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317 Sentences With "trying to beat"

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You have to keep pushing, and trying to beat yourself.
This time, he's trying to beat his record of nine.
"John, we're not trying to beat you," he said quietly.
We're not trying to beat [up] ourselves and each other.
Martin Luther King Jr. died trying to beat the trick.
Many track indexes instead of trying to beat the market.
The generally African-American residents are trying to beat the heat.
I don't want any alliance because I'm trying to beat you.
I'm trying to beat this Sekiro boss for the 50th time.
In trying to beat the Knicks, they became, well, the Knicks.
We're trying to beat Clemson, but we haven't quite achieved that yet.
Some EV startups are trying to beat Volkswagen Group to this idea.
You are wasting your time and money trying to beat the market.
Trump is trying to beat back efforts to deny him the nomination.
He got injured Tuesday while trying to beat out on infield hit.
They were amateurs trying to beat the pros on the pros' turf.
Samsung is once again trying to beat Apple at its own game.
They are trying to beat her in the floor vote for speaker.
They often track an index, rather than trying to beat the market.
It's not like he's trying to beat anybody, or I don't know.
So far, the establishment has been trying to beat Trump with wishful thinking.
Just be warned: Trying to beat your own reaction time is insanely addictive.
Democrats shouldn't fall into the trap of trying to beat fear with reason.
Lyft has confidentially filed and is trying to beat Uber to the exits.
The Walt Disney Company is trying to beat Netflix at its own game.
They spent the afternoon hanging by the lake, trying to beat the heat.
Washington's 6900th District, 2628: $28503 million Democrats spent years trying to beat Rep.
"I enjoy that competitive side of them trying to beat me," he said.
Trying to beat Bernie Sanders at his own game carries risks for Mrs. Clinton.
And trying to beat the anti-immigration party at its own game could backfire.
Probably also included: the amount of time you'll lose trying to beat every game.
"We were trying to beat him inside all day with the fastball," Manaea said.
Hitters were trying to beat Young; defenders were trying to stop Robertson and Gretzky.
"I never felt like I was out there trying to beat Jordan," he said.
He began running at an early age, trying to beat his childhood friend Morabity.
You cannot beat Mike Francesa specifically because you are trying to beat Mike Francesa.
The driver of the truck was trying to beat the gate at a crossing, Newsday.
After that, they had to send evidence of the record they were trying to beat.
The artificially intelligent Ping-Pong tutor built by Omron is not trying to beat you.
He had not set any ambitious targets; he would not be trying to beat Evans.
I run faster, focused, trying to beat whatever twisted game I'm being forced to play.
Luckin is trying to beat Starbucks by surpassing it in the number of stores in China.
And Bangladesh's success holds lessons for other poor countries that are trying to beat back disease.
And China's Anbang Insurance Group is trying to beat out Marriott to buy hotel chain Starwood.
If you're trying to beat the heat, there's always air conditioners, ice cream, and ceiling fans.
Cain was injured Tuesday night while trying to beat out a grounder in the seventh inning.
"I expect to be back, but we'll see," he said, trying to beat back his irritation.
He is literally trying to beat back a virus with no vaccine and no herd immunity.
Trying to beat this level, on the highest difficulty, against the stiff headwind of designer's intent.
And trying to beat Donald Trump is going to be very different from almost beating Ted Cruz.
Democrats like Charlie Stone now relished the chance of trying to beat Trump in the 2020 election.
Check.  Google is trying to beat Apple at its own game, and with much, much, cheaper hardware.
At the same time, quantum computer scientists aren't just trying to beat classical computers simulating quantum computers.
"I'm just a first generation college kid from Detroit trying to beat the odds," Reeder told BuzzFeed.
If you find yourself stuck indoors trying to beat the heat this weekend, consider decluttering your home.
Jacob Eason, a freshman, is trying to beat out the returning starter, Greyson Lambert, and Brice Ramsey.
He suffered the injury running to first, trying to beat out a groundball in the ninth inning.
Instead of trying to beat me up, they want to give me a hug or something instead.
The nature of speedrunning is escalation, though, and the holy grail for Ring Fit Adventure speedrunners goes beyond trying to beat the game as fast as possible, it's trying to beat the game as fast as possible on the game's hardest difficulty, which sets exercise intensity at 2707.
A sarcastic, stubborn young woman trying to beat the odds with the entire world watching my every move.
So, although it's not a competition happening in real time, you're still trying to beat someone else's score.
To rub salt in the wound, now Amazon is trying to beat B&N at its own game.
Pretty much every spare moment I had was dedicated to playing my NES, and trying to "beat" games.
And the rule seems to be that companies are trying to beat us into submission through mental attrition.
It's like bringing the entire internet into your game room while you're trying to beat that last boss.
It makes perfect sense, then, that Huawei is the one reportedly trying to beat Samsung to the punch.
For years I played Tetris every day, trying to beat my times before going to bed every night.
German grocery chain Aldi is trying to beat the world's biggest retailer at its own game: low prices.
Best Western is trying to beat the odds, using artificial intelligence to personalize ads using IBM Watson Advertising.
Particularly given that the figure may, in part, have been inflated by exporters trying to beat tariff deadlines.
