Sentences with phrase «back at the world»

Obviously, someone in her life abandoned her at some point and her only way the strike back at the world was to attack what most hold dear.

Senegal are back at the World Cup for a second time, after becoming only the second African country to reach the quarter - finals when Japan and South Korea co-hosted in 2002.

However, the European Commission regulations, like current regulations, fall far short of the minimum requirements the UK Government (like other EU Member States) has backed at the World Health Assembly, the world's highest health policy setting body.

You could have easily chosen to get back at the world for all the awful things that happened to you......

With E3 2018 just around the corner, we look back at world's biggest gaming convention, and see where it's come over the last two decades.

«REDD Dawn: The Birth of Forest Carbon» looks back at the world's first REDD project, which was conceived in 1988 by the World Resources Institute.

As we reach the end of 2014, it's time to look back at the world of legal technology and some of the best advancements, worst fails, popular trends, and developments of the year.

Not exact matches

But they also had a physical installation at SXSW, which featured the DeLorean from Back to the Future — the car of choice for character Parzival in the film's virtual - reality world.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forWorld War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forworld's last substantial rain forests.

If you look back at when those policies were borne, it was when men were coming back from World War II.

Yes, you're running a business, but it doesn't feel like a real business because you find yourself staring at your CEO, board of directors and staff while you're brushing your teeth in the morning and walk past your «world headquarters» as you make your way back to your bedroom to get dressed.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

It was through mentorship from other women at Google that Gershtein was able to build back her confidence, and today she pays that mentorship forward to other young women and students entering the programming world.

«It is an indication of the changing dynamic in the world that a skill set, maybe we didn't spend a lot of time on in the last 15 years, is coming back,» Capt. Jim McCall, commander of the air wing on the USS Bush, told The Wall Street Journal at the time.

Here's a look at how one of the most talented American cyclists came back from near - career - ending injury to become a star at the world's greatest race.

At Angkor Wat a tour guide, noticing an American, leans in: «Please take this message back to America: Do not let communists run the world economy.»

You'll be so fixated on the challenges that you won't step back and realize you're already there.With skateboarding, at some point I was on top of the world, but I had no idea because I was so busy and so focused on doing it.

Doerr is the best - known investor at Kleiner Perkins — and indeed, likely still the most famous venture capitalist in the world, having backed Amazon, Netscape, and Google in the 1990s, in a prescient bid that this Internet thing might amount to something.

«Future generations will look back on this decision as a piece of supremely enlightened policymaking, and one that raises the prospect of the world's most beautiful country becoming free from drinks container litter at last,» he said.

«It's hard to put your hand into a car's engine when the car is still running, but that's what disruptive innovation is — changing the way things are done before your business is backed into a corner,» said Williams, who spoke to a crowd of 800 business leaders at the World Innovation Forum in New York City last week.

But anyway, so we talked a lot about whales and we said, «When you go whale watching and a whale breaches, a whale jumps up above the water, everybody oohs and aahs and takes pictures of it and talks about «Oh, look at the whale,» and then the whale goes back under water for like 45 minutes, and it's the most boring thing in the world.

Notably, back in September, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe furiously promoted the TTP deal at various investment and media events when major world leaders congregated in New York for the UN General Assembly.

Since my last Sino - Saturday edition, much has happened on the trade front: Donald Trump announced plans to impose tariffs of as much as $ 60 billion on imports from China; China fired back with tariffs of $ 3 billion against imports from the US, a promise to challenge US penalties at the World Trade Organization and some tough language threatening more painful countermeasures to come; global markets took a nosedive.

At McCann back in 2006, Edwards helped make the influential «Mad World» spot for Gears of War, which sold 2 million copies in six weeks, reportedly increased Xbox Live subscription by 50 % in that time, and made the song «Mad World» the top seller on iTunes.

