Sentences with phrase «billing by the moment»

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In a photo recently posted to Instagram, Floyd Mayweather, the boxer, sits on a private jet surrounded by stacks of dollar bills, touting the sale of tokens for a prediction market called Stox — a moment some saw as proof that ICO hype had reached peak zaniness.

(12) When Glass's bill, having made it through the House Banking Committee, was attacked by Bryanite Democrats at the party caucus, Glass stunned and silenced them by brandishing Bryan's letter calling for his supporters «to stand by the president and assist him in securing the passage of this bill at the earliest possible moment» (13).

In retrospect, and in light of the conflicting reports about what may be contained in the final draft of the bill, this has proved prophetic because moments ago, Axios reported that week's 2nd biggest events — after Trump's announcement of Jay Powell as the next Fed chair — the release of the Republican tax bill is being postponed by at least one day, from Wednesday to Thursday.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

Veteran analyst of the press (and former presidential press secretary), Bill Moyers, considering a classic moment of media failure, concluded: «The disgraceful press reaction to Colin Powell's presentation at the United Nations [on February 5, 2003] seems like something out of Monty Python, with one key British report cited by Powell being nothing more than a student's thesis, downloaded from the Web — with the student later threatening to charge U.S. officials with «plagiarism.»»

bill deacon in his ignorance manages to peg reality for only the briefest moment — and quite by accident: «mankind will degenerate into tribes and factions striving for power and subjugating those whom they can for economic or other gains.»

A MOMENT OF TRUTH The biggest moral issue for Catholics in English politics during this year of grace 2008 will surely, in the perspective of history, turn out to have been the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, introduced into Parliament by the Government in November, with the intention that it will become law early in 2009.

Mikel Arteta however, though injuured at the moment might be a player worth testing Bill Kenwright's greed on — again a very experienced PL player — and uncapped by Spain!

Please help us support Congresswoman DeLauro's bill by taking just a moment to call or email your representative and asking him or her to sign on as a cosponsor.

At a moment when Donald Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan are threatening to strip health care from millions of Americans, California is stepping up by moving a universal health care bill — one that would cover undocumented immigrants — through its legislature.

The tactical decision by Andy Burnham to «lend» nominations to Corbyn would probably go down as the moment he lost the Labour leadership for a second time, were it not for his subsequent disastrous decision to flip - flop on the welfare bill.

Sorry to pile on Sen. Bill Stachowski today, but more and more traditional Democratic allies are turning on the Buffalo lawmaker by the moment, it seems.

Closing Rikers Island The debate moment that got the most attention was Stringer declaring that the Rikers Island jail complex should be closed in three years, far short of the ten - year timeline announced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat also favored to win reelection this year.

When the Parliamentary and Voting Constituencies Bill was passed I celebrated the moment, noting that the introduction of fair - sized seats of equal population could boost the number of Tory MPs at the next election by up to twenty.

In the urgent appeal dated 3 December 2015, and signed by SERAP executive director Adetokunbo Mumuni the organisation said, «We are seriously concerned that the National Assembly of Nigeria will any moment from now pass a bill to jail for two years and fine anybody or group of persons who send any alleged false text message or post false message on the social media against another person.»

The tax bill that U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell helped push through this week is considered one of the biggest legislative overhauls in 30 years, so the Kentucky politician celebrated with Trump the way many Kentuckians do at some point — by commemorating the moment with a personalized Louisville Slugger.

That model has been upended in the past few months, as New Yorkers, in something of a post-therapeutic moment, have been braced by jarringly detailed disclosures about the marriages of one Democratic mayoral hopeful (Public Advocate Bill de Blasio) and one likely candidate (former Rep. Anthony Weiner).

He had 10 days to act from the moment the legislation arrived on his desk — sent by the Senate, which passed the bills first and therefore controlled the timeline of when they were sent to the governor.

Milestone moment: Airport security bill sponsored by Rep. John Katko approved by Congress, heads to president's desk

The bill provided a brief moment of cooperation on a night when the General Assembly was riven by divisions over the state budget.

The rules, as loosely explained by the freewheeling patriarch played by Bill Nighy, are that Tim can only visit moments in his own past, though whether he can influence the lives of others is (distressingly) fuzzy.

Character LeFou, played by Josh Gad, is the sidekick to the story's villain Gaston and «is confused about his sexuality», according to director Bill Condon, who also described a brief scene as a «gay moment».

By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith hollywoodnews.com: The 1998 moment when Bill Clinton tells Hillary that the Monica Lewinsky situation is more serious than he's been letting on is brought to wrenching and realistic life by Dennis Quaid and Hope Davis, who play the Clintons in HBO's May 29 «The -LSB-..By Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith hollywoodnews.com: The 1998 moment when Bill Clinton tells Hillary that the Monica Lewinsky situation is more serious than he's been letting on is brought to wrenching and realistic life by Dennis Quaid and Hope Davis, who play the Clintons in HBO's May 29 «The -LSB-..by Dennis Quaid and Hope Davis, who play the Clintons in HBO's May 29 «The -LSB-...]

One of the most memorable moments of 2009's hit horror splatterfest comedy, «Zombieland,» was a surprise cameo by the universally beloved, and in this case, undead, Bill Murray.

Director Bill Pohlad, who produced the more traditional rock biopic The Runaways (2010), avoids biopic cliches by creating movie based on moments and sensations.

Unlikely scenarios (including the central love story) are established just to be rebuked in matinee idol moments (and the scene in which Watson finally dumps cad Bill (Dominic West) is an inexplicable graft from Dying Young), and by the end of Mona Lisa Smile the only thing curious is how the picture manages to cast all men as either philandering jerks or ciphers with dicks, while all subplots (one of them concerning philandering Giselle) are summarily dropped just as they threaten to provide the piece with something like depth and humanity.