Maxine and her coach took turns trying to beat each other's distances, their lines slicing through the air.
Combs, 39, was killed Tuesday while trying to beat a land speed record with a jet-powered car.
One should recognize the dangers of trying to "beat the crowd" by forecasting the sentiment of Bitcoin investors.
It was fun trying to beat a game I've beaten many times before but with a different controller scheme.
Other Trump opponents like Charlie Stone now relished the chance of trying to beat Trump in the 2020 election.
But some of his critics are trying to beat him at his own game, using Twitter to troll back.
I'm trying to beat all these men and go to Paris and live my very best black-ass life!
Online travel operators are trying to beat Airbnb at its own game, and it is starting to work. Booking.
As he likes to put it, at least two-thirds of those trying to beat simple market indexes fail.
Bernie Sanders, who traveled the country alongside liberal leaders trying to beat back the tax plan, offered a prediction.
Trying to beat two players at once also made me go for too much on lobs and drop shots.
For months, the Shabab, Somalia's leading Islamist militants, have been trying to beat back an insurgency within an insurgency.
"When they were rivals, as close as they were, they were always trying to beat each other," Chandler said.
Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday that he's had a "tough time" trying to beat the S&P 500.
For 2018, Samsung is trying to beat the rest by putting the first-ever adjustable aperture camera on a smartphone.
Apple is also seeing a lot of competition from other manufacturers trying to beat it at a lower price point.
In college when Words With Friends was all the rage, I spent many hours trying to beat peers and strangers.
So it never feels like a game that's trying to beat you down, but instead one that's building you up.
Now Amazon is trying to beat Wish at its own game, which has encouraged others, like eBay now, to follow.
I mean, that's how we made the EP, too; we just kept stacking records and trying to beat each one.
There are other tech companies trying to beat the banks, but none that focus on serving credit to the poor.
You're trying to beat Golden State overall, and then just collecting talent is not gonna do it all the way.
He is trying to beat the pizza he is tracking on his phone, because you can also do that now.
First Man is about the US trying to beat the Russians, and also about a universalist conception of American greatness.
For now, James will turn his attention to trying to beat the Warriors for the second time in four Finals meetings.
Machado plays as if to solve the game; Beltre plays like he's trying to beat it in an arm-wrestling contest.
The bad news for Democrats is that there's no simple rule of electability they can follow in trying to beat Trump.
Contrafund charges 71 basis points – pretty reasonable for an active fund with a big research team trying to beat the market.
If you think about a golfer trying to beat his best round, being competitive in that sense makes sense to me.
On a related point, it is the knowledge that somebody else is trying to beat us that makes us try harder.
A group of 17 Republican and Democratic members of the Senate and House of Representatives are trying to beat a Feb.
The Oracle of Omaha told CNBC last year that he's had a "tough time" trying to beat the S&P 500.
It's been a rough few years for managers trying to beat the markets and make returns that would generate performance fees.
Bryant was injured as he lunged awkwardly to reach first base while unsuccessfully trying to beat out a double-play grounder.
Robinhood is trying to beat its larger rivals to the punch on fractional share trading, on both individual stocks and ETFs.
I was just trying to beat the draft — 1964, when I got out of high school, was a big draft year.
A higher percentage here may mean the fund manager is trying to beat the index with his or her stock picking skill.
Don't bother trying to beat your friends with your predictions for the final popular and electoral voter tallies in the presidential election.
This is called index or passive investing because there is no active money manager trying to beat the market by picking stocks.
They're trying to beat any possible workaround that someone programming a classical computer can come up with, which is harder to prove.
And then playing through the course world levels (designed by Nintendo employees) and trying to beat their record times was a blast.
While those despised candidates concentrate on developing their campaigns and winning delegates, their mainstream rivals will continue trying to beat each other.
"Rather than trying to beat conservatives, as Boehner did, Paul is trying to harness that energy in a positive direction," DeMint said.
But now, you're back in New York City's sweltering, stormy 28-degree weather, trying to beat the heat during the short workweek.
But it's better as a competitive experience, played beside an actual human being who's trying to beat you to the finish line.
"It feels good to be back out here playing again and competing and trying to beat the best players in the world."
The company has labelled it "Project 3:10," and it's a bit like an Olympic sprinter trying to beat their 100-metre time.
Since January 2016, Moor has been trying to beat his absurd Super Mario Maker level, a nightmare he appropriately titled Trials of Death.
A short while ago, onetime Apple Maps cartographer Justin O'Beirne gave a big shout-out to the company Apple was trying to beat.
Barley was simply trying to beat the fall semester rush to secure a job and dorm room at Barnesville, Georgia's Gordon State College.
In the end, publishing is doing itself no favors by trying to beat their biggest distributor and the numbers are backing that up.
So, take a break from your day and enjoy this gallery of Jasmine trying to beat the heat in L.A.'s summer temps!
Professional investors need to be mindful of that cost and how it compares to whatever benchmark it is they are trying to beat.
CHICAGO — The last time second baseman Daniel Murphy was around so many Mets in Chicago he was one — trying to beat the Cubs.
