Sentences with phrase «was at a rival»

Kane is at a rival club who will never sell.

Since its launch in the UK a year ago, eHarmony has attracted just 400,000 members, compared with 6.5 m at rival Match.com.

If this lawyer was at a rival firm and you had the opportunity to recruit them at some expense, would you jump at the chance or would you hesitate?

Not exact matches

At Tim Hortons, he said the enemy isn't coffee rivals such as Starbucks or McDonalds, but «the impersonal and cold world.»

Enough that the brilliant minds behind Crispr - Cas9 — University of California at Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna, her academic partner Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and rival Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard scientist Feng Zhang — and the various biotechs affiliated with them are embroiled in an ugly, global patent spat over the rights to the tech.

And as if that wasn't enough, Hulu — which is owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal — took another swipe at its larger rival on Wednesday with the announcement that it will start offering a commercial - free version of its Hulu Plus premium streaming service, a service that will soon include a bolstered roster of movies, thanks to the Epix deal, in addition to Hulu's wide range of original and network television programming.

At the same time, costs to produce drones are coming down, and the technological capabilities are getting more sophisticated, pitting Aeryon against newer, nimble rivals.

The European Union's executive body is frustrated with the relatively low corporate taxes paid by firms such as Facebook (fb) and Amazon, and individual EU countries are frustrated at seeing overseas firms take business from local rivals while booking their revenues elsewhere.

There are at least six rivals in the space, including a startup that has attracted $ 14 million from hip - hop artist Snoop Dogg's fund and other backers.

The order, which is expected to be announced by the airline Thursday, ahead of its investor day presentation, is a big win for Airbus and a very public loss at home for its main rival Boeing.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

This is even observable in the animal world; sometimes when a bird encounters a rival, they don't fight or flee, they just peck at the ground.

The biggest banks borrow at lower rates than smaller rivals because creditors assume — like Dodge said — that governments always will rescue any institution that is «too big to fail.»

Failing to adapt may not always lead to failure, that is an important thing to acknowledge, but at the same time you could be losing vital ground to the rival companies around you.

For example, young companies that target big business customers are increasingly checking out rival Microsoft (msft) Azure, while those wanting extensive analytics take a good hard look at Google Cloud Platform.

Spain's Economy Minister Luis de Guindos will soon be the next vice president at the ECB, after a rival from Ireland dropped out of the race Monday and backed the Spaniard for the position.

Executives at the athletic - gear maker announced on Tuesday that Under Armour (ua) would take over the space on Fifth Avenue, which is interestingly just a single block north of rival Nike's (nke) Niketown store.

Yu was speaking after Huawei unveiled its Huawei Matebook, a two - in - one tablet and detachable keyboard aimed at the business market, and pitting the company against rivals Apple, Samsung and Lenovo.

Heading into Tuesday's earnings report, Wall Street had fretted about the strength of the world's largest athletic gear maker at a time when Under Armour (ua), Adidas and other rivals were posting stronger sales in the competitive North American market.

The Western powers were at pains on Saturday to avert any further escalation, including any unexpected conflict with their superpower rival Russia.

At the same time, Turkey, an ally of UAE rival Qatar, is ramping up a multi-billion dollar investment push in Somalia.

Whether it proceeds with an offer for Norwegian or not, through its new investment, IAG will at least be well - placed to influence its rival.

This «peer benchmarking» was done by pegging a CEO's pay to 50th, 75th or 90th percentile at rival companies.

The dollar index, which tracks the greenback against six rival currencies, was little changed from its late Thursday levels at 100.40.

Behind him a slide stating «No user profiling» punctuated his subtle dig at rivals like ad - tech giants Google (goog) and Facebook (fb), which are known for collecting vast data stores about their customers.

DCT Industrial Trust — DCT will be bought by logistics rival Prologis in an all - stock deal valued at $ 8.4 billion, including the assumption of debt.

The notorious Columbian kingpin was as good at giving back to the people as he was at taking the heads of his rivals.

At the time, Priceline was our main rival and the «name your price» thing Priceline's innovation, and Hotwire's innovation was that we showed you the price, and so you didn't know what the hotel was until after you purchased, but we showed you what the price was and so it took some of the guessing out of it.

Bobby Cho, the head trader at Circle rival Cumberland, predicts that 2018 will be the inflection point when more Wall Street institutions get involved — lured by client enthusiasm and potential upside.

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.

At least one of Bird's rivals was less alarmed, though.

Launched by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the new video application for your mobile phone is positioned to rival six - second video app Vine and Instagram's new video capacity, which allows users to record up to 15 seconds of video at a time.

After years of underperforming rival Home Depot (hd), they are no doubt eager for new blood at the top.

The move, at # 12.50 per share, led Sky to withdraw its recommendation of 21st Century Fox's rival bid, which was only # 10.75 per share.

At the heart of the problem is Twitter's size — with more than 650 million active accounts and 130,000 new ones daily it almost rivals Facebook in heft — coupled with the fact that it is so damned easy to create an account on Twitter.

Oracle took another shot at Amazon's dominant cloud business, and claimed its own rival cloud is gaining share.

Ackman's Pershing Square Capital teamed up with Valeant to mount a failed hostile takeover of rival pharmaceutical company Allergan, and at the time, the famed fund manager credited Pearson for being able to spot opportunities where others couldn't, much like business legend Warren Buffett.

Fishing and hunting equipment chain Cabela's said it agreed to be bought by rival Bass Pro Shops in a deal valued at $ 5.5 billion that will help the privately held company nearly double its store count in North America.

At its closest rival AT&T Inc., wireless service revenue has been rising just over 4 per cent per year.

Since we're talking about the best of the best, this machine makes a fine, flavorful cup that rivals what I've tasted at finer coffee shops.

Here's a look at how Amazon propelled itself into this leading position in the first place, where its biggest rivals still have room to overtake it, and why Apple needs to move in on this sooner rather than later.

«There used to be a middle finger to Philly shirt,» Meenan says of an old design that took a stab at the rival Phillies.

By agreeing not to sell his strollers at discount shops or on websites, as many of his rivals were doing, Boardman has been able to develop a deeper relationship with retailers.

When Atlantic Canada's biggest lumber company, J.D. Irving Ltd., was assessed a duty of only 3 per cent, the Chronicle Herald described the sanction as an «opportunity» for the company to gain market share at the expense of its more heavily taxed Canadian rivals.

And there's even a rival 3 - D printer that frosts toast and makes cookie dough, also generating buzz at CES.

While Panera has been at this menu reformulation for years, Shaich takes issue with some rivals — he called out McDonald's (mcd) and Subway specifically — for removing a single ingredient from their menus and trying to make a big, bold statement that they are serving healthier foods too.

The pressure is now on CNN, according to Sesno, to ensure that next week's debate questions move beyond America's fascination with Trump's personality to take a harder look at candidate Trump's actual political plans, while also giving his rival candidates more time in the spotlight.

At its helm is a skinny, contemplative student of the world who revels in asking questions and couldn't be bothered by so trivial a pursuit as warring with the company's rivals.

Bombardier's aerospace rival has eaten away at its leadership in regional jets and is developing an updated offering to partially compete with the C Series.

«You're going to be able to look at it and say maybe it's not where Honeywell is but it can get there,» he said, referring the very different story at industrial rival Honeywell, which has seen its stock surge 25 percent this year compared to GE's 37 percent decline since in 2017.