Sentences with phrase «faced the wall of»

We turn around and go inside, facing the wall of Post-it notes.

With the website dogged by bottlenecks and bugs, she faced a wall of finger pointing and nitpicking, where critics seemed more intent on scoring points and pushing agendas than offering solutions.

Standing in the driveway of a Toronto home, flanked by black and white Volkswagens and facing a wall of TV cameras, Clement bemoaned the lack of transparency in how pump prices are set.

Picking the ball up from well outside the penalty area, and facing a wall of Munich players, Saúl somehow dribbles and dazzles his way past challenge after challenge before a delightful curl on his shot travels past Manuel Neuer.

Monserrate started to crack immediately, bombarded with calls from union leaders who were furious they might once again face a wall of Republican resistance to their agenda.

In a NASA - style control room, researchers and technicians huddle around LCD monitors on semicircular desks facing a wall of five projection screens.

Called rogues or freaks, such waves are the stuff of mariners» nightmares — towering, steep - faced walls of water that weigh millions of tons.

Dozens of officers sit in an auditorium facing a wall of giant screens.

This fashion blogger, the creator of Sea of Shoes, sleeps facing a wall of shelves housing her numerous pairs of shoes.

To this end, he and his partners line the residents up facing the walls of the hallway and proceed to use every brutal tool at their disposal: beatings, murder threats, mock executions, and ultimately (if, in Bigelow and Boal's telling, somewhat accidentally), actual killings.

First time credit card holders tend to have the «buy now pay later» idea, and these are the people who find themselves facing a wall of debt.

It is easier than ever before for people who have never had credit issues to suddenly find they are facing a wall of credit card debt with no money to pay it.

They are laying off employees, firing CEOs, and facing a wall of pending indictments and lawsuits.

Upstairs there is a spacious den with a second gas fireplace, flat - screen TV, vaulted ceilings, queen - sized sofa sleeper and a beautiful west facing wall of windows.

Divers who explore the north - facing wall of the point may find troublesome currents too and are advised to plan their dive accordingly.

The King size bed faces a wall of French glass panels opening onto a full length beachside verandah.

Managing partner Klaus Ortlieb designated the south facing wall of the new Cooper Square Hotel a venue for public art by commissioning a piece to celebrate the East Village and its long history as a welcoming place for emerging artists.

Managing partner Klaus Ortlieb designated the south facing wall of the Cooper Square Hotel as a venue for public art, working with Art Production Fund to present new murals by contemporary artist every few months.

The exhibition starts on the seventh floor, where we face a wall of portraits in mostly black and white, hung salon - style, providing a visual scavenger hunt for those we recognize either as the subject, the maker, or both.

Chicago - based artist Tony Lewis (b. 1986) has created a new, site - specific drawing for the outward - facing wall of the Rose Art Museum's Lois Foster Wing, extending his ongoing investigations of the relationships between drawing, abstraction, and language.

Entitled «Rise,» the colorful, abstract mural will bring a vivid transformation to the north - facing wall of the brutalist - style architecture of the Detroit City Club Apartments at 1431 Washington Blvd. «Rise» will be -LSB-...]

For his Perlmutter residency, Lewis will create a new mural for the outward - facing wall of the museum's Lois Foster Wing.

A scaled - up digital print of Katz's 2012 painting, Katherine and Elizabeth, which has never been shown publicly, will be installed on the North - facing wall of 95 Horatio Street, a residential building near 14th Street, owned by T.F. Cornerstone, at the southern end of The High Line, New York's 1.45 miles of elevated park.

Also, Cross wanted a site - specific reference to the facing wall of the Haddad Gallery, so that viewers upon entering the space would be immediately confronted by it.

«There's absolutely nothing in this exhibition that is» — fingers forming quotes in the air — «new,» she tells me as she faces a wall of her series of photographs, titled «Equivalents» (2012), part of the two - venue exhibition that spans both of the gallery's Chelsea locations.

Much of the over eighty objects hung on the east facing wall of what can be described as a thoroughfare.