Sagan won the green jersey for points at last summer's Tour de France and followed it up with an even more impressive performance at the Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia, which he won in crafty fashion — surging on an uphill cobblestone section and never looking back.

«I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight,» Kalanick said in a statement to the Times.

This year, a collapse at the Masters and some missed cuts have set him back — all the way to world No. 2.

Harry Colvin, director and senior economist at Longview Economics, told CNBC ahead of the petro's launch that he was «doubtful» the introduction of the world's first state - backed cryptocurrency would be a success.

In that context, the Labo could tap into parents» desire to draw kids» attention away from screens, at least a little bit, acting as a kind of bridge from the digital world back into the real one.

Under the Republican plan making its way through Congress, the corporate tax rate will get slashed from a highest - in - the - developed - world 35 percent to 20 percent and companies will be able to bring back the $ 2.5 trillion they have stashed overseas at sharply lower rates.

«There is such a robust entrepreneurial community and a real energy around starting companies at Wharton,» Klein says, who comes from a family of entrepreneurs dating back to his grandfather, who started a shoe company when he arrived in America after World War II.

(poetsandquants.com)-- Things are slowly getting back to normal at the world's top business schools.

The newfound extroversion many of us have found online is having a paradoxical effect in the real world: we've become uber - social online, but at the same time we're also pulling back IRL (in real life) relations.

With more than $ 1.2 billion backing it and Intel at its side, Cloudera claims the most widely adopted Hadoop technology in the world — although Hortonworks (which got $ 50 million from Hewlett - Packard (HPQ) over the summer) and MapR Technologies would probably argue the point.

Using this framework, Rickards proposes a scenario in which the world shifts partially back to the gold standard, with an ounce of gold being valued at $ 10,000 per ounce.

But in your world, if your business fails, you're back at the drawing board — if you're lucky.

Canada's trade agenda — and its difference to that of its North American neighbor the U.S. — has made news at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touting a «push back against the anti-trade tendency in globalization that will leave us all worse off.»

We got a sneak peak at CES back when the device was going by its codename, «Mercury,» but TCL made the name, specs, and price official at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona this weekend.

As our world becomes more complex, with most of us moving back and forth between the physical and virtual worlds, and stimulus of all kinds coming at us in unprecedented ways, that need to organize our lives into stories becomes that much stronger, he adds.

Here's my elevator pitch: Roozt.com is the world's online marketplace to discover the sexiest brands that give back at members only prices.

Back then, Trump called the Atlantic City spot «the ultimate property,» and it was to be the largest casino in the world, according to news reports at the time.

That emphasis — on high - quality goods and low prices — goes back to a time even before Target's founding, says Laura Rowley, the author of On Target: How the World's Hottest Retailer Hit a Bull's - eye and now a senior editor at the Huffington Post.

Now get back out and change the world one customer and one employee at a time!

The roots of today's bourbon renaissance go back to 1984, when Elmer T. Lee, who manned the radar in a B - 29 bomber during World War II and later became the master distiller at the George T. Stagg Distillery — now called Buffalo Trace — created Blanton's, the world's first single - barrel bouWorld War II and later became the master distiller at the George T. Stagg Distillery — now called Buffalo Trace — created Blanton's, the world's first single - barrel bouworld's first single - barrel bourbon.

As the entire free world was embracing American style free market capitalism, we here at home were turning our backs on it.

«I started going back and trying to think about what I use in my day - to - day work,» said Peter Gleick, a hydrologist who looks at the movement of water all over the world to understand and predict droughts and flooding.

QUALITY has been a central part of organisational strategy for many years, dating back at least to Deming's work in Japan after the Second World War and is a central construct in a long - term research program being undertaken at the University of Western A

500's mission is to discover and back the world's most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems.

Michael S. Teitelbaum, a Wertheim Fellow at Harvard Law School and a senior advisor to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has studied the phenomenon, and he says that in the United States the anxiety dates back to World War II.

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where «growth at all costs» had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue.