Sentences with phrase «than any of the rivals for»

Not exact matches

Hulu — which is owned jointly by CBS rivals Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, and Time Warner — made a similar move less than a year ago, when the service offered subscribers the option of paying a few dollars more per month for an ad - free experience.

Those chips typically run run faster and better than those of rivals, in part because Apple is able to customize them for its phones and its own operating system, iOS.

With a library of more than 2.2 million e-books, with five million customers in 100 countries so far, the Toronto - based e-book retailer has shown potential to build itself into Amazon's chief global rival for digital reading, concentrating on markets like Europe where the American company isn't as strong.

A renowned campaigner against the rising level of poverty in the U.S., his rivals were left speechless after the media reported that he had paid more than $ 400 on two separate occasions for a trim at a popular Rodeo Drive salon.

Baby Jogger's woes had been brought about, in part, by fierce competition from lower - priced rivals selling strollers through big - box stores and discount websites for as little as $ 99, less than half the price of a Baby Jogger.

The Dallas - based supplier of homebuilding products and components grew large enough for the Fortune 500 after its 2015 acquisition of rival ProBuild, which had several times more revenue than Builders FirstSource (bldr) at the time.

Goldman Sachs ranks top for ECM volumes, meaning it has worked on a higher value of equity deals than any of its rivals.

The late Ted Rogers» family has seen the value of its stake in Rogers Communications go up more than 15 % in the past year, a 12 - month stretch that included the company going halves with bitter rival Bell Media to buy a 75 % stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for $ 1.07 billion.

This is 10 % higher than the bid of rival Xstrata, which had proposed to buy LionOre at C$ 25 ($ 23) a share, equal to C$ 6.2 billion ($ 5.7 billion) for the whole company.

The CSeries is Bombardier's new generation of aircraft for commercial airlines, in development for more than a decade as an alternative to smaller models of passenger jets built by rivals Boeing and Airbus.

BlackBerry still owns more than 40 % of the North American smartphone market, and though it continues to show healthy growth in emerging markets, investors worry about the declining average sale price for its products, about RIM's failure to make a dent in the consumer marketplace, and about the growing sense that it no longer offers an enterprise user anything that one of its sexier rivals doesn't do as well or better.

Though smaller than most, this city has a host of resources for small businesses that rival many of its larger competitors.

Rival Southwest Airlines forecast on Wednesday a further drop in a key profitability metric for the current quarter due to delays and cancellations of more than 2,000 flights after an outage hit its computer systems in July.

And it also added 684,000 of the less lucrative prepaid phone customers, again more than all three rivals combined for that category.

There are five reasons why this project stands a better chance of coming to fruition than rival Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline, which is due for a ruling by federal regulators before month - end.

Perhaps that's one reason the Sinaloa cartel has the reputation for being focused more on the business of drug trafficking and less on violence than rival cartels.

That's proving truer than ever in Saudi Arabia, where King Salman's purge of potential rivals could make it easier for him to enact changes that investors want.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's center - right Christian Democrat Union party comfortably won a small regional election, doing better than expected against its main rival, the Social Democrats, and providing a welcome boost for the German leader, ahead of national elections due in September.

Marathon Petroleum Corp agreed to buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion in a deal creating one of the largest global refiners that will benefit from access to booming U.S. shale fields and growing U.S. fuel export markets.

Rival retailers including Loblaw and Walmart have started select delivery of online fresh grocery orders to consumers directly from their closest stores, rather than a having a warehouse for e-commerce shipments.

Part of the confirmation of his views lies for me in the way in which they make more sense of experience than any rival theory of which I am aware.

For the most part, The Greatest Show on Earth is an admirable piece of work, one that provides a necessary service as well as — and perhaps better than — any rival text.

At the same time, non-Westerners see Western progressivism less as a rival for men's souls than as an attack on all cultures of conviction, including their own.

Last month Nufarm wrapped up its $ 800m acquisition of more than 50 crop protection formulations and more than 260 registrations for use in European markets, bought from chemical rivals FMC and Adama.

The subsidy is only for financial year 2016, so in 2017 the price will be between $ 4.75 and $ 5, a big relief for rival milk producers such as Bega, which had its stock rally more than 3 per cent on expectations of a more rational milk market.

