Sentences with phrase «than attempting for»

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While few career paths, or should I say titles, are as desired than that of an entrepreneur, often people turn to freelancing for their first attempt at being in charge of their own destiny.

In 2001 the company purchased Centura Banks, a traditional bricks - and - mortar operation, for more than $ 2 billion and attempted to build a footprint in the southeast U.S. Centura was a lousy business to start with, and RBC was ill - equipped for the intensely competitive U.S. marketplace.

The Senate left open a previous vote for more than 40 minutes as it appeared Republican leaders attempted to persuade McCain to change his vote.

The charge is absurd, but no more so than the repeated attempts by Mulcair and Trudeau to smear Harper for running «eight - consecutive deficits.»

Barclays CEO Jes Staley will likely not pay more than $ 2 million in total fines to UK regulators for his attempt to discover the identity of a whistleblower, according to people familiar with the situation.

A highly - focused social media and content marketing strategy intended to build a strong brand has a better chance for success than a broad strategy that attempts to be all things to all people.

In addition to the aforementioned tanks of yeast, the tie is a good vehicle for casually referencing scientists» previous failed attempts at mass producing spider silk (a valuable material that is tougher than regular silk and can be machine washed.)

The team behind the announcement is not the first to attempt something of this nature, and previous efforts by other companies have been criticized for having too little research behind them or focusing too much on detection rather than treatment.

Bitcoin has slumped more than 20 % this week amid increased regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and Japan, an attempted theft at one of the biggest trading venues, and news that the bankruptcy trustee for Mt. Gox has started selling the now - defunct exchange's holdings to repay creditors.

As investigators wrap their case against more than a dozen traders involved in the recent LIBOR scandal — which involves executives at Barclays and a growing list of international banks attempting to manipulate the benchmark figure for trillions of pounds» worth of financial contracts — they're revealing a curious fact about how some of the details were leaked in the first place.

Maintenance and repair: Most landlords attempt to hold tenants responsible for maintenance and repairs of anything other than the roof, exterior walls, and parking lots.

While some startups, such as Taskrabbit, have attempted to address some of the inequity invovled in being a contract worker, for example by setting a wage floor of $ 11.20 an hour — higher than the proposed national minimum wage of $ 10.10 — and providing some discounts for health care and transportation, contractors clearly need a lot more.

With a slightly higher price than Netflix and the requirement of having an existing connection, Shomi looks like a defensive effort for now, rather than an aggressive attempt to push back Netflix's encroachment.

No attempt has been made to calculate median figures in the tables for groups of fewer than four companies.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

Trump has made it clear — both during his campaign and since being elected — that he sees the media as untrustworthy and beneath contempt, and Spicer's attack on the press following the inauguration seemed a lot more sincere than his attempts to apologize for it.

The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.

While the Securities and Exchange Commission is attempting to ease the process of going public, recently widening the use of private draft - stage listings for example, long - term secular changes in the capital markets suggest that private funds are likely to remain equally, if not more, appealing to growing firms than public financing.

The hire is another coup for Coinbase, which has rapidly been building out its executive team as the more than 5 - year - old startup, now worth over $ 1 billion, attempts to fortify its reputation as one of few professional financial institutions catering to Bitcoin investors.

This particular Falcon 9 won't be used again — this time, SpaceX did not attempt a touchdown — but the plan for future versions of the rocket is to have the capability for more than 10 launches.

He calls it «conscious capitalism,» a mode of doing business that attempts to create value for all stakeholders — employees, customers, community, shareholders — rather than sublimating the needs of the first three to those of the last.

Moreover, the possibility that the Company might sell Wynn Boston Harbor for less than its full long - term value in an attempt to «mitigate risk» by limiting the investigation is of even greater concern.

Three people familiar with the matter — including a current and a former government official — said the FBI has known for more than a year the details of Fancy Bear's attempts to break into Gmail inboxes.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

It speaks solely to the issue of Russia's attempts to influence the election, he said, adding, «this president takes personally any allegation that he won for any reason other than his decisions on the campaign trail.»

