Sentences with phrase «was in first place at»

You see, his team was in first place at the time, and my team was all but eliminated.

The current had shifted a little from 2008 where the Vanguard Group Inc was in first place at...

Director Ridley Scott may be pleased about his Exodus: Gods and Kings is in first place at the box office with an estimated $ 24.5 million; however, it is an extremely weak start to the $ 140 million epic (even with overseas box office), and with a critical slamming it can not compete with the likes of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1.

Not exact matches

Bombardier sold the C Series to Delta at a significant discount, standard practice in the aviation business, because Delta was one of the first to place a big order.

Omada's digital therapeutics platform attempts to address disparate health care needs that can be particularly cumbersome for people at risk for chronic diseases like diabetes through a combination of data analytics, user engagement, and the broad goal of preventing these kinds of conditions from developing in the first place.

By avoiding the task of employing extra staff members or handling operations such as payroll and web development, employees at a company will also be able to free up more time to focus on delivering their goods to their customers and carrying out the tasks that they were employed for in the first place.

The owner agreed and also introduced her to Burt's Bees, which would be the first major national company to place a beehive at the front door of its headquarters, which also is in Durham.

But whenever you build something, you need to go and look at why you're building it in the first place, and what you're trying to make different.

Extracurriculars are strong at Laurier — the school's team took first place in the AspenInstitute's 2011 Business & Society InternationalMBA Case Competition.

«Whenever you build something, you need to go and look at why you're building it in the first place, and what you're trying to make different,» Fadell said recently.

Either way, it's not at all clear that it is a good substitute for changing the practices that have been angering critics in the first place.

«If you have a bank employee who is in connivance with creating these nonexistent people in the first place, it's easy to launder,» says Vencent Salido, head of investigations at the Philippine government's Anti-Money Laundering Council, which is leading the local investigation into the theft.

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.

The Red Planet is «a hard place to get to,» Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space and a former commander of the International Space Station, told CNBC at a press conference recently.

«I'm not convinced that if we had provided ads that were relevant, contextual and loaded quickly in the first place that this situation would exist at all.»

Traditionally, optimism among small business owners is much higher — this is why they became entrepreneurs in the first place — so if we stay at about 50/50, we're not likely going to see significant change in the small business economy.

Hotels» liability can depend on whether they're sufficiently aggressive in responding to allegations from employees and on the policies they have in place to prevent harassment in the first place, said civil rights attorney Debra Katz, a partner at Katz, Marshall & Banks who represents employees in harassment cases.

«From the welcome tot at the door when you arrive to the cuddly hottie placed in your bed during turn - down service, from remembering your favourite drink to knowing how you like your eggs cooked in the morning, the staff at Skibo work to make every stay feel as special as it was your first visit,» Carnegie says.

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.

If employers are looking for ways to reduce costs for things like absenteeism, prescription drug benefits or long - term disabilities, Lowe says they must take a clear - eyed look at the company's role in, well, making people sick in the first place.

«This is the first time we've ever placed the drill bit directly on a Martian rock without stabilizers,» said Douglas Klein, chief engineer at the JPL in the statement.

Food and some non-alcoholic beverages are typically included in the overall package, but that doesn't mean your cruise is all - inclusive; expect to pay for alcohol at a standard restaurant price - point, and don't try to sneak in your own booze — you're not the first genius to come up with this plan, and there are due procedures in place to prevent you from succeeding.

For one thing, class size will, by necessity, be limited at each hub, which seems to undercut the notion that these courses are «massively open,» in the first place.

«The idea that you would deny protection for 50,000 people because there are a few bad apples who wouldn't be eligible for Temporary Protected Status in the first place, makes little to no sense,» Tom Jawetz, the vice president of immigration policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization told NBC News.

A prototype is at work in Cambridge, where the company recently won first place at an MIT startup accelerator contest.

He says the technology has been used by the company in the U.S. since 2011, but wanted to ensure all the details were in place before launching in Canada, when it opened its first Rack store at Vaughan Mills, north of Toronto, in March.

