Sentences with phrase «end as at the beginning»

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Confidence in Wasson began to wane, but as late as Nov. 24, 2014, Walgreens» proxy stated that he would run the company when the deal was consummated at year's end.

Xi began his second five - year term as party chief in October and at the end of the week will be formally appointed by parliament.

The first woman to head the 212 - year - old company (DD), Kullman took over as a dismal 2009 began and by year - end had publicly vowed to raise earnings over three years at a 20 % annual compound rate.

The company at one time had bold ambitions of having 1 million customers by 2018, but began scaling back its plans at the end of 2015 as costs for funding that growth mounted and demand began to slow.

Either our time away flew by, or we somehow manage to feel just as tense at the end of the break as we did at the beginning.

The January effect is also a stock market phenomenon that occurs at the end of the year as investors begin to fret over taxes.

«We've created this social construct where your working life ends at 65 and retirement begins,» says Sinha, whose own parents are both still working as physicians — by choice, not financial necessity — in their 70s.

While by no means are we at the end of the housing bust, today's number serves as confirmation that we are at least at the beginning of the end.

As your response to the ads improves and more people end up at your online shop, you can begin to scale up the spend to drive more customers to your shop and hopefully gain some virality — like we did — that will allow you to increase sales by over 500 percent in two months.

Retailers realized that they could market the brand as a luxury line, and when initial orders quickly sold out, the jackets began a fixture at high - end retailers across Canada and the United States, such as Barney's, Bloomingdales, Bergdorf Goodman and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Borrowers should keep in mind that lower interest rates at the beginning of a loan result in more actual savings than lower interest rates towards the end of a loan since the principal is lower as time goes by (interest charged is a percentage of the current loan balance).

With the S&P 500 up ~ 52 % since the end up 2012, we can estimate the average IRA balance stands at roughly $ 100,000 — $ 120,000 as of beginning 2017.

The press pool reporters covering the president - elect were not allowed into the meeting, even at the beginning or end for photos or brief comments — as Watson, the CNN reporter, later noted — and no photos were provided by the Trump transition team.

He proposed this idea — allowing homeowners facing foreclosure to stay in their homes as renters — way back at the beginning of the end of the housing bubble.

Obviously this set of scenarios — in which GDP grows on average at rates between 3 % and 6 % for ten years while credit efficiency is improved so dramatically that in 5 - 6 years China begins to deleverage and by the end of the period these growth rates can be maintained with no growth in credit — is theoretically possible, but just as obviously it is highly implausible, and I can not think of any country in history that has achieved such a turnaround in its financial sector without having first experienced a brutal financial crisis.

As I stated at the time, the intense debate leading up to the official unveiling of the plan gave the perception of an end - result, but the FCC's plan is merely a set of proposals and guidelines that basically frame the real debate — which is just beginning.

European stocks take cues from opening drop in U.S. and end near session lows Adidas backs yearly outlook European stocks on Thursday close lower, with selling accelerating in the afternoon as U.S. stocks slumped at the start of their regular trading session, extending a downturn begun following the Federal Reserve's Wednesday policy update on inflation and economic health.

Bank of Nova Scotia Chief Foreign - Exchange Strategist Shaun Osborne says the Canadian dollar is poised to rally to C$ 1.20 versus its U.S. counterpart by year - end, from C$ 1.2683 at 12:35 p.m. Tokyo time Wednesday, as traders who've been reducing expectations for a third BOC interest - rate hike in 2017 begin to price one back in.

Updating existing accounting standards adds that account should be taken of the contents and the type of device, as well as their initial value at the beginning of year and end of the reporting period.

Japan's «Bubble Economy» era occurred at the end of its three - decade old «Economic Miracle» that began after World War II and saw the country's fortunes blossom as it became the world's automobile and electronics manufacturing powerhouse.

I can't begin to tell you how many times prospects might have introduced a new product line, or ended a relationship with a current service provider, and we followed up just at the right time as they were starting their new selection process.

For instance, you made a point of deciding that you would speak at the end of the FOMC meeting rather than at the beginning as your predecessor Alan Greenspan did.

I do a quick sales pitch as to why everyone in the audience should become a subscriber at the beginning and end of every presentation.

We deployed an Affinity Propagation algorithm to find three distinct clusters of crypto assets, at the top end of the market capitalization table, with similar movements.IntroductionA few months ago Radicle's Crypto team began working on a Crypto Index, not as an investment vehicle, but rather for the purpose of having a clear and unbiased benchmark...

However, dividends are treated differently: If you hold the stock for at least 60 days during the 121 - day period that begins 60 days before the ex-dividend date and ends 60 days after the ex-dividend date, your dividend counts as long - term capital gains.

