The blow to our strategic position is even more worrisome.
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Our heroes in the North are in a poor strategic position.
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Some investors and analysts have questioned Caviar's strategic position within Square.
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The penalties affecting other companies have improved First Solar's strategic position.
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But the alliance between China and Russia militates against this strategic position.
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"India is in a very strategic position to be that partner," she said.
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It's a strategic position, meant to court a particular section of public opinion.
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Because of its strategic position on the Silk Road, Istanbul overflows with history.
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This memorandum, circulated only to the most senior faculty members, assesses HBS's strategic position.
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In reality, it was designed to improve America's strategic position before a negotiated withdrawal.
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This emerging situation has potentially placed the United States in an untenable strategic position.
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In this case, Chein says that the group was able to gain that strategic position.
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Given Iran's unenviable strategic position, such groups provide Tehran with an asymmetric deterrent against attack.
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I have talked a lot about Qualcomm and the complicated strategic position it finds itself in.
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The headache: Barclays analysts point out Walgreens' strategic position will improve little should the merger succeed.
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In the post-Cold War world, the United States is in a relatively safe geo-strategic position.
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Russia has effectively given itself not only a seat but also a strategic position within the cartel.
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He jumped up, leaf litter stuck to his flank, and took a strategic position behind the fence.
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"The strategic position of our country is important (to NATO) and especially the Adriatic Sea," Markovic said.
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It would also weaken Washington's strategic position in the region and offer an opening to rival powers.
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Somewhat ironically, Halo began from a strategic position, rather than being mapped from the outset as a shooter.
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Ultimately, allies agree that Turkey is crucial to the alliance, given its strategic position between Europe and Asia.
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Former senior defense department official Peter Jennings said the trade relationship put Australia in a difficult strategic position.
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Engaging in another war in the region will leave the United States in a worse global strategic position.
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It speaks to the major, major implications that Trump's decision has for America's strategic position around the world.
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Moral and ideological considerations, for Kissinger, were less important than cold, hard evaluations of what could advance America's strategic position.
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Putin is in a more strategic position than ever to dictate international politics as the US recedes from effective global leadership.
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Policymakers reckon that Australia now faces the biggest shift in its strategic position since the end of the second world war.
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But it's a lot easier to make the argument for a strategic position in gold when the price is going up.
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Sirte lies in a strategic position about halfway along Libya's coastline, near some of the country's major oil fields and terminals.
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His strategic position is this: people are mad, I'm going to where they're mad, and I'm going to back them up.
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The U.S. Congress must either approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement or suffer a major setback to America's strategic position in Asia.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Strategic Positioning: The Positive Outlook reflects Fitch's view of Future Land's strategic position in the Yangtze River Delta region.
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The result has been that conservatives, despite a superior strategic position, have repeatedly failed to exploit their inherent advantage over the left.
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Burgess said Australia was being targeted in part because of its strategic position and alliances and its leadership in science and technology.
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But perhaps most critical is the country's strategic position and potential -- as a dagger of democracy into the heart of Putin's autocracy.
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Syria has been the linchpin for Russia's strategic position in the Middle East, from which Mikhail Gorbachev retreated in the late 1980s.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Strategic Position Unchanged: CCCC has maintained its monopoly position in China's maritime engineering and construction (E&C) field in 2016.
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Academics and military theorists see them as a way for the US to contain China from gaining a strategic position in the region.
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Peekskill's strategic position on the river made it valuable for shipping and proved to be an important military base during the American Revolution.
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But experts saw a pattern in the North lashing out against the South when its crucial strategic position with Washington is in jeopardy.
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The company said in a statement the acquisition would strengthen the strategic position of Signify, the world's largest lighting maker, in North America.
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That has helped to blur even the longstanding lines of sectarian division between Sunni and Shiite states and to complicate America's strategic position.
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Qassem Soleimani has torpedoed the U.S.-Iraqi relationship, moving Baghdad closer to Tehran and threatening the Trump administration's strategic position in the region.
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Yet by prioritizing security and cutting back on aid and trade, the United States may weaken its long-term strategic position on the continent.
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"We believe RHT's strategic position continues to strengthen as companies adopt hybrid cloud environments," Stifel's Brad Reback and Adam Borg wrote in a note.
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"We are not going to sell Reebok because we are still very confident of the strategic position of the brand," Rorsted told the AGM.
