Sentences with phrase «came at a demanding»

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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.

The rupiah's heightened volatility risks also come at a time when many companies usually pay their offshore debts and transfer dividends abroad, pushing dollar demand higher, he said.

Economic growth is translating into oil demand growth and comes at a time that OPEC and Russia lead production cuts aimed at tightening the market.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

Move comes at a time when the food giant is battling sluggish demand as consumers shift to brands that are perceived as healthier.

Maha Ibrahim, general partner at global VC firm Canaan Partners, which focuses on technology and healthcare, expects on - demand startups to add more premium, white - glove services in the coming months.

A lot has obviously changed, but at the end of the day it comes back to the fact that consumer demand is evolving faster than ever before.

Yet much of the fastest job creation in the gig economy is coming at the highly skilled, highly paid end of the marketplace, where physicians, lawyers, programmers, and other professionals sell their services on new marketplaces like UpCounsel, Doctor on Demand, and Upwork.

So at some point, as that supply comes off, that supply - demand balance becomes a little bit more natural.»

But in their place, Asian investors hoping for inbound demand came in,» said Maki Shinozaki, an analyst at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities.

This occurred after shock - price implosions in 1986 when Brent fell to $ 9 per barrel (Riyadh deliberately flooded the market), in 1998 when Brent crashed to $ 10 (OPEC failed to see the Asian crisis coming and increased quotas as demand was falling); and in 2008 at $ 36 (amid the Great Recession).

«At this point, we're selling everything that we make,» he said, although he added that he expects supply will catch up with demand in coming weeks.

I mean, if demand doesn't grow, and industry cost cuts are 20 %, and we don't have a war with Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia doesn't change its oil policy, and Libya maybe comes back online, and Nigeria doesn't blow up — yeah, we'll probably be at $ 50.

«While inventories remain at high levels, which is bearish, inventory levels have begun to fall year on year for the first time since 2014, indicating that supply and demand are finally beginning to come into balance,» he told CNBC via email.

Kirby's decision comes at a particularly challenging time for United Airlines as the carrier grapples to reassure shareholders and appease employees amid lagging financial performance compared with rivals» and demands for better wages and benefits.

But startups, says Steven Swartz, a partner at McKinsey and a supply chain expert, are now realizing that building a better one can provide a competitive edge, particularly among consumers demanding to know where their stuff comes from.

This is coming at a time when shareholders are demanding financial discipline and a better return on investment from shale drillers, another development that Papa believes will hold back production growth.

In developed markets the new demand is coming from the same sort of young, adventurous consumers who are packing whiskey bars in the U.S. «The taste profile of bourbon, which is sweeter because of the mash bill, has been really interesting to consumers in other countries,» says Chris Bauder, the general manager for whiskeys at Beam Inc..

It's a demanding ethos that sometimes comes at a cost: Nordstrom has faced at least one class - action suit for allegedly pressuring salespeople not to charge their hourly wage for some customer - service - related work.

«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

But in the last two days gold prices came off because of a stronger dollar and we saw good demand,» said Brian Lan, managing director at dealer GoldSilver Central in Singapore.

«The influence of these groups comes not from money,» the Florida Republican said at CNN's town hall «Stand Up: The Students of Stoneman Douglas Demand Action» on Wednesday night in Sunrise, Florida.

That mushrooming supply is coming at a time of contracting demand.

In its earning statement Monday, the video - on - demand company reported that second - quarter revenue came in at $ 2.79 billion versus $ 2.76 billion expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate.

Core Final Demand (less food and energy) also came in at 0.3 % MoM, up from the previous month and is up 2.7 % YoY NSA.

Today's release of the March Producer Price Index (PPI) for Final Demand came in at 0.3 % month - over-month seasonally adjusted, up from last month's 0.2 %.

As foreign exporters are rudely awakened the dream of an American demand, when will the point come at which Europe and Asia seek to build up their own domestic consumer markets as an alternative?

This came at a time when housing demand was rising.

With managed decline rates of roughly 4 % — 5 % in the existing oil wells and declining industry investment, we think it's inevitable that oil supply and demand will come back into balance at some point in the future.

Some investors argue that massive share - price increases in 2014 mean that even future successes won't produce strong returns for shareholders buying in at today's prices, but the demand among top pharmaceutical companies for promising drug candidates to add to their pipelines shows few signs of slowing anytime soon, and that could bode well for the sector in the coming year.

The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator — aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.

At La Loutre, the company has found a potential source of that hard - to - come - by flake graphite that the lithium - ion battery market demands.

With lower demand for shorter - term securities, their yields actually go up, giving rise to an inverted yield curve when yields on longer - term securities have come down at the same time.

«At the start of 2018, it is still too early to determine the overall effect of the new tax legislation on housing, and we will need to see whether positive impacts on both housing demand and supply materialize in the coming months.»

The main impetus to this increase has come from China's demand for resources, with resource exports having grown at an average annual rate of 15 per cent over the past decade (Graph B2).

Treasury Board is demanding that paid sick leave be drastically cut and accrued credits be liquidated, and adding a new unpaid waiting period before a short - term disability plan comes into effect, to be managed by a private insurance company at considerable cost.

This comes at a time when supply is constrained by limited spare capacity, and speculative demand has been boosted by research reports suggesting that the price of oil could move significantly higher.

We're hoping in coming months or years, company will allow Indians to sell bitcoin because at current scenarios, bitcoin demand is significantly increasing in India.

«Over the last 12 months there has been a softening [of prices], but that seems to have bottomed out at this point, the increasing steel making utilisation that has been evident in China in this last period has seen some support come back in the market and obviously the growing demand for battery anode material is providing new growth in that market.»

Amid the storm, the bank listed shares of Santander Mexico, with demand coming in at five times the supply, making it the world's third - largest deal of its kind in 2012.

This comes at a time when demand is on the rise.

Furthermore, given that the global gold demand - supply balance indicates the existence of a small market surplus of less than 200 tonnes at present, the introduction of Islamic investors could dramatically tighten the market, resulting in a hugely bullish outcome for gold prices during the coming years.

Carl Bexelius, Deputy Legal Director at the Swedish Migration Agency, told SVT: «It is a reasonable demand that the asylum applicant should show some knowledge of the Bible - this should come naturally, and isn't something you need to study.»

Also, as an employer myself I would likely fire anyone who came to work, clocked in and then demanded I stand quietly by as they loudly prayed at me.

These teachings were not the program of a twentieth century liberal to bring in the Kingdom of God; rather, they were the absolute demand of the Kingdom itself which Jesus believed would come at any moment.

He comes to see that to care about justice for a whole city or a whole nation means that one must be willing to overlook, at least to some extent, both the natural preferences for one's own kin and the demand for absolutely strict justice for each individual.

While I'm not inclined to ascribe motive in this case and prefer to give Ham the benefit of the doubt that he holds his position because his conscience demands it, I think these folks bring up a good point about how we can become so heavily invested in a certain ideology that change comes at enormous cost.

Many professors at Wesley and other seminaries speak in local churches regularly, but can not fill the demand for solid teaching that comes just from the churches within driving distance.

At the same time, justice demands that society should come to terms with, and affirm, that person's homosexuality.

At each of the child's growth stages, the demands on parents change; with these changes come new opportunities for and strains on marital intimacy.