I mean, there are good individual moments, and the cast additions continue to be inspired (this time around we get a few scenes of some Bill Nighy awesomeness and great moments from Rhys Ifans; this is legitimately the most well casted movie franchise I can think of by a good margin).

The screenplay by Erin Simms and rookie director Bill Holderman — both longtime Robert Redford collaborators — is loaded with double - entendres while delivering some scattered big laughs and allowing all four actresses some moments in the spotlight.

The visuals conjured by Favreau and the cinematographer Bill Pope are consistently first - rate, from the intense action sequences — a stunning stampede of water buffalo, more than one life - or - death encounter with Shere Khan — to the moments of quieter beauty: a frog wiping a raindrop off its head; a regal simian cityscape; a recently shed snakeskin large enough to sheathe a school bus.

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter: «Favreau and cinematographer Bill Pope vigorously keep the camera moving at all but the quietest moments, and the visual effects team led by Robert Legato and Adam Valdez has both created sumptuous settings that look as lifelike as any CGI ever presented in a studio feature and integrated both humans and animal characters into them in seamless ways.»

This moment segues into a credit sequence set to Paul Hipp's pointedly disenfranchised cover of «America the Beautiful,» which is soon accompanied by images of 100 - dollar bills and banking institutions, the latter of which are framed at contemptuously canted angles that literalize the concept of the United States as a morally dubious land in which money talks and everything but bullshit walks.

Director Bill Condon and screenwriter Josh Singer based their film on a book by Daniel Berg, Assange's former right - hand man who split off at the moment of WikiLeaks» greatest triumph — the mass publication of thousands of American diplomatic cables leaked by Army Pfc. Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning — who was recently in the news being sentenced to prison.

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But it's not all brilliant news for Amazon, either: Nomura estimates that at the moment Amazon is losing $ 10.63 of gross merchandise margin per Kindle Fire sold, calculated by Nomura after analysing the bills of material for the device.

Credit cards enable you to purchase things you don't have the money for at the moment, but will by the time the bill is due — and if you don't have all of the money, you'll have enough to cover the minimum payment.

As a 2007 interim study by the Oklahoma legislature came to a close, Mason took a well - timed moment to say that the USDA requirements as listed in the proposition were not the same as listed on the USDA website, apparently deliberately confusing legislators about what our bill demanded.

It was a bittersweet moment when SB 423 and SB 424, Grant's Bills, were filed yesterday in the Michigan Senate to end gas chamber killings in Michigan shelters and by USDA Class B dealers.

The moment's hesitation, the guilty bobbling in the penumbral cabin that somehow led to the epic slip and fall, your bills with the engraved drawings of pale - skinned ancestors in neither hand, nor wallet, nor money belt, nor held close by underthings; but rather fluttering darkly down toward that septic pool, to land with a splash, and force you now to ask your tribesman whether I know enough French or Swahili or something to explain to the guard that

SOPA is on hold for the moment, brought low by White House opposition to the bill, but its Senate - based cousin, the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act - who comes up with this stuff, anyway?)

While not intended as paintings replacing traditional wedding photography, two portraits by Robert Motherwell seem to fit the bill as images to mark the moment.

Towards the end of the opening of Susanna Heller's exhibition at MagnanMetz Gallery of recent paintings, «Phantom Pain,» as the gallery emptied, I happened to witness a profound moment: Heller's husband, sociologist Bill DiFazio, wheelchair - bound since loosing his left leg three years ago to a terrible illness, rolled his chair up first to gaze deeply and long at a painting by Heller of him sitting in his chair, Lost in Thought.

Later on Bill Moyers asked, «Do you ever have this sense when you are following your bliss, as I have at moments, of being helped by hidden hands?»

At this moment, our national economy is under threat by carbon regulation schemes on three fronts: The Copenhagen conference designed to create a world carbon regulatory authority which could undermine our sovereignty; The cap and trade bill thatâ $ ™ s been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits Senate approval; and the Obama Administrationâ $ ™ s decision that it can regulate carbon dioxide via the EPA even without approval by Congress.

Though overshadowed — for the moment — by the vociferous health care reform proceedings, you can bet that the going will get tough for the Senate energy reform and climate bill in no time.

The 5th September will remain as one of the brightest moments for the Finnish Big Ask campaign when Friends of the Earth Finland / Maan ystävät and other members of the Finnish Big Ask campaign coalition welcomed their MPs back to parliament by publishing the Campaign Climate Bill.

So the moment the House came back from the Senate Chamber, the Prime Minister introduced Bill C - 1, but this time no dummy; this time a bill to end the strike and send the railway workers back to work, and it was put through all its stages, passed by both Houses, and received Royal Assent before either House considered the Speech from the Throne at Bill C - 1, but this time no dummy; this time a bill to end the strike and send the railway workers back to work, and it was put through all its stages, passed by both Houses, and received Royal Assent before either House considered the Speech from the Throne at bill to end the strike and send the railway workers back to work, and it was put through all its stages, passed by both Houses, and received Royal Assent before either House considered the Speech from the Throne at all.

If I thought for one moment that it would do any of these things I would sleep more easily in my bed at night, but regrettably the Bill fails miserably and is yet one more lost opportunity to build a robust criminal justice system not led by the demands of the tabloid press.

Are you trying to be in the top 10 % your class so you can get a high salary job in a prestigious firm trading moments of your life for the grunt - work handed down by someone who doesn't appreciate anything other than your billing totals, or are you using the time to learn how to provide enough value in your own area of interest that you won't ever have to depend on a boss's whims?

There are no hidden surprises, no gotcha moments where customers are blindsided by an unexpected bill, dollar amount or unfamiliar term.