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Patreon holds a strategic position in the creator toolset, particularly around building membership businesses — the recurring income from superfans that allows for creator sustainability.
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The biggest town in the south of the province, it occupies a strategic position along the M5, the motorway that connects Damascus to Aleppo.
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Iran played the part, by delivering military and economic assistance and by supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon, thus helping Damascus maintain its strategic position there.
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It was also partly an attempt to simply try different strategies; to see whether being naughty or nice would better advance North Korea's strategic position.
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His budget is gambling that the US can maintain its strategic position while radically scaling down its commitments to helping and working with other countries.
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And it's likely to prove incredibly damaging to America's strategic position in the world and its standing in international negotiations on a range of issues.
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Over the successive centuries, its strategic position in the Baltic led to the military presence of the Germans, the Russians, the French and the British.
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But it would help the group at the margins — and, given its dire strategic position in the Middle East, they'll take what they can get.
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If you don't have a car or a guardian angel who will take you to their strategic position in the middle of nowhere, too bad.
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The United States, together with its allies and partners, must adopt AI to maintain its strategic position, prevail on future battlefields, and safeguard this order.
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SECONDLY, MORE BROADLY, IF YOU WERE TO LOOK AT OUR STRATEGIC POSITION, OUR NUMBER ONE STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE IS TO BE THE UNDISPUTED PARTNER OF CHOICE.
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From the chic store design to the seamless shopping process, Amazon is in a strategic position to take on the established convenience stores of the past.
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"Apple's strategic position is second to none because it owns the mobile platform that the wealthiest 15% of consumers use," Tepper wrote to CNBC on Tuesday.
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On Sunday, Nasser told CNBC that Aramco's plans to buy a strategic position in petrochemicals firm Saudi Basic Industries, or SABIC, will delay the IPO indefinitely.
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Given Australia's strategic position between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the country's strategists expect its waters to be increasingly frequented, and even contested, by the Chinese navy.
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Neither side can afford to let the other take complete control of Deir Ezzor because of its strategic position and its proximity to Syria's main oil fields.
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The hostages' homecoming would be a welcome and positive step, but it is low cost for North Korea in terms of their strategic position and nuclear program.
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Good foreign policy presidents don't just fail to screw things up; they actually accomplish things that improve America's strategic position and make the world a better place.
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We are seeing investors outright ignore SaaS companies with solid traction in favor of companies that have a strategic position in the market granted by their "intelligent" software.
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Given the size, strategic position, and military capabilities of these two geopolitically critical countries, the answers will determine whether these two critical countries will export vitality or violence.
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U.S. officials are not taking full advantage of the presence of Japan, a U.S. ally that could provide economic help, strategic position, diplomatic support, and even military assistance.
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If this disposition of forces persists, Iran will have an invaluable geo-strategic position for possible future use against Israel, Jordan or the Arabian Peninsula's oil-producing monarchies.
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Many expressed concern, fearing that by prioritizing security and cutting back on aid and trade, the United States may weaken its long-term strategic position on the continent.
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Put those together and it's easy to imagine the North Koreans tricking Trump into a deal that, in the long term, helps their strategic position while hurting America's.
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For virtually the entire election cycle, Trump has been blaming Obama for torpedoing America's strategic position, hollowing out its military, and making the world a more dangerous place.
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Making changes to the U.S. nuclear posture as the threat environment grows more challenging will ultimately put the United States and its allies in a better strategic position.
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"It is time for the US to renew its perspective on the DPRK's strategic position which has reached the dazzling heights, and to act with prudence," the statement said.
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Djibouti occupies a vital strategic position at the southern entrance to the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean, with 30 per cent of the world's shipping passing close by.
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Puzzlingly, given how its international ambitions are growing along with its economy, and how alarming its strategic position looks, India has proved strangely unable to build serious military muscle.
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"The results of the recent important test will have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the DPRK once again in the near future," the spokesman added.
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It still retains a valuable strategic position as the biggest operator at Mumbai airport, where all of the good slots have been taken and a second airport is years away.
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If Israeli actions appear to threaten the stability of the Syrian regime, putting Russia's strategic position at risk, then Moscow might be willing to take a firmer stand against Israel.
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"In Q1, we made great progress strengthening our strategic position in emerging growth markets, most notably in cybersecurity and the Enterprise of Things," CEO John Chen said in a statement.
