Sentences with phrase «breaks years ago»

It feels amazing to go from playing Halo 3 multiplayer matches during lunch breaks years ago, to being a part of the audio design team for the brand new Halo multiplayer mode Dominion.

I like my reliable PRS - 650 very much, but resent that my hugely - overpriced cover with the built - in lamp had cheap plastic prongs which broke a year ago, so it no longer holds the Reader.

The mysterious Chinese - backed Silicon Valley auto startup that made its break a year ago disappointing the world at the last CES.

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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.

Add to that, the cost of health insurance premiums growing at four times inflation and workers changing employers far more often than they did 60 years ago, and you have a system that's going to break.

Penned by journalist Michael Wolff, also famous for writing a scathing biography about media baron Rupert Murdoch several years ago, Fire and Fury took off like, well, wildfire as soon as word of its imminent publishing broke just a few weeks ago.

Two years ago, the same ratings found that Canadian vinyl record sales had broken the two million mark for the first time since 1991.

Five years ago, Cook was taking an engineering class in Virginia Tech's Norris Hall when gunfire broke out in an adjacent room.

That was up from 501,000 in the same quarter a year ago but down from the record - breaking 2.1 million in the fourth quarter.

Two years ago, its founders, Woolverton and Douglas Bouton, were broke and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

That's essentially the same amount of support that was needed to pass the original Twitter Tax Break four years ago.

The burrito chain's misfortunes have been well documented since the first health scare broke nearly a year ago.

On a trip many years ago to Asia, my frames broke right down the middle.

Thirteen years ago as a broke college student, Trevor Chapman took a job selling pest control door - to - door to make extra money.

Total spending for Thanksgiving weekend rose 13 percent to $ 59.1 billion from a year ago, according to the National Retail Federation, which does not break out the data by business size.

The break down of the talks came as a surprise, especially as it was announced by the resurgent FDP, Merkel's preferred coalition partners who had dropped out of parliament four years ago and had ruled with her conservatives 2009 - 2013.

Beginning almost a year ago, when the news of Enron's accounting irregularities first broke, Morrison spoke to her Houston contacts almost weekly — even though the contract didn't expire until February 2002.

Upon hearing about this concept years ago in one of my workshops, a student approached me at a break and realized in trying to sell software to a heating oil distributor, he had lost a software sale to a delivery truck!

Sixteen years ago the show actually predicted a Trump presidency, albeit that then - fictional presidency ended with the country going broke and Lisa taking over as the country's first female president.

While the feds made an effort to curb corporate tax breaks a few years ago, they actually ended up making it easier for multinationals to pay less tax by doing business in offshore jurisdictions.

Since I began writing on Inc. a year and a half ago, I've really enjoyed sharing my opinion on some of the biggest stories to break in business.

I got divorced 8 years ago, then had a break - up after that, so the idea of clearing my energy made a lot of sense to me.

It is on track to make about $ 100 million in earnings before interest and tax this year, having been break even when CHAMP acquired it seven years ago.

«I've never seen a company go broke if they have monies in the bank,» Mr. Stronach said Wednesday in the homily he offers annually at shareholder meetings of the auto parts giant he founded more than 50 years ago.

«My sister took me to my first class during Thanksgiving break - over six years ago.

The city approved a payroll tax break for biotechnology companies seven years ago, and Ms. Matz said it had helped attract dozens of biotech start - ups.

Less than 20 years ago, provinces restricted trade among themselves so severely that one of the main reasons then - Premier Zhu Rongji pushed for China's entry into the World Trade Organization was to use WTO rules to break down intra-provincial trade barriers.

More than 40 years ago, Ameritrade broke through the status quo on Wall Street and offered discounted brokerage services to the everyday investor.

A few years ago an economic case could have been made to break ground on a major new pipeline project from the oil sands, but that time has now come and gone.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

mathematics for options trading and insurance were the people who set up the long - term capital management that went bust ten years ago and almost broke down the market.

If you had to «break the news» to your wife that a $ 6k investment you made four years ago (and forgotten about) had grown into $ 1.8 million, sure, she might be pissed for a few minutes — but I'm sure she'd quickly forgive you for making such a smart move while you had the chance.

If we think back ten to fifteen years ago, it was very common to think that mid-level managers to senior executives probably would privately break down and cry if the administrative assistant called in sick.

Breaking the results down further, revenue from FICC trading came in at $ 4.55 billion, compared to $ 4.22 reported during the same quarter a year ago.

Some one gave me a Wilkinson sword many years ago and it finally must have been dropped too many times because the guards started to break.

On this site, we talked about the lunacy of the IPO market in China and about all the superlatives and record - breaking which I felt were eerily reminiscent of our own dot com boom and bust 9 years ago.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

Break fees were banned in the UK seven years ago because they were blamed for deterring additional offers as targets were more likely to focus on reaching a deal with first bidders.

Libya: Since the news broke two weeks ago that Gen. Khalifa Hifter had been airlifted to France for emergency treatment, Libya's rumor mill has gone into overdrive amid news reports that the general, a 75 - year - old strongman who controls most of eastern Libya, was seriously ill, incapacitated or even dead.

When I was a new stock trader many years ago, one of the most psychologically challenging aspects of swing trading was continually maintaining the discipline and patience to wait for stocks and ETFs to actually break out above their technical resistance levels before buying them.

It breaks down to living expenses on 1 check and debt on other with a little bit left over for my 401k, which has about 15k or so in it after the hit i took from being laid off and losing the unvested employer match in the middle of our economic implosion a couple years ago.

Smith added, «I am incredibly proud to be part of a group of journalists who helped build the FOX news division from scratch 22 years ago and extremely thankful for the opportunity to continue to lead our breaking news coverage for years to come.

Many years ago, I heard someone speaking about how Jesus» life and death absorbed the «shock» of sin and death within creation and how we as His body have been called to a similar mission — the verses which speak of us «carrying in our selves» the marks that we belong to Him, sharing in some small way in His sufferings as we share in His life — it's all part of a realm where the sweet savor of the fragrance of Him is allowed to be evidenced in this broken world.

Exactly 100 years ago a revival broke out in Wales — central to this move of the Holy Spirit was a controversial young preacher, Evan Roberts.

Check out this link to find out about marriage to young girls claim.Very very interesting to know.I hope everyone has the patience to study history and reality of life centuries ago worldwide.This video also gives you references to online history books about facts it says.Simply, the average age of marriage was very young worldwide including church approved age of consent to marry.What Mohamed did, was very common back in the days and just to let you know, that girl was engaged to another man and then the engagement was broken due to his disbelief which tells you that that was common back in the days.Also, the age of 6 mentioned was age of engagement not age of marriage.marriage happened a few years later.

The bow (the weapon used some 3,000 years ago) he breaks apart and does cut the spear into pieces; The wagons (used in warfare) he burns in the fire.»

Religion News Service broke the news on Wednesday, noting that Johnson Cook was the first woman and first African American to hold the position created 15 years ago by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).

To take just one example, five hundred years ago, during the Reformation, there was a debate over just how broken human nature truly is.

I was in the Somali capital two years ago and every night, just before the call to prayer signaled the breaking of the fast, we'd hear a cacophony of mortar rounds and gunfights.

Just about a year ago the Orange County Police Department broke up the largest human trafficking / forced prostitution ring in the history of this region.