Sentences with phrase «about a week earlier»

About a week earlier, Merkel stressed that China's trade with countries in the western Balkans should not come with political strings attached.

About a week earlier, a Russian legislator had submitted a bill proposing a national digital currency called the cryptoruble.

LIVERMORE John Concannon, Fourth - Generation Vintner, Concannon Vineyard This year's harvest started about a week earlier than last year's due to a warmer summer and a drier spring, giving us a nearly perfect growing season.

Law enforcement information obtained by the Times Union shows Brenda Morse told Cohoes police officers who came to the couple's Grandview Avenue residence that morning that there had been prior incidents of physical abuse involving her husband, including about a week earlier, but that she did not involve police.

In fact, when this particular brood had hatched about a week earlier, they were all omnivores, feeding on plankton and the suspended organic matter referred to in higher - class journals as «detritus.»

An example is Washington, D.C.'s cherry blossoms, which now bloom about a week earlier than in the 1970s.

The calorie deficit had little effect on the birth weight of their offspring, but the dieting ewes gave birth about a week early — significant in an animal whose full term is about 21 weeks.

About a week earlier, I had finished my dissertation and had flown from the Netherlands to the United States to start my postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The dress arrived today, about a week earlier than I expected.

Also, that's about a week earlier than those in the US will be getting the much awaited tablet.

Randy Pitchford tweeted, «So — here's the surprise, Mechromancer for Borderlands 2 is ready about a week earlier than I promised.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 is released on 17th November 2017, and subscribers to EA Access will be able to play about a week earlier!

So — here's the surprise, Mechromancer for Borderlands 2 is ready about a week earlier than I promised.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote about a practice in which it claims a growing number of businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news stories from publishers as sponsored posts.

While Toyota declined to comment on details of the meeting, Toyota «s North America Chief Executive Jim Lentz told Reuters earlier this week that the company was focused on reminding policymakers in Washington about the automaker's extensive U.S. manufacturing operations.

Former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn told CNBC earlier this week he believed it likely Yahoo had known both about the hack and the surveillance, but had not told Verizon.

In theory, the U.S. Commerce Department's move earlier this week to slap a seven - year ban on the sale of American products to ZTE Corp., China's second - largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, was all about national security and had nothing to do with trade.

Earlier this month, Hooper's colleague Torsten Sløk sent around a chart book all about the topic of liquidity, and many of Slok's charts appeared in Hooper's note published this week.

Leo spoke so confidently that I kept stopping him to make sure that he had only learned about coding — in any respect — just a mere four weeks earlier.

The yen, which traded at about 93 per dollar on Wednesday, hit a 33 - month low earlier this week.

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R - Alaska), who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told Politico earlier this week that she had not heard anything from the White House about filling the vacancies.

Speculation about a potential run for office by McMullin, who launched a bid for the White House as an alternative for conservatives dissatisfied with President Donald Trump's candidacy, increased after Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R - Utah) announced earlier this week that he will not seek re-election in 2018.

Speaking in Houston last week at the Circular Summit, Marcelo talked about the early days of her company, and particularly her experiences raising so much money, while also sometimes being underestimated as a woman tech CEO.

So earlier this week, I sat down with Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, for a candid conversation about race.

While the firm has long been critical of the types of short - volatility strategies that were blamed for exacerbating stock moves early last week, it's still optimistic about the market on a medium - term basis.

As of this writing, certain iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models are now showing shipment dates of late September to early October, about a week to two weeks after the handsets are slated to hit store shelves on September 22.

«Like many of you, I'm concerned about the impact of the recent executive orders signed by President Trump,» Zuckerberg said, referencing the orders Trump signed earlier this week to build a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border and prioritize the deportation of undocumented immigrants from so - called sanctuary cities in the U.S.

The agreement follows an announcement earlier this week from Spectra Energy and BG Group about plans to build a natural gas pipeline from northeast B.C. to the coast, joining a throng of companies aiming to export Canadian natural gas to Asia.

Kent came to mind this week when I read about the resignation of Yale lecturer Erika Christakis, an early childhood educator at the Yale Child Study Center.

Canada's currency is going for about 80 U.S. cents this week, a 10 - percent - increase from early May.

Earlier this week, Vice reported on a Wells Fargo whistleblower who found employees opening up fake accounts as early as 2005, and contacted Tolstedt about the problem in 2006.

The Wall Street Journal had reported earlier this week that the two were in talks about a potential deal.

While the Street is estimating Apple sold about 55 million iPhones, Stifel Nicolaus increased its estimates earlier this week from 53.6 million to 59.6 million units.

I wrote earlier in the week about Calvin Klein CEO Steve Schiffman, who disclosed plans to bring back iconic pitchwoman Brooke Shields.

«It was about time to see a little bit of a correction in stocks,» Matthew Cheslock, trader at Virtu Financial, said from the New York Stock Exchange floor earlier this week.

CEO Tim Sloan said in an interview earlier this week that while the bank has been in contact with its clients in the firearms industry, he has doubts about whether banks should get more involved.

Today's must - read story is from Fortune «s Leigh Gallagher and it features an exclusive interview with Maren Kate Donovan, founder and CEO of virtual assistant startup Zirtual, who talked about flawed financial projections and what caused her company to lay off 400 people earlier this week before announcing that Zirtual will be acquired by Startups.co.

Maren Kate Donovan so far hasn't talked to reporters about what caused her company, Zirtual, to abruptly implode earlier this week.

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum earlier this week, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Marc Benioff revealed that he spent about $ 3 million this year to bring the salaries of female employees up to the level of their male counterparts.

The two bickered earlier this week about the so - called «nuclear option» Reid is considering that would dramatically change Senate rules in confirming Cabinet appointees, shifting the approval process to a simple majority vote in the Seante.

Just two weeks earlier, it had dropped 12 % from its $ 355 high, hovering at about $ 318 per share.

When I wrote earlier this week about a new probiotic supplement called Sweet Peach engineered to make women's vaginas smell like fruit, the response across the internet was understandable outrage: Who the hell were the guys behind this and what right did they have to decide how women's bodies ought to smell?

Two weeks earlier, he had gotten a call from the company's largest shareholder, Texas - based fund manager US Global Investors Inc., warning that a broker at another firm had received an anonymous call, saying Muddy Waters was about to publish a report on Silvercorp and US Global should dump its stock.

Earlier this week, we wrote about a weighted blanket generating a lot of buzz (and money) on the crowdfunding platform.

«It's not so much about the funds, the Europeans have enough money to lend to Greece,» an official close to the bailout talks, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of negotiations, told CNBC earlier this week, adding that the issue is more of credibility.

Earlier this week, Yahoo said it would share more about how its turnaround is going sometime later this month.

When Burger King announced it would buy Tim Hortons earlier this week there was plenty of speculation about the motives behind the plan and whether it could really work.

The loonie has dropped about two percent against its American counterpart since early January, mostly in the last couple of weeks.

Odds of a Fed rate hike were about 30 percent for June on Friday, from just 4 percent the week earlier, according to futures markets.

As I wrote earlier this week, it was among the most explicit statements ever made about what went on inside the black box that protects the Bank of Canada's policy - making process from public view.