Sentences with phrase «by major heading»

The film, which won the top prize this year at the Director's Fortnight sidebar, is primarily concerned with the body and brain of Brady (Brady Jandreau) a rising rodeo champ whose career is cut short by a major head injury.

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Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

Reuters pointed out that this would be the first major penalty issued by CFPB since Mick Mulvaney, who also heads the Office of Management and Budget, took over.

Wang Yiming, deputy head of the Development Research Centre of China's State Council, said at the forum that although many belt and road projects were funded by major financial institutions — including the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, New Development Bank, China Development Bank (CDB), the Export - Import Bank of China and the Silk Road Fund — there was still a huge funding gap of up to US$ 500 billion a year.

In an announcement unprecedented by the head of a major conglomerate, the chairman of Viacom, Sumner Redstone, publicly ripped into the star, who at the time was one of the most profitable at Viacom's movie studio, Paramount Pictures.

According to the labour market outlook report for 2015 - 2019 by the Information and Communications Technology Council, Canada is headed for a major talent shortage in tech.

Given the mixed signals generated by the whipsaw price action of September 18 and 20, combined with the price divergence among the major indices, investors and traders understandably may be scratching their heads right now.

The answer is that it has been approved by the FSB, a body which consists of heads of central banks, securities regulators and ministries of finance / treasuries of all the major jurisdictions.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

When Major General Manuel Quevedo became head of Venezuela's oil industry last November, the former housing minister and national guard chief promised to boost oil output by a million barrels Continue Reading

As head of the Visa Corporate Ventures and Strategic Alliances group he led investments in information security, mobile, and payments technology companies — several of which were acquired by major corporations.

Stock losses on Wednesday were driven by the news of United Airlines» plans to go head - to - head with low - cost airliners by selling, and most major airliners fell in tandem.

Disney made it quite clear that it was headed this way last year when it spent $ 1 billion for a third of BAMTech, the streaming service built by Major League Baseball.

In 2016, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, headed by Oil Major Saudi Arabia, made an agreement between its members and a number of non-member countries to cut their oil production and reduce the global glut that had pushed prices so low.

As Saudi Arabia celebrates its first ever emerging - market classification by a major index compiler, history suggests the market may be headed for a retreat.

Heads of the major American banks devised a plan to support the market by buying large chunks of stock, and the market closed down just 6 points.

In May, Beijing took steps to tighten control of local affiliates of major accounting firms by issuing a requirement for Chinese citizens to head those offices.

Eiman Abdel Nasser, Head of Kaumeya Language Schools, said: «Partnering with NBK Capital Partners and receiving EBRD's support is a major stepping stone for KLS, enabling us to advance the mission crafted by our family of empowering and equipping our students to become lifelong learners ``.

This rule will see at least one organization taken down by people who join for no other reason than to make a mockery of the organization if only because you've got enough cause heads at any major university to see it happen.

With his path now clear to the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney is on the verge of becoming the first Mormon to head a major party's presidential ticket, a new milestone in America's embrace of religious groups that were once shunned by society.

Less than a decade ago, during the national debate on ENDA (The federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act), a major beach - head in the gay movement, 68 percent of respondents in a poll of gays and lesbians commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said it was acceptable to exclude their T colleagues from the protections sought in this legislation.

During some of its flourishing periods, the Sufis were counted by the millions all over the Muslim Empire and in some countries their influence was so great that the heads of their orders were the practical rulers, with supreme authority in every major problem concerning the religious or secular institutions.

Nigeria, the most populous black African country, has had a particularly sad history of press repression, particularly under the former military junta headed by Major General Muhammadu Buhari, whose infamous Decree Number 4 against criticism of the government was the pretext for a number of detentions of journalists, some of whom died under mysterious circumstances.

The move by the Canadian backed local cattle company, which now manages 85,000 head of livestock across 600,000 hectares, comes at a time when major transactions have been taking place with billionaire Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Brett Blundy all having bought into the rural land and cattle markets.

Head - cracking jolt finds unsuspecting target in Army's Fertig as he fires ball over head of Mount Washington's Goalie Bo Moore (22) and gets whacked for effort by Defenseman Merrick (26) in season's first major lacrosse game, won by Army 9 - 8 at BaltiHead - cracking jolt finds unsuspecting target in Army's Fertig as he fires ball over head of Mount Washington's Goalie Bo Moore (22) and gets whacked for effort by Defenseman Merrick (26) in season's first major lacrosse game, won by Army 9 - 8 at Baltihead of Mount Washington's Goalie Bo Moore (22) and gets whacked for effort by Defenseman Merrick (26) in season's first major lacrosse game, won by Army 9 - 8 at Baltimore

Headed by current Major League Scout for NY Yankees, former San Francisco Giant's Outfielder and Team USA Silver medalist Jalal Leach and assisted by Jarman Leach current associate scout for Kansas City Royals and a former professional pitcher in the San Diego Padres Organization.

