Sentences with phrase «than those attempted in»

Authors of the paper are optimistic that they have demonstrated a successful head transplant technique that assumes substantially fewer risks than those attempted in the past.

My first two articles, if you haven't read them, were very casual in nature — rather than attempt in - depth dissections of the past and present states of the portable gaming industry, I decided to merely recall my personal experiences with each.

You claim Arkham Asylum uses auto - targeting... but unless it's two enemies side by side where the nuance is difficult, I would say there is more control than you attempt in your videos.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

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. marketplacIn 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. marketplacin 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 Daily, an abortive attempt at a tablet newspaper launched by News Corp. in 2011 (at an estimated cost of more than $ 60 million) was updated several times a day.

His first move is to slash the costs of his operation in an attempt to position Shell better than its competitors to profitably ride Oil Age's tail.

Rather than the Fed pursuing a policy resulting in some steady rate of growth in the money supply, I would suggest that the Fed attempt to produce a steady rate of growth in the sum of the credit it creates and the credit created by depository institutions, i.e., commercial banks, savings associations and credit unions.

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.

«Given the strength of the currents, it is preferable to head north to Mobile, rather than attempt to tow against them,» Carnival president GerryCahill said in a statement.

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.)

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.

The figures suggest that the imposition of capital controls in an attempt to stop the country's banks from collapsing had less of an impact than first thought.

As part of its attempts to satisfy community concerns, Alcoa has also bought more than 27 residential houses in the Wagerup area, however the company spokesperson said this was not unusual in an industrial area.

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.

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.

So, memo to Neil Young: when you attempt to bring the world a better quality of media experience, know that you're battling against more than a century of business experience that shows the best - quality formats seldom, if ever, win out in the mass market.

One is to downsize and focus on just a few product areas, rather than attempting to compete with practically every other retailer in Canada.

If he attempted it on his own he would have wasted valuable time and money trying to figure it out, putting him in a worse position than when he started.

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

Fans have more than adopted the sentiment; earlier this season Seattle used undercover cops dressed as 49ers fans to patrol CenturyLink stadium in an attempt to root out overly aggressive Seahawk fans.

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 Taoyuan City - based firm has been attempting to refocus its growth prospects on the high - end VR business, with shipments of the Vive headset totalling more than 190,000 units in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC.

I like to see retirees attempt to smooth their income, paying as little tax over their entire retirement, rather than just in the first few years.

Peabody's problems have only expanded so far in 2015: Forecasting greater losses than originally anticipated, the company reduced its dividend, laid off workers and even cut the salaries of its top executives temporarily in a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat.

The central bank has concluded that this year's slump in exports is nothing more than the volatility that is inherent in attempts to measure the macroeconomy.

Nintendo hasn't had much luck when it comes to adaptations, and hasn't attempted one in more than two decades.

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.

In crass media terms, having a lot of Trump coverage could be seen as an attempt to attract viewers and thus boost ratings numbers, rather than a biased political choice.

But nothing is more radical in the realm of customer service than what Bill Strauss is attempting to do.

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.

And you don't have to take a side on the use of oilsands in general to regret an attempt to hinder, rather than foster, public clarity about an important issue.

But companies have to make more than halfhearted attempts at collaboration: Instead, they're realizing only half of the value of collaboration by creating better ways to discuss ideas, but putting fewer of them in place.

But when researcher Donna Freitas recently surveyed more than 1,000 kids about their tech habits, and interviewed 200 of them in depth to discuss their feeling about their devices and parental attempts to limit access to them, a more nuanced picture emerged.

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

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.

Scientists in Japan have demonstrated how to make electrical circuits on plastic thinner than the width of human hair in an attempt to reduce the impact of bending on circuit performance.

Rather than attempting to guess when a powerful rally will end, we often close winning trades by trailing protective stops tighter and tighter, until a pullback eventually causes us to lock in the profits.

In recent years, other regulatory attempts at strengthening online privacy rules have also had little effect at chipping away at the power of the largest tech companies, ultimately aiding internet giants rather than hurting them.

«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.

(This is much further than bills typically proposed in the US, which almost never make a serious attempt to immediately reduce the number of guns in the country.)

As the U.S. takes aim at Canada's dairy sector as it attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation's farmers and processors are forging ahead with some of their biggest expansions and investments in more than a decade.

This is because we always prefer to pick stocks and ETFs by simply reacting to actual price and volume patterns in the market, rather than attempting to predict what will happen.

Attempts to pay more foreign currency than the nation can generate in export earnings will cause the currency to depreciate and raise monthly mortgage bills.

In an attempt to hold on to those shareholders, the company made deeper cuts in the workforce than previously planned and curtailed early - stage research programIn an attempt to hold on to those shareholders, the company made deeper cuts in the workforce than previously planned and curtailed early - stage research programin the workforce than previously planned and curtailed early - stage research programs.

Then, in this technical trading commentary published one day later, we stressed why the most profitable swing traders are those who learn to merely react to the market's price action that is presented to them at any give time, rather than those who attempt to predict the direction of the next move.

Clocking in at more than 200 pages, the Liberals» latest attempt at democratic reform might be a case of too much too late.