Sentences with phrase «after years of calls»

After years of calls by scientific leaders for young scientists to become independent much earlier, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has put its money — close to half a billion dollars, thus far — where its mouth is.

New York has taken recent steps toward legalizing marijuana after years of calls from advocates.

The charity said in a statement: «After years of calling for justice to be done to the victims of genocide in Iraq, the UN has at last heard a plea for the forgotten minorities such as Christians and Yazidis who have been erased from their homelands.

After years of calling out for top class stirkers we now have aubameyang and lacazette and you idiots want to sell one of them?

«One way or the other, Gleick's use of deception in pursuit of his cause after years of calling out climate deception has destroyed his credibility and harmed others,» wrote climate journalist Andy Revkin on his New York Times «Dot Earth» blog, adding, «The broader tragedy is that his decision to go to such extremes in his fight with Heartland has greatly set back any prospects of the country having the «rational public debate» that he wrote — correctly — is so desperately needed.»

As the leading cryptocurrency continues to hover around all - time highs of $ 17,000, a sense of regret is increasingly visible in the world's media after years of calling the imminent «death» of Bitcoin.

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Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.

«Year after year, two - thirds of all business crisis news stories are what we call smouldering,» says SmYear after year, two - thirds of all business crisis news stories are what we call smouldering,» says Smyear, two - thirds of all business crisis news stories are what we call smouldering,» says Smith.

By the fall of 2010, just a year after the buyout, Skype was surging: Users had climbed to 600 million from about 400 million a year earlier — and it saw rising usage of its video calling services.

When Herb Sizemore was CEO of Kansas Communications, in Lenexa, Kans. (he recently sold the company), he kept a file of all the «People on the Move» columns in his local paper and called people a year after they'd taken a new job to see if they were happy with their situation.

In the past week, after Microsoft announced the 32 - year - old appwould be would «deprecated» (which came with Windows 1.0 way back when and allows you to make simple image edits), users responded with what the Redmond giant called an «outpouring» of support.

A 12 - year - old Chinese boy named Que Jianyu is one of an elite few individuals who occupy the center of that Venn diagram, after he successfully performed the stunt on a reality show called Dream of China late last year.

In March of last year, after another successful Kickstarter campaign for a touchscreen stylus called the Cosmonaut, they quit their fulltime - design jobs to focus on running Studio Neat.

During her freshman year of college, after being inspired by artisans she encountered on a trip to Italy, she started a jewelry business called Tramonti, the Italian word for sunset.

But the news is particularly ironic for Bitstamp, which gained popularity after the collapse of another exchange called Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy last year after losing approximately $ 650 million in a cyber attack.

The call came after Tesla forecast a reduction of capital expenses for the year and affirmed that it will turn a profit in the second half of the year.

Calling the company «America's fourth automaker,» Morgan Stanley's Adam Jones noted that Tesla, based in Palo Alto, Calif., recently acquired the ability to mass - produce vehicles after taking control of a former GM - Toyota factory that can churn out 500,000 units per year.

It took years for Radiohead to agree to put its music on Spotify in 2016, after frontman Thom Yorke once called it «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.»

«I think we have been on this path for a number of years,» GM CFO Chuck Stevens said on a call with reporters on Thursday, after the largest U.S. automaker released first - quarter earnings.

But after five straight years of positive returns, sentiment among equity analysts neared an all - time high, with the Wall Street consensus calling for an 11.1 % gain, according to a recent study by Bespoke Investment Group.

Shortly after being found guilty of three federal felonies, former hedge fund manager and pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli called a press conference to announce he was «delighted» with the verdict — which could send him to prison for years.

After weeks of silence, Amazon's retail team informed Nest employees on a conference call late last year that it would not list any of the newer Nest products recently announced by the company, according to a person familiar with the call.

After years of rumors and speculation, Apple on Tuesday unveiled its first wearable device, officially called Apple Watch.