Liquor retailers say the new general manager of Accolade Wines» Australian operations, Chris Flaherty, faces a tougher time in charge of a more commercial, lower - end portfolio than when he was in a similar job for fierce rival Treasury Wine Estates four years ago.

The acquisition follows a difficult few days for Dairy Crest, which saw its share value plummet by more than 6 per cent at the beginning of last week, after reports surfaced that it could lose out on a new contract to supply Morrisons, the UK's fourth largest multiple retailer, with fresh liquid milk to rival processor Robert Wiseman Dairies.

Murray Goulburn's decision to offer dairy farmers a lower - than - expected milk price has set the scene for a major upheaval of the dairy industry, as rival processors weigh up whether to break ranks and exact further pain on the besieged co-operative by offering a higher price.

«I was surprised when I heard people talking so much about Swiss chard because I think that cauliflower probably has a bigger chance of being a rival for kale than other veggies.»

At the start of the week, the Independent claimed Sanchez was more than likely closing in on a switch to Manchester City, but BBC Sport now suggest United may be ahead of their rivals in the battle for the 29 - year - old's signature.

Even if Auburn or a team like Missouri wins big over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeyes.

A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a rival.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

It is better for the Gunners to stay close to their rivals than to allow them to build a points gap ahead of them that will later prove difficult for us to catch - up to recover.

Our club has finished in the top - four for the last 20 seasons, despite spending considerably less than their rivals for some time, and we have one of (if not the) best stadium / s in England.

weekly wages and please get rid of both of them to somewhere else to make money for both of them and please sell Sanchez to abroad than to sell to arch rivals.

They were never exactly the best of friends, especially when Arsenal were the main rival to Manchester United in the search for trophy success, but Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson clearly have some respect for each other, rather than the thinly veiled dislike and disrespect that is between the Arsenal boss and Jose Mourinho.

Although I'd prefer to have money for Sanchez rather than let a rival have him for free, what's the point of refusing # 60 million, then accepting # 20 million at most, only six months later?

You get what you pay for they say, so I reckon we should be glad that Wenger seems to be able to make more of Arsenal's money than his rivals.

Alexis has been fantastic for us but the fact that we have more different goalscorers than any of our Premier League rivals and the fact that we are now playing better and winnin g games with or without Alexis tells a different story.

And i get it and supported it as i realized a few frustrating years is a small prize for future glories but we are still recording 25 % more injuries than our direct rivals in average and i think this is the real unspoken problem at the root of our misfortune.

The fans certainly deserve a strong finish to the season as a reward for their unbridled support of a team that we felt were more than good enough to capitalise on the deficiencies shown by our main rivals this season and pick up silverware.

Manchester United predicted line up vs Swansea: Summer signing brought in, but still no De Gea Manchester United rival Chelsea for signing of La Liga goal machine, he'd be better than Pedro

This could open the door for Newcastle, or Premier League rivals West Ham United, with Wickham potentially available for a fee of as little as # 6 million — less than the # 8m that the Black Cats initially paid to secure Wickham from Ipswich.

Nobody's schedule is different than their division rivals except for the 2 placement - based games, and as a first place team every year the Pats are actually getting harder slates than the rest of the AFCE.

Arsene Wenger has had more than his fair share of injury problems to deal with this season, just like every year in recent memory, so I make no apology for hoping that our rivals» own injury situation causes them problems.

So even though Arsenal finish the calendar year of 2015 on top of the Premier League table, and having won more points over that 12 month period than any of our rivals, and are favourites for the title, the likes of Jamie Carragher can not help themselves in watering down any praise.

For one thing, our seven points is just one fewer than the tally of Tottenham and our north London rivals are up in fifth spot so you can see why it will not take much to start racing up the table.

With defence clearly a weakness for the Red Devils last season as they conceded more than nearby rivals Chelsea, Arsenal and even Southampton, the addition of a world class performer like the Spanish World Cup winner could make all the difference as they look to mount a more serious title challenge.

Baines and Monreal are tied for first on pass completion so the Spaniard is not just about defending, although it is clear that this is his real strength, with more blocks, clearances and interceptions than his rivals as well as winning an amazing 62 percent of his aerial duels.