UCLA major assets are Linebacker Mike Ballou, a good group of runners headed by Tailback Greg Jones and a delightful first - half schedule: once by this week's opener against Oregon State the Bruins meet four teams that won a total of five games in» 68.

That wholesale changes are being made by a new head coach at a major program is not unique.

(Head coach Kalani Sitake is reportedly earning up to $ 1.5 million per year, a paltry sum by major programs» standards.)

STRONG POINTS: The most powerful batting attack in the league, headed by last year's major league home - run champion (with 49) Ted Kluszewski.

Here's an ad by Sony, which began airing during college football's opening weekend, in which two superstar college football head coaches and three NFL players who were recent stars at major college programs talk about bringing back greatness.

When completed in 2001, the joint venture headed by NASCAR president Bill France Jr. and Indianapolis Motor Speedway president Tony George will give the Chicago area its second major auto racing track.

1957: No. 4 Minnesota lost five games by multiple scores, but No. 19 USC (x5) finished one touchdown away from 0 - 10, thanks to major recruiting sanctions and a first - time head coach.

Liverpool and West Ham United are involved in a head to head battle to secure the services of Crystal Palace star Yohan Cabaye, according to reports from the Brentwood Gazette Crystal Palace most certainly pulled off a major coup by securing the services of Yohan Cabaye from Paris Saint - Germain during the summer and while the

This whole practice of getting inside opposing players» heads is referred to as «chirping» by Ricciardi, a Finance and Economics major from Mount Vernon, New York and Keough Hall.

This past weekend, the MInnesota State High School League took an unprecedented step of changing the rules mid-season, by stiffening the penalties on three of the most violent and dangerous infractions in hockey: checking from behind, boarding and contact to the head will now result in an automatic five - minute «major» against the offending player resulting in ejection and forcing his team to play short - handed for five minutes, regardless of how many times it is scored upon during the ensuing power play.

Today, far more leaders are appointed through contested elections, not least thanks to the adoption of the Harare Principles by the Commonwealth Heads of Government in 1990 when John Major was prime minister.

Rival agency Hanover Communications is headed up by Charles Lewington, the smooth - talking former Conservative party press chief under John Major.

The restriction order given by the Inspector - General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase is gradually wearing its look as major roads can only boast of few commuters who are perhaps heading to their polling booths.

Late last week, Facebook's Head of News Feed (Adam Mosseri) posted on the Facebook News blog that the company is making a major change to the way it selects content to show people by default (and if you haven't yet heard, read the actual announcement).

Trump's Environmental Protection Agency head, Scott Pruitt, is in hot water for spending much of his first year in Washington, D.C. living in a Capitol Hill townhouse co-owned by the wife of a major energy lobbyist.

... Speaking of early, the first debate gauntlet has been thrown down by Republican Harry Wilson, who today challenged his Democratic target, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, to a head - to - head match - up in every major media market between now and Election Day.

The heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to name their nominees to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner by later this week at the earliest after Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for a Sept. 13 special election to fill the vacant 9th Congressional District seat in Forest Hills.

Then, just as people were heading to vote on April 19, WNYC radio discovered that more than 60,000 Brooklyn Democrats had been removed from the electoral rolls in what turned out to be a major clerical error that has already led to one employee suspension and helped prompt the launch of multiple investigations by government regulators.

Nominees for his seat from the heads of the borough's two major parties are expected to be announced by July 11.

The Board of Elections is currently headed by four commissioners, two from each major political party, which most of the time results in gridlock.

An internal Home Office investigation was carried out into similar claims earlier this year, headed by Mr McNulty, but found no major abuses in the system.

Section of Ghanaians are beginning to question government's assurance to address these age long challenges in the short to medium term after the cedi, which was relatively stable against major currencies the whole of last year; has depreciated by 6 percent in the last two months with dumsor also rearing its ugly head.

One by the Senate Investigation Committee, an entity controlled by Republicans; another by the Public Integrity Commission, which was essentially created by Eliot Spitzer and headed by one of his major campaign contributors.

Key to that effort so far has been a commitment of $ 12,000 and a staff leader to head the preservation effort by Cornell Cooperative Extension Service of Rockland County, headquartered in Thiells; and Rockland County BOCES, which has committed its vocational education home building students to the actual work effort, as part of a new construction major in historic restoration and preservation instead of concentrating solely on new construction techniques, their emphasis for the past half - century.