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The Anglo-Saxon troops settled on the top of a hill, and from that strategic position (like the troops in Winterfell) they withstood William's assault for much of the day.
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They are not people with a bunch of dollar bills stacked to the moon, they are (largely) men with a strategic position of power protected by public laws and rules.
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Roku – The streaming video device maker was named "top pick for 2019" at Needham, based on growth in the over-the-top video market, strategic position, demographic reach, and other factors.
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Its strategic position, scale, end-market diversification and R&D capability are only outranked by Bosch (F1) and are stronger than those of BorgWarner (BBB+/Stable/F2) and Delphi (BBB/Stable).
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The base, located in a strategic position between the cities of Homs and Palmyra in Syria's west, has been a key staging ground for Syrian and Russian aircraft during the war.
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"We don't have a decision yet but it is progressing well ... the project is promising and I think it will strengthen our partnership and our strategic position in North America," he said.
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Tibet is a highly sensitive region, not just because of continued opposition by many Tibetans to Chinese control, but because of the region's strategic position next to neighbors India, Nepal and Myanmar.
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The Qantas Group will maintain its strategic position in all parts of the market and therefore our total domestic capacity is expected to grow by up to 1% in the second half.
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The current tactical issue is control of the Syrian town of Saraqib, which sits in a strategic position on the M5 highway that connects the capital Damascus with Syria's largest city, Aleppo.
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"The enemies can no longer deny the strategic position of our country as a nuclear weapons state," Jong Won Sop, a teacher at the University of National Economy, was quoted as saying.
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Trafigura said the acquisition will be mainly financed by a non-recourse loan from a Russian bank while giving exposure to a strategic position in one of the fastest growing oil markets.
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Nicolas Mackel, chief executive of Luxembourg for Finance, said Northern Trust's decision was "further recognition of the cross-border expertise and crucial strategic position of Luxembourg for non-EU financial services companies".
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These changes don't reflect shifts in America's actual strategic position: Since the end of the Cold War, America has unquestionably been the world's strongest power, with no country even approaching peer status.
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KCNA said the test results would help the North's strategic position, without elaborating on what was tried out, but the site has previously been used to send rockets and satellites into space.
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The T-4 base, located in a strategic position between the cities of Homs and Palmyra in Syria's west, has been a key staging ground for Syrian and Russian aircraft during the war.
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"The results of the recent important test will have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] once again in the near future," the spokesman added.
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In reality, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and the U.S. share a common strategic position with regard to the fight against terrorism — in particular, the perceived threat of the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran's aggression.
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"We made sure we achieved the market position in important markets, and we are now going for profitability which has been somewhat neglected for the past years while we made sure we achieved strategic position."
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On page 3 of the NSS, "Data, like energy, will shape U.S. economic prosperity and our future strategic position in the world" was meant to convey the importance of information in politics, economics and the military.
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And in foreign policy, perception can determine reality: There's a real risk, every time someone in the administration mouths off about Korea, that they end up complicating America's strategic position on the peninsula without meaning to.
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Eritrea, which insists it has always been open to improving relations, says regional and world powers are waking up to the importance of the country's strategic position on busy Red Sea shipping lanes in a volatile region.
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"Whilst these cost-cutting measures were at times painful, our newly-sized operations provide Fastjet with a materially enhanced strategic position to pursue the growth opportunities on offer on the continent," Chief Executive Officer Nico Bezuidenhout said.
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By thinking strategically about the nexus between economic and military power and understanding the breath of China's plans and methods, President Trump is placing the United States in a much stronger strategic position for the competition ahead.
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It is too early to know whether Soleimani's death will significantly weaken Iran and improve the US strategic position, whether it will ignite a regional conflagration and how it will eventually affect Trump's political prospects and legacy.
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"We see an opportunity for multiple expansion given the prospects to improve free cash flow from a combination of expanding its addressable market for revenue, benefiting from potential tax reform, and improving its strategic position through M&A."
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Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia/Pacific at futures brokerage Oanda in Singapore, said conflict between Kurds and Turkey "usually implies that oil prices would move higher due to the (region's) strategic position in oil supply routes".
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Though the doomsayers like Summers could turn out to be wrong, many, many experts believe it is likely to prove incredibly damaging to America's strategic position in the world, our military's operations, and our standing in international negotiations.
