Sentences with phrase «base block by block»

In case you aren't familiar, Block Fortress tasks you with building an impenetrable base block by block, Minecraft style.

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Australian - based BHP's $ 39 billion bid for Saskatchewan's Potash Corporation was blocked by the Canadian government in 2010.

U.S. officials blocked a $ 2.9 - billion bid by Chinese investors to buy a controlling stake in a California - based unit of Dutch electronics firm Phillips last year, while another U.S. semiconductor firm rejected a lucrative offer from Chinese investors in favour of a lower bid from an American company because of concerns the deal would not win regulatory approval.

The company's earnings guidance for FY18 does not include any potential impact from the previously announced pending sale of KMG America Corporation (KMG), whose subsidiary, Kanawha Insurance Company (KIC), includes Humana's closed block of non ‐ strategic long ‐ term care insurance policies, to Continental General Insurance Company (CGIC), a Texas ‐ based insurance company wholly ‐ owned by HC2 Holdings, Inc., a diversified holding company (NYSE: HCHC).

Private clouds use many of the building blocks of public clouds, lots of automation, the ability to charge internal departments on a pay - as - they - go basis, but are otherwise wholly managed by the customer they serve.

In its complaint, the Ottawa - based consumer advocacy group says the blocking — approved by Quebec's National Assembly in May — is an unconstitutional threat to Internet freedom, and beyond the province's jurisdiction in any case.

April 5 - The Chicago Stock Exchange said on Thursday it would be bought by NYSE - operator Intercontinental Exchange Inc for an undisclosed amount, a month - and - a-half after U.S. regulators blocked the sale of CHX to China - based investors.

They begin by graphing players based on a multitude of publicly available figures, among them goals, assists, blocked shots, time on the ice, penalty minutes and plus - minus, creating nuanced portraits.

But the results of the study, carried out by the non-partisan Public Religion Research Institute, show the impulse to block varies widely based on gender and political leanings.

PPS + pays you a flat rate per share, while the PPLNS gives you a sliding scale based upon the power you supply and blocks found by the pool.

Two of today's biggest cloud service providers are now blocking a technique called «domain fronting» that has been used by websites and applications to avoid government - based censorship, but also by malware to secretly siphon stolen data to covert servers.

By: Kimberley Smuts 6th May 2016 The use of multiparametric block models, which contain more than just geological data, to analyse the risks associated with the mining process, allow more informed business decisions to be made on the basis of risk and exposure to that risk.

Built in 1912 and designed by Chicago - based architect Daniel H. Burnham, the Class A office tower spans 1.4 million square feet, encompassing a full city block.

The Trump administration, for instance, recently blocked the takeover bid of U.S company Qualcomm by the Singapore - based Broadcom, on national security grounds.

SegWit2X, as the name implies, will increase the maximum base block size by a factor of 2x to 2 MB as well as keeping the SegWit -LSB-...]

I'm thinking that, unless Vitalik subtly managed to telepathically hack everyone's brains so buyers would participate in the pre-sale in an organized fashion, it would appear that a lot of Ether — enough Ether to move markets or, if the system migrates to proof - of - stake, enough to play a meaningful role in determining consensus on a block - by - block basis — was sold to not a lot of people.

The new fund is called Canadian Bitcoin Trust and it was launched a few month ago by the company First Block Capital which is a Vancouver - based company.

The startup, run by Zeb Ventures Pte Ltd, will use the money raised to scale up block chain - based services, improve customer service and increase headcount, it said in a statement.

(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.

However, the X16R algorithm aims to overcome this problem by constantly disrupting the ordering of the hashing algorithms — it uses the same algorithms used in X15 and SHA512, but the ordering of those algorithms is changed based on the hash of the previous block.

Casting a pall over future Chinese acquisitions in the US market, President Donald Trump blocked the proposed $ 1.3 billion purchase of Oregon - based Lattice Semiconductor by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, an investment firm with close ties to Beijing.

This time imbedded in the BTC1 implementation developed by Bloq co-founder Jeff Garzik, the New York Agreement's SegWit2x is scheduled to increase Bitcoin's «base block size limit» to two megabytes by November — an incompatible protocol change that could split the Bitcoin network in two.And it did not take much to recognize how unpopular the proposal was in Paris.

When this occurs, the inherently self - surpassing quality of the feelings of subjectivity, which may either overreach themselves in an expansive quality that knows no bounds or else become blocked by retrogressive and discordant tendencies, instead forms the basis for the religious mode of experience «at the width where the «self» has been lost, and interest has been transferred to coordinations wider than personality» (AI 368).

