Sentences with phrase «early on staked»

But Grisanti lost in 2014 to Panepinto, a Democrat early on staked out a position of being against the SAFE Act, a sweeping gun control law Cuomo pushed lawmakers into accepting.

Not exact matches

The White House opioid group laid out the dire stakes early on in an interim report released Monday.

Earlier on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman had exited the stake he acquired in the fourth quarter after earning about $ 100 million.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

With an early success on its hands, Econet is staking much of its future growth in Zimbabwe — and other African countries in which it does business including Nigeria, South Africa, and Botswana — on non-voice revenues that come from programs like EcoCash.

This puts the stakes of the dispute on par with other epic early - days battles such as the one between Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Winkelvoss twins.

Earlier on Tuesday, CNBC reported that BlackRock Inc., which has a stake in Dell of more than 3 percent, was likely to vote against the buyout.

BEIJING, April 25 (Reuters)- German car maker Daimler AG's boss said on Wednesday there was no indication the firm's largest shareholder, Chinese auto magnate Li Shufu, was planning a hostile takeover, after he took a $ 9 billion stake in the firm earlier this year.

That means consumers may have more opportunities to snag a good deal, and they may be able to pick whether they want to be a night owl, and stake out retailers opening at midnight on Black Friday; or an early bird, and awake before dawn; or eschew the entire thing, and go shopping in their pajamas from their computer at home.

The stake in line with Thiel's iconoclastic investment philosophy, which has paid off handsomely with huge gains on early investments in companies like Airbnb and Facebook.

Swiss Re said on Wednesday that talks with SoftBank over a minority stake of no more than 10 percent in the reinsurance giant were continuing and «at an early stage».

The IRS told Yahoo earlier this year it would not rule on whether the company could avoid a tax hit when putting its stake in a separate entity, which it planned to name Aabaco.

Posted earlier as an opinion piece for CBC. See original post here (this post slightly modified from original) By Louis - Philippe Rochon Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon Much was at stake earlier this week when finance ministers from G20 countries met in Istanbul to discuss Greece and the state of the world economy in light of recent -LSB-...]

Shares in Fletcher Building have spiked by as much as 15 per cent in early trade on reports Wesfarmers may have taken a small stake.

Earlier in the week, Steve Wynn sold 4.1 million shares of stock on the open market, making good on his previously announced plans to reduce his stake.

Equity - based crowdfunding is on the horizon as the next definitive step for investors hoping to secure a stake in both early - stage ventures and more established companies.

The Web search and media company said earlier this month the IRS had denied its request for a private letter ruling on whether the spinoff of its stake in the Chinese e-commerce giant would be considered tax free.

Whereas Vermes first stakes out a topic and then works his way to particulars by adducing historical considerations, Crossan isolates a cluster of sayings on a topic, considers only the earliest and doubly attested, and then compares the treatment of the theme with Greek as well as Jewish materials in order to develop an interpretation based on anthropological studies of Mediterranean peasants.

Decathlon, in first start as 3 - year - old, slogged through mud into early lead, held on grimly under urging of Jockey Gene Martin to nose out Liberty Sun in $ 23,775 Hibiscus Stakes at Hialeah Park, Fla..

Barrie staked the Avalanche to an early lead in the opening period when he scored his 50th career goal on a wrist shot over the glove of Murray.

On this early Sunday afternoon, along a narrow path of dirt over which Man o» War and Secretariat had once swept in flight to historic victories in the Preakness Stakes, a dainty chestnut filly named So Sly stood frozen in her final autumn light, nervously balancing herself on three legOn this early Sunday afternoon, along a narrow path of dirt over which Man o» War and Secretariat had once swept in flight to historic victories in the Preakness Stakes, a dainty chestnut filly named So Sly stood frozen in her final autumn light, nervously balancing herself on three legon three legs.

Stakes: If Duke has lost to North Carolina earlier on Saturday, a Virginia Tech win would clinch a spot for the Hokies in the ACC title game.

It's too soon to talk about England call - ups but if Byram can replicate the kind of early momentum generated by Cresswell in his first few months at the club, and continue on a similar trajectory, he could eventually come to stake a claim on the right - back slot in Roy Hodgson or his successors» squads.

Earlier Rivera slammed Tavarez himself for staking out similar positions on social issues as Diaz, including opposing same - sex marriage and abortion.

As Gov. Paterson yesterday put a new round of more than $ 300 million in budget cuts on the table, he and legislative leaders played a high - stakes game of chicken over a possible government shutdown early next week.

