Sentences with phrase «earlier promises by»

These loot crates were introduced while the game was still in Early Access, despite earlier promises by the game's creator that microtransactions would not be added to the game before it had fully launched.
Phones and tablets running Android «Lollipop» will not have device encryption switched on by default, despite an earlier promise by the software maker.

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The participatory promise of the early web has been poisoned by trolling and misinformation, and businesses are starting to push back
By allowing angels and VCs to invest small amounts of money in many companies at a very early stage, accelerators give investors the right, but not the obligation, to make additional investments in the most promising ventures.
What does this deal mean in the scope of a massive behemoth like Nike, which earlier this year promised to reach $ 50 billion in sales by 2020?
By the early 1970s, Horváth was one of Sweden's most promising young business educators.
Earlier this year, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich announced his commitment to space exploration with a rather unexpected proclamation: «By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American,» he promised.
Shocked by its early elimination, state political leaders begged Tesla to reconsider, promising to come up with a sweet offer and expedite the dreaded environmental reviews.
Graffiti, hidden chambers, and computer readouts give the player an early warning that the reward promised by a helpful artificial intelligence isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Among other early obstacles for Congress are a legislative replacement for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the multiple healthcare - stabilization bills promised by Senate leadership during the tax negotiations.
In October 2014, Rometty told investors it would not achieve its years - long promise to hit $ 20 earnings per share by 2015, and early this year revealed her roadmap: a plan to spend $ 4 billion to grow $ 40 billion in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 2018.
By then, Mr. Gurley, who had been one of Mr. Kalanick's earliest supporters, saw that Uber's promises of change were not enough if the chief executive stayed on.
Earlier this month, the B.C. Liberal government took flak for failing in its promise to create 5,000 new long - term care beds by 2006.
As an entrepreneur Khoshbin is always looking for opportunities, venturing off into other businesses as a seed - stage investor committed to identifying, financing and developing early - stage growth businesses led by promising entrepreneurs.
The Startup Fund aims to correct this market deficiency by providing early - stage funding so that promising companies can get started and move towards more traditional financing.
Premier Pauline Marois» government, which backed away from an earlier prediction to balance the books by this year, now promises to guide the struggling province out of the red by 2015 - 16.
As noted in these pages last month, he's already shown that he's cut from a different cloth by not uttering the usual soothing words during the early February correction (unlike his European equivalent who quickly promised to whip up more fake money to bolster stock prices).
SAP announced a new generation of its ERP — a SaaS model running on database Hana that promises to eliminate 40 percent of SAP IT load by removing satellite systems - early this year.
Second, the FOMC has already retreated significantly from its earlier hawkishness; the median dot - plot projection was 1.25 % -1.5 % in December, and officials were promising four hikes by the end of the year.
With the Alberta twist on LOL — lower for longer oil prices — the government has cancelled its earlier promise of a balanced budget by 2020.
Twice a year, C100 invites approximately 20 of the most promising early - stage Canadian startups as nominated by our Partners and Charter Members for 48 Hrs of workshops, mentorship, investor meetings, and networking in the Valley.
Wright notes that «Israel was thus constituted, from one point of view, as the people who heard God's word — in call, promise, liberation, guidance, judgment, forgiveness, further judgment, renewed liberation, and renewed promise... This is what I mean by denying that scripture can be reduced to the notion of the «record of a revelation,» in the sense of a mere writing down of earlier, and assumedly prior, «religious experience.»
The issue now is how the present act of self - determination should be affected by promises made or sins committed in earlier acts.
Thus it is tempting, especially in the light of revelation by which we view the cosmos with the eyes of faith as well as science, to hold that the material dimension of our cosmos was shaped by the promise of life, consciousness, and faith from the time of its earliest formation.
John does, after all, preaching that the old way is dead, and the promised Messiah is coming who will usher in a new era of peace for the entire world, and that those who want to participate in this new era must show it by going through the waters of baptism, much as the followers of Ea would have done 3000 years earlier.
The early results have been mixed but show real promise — and without the same kind of existential threats posed by enhancing embryos.
A trust in God's promise leads away from earlier styles of human existence defined simply by the seasons.
24 - 26), surely reaching back in its present form to a time not far removed from the Mosaic era itself, Moses» brush with death - by illness or by accident - is recounted; and it is the verdict of the earliest strand of the record that Moses» serious condition was the occasion for the performance of the rite of circumcision as the outward sign of commitment to the Lord's promise and purpose so that commitment was sealed, as it were, in blood.
