Sentences with phrase «as the tie on»

I loved the fun hemline on it, as well as the tie on the shoulders!

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Of course, you'll have a lot on your mind as you're trying to impress your contact — Is my tie on straight?

Audiences» changing viewing habits are likely one reason for the declining ratings for live award shows like the Oscars, as more and more people cut ties with the cable packages that are often required to watch such programs either on TV or online.

Before the White House intervened on Tuesday, Qualcomm had been working its political ties behind the scenes at least since December, according to a revealing «tick - tock,» as we call such stories in the media biz, by Wall Street Journal reporters Ted Greenwald, Kate O'Keeffe, and Tripp Mickle.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a Senate committee on Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and that his company may have received subpoenas as part of the investigation into any ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Russian election interference.

More recently, Super Mario Odyssey has become the fastest - selling title in the Super Mario franchise's history in the U.S.. On Metacritic, Odyssey is also nearly tied with Breath of the Wild as the best - reviewed game of the year.

Companies that live from one big project to the next, such as event - management firms, and those tied to cyclical demand, like warehousing outfits, are constantly on the lookout for fresh talent to meet obligations.

But others point to an overreliance on movie tie - ins and a lack of novelty: Star Wars toys didn't sell as well as expected, perhaps because kids see them as a tired formula.

While we wait to see how much Newfoundland is able to extract, note that Ottawa offered two other similarly vague compensation deals to get CETA through: One on drug prices, tied to a lengthening of patent protection, and another to the dairy industry as protection against an increase in duty - free European cheese.

Activist investors in both Canada and the US recently proposed — for Hess Corporation and Agrium Inc. — that their nominees to serve as independent directors on the companies» boards should receive incentive pay directly from the activist investors themselves, with the amount that tied to share price appreciation.

The same source is quoted in the dossier as saying the Trump campaign was «relatively relaxed» about the attention on Trump's reported ties to Russia «because it deflected media and the Democrats» attention away from Trump's business dealings in China.»

Driving traffic to an online store can involve tie - ins as simple as placing a hyperlink or banner on a website to posting comprehensive and well - thought out online articles covering a product's features and benefits.

According to The Telegraph, Ohanian said: «Reddit offers the opportunity for us, as humans, to connect on a much deeper, broader level because users have an alter ego and aren't tied to a social network of friends with whom they want to share how perfect their lives are.»

5: Richard Branson on Office Ties and the Company Dress Code The British billionaire calls for banishing the tie as the corporate uniform.

That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

The Speedcross 4s have a unique quick lacing system that evenly tightens the shoe as you pull upward on the slender polyester cord, and the laces lock in place with a tough plastic stopper instead of the bow you tied.

This is the «secret» to podcasting over a long period of time, and it ties right into the concept of producing consistent quality as a branding effort on social media.

Space critics such as the CBC's Wendy Mesley and Now are usually opposed to the billions spent on agencies, largely because of their ties to the military - industrial complex and because they feel it's money that could be spent on better things, such as education or social programs.

The «short suit» is exactly what it sounds like: everything above the belt is business as usual — sport coat over a button - down shirt and sometimes a tie or bowtie — but below the belt, the trousers are chopped off just above the knees leaving one's legs exposed and more emphasis put on the shoes.

If your campaigns and content are closely tied to the Olympics, pay attention to what is going on at the events — both the games themselves, as well as political and geographic events that may impact audience sentiment.

The crackdown comes as Beijing and the Vatican are negotiating a deal on the appointment of bishops in China, which could see both parties restore ties severed in 1951.

Wang Xiaohong, 60, a vice minister of public security, will replace Chen Wenqing as minister of state security during the session of parliament which begins on March 5, three sources with ties to the leadership and two foreign diplomats said.

The company is working on an Amazon Echo - like smart assistant, as well as a new platform, called Ambient OS, that's supposed to tie everything together.

Wooden even went so far as to teach his players how to put on their socks and tie their shoes.)

Indeed, as Bloomberg noted on Thursday, Naspers's stake in Tencent is today worth $ 175 billion, while Naspers itself is only worth around $ 125.5 billion — Naspers's value is pretty much entirely tied up in its Tencent holdings.

The research firm's annual study of global democracy, released on Wednesday, showed the U.S. ranking 21st in 2017 — the same as the previous year and tying with Italy.

