Sentences with phrase «described as a series»

«Alphabet has come back into the race after what can only be described as a series of lost races where it was hung on guidance,» the «Mad Money» host said.

The LPSY is most notably described as a series of peaks and valleys on a fairly narrow spread as the bulls and bears exchange positions.

This authority structure is typically described as a series of «coverings» or «protections» but unfortunately, the effect is often the opposite, as abused women and children find they have no recourse or power, as every decision in their lives must be made by a series of men, many of whom are more invested in protecting the reputation of the ministry than the people in it.

On February 18th he suffered what he described as a series of epileptic seizures.

What transpires from there can only be described as a series of attempts to keep upping the ante on gross - outs, one liners, animal gags, and slapstick that doesn't add up to any kind of elaborate comedy.

While I was one of the lucky ones who waited patiently in line to see the first Star Wars on opening day in 1977, I can only be described as a series fan rather than a Star Wars geek.

Publishing a successful personal growth book is easy once you have planned your way to a system or process that is easy to communicate, easy to remember, yet capable of being described as a series of steps, or tasks.

Described as a series of «speculative projects for game art students,» Finals Fantasy has gathered together a small group of notable artists, educators, and critics to challenge and expand how game design is taught.

For example, the spectrum could be described as a series of sharp lines which overlap at the bottom.

Choate vignettes, described as a series of reality - TV style clips with attorneys discussing the firm's culture and work.

This entails not listing any dates for work - related activities, but describing them as a series of work functions, such as sales, management, customer relations, and so on.

by Diane Neumann Marriages are very difficult to end and everyone goes through a period of emotional transition, which can be described as a series of stages.

Not exact matches

Dynamics has since inked deals to create and produce an original unscripted show with Zac Efron for MTV; a comedy show, Wild»n on Tour, with Nick Cannon for MTV2; a scripted show for Animal Planet, starring Anthony Anderson, which Volk - Weiss describes as «The Daily Show for animal lovers»; a comedy special featuring Kevin Hart; and a scripted series for Seeso.

More good news for Canada's tech sector: Toronto - based Wattpad, often described as the YouTube of eBooks, announced this morning that it has raised $ 46 million in Series C funding.

From a 5,100 - square - foot mansion in Laguna Beach described by one local real estate journalist as «utterly over the top,» Cotroneo registered a series of debt - settlement companies.

She described compiling a list of round objects — from watermelons to beach balls to basketballs — to paint on her pregnant belly for a series of novelty photos to present to her husband as a gift.

Donald Trump's latest series of tweets, which allege the Obama administration «had my «wires tapped» in Trump Tower just before the victory,» have been widely described as baseless.

He grew up with a mother who has been described as an abusive alcoholic and a pill user — plus a series of stepfathers and father figures.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would like to thank Russian President Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 diplomats from Russia, the latest in a series of comments that seem to go easy on a country that is described by many as an adversary.

Prior to this offering, we will complete a series of transactions pursuant to which our business will be reorganized into a holding partnership structure as described under «Organizational Structure.»

on a pro forma basis, giving effect to (i) the automatic conversion of all of our outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock other than Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class B common stock and the conversion of Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class C common stock in connection with our initial public offering, (ii) stock - based compensation expense of approximately $ 1.1 billion associated with outstanding RSUs subject to a performance condition for which the service - based vesting condition was satisfied as of December 31, 2016 and which we will recognize on the effectiveness of our registration statement in connection with a qualifying initial public offering, as further described in Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus, (iii) the increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities and an equivalent decrease in additional paid - in capital of $ 187.2 million in connection with the withholding tax obligations, based on $ 16.33 per share, which is the fair value of our common stock as of December 31, 2016, as we intend to issue shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock on a net basis to satisfy the associated withholding tax obligations, (iv) the net issuance of 7.6 million shares of Class A common stock and 5.5 million shares of Class B common stock that will vest and be issued from the settlement of such RSUs, (v) the issuance of the CEO award, as described below, and (vi) the filing and effectiveness of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which will be in effect on the completion of this offering.

The pro forma consolidated balance sheet data gives effect to (i) the automatic conversion of all of our outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock other than Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class B common stock and the conversion of Series FP preferred stock into shares of Class C common stock in connection with our initial public offering, (ii) stock - based compensation expense of approximately $ 1.1 billion associated with outstanding RSUs subject to a performance condition for which the service - based vesting condition was satisfied as of December 31, 2016 and which we will recognize on the effectiveness of our registration statement in connection with this offering, as further described in Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus, (iii) the increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities and an equivalent decrease in additional paid - in capital of $ 187.2 million in connection with the withholding tax obligations, based on $ 16.33 per share, which is the fair value of our common stock as of December 31, 2016, as we intend to issue shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock on a net basis to satisfy the associated withholding tax obligations, (iv) the net issuance of 7.6 million shares of Class A common stock and 5.5 million shares of Class B common stock that will vest and be issued from the settlement of such RSUs, (v) the issuance of the CEO award, as described below, and (vi) the filing and effectiveness of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation which will be in effect on the completion of this offering.