Of course, it is possible to reply that the alleged stumbling block occurs every day according to Christian teaching, because what here in the case of the first human being is felt to be contrary to the fundamental conceptions of metaphysics and the methodological basis of natural science, happens continually at the origin of every individual human soul, at the genesis of every single human being, for such souls equally with those of the first human beings, are created by God directly out of nothing.

These were by no means the only places where Greek philosophy, based on the ontology of ousia, blocked the more natural expression of biblical ideas, but they should suffice to indicate the problem.

He still retains a tiny slice of the 17 per cent block of shares still owned by minority shareholders who are mainly Melbourne - based, but O'Hoy missed the cut and thrust of the fast - moving consumer goods industry even though he has a busy portfolio of other roles including as a director of the Melbourne Stars Big Bash cricket team.

Follow Your Heart's Vegan Gourmet is soy - based and comes in cheddar, mozzarella, Monterey Jack, and nacho - style blocks; for recipes that call for grated cheese, the grating is Do - It - Yourself, and you can do so in a food processor or by hand.

While ganache is setting, create chocolate shards by using a vegetable peeler on the flat base of a block of chocolate.

Against teams like Texas, Alabama has been able to stuff it by giving its defensive linemen and inside linebackers responsibility for extra gaps based on the offense's blocking schemes.

Building a family, the basic building block of humanity, no matter how common, is a momentous challenge taken on by two people that has every basis for bringing them together.

BLOCK Fest ® is a research - based exhibit that helps raise awareness of early math and science learning by offering hands - on block play experiences to families with young children.

The USDA based the new standards on the report released in October 2009 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM): School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children.

Amino acid - based skincare line AminoGenesis has found the way to perfect holiday skin by taking the body's most basic building blocks, amino acids, and rendering them acceptable to the skin's outer layer.

SYDNEY, June 6 (Reuters)- Australia's competition regulator has blocked an attempted takeover of Rafferty's Garden, an organic baby food supplier, by U.S. - based food giant H.J. Heinz Co on concerns that the deal would have reduced competition significantly.

This class is based on the highly effective approach to babies pioneered by Dr. Harvey Karp in his best - selling book and DVD, «The Happiest Baby on the Block».

Evidence - based decision - making has never been important to a lord chancellor who would rather go with his political gut instincts, but now he is letting political paranoia block the means of challenging poor decisions made by Grayling and his colleagues.

«According to the Ambassador, she built the school block as a birthday gift to the Member of Parliament for the area, Hanna Tetteh,» a news item by an Accra - based Citi FM read.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

Activists contended Park Strategies, which was being paid $ 10,000 per month by an Ohio - based loose - tobacco supplier, blocked the bill.

Construction of a 134 - room Aloft Hotel by Fayetteville - based COR Development Co. is rolling along at the Syracuse Inner Harbor a few blocks south of the mall.

Democratic State Senate candidate Justin Wagner vowed if elected he would block any legislation authorizing any transfer of municipal land for the construction of a proposed natural gas pipeline, a pledge he contended could not be promised by Republican opponent Terrence Murphy based on his voting record in Yorktown.

Paterson said he was motivated to write his letter after reading about the proposals introduced today by members of the Senate and Assembly that would block the governor's controversial 90 - day email purge policy and establish an up to seven - year retention policy based on the system already in place in the federal government.

The aide also rebuffed suggestions by constitutional law experts that the Senate can not block Blagojevich's appointment of Burris on the basis that «anyone appointed by Gov. Blagojevich can not be an effective representative of the people of Illinois,» as the top five Democrats in the Senate asserted Tuesday in a statement.

Woerner said he and other town officials were reluctant to give the rumors too much credence, in part because of a successful lawsuit by a former Town ofUlstercop who claimed that his promotion was blocked based on similarly unsubstantiated allegations of domestic violence.

«Her understanding of Queens» neighborhoods is extensive and comprehensive, from both the holistic, macro-policy level to a block - by - block community - basis.

A federal judge temporarily blocked a White House policy barring military service by transgender troops, ruling that it was based on «disapproval of transgender people generally.»

He was blocked by the country's most senior civil servant, partly on the basis that it was just months before a general election.

The SureSeq mix increases the success and accuracy of hybridization - based NGS for FFPE samples by repairing damage such as nicks and gaps, oxidized bases, blocked 3» ends, and deamination of cytosine to uracil.

So far the blocks have been used to build a variety of living 3D shapes that have never before been created on a cell - by - cell basis, such as tubes and solid spheres.

By blocking the expression of a certain gene in patients, University of Montreal researchers have contributed to the demonstration of great decreases in the concentration of triglycerides in their blood, even in various severe forms of hypertriglyceridemia and regardless of the base values or the treatment the patient usually receives.