After digesting the writing of Burton Malkiel (A Random Walk Down Wall Street), I saw the folly of trying to beat the market.
They weren't so much trying to beat a historically great team as they were trying to present their best selves in the process.
The wind plagued firefighters who were trying to beat back the raging blaze, but a reprieve was expected on Monday, albeit a brief one.
But Larry Swedroe, director of research at financial advisory network BAM Alliance, cautioned against trying to beat the market with a sector rotation strategy.
Ramirez was trying to beat out a double down the right field line, and he did, but was it worth bending space and time?
They're simply finding a way to capitalize on the Warriors's sloppy passes and aren't trying to beat them at their own three point game.
Carrie Brownstein's guitar is a slithering, sinister force and Janet Weiss plays the drums like she's trying to beat the devil out of them.
And James took time out from preparing for the Sisyphean task of trying to beat the Warriors to aim a jab at the president.
But Mr. Scholz's mantra is unchanged: Stick to social democratic principles and moderation instead of trying to beat the populists at their own game.
She goes between calling herself an "idiot" and "crazy," frequently during our conversation, as if she's trying to beat everyone else to the punch.
Active managers typically charge more, with the goal of trying to beat the index, although they do not always live up to the promise.
You let the enemy invest in trying to beat your defenses, and the defenses were all back to front from my point of view.
Index funds generally take a humble approach, mirroring the performance of the markets and not trying to beat them, as actively managed funds do.
Pointed toward Skinwalker Ranch, hoping for context and maybe something strange, we sped through the Rockies, trying to beat the ski traffic and a snowstorm.
Burr, who is trying to beat back a surprisingly strong challenge from former state legislator Deborah Ross, is winning by 6 points, 49% to 43%.
Of course, in trying to beat him they have to cope with the fact that he is chronically unscrupulous, as the Biden-Ukraine foray shows.
After the 2008 financial crisis whipsawed retirement account balances, many investors stopped trying to beat the market and embraced the lower fees of passive funds.
Trying to beat a total stranger to Sunday school is not exactly in the spirit of Christian charity, but I wanted a seat in that sanctuary.
But Jones, a former US Attorney, will likely become the new cause celebre for Democrats trying to beat back the rising Trumpism within the Republican Party.
"We both did not want to lose and so we kept trying to beat each other, resulting in us completing 1,000 squats,"Xiao told China Press.
The game's opening goal came in the 28th minute after Jozy Altidore nearly lost possession while trying to beat a defender just outside the penalty area.
You might be fighting a swarm of tiny Yoshi with a strict time limit, or trying to beat Fox while dealing with ever-present wind and earthquakes.
Sometimes he feels like he is in a game of Whack-A-Mole, trying to beat it down in one site before it pops up in another.
But consider that the phrase "random walk" describes a theory that basically says prices move randomly, and so trying to beat the market is a sucker's game.
NOTES: St. Louis 3B Aledmys Diaz (strained left hamstring) left the game after the second inning when he was injured trying to beat out an infield hit.
But the basic idea of trying to beat Trump with a sort of anti-Trump has a compelling internal logic that O'Rourke is well-positioned to offer.
Planned to be asleep by midnight but got distracted by a really good episode and trying to beat a game on my phone (damn you, Picture Cross).
But it may also be because human behavior doesn't change and people won't give up the dream of trying to beat the market, as Mr. Buffett predicts.
Ultimately though Netflix is still the video streaming service everyone's trying to beat, with its growing number of 4K titles, smooth and stable streaming, and multiple user support.
Which is why many people wonder why you would own it, if you really were trying to beat down the Celgene deal, unless you just like Bristol-Myers.
Instead of trying to beat a wave of high-growth financial technology start-ups at their own game, a group of small banks is opting to join them.
Dollar General is trying to beat back the threat of discount grocery chains like Aldi and Lidl, according to Catherine Lang, who covers the industry at Kantar Consulting.
This consultant suggested that benchmarking practices, even if legal, hurt agencies because they train clients to keep trying to beat the benchmarks, thereby eroding fees and quality talent.
It was as if Mr. Trump's rivals had decided, after so many months, that there was no upside anymore in trying to beat him at his own game.
When you're reading this, I'll hopefully be slumped over on the couch, a holiday drink in hand, doing something productive, like trying to beat Area X in Rez.
But there is worry they will be too quick to shift those dollars towards trying to beat competitors with lower prices on loans and better services for customers.
On the heels of a rumored Peloton rowing machine, there were lots of alternatives on the CES show floor that were trying to beat Peloton to the punch.
Still, Mr. Buffett is not convinced the big money will take his advice and buy index funds — thereby giving up the dream of trying to beat the market.
On Saturday morning, I spoke to a relative in Tehran who was trying to beat the city's notorious traffic, looking for the best route to run an errand.
They were played the way teams are going to play us, physical games, a lot of grabbing and holding, trying to beat us up on the offensive boards.
The Giulia Q has been designed to beat BMW at its own game, just as everybody has been trying to beat BMW at its own game for decades.
While Amazon's success has largely been built around the convenience of its Amazon Prime membership program, Jet has been primarily focused on trying to beat everyone on price.