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University presents two new site - specific installations by Sarah Sze: Timekeeper, a monumental work created for the Rose's Foster Gallery, and Blue Wall Moulting, a mural sited on the outward - facing wall of the Foster Stair.

It accompanies the sound artist's audio - instructions on illustration, delivered by a young boy through headphones on a school desk facing the wall of screenshots of Mater's unifying «Yellow Cow».

The banquette faces a wall of French doors and boasts stunning views of the patio beyond, creating a relaxing early - morning retreat.

Not exact matches

When I'm facing a tough moment, even when I was fired on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, there is part of me that is like, I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal outlined the «haves and have - nots» moment the venture capital market is currently facing, covering the recent series of startup layoffs and shutdowns.

I don't think that point of view holds water, but the fact that it's put forward with a straight face makes it pretty unsurprising that a small handful of Wall Street types are going to cling to the notion.

Top university endowments have faced years of pressure for difficulty beating indexes like the S&P 500 while also paying Wall Street stars big pay packages.

BlackBerry announced a couple of new products on Wednesday (the upcoming Z30 phone and BBM Messenger for Apple and Android devices) but neither really mattered in the face of the big news of the day, which is that the company is cutting 40 % of its workforce, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Rubin gestures toward a very large Nerds box (the World's Largest Box of Nerds, in fact), a wall of Hello Kitty gear, and another featuring Marilyn Monroe T - shirts, lunch boxes, and even chocolate bars with her face on the wrapper (the company recently bought the exclusive candy rights to her likeness).

«You want to keep all your merchandise «faced», which means pulling your product to the edge of the shelf to create a solid wall of product,» says McGoey.

One wall features a floor - to - ceiling chalk - drawn mural, detailing the faces of the 130 founders.

Luxe's CEO and co-founder Curtis Lee told the Wall Street Journal that the bevy of lawsuits facing startups in the space was not a factor, though, and the company decided to make the switch after doing a business and legal analysis of Luxe.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

And by making a corporation the public face of shame for the crisis, the U.S. government can hang on to its record of not having criminally charged one single Wall Street exec for the crisis.

After decades of spectacular growth, the chain appears to be hitting the wall: same - store sales - growth is sagging in Canada, where Tims is suddenly facing tough new competition from McDonald's new McCafé rebrand, clearly aimed at taking a big gulp out of the market leader's coffee sales.

During sex (not, for the record, part of her job) with a male friend (not connected to her job) a glass light fitting tore from the wall above the bed and struck her face.

In the process, he and Morgan Stanley are becoming the face of what may be Wall Street's future: highly profitable, to be sure, but with fewer of the grand ambitions or larger - than - life personalities that have always characterized the place.

And with Snapchat facing intense competition from Facebook — and its stock trading below the opening price of its initial public offering in March — Spiegel is the man Wall Street is betting on to lead the company to victory.

Our foreign and economic ministers were blindsided by Mr. Trump's signing of executive orders to move ahead with building a wall and adopting anti-immigrant policies on the same day the ministers arrived in Washington, where they faced a very inauspicious atmosphere for talks.

Those discussions, which have been pushed by Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, have been taking place since the beginning of the year, said sources, as the social communications giant has faced increasing pressure from Wall Street to grow its audience and innovate its products.

But it was n`t enough to satisfy Wall Street in the face of Merck «s data, even though the results are n`t directly comparable as the trials were run in different sets of patients.

The cuts show the immense power large asset managers have to curb fees they pay banks and the diminishing role of sell - side research at a time when Wall Street firms are facing a slump in stock trading commissions.

Jack Mintz, a former adviser to the Department of Finance and the Prime Minister, wrote in the Globe and Mail «It is also poor policy by steepening the wall of taxation faced by growing firms.

The Federal Reserve and many Wall Street economists have been saying for months that an economic slowdown in the first part of the year would soon give way to faster growth, but their predictions have begun to sound hollow in the face of ever more dour economic news.