Sentences with phrase «at this example which»

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But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

For example, Uber sold new shares to SoftBank Group in January in a deal that valued the ride hailing startup at $ 48 billion, significantly higher than the nearly $ 4 billion valuation at which Google had bought its stake in the company five years ago.

OMERS and Insight Venture Partners, for example, led a $ 100 - million investment in Shopify in 2013, which turned heads at the time.

The somewhat alarming example, at least to me, concerns a new service to predict which employees may be about to become pregnant.

The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

At this writing, for example, Starbucks is finally fading from the news after an incident in Philadelphia in which a store manager called the police on two black men who were waiting for a colleague before ordering.

For example, Gordon points to two employees who at merger time did effectively the same job: managing field personnel, which included recruiting, training, and scheduling staff, plus managing projects day to day.

For example, Google announced that it will hold its own Women's Demo Day, which will feature women - led startups from around the country pitching to a group of judges at the Googleplex, with the goal of driving investment and providing Google mentorship and introductions to each entrepreneur.

The company also sells name brand products, charging $ 3 for Lysol wipes, for example, which cost $ 5.30 at Wal - Mart.

Some examples include WordPress and Drupal — both open source and free to install or Expression Engine, which is affordable at $ 299.

In perhaps the most notorious example of Oscar's underdog favoritism, in 2010, The Hurt Locker — released on just 535 screens and tallying less than $ 19 million at the box office — beat Avatar which had grossed $ 760 million and was well on its way to becoming the most successful movie ever made.

Inspired by Germany's example, Ontario introduced what's called a «feed - in tariff,» which guaranteed prices at which it would purchase electricity from designated renewable sources.

In Venezuela, for example, the government has not consistently released homicide data (though it did for 2016), and in the past the Council has estimated based on entries at the Bello Monte morgue, which draws from an area larger than Caracas and doesn't only include homicides.

Rose likes to use the example of the unassuming paper bag, which many consider to be a greener choice at, say, the grocery store.

In Malawi, for example, which had the highest business closure rate in the world, women shuttered businesses at a rate of 30 percent over the past two years, compared to about 25 percent for men.

The White House Correspondents» Dinner is a classic example: A fancy party in which the journalists who cover the president and his senior officials drink and dine with them, laugh at their jokes, and get their pictures taken.

For example, the iconic 20th Century brand Sears was all about having a trusted single place, be it the catalog or the store, in which to find everything you could possibly need, at a competitive price.

It is difficult, for example, to say with certainty what percentage of the current U.S. trade deficit -; which stood at a record $ 65,677 million at the end of 2005 -; is directly attributable to NAFTA.

For example, four years into the business, Koch took his first outside money to build an $ 8 million brewery, which he was then forced to abandon — eating almost the whole $ 3 million cost of equipment — when bids came back at $ 15 million.

For example, Zumper cites the average rent for a one - bedroom apartment at $ 1,680 per month, which easily can break the shoestring budget of someone starting a small business.

Or consider outsourcing distribution, as in the example of Walgreens, which recently ran a collaborative promotion with online freelance marketplace TaskRabbit, delivering over-the-counter cold medicines to the doorsteps of people who were sick at home.

To kick off the process, Subway is introducing a new roast beef recipe, roasted with garlic and pepper, which the company describes as the latest example of menu improvement at the chain.

-- based Canadian Solar Inc., which topped US$ 30 at the start of 2010, now trade under $ 5 on the Nasdaq exchange, for example.

If your idea takes the group's fancy — medical products, consumer electronics, and packaging are the in niches — ADLE is prepared to take the up - front risk, by, for example, creating a prototype and shopping it around to potential licensees, or doing a full - blown feasibility study, which can cost ADLE at least $ 200,000.

Debi Mishra, partner director of engineering and machine learning at Microsoft Corporation, pointed to the example of GE's aircraft engine business, which shifted its business model from selling machinery to selling engines as a service.

As an example, the U.K. receives 0.2 % of GDP directly invested into startups, which would translate into $ 120 million in direct startup investments in Lebanon in a given year, and we are at $ 40 million this year, despite the well - known [Lebanese] Central Bank initiative.

They sniff at Dymon's ancillary offerings — for example its file - storage system, which features an in - house app that lets clients scan documents in and out of shelf space.

«I would argue that the good companies that trade at expensive multiples are better quality companies and deserve a higher multiple,» she says, pointing to the example of retailer Dollarama Inc. (TSX: DOL), which trades at 28.8 times current - year earnings — seemingly rich even for its sector — with an enterprise value - to - EBITDA ratio of 19.8.

In June 2011, for example, more than 280 workers vomited and fainted in a three - day period at the King Fashion Garment Company factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which made dresses and knitted tops for brands including H&M, a former Li & Fung client.

«What I'm trying to drive at, is whether there are any circumstances in which you'd go back to the EU on certain points, for example, if the resolution were amended to say Parliament would like the government to seek an extension of the Article 50 process — is that possible?»

Two examples from this year's list are e-commerce companies Warby Parker and Blue Apron, which are currently valued at $ 1.2 billion and $ 2 billion, respectively.

At Athenahealth, for example, which Elliott targeted this spring, Cohn has been polite and even complimentary in his interactions with management, despite being a «regular drumbeat» of a presence, according to people close to the health IT company.

If you look at examples like RIM / BlackBerry though, which resisted the shift toward smartphone apps, you can see that unwillingness to change can be a costly mistake.

You could, for example, create a different «watch TV» scene and a «watch a movie» scene, which might set the lights at different levels or colors.

To cite just one example: Executives at Trinity Health, which operates 93 hospitals, have their pay tied to the system's overall effectiveness in keeping patients out of the hospital, lowering smoking and obesity rates, and other population health metrics.

Patron, for example, last year debuted three new pricier tequilas under the «Roca» line to court greater interest in the beverage, which is gaining traction at bars and restaurants.

In Foursquare, for example, people can be noteworthy and attain badges within the system for doing such things as being the biggest regular at a certain place (What Norm and Cliff from «Cheers» would do with this...) and going to a venue in which a lot of Foursquare members of the opposite sex are present.

Companies that are fueling their growth through venture capital, for example, will sometimes set their sights on being a particular size at which they are deemed to have succeeded in their quest to expand.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

Frances, At least in Canada, the ability to arrange for deferred compensation schemes is limited by various provisions of the Tax Act which prevent the deferral of income into future years in most circumstances (there are exceptions, for example, for teachers who take, for example 3 years of salary over 4 years and take a year's sabatical or for various incentive compensation schemes, although I doubt those would work for athletes).

On the other hand, the university sector has for many years provided examples of plans that are DC at core but which include DB guarantees.

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For example, my full retirement age is 67 and if I claim at age 62, the earliest age at which I can file for Social Security benefits, my benefit will be equivalent to 70 % of my full retirement age benefit.

For example, if you invest $ 5,000 in a one - year CD at online Ally Bank, you can expect to receive 2.00 % APY, which is far superior to the current national CD rate of 0.36 percent.

The White house chief of staff, Reince Priebus, for example, earned at least $ 1.18 million — nearly half of which came from the Republican National Committee, which he formerly led.

If GDP is growing nominally at 20 %, for example, and you can borrow at 7 % (which was the case in China for much of this century), you should rationally borrow as much as you can and invest it into anything that moves, no matter how poorly thought out the investment.

I remember, for example, the website, Condoflip.com, which says it all in terms of the degree of speculative fervor that was evident at the time.

One hypothesis is that people in industries which generate a bigger «paper trail» — because they use more intermediate goods as inputs, for example — are at greater risk of being caught and therefore evade tax less.

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.