When a patient dies, the device is usually buried with the patient, still fully functional, still ticking away, trying to beat a dead heart in a dead body.
China's own Luckin Coffee, slated for a public debut on the New York Stock Exchange soon, has been trying to beat Starbucks with discounts and stores created for convenience.
But the system – part of a suite of farming techniques known as "conservation agriculture" – is now gaining popularity in Kenya among small-scale farmers trying to beat worsening drought.
But when playing the teams they're trying to catch, or playing the teams they'd be trying to beat in the playoffs, they've either fallen short or been entirely outclassed.
Just about every level of government has thrown their efforts behind trying to beat the hum, but nobody on either side of the border has even confirmed the source.
Turbulence aheadIn the long run, this approach is likely to produce better results than trying to beat the market — which even pros tend to have a hard time doing.
Piscotty has been on the 6-day DL since May 5 after injuring himself trying to beat out an infield hit on May 4 in a loss to Milwaukee.
When you're trying to beat the summer heat outdoors, a glass of lemonade at the pool works great, but beating the heat indoors works best with an electric fan.
Unsurprisingly, Uber and Lyft are solidly opposed to the bill even as they switch tactics from trying to beat the bill to trying to cut a deal with drivers.
Right now murder is hot, that's what everyone wants, that's what the competition wants, and we're trying to beat out the other networks to get that perfect murder story.
You always kind of feel like there's going to be people trying to beat the system, and that's unfortunate, but the system seems to be working to this point.
It's kind of like a bunch of Godzillas, unleashed all at once, trying to beat each other over the head to get some stock in, as much as possible.
As he runs, just ahead of a field of men desperately trying to beat the champion sprinter, Usain Bolt turns and seems to flash a cheeky grin at the camera.
And you know, I would rather work at the community level and build up from the community, versus trying to beat my head against the wall at the government level.
"They are all trying to beat each other to the punch and starting their promotions earlier and earlier every year," said Traci Gregorski, senior vice president, marketing at Market Track.
The entire time, I have absolutely no idea why he's attacking me, but with the knife in my back, I realize that Charlie's not just trying to beat me up.
"And I think the Republicans have spent the last four or five years trying to beat her, so that's made it possible for someone else to come in like Bernie."
It seems that he was trying to beat the New York Times to the punch line, releasing the emails in the name of transparency -- a decision his father later praised.
This comes as Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, is trying to beat out Iraq to become the biggest crude supplier to India, the world's third-largest oil importer.
She used to brag about how many Facebook friends she had, and while trying to beat her tally, I met some genuinely great people who preferred me to her anyway.
Robert Gsellman, the Mets' youngest player, was equally dejected after he pulled up lame with a left hamstring strain running to first base trying to beat out a ground ball.
It was by far the most important defection to Mr. Trump's insurgency: Mr. Christie may give cover to other Republicans tempted to join Mr. Trump rather than trying to beat him.
GreenSky, which bills itself as a technology company rather than a lender, hopes to fare better by partnering with traditional banks rather than trying to beat them at their own game.
Bogle, who died of cancer at age 89 on Wednesday, saved investors billions of dollars by devising and championing low-fee funds that tracked markets instead of trying to beat them.
The goal of the $25 game, which has also been upgraded with electronic sound effects, is still the same as the original version—you're trying to beat your opponent into submission.
"Confession is somebody trying to beat something out of you externally," said Joni Mitchell, who herself released quintessential heartbreak album Blue and has rallied against a "confessional" label her entire career.
These shows capture the genre from the inside, exploring the vulnerability of those who keep trying to beat a system that, like a casino, rarely lets any player win for long.
Coming right on the heels of the Consumer Electronics Show and its cavalcade of concept cars and design projects, there's a sense that Cruise is trying to beat back diminishing expectations.
On top of Bloomberg's guarantee that he will spend more than $100 million on digital ads that mainly go after Trump, he's also trying to beat Trump's spending on TV ads.
For once, I'd like to see our politicians do something to better our country instead of treating it like sports all the time and just trying to beat the other side. Idk.
One candidate became stuck there while trying to beat the dead horse of the Crooked Hillary meme and the other candidate is sinking simply because government email is just so damn crappy.
Today, a software developer who is either a genius or a fool launched StockStream, a channel in which users are trying to beat the stock market using $50,000 of the developer's money.
Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican who has long been a supporter of free trade deals, said he disagreed with the Trump approach of "trying to beat someone" in the NAFTA talks.
This will happen to you this weekend except someone will actually be trying to beat you up because you're a sarcy little cunt and you looked at his pint for too long.
Suddenly, there was presumably a portion of the crowd emboldened by the idea of an English-speaking fighter from Ontario coming to Quebec and trying to beat up one of their own.
I wrote an article last week about a Super Mario Maker player who's spent the last year and a half trying to beat a maniacal level they devised in Nintendo's creation tool.
Many of the civil rights groups involved were also allied with major internet service providers when the companies were trying to beat back strict net neutrality rules the FCC approved last year.
If we can understand more about how resistant bacteria spreads, we'll stand a better chance of trying to beat it - meaning it's yet another reason to work on cleaning up our cities.