On the plus side for advocates, the providers still haven't been able to counter the principle itself, which has the advantage of being tied to such fundamental long - term concerns as innovation and competition.

Yes, bow ties have appeared on Glee, that popular Gilbert and Sullivan knock - off, and they've recently been endorsed as «cool» by none other than Doctor Who.

If you wear one, you risk being labelled as «that fellow who wears novelty ties,» a sort of office oddity akin to «that lady with the Chihuahua pictures» or «the gentleman with the Tardis on his desk.»

The Nixon campaign settled that suit for $ 750,000 on the same day that Nixon resigned in disgrace in August 1974 as a result of his efforts to cover - up White House ties to the Watergate burglars.

But, while it may not be true that the Obama White House directly orchestrated a plot to monitor the Trump campaign — indeed, Obama has refuted the allegations — Trump's claims are loosely based on existing evidence that the FBI was doing so as part of an investigation into Trump staffers» alleged ties to Russia.

Business circles are particularly concerned over the future of U.S. - China commercial ties as President - elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, having pledged to brand China a currency manipulator and threatened to impose tariffs on its goods.

So while there is no doubt that Sanders» plan of putting a cap on the size of any given bank (perhaps tied to a firm's assets as a percentage of GDP) would be bad for those at the top, it might not spell bad news for the industry as a whole.

The big banks» gains moderated slightly when the market opened on Tuesday as the Trump rally began to fade, nonetheless by mid-day most of the big banks were only down slightly, and Goldman Sachs (gs), that's CEO last week tried to mend ties with Trump, was up slightly.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

«Since the purchase price was heavily tied to asset value, we needed to focus on the accuracy of balance - sheet items such as inventory and accounts receivable,» Nasberg says.

This chart shows how 8 billionaires have as much wealth as 3.6 billion people The wealth gap in the US is worse than in Kenya Trump's fortune drops to $ 3.1 billion, ties Snap's Evan Spiegel on new Forbes 400 rich list

«When the averages are falling apart, the thing to focus on is the CBOE Volatility Index, the VIX for short, also known as the fear gauge, which was so heavily tied to the big breakdown in February,» Cramer said.

At least eight Russian accounts, most tied to the troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency, sent at least 16 social media messages excoriating the Sabal Trail pipeline or retweeting messages from one of its most prominent opponents, a frequent guest on RT..

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met North Korea's leader Kim Jong - un in Pyongyang on Thursday amid strengthening bilateral ties, and a Chinese expert said that bilateral ties are positive as North Korea will rely on China more than the US in its future foreign relations.

That powerful lobby group also claims that earlier Buy American rules tied to President Obama's 2009 stimulus package, delayed «shovel - ready» projects as municipalities conferred with lawyers and manufacturers refrained from bidding on projects because they found it difficult to avoid sourcing their materials from abroad.

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.

The Kamens claim the main thing that distinguishes their foundation from other brain tumor foundations is their focus on pediatric brain cancer specifically, as well as their close ties with pharmaceutical and biotech companies working in the fields of immunotherapy and target gene therapy.

McCaughey spent most of his tenure reducing risk at CIBC, starting on his second day as CEO when the bank disclosed a $ 2.4 - billion settlement tied to failed energy trading firm Enron Corp..

Companies like Microsoft «will tie these tools in with their other enterprise - wide platforms,» such as Office 365, says Jeffrey Treem, an expert on communication technologies at the University of Texas at Austin.

As part of the TiE Bootstrap Series, SeedInvest CEO Ryan Feit will be appearing on a panel alongside serial entrepreneur David Rose of Gust.com and Sara Hanks of CrowdCheck, where they will discuss how entrepreneurs can take advantage of the growing number of crowdfunding platforms.

U.S. retailer Walmart Inc is in early - stage talks with health insurer Humana Inc about developing closer ties, with the acquisition of Humana being discussed as one possibility, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Trump wasn't pleased and made aggressive comments to the press on Monday evening, right as news broke that Mueller's team is looking at a donation to Trump's charity tied to a speech Trump gave during the campaign.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

Other rates tied to the Fed's, like mortgage rates, are going up as well, and that's weighed a bit on mortgage lending and refis.