Sentences with phrase «against the year in»

Mary Elizabeth Winstead was held hostage in last years criminally under - the - radar Faults and finds herself captive against this year in Valencia.

In Figure 3, we plot the charter participation rate against the year in which the charter opened.

Not exact matches

Prices on the London Metal Exchange soared by a third, lifting the metal to its highest in nearly seven years, after the United States imposed sanctions this month against billionaire Oleg Deripaska and his company Rusal, the world's No. 2 aluminium producer.

The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.

During the boom years, those companies were brought to market too soon and scattered their resources in a race against one another, she says.

McKesson has has continued to invest significantly and enhance its efforts to guard against diversion in the years since.

Chinese bets against the renminbi have snowballed since Beijing let it fall by 2 % against the dollar in August 2015, the first revaluation in years.

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

Acton left WhatsApp late last year and joined in the growing backlash against Facebook, endorsing a campaign that encouraged users to delete their profiles from the social network.

Similar legislation failed last year, after it pitted environmental scientists against businesses and trade groups that benefit from the $ 2 billion market for sun care products in the U.S.

Four former students filed a suit against Trump University last year in a federal court in California, seeking class - action status.

In June of that year, he led a flight of U.S. defenders against an 80 - plane attack by Japanese forces, disrupting the attack and shooting down seven of the enemy.

Collins, a moderate who voted against the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare earlier this year, says the bills will offset the impact of the loss of the individual mandate, but experts largely disagree, arguing that the elimination of the mandate will spike health costs and reduce choice in plans.

Koum also signaled years ago that he would take a stand against Facebook if the company's push to increase its profits demanded radical changes in the way WhatsApp operates.

Not long after, in 2007, 24 - year - old Maurice Pulley was gunned down after testifying against a man who had shot him in the face earlier that year.

In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.

Back in Barrie, Leone checks on a one - year - old elevator to demonstrate how an ideal maintenance job should go: He climbs into the pit at the bottom of the shaft and replaces the pads that absorb dripping oil; he wipes the crud and cobwebs from the elevator's bottom; he rests an ear against the door to listen to its mechanical innards; he straddles the door to ensure it nudges him out of the way properly.

Only in recent years has insurance been used to provide protection against relatively small losses, such as on consumer goods and airline tickets.

Either way, his comments follow a trend of famous figures — from entertainers to sports figures — taking a hard stance against their children playing football at any level, especially in light of the revelations about long - term effects from football concussions that have surfaced in recent years.

While the use of insurance to protect against loss can be traced back thousands of years, the modern industry only emerged in the 17th century.

For the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers pitted people assigned to follow a traditional restricted - calorie diet (eating roughly 25 % of their normal daily calories) against those who were told to fast every other day (eating 25 % of their normal calories on fast days and 125 % on the other days) for a year.

Papa John's founder John Schnatter, who stepped down as CEO at the end of last year, had blamed falling sales on the NFL's failure to resolve the raging controversy over players taking a knee during the national anthem, in order to protest against police brutality.

The announcement came on the same day that Israel celebrated its 70th year of statehood, and amid continued protests at the Israel - Gaza border, in which Israeli soldiers have used live ammunition against Palestinian protesters, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

Rabidoux says he works with mortgage brokers who tell him these unregulated mom - and - pop lenders grew from 4 % of their total volume in 2014 to 33 % this year: «I know people who borrowed against their homes to invest in these mortgages.

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

It is the promise of «Abenomics» that has seen the yen shed about 15 percent of its value against the dollar since November and Japanese shares surge to their highest level in more than four years.

In its last assessment, S&P said that Portugal's outlook was stable, «balancing our expectation of further budgetary consolidation and likely receding banking sector risks over the next two years against the risks of a weakening external growth environment and vulnerabilities related to high private - and public - sector debt.»

How many times have we argued with someone knowing they were really right, yet we just won't give in due to that darn ego,» says Donald Burns, a 33 - year veteran of the restaurant industry who warns against shutting out other perspectives.

But on Monday, McDonald's reported a comparable sales decline of 1.3 % in the U.S., which the company said reflected «the challenging comparison against the prior year launch of the very successful All - Day Breakfast.»

Despite a 64 percent increase in Internet security breaches last year, only 25 percent of U.S. organizations are prepared to defend against a cyber attack.

As Fortune's David Z. Morris puts it, the report is «one of the most concrete indications yet that this year's stirring backlash against sexual harassment could have far - reaching impacts in the workplace.»

To find out, researchers from the University of London zoomed in for a three - year look at the assumedly cutthroat global reinsurance industry — a $ 260 - billion dollar financial market that insures insurance companies against large - scale losses.

In a market research battle of the brands study last year, the allure of bacon was put up against the popularity of Angelina Jolie.

In another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo waIn another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo wain the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo wain the Kosovo war.

Sohn is one of the most anticipated hedge fund events of the year, where managers volunteer their time and best investment ideas to raise money in the fight against childhood cancer.

The euro, which in the aftermath of January's meeting rose to a new three - year high, started the year surging against other currencies, including the U.S. dollar, as the region's economy improved and political risks dissipated.

Officials in London and Brussels are racing against a two - year deadline to make sure Britain has an orderly exit, but tensions are running high.

Over the years Alfa has come out on top in bitter power struggles even with people closely linked to Vladimir Putin: it defended its telecoms empire against Leonid Reiman, Putin's communications minister, who ultimately left the government after a string of disclosures about his links to an offshore company.

Activists will march from Hyde Park Corner to Parliament Square on September 9 in protest against last year's Brexit vote.

In the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructurIn the past couple of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructurin March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with women's health care and increased environmental standards for damaged national infrastructure.

The yen has already gone down more than 16 percent against the dollar since the beginning of the year, and it is now down 12 percent in trade - weighted terms compared with the year before.

Its investment unit has struggled over the last couple of years against increased market competition, in both trading and deal advising.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

However, Singleton said he has tested his model against historical data from the crisis year, yielding a 16 percent return against a 38 percent slump in the S&P index.

We compared the average viewership for each from January 1, 2016, to February 26, 2016, against the same dates in 2017 to see who had the most growth in viewership year - over-year (and who's been declining).

Trump finally closed down his years - long «birther» campaign against Obama in a speech in September of last year.

And while he didn't promise to end Cleveland's 50 - year championship drought, James did, in dramatic style, lead the Cavaliers to overturn a 3 - 1 series deficit against the favored Golden State Warriors.

The yen has fallen about 11 % against the U.S. dollar this year, and that's been great for exports, while inflation is the highest it's been in five years.

For instance, it sends reps to runway shows in Europe to scout for new trends; the product development team takes that intel, weighs it against sales stats and buying forecasts, and incorporates it all into creating the dozen new yarns the company launches each year.