"Instead of trying to beat President Trump at the ballot box, Democrats are resorting to unconstitutional, undemocratic, and just plain desperate tactics," Republican National Committee spokesman Steve Guest said in a statement.
With Sonos set to announce the Move at an event next week, it feels like Bose is trying to beat its competitor to the punch by announcing the Portable Home Speaker first.
American Express has been trying to beat back rival JPMorgan Chase for customers willing to pay high fees in exchange for fat travel credits and other perks, such as airport lounge access.
Meanwhile, the organization was trying to beat back a surge of state abortion bans, as 2628 states in the first half of the year enacted some kind of ban on the procedure.
Speaking on Sean Hannity's radio show, Gingrich stated the obvious: It would be better for the GOP if the president and his allies spent their time trying to beat incumbent Democratic senators.
Uber was losing roughly a billion dollars a year on its China business, according to reports, because it was sinking money into trying to beat Didi for control of the populous market.
SG Devin Booker scored 18 points for the Suns, who have won only seven games since Christmas but were trying to beat the playoff-bound Grizzlies for the third time since Feb. 27.
Clayton Thorson completed 16 of 73 passes for 141 yards and one touchdown for the Wildcats (5-4), who were trying to beat a ranked opponent for the third time in a row.
I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people, at least know, where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.
You've read a few books on investing and gleaned the basics — the importance of diversification, of investing for the long term, and of buying and holding rather than trying to beat the market.
The fans who fill Dodger Stadium are far more likely to be wearing tank tops and flip flops while they watch the Astros and Dodgers trying to beat each other — and the heat.
Over the next several months, we kept in sporadic touch as Mr. Broeksmit bounced between rehab facilities in Florida and California, trying to beat an opioid addiction and teasing me with provocative messages.
Over the last 11 months, Democrats have fortified their new House majority: Candidates have been stockpiling campaign cash, raising previously unheard-of sums to dissuade potential opponents from even trying to beat them.
And I think it's just unique to trying to beat Donald Trump, because certainly it hasn't stopped voters from voting for Laura Kelly or Gretchen Whitmer and for governor or for executive office.
Markham-Stouffville, where a former member of Trudeau's Cabinet is running as an Independent, as well as Brampton East, where an NDP candidate is trying to beat the odds, will be crucial tests.
I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is [that] they are trying to beat me in this primary.
Trying to beat the stock market is theoretically a zero-sum game (for every winner, there must be a loser), and after the substantial costs of investing are deducted, it becomes a loser's game.
A decade ago, before everything that followed, writer S.L. Price played one-on-one with Obama, who was at the time trying to beat out Hillary Clinton and John Edwards for the Democratic nomination.
But there is yet another unexpected twist: In their rush to beat Trump, the party elite may find itself elevating a man who is even more radical than the person they're trying to beat.
And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people at least know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.
Exxon is trying to beat back investigations in New York and Massachusetts into whether the company misled investors and the public about the risk that climate change posed for the oil and gas company.
The side plot of all the competitive, type-A doctors trying to beat the 11-year-old genius at math problems is delightful, as is Bailey (Chandra Wilson) hogging the alternative medicine game room.
"It's funny, the people you are trying to beat every night [in the WNBA] are on your team now and we have awesome coaches and staff to take care of us," says Moore, 21.
The middle of the week was more of the same with the White House trying to beat back an increasingly intense chorus -- from within the Republican Party -- to end the policy of family separation.
YouTubers Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson and Danny Avidan of Game Grumps spent an entire 13-minute episode trying to beat the level, giving an idea of what it's like to play through it without practice.
So, trying to beat a radical right-wing populist insurgency by becoming one — or for that matter, by adopting its agenda and even inviting it into government — turns out to be a fool's errand.
At age 10 in 1980s Brazil, my job was to run around the aisles of the supermarket trying to beat adults, who walked around raising prices throughout the day with comically large label guns.
" While Evans admitted that Federer was simply too good, he also pointed out that he was trying to beat the Swiss while tired a day after a four-set match was "near on impossible.
He won a narrow victory over Mr. Trump in the Iowa caucuses, but he has been trailing in South Carolina and trying to beat back Mr. Rubio, who is aiming for a second-place finish.
It's a fun take on boxing that's even better with someone else playing on the couch with you — whether you're fighting alongside them or trying to beat them into submission with your weird, springy appendages.
It's also the incredible amount of time Braden "ChainChompBraden" Moor has spent trying to beat Trials of Death, a Mario Maker monstrosity of his own making, a towering journey into the heart of gaming darkness.
In the coming week, the major banks — JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Citigroup (C) — report earnings, and engage in the quarterly game of trying to beat the lowered bar.
This was huge for Alibaba — at the time it was trying to beat eBay in China — and it would eventually be an enormous win for Yahoo too, netting it $10 billion in Alibaba's IPO alone.
But they are looking at what's going on and see people developing new technologies that surpassed things in their own sports, so the logical temptation is instead of trying to beat them to join them.
America may not be trying to beat the Soviets to the moon, but our country faces a struggle that requires the fullest contribution of the very best American minds, regardless of gender or skin color.
The speaker and other party leaders believe that, barring a startling new revelation of wrongdoing, Democrats are better off trying to beat Mr. Trump at the polls in 2020 than going down the impeachment path.