If Klein, 56, has staked out some different paths on his road to influence in Albany, perhaps his childhood offers some early glimpses.

In early times, small - scale societies frequently relied on natural scavengers to make their discards disappear, but when trash accumulations grew too troublesome even for that convenient symbiosis, the entire community often pulled up stakes and moved.

Early scenes have him staking his claim to the throne in trial by combat, taking on a challenger in a brutal fight that foreshadows battles to come — wars for the soul of his country.

Perhaps it could've raised the stakes a little quicker early on, because the initial start of the film suggests something far more languid.

Very early on in the process of doing last year's crossover, Greg Berlanti said there's probably no way to get bigger than aliens, so the best way to make the next crossover especially epic is if you can't increase the bombast, increase the emotional stakes and the emotional payoffs, so that's a very oblique comment on where our heads are at for this season.

The stakes are definitely highlighted early on.

Sarris was in that first Corliss issue with «Notes on the Auteur Theory in 1970,» an update on his decade - earlier staking - out of the American auteurist territory that had initiated a blazing (un) civil war in the critical fraternity.

Scores on high - stakes tests rose rapidly in states that were early adopters of school accountability, and Texas was no exception.

Last April she called for a moratorium on high - stakes Common Core tests, and she made a call in November with early childhood education expert Nancy Carlsson - Paige for education officials to convene a task force to review the «appropriateness and the implementation of the Common Core standards for young learners... and recommend developmentally appropriate, culturally responsive guidelines for supporting young children's optimal learning.»

Given the potential blowback resulting from the new assessments, state policy leaders should err on the side of caution when using assessment results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools in the early years of new tests.

Dr. Samuel Meisels, director of the University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute, agrees that a school culture focused on high - stakes tests is exactly the type of environment that we should avoid for children who experience toxic stress.

Now, Fariña's curriculum choices carry even higher stakes: Some educators and parents are already unhappy about the transition to the Common Core, and missteps early on could cost the new chancellor dearly.

Although MTAS would like to see a reduction (and elimination in the early years) of standardized testing and time spent on test preparation in CPS, the high - stakes consequences of many standardized tests concern us equally as much.

While the US continues to push early intervention and instruction, more homework for younger children, lack of breaks, and high stakes testing for young students, here are some crucial points on Finland's education system.

Early childhood experts have questioned the competition's emphasis on assessment, fearing it could lead to high - stakes testing of young children, make unfair employment decisions for early educators based on test results, and detract from the importance of play and exploratory learEarly childhood experts have questioned the competition's emphasis on assessment, fearing it could lead to high - stakes testing of young children, make unfair employment decisions for early educators based on test results, and detract from the importance of play and exploratory learearly educators based on test results, and detract from the importance of play and exploratory learning.

Since the era of high - stakes accountability initiated in the early 1980s has not, in fact, closed the achievement gap, can you commit to ending accountability - based education reform, including a significant reduction in high - stakes testing, and then detail reform based on equity of opportunities for all students?

But here's why I'm worried about leaving out the link between those subjects and reading comprehension: Even if we got rid of high - stakes reading tests tomorrow (which is unlikely to happen), people would still place a huge emphasis on teaching kids to read, especially in the early grades.

A second development, emerging in the early 1990s, focused on the «high stakes» elements of educational policy, or the use of sanctions and rewards associated with how well the school / teacher / student performed.

If you want readers to turn to Chapter 2, make sure that you establish your character's stakes early on.

Despite early investments in Kobo Books and its line of cutting - edge e-readers, Borders held only a minority stake in the digital reading platform and therefore may have missed out on garnering a large enough share of the ebook market to stay in business.

I think that having a stake in the ground at this early stage is important and making sure my work is available on as many platforms as possible helps grow our audience.

«While we have already seen an early spike in delinquencies in Hurricane Harvey - impacted disaster areas, with many more likely to follow in September's data, the combination of available assistance and healthy equity stakes on the part of borrowers are both very positive signs for the long term,» Graboske adds.

too early, trying to hang on to a significant portion of my TRIB stake (with some tight risk control) could really offer some decent payback..!

But remember, at earlier stages of a deal you're usually just debating an increase in your stake based on still (somewhat) uncertain facts..

You may / may not agree with that conclusion, depending on how much of a value purist you are... In my defence, I've been steadily reducing my stake, but I'm also cognizant value investors often sell far too early.