Sentences with phrase «by leading in the first»

So by leading in the first leg, 2nd leg considerable easier for the Spanish team though it was hosted at Parc Des Princes.

Not exact matches

Now, both the SPD and the Christian Democrats — both parties in the country's ruling coalition — will be lead by women for the first time (the other woman is, of course, Chancellor Angela Merkel).

In recent months, there has been a huge push to attract non-crypto-nerds to the space for the first time — led by companies that didn't traditionally deal with cryptocurrencies.

The forum, it's worth pointing out, is viewed by many to embody the very ideals that led to the populist uprising, including the surprise victory of Donald J. Trump in the U.S. presidential election in November; it brings together the global elite, or those who are typically first to reap the benefits of wealth creation.

Like most VC firms, its goal is to make smart bets and earn strong returns — but that's exactly why 40 % of the portfolio companies in Aspect's first fund were led by women.

Blackledge had a decorated college career with the Nittany Lions, highlighted by leading Penn State to its first national title in 1982 and winning the Davey O'Brien award as college football's best quarterback.

Last summer the company raised $ 4 million in an early funding round led by First Round Capital and RRE Ventures.

She took her concept to venture capitalists and secured a total of $ 10.4 million in two funding rounds — the first, in 2013, led by Kirsten Green's Forerunner Ventures; the second, last year, led by Thrive Capital and including Bonobos founder Andy Dunn.

French food group Danone kept its guidance for a further rise in profits and sales this year after first quarter underlying sales growth beat market expectations, led by strong demand for baby formula products in China.

By examining your evolution, you can reconnect with the big ideas, products and campaigns that lead to your success in the first place.

Less heralded by history was a group of six women who worked in wartime secrecy at the University of Pennsylvania, where John Mauchly and Presper Eckert led a team that was building ENIAC, the world's first programmable, all - electronic, general - purpose computer.

The first company on the list, Avella Specialty Pharmacy, led by CEO Rebecca Shanahan, grew by $ 469 million during the last three years, to about $ 800 million in sales.

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

In the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importeIn the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importein abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importein citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importer.

In my role as advisor to small businesses, I often hear first - hand the challenges and failures of retail store owners who fear the advantages of online and feel the exodus to Internet eCommerce, led by Amazon and Ebay.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

In a similar fashion, the 36th (Ulster) Division went «over the top» on the first day of the great Somme offensive, July 1, 1916, led by a football kicked out by a lead battalion, only to be mowed down, counting among the 57,000 British troops who fell dead or wounded that terrible day.

The U.S. delegation was led by Ivanka Trump, presidential daughter and adviser, who on the first evening addressed the 1,500 people assembled at the convention center in Hyderabad.

In that first year, it was very much leading by example — demonstrating authenticity and demonstrating equality.

The first chart shows what the Hang Seng looked like in the immediate and long term after the Tiananmen Square protests, from a note shared by a Credit Suisse research team led by Andrew Garthwaite last year.

In 2016, Apple led the pack and was the first company to switch its gun emoji to a squirt gun, which has since been replicated by the other big tech players.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to the FBI, the first Trump White House official to make a guilty plea so far in a wide - ranging investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.

A reform committee led by Xi called on the Foreign Ministry to «forge a politically resolute, professionally exquisite, strictly disciplined foreign affairs corps,» and in October, Xi appointed China's top diplomat to the country's powerful Politburo, making him the first former Foreign Ministry official in 20 years to reach that level.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats, frustrated by what they see as GOP inaction and with an eye on midterm elections, on Tuesday held the first of what they hope to be several interviews with witnesses who have not been interrogated in the Republican - led Russia investigations.

Even though he'll be 40 by the time the 2017 season starts, Brady is still the most terrifying matchup in the league, capable of leading his offense to insurmountable leads in the first quarter and coming back against any odds with ruthless precision and an uncanny ability to compel his receivers into miracle catches.

LONDON — Revenue at trading platform Plus500 jumped 284 % in the first quarter of the year, led by a surge in cryptocurrency trading, the company said on Tuesday.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder led the investigation, which was prompted by allegations former Uber engineer Susan Fowler first published online in February.

Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Reeves's 1996 meeting with an Arizona inventor quickly led to the development of the Connection Tent, a two - room tent connected by a tunnel, which accounted for more than $ 5 million in sales in its first year.

As the kinds of graphics chips that were first popular with video gamers have turned out to be among the best - suited for AI programming, too, Nvidia is in the lead, chased by Intel (intc), Advanced Micro Devices, and a host of others.

This year's Physics Nobel Prize goes to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish for their efforts that helped lead to the first measurement of gravitational waves in 2015 by the LIGO team.

Sales dived by 9 % in first quarter of its financial year, largely due to one big problem: A crackdown on corruption in China, which has led to plummeting sales in China for luxury brands and premium spirit makers.

«The last time Apple was in the leading position was in the fourth quarter of 2014, when its sales were driven by its first ever large - screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus,» said Gartner research director Anshul Gupta in a statement.

By 1999, his first full year with sales help, Rosen led his team to $ 5 million in sales.

After all, despite being led by respected corporate lawyer Purdy Crawford, the market restructuring committee in question was put together to find a solution acceptable to institutional investors and the financial community, including the power brokers who built the ABCP house of cards in the first place.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

Selling the site is expected to add $ 550 million to the company's cash reserves and the first quarter results showed revenue increasing in three of Bombardier's four businesses, led by a 21 percent rise in its rail unit.

And after two years of bootstrapping, it's cash - flow positive, thanks in part to investors like John Stix, who started out as one of the company's first clients and has since become an investor (Plasticity raised $ 2.1 million in a financing round led by the venture arm of Stix's company in 2014).

Just as importantly, his work on the distribution of electricity led to the world's first power plant in New York City (though his technology choice, direct current (DC), was eventually surpassed by the alternating current approach (AC) championed by rival inventor, Nikola Tesla).

As the country prepares to be led for the first time in almost 60 years by someone not named Castro, a tectonic shift that could profoundly affect how it is governed, cold war rhetoric has again filled the air.

That sale led to another and then another, to the point that, by the end of the company's first year in operation, 100 dealers were using its platform.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

For the first time in 23 years, JPMorgan leads US banks in total deposits, according to data released this week by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp..

A decision by Foxconn to give Sharp the lead would come as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prepares to travel to the United States to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, who in his inauguration speech vowed to put «America first.»

A 200 MW expansion, led by a Saudi contractor and using solar panels made by U.S. - based First Solar Inc., is already underway and set to be completed in 2017.

WikiLeaks, led by Julian Assange, said its publication of the documents on the hacking tools was the first in a series of releases drawing from a data set that includes several hundred million lines of code and includes the CIA's «entire hacking capacity.»

The company is debuting with $ 6.25 million in new funding from Benchmark Capital, led by Uber and early OpenTable investor Bill Gurley, as revealed first to Fortune.

HP, the leading PC maker, saw its U.S. shipments drop by 23 percent in the first quarter, according to IDC.

WordStream has picked up $ 4 million in a first round of financing led by Sigma Partners; the investment also comes with a new president and CEO, Rob Adler.