The next emergence of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions was in July 1999, about the 1400 level on the S&P 500, at which point the market began a series of 10 % swings (e.g. the end of July 1999 and the second - half of January 2000) that gave even speculators some whiplash as the market approached its final peak in 2000.

it makes sense, read your bible... but this time, try starting at the beginning and finish at the end instead of jumping thru the birth of jesus — he isn't special enough to believe in the god you claim yet not read the part that came before the man as he himself tells you to know the scripture!!!

He is viewed at best as a wayward child of the nascent Hellenistic age, the beginning of the end of classical thought, and at worst as illegitimate, the importation of an eastern asceticism and impoverishment.

Eternity is uncorrupted light; the world proceeds by interrupting sight, exchanging day and night.Half the acts of earth avoid the sun; much that's donemay be begun by day but end at night: aborted, buried lightis customary here; it shocks no morethan does a warsuch as the one we wage against the....

If you end up at unbelief it is you who will cast off salvation / JESUS as Esau did (He cast off his inheritance) The «work» of a Christian begins with Faith to recieve Christ, maintaining faith (done by allowing the santification process, walking on all the warnings of the scriptures of things to avoid and things to add to faith).

A chiastic literary structure can be viewed as a sort of sandwich, with repetitive parallel elements at the beginning and end as the pieces of bread, similar repetitive elements within those, representing the condiments, and the meat — the main point of the passage — in the middle.

Working from end to beginning we must, at a minimum, account for such contested verses as these: • «If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it» (14:14).

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

At first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneAt first sight, beings and their destinies might seem to us to be scattered haphazard or at least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat least in an arbitrary fashion over the face of the earth; we could very easily suppose that each of us might equally well have been born earlier or later, at this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat this place or that, happier or more ill - starred, as though the universe from the beginning to end of its history formed in space - time a sort of vast flower - bed in which the flowers could be changed about at the whim of the gardeneat the whim of the gardener.

I started reading In Pursuit as a duty at the beginning of a long airplane flight and ended up forgetting to look at the spectacular scenery.

If mission as conquest was the dominant note at the beginning of this century, mission as living in dialogical relationship is the emphasis at the end of this century.

Driving back from our engagingly cacophonous evening at the bistro, I began to worry: Will we end up trying to inculturate the Gospel into cultural patterns that many» maybe even most» people in the Third World countries want to get out of as soon as they can?

If he believes that God is at the beginning as well as at the end, the Alpha as well as the Omega; if his hope for the future arises out of his faith in God's eternal presence; it is because he discerns the manner of God's presence and the way of his working in the strange person of Jesus of Nazareth, in his life and teaching, and not least in the bitter and apparently senseless tragedy of his death.

If this is what it means to be human, it may be no surprise that bioethics — concerned as it is with Bios — should, especially at its most philosophical, focus so much attention on the beginning and end of life, on birth and death.

As I noted at the beginning, when I sketched the way in which we were to proceed, the word «end» has two meanings.

Also, as a head's up, it has a parent section at the beginning and end that might not be appropriate for little ones to come across on their own (i.e. it talks about child abuse stats) but it will help you have the conversations that need to be started with our daughters (and sons) even at a young age.

As Sen points out, at the very beginning of The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle relates the subject of economics to human ends, referring to its concern with wealth.

When you pro-life contradictions stop acting like life begins at conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged causat conception and ENDS AT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged causAT BIRTH, when you stop using abortion as a political wedge issue to shore up votes and show that you actually understand and act on ALL the complex issues at work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged causat work, you might actually find others more sympathetic to your alleged cause.

Nowhere in modernity is apocalypticism more open and manifest than it is in our great political revolutions, and if these begin with the English Revolution, this was our most apocalyptic revolution until the French Revolution, a revolution which innumerable thinkers at that time, and above all Hegel himself, could know as the ending of an old world and the inauguration of a truly new and universal world.

The fall of man is no longer taken as an event at the beginning of human history, nor is the «end of history» a literal conception of a point of time at which the world ceases to be.

At no point are they sickness» [«substance addiction begins as the sin of drinking or using drugs, progresses to the greater sin of excessive use (abuse), and ends as a sinful habit» — a view Clinebell attributes to rescue missions].

«I tried fighting him off, while yelling at him to stop, but instead of stopping, he began squeezing my neck, attempting to force my head onto his crotch,» Ms. Nelson said, growing emotional as she described the assault, which she said happened one night after her shift ended at a local restaurant, where she was a waitress.

What gave him comfort at the beginning and at the end was writing some of the loveliest songs in our language, conquering the nightmare as Hölderlin said it could be conquered — by giving it its right name.

It is the affirmation that God is at the end of our history as at the beginning; in fact, God is with us yet.

are beginning to take; purposely forgetting the reporter, at the end of the debat; «we» resorted to our own version of western fundamentalism; bickering with people who are happy to argue words all day; as means of fortifying our stand.