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"The industry occupies a strategic position which concentrates in the country's less developed regions where poverty reduction remains a top priority of the local authorities," said Houston-based Peter Li, a China Policy Specialist at Humane Society International.
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On the proposed deal with Amaya, Parvus said the Canadian firm's core business of online poker was the least-attractive segment within online gambling and a tie-up would weaken William Hill's strategic position in the long run.
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WASHINGTON — President Roosevelt proclaimed tonight an unlimited national emergency and disclosed that he was placing ''our armed forces in strategic position'' and would not hesitate to use these forces to keep Hitlerism from advancing toward the Western Hemisphere.
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In December 2017, Beijing acquired a 20183-year lease to the port -- located in a key strategic position on the Indian Ocean -- in return for forgiving some of the billions of dollars the South Asian country owed China.
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RATING SENSITIVITIES Factors that could lead to a downgrade of AXA Insurance include a downgrade of the AXA group rating (IFS: AA-/Stable) or a change in Fitch's view of the Singapore unit's strategic position within the AXA group.
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S.-led hostile forces who have gone desperate in their moves to find fault with the sovereign state's exercise of the right to self-defense while categorically denying the DPRK's strategic position as a full-fledge nuclear weapons state.
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"The results of the recent important test will have an important effect on changing the strategic position of [North Korea] once again in the near future," a spokesman told the official Korean Central News Agency in a statement Sunday.
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Put: when combined with its geographic location and the detrimental impact a Ukraine with an anti-Moscow orientation would have on Russia's strategic position, the Kremlin is both able and willing to outmatch whatever arms the United States sends.
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SINES, Portugal, Feb 12 (Reuters) - American companies have a strong interest in expanding Portugal's deepwater port of Sines due to its strategic position for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to Europe, U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Wednesday.
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U.S. Army Major Jon-Paul Depreo, operations officer for the international coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and neighboring Syria, said at the weekend the insurgents were determined not to lose Nasr because of its strategic position on high ground.
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Aerospace experts said last week Britain could no longer take for granted a strategic position inside the 46-year-old aerospace group, while stressing that a shift towards competition away from political factors had been under way for some time.
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One of Putin's principal reasons for backing Assad's alleged attacks on the rebellion that has challenged him is to maintain this single toehold in the Mediterranean -- central to the strategic position of NATO and America in Europe and the Middle East.
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That said, ARM seems to be in a much more strategic position than Nvidia these days, as ARM has managed to maintain its linchpin role, and that should ultimately roll up to a valuation that SoftBank will be excited about.
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The asset injection, reflecting the Shanghai SASAC's intention to consolidate state-owned food and agricultural resources under its remit, is strong evidence of government support and further enhances BFG's strategic position in food production, supply and distribution, and quality control.
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"There might be a certain moment when they prioritize their own renewable production over others—they have been taking a strategic position in getting all the technological expertise and data around this," said lead author Pieter van Exter in a statement.
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"It is my and my government's firm strategic position that the strategic and traditional friendly relations between North Korea and Russia be strengthened and improved ceaselessly to fit the needs of the new century," Mr. Kim said after the meeting.
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Mao Zedong demonstrated the importance of this buffer when he took China to war with the United States in 1950 to save North Korea from military defeat and to preserve its strategic position between China and the foreign threat to Mao's regime.
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But pulling the US out entirely would be trouble for the mission against ISIS and for the US&aposs broader strategic position, according to Brett McGurk, who was special presidential envoy for the anti-ISIS coalition during the Trump and Obama administrations.
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Ms. Lim said the North Korean leader might see Singapore as a better model because of its strategic position as a trading port between the Middle East and East Asia and its role as a hub for the transportation and financial industries.
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Afterward, of course, they prevailed — launching a war that left thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, weakened America's strategic position in the Middle East, and, ultimately, created ISIS as we know it.
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" Stephen Yates, who was a national security aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, said his former boss would have fought such an exchange because swaps "tend to boost the strategic position of our adversary and secure little or no progress in advancing American interests.
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Support for Israel isn't even necessarily contradictory with the new white nationalism, which advocates for separate ethnic nations—a Jewish state in a separate, strategic position as an ally against a perceived Arab enemy is one thing, the safety of Jews from persecution at home is another.
