Sentences with phrase «early figure of»

With regard to the Christian community in the mountains near Arbel, Voobus says that the earliest Christian mission here was of Jewish Christian provenance and the earliest figures of primitive Christianity in this mountainous area, «however dimly they appear, were Christian Jews who held close to the areas where there were Jewish communities.»

They have to have rules for interacting, one set of rules setting out how each species responds to the rules in each other species: that's six sets of at least four rules, or (6 4) = 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 / 2 — oops, my earlier figure of 360 was incorrect, surprising no one caught that slip — or 180 rules of climate; that complex set of unexamined and unknown rules practically makes the Stadium Wave impossible to sustain as a model.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The company began moving production abroad in the early 1990s, around the same time that brutal conditions in overseas sweatshops started making headlines (Levi's figured in some of them, due to a scandal in Saipan).

While Nintendo hasn't released its sales figures, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils - Aime told The New York Times earlier this month that in its first two days of availability, the console registered higher sales than any previous Nintendo console.

Canada's tech ecosystem is in rare form, with companies regularly raising nine - figure amounts from investors, and lots of young firms overcoming early challenges to rapidly grow revenue and head count.

Early on, I found myself trying to figure out how to use Mario's prime skill — lots of different jumps — to solve this - or - that puzzle.

«$ 5tn in five years is a stunning and unprecedented figure,» said Ellen Dorsey, at the philanthropic Wallace Global Fund, one of the earliest backers of the fossil fuel divestment movement.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most revered figures of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle and a key backer of the divestment campaign that helped end the system, was an early backer of fossil fuel divestment and said in 2014: «People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.»

The streaming service still has plenty of time to figure it out, and Jones» appearance in «The Defenders» next year could offer up some early clues as to where the show heads next.

But after she went to bed, Snyder figured it out: «I woke up in the middle of the night thinking what that error was... I came in, made a special trip on the early train that morning to look at a certain wire.»

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

This, of course, is a better figure than five years earlier, though it remains very small.

Early on, I struggled with the typical «identity crisis» of sorts trying to figure out if I needed to «appear larger» to win significant business.

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

But underlying weakness in the department store's sales figures — a symptom that's already reared its head in early releases from competitors J.C. Penney and Kohl's — signaled that despite predictions of a consumer rebound this Christmas, things still aren't easy for department stores.

I think age and experience (I just turned 30 this year) mellow you out but it would have been great if I could have figured some of these things a bit earlier.

The company said Friday it earned net income of $ 15 million or six cents per share in the last three months of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by asset sales.

After his early customers weren't paying their invoices, the founder of pizza app Slice began the long process of figuring out what (and how) people were willing to pay.

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When Vancouver civil engineer James Dean started his greentech company, dPoint Technologies, in the early 2000s, he figured he could hitch his wagon to the promise of the hydrogen fuel cell sector.

Earlier this week, May reportedly won the backing of her fractious party to raise her offer on the divorce settlement to around 40 billion pounds, although the Prime Minister's office hasn't confirmed any figures.

It said a surge of strong numbers in late 2017 was followed by softer figures early this year, suggesting «some pulling forward of demand ahead of new mortgage guidelines and other policy measures.»

Polish inflation figures which often predict trends in the rest of the region, showed a pick - up in the annual rate to 1.6 percent in April from 1.3 percent a month earlier, largely in line with expectations.

Stephanie Miller (@StephMillerShow), host of the Stephanie Miller Show, was another public figure to increase the traffic of this post early on.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.

An earlier version had an incorrect figure for the total value of mergers and acquisitions in Canada so far in 2013.

I tend to be an optimist, and early on, before we figured out our hiring and cultural philosophy, we dealt with a lot of flaky people and who dropped the ball.

The earliest known use of geolocation dates back to the Greeks who used a triangulation of stars to figure out where they were.

Economic impact figures for earlier tournaments have been hotly disputed, given the difficulty of separating the World Cup from other economic factors.

A couple of things: early sales figures for BlackBerry 10, and a renewed sense of urgency at the company.

In the early days of Late Night With David Letterman, the host and his then - girlfriend Merrill Markoe would sit through meetings with NBC executives, trying to figure out what sort of sketches they could run in their new 12:30 a.m. slot.

Moran has refocused the company's funding to target earlier - stage start - ups and get in at the ground level of young companies that might still be trying to figure out their business paths but are generating innovating technology in the process.

Since he had bid the street 98.75 earlier, he figures the client has probably seen a lot of 98.75 and 98.5 bids and wasn't going to hit his 98.5 bid «on the wire».

Figuring out a revenue model early on is important for the longevity of an mHealth app or service, particularly given the ballooning costs associated with developing this content.

The figure was up 15 percent from a year earlier, compared to growth of 18 percent in the previous quarter.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

Jeff Taylor, CEO of DEVISE, sold a seven - figure fitness website earlier this year, and he was kind enough to share how he was able to make it happen.

Earlier this year, one of our employees mentioned that while we give folks a lot of autonomy, we don't provide direct access to capital for cross-functional projects when we are figuring out budgets for the upcoming year.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

In the early days of BuzzFeed, I had several VCs say they were interested in investing if we could figure out a way to fire all the editors and still run the site.

Many traders tend to sell a stock just before it hits the stop because they figure that the stop will get hit anyway, so it's better to save a bit of money by getting out early.

The bank is said to be in the early stages of setup, which means hiring and figuring out the logistics, including how the bank will hold the assets and keep them secure.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

While these figures are undoubtedly good news for the private sector battered by high unemployment and anemic growth, it's far too early to celebrate, says Russell Investments» chief economist Mike Dueker, who adds that recent unemployment figures are in part the result of people no longer looking for work.

VZ Wireless added 2.0 million retail postpaid net subscribers during the final stanza of 2014, bringing Verizon's total number of retail connections to 108.2 million, up 5.3 % from the year - earlier figure.

News of his support came during a time when very few figures in Silicon Valley were publicly showing support for candidate Trump, the most notable being Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook who started the VC firm Founders Fund, which backed Oculus, as well.

Showing that March 2017 volume was > $ 100 billion, 120 % higher than a year earlier and equivalent to 31 % of the USD IRS Compression figure of > $ 320 billion.

It's still early in the term for many of its equity offerings (which rely on a sale or refinance for a large portion of the return distributions), so management expects this aggregate figure to increase substantially over the next year.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.