Sentences with phrase «beringian standstill»

The energy slump has brought much of Alberta's economy to a standstill, but in downtown Edmonton, construction cranes fill the air.

The new ease of access is surely going to drive home prices higher, especially as before the rail line opened, access to the city essentially required use of the often - standstill 210 and 605 freeways.

Manufacturers said the import duties had increased prices, made it difficult to source material and brought business planning to a standstill.

By setting actionable goals that move you forward, you move toward your goals rather than simply stopping behaviors that leave you at a standstill.

Macmahon Holdings has extended its standstill agreement with Mongolian company Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi to allow for more time to negotiate an outstanding $ US30 million in payments it's owed.

As all major US indexes plummeted into correction territory — with the benchmark S&P 500 suffering its worst week in more than two years — share buybacks stood at a standstill as companies sat paralyzed with fear.

If your boss is a pushover, prepare to see your office's productivity crunch to a near - standstill.

«Banks are at a sort of standstill,» Brusca says.

Using action - oriented self - talk tells you what you need to do and prevents you from getting that down - in - the - dumps feeling that can bring productivity to a standstill.

Tigerair Australia remained unable to operate flights to Bali on Thursday, warning that the standstill could continue until early Friday morning.

«If there is an accident on the freeway, traffic comes to a standstill, but there are any number of side streets you can use to detour the accident and get where you are going.

Britain and the EU have agreed on a «standstill» transition period from Brexit, due to take place in March 2019, to the end of 2020.

Fundraising is a long - term process and your project may remain at a standstill for longer than you would like.

The flow of innovative ideas sometimes comes to a standstill.

«Things are at a bit of a standstill in the U.S.»

Where traffic is allowed in the area around the tower, it's at a standstill for much of the day.

Income had come to a standstill.

«I think that the market's really come to a standstill,» says Will Flaherty, SeatGeek's director of communications.

Nelson Braddy Jr., the owner of King of Texas Roofing, told the WSJ, «Without Mexican labor our industry is at a standstill.»

In conjunction with the nomination of Mittleman and Rabe, Aimia said it has signed a standstill agreement with the investment firm.

A sudden power failure that Georgia Power said was caused by a fire in an underground electrical facility brought the airport to a standstill Sunday about 1 p.m.

«Without Alberta's energy, B.C.'s economy would come to a standstill,» he said.

Corporate profits were weakening, a long U.S. bull market had limped to a near standstill, and the angry populism of the presidential primaries made us wonder whether American capitalism was about to take a pitchfork in the gut.

Business, contracting and farming was at a standstill.

Construction of rental housing on Long Island came to a near standstill in the 1980s and 1990s and more than 22,000 rental units were converted to for - sale housing, according to the Long Island Index, a research study compiled by nonprofit the Rauch Foundation.

Its hiring of women remains at a standstill at 32 % after two years and the ride - hailing business hadn't promoted black people within its leadership ranks either.

Thousands of taxi drivers brought part of central London to a standstill in protest at rival service Uber - a mobile phone app.

The granting of charters has pretty much reached a standstill since the financial crisis.

Author of an exposé of the murky world of high - frequency trading on how his explosive book brought Wall Street to a standstill

A total military clash in the region would bring the whole sector to a standstill.

This time last year, the bestselling author brought Wall Street to a standstill, and the book that caused the trouble continues to send shockwaves through the financial system.

Trading floors came to a standstill in New York when Lewis and Katsuyama were confronted on CNBC, the financial news channel, by William O'Brien, president of Bats Global Markets, the second - largest stock exchange operator in the US.

The dot - com crash blindsides the digital industry and Delvinia faces its first major business challenge as it manages through a turbulent economic environment where spending on digital projects comes to a near standstill.

The vehicle, which comes with a hefty price tag of $ 132,000, has the ability to go from standstill to 60 miles per hour in only 3.8 seconds, with the time able to go down even further to 3.2 seconds with the Ludicrous mode option that customers can purchase for an additional $ 10,000.

According to extensive interviews Recode conducted with former and current employees at the self - driving effort, many think it is at a technological standstill and plagued by significant internal tension, especially among its executive leadership.

Celgene also agreed to Celgene has entered into a standstill agreement and agreed to certain lock - up provisions on its share ownership.

Last time we Muricans exported our brand of free wheeling «capitalism» to a major Asian economy i.e. Japan, we managed to cause the whole economy to come to a standstill in less than 10 years.

The rise was led by growth in manufacturing and utilities, while mining activities temporarily came to a standstill due to the onset of hurricanes.

They must be aware though, with housing developments at a virtual standstill due to water license shortages and the town running out of options, Okotoks is «ground zero» for the coming water wars.

The other much rarer possible use of capital controls is that, in extremis, a crisis might be sufficiently bad to justify a standstill on repayment of debt, in the context of «private sector involvement» («bailing - in the private sector»).

«We see an opportunity to educate investors who may be at a standstill about the benefits of perspective and direction from a financial advisor.

On March 24, Macron met Richard and Martin Bouygues separately to present them with his conditions: a higher valuation for Orange shares as the base of the transaction, a cap at 12 percent for Bouygues» potential stake in Orange, a standstill preventing Bouygues from raising its stake over a period of seven years, and a restriction on double voting rights for 10 years.

Thus, as God moves around the universe, time to God slows to what we would perceive as a standstill, although to God, it would be moving normally.

Hawaii... I appreciated the debate, but I think we're at a standstill (and I'll let you have the last post if you want it).

I can predict with quite a degree of certainty that the world won't come to a standstill and life will continue somehow despite this event.

The concerns of everyday life come to a temporary standstill in the mind of the player; and the boundaries of his or her world are redefined.

Commerce, science, politics and even the arts would all come to a complete standstill.

Critics of regulation are quick to point out the evils of Lysenkoism, that era in Russian history when biological research was brought to a virtual standstill by political control.

But during «standstill», Pam's brain was found «dead» by all three clinical tests — her electroencephalogram was silent, her brain - stem response was absent, and no blood flowed through her brain.

How quickly the initiative would have come to a standstill if the community had been subjected to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church!