There are arcade-y races where you're trying to get a particular high score (you earn points by drifting, smashing into opponents, and pulling off jumps) and others where you're trying to beat a specific time.
With an acquisition out of the question, Facebook went back to gradually building its own version of Twitter, while simultaneously trying to beat back or acquire other up-and-coming businesses like Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Vertonghen collided with team mate Toby Alderweireld while trying to beat Ajax Amsterdam goalkeeper Andre Onana to the ball in what Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino described as a "big knock" during Tuesday's semi-final first leg.
Garmin's VIRB is focused on overlaying data and telemetry on your videos, the TomTom Bandit edits your footage for you, and Nikon (and now, Samsung) are trying to beat GoPro and Sony to 360-degree video.
The world's two largest economies are trying to beat a March 1 deadline for a deal that averts a scheduled increase in U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods to 25 percent from 10 percent.
Because, unlike past failed insurrections against Pelosi, they aren't trying to beat her in the Democratic caucus vote -- where Pelosi will need only a simple majority of the 163 or 233 Democrats elected to the House.
The German had spent years trying to beat Hamilton, a triple world champion who moved to Mercedes from McLaren in 2013, in Formula One after a previous rivalry in karting when they were teenage team mates.
A two-hour drive away, along a dusty path passing thatched homes scattered among cattle and buffalo pastures and rice fields, another group of farmers at El Torno village is also trying to beat climate change.
"Halftime Report " traders made a flurry of moves in their CNBC Pro model portfolios in the back half of the week as the choppy market continues to frustrate money managers trying to beat the S&P 500.
While Grab is actively trying to beat Uber out of Southeast Asia after raising $2 billion, its India peer might now be able to realistically dream that it too can take the initiative against its U.S. rival.
The result: The top four ranked U.S. 100 meters runners for 2017 will be trying to beat the clock in a 4x100 meters relay at the Tennessee Relays at Knoxville where Gatlin and Coleman were collegiate champions.
All of these touches feel subtle — noticeable, but not something Disney is trying to beat us over the head with, a method that the rest of Hollywood could learn from when it comes to casting more realistically.
"Any time you're trying to beat a team for the second time, psychologically you're concerned that the other team has the advantage because they're the one that thinks they have to play better to win," Cronin said.
Given the way this tournament started, with English and Russian fans trying to beat the shit out of each other in the streets of France, this is just a nice way to wrap it all up. [BBC]
It's a fascinating adjustment for Crowder, who's playing more tentative with the ball than before as he tries to discover how he can best help the team he just spent three straight years desperately trying to beat.
Given the FCC's actions involving the Sinclair/Tribune merger, it is unfortunate that House Democrats are still trying to beat this dead horse, especially after their prior accusations of favoritism towards Sinclair were shown to be false.
Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez raced to the courthouse last year, trying to beat each other to the punch in filing divorce papers, yet a year later they are poised to dismiss the case and stay married.
Back in 2007, only 19 percent of stock market assets were in these passive strategies, a style of investing that acknowledges that, for most people, trying to beat the market through savvy trading is a mug's game.
While Apple and Google were busy trying to beat each other to the smart home with HomeKit and Nest, respectively, Amazon snuck in from nowhere with the Echo and its Alexa voice assistant and embarrassed them both.
Devin Booker scored 18 points and P.J. Tucker had 15 for the Suns, who have won only seven games since Christmas but were trying to beat the playoff-bound Grizzlies for the third time since Feb. 27.
Back in 2007, only 2753 percent of stock market assets were in these passive strategies, a style of investing that acknowledges that, for most people, trying to beat the market through savvy trading is a mug's game.
At this point in the series, for example, I'm far more interested in Darlene and Angie desperately trying to tread water in their wildly different arenas than I am in Elliot trying to beat back Mr. Robot.
This means that the first "half" of the game is one team playing offense and getting all the runs they can, and the second "half" is the other team playing offense, trying to beat the first team's score.
The idea that Trump can't be beaten is insane; the idea that he shouldn't be beaten is immoral; the idea that it isn't worth even trying to beat him is the lamest thing I've ever seen in politics.
" She thinks the best way to communicate the payroll option is as the "slow, constant every few weeks — not worrying about price fluctuations or trying to beat the system — and knowing if something should happen, I could lose.
An interview with doctor Ai Fen in a prominent Chinese magazine was scrubbed shortly after publication, but on major Chinese social media platforms, users have been trying to beat the censors by posting it over and over again.
That's why they're trying to beat back the competition by giving off the same vibe as the craft breweries that have eroded their edge – when they're not running Super Bowl commercials that deride people who drink craft beer.
Almost every one of Dom's investigative discoveries this season has happened in spite of her bosses, who can't see the forest for the trees when it comes to the invisible hacking enemies they're now trying to beat back.
The 2015 National League Most Valuable Player sustained the injury after his spike slipped on a wet first base bag while trying to beat out a ground ball in a contest against the San Francisco Giants on Aug. 12.
They spent $62 million on J.A. Happ and Marco Estrada (giving a three-year deal to the former, and two years to the latter), rather than trying to beat the Red Sox's seven-year, $403 million offer to Price.