After dropping out of York University, an 18 - year - old Cohl and a friend opened a strip club in Ottawa called Pandora's Box.

Some media and telecommunications deals in recent years have been announced with divestitures, such as U.S. cable operator Comcast's proposed takeover of Time Warner Cable in 2014, which was later called off after regulatory pushback.

The United States automatically downgraded Thailand, one of the oldest U.S. treaty allies in Asia, to the lowest «Tier 3» status in its 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report after Thailand stayed on the report's so - called Tier 2 Watch List, the second - lowest rank, for four consecutive years.

After a year and a half of testing various brews in focus groups consisting of friends and potential investors, the pair had what Verzello calls «a really great - tasting light beer.»

That commitment was quickly applied to economics, meaning so - called public ownership of production, distribution and exchange — socialism — which became a pivotal plank 20 or so years after the party emerged.

After a headline of «School Boy Has 60,000 A Year Business,» Ben had a flood of phone calls and soon a 25,000,000 investment offer.

After studying and testing the use of freelancers (called «agile talent» and «contingent labor» by corporations) for several years, 2017 will see the corporate use of agile talent increase and become mainstream.

The company did a sort of trial run earlier this year, by giving its blessing to a quasi-affiliate called Maiden Lane (named after the street in San Francisco where AngelList is based), which raised $ 25 million to support select syndicate deals with up to $ 100,000 each.

The police made the discovery after a 17 - year - old girl escaped the house in Perris, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles, and used a cellular phone she had found in the house to call them, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office said in a statement released online.

The so - called local «reconciliation» agreements are the government's preferred method for pacifying rebellious areas, and have often been concluded after years of government siege and bombardment.

In attacking Berkshire, Ackman was striking back after Buffett's business partner Charlie Munger last year called Valeant «deeply immoral» for its practice of raising drug prices, sparking a sort of long - distance feud over whose favorite stock was better.

After years of declines, U.S. oil production has picked up dramatically since 2010 thanks to the so - called «shale revolution.»

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

Earlier this year, Reuters reported that the NSA collected more than 151 million records of Americans» phone calls in 2016, even after Congress purportedly limited the scope of the government's data collection powers.

The purchase is expected to add to earnings per share within the first full year after the transaction closes, scheduled for the second half of the year, executives said on a conference call Monday.

Trump called for a boycott of Apple products earlier this year after the company declined to provide the FBI with security - weakened software to help crack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

Some 5,000 light - years from Earth, the Calabash Nebula — also called OH 231.8 +04.2, or the «rotten egg» nebula (since it contains a lot of sulphur)-- shows what happens after a star like the sun dies.

About a year after I started doing this stuff, I broke some big record, a 72 - ounce steak in seven minutes, and after I posted that video I got asked by an eating organization to come down to San Diego in 2008 for something called the Collegiate Nationals, a contest between all the college eaters and university eaters of North America.

It might feel as though the effect of phrase has diluted with year after year of false starts and setbacks — call it «Boy who cried «Tiger!»»

Optus will have to provide thousands of its customers with an extra year of unlimited free local calls after being found guilty of deceptive advertising last week.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

In January of last year, as president - elect, Trump called Meryl Streep «one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood,» after Streep criticized Trump in a speech at the Golden Globes.

After generating net income of $ 58.3 million in 2009, its guidance calls for higher margins this year, with earnings per share upward of $ 1.

The S&P 500 has climbed more than 4 percent this year, but investors have fled stocks for short periods of time after events like Britain's vote to leave the European Union — the so - called Brexit.

In a complaint filed in San Francisco Superior Court March 12, the owner of a 17 - year - old San Francisco business called Renaissance Furniture Restoration claimed Yelp deleted his business's positive ratings after he declined to buy advertising.

Also during the call, JPMorgan announced a two - year compensation clawback that targets the CIO traders responsible for the London losses, including former CIO chief Ina Drew, who left the bank after news of the bad trade broke.