And they see firsthand how salespeople's paper snafus affect every department: «The first place they find out about a mistake is at the loading dock,» says Glenn Cafritz, partner in charge of sales training.

With an itchy vagina, your first thought would probably be a yeast infection, and that is a good place to start — after all, an estimated 75 percent of women will get at least one yeast infection in her life, making it far more common than a semen allergy.

But when you're sliding down the hillside and wondering when you're going to be able to stop, and at times you're not even sure why you're sliding in the first place, and then you factor in that you've been so successful for so many years, you're just like, «Wait.

WHO: Joan P. Neuscheler, principal at Tullis - Dickerson & Co., a venture - capital firm in Greenwich, Conn., and board member of AmericasDoctor, which (among other things) offers a health - information Web site for consumers RATING: 4 «I think they have strong management and a good board of directors — and that's usually the first place I look for flaws.

At Facebook, which was ranked first on Glassdoor's list of 100 best places to work in 2018, staffers said they appreciated the unique career opportunities and the company's transparency.

Novophage Theraputics placed first at the event, which was held May 6 - 9 at the University of Texas in Austin and brought together 40 teams from MBA programs around the world.

That isn't to say they won't continue to nag at you as the years go on, or that new and varied challenges won't arise to take their place, but you'll be prepared to handle yourself in those most volatile and impactful first few months — and that puts you far ahead of the competition.

«If they're not willing to play at that level, then I'm not going to go in there in the first place, because all I'm doing is kicking a problem down the field,» he says.

«What that is called is evaporation of liquidity, liquidity that was never there in the first place and it's a typical maneuver that goes on in the fragmented stock market we have now,» said Joseph Saluzzi, co-manager of trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.

But the question of why anybody in the secular world would turn to the Amish for business advice in the first place is answered right off the top in Erik Wesner's Success Made Simple: An Inside Look at Why Amish Businesses Thrive (Jossey - Bass).

But that's if you get to the pitch in the first place — and most women never even get a seat at the table.

Not surprisingly, the risk of retaliation for corporate whistleblowers is far lower at businesses that have already created a strong ethical culture in the first place, the study found.

Instead of finding better ways to do the things we don't really have to do, or to do two things at once, we need to understand that we're making a choice to do them in the first place.

It's crucial to know how consultants would react to a social media disaster, as well as how they would avoid one in the first place, says David Gerzof Richard, a social media and marketing professor at Emerson College in Boston and president of public relations and social media firm BIGfish.

The Monday - night matchup millions of Americans have been waiting months for is the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, which takes place Sept. 26 at Hofstra University in New York.

One commenter at CityLab grouses that millennials «supposed love of cities was superficial in the first place,» driven by the desire «to be seen in the trendiest bars.»

Given that the promise of fast Android updates is the biggest benefit of buying a Google phone in the first place, it's hard to justify putting that at risk.

Ann is known for her debate skills (she placed first in the National Tournament of Champions and second in the State of California in high school) and was part of a five - person team at Yale that competed in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France.

Search engines are in second place at 28 %, a 6 % decrease from 2015; specific retailers are now the first choice of 16 % of online shoppers, down from 21 % a year earlier.

Award Gala: All finalists will be awarded, along with the announcement of the official first place winner, at a gala at The Design Exchange on November 16, 2016 in Toronto.

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I can see why it'd be frustrating to have people scrape your images for gross adwords campaigns — I wouldn't like that at all if it happened to me (although I'm no graphics whiz, so I don't imagine anyone would want to steal my images in the first place).

There is one other big advantage in terms of Dropbox's model, at least from a founder and early investor perspective: the tradeoff of Box earning ever - increasing amounts of revenue per paying customer is the amount it takes to land that customer in the first place.

Additionally, though the event has been held elsewhere in the past, this was not the first time it has taken place at Mar - a-Lago: Not only was last year's ball held there, but the very first Red Cross Ball was hosted there by the property's prior owner, the famous socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post.