have his weaknesses but the fact that Arsenal hasn't won the league for the decade he's been here means that he and many of his team mates are judged more harshely than some of their predecessors, who individually, didn't do more than them but played in more successful teams.

Listening to his diatribe, one is reminded of none other than Mike Bassett, the fictional England manager, (loosely) based on one of Hodgson's predecessors, Graham «Do I not like that» Taylor.

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.

There is also the argument that those receiving passed - down money did nothing to earn the money, but to many a large incentive of earning money in the first place is so they may pass is along to their predecessors to have a better life than they had.

LIPA Managing Director of Financial Oversight Kenneth Kane, left, got a new title and a raise, while Thomas Falcone, the agency's chief executive, is making less than his predecessor did.

But because of Brexit she needs the special relationship to be special much more than her predecessors did.

De Blasio's predecessor, Mayor Bloomberg, allowed reporters to view redacted versions of his tax returns with income categories rather than raw numbers and did not release full copies.

Still, Cuomo can boast with only slight exaggeration that (so far) he's done a better job of controlling spending than his last four predecessors.

Cuomo has displayed a willingness to do away with tradition to fit his own style - in 2011, his first year in office, he began holding his State of the State in the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, rather than in the Assembly Chamber like his predecessors.

It suggests she is much keener to embrace the topic than some of her predecessors - most notably Tony Blair, whose spin doctor Alastair Campbell once famously declared that «we don't do God».

Miliband was a close ally of Gordon Brown, whose government did more than of its predecessors to court the press.

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.

A greater proportion of New Yorkers also give him a thumbs - up on his first weeks as governor than did for his most recent predecessors.

Boris, he said «has held, on average, more than double the number of meetings per month than his predecessor did while he was in office» according to the official diaries of both men.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

Frequently, those in the final stages of planning a rampage state a desire to do it «better» than their predecessors — which generally means killing even more people.

By piling on one example after another of problems that have resisted the onslaughts of our very best minds, Maddox gives us a bracing affirmation that future scientists will have a lot more to do than to add footnotes to the work their predecessors did in their first three hundred years.

That extra weight helps the marmots survive longer, giving each group time to produce an average of 14 more courageous little yellow - bellies a year than did their predecessors.

Research done by Kim's predecessors suggested a link between chronic itch, a type of itch that lasts for more than several months, and irregularities in the immune system.

From the standpoint of ancestral nutrition, the hunting and foraging of our predecessors resulted in their consuming a much wider selection of foods than we do today, which means they received a much broader complement of nutrients, including proteins.

Driving this change is a new generation of chief executives and chief marketing officers who have more liberal values than their predecessors and find themselves facing growing pressure to use their positions of power to do right by society.

Sonny does a good job of delivering on the combat from its flash - based predecessors, but doesn't do much more than that.

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

Deadpool 2 is, if less of a surprise than its predecessor, just as funny; if it's less sexy, that doesn't mean you're not going to get to see the protagonist walking around with no pants.

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.

Called upon to do little more than imitate the mannerisms of their French predecessors, Nolte and Short seem hemmed in and desperately uncomfortable.

Far Cry 4 doesn't have the element of surprise afforded its praised predecessor but does more than enough to live outside its shadow, and thus stands alone as a great game in its own right.

What Rogue One does differently than its predecessors is turn the black - and - white dichotomy of the Empire and the Rebellion on its axis.

While Brancato, Ferris and McG can't capture the essence of what made its predecessors riveting entertainment, they have turned in a solid action / sci - fi piece that works better as a genre flick than it does in comparison to the more populist works that were the Cameron entries.

does a more faithful job of capturing the grim vision of Suzanne Collins's source novels than its rather tepid predecessor.

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.

Nevertheless, you can tell something has shifted since the age of true paranoid cinema, because these antagonists operate more in the light than did their predecessors.

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.