Sentences with phrase «as the ceiling of»

During the last 30 years of his long (89 years) life, Michelangelo had grown increasingly convinced that his earlier work, such as the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, had been not an authentic witness to the Christian faith but, rather, an exercise in Promethean pride.

2018 is the year that we shift from seeing the mobile market as the ceiling of what voice could be, and instead see it as the floor.

I am considering this treatment for one wall of a small powder room as well as the ceiling of my kitchen.

Not exact matches

You can think of these zones as a floor and ceiling.

Nicknaming is just one example of how The Pink Ceiling's culture is defined by «a healthy irreverence,» as Whitehead puts it.

Fossil fuel usage, meanwhile, is expected to hit its ceiling in 2030 at 2.93 billion tons of oil equivalent with coal expected to continue as the top energy source for China by 2050.

But there's another difference: as a breaker of glass ceilings, her choices have the ability to change minds and maybe even policies.

As of 2018, cash gifts to qualifying charities are deductible up to a ceiling of 60 percent of adjusted gross income, an increase from the current 50 percent.

While his professors toiled away on floppy drive computers with 20 megabyte hard drives, Elop — who worked for the faculty of engineering as a student — was poking his head through ceiling tiles up and down the halls, getting his hands dirty hooking people up «to this new thing» called a computer network.

As the bell clanged and the ticker tape fluttered from the ceiling, the two embraced, now officially partners in one of the drug industry's biggest and boldest mashups ever.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

Lastly, Garage Gym Builder ranked this as the «Best Wall / Ceiling Mounted Pull Up Bar Regardless of Cost.»

Another prong in No Ceilings» new program is an effort by the nonprofit Catalyst to create what's being billed as an annual list of CEO - endorsed female candidates who are ready to serve as directors on U.S. corporate boards.

Japan and South Korea were the «worst» places for gender inequality as women face a «concrete ceiling» according to the CEO of Sungjoo Group.

As a result, the interior of the institute looks less like a lab than like an ordinary Flatiron - district office: casually dressed people sitting all day at desks, staring at screens, under high ceilings.

Continued weakness in the price of oil seems likely, as signaled by OPEC's failure in December to agree on a production ceiling.

As quid pro quo for lifting the U.S. government's debt ceiling last year, Republicans in Congress demanded $ 1.2 trillion worth of budget cuts over the next decade to drag Washington back into solvency.

The glass ceiling, the old boys club, brogrammer culture... it seems to me that these aren't signs of an all powerful patriarchy so much as an ongoing manifestation of men who are terrified to compete with women on a level playing field.

The day after I visit the tower, I tour the «Design Center,» a warehouse - style building with high ceilings and, well, a lot of toys — a space that's as fun as the HQ is drab.

«If you look today at a country like the UAE where we have 28 % of the new Cabinet as women, [one feels] what glass ceiling,» asks Al Rifai, offering her words of advice to other women professionals.

Apple has been under an increasing amount of pressure as of late, with some critics arguing that the company seems to have reached an innovation ceiling.

The idea of minting a trillion - dollar coin has picked up as an option that would allow the Treasury to temporarily print money to pay the country's bills and work around the debt ceiling.

Limbaugh devoted a segment of his show today to slam Krugman and others that have begun to advocate the coin as a serious proposal to circumvent the debt ceiling if Congressional Republicans refuse to raise it by the «X date» that could come as soon as Feb. 15.

Under the direction of Murphy, the company created online diaries to document interesting projects, complete with beautiful photography and candid anecdotes about unique challenges, such as constructing a yoga studio in a building with a crooked ceiling.

The Republican leadership might finally step in to «take the weapons of mass destruction away from the crazies,» as Mann puts it, refusing, for example, to allow another debt - ceiling crisis.

We have yet to see whether Whitehead, who now invests in female - focused companies through her new venture The Pink Ceiling, will return as CEO of Sprout 2.0.

In an attempt to crack the glass ceiling in start - ups, a number of mentoring and investing organizations have started or grown significantly over the past few years, such as Women 2.0, SpringBoard Enterprises, Astia, and Golden Seeds.

The Republican - led Congress has struggled immensely over the past eight months, and the party now faces further division as they return and urgently need to raise the debt ceiling to avoid a government shutdown, pass an aid package for Hurricane Harvey — some of which is expected to be tied to the raise of the debt ceiling — and now reach a decision on DACA.

