Sentences with phrase «attempts at funding»

Co-developer Silicon Knights reformed as Precursor Games in hopes of funding a spiritual successor, however both attempts at funding Shadow of the Eternals were unsuccessful.

The city has been unsuccessful in its last two attempts at funding since its program was put on probation in 2013.

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As it turns out, it's not just the Hulk Hogan case: Thiel admitted in his interview with the Times that he decided several years ago to secretly fund multiple cases in an attempt to cripple the company, and that there is at least one other case before the courts that he's involved in.

Whether you are pitching your product to a prospective partner or attempting to attract investors to fund your business, at some point someone will ask «Why should we invest in you?»

Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the use of negative rates as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.

«When entrepreneurs lose cash flow, they give up leverage and negotiating power and risk losing too much ownership in a desperate attempt to raise funding,» says Wunderlich, who is also a partner at private - equity group DCA Capital Partners.

Democrats from coal - producing states, led by West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, had delayed the Senate vote on the funding bill in a failed attempt to get a bigger extension of miners» healthcare benefits that expire at the end of this year.

This fund attempts to build an index at mid-cap value stocks.

Sometimes, managers of these funds attempt to devise strategies that will keep daily liquidity at a minimum, so the exit fee acts as a deterrent for an investor wishing to proceed with an...

Many entrepreneurs have started businesses using credit cards after all other attempts at securing funding failed.

This means they are constantly buying and selling stocks to attempt to time the market and capture gains, studies suggest that they fail at this miserably over time and lose more than just keeping the funds in a passive account which is periodically re balanced.

Every time they received a cash inflow and attempted to buy shares, they would be forced to buy at the elevated ask prices set by the small number of active funds willing and able to transact with them, ask prices that they would push up through their attempted buying.

A short while ago the Blackstone hedge fund's co-founder, Stephen Schwarzman, characterized the attempt to tax short - term arbitrage trading gains at the same rate that wage - earners pay as analogous to Adolph Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939.

In California, the risk capital test considers whether there is attempt by an issuer to (1) raise funds for a business venture or enterprise (2) through an indiscriminate offering to the public at large, (3) where the investor is in a passive position to affect the success of the enterprise, and (4) the investor's money is substantially at risk because it is inadequately secured.

As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

On the basis of this insight, one is able to solve (or better, dissolve) the famous paradox of Epimenides the Cretan (who claimed that all Cretans are liars), or at least identify and clarify the nature of the paradox presently silk - screened on numerous APA fund - drive T - shirts, or, most importantly, circumvent Russell's own paradox of the class of all classes that are not members of themselves, a notion that was otherwise crucial to the attempt to demonstrate the foundations in logic of the arithmetic concept of number.

Zil to see out their remaining lengths of their contracts at the club, he is now reportedly open to selling them both in the summer in an attempt to rebuild with the sale funds, which is estimated to be around # 70 - 75 million for the pair?

After a summer of big name departures in an attempt to bring in funds, including Santi Cazorla to Arsenal for less than the club had paid Villareal for the player, the prospect of Champions League football at the Rosaleda had brightened the mood of the Málaga support.

«The attempt to link the chairman's name to the $ 115 million Slush Fund with Fidelity Bank is not only mischievous but disingenuous handiwork of adversaries who will stop at nothing to concoct stories no matter how ridiculous about our chairman.

The election of the Conservative majority government in May 2015 very quickly signalled that reforms related to party funding would be attempted, not as a comprehensive attempt at reform, but with possibly far reaching consequences for some parties.

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Deutsch and Mauro will attend a lobbying event tomorrow at the Capitol in an attempt to get their funding restored.

Nex, which used to be known as Icap and is one of the world's biggest money - broking firms, is attempting to head off a rebellion at next week's annual general meeting by announcing its chairman will personally pay back the # 25,000 used to fund the candidates, including one who ran against Lib Dem leadership contender Sir Vince Cable.

Delegates at the trade union meeting are expected to back a motion later which would condemn any attempt to divert public funding for higher education into the for - profit sector.

Trump on Saturday took a swing at Democrats who blocked a last - minute measure to fund government operations, calling their near - uniform opposition an attempt to give him a «nice present» to commemorate his first anniversary as president.

Given the former governor's support of Demos, who is largely self - funding his campaign — his third attempt at unseating Bishop — this shouldn't come as any big surprise.

Empire State Development, the state's economic development arm, bought the Hotel Niagara in 2016 from JSK International Corp. for $ 4.4 million after previous attempts at restoring the hotel failed for lack of funding.

Unfortunately, this odd betrayal of leadership at a time when our constituents needed her most seems to be part of a pattern that comes shortly after similarly short - sighted attempts to gut federal funding for New York's homeland security even while approaching the 10 - year anniversary of 9/11.

