Sentences with phrase «back by a number»

Ripple is backed by a number of big international banks and financial institutions.

Viola, based in Herzliya, Israel, said its fintech fund is backed by a number of international banks, including Scotiabank and Bank Hapoalim, as well as insurer The Travelers Companies.

The company is backed by a number of high - profile investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Foxconn, GV, Greylock, and Qualcomm Ventures.

But when you visit a site like JustArsenal that is supposed to be mainly for the fans, that's supposed to allow every fan express his opinion about Arsenal, irrespective of his perspective, that's supposed to post everything about Arsenal, whether positive or negative, and you realise there are certain views they (JustArsenal Admin crew, backed by a number of pro-Wenger fans) «expect» you to stick to the so called «positives», (even when there's nothing majorly positive worth holding onto) and they perceive you as a negative and distortive influence on the site when you refuse to applaud the negetative happenings in the club, you are left dazed...

Perhaps sensing growing Dominican clout, Espaillat is now backed by a number of elected officials, some of whom backed Rangel the last time: the City Council speaker, who represents East Harlem and was born in Puerto Rico, and the Bronx Borough president.

He was backed by a number of liberal rebels including Shirley Williams and Paddy Ashdown, but the government is now moving to reverse the change.

And, as a reader pointed out, it was produced and posted by the Senate Democrat - controlled (and taxpayer - funded) media services unit just two weeks before Espada faces off against his two primary opponents: Gustavo Rivera (who is being backed by a number of the majority leader's colleagues and labor unions) and Dan Padernacht.

The «business in you» campaign is backed by a number of organisations, including the CBI, StartUp Britain, the Social Enterprise Coalition and the Federation of Small Businesses.

Miller, a Southeast Queens resident for 35 years, was backed by a number of unions, including The Uniformed Fire Officers Association, 1199 SEIU, Transport Workers Union Local 100 and 32BJ SEIU.

Urban Trial Playground does a few interesting things, but they're overshadowed and ultimately held back by a number of factors.

But now we are going with Get RIch Quick choices that we tell ourselves are backed by the numbers.

It claims that it moved the launch date due to the fan demand, which is backed by numbers that show over 15 billion hours played and over 200 million players.

But they're held back by a number of features that are anything but user - friendly.

Uncertainty remained even after SegWit2x [the scaling proposal based on the New York Agreement, and backed by a number of Bitcoin companies and mining pools] was released.

According to Coin Dance, the mandatory soft fork of BIP148 is backed by a number of crypto companies, including BitFury, BTCC, Bitcoin India, the exchanges service BitcoinReminder, the wallets BitPay, Samourai Wallet, and the bitcoin consulting company Freedom Node.

As previously detailed by CoinDesk, Segwit2x is a scaling solution backed by a number of companies in the industry as well as a segment of the mining sector.

Use measurable achievements, backed by numbers.

Not exact matches

Instead, the data is collected by independent Quebec company iMetrik, which calculates the discount a customer is eligible for and sends only that individual number back to Desjardins.

You multiply that by the number of transactions that we do a year, and that's thousands and thousands and thousands of hours we put back in the customers» pockets.

But the deployment could stretch US resources thin, and complicate efforts by the Trump administration to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan in an attempt to beat back recent Taliban gains.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

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 forests.

That was one of a number of claims by the president that called for scrutiny in the fierce backwash of Comey's accusations in Senate testimony that Trump exerted improper pressure on him to back off an FBI investigation.

Trump said the plan, which was detailed by Trump's press secretary Sean Spicer before he later backed away from the proposal saying it was one of a number on the table, would force Mexicans to pay for building That Wall.

Combined with President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs, the estimated number of jobs that could be lost could rise near one million — setting back the number of positions added during the Trump presidency by nearly half.

The convenience landscape in the United States today looks like Canada's did back in 1990: dotted with regional chains numbering between 50 and 300 stores, some larger networks owned by Big Oil, and industry leader 7 - Eleven.

According to at least one Wall Street research firm, the number of iPhone owners planning to upgrade to the next model is at a historical low, and recent reports suggest Apple has scaled back iPhone production by half.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

By building a portfolio that ties back to your Family Index Number — the average annual return needed to make sure you reach your financial goals — your advisor is able to create a customized yet repeatable process.

But, given that crossing deserts brings a slow, miserable death to a number of these immigrants (and others will suffocate in the back of cargo trucks or be murdered by smugglers), a few more feet to climb is probably going to deter only a small number of potential immigrants.

Those findings jibe with just - reported data from the National Venture Capital Association, which reports 36 venture - backed companies went public, raising $ 3.3 billion, a 50 percent increase by number of deals and nearly 40 percent increase from the fourth quarter in 2013.

The numbers, as reported last month, back it up — this year's second quarter saw 48 home sales priced at $ 5 million or higher, the most activity in almost a year and a half, according to a report by Miller Samuel Inc. and Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

This number fell during the recession, but slowly climbed back to 62 % by mid-2010.

Over the same period, the number of venture - backed companies rose by 172.6 percent, the National Venture Capital Association reveals.

Back in February, I shared with you research from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), which predicts that by 2050, China and India will become the world's number one and number two largest economies based on purchasing power parity (PPP).

This selling point appears to be backed up by the numbers: Concur is currently in use in over 90 countries by thousands of companies, and, according to Newell, the company is currently pushing strongly in Canada (which is why they polled Canadians).

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

Even as the economy marched back toward prosperity over the past few years, both the number of us donating and the amount we give have declined; analysis by the Fraser Institute pegged the drop at a total of $ 11.1 billion between 2006 and 2011.

Unlike medications, this category isn't regulated by the FDA, which gives companies broad leeway to say their product can treat any number of conditions without supplying the necessary evidence to back it up.

If we don't, we can expect the numbers of people killed by the disease (mostly children under five and pregnant women, who lose immunities they've built up while pregnant) to climb back up to more than a million and then perhaps more.

The regime is backed up by a number of strong exchange controls.

More details: Salmonella can cause serious and potentially fatal infections in young children, the elderly, or people with weakened immune systems.The pistachios, distributed in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Peru, can be identified by a 13 - digit lot code number on the lower back or bottom panel of the package.

Direct traffic to the site slowed its growth, and, according to ComScore, by July it drew just 72 million visitors in the United States — about the number it did back in mid-2014.

The fundraising numbers help explain why more Republicans — particularly those facing re-election next year — aren't openly distancing themselves from a president whose approval rating hovers below 40 percent and whose White House has been wracked by public back - biting and legislative stumbles.

The cars also have a number in the back window so that employees can always identify the players by which car they are in.

That means that if Blackrock's fund managers responded as the research suggests, then they would cut back the number of trades by enough so that the non-tax trading costs for their $ 10,000 account would fall by roughly $ 2,300 over the course of a decade or $ 15,000 in the case of its more actively managed European fund.

Musk initially said Tesla would be producing 20,000 of them per month by the end of 2017 but the company just missed its scaled - back promise to produce half that number.

Since you already used a restaurant example, let me continue with the analogy: we're serving tasty food to an ever increasing number of satisfied, loyal customers and making enough money on every meal served to pay back original investment in fixed overhead by next year (those faux - egyptian obelisks didn't come cheap).

During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.

Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a «back door» in encryption products, the New York Times reported in September.