Sentences with phrase «by a promise not»

People have accomplished that by exploiting a giant loophole: The size of the tax deduction is based on a claim about how much the land's value is diminished by the promise not to develop it.
Tax returns could reveal whether Trump has gotten a whopper of a tax break by promising not to build luxury houses that he never seemed interested in building to begin with.
Taylor says he convinced him to hand it over free of charge by promising not to take their site down.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Two city councilors filed sworn statements Friday supporting Mayor Stephanie Miner's legal claim that COR Development Co. lied to city officials by promising not to seek tax breaks for the Inner Harbor project.
The government backed down on previous announcements concerning the DNA database today, by promising not to hold innocent people's DNA for longer than six years.

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It didn't take long to realize that given the volume of orders, and the complexity involved in co-ordinating the shipment of components, that the company would not be able to ship by September, as it had promised Kickstarter backers.
While I can't promise you'll get a raise by following the steps above, doing so will undoubtedly put you in a favorable light.
By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.
By the same token, the onus is also on Lunar not to make impossible promises to its employees.
Don't get excited by promises and discussions of big exits.
Roughly 4 out of 5 said low wages could not be justified by a corporation's desire to provide products and services at very low prices, or by their promise to create jobs.
We urge taxpayers to not be duped by high - priced promises
After amusing the crowd by showing off a scribbled notepad and promising not use a teleprompters, Romney soon made it clear why some presidential candidates should definitely use cues.
By promising to increase marginal rates on the very wealthy — essentially by allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reductioBy promising to increase marginal rates on the very wealthy — essentially by allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reductioby allowing some Bush tax cuts to expire — Obama offered a path that, while not perfect, at least heads in the direction of future deficit reduction.
You can't simply buy a good reputation; it's something that you earn by honoring your promises.
And he said Comcast wouldn't sacrifice the profitability of its other businesses to build the wireless unit, promising wireless would be profitable on its own by some measures after reaching only «limited scale.»
If you promise to have the merchandise in the customer's hands by Wednesday, you have no excuse not to have it there.
Apple now offers encryption on its phones that can't be broken even by the company, while Google is promising the same in its next version of Android.
In an apparent effort to court young African - American voters in South Carolina's Pee Dee region, Hillary Clinton staffers promised Jamie Harrison, the state's Democratic Party chairman, that his area would not be overlooked by Clinton.
The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.
Content is the key to earning that right, and LinkedIn wants you sharing as much of your own as possible right inside the network, promising to reward the most well - liked, highest - engaged content by featuring it on its «Pulse» news channels, thus exposing your work to massive audiences you hadn't even dreamed of reaching.
If you can't raise enough money by disposing of your assets to pay everyone off, you can give them what you have and promise to pay them the rest later on.
AT&T does not offer broadband service, much less the gigabit - speed connections promised by Google Fiber, in much of the city.
What is more surprising is that the government was unwilling to take a weak settlement, for example, a promise by AT&T not to engage in such negotiating tactics, a promise which would have been difficult to enforce.
And even those who were entranced by Rob Ford's promise to «stop the gravy train» have to admit that their mayor is not — most emphatically not — a man who shows grace under pressure.
Not even the chance to view a selection of outfits worn by the Queen of Country Pop and the promise of a «live concert simulation» could bring tourists to Timmins, Ont.
He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.
Graffiti, hidden chambers, and computer readouts give the player an early warning that the reward promised by a helpful artificial intelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be.
What do they over promise, which is becoming common, and then specifically for banks it's both I would say regulation, but also how the world is managing interest rates in a way that hasn't really happened since there's an example, by the way, it's World War II.
Italy's borrowing costs have come down in recent months, helped by the promise of European Central Bank support but the election result confirmed fears that it would not produce a government strong enough to implement effective reforms.
Breitbart News, the outlet once led by Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, published a story on Tuesday under the headline, «Broken Promise: Trump «Doesn't Wish to Pursue» Clinton email charges.»
This so - called «360 - degree view» of the customer is the holy grail promised not only by Salesforce but Oracle (orcl), SAP, and Microsoft (msft) and IBM (ibm) to their business customers.
Besides the extremely low production cost, the lab on a chip is also promising because it can be created by technicians in remote areas who don't necessarily have access to expensive lab machinery.
The solutions to marketing dilemmas promised by the all - in - one software of decades past are finally here, but they aren't all - in - one.
In October 2014, Rometty told investors it would not achieve its years - long promise to hit $ 20 earnings per share by 2015, and early this year revealed her roadmap: a plan to spend $ 4 billion to grow $ 40 billion in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 2018.
Friday's result didn't get us all the way there, but it did commit to a «Canada - wide strategy for zero - emission vehicles» by 2018, along with a promise of more charging infrastructure for electric cars.
So my point is if the promise that we buy into is that Bitcoin will become a widely accepted currency in and of itself one day, and that it will account for a huge percent of international transactions, thereby realizing its potential value, we need to also accept that the potential has not yet been realized and right now, in the midst of this euphoria, 90 % of buyers are just trying to get rich quick in dollar terms by trading it.
If share prices rise after the announcement of the program, it suggests that employees believe that the chairman's promise to make good on losses is credible and that the losses will be borne by the chairman and not the company.
By then, Mr. Gurley, who had been one of Mr. Kalanick's earliest supporters, saw that Uber's promises of change were not enough if the chief executive stayed on.
* For employees it is a way to persuade current executives into getting pay raises in a way that hits the bonuses current executives, who are signing their employment contract, less than the bonuses of future executives and shareholders, who will have to pay those raises; hoping that future executives and shareholders will not renege on the promises of deferred compensation by previous ones.
When that happens, the world will be watching, and not just for the promised sustainability — Quay Valley also plans to feature the world's first working Hyperloop, built by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies at an estimated cost of $ 100 million to $ 150 million.
Despite promising growth prospects in the Permian and other efforts supporting the dividend and the potential for share buybacks, a widening valuation multiple at Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) is not justifiable, according to «Further Upside For Chevron Is Unjustified, BMO Analyst Says» by Shanthi Rexaline.
We find these results highly promising, however we have not fully vetted the results and note that the strongest programs we have considered are backed by multiple studies, while there has only been one rigorous study of the Living Goods program.
But sources said he was not happy with the changes and the slow pace of development of its products that came after more ambitious promises for expansion of the concept by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
A review of the policy and interviews with district leaders make it clear that PROMISE had nothing to do with Cruz's treatment by school officials; in fact, according to Superintendent Robert Runcie, Cruz wasn't even in PROMISE.
In a resignation letter, published Friday night by The Federalist and confirmed by POLITICO, Gorka cited «forces» that do not support President Donald Trump's «MAGA promise» as those that drove him out of the White House.
Also on Wednesday, the company posted the results of the promised independent investigation on its website; it concluded that various allegations against the company were not «borne out by the facts.»
More big - business engagement by multinationals like Coca - Cola (which pledged to invest $ 5 billion in Africa over six years) and Marriott Hotels, as President Barack Obama promised Tuesday in Washington at the U.S. - Africa Leaders Summit, won't directly or immediately help the impoverished and unemployed on the streets of Mogadishu or the marginalized in northern Nigeria.
Even though the premier promised during the build up to her announcement that the jobs plan would provide «specifics,» the premier said» I'm not going to get into playing that game,» when asked by reporters why she did not include specific targets in her plan.
On October 11, 2017, as promised, bitcoin.org listed companies, one - by - one that did not meet the rules which they had laid out.
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