Sentences with phrase «abandoned the project when»

They built a prototype, then abandoned the project when they realized that the company would require intense commitment — and that something was missing from the team.

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Last year, when D'Aquanni wanted to move her business, The Chocolate Gecko, to an abandoned building three blocks away, she needed $ 25,000 in owner's equity for the $ 260,000 renovation project.

The company has developed an injectable liquid that turns solid when it enters the body to aid in (among other things) drug delivery; it's also invented a polymer - based artificial muscle — similar to Rajagopalan's abandoned PhD project — used in compression wear to counter pain.

For a mine project like Suncor's Fort Hills, with about 25 per cent of construction already completed, the forward - looking decision would imply a return on the balance of capital invested of 12.5 per cent — now, the project returns overall might be lower than that, but when you're considering a decision to abandon a partially built mine, you're not likely to get much of a return on they money you've already invested in it if you don't continue building.

But today's JVs are different — they've been shaped by painful lessons learned during the financial crisis, when many projects were either put on hold or abandoned.

As The Washington Post explains, the discovery of the new location first began 15 years ago when a team at the Tower of David Museum began an expansion project: «But the story took a strange turn when archaeologists started peeling away layers under the floor in an old abandoned building adjacent to the museum in Jerusalem's Old City.»

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: when adopted midwife Mariam embarks on a project to protect an abandoned premature baby, she is forced to face her own abandonment years before.

State officials will ask the Army Corps of Engineers to reopen a project to protect Asharoken that was abandoned earlier this year when federal and local officials couldn't agree on terms, Rep. Thomas Suozzi said.

He reminded them of the on - going projects that were abandoned by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) when the NDC lost political power in 2000.

As the President has said, when one government starts a project, (the next one should) not abandon it; try and complete it.»

This is an important component of the image he likes to project, of course, so it was more than a little regrettable when it emerged he had «abandoned» his eight - year - old daughter in a country pub.

The audit said that the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development often delays or abandons development schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projects.»

When Inoue joined Okabe's team a few years ago, he returned to the long - abandoned project; using recently developed techniques to identify proteins, he was able to characterize the elusive compound and quickly find its gene.

Considering how long the studio spent developing the project, it was certainly a surprise when they decided to abandon it.

Sources say this new undisclosed project does not suggest Spielberg is abandoning «West Side Story,» and that the director has done this kind of shuffling several times before when deciding what film he'll tackle next.

When the program's architect, Victoria Lasseter (Connie Britton), learns that bureaucratic brownnoser Adrian Yates (Topher Grace) plans to terminate all the subjects from the abandoned project, she decides to activate Mike using a secret code phrase and give him a fair shot at survival.

There was, however, a bit of room for surprises — as when Jordan Peele took home a best - original - screenplay award, accepting it with a heartfelt speech that highlighted how many times he had almost abandoned the project that ended up winning him his first Oscar.

And when that drama resolved, I suddenly realized what it cost me to be so intensely focused on one project for so long: I had abandoned everything else but my cats!

This week, Maggie Doonan counsels us on when to throw in the towel on a writing project while Julia Munroe Martin opens up about why she abandoned one of hers.

RIM is yet to comment on the report, though the Canadian company wouldn't be the first to quickly abandon a tablet project when initial feedback wasn't looking positive.

She said when she started working with Project Pet as a volunteer 9 years ago, «I was shocked to learn that we as a community had 23,000 pets abandoned by their owners every year, euthanized over 19,000 of them and spent more than $ 3 million in taxes to run the local municipal shelters.

Bricktown, a once abandoned old warehouse district, received a much needed facelift with the passing of MAPS (Metropolitan Area Projects) in 1993 when Oklahoma City took on a massive public facility enhancement project.

«The gardens were abandoned in 1963 when the prison closed,» said Alcatraz Historic Gardens Project Manager Carola Ashford.

I guess the author would say MS is playing the long game when it comes these as well: - Digital watches (cancelled the Band)- Game distribution (shutdown Games For Windows Live in 2014)- Mobile Phones (abandoned years ago... end of life 2019)- Tablet market (basically don't exist... bailed)- closed down 5 internal game studios in just 2016 - shutdown development of a huge amount of games including scalebound, fable legends, project spark, phantom dust, etc. - music streaming (shutdown groove music in 2017) So... let me get this right the author thinks MS has everyone where they want them in the consumer space?

When you make it just for fun, most of the time that means you'll abandon the project.

As the video above explains, the Turrican-esque run - and - gun shooter project was 99 percent complete with just «one bug left to squish» when Psygnosis cancelled 13 of its Genesis projects in an afternoon meeting after deciding to abandon the platform.

Titled «GEISAI ∞ infinity,» the project will consist of a new series of exhibitions centered around the creative release artists experience when they abandon the contextual emphasis of contemporary art.

The project, called the Topography of Terror, was partly built and then abandoned when the government decided not to go ahead for financial reasons.

The exhibition comes as the culmination of a fascinating project by the same name undertaken by Spicero last year when he rented out Wapato prison, an abandoned maximum security facility in Portland, Oregon, for four days.

Her anonymous pastoral life changed in 2011, when representatives from mining companies knocked on her door and demanded she abandon her property to make way for a $ 5 billion mining and lake drainage project in the Cajamarca region.

When multi-year preconstruction studies confirm migration, wintering or breeding season concentrations of raptors in a particular area, then plans for development in that area should be abandoned and development forbidden; if such study shows minimal concentration of raptors, or if specific designs can be demonstrated to pose minimal danger to wildlife present in the area, then projects can be considered.

In 2011 it went so far as to hire the German architect Christophe Ingenhoven to design a brand new, super-green structure on a site next to the Googleplex, but that was a false start: the company abandoned the project a year later, when it decided to build in another part of Mountain View, closer to San Francisco Bay, and went looking for another architect.

However, the law society was forced to abandon a pilot project allowing paralegals into the courtroom when only three lawyers took advantage of the rule by sending paralegals under their supervision before a judge over a two - year period, producing insufficient data for assessment.

Article by Michael Clark in Today's Daily Business Review: «Statute of Limitation Begins to Run When Principal Under Surety Bond Abandons Construction Project»

FossHub is an excellent download site that many projects switched to when they were abandoning SourceForge.

But when production ended in 2000, the manufacturing giant abruptly abandoned the project and began reclaiming all the EV1s that had made it onto the road.

With the old Google Now Launcher, we had Xposed GEL Settings to add options for tweaking the layout, but that project was abandoned when the Pixel Launcher came out.

Once you booked that holiday, did you let your performance slip and abandon projects and tasks half way through, without even creating a handover document when you left?

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, TREB's partner in the project, wrote off $ 700,000 when the project was abandoned in December.

But today's JVs are different — they've been shaped by painful lessons learned during the financial crisis, when many projects were either put on hold or abandoned.

Yeah, you learn quickly how much the neighbors are invested in the future of that pretty, but abandoned building on their block when you do a project like this.

According to iVillage: «Hundreds of chickens are being neglected and abandoned at shelters around the country every year as people give up on their backyard projects when they learn the real responsibility chickens require — along with the realities of their egg - providing life cycle.