Sentences with phrase «was top brass»

Gathered around was top brass from the assembly plant and GM.

«There really is no top brass at Uber,» James Cakmak, an analyst with Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co, wrote in an investor note last week.

The fact that the team on the pitch lost a two goal lead after the mass exodus will have helped to get the club - s top brass to take notice and this is just a part of a growing backlash from football fans.

He is not a fool, either, nor are our top brass.

My guess is the top brass can't afford to piss him off, and are giving him as much time as he pleases.

Not exact matches

Months of deliberations behind closed doors at Shell headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, had led the top brass at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company by sales to conclude that the energy industry was changing fundamentally — in a way that could turn the profitable oil - sands operation into a liability.

The hearing is set for September 20, and according to Isaac Boltansky, director of policy research at Compass Point, it will likely evoke memories of the 2013 London Whale hearing, where the bank's top brass were dragged up in front of lawmakers.

Yet the longest lasting impact of the incident may very well be the buzz now permeating through social media and other gossip media pages about the salacious views expressed by the company's top brass.

It is a one - of - a-kind event, a mixture of unalloyed commerce, high - minded do - gooderism, and brass - tacks policy discussions, attended by corporate bigwigs, journalists, academics, non-governmental organizations, and top government officials.

China's top brass will convene in Beijing on October 26 - 29 for a policy - setting meeting that will be closely watched by investors worldwide.

The department that won by the highest percentage was given an award — the «Traveling Trophy,» a huge confection in marble and brass, topped off by a winged goddess holding a torch.

And Web Services chief Andy Jassy — there's no requirement that top brass be named Jeff — is a Bezos protégé who joined the company in 1997.

Though the top brass denied the allegations, the claims were enough to prompt federal prosecutors and a city watchdog to launch probes.

In truth, the company's top brass wasn't interested in merely saving the company; they wanted a metamorphosis.

The military's intelligence apparatus was technologically lacking at the time, he says, and so the top brass selected a few young army officers to run software engineering teams, to boost officers» decision - making capabilities.

Embrace your team's desire to involve the top brass, but make sure the idea has a bulletproof rationale that explains why the big idea — and potentially big risk — are worth it in moving business.

Comments from the company's top brass shows that while it continues to consider a version of its platform that could be offered on a paid basis, there are few signs it thinks that's the way to go for the majority of its global audience.

However, the retailer's top brass said they didn't see enough evidence that the turnaround plan was working, so they pulled the plug.

At the time, top brass were creating an organizational structure that Dimon was convinced would create chaos at the banking conglomerate.

A company's top brass works for current shareholders and part of that role is to borrow cheaply.

Simple Choice customers will be rewarded for making converts of Verizon and AT&T subscribers as well, though Sprint seems to have drawn the most ire from T - Mobile's top brass.

This is important, the professors contend, because it helps make purchasing managers look good to their own top brass.

So why should strategy be determined by only the top brass or an outside consultant?

There goes the bus to the Great Society, with a brass band on the top and a missile at the rear, and I seem to have fallen off and am just throwing up quietly on the sidewalk.»

Besides the Big Swindle on the Partnerships, there were countless «little» indiscretions that regularly turned up among the PTL top brass.

I also have marble tops, but the colour is different, it si called brass blue, I think, so it is blue and quite dark... this may be why I have never noticed spills?

Denver moving up or Buffalo getting 5 or 6 is what NYG wants to see, and the Broncos have had their brass at the top 4 qb pro days.

These reports about Tuchel and now Allegri suggest to me that the top brass at Arsenal are not really considering a change of manager this summer and if we end the season with no silverware I can only imagine how that would go down with us fans.

The top brass at Ohio State understood the hubris - ridden, unique man for what he was.

Even if the Arsenal board were to leave the final decision on his future to the boss, they should have the guts to make it clear that the current situation is not acceptable, but all the club's top brass seem happy to absolve themselves and leave it all up to the man himself.

With The Mirror reporting that the top brass at Man City are still angry after they thought they were going to be able to sign Sanchez on transfer deadline day only for Arsenal to pull the plug, it makes me wonder just how arrogant you can be.

But all is well said than done, we still have major issues with all the top brass at the club, including Wenger himself.

The only way to force the top brass out is to hurt them fianancially.

Failure to win the Europa League and kill two birds with one stone by giving the fans sime silverware to celebrate and getting the team back into the elite Champions League tournament will certainly give the top brass at theclub some food for thought, but let's assume that they are looking for a new manager.

More difficult to accept were disruptions such as four players» involvement in the Academy - wide honor - code violations of 1976 and a written ultimatum to Smith from the top brass that required seven victories in 1977, including one over Navy, for him to keep his job.

So the report by The Mirror telling us that the Real Madrid top brass have offered the striker to Arsenal is not quite the good news it once was.

Secondly he's ambitious and a fighter most of the other players and top brass at the club aren't, he just no longer fits.

In its heyday in the 1990s and through 2005 or so, top brass thought their sport was invincible.

These were fuelled by the player admitting that he had already turned down the chance to sign a bumper new contract and by Brendan Rodgers and other top brass at the Merseyside club putting public pressure on the youngster.

This is the same team that got preferential treatment for years because they provided a spot to an AHL level hump who just happened to be the son of one of the NHL's top brass and whose last Cup was partly the result of refs decisions to punish Vancouver for supporting Burrows in his spat with Auger.

There is a strong feeling in the football world that the Gunners, or more specifically the top brass at the club, are worried about replacing the Frenchman after so many years because he has built the club around himself and there is a fear that Arsenal would suffer in the same way that Man United did after Fergie stepped down.

It was the annual Arsenal AGM this week and once again we Arsenal fans have been left scratching our heads a bit and wondering whether we are living on a different planet to the top brass in charge of our beloved club.

While Roberto Mancini is getting more and more likely to become next Italian NT head coach, Zenit Saint Petersbourg top brass, according to latest rumours, are interested in signing training understudy of his, Serbian 49 - year old Sinisa Mihajlovic.

Nathan has been showing why he is so highly regarded by the top brass at Chelsea and has already scored twice in the league this term.

It may be early days yet in Jose Mourinho's stint at Manchester United but with him hitting the halfway point in his current deal, which lasts until 2019, this winter the Old Trafford top brass seemingly want to get the ball rolling on any potential renewal sooner rather than later.

Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu and their chief executive Òscar Grau are said to have held direct talks with FSG's top brass and Liverpool FC's negotiator Michael Edwards, with the La Liga outfit still trying to have a deal signed off during the January transfer window.

While the manner in which Southampton are turning into the supply line to the top brass, it is in no way surprising.

As reported by Sportitalia, Genoa top brass are in talks with Belgrano on purchasing Argentinian 1998 - born centre - back Cristian Romero, who might join Italy next summer.

Silva has been outstanding again this season for City and is in talks with club top brass about new deal but Liverpool are closely monitoring things with Emre Can possibly on his way out next summer

West Ham United's top brass have mocked reports that Andy Carroll is desperate for a return to the north east and Newcastle.