City Councilwoman Gale Brewer has garnered $ 50,000 in public funding to install several BigBelly Solar cans this year in Verdi Park at the entrance to the 72nd Street subway in an attempt to combat the park's rat problem.

A press release from Council member Chin and Borough President Brewer renewed criticism of Two Bridges Neighborhood Council and Settlement Housing Fund for, «attempting to reach a secret agreement with HUD to displace seniors (at 80 Rutgers Slip) to clear the way for luxury development.»

The ESD board approved the funding in September, and two previous attempts to approve the funding at PACB meetings in October and earlier this month had failed.

He graduated from Williams College, was a Fellow at Harvard University, and once attempted an eleven - country European busking tour funded entirely by street - coins.

The bill would also create what he calls the Cures Acceleration Network, an independent federal agency, funded at $ 2 billion a year, that would attempt to bridge the so - called valley of death between discovering a potential drug and testing it in patients.

They see it as an attempt to undermine a program that biomedical lobbyists have complained is supporting low - quality research at a time when excellent proposals from top scientists are being rejected for lack of funds.

The new proposal, which Yuste believes would cost at least $ 50 million per year, in addition to existing BRAIN funds, to do well, is an attempt to remedy what the group sees as an important omission by BRAIN leadership.

Lockley and Meyer did their best with their limited funds, attempting to protect the face with clay, plastic, and even Gore - Tex - like webbing; nevertheless, a major section of Cal Orck» o collapsed in February, taking with it at least 200 footprints made by two titanosaurs, beasts that may have measured 40 feet long.

The new trial — estimated to cost at least $ 100 million overall, with most of the remaining funds provided by partners in the pharmaceutical industry — will be part of the Alzheimer's Prevention Initiative, a large consortium of researchers attempting to identify biomarkers and treatments that can slow or stop the disease.

Previous attempts at reform have been blocked by disagreement between CDU and SPD over whether to lift the ban just at the university level — the CDU preference — or whether to allow federal funding for preschools through universities, as the SPD wants.

Several attempts at a Pluto mission were formulated by NASA, but for various reasons none came to fruition, usually because of insufficient funding.

The SENS Research Foundation is presently funding research with Jonathan Clark at the Babraham Institute to attempt to ratify that glucosepane is the target, determine whether or not there are other targets, and establish that the present understanding of the structure of glucosepane is in fact the right thing to aim for.

After shooting the low - budget Monster (whose visual effects he funded himself), director Gareth Edwards got his shot at the big time by being given the huge budget to shoot the latest attempt by Warner Bros. to make a decent American version of Godzilla, 16 years after Roland Emmerich's pretty awful effort.

New York City's mayor at that time, Rudolph Giuliani, a voucher supporter, attempted to secure public funds that would allow Catholic schools to fulfill the cardinal's offer.

Any attempt at zero - based budgeting would require decisionmakers to understand and work within the constraints imposed by these funding streams, each of which is typically earmarked for a specific group of students or a particular school program.

Using a complicated formula approved by the court, the state funds magnet schools that accept students from several different districts (at a minimum there must be two) at a per - pupil rate that increases as the number of districts sending students increases — an attempt to bring central - city minority students and white suburban students together in the same school.

The story of Syracuse is familiar: misguided attempts at urban renewal in the 1960s, destruction of old neighborhoods by interstate highways penetrating the city center, expansion of suburbs facilitated by federally funded highways and tax benefits for new housing; movement of many industrial facilities to the South; and redlining of old city neighborhoods so they could not get necessary mortgages and insurance for home purchase, rehabilitation, and maintenance.

Attempts at comprehensive education reform usually span federal, state, and local governing institutions, as well as myriad union contracts and funding sources.

At a time when many wealthy donors attempt to fix U.S. education by funding charter schools, advocacy and political candidates, Mr. Weiss, who is 74 years old, seeks change in the regular public system.

The court recognized that the language of the Arizona Constitution's religion clauses is a vestige of Maine Congressman James G. Blaine's attempt to ride a wave of anti-Catholic bigotry to the White House in the 1870s and 1880s.19 Mr. Blaine rose to prominence at a period of time when the public schools were predominantly Protestant.20 Finding the public schools inhospitable to their doctrine, Catholics pushed for a separate system of publicly funded Catholic schools.21 Blaine thus attempted to amend the U.S. Constitution to prohibit any public funding for «sectarian» schools — and it was an open secret that sectarian was code for Catholic.22

The House also would attempt to eliminate the waiting list for pre-kindergarten programs for at - risk 4 - year - olds by mid-2019, in keeping with Cooper's budget, although the House would use federal funds to do it, not state funds as Cooper has proposed.

Recent reforms have further whittled away at pensions by cutting benefits and imposing greater restrictions for new hires in an attempt to pay down liabilities accrued over years of inadequate funding and poor returns in the stock market.