Sentences with phrase «by blocking at»

Consistency is the key to success, so start today by blocking at least one source of unproductive information and feed your mind for 30 minutes with a book, audiobook or article (like this one).

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MILAN, April 23 - A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

«In this masterful study of urban warfare, DiMarco explains what it takes to seize and hold a city literally block by block and provides lessons for today's tacticians that they neglect at their own peril.»

Instead of yelling at the guy who cut you off or getting stuck in a blocked - in parking spot, General Motors China says it has a solution: It's called DiDi Plate, and it lets Android users text any car owner by scanning their license plate with their phone's camera and sending it to a cloud ID service.

Or look at Lego, which nearly went bankrupt trying to build high - tech toys; it refocused on its basic blocks and is now the world's largest toy maker by revenue.

Recently, the fate of CNOOC's bid for beleaguered Calgary oilsands producer Nexen became even more uncertain after the federal government blocked a $ 6 - billion takeover of Progress Energy Resources Corp. by Malaysia's Petronas at the eleventh hour.

Blocked from buying Potash Corp. by Canadian government decree in 2010, the company has instead sunk billions into developing its own Saskatchewan site at the Jansen Mine, which, if fully operational, could become the largest potash - producing site in the world.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

A similar campaign attributed to Vietnamese officials at least temporarily blocked content by government critics, activists said.

The winner, who receives newly - minted Bitcoin as their reward, wins the race by providing the answer to a mathematical problem that is deliberately designed to use up a lot of computing power, in order to maintain stability in the speed at which these blocks are «found.»

So he made his own pair by attaching a piece of UV - blocking window film bought at a hardware store to a piece of transparency paper.

Its attempt to buy U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International was blocked at the start of this year by U.S. officials on national security grounds, a blow to Jack Ma who had promised President Donald Trump that he would create 1 million U.S. jobs.

Commentary by Debbie Sterling, the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, a company that makes building - block - like toys aimed at girls.

At one time blocked by the FDA, 23 & Me is now a smash hit with both consumers and pharma companies.

As numerous foreign citizens were detained at airports around the globe, triggering spontaneous protests, part of Trump's executive order was temporarily blocked by a federal judge in New York.

Georgiana, an aesthetician at the Bright European Skin Care Salon and Spa, which is located in the middle of the block, told me her earnings are down by 50 percent since the barricades went up.

A new study by professors at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management strongly suggests that it's important in any creative endeavor to fight through blocks or fatigue.

But the lawsuit is also in line with ongoing efforts by legacy telecoms to block competition, including lobbying at the state level to prevent cities from building their own broadband networks.

Last November, Hudson's Bay announced plans to usher Saks into Canada by replacing The Bay at Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto, just blocks from the chic Yorkville district.

The couple allege that their once private cul - de-sac has been taken over, at times, by Pokémon Go players who have blocked driveways with vehicles and trespassed on lawns.

MILAN, April 23 (Reuters)- A judge ruled in favor of an appeal by Telecom Italia (TIM) and its leading investor Vivendi to block a vote on some board director replacements proposed by activist fund Elliott at an April 24 shareholders meeting, a court document showed.

Safari isn't a big player: Since only ads in Safari are blocked by default, UBS says, it's worth looking at the browser's market share, which is relatively small — just 22 % of web traffic globally comes via Apple's browser.

Another huge poster «appeared» on Broadway, right by Times Square in New York City, stating «Russia won the White House for you, Donald Trump,» taken from a statement on Twitter from writer Rebecca Buckwalter - Poza, who was blocked by the president after she tweeted a message at him.

Benefit, owned by luxury - goods conglomerate LVMH, has at least one person ready to block inappropriate comments during each stream, said Claudia Allwood, director of U.S. digital marketing.

A separate experiment involving the willingness to sign up for a flu clinic found that people with lower levels of emotional intelligence can also block unrelated emotions from influencing their decisions about risk, simply by making them aware that their anxiety was not related to the decisions at hand.

At this point, more than $ 1.5 billion in venture capital has gone to support blockchain startups, and many have business models that would be affected by how the block - size problem is solved.