Even an attempt on his life in 1990 that left him using a wheelchair kept him from the political stage for less than a year.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

«As holders of more than 1.3 million Apple shares, Greenlight is alarmed that Apple is attempting to eliminate preferred stock from its corporate charter, hindering its ability to unlock value for shareholders,» Einhorn wrote in his shareholder letter.

It seems to me that you are invoking concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace from us in an attempt to get us to sacrifice yet more of our assets for the common good, without giving us any compelling reasons other than «it would be more fair».

If anything, this will show other potential customers that you are listening and attempting to make up for any less - than - satisfactory experiences.

Argentina's central bank has hiked its interest rates by 300 basis points for a second time in less than a week, in its latest attempt to halt the peso's dramatic slide against the US dollar.

A relatively short run (attempting 400,000 payments) shows that payments succeed 99 % of the time, failing more often for micropayments than larger payments.

This is a great article but sadly these appear to be examples of the powerful incumbents attempting to usurp blockchain so as to keep themselves in the middle (Bank of America's patents — actually, patents are a good use case for blockchain) rather than the powerful incumbent reinventing themselves.

BOX has attempted to carve out a niche in cloud storage for enterprise customers, but with competitor Dropbox now making a push to convert many of its 400 million users (more than 10 times what BOX has) to paid business accounts, it might face more pressure on that front.

It's possible that if the company gets too undervalued, a buyer might make a bid for the company and attempt to take it over, sometimes at a price lower than your original purchase price per share.

The casual US sit - down restaurant chain announced this month that it will be shuttering more than 130 of its restaurants by 2018, the result of poor growth after a failed attempt to rebrand itself for a younger crowd.

An attempt at creative camera work turned into a rescue effort rather than the inventive imagery the photographer had hoped for, fire officials said.

Instead, the technical and emotional guidance that only a trusted, human advisor (as opposed to robo - advisors, for instance) can offer to investors who are attempting to undertake the complex job of coordinating the accumulation, distribution and transfer of their wealth, is invaluable — particularly in an environment that is likely to deliver lower returns and higher volatility than investors have grown accustomed to recently.

In attempting to enrich certain jobs, management often reduces the personal contribution of employees rather than giving them opportunities for growth in their accustomed jobs.

This weekend, a family of Syrians who have been attempting to rejoin family members in the United States for more than a decade, were turned back almost immediately after touching down in the United States.

I support this girl if she wants to compete, but I also respect the boy for his decision to forfeit, rather than to attempt to suppress a girl with brute force.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

The biblical quotations are just an attempt to seek validation for their hateful thoughts, rather than guidance.

The effect of such radically transformative grace, according to the Augustinian tradition and the young Luther, is that the heart loves God above all things for His own sake; in Augustine's terms, we come to enjoy God and use created things for God's sake, rather than attempting to «use» God for the sake of created enjoyments.

In fact, Buber goes on to say, changed conditions «sometimes allow [us] to make amends for lost opportunities in a quite different situation, in a quite different form, and it is significant that this new situation is more contradictory and the new form more difficult to realize than the old, and that each fresh attempt demands an even greater exertion to fulfill the task for such is the hard but not ungracious way of life itself.»

Rather than assuming and stating as fact that BC is dogmatic in his assertions because he secretly harbors doubts which he is attempting to either drown out by increasing his volume or find answers for by remaining on this site, NP asks him if that might be the case.

Unfortunately, her reply is little more than a show of concern for herself and her friends, and the fact that we are once again faced with an accused person in a ministry position who spews indigation without the slightest attempt to engage by offering counterpoints or supported statements lends still more credibility to Julie's account.

They think they are following God, but in reality, they are under the influence of religious rules, regulations, and requirements that have less to do with God than with some person's attempt to gain cash, credit, or control for themselves.

And of course, part of the difference was rhetorical: Leithart continued to identify «Protestantism» by its most widespread contemporary expressions, and accordingly called for its abolition, while Sanders and Trueman remained puzzled by this odd attempt to define something in terms of its most defective forms, rather than its historic essence.

But for Hegel such a subject can and must contain such contradictory predicates; indeed the subject - predicate paradigm is nothing other than an attempt to ignore such contradiction which affords mind its motion, and to rigidify, calcify, and compartmentalize a reality that is fluid and interconnected.