Sentences with phrase «others feared it would»

Others feared it would simply provide another day of media headlines about the SNP.

Others fear it would just solidify legislative control of a process that allows legislative leaders to draw districts that suit their own political interests.

But others fear it would just solidify legislative control of a process that allows legislative leaders to draw districts that suit their own political interests.

Others feared they would be labelled as potentially «challenging» or «aggressive» if they intervened in racist disputes.

Not exact matches

A rally in oil and other commodity prices have raised fears about higher raw material costs.

Firearm sales have fallen significantly since the election of Donald Trump as president, as other chains including Cabela's have reported, as fears of new gun laws have receded.

For fear of losing business, some lawyers are wary of referring clients to other attorneys, even if they have expertise in a particular area, such as tax law.

Others that support closing the loophole, including J.B Pritzker, fear state laws will cause investors to flee the state and would prefer that states wait for national legislation.

While business investors would normally trust Gov. Bruce Rauner, a former private - equity executive, to veto the legislation, the industry's trade group fears the unpopular Republican may cave in an election cycle that pits him against Biss and a pack of other Democratic contenders.

So all the social media naysayers who have blamed Facebook, Twitter and other social sites for spurring peer pressure or fear of missing out have been in the wrong.

On the other hand, shares of hospital chains have sold off sharply, including a 26 % decline for Tenet Healthcare (thc), on the fears that millions of newly uninsured patients will need care but not be able to pay their bills if and when the ACA is repealed.

Wired has a good roundup of the possibilities; some observers fear the company has no intention of reselling e-books, that it merely wants to block others from doing so, but intellectual property experts see no evidence of that.

In other words, have relentless contact with the activity or activities that you fear, and by the end of 90 days, you'll no longer fear them.

You have to stop listening to your doubt, fear and the negative voices of others.

On the other hand, if it did someday stabilize and become widely used, its soaring prices would flatten out; it'll be the «boring investment» that broker Martin Garcia fears.

With the shock value of the fears of Musk and others abating, Arruda thinks dialogue about so - called «bad AI» will start to have a little more subtlety in 2016.

Fear grips throats; those who would once give names now talk anonymously, where many others do not talk at all.

As ever, the causes of the cryptocurrency's fortunes are less than clear, but some experts reckon it might have something to do with the approach of April 17, the deadline for filing taxes in the U.S. Others think it's a function of geopolitical fears and sanctions.

Goldman signed a lease on around 100,000 square feet of office space in Frankfurt two weeks ago, a move that it admitted was motivated in part by the fear that it could have to relocate hundreds of jobs to other centers in the EU when U.K. - based banks lose their (currently unlimited) access to the European market in March 2019.

The announcement that Amazon was to take over Whole Foods Market sent a shudder of fear through many other retailers, but news of how the deal came about has given those retailers hope.

Some CEOs appear to have the same fears as every other investor, however.

So you'll be telling them that others have taken to the business like a duck to water, with their fears quickly allayed, and there's no reason why the candidate shouldn't have the same experience once they take the plunge.

Other models, including peer - to - peer lending, have demonstrated that crowd - based investments aren't as risky as critics once feared.

This classic 1925 silent movie dramatizing the mutiny of a Russian battleship in 1905 led to it being banned in Nazi Germany and numerous other countries at the time of its release due to fears that it would cause a Marxist revolution.

Although many cloud providers, like Google and Microsoft (msft), would clearly love for companies to only use their own cloud services, they have been marketing their respective cloud services as being compatible with other competing services so they can win customers who fear being locked into a specific vendor's technology.

One of the main things the #MeToo movement has proven is that many victims are afraid to speak up — out of fear of losing their jobs, becoming labeled or ostracized, or sharing a horrible thing that's happened to them with others.

It is possible to get through this experience and come out the other side much stronger for it, St. Claire insists: «This is a rite of passage that will launch you into the League of Business Badassery in which, once you are out of the money hellhole, you will be unstoppable,» thanks to having confronted your fears and stuck to your dreams.

As self - improvement coach George Addair once said, «Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.»

Some investors had raised fears about declining Twitter usage as other social media and mobile messaging services become more popular.

If co-workers are sitting around an open space fearing repercussions about being overheard by others, or having water - cooler reactions about how bad someone's idea was three feet from the person, your first priority is to fix your morale problem.

Japanese policymakers fear that while there is broad consensus among the G20 nations on the need for such steps, some nations have looser regulations than others, which leaves loopholes for money laundering, the official said.

If you have an idea that you know is a bit kooky, but you think others might see it for the magic it is, don't let fear of what other people say hold you back.

«It's fear that when people find out that different people get paid differently, they're not going to be able to have the maturity and make the mental leap to see that there are reasons why a certain person is paid more than the other,» Burkus said.

Investors soon knew his thoughts on how fast broadband would take over the market (slower than others expected, which turned out to be right), which competitors he feared (Amazon more than Blockbuster) and how rapidly the business would grow and turn profitable.

But others who've worked with the Pakistanis fear coercion could backfire at a time they're hedging their bets, unsure America will win in Afghanistan.

As Businessweek writes, «Tech giants and other corporations that have grown by serial acquisition fear the Actelion precedent could expose them — at least in California — to open - ended liability over licensing disputes involving the smaller new - technology companies they are wont to gobble up like so many cocktail nuts.»

(Some people worried that water fluoridation would lead to widespread poisoning; others feared it for a different reason: that it was the vanguard of «socialized medicine» and an assault on individual medical privacy.)

The plans have faced opposition from other Republicans and business leaders who fear they could ignite a trade war and damage the global economy.

Chair Janet Yellen and others have indicated that the balance sheet runoff should not be disruptive to markets, though some fear that it could push up rates if demand for the bonds isn't strong.

While there are loud critics who wage public campaigns against companies they short, many other short - sellers had long kept positions secret for fear of losing access to corporate management or retribution from rival Wall Street investors through a so - called short squeeze.

On other occasions Trudeau has answered questions about Trump by saying Canadians «reject politics of fear and division» and also of «intolerance and hateful rhetoric.»

As the details of this plan become known, and as the political response builds from people who fear their taxes will be raised, and as they build a coalition with special interests who would lose out from other aspects of the proposal (like investors who do not like the proposed limitation on the deduction of business - interest expenses), this plan will become an enormous liability.

Dig deeper, and you'll often find motives that are far messier — selfishness, revenge, fear of failure, a need to prove oneself to a seemingly unloving parent and many other things that most people would be reluctant to admit, if they were even aware of those motives in the first place.

Nintendo, as a company, has feared piracy since the internet's advent, and that fear has continually led to odd solutions with regard to networking, file transfers, game ownership and other online situations.

There are signs of the rally losing steam, and broad strength has begun to thin which is resulting in some players to be cautiously optimistic and others starting to give in to that fear.

Wall Street «s reaction to the deal was mixed, with some fearing a price war means the drug makers have lost ground to the insurers, while others suggested it might be just what «s needed to turn sales of the medicine around.

The tariff proposal has stoked fears of a trade war and chatter of retaliation from Europe, Canada, and others.

The recently - ended fourth round of NAFTA has stoked major fears the 23 - year - old trade deal could end with a U.S. withdrawal because American negotiators tabled potentially deal - killing proposals on dairy, autos and other issues that Ottawa views as non-starters.

When a market is moving up or down, investors are subject to a fear that others know more or have more information.

Even Ireland is appealing the European Commission's ruling out of fear that accepting the $ 14.5 billion windfall might scare away other global corporations — undermining Ireland's reputation as a tax haven, which has become a cornerstone of the country's economy.