Sentences with phrase «calling the shots for»

In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg revealed his ambitious 10 - year plan for the company, calling his shot for a future where artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality and ubiquitous connectivity are...

Money calls the shots for both political parties — over $ 1 billion in the l996 election.

With the departures of Joe Bolden, Desmond Mason and James Ross, Gedeon becomes the leader calling the shots for the Wolverines» defense.

Boston didn't just send Gonzalez and his comparatively team - friendly contract to the Dodgers: The remaining five years of Carl Crawford and his deal went with, as did Josh Beckett and what was left of the extension he had signed a few years before when Theo Epstein still called the shots for the Sox.

Senator Daniel Squadron also took the opportunity to point the finger at Senate Republicans on rent reform, saying the conference of mostly upstate and suburban members shouldn't be calling the shots for an issue centered around residents in New York City.

State Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, who was featured Saturday as a speaker at the United Federation of Teachers annual Spring Conference in Midtown, told the Daily News it only makes sense for the mayor to continue calling the shots for public schools.

Daniel Stiepleman wrote the script for the film, which tracks Ginsburg's career and achievements, with Diary Of A Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller in talks to call the shots for Focus Features.

An eight - speed automatic transmission calls the shots for the BMW 650i xDrive's 4.4 - liter V - 8 engine, which has been turbocharged to produce a generous 445 horsepower and 480 lb - ft of torque.

The folks that have called the shots for a long time see / imagine influence and dollars slipping away so they demonize the new business models.

Maggie — At my publisher, I was told marketing made the decisions / called the shots for covers.

I'll admit I'm the last guy who should be calling the shots for any big corporate entity given my recalcitrant nature, but I can't help but think how different things would be for Barnes and Noble if someone like me was in charge of the Nook brand.

Calling the shots for a specific term of five years before CPP and OAS start is chancy.»

Still, he was enrolled in the Feline Finishing School where he called the shots for the longest time.

You call the shots for the development, the visuals, and most of all, the gameplay.

If you want to call the shots for what level is played, you can create a custom playlist of up to nine levels, though you can not save a particular playlist to come back to it later.

Last week — when I read that its General Counsel Jeffrey Carr was calling the shots for the law function in targeting 50 % savings in Univar's legal spend — I took notice.

So - called presidents come and go on a regular rotating basis whilst the there - forever bureaucrats (the real powers - that - be) remain entrenched, calling the shots for everyone... including the faux president... as this article has revealed.

It was an estate sale with the estate's attorney calling the shots for the sellers.

Not exact matches

But following a string of mass shootings and nationwide calls for gun control in recent weeks, Bumble is setting plans in motion to ban images of firearms for its nearly 30 million users.

When I was a technology entrepreneur doing startups, I kept having the experience that doing things the traditional way — a lot of advanced planning, raising a lot of money upfront, really making sure you call your shot — that didn't really work for me.

As the six - person Paladin crews, which were partaking in an exercise called Bulldog Focus, waited for the go - ahead to test fire, they showed me a dry run of how it loads and shoots.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

What began as a conference devoted to honoring excellence in advertising has morphed into a gaudy business meeting for the technology and sales people who call the shots in the industry.

In the wake of the shooting of two journalists, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, in Roanoke, Virginia, many people on Twitter and Facebook have called for an end to autoplay.

President Donald Trump on Thursday called for action after the horrific school shooting in Florida the day before that left at least 17 people dead and more than a dozen injured.

Nicholas Lardy, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, called the sorghum investigation a «shot across the bow,» and expects more reaction from China when the steel and aluminum actions are unveiled.

Some lawmakers have already called for new regulations and congressional action since the shooting, while others have said there shouldn't be a «knee - jerk» reaction to the violence.

The Memorial Day weekend bloodbath that left a 7 - year - old girl shot and a 33 - year - old man shot in the South Shore neighborhood was a terrifying wake - up call for the city.

For a moment I thought about grabbing a drink, but gave in to responsibilities, like my early live shot and my husband waiting at home for a phone caFor a moment I thought about grabbing a drink, but gave in to responsibilities, like my early live shot and my husband waiting at home for a phone cafor a phone call.

Since the shooting, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has expanded his call for temporarily barring foreign Muslims from entering the U.S., even though the attacker was an American, and insinuated that Obama sympathized with or even supported terrorists.

As a business owner, you're used to calling all the shots, so it can be infuriating when the Internet seems like a vast, uncontrollable forum for customers to heap criticism on your company.

A customer who hasn't received his camera for a photo shoot the next day or hasn't got their concert tickets for tonight's show has to get priority over someone calling about a refund or to change their address.

Governor Nikki Haley called on Monday afternoon for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds in Columbia, saying «it's time to move the flag» in a news conference that came five days after nine people were shot to death at a historic black church in Charleston.

One of Shahid's first tasks was getting Malala's story told in a book, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

FedEx Corp. is maintaining discounts for members of the National Rifle Association, even as calls for a boycott mount on social media after a deadly school shooting in Florida.

ABC was slammed by fans of the show for what they called a «manipulative» unedited shot of the breakup.

An online petition calling for the Vancouver - based outdoor retailer to stop selling Vista Outdoor Inc. - owned brands has garnered more than 20,000 signatures because the company also develops and manufactures firearms similar to the type of rifle used in a recent school shooting.

Given the state of the country, «Far Cry 5» feels like something made for an alternate reality where mass shootings aren't common, where there isn't a raging culture war between so - called Red and Blue states, where there isn't yet another misinformed scapegoating of violent video games unfolding.

NZ is the acronym for a separate operation called Nitro Zeus, which gave the US access into Iran's air defense systems so it could not shoot down planes, its command - and - control systems so communications would go dead, and infrastructure like the power grid, transportation, and financial systems.

Called Baxter, it is a humanoid robot that has the potential to be everything Brooks was shooting for: a breeze to use, capable of handling any number of basic assembly - line jobs, and ridiculously cheap.

Murphy was joined by more than 30 Democratic colleagues on the floor, many of whom angrily told stories of mass shootings in their own states and called for action.

In less than 24 hours, the advocacy group Equality Florida has raised more than $ 2 million for the victims of the Orlando shooting at a gay night club called Pulse that left 50 dead and more than 50 injured over the weekend.

Clinton, a former secretary of state and U.S. senator, decried the spate of shootings, including the most recent murders of police in Baton Rouge, and she called for criminal justice reform.

Called Lily, the gadget walked away with one of show's Best of Innovations awards in Unmanned Systems and Accessories for its «throw - and - shoot,» a technology designed to catch video of you without the need for any controls.

The surprise acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the shooting death of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle set off a firestorm of outrage Thursday night, as top conservatives and critics of so - called «sanctuary cities» pinned blame for Steinle's death on illegal immigration and insufficiently aggressive deportation policies.

Mark V. Eberhard, a lieutenant colonel in the Marine reserves, was raising capital with a partner to start a chain of commercial shooting ranges when he was called up for duty in 2002.

High - profile technology executives have called for increased gun control in the wake of the shooting at YouTube's headquarters that left at least three people injured and the suspect shooter dead.

The 19 - year - old pop star led a $ 1.1 million seed round for the new social network called Shots Of Me, which is scheduled to launch later this week by the founders of RockLive games.

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In response to the shooting, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley called for the Confederate flag that stands on the grounds of the state capitol to be taken down.