Sentences with phrase «by having over»

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Given their home - market bias, many Canadians have likely been surprised by just how little their portfolios have moved over the past couple of years.

Over the past five years, the P / E multiple on the S&P 500 has climbed by 55 %.

But over the past year, the company has endured a series of embarrassments: soft sales, see - through pants and insensitive comments about plus - sized woman by founder Chip Wilson.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

It took being «beaten over the head» with such offers — providing undeniable evidence of «product - market fit» — but by October 2012, she had founded her second company.

For example, if the second quarter GDP is up 3, percent this means that the economy has grown by 3 percent over the first quarter.

The trick here is having control over who's able to post Tweets to the company account as disparaging remarks about customers are most likely to be made by bored, uncommitted hires.

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

He said that part of his administration — over which he officially has no authority after it was taken over by the Spanish national government — will now function from Brussels, the centre of the European Union.

The California - based toy maker on Tuesday confirmed it won the key toy license for the Jurassic World property beginning in the summer of 2017, taking over a business that had previously been owned by rival Hasbro (has).

As Krishen Rangasamy, an economist at National Bank, observed this week, all the hiring in Canada over the past year has been by large businesses, not tiny ones.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A major European dairy cooperative says that currency swings caused by Brexit are among the reasons it has to cut costs by over 400 million euros over the next three years.

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

Using exchange - traded notes, they've made their exposure $ 393 million more bearish on the VIX over the past week, according to data compiled by financial analytics firm S3 Partners.

Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percOver the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percover 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

To resolve that issue, the court had to determine whether (1) virtual currency may be regulated by the CFTC as a commodity and (2) the CEA permits the CFTC to exercise jurisdiction over fraud in connection with commodities that do not directly involve futures or derivative contracts.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California and 16 other states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its plan to scrap Obama - era auto - emissions standards that would require vehicles to get significantly higher gas mileage by 2025..

He thinks it unlikely the influence and power Thiel has accrued over time, becoming «one of those 800 pound gorillas in the room,» will be damaged in a lasting way by the investor's relationship with Trump.

Research by commercial real estate brokerage CBRE shows that in major Canadian markets, the average square footage of office space per worker has fallen from 225 to 170 over the past 10 years.

The price of oil has risen to its highest since late 2014 this month, driven by concern over the potential for disruption to Iranian crude flows, but analysts say the degree of uncertainty hanging over the deal means the market is extremely sensitive to any developments.

And the massive amount of consolidation that's swept over the Canadian media sector in recent years — Bell, Rogers and Shaw have a lock on much of the market — has created openings for a nimble, smaller player that can fill niches in a TV universe overwhelmed by me - too reality shows.

In a rare move for the pro-mining Barnett government, environment minister Albert Jacob has sided with the Environmental Protection Authority and rejected appeals by Canadian company Cameco over its proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine in the Goldfields.

Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.

It's a phrase designed to appeal to the middle class, who have felt cheated by the country's economic policies over the past generation, according to Trudeau.

By now you've probably seen the Tim Hortons ad in question — Sidney Crosby, in a letter C jersey, swings his legs over the bench to start playing what is ostensibly an international hockey game.

Several studies show that when it comes to meetings, women are more likely to be interrupted, talked over, or have their ideas stolen by male colleagues.

By choosing credit over debit, small business owners aren't the only ones who have to pay more; you do too!

The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

If your material situation gives you more resources than being surrounded by armed fighting and lacking an internet connection, you have advantages over him.

Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

OneTok was founded in 2011 by Ben Lilienthal and Jerry Norton, two «Voice over IP» industry leaders, and have raised about $ 1.5 million in seed investment from family and friends.

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

Non-permanent workers such as freelancers have grown from 17 to 36 percent of the U.S. work force over the past 25 years and are expected to comprise 43 percent of the work force by 2020, according to Alex Chriss, vice president and general manager of Self - Employed Solutions at Intuit.

Zika, which is transmitted mainly by mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas over the past year, and is now reported in a neighborhood in Miami.

If you have a high potential employee who is too eager to climb the corporate ladder, for example, you can use the five levels to help them understand how they can gain more autonomy over time by first earning the trust of their manager.

«My family is obviously psychologically and physically shattered by the betrayals and the criminality of what has happened over the past five years,» Boyle told The Star.

Fortescue Metals Group has reported increased iron ore shipments over the December quarter, but the benefits have been offset by costs of expanding and ramping up operations.

The Republican tax bill would add $ 1 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade, according to an analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation.

U.S. officials say a delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has arrived in Beijing for talks on a festering dispute over trade and technology.

Co-founder Ryan Smith says the company has hosted over $ 100 million in sales orders since founding in March 2016; he expects to do $ 500 million in sales orders by the end of this year.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

Southwest has said it planned to complete ultrasonic inspections on all fan blades on the some 700 planes in its fleet with the CFM56 - 7B engines, the model involved in last month's blowout, over the next two weeks, meeting the FAA's August deadline by mid-May.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

The tension mirrors disputes that have arisen over the refusal by Catholic hospitals and universities to offer contraception in their employee health plans and moves by local governments to stop contracting with religiously affiliated adoption agencies that refuse to place children in households headed by same - sex couples.

Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

Over the years, the Burnetts have been investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice, Canada Revenue Agency, the SEC and others, but no improprieties have been found.

-- Daniel Putterman, cofounder, co-CEO, and head of business for Kogniz, Inc. which recently released AICam, fully - autonomous surveillance cameras with artificial intelligence that identify people and threats in real - time, using video - based facial recognition and object detection; also having founded and run venture - backed technology companies over the last 20 years including MaxInfo, Inc. (acquired by NETM), EoExchange (S - 1), Mediabolic, Inc. (acquired by ROVI), and Cloud Engines, Inc..

As we've all seen and heard, the technologies, platforms, and scientific discoveries that have emerged over the past several years — and that continue to emerge by the day and week — are changing life and the way we live.