the big boys

Even then, this was really more of a stunt than a demonstration that the HPC Server system is ready to compete with the big boys.

It is a great honour for me to hear any manager slagging Bolton off, particularly when it is one of the big boys.

Mr Forrest's challenge to the big boys' market control, and his colourful background, have made him something of a media darling.

"It will be interesting to see if you have serious countries ready to stand up to the big boys by forming alliances, " he added.

It levels the playing field with the big boys and it eliminates the questions people might have about a small company.

I was wearing a bag in the primary school gate, and all the big boys from Grade Six who were wearing the Red Scarf looked like an adult.

In Laos, Langley saw an opportunity to step up to equal status with the big boys at the Pentagon and Foggy Bottom.

A lot of small and mid-sized studios just automatically assume their work is going to look as good as the big boys if they use it.

Almost from the beginning, they viewed the "big boys" -- as they are still called -- as their brothers.

Blackburn are Denmark. Not the most exciting, but consistently punch well above their weight to hold their own with the big boys.

The big boys had made the passage while he counted a hundred and sixty. He had been counting fast, in his fright .

China wants to move out of third world status and play with the big boys. Let's see them handle this on their own.

CHINA is flexing it's muscles, saying we are the big boys now! Step back terrorist WHITE HOUSE.

Can help end the crippling monopoly currently in place where Microsoft and Apple are the big boys and tough if you don't like it.

Slowly the big boys became an integral part of the Rosen household, even helping to light the candles at Hanukkah.

Like small players in all markets, however, he may soon find out just how hard it is to fight the distribution muscle of the big boys.

Mrs. Strunk's hour and the power of motherhood will last until midafternoon, when the big boys and girls return from school.

But midsized firms, which cannot command the same fees and loyalty as the big boys, are feeling the squeeze.

By assets Santander has a market share of 9% there, big enough to compete head-on with the big boys (see chart 9).

But this time, the big boys realized they couldn't tackle the problems alone and had to bring in world's top emerging markets too.

I've read countless business playbooks, gotten the degrees, and jabbed elbows with the big boys.

This time, however, the big boys no longer bullied the skinny boy.

In fact, with the big boys gone, financial innovation will flourish and competition will increase.

It's really the big boys like large institutional investors and billionaire entrepreneurs who make the decisions.

More appropriate players forward at corners, seeing the big boys come up from the back.

"When the big boys come to play, they come with an agenda, " he complains. "They want to get rid of you. "

If Linux is offered in the retail environment will it make a difference in what the big boys charge?

Keeping Artest had become a long shot as soon as the big boys came calling.

These playthings distracted the big boys, and the fighting stopped.

I am a positive and optimistic in the big boys! Like music, movies, chatting, sports. Hope can be referred here more friends.

We might say there are now two sets of rules, one for the big boys and another for everybody else.

I was finally one of the big boys, part of that select group of officers who ate lunch every day with Henry Ford.

Small shops cannot compete in prices with the big boys.

Probably, but they currently survive only because the big boys don't see them as a threat.

Once again, this technique is used by some of the big boys: both Google and Yahoo!

But he was proud in that 13-year-old-hanging-with-the-big-boys kind of way.

But there are signs that even the big boys are growing anxious.

The big boys jeer at Tom Because he is so small.

You kept me after all, deep, overlapping the pace of life is hope one day we can wait in the big boys on the world stage!

He can help against the big boys or hunt downimportant support pieces, and he should fill either role admirably.

Better Place wants to change the way people drive, and it wants to take on the big boys like GM and Nissan.

"There is this benefit that once the big boys start getting into the business, then Fortune gives me a call, " Robertson says.

If you're going to win the competition, you have to play the big boys - whether you play them now or in the final.

He guarded the child against the big boys

Small girls with the big boys sharing their feelings experienced extension

But the big boys feel no sorrow Hey little girl