Sentences with phrase «as first mark»

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Mark Briggs has been representing businesses and their owners for nearly 20 years, first as an associate and partner at the national law firm Quarles & Brady and now with Briggs Law Group, which he founded in 2009.

But he is sending his sister, Kim Yo Jong, who has been described as one of his most trusted advisors, as his representative, marking the first time any member of North Korea's ruling family has ventured below the DMZ since the Korean War.

Brigitte Macron's interview — her first since the Emmanuel was elected in May — came as her husband marked his first days 100 days in office with a dramatic plummet in his popularity.

The Gawker founder has reportedly had talks in the past with billionaire venture capitalist Mark Cuban as well as eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar, who already funds his own independent media entity, First Look Media.

The Greek government seems ready to tap the bond markets again as early as next week, a source close to the situation told CNBC on Tuesday, which would mark the first time since 2014 that the country has borrowed from the capital markets.

2018 will be remembered as the first year that marks the beginning of the 5G era.

It is the first non-investment product for the Toronto - based digital wealth management firm, marking a further step into the banking realm as Canadians increasingly do their financial transactions online.

Mark Schankerman, a professor at the London School of Economics, who first met Spangenberg after he donated some of his patent fortune to fund work in entrepreneurship at the London school, said patent trolls and their lawyers play a role in limiting the patent economy, especially in cases where they are demanding too much for IP — «the «holdups,» as he called them.

As dads of young kids, [co-founder] Mark Vadon and I knew first - hand what it was like trying to buy kids» clothes.

«The triumph of «America first» as the primary driver of foreign policy in the world's only superpower marks a break with decades of US exceptionalism and a belief in the indispensability of US leadership, however flawed and uneven,» Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and Chairman Cliff Kupchan wrote in the firm's annual overview of top risks.

This marks the first time that Huawei, which makes well - specified mid-range phones such as the P10, has knocked Apple off the top spot in Chinese consumer buying intentions.

Taking first place as the ideal locale for retirees, Costa Rica scored top marks in health care and healthy lifestyle.

WA Labor leader Mark McGowan today guaranteed that, if elected in the March state poll, he would return the budget to surplus within his first term as premier.

As for the first condition, outgoing governor Mark Carney announced on April 17 that the Bank of Canada was yet again keeping its overnight rate at 1 % and said the bank was pushing back its own projections for the economy's recovery to «full capacity» to mid-2015.

If you mention you're best friends with Mark Cuban within the first two minutes of a conversation, you might as well be saying, «I'm trying to impress you right now so you think I'm important.»

As of mid-morning Eastern Time, the price of bitcoin had soared over 10 percent in the last 24 hours and crossed above the $ 4,000 mark for the first time in nearly a week.

The 17th overall pick of the first round of the 2002 NFL draft dreams of one day being mentioned in the same breath as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Though I was still casing my next mark, carefully walking around areas of interest or sneaking around on rooftops, I used Senu as my first step in planning.

According to ZenithOptimedia, 2013 will mark the first year Canadian marketers will spend as much on online advertising as on TV advertising, at $ 3.6 billion apiece.

After struggling for years as electronics shoppers shifted online, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, marking an ignominious end for the 94 - year - old retailer that had sold the first mass - market computer.

The social media giant announced the move yesterday, marking the expansion of a capability first unveiled last August as part of its public - figures initiative, Facebook Mentions.

Monday marked the first time that Alphabet reported quarterly revenue from Google's core advertising businesses as separate from its more experimental ventures.

Tuesday's launch marked the first in 10 weeks and could have served as an opening statement before the US and South Korea perform air - combat military drills in mid-December.

The deal, which could be announced as early as Monday, marks the industry's first big consolidation in Southeast Asia, home to about 640 million people, and puts pressure on rivals such as Indonesia's Go - Jek, backed by Alphabet's Google and China's Tencent Holdings.

Last Friday marked the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, China's most important holiday.