But with filmmakers like Waititi, Gunn, and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler all making their marks on the universe, perhaps we're entering a phase where Marvel is embracing its directors' individualistic voices instead of trying to beat them down.
Austin, who served in Korea, urged his fellow veterans to seek help for post-traumatic stress rather than trying to beat it on their own, citing his own night terrors that lasted for years after he returned from combat.
Then, Simon Ostrovsky reports from Libya, where rival militias are trying to beat back ISIS fighters who are gaining ground and taking advantage of the lack of central leadership and political unrest in the country following Muammar Gaddafi's death.
In Colorado, with temperatures in Denver hitting record-tying readings of 105 degrees, firefighters in the rain-starved mountains and brittle valleys have spent the summer trying to beat back some of the largest wildfires in the state's history.
Often, as was the case with Google and Amazon, domain fronting is not a formally supported feature of web hosting providers, but instead a sort-of hacky work around that those trying to beat censorship will take advantage of.
While all eyes will be on the chestnut colt with the big white blaze, racing enthusiasts and casual fans shouldn't ignore the other stories in the race, or the opportunity to make a profit while trying to beat the favorite.
He sees no real difference in his world between Fox News and the Republican National Committee -- and he certainly wouldn't tolerate the RNC putting out favorable press releases (or TV commercials) about the Democrats who are trying to beat him.
He told Mashable that Mueller was trying to beat the previous record of a 7-patty Whataburger, but it was unclear whether it was the restaurant's record, or just an unofficial high score from someone else in their youth group.
One of them is called 'If I Die Before I Sleep'; I knew I would have to write it over two nights, so I made the episode about the cast trying to beat the Guinness record for performing radio without sleeping.
The reinvention by one of the world's top ten mobile operators is the clearest example yet of a major telecom company deciding to join the tech sector rather than trying to beat it and may put pressure on others to follow.
In Indiana, where Bayh is trying to beat back a barrage of outside spending from GOP groups and John Gregg is trying to win the governor's seat currently held by Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, Democratic first-term Sen.
She wants to be seen at home to be battling Brussels to get the best future arrangement for Britain — while trying to beat back the concerns of other member states, in particular France, Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries. Mrs.
"Republicans are spending record amounts trying to beat Democrats, and we want to ensure that the Democratic nominee and candidates up and down the ballot are backed by a strong party with the resources needed to win," campaign spokesman Josh Schwerin said.
Meanwhile, billionaire Democrat donor Tom Steyer — who is apparently trying to beat George Soros in a game of who is the world's most prominent real-life Bond villain — is pouring millions of dollars of his personal fortune into his "Need to Impeach" PAC.
It's trying to beat Snapchat to young mobile users in places like Brazil and India with Flash, while adding Snapchat features like disappearing messages and Stories to Instagram may keep older millennials and gen-x types from giving Snapchat a fair shot.
Furthermore, as I said in Florence, we share the same set of fundamental beliefs; a belief in free trade, rigorous and fair competition, strong consumer rights, and that trying to beat other countries' industries by unfairly subsidizing one's own is a serious mistake.
Let us not forget, though, that the biggest burden she probably faces is people always trying to beat her on the court, and across the net on Saturday was a formidable, frustrating opponent whom many see as a younger version of herself.
In their place have come computers, algorithms and passive managers—institutions which offer an index fund that holds a basket of shares to match the return of the stockmarket, or sectors of it, rather than trying to beat it (see chart 1).
It was a race to the finish for teams like the Colts, the Ravens and the Eagles, but there is no time to celebrate as they all now have to back up their N.F.L. playoff positions by trying to beat fierce competition.
But as the corruption and abuses of Anastasio Somoza became difficult to ignore, Archbishop Miguel Obando y Bravo began to distance the church from the authoritarian regime in the 1970s while Somoza was trying to beat back threats both from civilian opponents and Sandinista guerrillas.
The bet would have been that a short running play would have given the Bulldogs a better chance than kicking the extra point and then trying to beat Oklahoma — statistically college football's best offense, helmed by the Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield — in overtime.
It looked as if Cabrera might have aggravated the injury while trying to beat out a squibber for an infield hit in the fourth inning, but remained in the game after becoming the last Mets player to take his position in the top of the fifth.
If one side of the sustainability fear is that Netflix and its ilk can't keep running up massive amounts of debt forever, the flip side is that the entertainment industry trying to beat Netflix at its own game may end up being a self-defeating proposition.
For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
Gary Cohn, Trump's economic adviser until April and fellow "globalists" — a small group that included Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and former Staff Secretary Rob Porter — were often forced into a defensive crouch, trying to beat back the hardliners' ideas in real time in front of the president.
In their internal debate about what to do, some Democrats have argued that this political reality means that they should instead focus on trying to beat him in the 2020 election, on the theory that an acquittal in the Senate might backfire by strengthening him politically.
For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last blockon a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
Nor can the team fully move on from the trade drama, because everyone knows the front office will be back on the phones with New Orleans soon, trying to beat out the Boston Celtics' package for Davis once the Pelicans start fielding offers for him anew.