The earliest expressions of Christian faith lay much stress on the point that Jesus was the Messiah, the king promised by the prophets.
In the history of Israel, as we saw earlier, the ultimate mystery of the universe is grasped primarily by way of the narration of historical events that promise future fulfillment.
In an article which appeared as early as December in The Los Angeles Times, he began by complaining — a little prematurely, it might be thought — that «for some who were most enthusiastic eight months ago about the choice of Joseph Ratzinger as pope, this Christmas season has continued a period of waiting — some becoming a bit impatient — for Benedict XVI to fulfil more of the promise of his election.»
Indeed, even major products hailed as «pacesetters» by IRI because they do well in their first year on the shelf often fail to live up to their early promise, with sales fizzling out after two or three years, while the real success stories tend to tap into new consumer trends early and nearly always start small, building momentum gradually.
The idea here is that, in an effort to fight the Sunday Blues, you convince your friends to come to you with the promise of food — and at an early enough time so you can get many long, lazy, tipsy hours of hanging - out in and still be in bed by 10:30 p.m..
Walcott had been a doubt after missing the win over Sunderland at the weekend due to a hamstring strain, and it didn't look too promising early on Monday as he was seen training alone, as reported by @ChrisWheatley on Twitter with the video below.
As a counterpoint, they're surrounded by a batch of players in their early 20s, including rookie guard Michael Dickerson from Arizona, a promising scorer.
Having made promises to the board to finish his transfer business early, you would expect him to get a move on by now.
A switch to McLaren to partner Kimi Raikkonen in 2005 promised fireworks, but an early season injury rather set him back, and by the time he was back on the pace he was too far back.
Their courtship was both skilled (a dinner in the chef's kitchen at Emeril's and a film session in which coach Sean Payton promised to tailor his wide - open offense to Brees's strengths) and clumsy (an accidental tour through the parts of the city left most damaged by Katrina barely six months earlier, devastation from which the Saints had hoped to shield Brees).
Hopping on the endorsement train early and padding his on - field salary as much as possible turned out to be the correct gamble in his case, as his promising MLB start quickly soured and he was out of the league by 2014 after four final seasons with Boston and the Mets in which he started only 34 games combined.
Walcott is aware that his career so far has failed to live up to its great early promise and so with the next few years likely to be the prime of his life, the pacy and prolific forward is determined to make the most of them and prove himself to be up there with the likes of Ronaldo, as revealed in a report by The Mirror.
Having built on his early promise at Pescara by being an important part of PSG's success in recent years with four Ligue 1 titles and countless domestic cups to his name, The Mirror claim that a move to the Premier League could now happen next summer.
Despite Jenkinson's promising campaign at West Ham, the Hammers» high standards from earlier this season haven't been maintained by Sam Allardyce's men.
If the incompetent officials acted on their early season promise to crack down on this, then he would have given away several penalties by now.
Chelsea seem to be on an ever deepening ascent from the moment Di Matteo was removed from his job by Roman Abramovich following a defeat to Juventus in Turin earlier this season and now it seems the Europa League or FA Cup is Chelsea's only realistic chance of silverware following a season that had promised much more.
But a tie with a powder - puff Leeds team would only paper over the cracks and as October arrived, the ability to occasionally cling on to a draw gave way to a portentous run of defeats — boss Steve Smith finally losing his job and being replaced by a big name manager in Malcolm Macdonald, a promising helmsman indeed in an earlier spell at Fulham, previously chronicled in these pages.
Burnley had some promising early moments with Jeff Hendrick's attempt blocked by Martin Olsson after Johann Gudmundsson had travelled unchallenged down the left flank.
This is the wish that I have for all my children — that I can be a bridge during their early years in cultivating a relationship with their birth families (by making the effort to stay in lots of contact, keeping promises, etc.) so that when they are older (is 5 considered older?
The failure to publish was not due to the lack of availability of the statistics: As early as the summer of 2006, MANA was offering the statistics up through the previous year... but only to people vetted by MANA who were willing to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising not to let anyone else see the results.
The movement to medicalize birth was led partly by urban middle - class women associated with the early feminist movement, who thought the freedom from pain promised by anesthesia would be empowering.
The early leader in the state pro-marriage movement, Louisiana set off a national debate in August 1997 by enacting a law that permits «covenant marriages, «26 whereby couples promise to stay married for life and renounce their legal right to a no - fault divorce.
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