Sentences with phrase «breaking years of»

Stotts tracks this haunting song from its hazy African and spiritual beginnings, through the back - breaking years of slavery, past the shame of the Civil Rights era, to the glorious night Barack Obama won the bid for the American presidency.
The 35 - year - old actress was accompanied by her husband Michael Polish, as well as Mira Sorvino, David Arquette, Rosanna Arquette, Sara Rue, Gloria Allred and Nia Vardalos at the event celebrating 20 ground - breaking years of empowerment, advocacy and leadership to end human trafficking in our community.
He set an aggressive, if less dramatic, agenda for his second year after a first year widely praised as both fiscally conservative and progressive in breaking years of political gridlock to legalize gay marriage.
Even as Airbnb surged in 2015 — the company estimates that its network housed 40 million guests, double the number from 2014, in 34,000 cities — hotels scored a record - breaking year of their own.
It's been a record - breaking year of Formula One.
«Congratulations are due to young people and their teachers on another record breaking year of achievement.
Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.
Brian came by the WellnessFX offices to chat with our CEO Jim Kean about his new book, the common problems with posture and mobility, and how weight training can help break years of bad habits.
One in 12 A-level exams (8 %) has been awarded the new A * grade as pupils scored another record - breaking year of results.
The record - breaking year of 2005 had below - average dust over the Atlantic, very warm sea surface temperatures, and an unprecedented four hurricanes that reached category 5, the highest classification.
This new chapter in the climate regime process was perceived as a clean state to finally break the years of deadlock in the negotiations, to implement the Convention, and to get the US on board.
The spiraling decline in hotel profits since the record - breaking year of 2000 — when pretax operating profits topped out at $ 13,481 per room — has been nothing short of dramatic.

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Before you break into a sweat over the small business requirements in the health - care legislation signed into law last month, take a deep breath: Many of its provisions will take months if not years to go into effect.
-- Although neither side of the deal provided any revenue figures, Axel Springer said the site's revenue is growing at about 50 % per year, and if it hadn't invested in its new vertical Tech Insider it would have already broke even.
In August, riots broke out in the city after the fatal police shooting of 23 - year - old Sylville Smith.
«She lived, as we all have lived, too many years in a culture broken by brutally powerful men,» she said, and her words sparked emotions of anger and, at the same time, the motivation to fight for change.
Something as simple as changing the brand of silverware stocked in your break room or moving your conference line to a free service can pay off big time over the course of a year.
Currently there is $ 134 - billion worth of oilsands projects either under construction or due to break ground within three years.
Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.
After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.
Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said increased costs from the delay means that Bombardier will need to sell more than 800 aircraft to break even, or 12 per cent market share over the next 20 years.
Meanwhile, Zelda Perkins, a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein in the London offices of Miramax, has broken a non-disclosure agreement she says she signed 19 years ago.
Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.
«And since more and more Chinese are taking their long holiday breaks outside of China, I'll be watching out for how busy our Merlion will be over this Chinese New Year period,» he said.
WUHAN, China, April 28 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take an hour - long boat ride with his host Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, the final day of an ice - breaking trip both are hoping will lead to better ties after a year of strains.
The city of Newark meanwhile is also offering a local property tax break that could save the company another $ 1 billion, and is also offering to waive $ 1 billion worth in wage taxes for employees over 20 years.
21 years of record - breaking, system growth can only be accomplished by continuous pursuit of innovation.
Sales of previously occupied homes rose in February to the highest level in nearly three years, while builders broke ground on more houses and apartments.
In November 2008, an election year that swept a barrier - breaking dynamo of the opposite party into the White House and pumped Democratic numbers in the chamber to 59 (and soon after, a filibuster - proof 60), McConnell barely eked out a win.
Though Obama has proposed keeping the loan breaks through the end of the year, it's best not to wait another minute to apply — the deal runs out when the funding does.
Over the next few years, count on some walk - in urgent - care centers to evolve into true standalone emergency rooms and for ambulances to increasingly head there instead of to hospital ERs, particularly in the case of certain types of injuries (such as wounds or broken bones).
If that support level breaks down, a retest of 10 - year's election - night close of 1.85 % wouldn't be too far away.
One of them, Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen born in Kazakhstan, pleaded guilty late last year to charges related to helping Russian intelligence agents break into email accounts as part of a massive 2014 breach.
He also illustrates how in the past year the stock has held a series of lows around the $ 300 level before finally breaking «on heavy volume» down to $ 252 earlier in April.
Mortgage rates, which loosely follow the 10 - year Treasury, hit their highest level since the end of March, breaking out of a tight range where they'd been sitting for weeks.
«If you can help them hit their end - of - quarter or year - end milestones, they have more incentive to give you a break on the price,» says Marien.
Stephanie Oh fought for a few years in her early 20s to break into the music industry in New York City, but last year grew disenchanted with her stagnant career in administration of music - talent management firm.
Breaking with tradition, Melania Trump and 10 - year - old son Barron plan to remain in New York City at least until the end of the school year.
The former «Friends» star and the photographer announced in April that they were taking a «break» after 10 years of marriage in a statement to USA Today.
The actress and the journalist confirmed their split in January after two years of marriage, but a source told People magazine that they had actually been broken up since summer 2016.
Institutional investors have had years to adapt to the presence of HFTs, and there are many smart - order routers on the market that decide how to break up large orders of stock across various markets so that HFTs have a harder time anticipating trades.
The former «Hills» star and the BMX rider broke up in September after less than a year of marriage.
(DHX now produces 22 Minutes, which is in its 21st season; Donovan has previously said he'd like 22 Minutes to break Front Page Challenge's on - air record of 37 years.)
So when she discovered that year two of her rotation would focus mostly on surgery, Holly decided to take a break from medicine and give working for her dad's company a try.
That number assumes that most of the personal income - tax reductions expire in eight years, and a break for expensing capital equipment starts phasing out in 2023.
Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.
With the cap for 60 - year - olds at $ 4,090 per person, a few months of 2018 premiums would give them a bigger tax break — again, assuming they are using the medical expense deduction.
President - elect Donald Trump on Friday spoke with the president of Taiwan — a move that breaks with nearly 40 years of diplomatic tradition, amid reports that the Trump Organization is looking to expand there.
Belarusian Potash Co. supplied about 42 per cent of the world's potash exports before it broke up and sent prices to a four - year low as major buyers like China and India waited to see how far prices would fall.
Halloran offers these examples of brands who are the gold medalists of break time in this year's winter Olympics.
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