Sentences with phrase «brought to its knees years»

Chad, I don't want to discourage you from reading on cosmology, but you must on some level suspect that something is amiss since cosmology wasn't brought to its knees years ago by BGV.

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But with the past year of corporate scandals bringing billion - dollar companies to their knees, most business owners are realizing that not having a handle on the company's financial inner workings can lead to disastrous consequences for companies both big and small.

Over the next 20 to 30 years, the world will suffer a pandemic with the potential «to bring humanity to its knees,» epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, M.D., told CNN in April.

Little more than two years since it was brought to its knees by the oil price collapse, Santos has emerged as an unlikely sought - after prize to form the basis for a new global LNG powerhouse.

Which is why I think we should be worried about the Sky Sports report that explains that the 23 - year old has been brought back to his parent club for medical treatment on the knee injury that looks likely to finish his season.

I don't wish to be a merchant of doom, but another 2 years will bring this club to lts knees.

And undersecond - year coach Greg Ryan, the fresh faces are making large contributions.Goalkeeper Hope Solo, 24, has started 17 of the last 20 games, though she facesa battle now that veteran Briana Scurry has returned after taking a year off.Tina Frimpong, 24, brings unprecedented speed to the U.S. center back position.In the defensive midfield Leslie Osborne, 23, is filling in for 29 - year - oldShannon Boxx, perhaps the U.S.'s most influential player, who'll miss the nextsix to eight months after blowing out her right knee.

The 23 - year - old was expected to return to the Eredivisie in the summer, but a knee injury ensured a halt was brought to that move as he remained in London instead as his injury woes continue to haunt him.

The sixth - year signal caller has been taking a knee during the national anthem in order to bring attention to inequality and racial bias in the United States.

The sixth - year signal caller has been taking a knee during the national anthem in order to bring attention...

He will miss the next month with a knee injury, with Tim Sherwood opting to adopt a cautious approach in bringing the defender back into the side after being absent for so long last year.

she brings me to tears and my knees at 4 years old.

After years of misgovernment, the economy in Zimbabwe was brought to its knees and development indicators fell dramatically.

He said, «For the first time after several years, somebody in the name of Mr Ibrahim Magu is fighting corruption and bringing corrupt people to their knees, recovering funds.

«Mr. Coughlin not only sounds like a spokesperson for the very people whose corruption and mismanagement allowed Boko Haram to bring Nigeria to its knees — and whose disastrous legacy President Buhari has spent the last one year redeeming Nigeria from — he is also guilty of failing to observe the most basic rules of responsible journalism.

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

«Wall Street Harry Wilson is in favor of preserving the federal tax loophole that lets hedge fund managers pay less on their taxes than the rest of the state, wants to turn over the pension fund to the same Wall Street bankers that almost brought our economy to its knees, is against President Obama's Wall Street reform bill AND wants to enforce a $ 2,500 tax hike on households outside of New York City in his first year if he was elected.»

Twelve years of shameful neglect by New Labour ministers have brought Royal Mail to its knees.

You've brought up a very good point... I read somewhere years ago that the sweet spot for dress / skirt lengths for petite people is from just above the knee as you've mentioned, to just below the knee.

Last year I wore booties non-stop, but I think this year I'm going to bring back some of my over the knee boots.

But, convenient to the story (yet never satisfactorily explained), the once - proud chief has been mellowed by cancer and seven years in an Army prison, and now, he's fit to serve as the exception who challenges Blocker's stereotypes — «the good Indian» whose company will bring Blocker and his band of racist cavalry officers around (as if there's any sacrifice that can absolve them of the part they played in the battle of Wounded Knee).

In Year of the Hyenas, Brad Geagley takes this event — a struggle that nearly brought ancient Egypt to its knees — as the backdrop for a story that is every bit as captivating as the distant civilization it resurrects.

In that respect the engine appears less optimised than DICE's Battlefield 4 and the previously far less demanding Call of Duty games, with Infinity Wards's liberal use of tessellation perhaps being responsible for bringing the hardware to its knees while it pushes a substantial amount of advanced shader effects on screen at the same time - an issue that also plagued Crysis 2 a few years ago after Crytek released a patch taking advantage of DirectX 11 upgrades throughout the game.

They could bring Sony to its knees, the company is basically dying with another huge loss coming this year and the portable half of PlayStation, the Vita is basically dead looking at the sales reports.

We are in the year 1912 and Booker DeWitt, who was part of the «Wounded Knee» massacre and is also a former Pinkerton agent, has been given a chance «to wipe away his debt» by bringing «the girl» from Columbia to New York.

I will hold my hands up now and say I'm using a 8700k @ 4.9 ghz, a gtx1080ti and 16gb of dominator platinum ram, its about as high end a gaming machine as you can get and a game like this should not actually require this hardware but as I say 4 is not a fair and reflective score of the game, come on dude a i5 6400 is a 3 year old 4 core no hyperthreading cpu now, I bet big budget open world games like AC Origins and watch dogs 2 bring it to its knees also, the recommended specs id say have been very conservative aswell, an i5 3570 is not a weak cpu and id say its actually very close to a 6400 but both are on the weak side for games like this especially at 1080p.

It is also likely that not very many in the Rose Garden that day could imagine that severe drought would soon paralyze Texas and Oklahoma several years in a row, that massive floods would take hundreds of lives and destroy billions of dollars of property, that glaciers would recede, coral reefs would bleach and die off, or that extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy would bring New York City and much of New Jersey to its knees.

I mean the Bush Gang took an economy that was booming pre-2000 and found a way to bring it to its knees in eight short (okay looong) years.

And last year, Katherine and Margaret brought the Internet to its knees when they posted the results of their 31 days sans shampoo.

I didn't know attachment disorder even existed until a few years ago — when it finally brought me to my knees.

As is often typical, to wit: the NFLD CREA decision in recent years that brought the industry to its knees, has anyone thought through the full potential burden they are buying into, before final reading in Ontario, at Queens Park?