" Clinton attempted to distance herself from perceptions her campaign is influenced by Wall Street interests, saying, "I think the best evidence that the Wall Street people, at least, know where I stand and where I have always stood is because they are trying to beat me in this primary.
Whether you're aiming to get that salary raise in 2391 or are just trying to beat that kid from across the ocean on Fortnite, a productivity-upping curved monitor is calling your name — and you can grab Samsung's well-reviewed CF320 model on sale for $90 off at Amazon.
BECKY QUICK: You-- you did this as a result-- because you wanted to show people that they didn't need to be trying to beat the market all the time, that they could just be investors over the long haul and that would be a way to make money.
And, despite what travelers may have heard about avoiding naps if they're trying to beat jet lag, he said that a 30-minute to hourlong snooze is actually beneficial because it gives you enough energy to stay awake through the day but still get a good night's rest.
At the same time, they are also trying to beat back a property tax cap for the city — supported by Republicans in the State Senate — and to thwart a proposal that would give the state veto power over housing projects in the city that use tax-exempt federal bonds.
Mark Galeotti, a Russian crime specialist at the Institute of International Relations Prague in the Czech Republic, said the case showed how Russian and other Eurasian crime groups had sought to move into new and often ingenious areas of illegal activity, like trying to beat casino machines through hacking.
Tolu Oni, an epidemiologist also at Cape Town, and Evelyn Gitau, an immunologist at the Kenya Medical Research Institute, both know that the seriousness of the illnesses they are trying to beat—AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis—can be amplified or diminished by patients' circumstances, but they do not understand the details.
Charles M. Blow It has been somewhat fascinating and sometimes fun to watch Elizabeth Warren do battle with Donald Trump in alternating salvos of tweets, but in the end I fear that this approach of trying to "beat a bully," as Warren put it in one of her tweets, is a futile effort.
Similar to a pro's pro in the sense that the glue guy is universally loved and does a lot to keep morale in the dressing room high, but these are the lads who specifically take on the role of trying to beat the shit out of anyone who messes with their teammates.
I won't say for certain when it will happen, but knowing that we've caught a glimpse of Jack and especially as he's wailing away on a bag trying to beat the demons that are bubbling up from underneath, his father's drinking, the things that are making him want to break bad — that's part of it.
There are, of course, games that have formed around the network of knowledge that Wikipedia provides—a friend and I spent a memorable evening giving each other targets like "bread," starting off on the same random page, and trying to beat each other to the goal through simply clicking on the links within each page.
Op-Ed Contributor Charlotte, N.C. — Activists in Durham, N.C., tired of waiting for local leaders to decide what to do about a statue of a Confederate soldier downtown, on Monday literally took matters into their own hands, yanking it off its pedestal and then kicking it, as if trying to beat it into submission.
The title alone speaks volumes: Premiering more than 20 years after "Bill Nye the Science Guy" started on PBS, the new series is pitched primarily toward adults, casting the bow-tie-wearing Nye as an advocate and science warrior, trying to beat back the anti-scientific thought and quackery that's prevalent, especially within the political sphere.
Each guide Hodgson authors is a massive undertaking involving a six-month-long stretch of seven-day work weeks and looming deadlines, gargantuan organizational conundrums, word counts and page limits, two-week spans of 12-hour days spent hunched over monitors far from home in a game studio's back room, trying to beat every quest in a 100-hour RPG.
A year and a quarter-of-a-million dollars is nothing to sneeze at, of course, until you consider that Lesnar made 10 times that much to fight Hunt, that it was doubtful he was ever going to return to the Octagon after their fight, and that he was pumped full of banned substances while trying to beat up another human being.
Lucas is black, and Billy's dad is an abusive, bigoted prick, so it wouldn't be hard to imagine that his backwards ideas have rubbed off on his son — although the show is oddly squeamish about overtly addressing it as racism, which is especially weird considering that the writers are not squeamish about having a musclebound 17-year-old trying to beat the crap out of a nerdy 13-year-old.
Scores and analysis from Week 9 of the N.F.L. season: The Indianapolis Colts had quite a task ahead of them in trying to beat the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, but on the opening kickoff, as Jordan Todman cut through the middle of the field before streaking down the right sideline on his way to a 99-yard touchdown, the tone was set in a game that the Colts would go on to win 31-1.
The fact that the biggest change from December 2016 to January 2017 was the inauguration of President Trump — and that the last few months of the Obama administration had seen higher-than-usual levels of apprehensions, perhaps from people trying to beat the new president to the US — led a lot of analysts to conclude that Trump's unforgiving rhetoric on immigration had created so much worry about how immigrants entering the US would be treated that many people decided it wasn't worth the risk.
Joe ordered a shot of tequila and a mineral water and another pale ale and drank the tequila at the bar and brought the other drinks back outside into the garden at Austeen's where the girl was taking a pill and she said, "Do you like video games?" and Joe told her a story about how as a child one night he stayed up late and nearly beat a video game that he'd been trying to beat for a year but lost just barely and was so mad that he punched the wall and broke his hand and the girl said, "Your poor hand!" and Joe stretched out his hand and the girl bent her face down and kissed the tips of his fingers. 26.

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