Sentences with phrase «abrupt about»

Her stance took an abrupt about - face, however, when a similar tax was rolled out within the Fair Housing Plan (FHP) in April 2017.

«There has been an abrupt about - face,» says Robert McIlvaine, who heads his own Northfield, Ill., information company that tracks the construction of coal power plants globally.

On Sunday, The Telegraph made an abrupt about - face, pulling the story from its Web site and apologizing to Dr. Pachauri.

Young turned an abrupt about - face after the»70s: His work took on a more Pointillist appearance.

In an abrupt about - turn, he revealed not pristine, sacred American nature, but the suburbs proliferating out of the cities; the landscape as increasingly occupied territory.

Guston's shift from shimmering palimpsests to crude, narrative - laden imagery is often described as an abrupt about - face.

The three commissioners have done the abrupt about face without notifying Commissioner John Fritchy, who sponsored the bill, or other commissioners.

The Experian - Wyman research found that strategic defaulters often make an abrupt about face from having perfect payment histories to not paying at all.

It seemed the Allegiance had in her lumbering way still managed to get into flying distance of not one but three lawful prizes, on the way to Madras, and another one on the way back, when Hammond's urgent need of a transport to carry Temeraire to Rio had necessitated her abrupt about - face and return.

In an abrupt about - face, the de Blasio administration is backing away from a plan to cap the growth of e-hail giant Uber.

The state's Supreme Court now has ordered an abrupt about - face in policy, asserting that the state had met its minimal constitutional responsibilities.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says his pick for schools chancellor had already accepted the job a week ago and had OKed an announcement about it — when the would - be education chief made an abrupt about - face Thursday, saying he won't take the job after all.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's office did an abrupt about - face Wednesday over plans to use the Queens Detention Complex as an additional Department of Corrections training facility, after receiving sharp criticism from the correction officers» union and key Queens officials, who say they were never briefed on the decision.

The link between the Lib Dems» victory in Ribble Valley and the abolition of the poll tax is not a straight line - after all, John Major had already promised change - but it is widely viewed as one of the key catalysts for the abrupt about - face.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said Carvalho had already accepted the job a week ago and had OKed an announcement about it — when the would - be education chief made his abrupt about - face.

But in 2014, the SNA surprised many observers by undergoing an abrupt about - face, embarking on an aggressive lobbying campaign to weaken school meal nutrition.

Not exact matches

The development could bring an abrupt end to the high - stakes legal showdown which has become a lightning rod for a broader debate on data privacy in the United States, which was inflamed by revelations in 2013 from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- In an abrupt reversal, the US military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about US war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

That leaves you stuck in limbo — angry about your abrupt demotion and confused about whether or not you're to blame.

On Wednesday, I wrote about the abrupt ouster of biotech company chief Martin Shkreli, a former short seller who took the ultimate long position — starting Retrophin, a publicly traded drug manufacturer.

An abrupt rise in interest rates, concerns about rising inflation, and a potentially more hawkish Federal Reserve have created an equity market tantrum that now has the Dow and S&P 500 Index in full correction territory (a correction is a price decline of between 10 % and 20 %).

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

The central bank acknowledged rising inflation but provided little indication that officials are worried about a sudden, rapid escalation in prices or an abrupt slowdown in economic growth that could alter its gradual pace of rate increases.

While we do not all necessarily agree with the manner in which he dealt with the conclusion of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, we sincerely believe that his abrupt and belated termination for this conduct, occurring months later and on the heels of his public testimony about his oversight of the investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election, has the appearance — if not the reality — of interfering with that investigation.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the bull market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the bull market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that bull final market peak.

Given the additional overbought condition of the stock market, we should be concerned about abrupt downside risk, but as noted above, we are willing to soften our hedges in the event that market action improves sufficiently.

BlackBerry subscriber's world - wide fell by about three million to 76 million, the most abrupt three month drop for BlackBerry.

The president did not mention his abrupt firing earlier this week of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, the personnel turmoil engulfing his administration, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign or reports of his alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels — and his lawyer paying her to keep silent about the relationship.

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that final market peak.

If these strains do not emerge, we will scale (in an approximately linear way) our weights through 2010 to place greater weight on the «typical post-war recovery» dataset, while gradually fading our concern about abrupt solvency problems in our financial system.

For many users, it's been an abrupt wakeup call about how much data they've been sharing with the company and the third - party apps that it hosts.

Although there was a lots of positives about our experience of friendship in the church, it surprisingly came to an abrupt end.

An abrupt resignation from the Clinton Foundation prompts both encouraging and discouraging thoughts about America's emerging hereditary aristocracy.

We learn about Ann and Albert, who have alienated themselves from family and friends by their abrupt decision to get married, and we are prompted to worry about whether they will make it to the wedding.

Yet so prone are we to care most about what is near at hand, the fear of atomic destruction is probably less keen in most minds than is the energy crisis which means less oil and gasoline available, less fuel for heating, and an abrupt change in American life - styles.

As I consider these possibilities, I think about how abrupt the ending of Mark is.

This abrupt turn from a causal theory of consciousness to talk about emergent properties not only leaves the puzzle about causality dangling, it compounds the mystery by evoking still more elementary puzzles about the meaning of emergence and evolution, as well as about how and where to locate sentience in an evolving «physical world.»

Instead, we're left with the only thing we could say about the abrupt end to his career: Thank goodness that existed.

Manchester City reportedly made an initial enquiry about Monaco sensation Kylian Mbappe, according to the Times, yet as quickly as they initiated talks, they appear to have come to an abrupt end.

We had an abrupt, early end to the nursing relationship (at 7.5 months), and while it sometimes helps to talk about it, it also opens up old wounds.

How about a woman whose placenta abrupts — would she have a better birth experience if she skipped the c - section?

-LSB-...] bittersweet post about an (abrupt) child - led end to a cosleeping relationship — of course this made me want to stare at my daughter in the middle of the night -LSB-...]

It is tempting to speculate about what will happen next in Brazil after the abrupt and tantalizing unfolding of a new chapter in the country's ongoing political crisis.

At that March meeting, SUNY Poly Provost William Durgin announced that, «due to issues that he can not discuss,» Dr. Haldar «was no longer the Interim Dean,» which was met with «general concern... about the opaque and abrupt process surrounding [Dr. Haldar's] departure,» the lawsuit states.

The abrupt hangup that occurred when an upstate TV news reporter asked Cuomo about the State Fair gondola's fate during a phone interview was accidental and due to a «tech thing,» a Cuomo spokeswoman said.

Mayor de Blasio ducked a barrage of questions Wednesday about the federal probe into his fund - raising operation and the abrupt firing of a city official tied to the controversial sale of a Lower East Side nursing home.

«This abrupt shift raises considerable questions about the new voting system in Suffolk County,» said Bishop aide Jon Schneider.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Mayor Bill de Blasio brought a news conference to an abrupt end Friday, after he refused to answer questions about reports that two separate grand juries are looking into his fundraising practices.