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Rebel fighters in Syria have reported that the best snipers and the members of a crack military unit, known as the Islamic State's special forces, are Russian speakers who are often deployed as shock troops when the Islamic State is at risk of losing a strategic position.
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He would advise the new president to take a series of steps to advance those aims: First, withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement the United States negotiated to bolster its economic and strategic position in the Pacific, at the expense of China (and Russia).
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"Today we saw yet another indictment of the Chinese military for targeting the US private sector, highlighting their long-term effort to undermine US economic competitiveness and our strategic position globally," said Jamil N. Jaffer, senior vice president for strategy, partnerships & corporate development at IronNet Cybersecurity.
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Ultimately, in the short term, at least while diplomacy continues, Trump's tweets seem to indicate he is ready to live with the fact that North Korea has nuclear weapons and potentially the capacity to fire them at the United States, in an implicit erosion of the US strategic position.
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"On top of the self-driving system, in order to create mobility as a service ... here's routing optimization, there's demand analysis — where to place the robo-taxi at a strategic position such that when a customer hails for a service within a minute the car arrives at the point, handle peak hours, fleet mixes, tele-operation," Shashua said.
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The island of Tinian, one of the three main inhabited CNMI locations and home to a Saturday caucus site, was a critical strategic position in the Pacific theater of World War II. The "Enola Gay," a B-29 plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, took off from Tinian's North Airfield, according to the Atomic Heritage Foundation.
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Trump came to power faced with a question with which presidents have wrestled for decades: how to reconcile Saudi Arabia's poor human rights record, its tolerance of radical Islam and its stifling of dissent with its role as a fulcrum of US foreign policy and vital strategic position in a treacherous region and key partner in issues like counterterrorism, Afghanistan, and intelligence cooperation.
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As I see it, Patreon's thesis includes four hypotheses: I agree there is substantial untapped opportunity for mid-tail creators to leverage memberships, that Patreon can secure meaningful market share even amid competition by the largest content distribution platforms, and that being the dominant infrastructure provider for creator memberships is a highly strategic position from which to expand into numerous other products and services for creators.
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Just a dozen moves to find the currently unidentified VIP, kill or capture them, deal with the fallout (capturing someone means one of your squad is out of action while they're carrying a target), then move into a strong enough strategic position to put one of my men at risk of death by sending him toe-to-toe with a big-ass bad guy.
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The company raised $120.25 million in venture capital, and took advantage of Miami's strategic position to launch an online English-learning business that serves more than 400,000 students in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking community within the U.S. While Miami's royals provide proof of success and business opportunities for startups and investors in South Florida, venture capital remains a weak link in the ecosystem.
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" Colin Kahl, former Vice President Joseph Biden's national security adviser, and Hal Brands, former special assistant to the secretary of defense for strategic planning, wrote last February in Foreign Policy that Russia's "overarching goal, and one that it has been fairly successful in achieving, is to fortify the Assad regime in power and thereby protect Russia's strategic position in Syria and the broader Middle East.
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The nuclear warhead explosion test is a demonstration of the toughest will of the WPK and the Korean people to get themselves always ready to retaliate against the enemies if they make provocation as it is part of practical countermeasures to the racket of threat and sanctions against the DPRK kicked up by the U.S.-led hostile forces who have gone desperate in their moves to find fault with the sovereign state's exercise of the right to self-defence while categorically denying the DPRK's strategic position as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state.
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The nuclear warhead explosion test is a demonstration of the toughest will of the W.P.K. and the Korean people to get themselves always ready to retaliate against the enemies if they make provocation, as it is part of practical countermeasures to the racket of threat and sanctions against the D.P.R.K. kicked up by the U.S.-led hostile forces who have gone desperate in their moves to find fault with the sovereign state's exercise of the right to self-defense while categorically denying the D.P.R.K.'s strategic position as a full-fledged nuclear weapons state.
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President Xi Jinping's "China dream" of "national rejuvenation" calls for the reunification of the lost Qing imperial territories of Taiwan and Hong Kong, the continued suppression of the imperial holdings of Tibet and Xinjiang, the coercion of countries abutting the seas around China's coast to make good on expansive maritime claims, the protection of seaborne trade that passes through the Indian Ocean into the western Pacific Ocean and on to China's coasts, the preparation of contingencies on the Korean Peninsula, and preparation for a fight with the United States, should Washington's strategic position in Asia become untenable for Beijing.
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