Further, according to BofA - Merrill's analyst team at a midyear press conference on Wednesday in New York, any positive budgetary effect of the tax increases would be overshadowed by the growing burden of the U.S. debt ceiling as spending and hiring decisions are put on hold and the election heightens partisanship.

Debt - ceiling battles have scuttled previous attempts to build and subsequently maintain this stockpile, so when the debt ceiling was suspended in early February, the Treasury ratcheted up issuance out of the gate as soon as they got the green light.

The fund had stern words for American policy makers: avoid the «fiscal cliff» and lift the debt ceiling promptly, for the sake of the United States economy as well as the world's.

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The bill's passage also potentially complicates Treasury issuance relative to the debt ceiling, as lower tax receipts under the new tax plan could cause Treasury to run out of extraordinary measures earlier than originally thought.

«The bitcoin price made significant gains in a trading hour today as price spiked up to nearly $ 740 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI), pushing towards the higher ceilings of the cryptocurrency in 2016.

And there is no shortage of potential catalysts to move this rally in precious metals, both gold and silver, beyond the skepticism phase: military intervention on North Korea, government shutdown as the debt ceiling is reached in September, further implications of Trump's collusion with Russia, and the beginning of balance sheet reduction later this year by the Fed, to name just a few.

«Although other counties [across the country] also experienced home value increases in 2015, after other elements of the HERA formula — such as the statutory ceiling and floor on limits — were accounted for, these local - area limits were left unchanged.»

There were several possible catalysts suggested for this spike in concerns about a favorable outcome of the debt ceiling negotiation, which has to be concluded ahead of the Treasury's X Date, now expected as early as October 1: some cited Steven Mnuchin's interview on CNBC, in which the Treasury Secretary said that the additional spending needed to help Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey may reduce the amount of time Congress has to increase the federal debt limit; another possibility was month - end liquidity needs and relative positioning across the curve.

That the cartel as a whole exceeded its production ceiling last month suggests that each member - nation is making its own rules up anyway, regardless of what was decided.

Until the early 1980s, monetary policy was exercised through a variety of instruments — such as interest rate ceilings, the setting of bond rates, variations in the Statutory Reserve Deposit Ratio, lending controls, monetary targets, pegged exchange rates — and the Treasurer and Treasury were very much involved in their use.

As with fixed - share offers, floors and ceilings can be attached to fixed - value offers — in the form of the number of shares to be issued.

The trigger would be the US Debt ceiling - which will need to be hiked by US Congress as we feel that in November or December 2015 - US Fed will be «out of funds».

- But the Euro Stoxx index is yet to break through resistance, and remains in the sort of «no man's land» zone of resistance around 3050 to 3100 that acted as a ceiling in 2010 and 2011, and a floor prior to the 2015 QE blow off top, and now is so far serving as resistance.

Other measures, such as exchange controls, are also being used to stem the appreciation of local currencies, with the authorities in Thailand announcing in October a package of measures, including suspension of interest payments to overseas holders of Thai cheque and savings accounts and a deposit ceiling of 300 million baht (US$ 7.5 million) per account.

As they return to the nation's capital Tuesday from the monthlong summer recess, members of Congress have only weeks to fund the federal government, raise the debt ceiling, and reauthorize a health insurance program that benefits thousands of Maryland children.

Of course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the tablOf course the irony is that the current debt ceiling debate does not address any of the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the tablof the very important longer term fiscal issues that face the US such as Medicare funding and other booming social costs that lay ahead — these issues are not even on the table.

Quite frequently, price will hit against its ceiling or floor a number of times become it eventually escapes, as demonstrated on the diagram above.

Of course, with the federal government maintaining its strict Schedule I categorization on marijuana, the ceiling is low for marijuana stocks, and they remain, as a group, exceptionally volatile.

Consequently, the interest rate on reserves, instead of serving as an effective funds rate floor, ended up becoming a ceiling.

As deposit outflows accelerated, the ECB increased the ceiling of funding four times in the last eight days alone.

As a matter of fact, I would like to thank Sister Catherine for rolling her eyes to the ceiling when we asked in 4th grade about how god made all the animals in one day and there were dinosaurs that were millions of years old while we studied fossils.