Cerner missed its own expectations for revenue in the first quarter as it took hits from a delayed Veterans Affairs Department EHR system contract and an unpredictable market.The VA electronic health record system contract has been sitting in limbo for months and will likely be delayed until the second half of the year, according to Cerner Chief Financial Officer Mark Naughten.

She recently accompanied the president on his first foreign trip, a nine - day journey through Saudi Arabia, Israel, Italy, and Belgium that marked her first extended turn as first lady in the public spotlight.

Lastly in a subtle tribute to the 242 RAF Squadron, which was the first that Bader commanded, the «LE» markings as seen on his Hawker Hurricane IIc are subtly etched above the 6 o'clock index.

The ride - hailing company's testing methods are now questioned as the accident marks the first ever recorded fatality caused by a car autonomously driven by the new technology.

Promoted as a way to help first time home buyers with a down - payment in order to «make [their homeownership] dream come true», the program completely misses the mark.

Mark Gonzalez has announced a new bureau to handle domestic violence cases after sharing data about the conviction rate involving those cases during his first year as Nueces County District Attorney.

OTTAWA — Mark Carney is already causing ripples in Britain in his first week as governor of the Bank of England, even though his methods would be considered old hat

The appointment marks the first time an executive from the automotive industry is chosen as chair.

Apple Inc. shares on Monday broke the $ 500 mark for the first time, the latest milestone in an almost unbroken rise over the last decade, solidifying its place as the world's most valuable company by market value at close to $ 466 billion.

Exchange - traded funds, or ETFs, recently celebrated a milestone birthday: January 22, 2018, marked 25 years since the world's largest ETF made its debut on Wall Street as the first U.S. - listed investment of its kind.

That same year, Shockley and seven other scientists founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the «first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley,» as a plaque marking the spot in Mountain View reads today.

This will mark the first positive monthly gain in two months as volatility has taken a toll on the market over the last three months.

The first Prime Day was held on July 15, 2015, as a way to mark the company's 20th anniversary, and it proved to be such a success in boosting sales and bringing in new Prime members that the company did it all again on July 12, 2016.

As with $ YCS above, $ PALL was volatile and marked by wide swings in the first few months it attempted to build a base of consolidation, but the price action of this palladium ETF has been contracting since July:

Authored by incoming federal trade commissioner Rohit Chopra as he awaited Senate confirmation for his new post, the paper marks the first comprehensive attempt to rethink federal anti-corruption policy in years — maybe since the Watergate era.

Senator Mark Drouin of Québec first developed the idea of a world exhibition in Montréal to serve as a focal point for Canada's celebrations of its 100th birthday.

The statement marked the first time the National Bank of Hungary has commented on bitcoin publically, and despite the fear, uncertainty and doubt these kinds of announcements can spread, the country's virtual currency users are choosing to view the news as a positive.

Invested assets, an important indicator of the size of client funds managed by the bank, dropped for the first time since June as currency swings from a weaker dollar left their mark.

White House Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Wednesday laid out the administration's skeleton plan for tax cuts that was big on promises, but remarkably sparse on details, as President Donald Trump sprints to the Saturday finish line marking his first 100 days in office.

The sales result for Dunkin Donuts U.S. stores marked an improvement from the 2.7 % gain seen in the first quarter, as traffic to Dunkin's restaurants bounced back following the impact of wintry conditions in the Northeast.

January 2015 will be marked in history as the time when the first licensed Bitcoin exchange opened in the United States.

Reportedly, this marks the bank's first digital currency - focused hire, as Goldman Sachs is rumoured to be launching a trading desk for digital currencies later this year.

While the bill has yet to achieve final passage and be signed into law, if it is successful it would mark the first step towards full acceptance of Bitcoin as a digital currency.

Mark has been a vocal advocate for workplace revolution - first as a Coworking space developer / operator and recently through LiquidSpace.

He went on to make his mark in Silicon Valley by answering a call six years ago from former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, who recognized he'd have regulatory battles to wage and enlisted Tusk as Uber's first outside consultant to aid in navigating them.