H.L.: How do you describe the U.S. fiscal policy, if it's even possible to characterize it as a unified policy instead of just a series of results of political conflict?

In a series of moves that White House press secretary Sean Spicer described as an «energy revolution,» Mr. Trump invited TransCanada to submit a new application for the $ 8 - billion (U.S.) Keystone XL project that was rejected by the Obama administration in 2015, as well as giving his blessing to the Dakota Access pipeline that has attracted vehement opposition in North Dakota.

Joel Greenblatt has a series of recommendations that he describes as «a helpful list of things NOT to do!

Glossier, the nearly four - year - old, direct - to - consumer beauty company, has landed $ 52 million in Series C funding in what it describes as a heavily oversubscribed round.

The book is a series of case studies that describes how a small number of CEOs have used cash generative businesses as platforms to drive massive returns for shareholders by directing excess cash opportunistically between large stock buybacks, special dividends and acquisitions of other businesses.

Conducting buyer persona research — the real thing as described above and throughout this series of articles — takes a sufficient amount of time.

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I have seen many innocent women vindicated, despite an incomplete police report, when judges followed the paper trail around a series of events that are as obvious as the ones you describe.

The series comes to a dramatic end with a fictional letter, written as though from St Petersburg, in which Chesterton's alter ego, «Guy Crawford», describes himself as joining a rebellious mob in which he recognises an obviously Jewish student called Emmanuel, and as springing to his defence, sword in hand, as the Czarist troops attack: but Emmanuel sustains a fatal blow and dies in the street, «a champion of justice, like thousands who have fallen for it in the dark records of this dark land».

In the second of a series of articles, which consider the challenges of change, culture and new technology, Gerard Kelly clicks on what he describes as... More

The New Testament describes worshipping God a little differently, as is to be expected in a series of books based around Jesus» purpose to fulfill the law (Matthew 5:17) in a way that reinterpreted it for everyone.

According to The Independent, Redmayne is the Harry Potter author and Beasts screenwriter's choice to play Newt Scamander in a new franchise — based on a fictional Hogwarts textbook — that is described as «neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.»

IMF Director Christine Lagarde's withdrawal as Smith College's commencement speaker is the latest in a series of high - profile commencement follies aptly described by Harvard's Ruth Wisse as «The Closing of the Collegiate Mind.»

From the creation of the world before time to the consummation of all things at the end of time, the Bible describes the life of man with God as a series of events which taken together constitute the history of the work of redemption.

At one point in the series, she describes the attendance of these events as profoundly spiritual, even worship - like experiences.

In the series, Scher describes her creative process as starting from a point of breaking down her own self - awareness and allowing subconscious to take hold.

In his introduction to his sermon series, he describes in irresponsibly certain terms Esther's entrance into the harem as deliberate «sexual sin,» her situation comparable to a woman who auditions for «The Bachelor.»

One can ask that question standing on the edge of Yosemite Valley, as naturalist John Muir did, or standing in awe on the rim of the Grand Canyon and reaching out for the hand of someone next to you as you look at — as the first episode of my series The National Parks describes it — «the scripture of nature.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Described elsewhere in this series, the method is particularly effective as a consciousness raising technique — for making the «unconscious contract» conscious or intentional.

McKnight describes it as «the ongoing reworking of the biblical Story by new authors so they can speak the old story in new ways for their day... The Bible contains an ongoing series of midrashes, or interpretive telling, of the one Story God wants us to know and hear... None of the wiki - stories is final; none of them is comprehensive; none of them is absolute; none of them is exhaustive.»

A serial nexus might be described as a «motion picture» film, in which a rapid series of individual occasions of experience project movement.

If Egypt is intended, then we must regard the statement as hyperbole, a figure of speech used to climax the series of words describing Israel's remarkable increase in numbers.

One way of describing it is as a long series of renaissances.

The title of the first volume, The Sunday Philosophy Club, published in the United States in the fall of 2004, was initially the title of the series as well, and the front cover of the dust jacket described it as «An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery.»

Seager can't do a thing to move him over, though, as McCullers exploits what Joe Buck describes as a hole Seager has had in his swing this series, and strikes out.

The oddities and ironies that were so characteristic of this Series began to assert themselves in the third game, at Ebbets Field before a riotous crowd described by Red Smith, then a columnist for the Philadephia Record, as «curious creatures that are indigenous to Flatbush.»

Three years ago he was named vice-president and treasurer of the National Educational Television and Radio Center, which he describes as «not a series of classroom presentations but a growing cultural force.»