Grab some of your team members for a walk around the block, punctuated by a stop at an ice cream shop.

Prior to trading in the secondary market, shares of the fund are «created» at NAV by market makers, large investors and institutions only in block - size Creation Units.

According to one person present at the summit, China's insistence on a reference that the European Union will eventually recognize China as an economy driven by the market, not the state, blocked the final 60 - point statement.

On a press call, Eric Goldberg, senior counsel at CFPB, said the agency did not choose to block individual forced arbitration because not enough information had been collected, but that it would be monitoring requests by companies to arbitrate.

Prior to trading in the secondary market, shares of the Fund are «created» at NAV by market makers, large investors and institutions only in block - size Creation Units of typically, 25,000 to 200,000 shares or multiples thereof.

Prior to trading in the secondary market, units of the ETF are «created» at NAV by designated brokers, large investors and institutions only in block - size Creation Units of typically, 25,000 to 200,000 units or multiples thereof.

Orphaned blocks can occur naturally when two miners produce blocks at the same time, or they can be caused by an attacker, with enough hashing power, attempting to reverse transactions.

As I wrote back in August, recent studies conducted by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Information Technology and Information Foundation (ITIF) have demonstrated convincingly that blocking offshore pirate websites works in terms of changing consumer behaviour (i.e. directing consumers away from infringing content to sources of legitimate content) while at the same time not interfering with normal internet operations.

In addition to a large block of sleeping rooms at the newly renovated Marriott Marquis, we also have rooms reserved at the Hilton Atlanta and the Hyatt Regency Atlanta hotels, which are located on either side of the Marriott, and connected by walkways.

Facebook has grown substantially at 770 Broadway, a landmark cast - iron building that was once a department store, on an entire block bounded by Eighth and Ninth Streets, between Broadway and Lafayette Street.

We're not shocked... By that I mean, you can go into San Francisco and you can buy a burger at McDonald's for a buck and you can go then a couple blocks down and buy a burger for $ 27.

The system is called the Open Block Open Registry Platform (all brop), developed by the China Banknote Blockchain Technology Research Institute, was officially launched at the summit financial technologies in Hangzhou, reports Securities Times.

He appeared to drop many of these ideas after facing political blowback, or at the behest of staffers, though some of his signature initiatives, such as the first travel ban, have been blocked by courts as unconstitutional.

The idea behind this algorithm is to adjust the difficulty by looking at how fast the current block was found relative to the median of a number of pre-established preceding blocks.

Since the company's initial public offering in 2013, Voya has reduced the number of variable annuity policies with living benefits in its closed block by 35 percent to 199,000 policies at the end of the first quarter.

Alison Flores, principal tax research analyst at the Tax Institute at H&R Block, said some taxpayers will want to adjust the amount of money that's being withheld by their employers by updating their W - 4 forms.

New blocks will only be added to the blockchain if their hash is at least as challenging as a difficulty value expected by the network's consensus protocol.

House Republicans on Tuesday decisively blocked a move by Democrats to debate a ban on assault weapons in Florida, six days after a massacre that took 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Authored by Craig Murray, At the very beginning of the of the Skripal incident, the security services blocked by D (SMA) notice any media mention of Pablo Miller...

On the Ethereum blockchain timing of block production is determined by proof of work so block production can occur at random times.

They emerged as the industry consolidators, using high levels of gearing to pay mind boggling prices for assets (in 2007, APN was the target of a bid by a private equity consortium that was blocked by a shareholder vote at $ 6.20 per share, a decision which cost them a lot.

All Ethereum addresses must hold a balance over at least 0.1 ETH as of block 5099720 and rank among the top community members as measured by «Points» (signups + telegram growth) of DAX.

But judging by the line down the block — curving next to the brand - new Apple store — for its 9 a.m. opening, and the crowds filtering through the aisles, it's at least intriguing to the neighborhood.

Christianity, particularly that flagrantly practiced and grossly over-preached by evangelists, is also anti-science and is therefore putting our young people and our future workforce at a disadvantage relative to competing nations that now have better science education without religious bias and without the ancient supersti - tions that block modern understanding and technological and medical progress.