Sentences with phrase «first early second»

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Notably, it's only Sequoia's second investment in a blockchain - related company in that venture capital firm's 45 - year history; the first was earlier this year, in Polychain Capital, in a $ 200 million round in which Andreessen, Union Square Ventures, Founders Fund and Bessemer Venture Partners also participated.

The company was introducing two additional products in 1993 — the second release in its early - learning line, and the first in a new line that Stanger had dreamed up for four - to eight - year - olds, called Thinkin» Things.

By summer the development staff had working demos of Sammy's Science House, the third in Edmark's early - learning line; Thinkin» Things 2, the second in its critical - thinking line for 4 - to 8 - year - olds; and the first two titles in a line called Imagination Express, a series of interactive story - writing programs for 6 - to 12 - year - olds.

Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

With the medal now on the line, the Canadians sent veteran Meghan Agosta out for a second shot, having notched her first attempt moments earlier.

Some 11 % of Wharton's graduating full - time MBA class of 2013 spent the summer between their first and second year either at an early - stage venture or working on their own.

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.

By reaching the.500 mark (71 - 71) for the first time since early June, the Phillies are now just four games behind the St. Louis Cardinals for the second Wild Card spot in the National League.

«While 45 percent of first - time ventures receive initial venture capital funding at an early stage, close to 60 percent of entrepreneurs receive initial venture capital funding at an early stage when it is their second or later venture.»

By implementing a plan of preparation first and an early strategy second, you can put your business in a prime position this season.

As the room fills up, there's a scramble for seats: Managers and sales reps plop down beside first - shift machine operators coming off nine hours of work and second - shift people who've come in early, still yawning.

Had I left First Round six months earlier, I wouldn't have had my second exit.

«Trump met w / lawmakers on gun control where he bullied GOP who defend the 2A & said govt should «take guns first, go through due process second,»» Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Thursday night, indicating his disapproval of Trump's conversation with lawmakers a day earlier.

This would be the second prison escape of the world's most notorious drug lord, the first being 13 years earlier, from Puente Grande prison, where he was smuggled out under the sheets of a laundry cart.

Search engines are in second place at 28 %, a 6 % decrease from 2015; specific retailers are now the first choice of 16 % of online shoppers, down from 21 % a year earlier.

BCE said it expects to close the CTV deal early in the second quarter and will update its 2011 financial guidance during its first quarter earnings call, due on May 12.

China's gross domestic product rose 7 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement, unchanged from the first quarter and beating economists estimates for 6.8 percent.

The first is in early September and the second is in early January.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

Twitter reported its second straight profitable quarter — and the second profitable quarter in company history — early Wednesday morning when the company shared first - quarter earnings, which were better than expected.

First, make sure you have enough money set aside to support you for the rest of your days, and second, make sure you understand 401k withdrawal rules so you can minimize any penalties associated with 401k early withdrawal activity.

SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire)-- Hyundai Steel Co., South Korea's second - biggest steelmaker by sales, said Friday that its first - quarter net profit plunged 48.2 percent from a year earlier due to a base effect.

All it really was created for was a redistribution of wealth from the first to the second and third worlds in the early 1960s.

The first of the following two charts shows that the ratio of the SPDR S&P Homebuilder ETF (XHB, $ 35.60) to the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY, $ 217.09) remains about one - fifth below its early 2013 highs, despite the fact that the average 30 - year fixed mortgage rate has fallen back to the 3.4 % area — about where it was in early 2013 (as shown by the blue line in the second chart that follows).

Trump's decision comes as a second blow to Chinese - backed deals, which fell by 49 % in the first half of 2017 from the same period a year earlier, to $ 64.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.

Menomena jumped the gates early in January 2007 releasing their amazing second full - length record Friend and Foe easily garnering the title «The First Great Record of 2007» by fans and...

Menomena jumped the gates early in January 2007 releasing their amazing second full - length record Friend and Foe easily garnering the title «The First Great Record of 2007» by fans and critics alike.

Oh, and how when they were little, we put them to bed early for two reasons — first, it's best for them and second, it made sure we had a few hours together every night to talk or make out or just watch telly.

It is clearly as old as the first century, for an early second - century Roman arch rests on it.

Pastor Richard, later Father Richard» and of those two titles, I knew him longer under the first than the second» seems to have had from very early years a sharp sense of «living toward death.»

p. 654, 80 - 90 % of the critical sch - olars believe the letter was written by a pseudo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

As early as the Greek translation of the Septuagint in the second or first century b.c., the term had been understood as almsgiving.

Due to problems with allegedly excessive emotionalism as well as difficulties in transmitting charisma to a second generation, the Assemblies of God faced some of the same problems that caused the early church of the first centuries to abandon «signs and wonders.»

Since the early twentieth century, German Protestant theology has sought forms in which first - person confession and second - person address, or, in other words, witness and proclamation, can shape the exposition of Christian theology.

It was probably written toward the end of the first century or the early part of the second, after Christianity was well established in the Greek world.

The events took place; the Church was founded; and out of the experience and needs of the Christians of the first and early second centuries the writings came.

This, along with other aids, has enabled scholars to attribute the first creation story to the so called «Elohist» source (or the Priestly source as a redactor of the Elohist source) and the second to the earlier «Yahwist» source.

But before we come to that discussion, it will be useful for us to turn our attention to the question of «resurrection» — first, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, about which so much of the earliest Christian writing found in the New Testament, and so much of the Christian experience of discipleship, turns; and second, to consider the point of the continuing Christian affirmation that those who have responded to the event of Christ are themselves made «sharers in Christ's resurrection».

Catherine was the second woman to be named by the pope a doctor of the church, in 1970, though she was earlier than the first, Teresa of Avila.

At the spring baccalaureate service students sometimes comment that this is only their second trip into Duke Chapel, the first presumably being freshman convocation four years earlier — a required event.

The earliest ecclesiastical tradition regarding the origin of the Gospel of Mark is that given by Papias of Hierapolis, who lived in the first half of the second century.

First, the desire to show that in the early life of the Messiah there are exact fulfillments of Old Testament predictions; second, the defense of the messiah ship of Jesus against Jewish slanders that he was illegitimate and the son of an immoral woman.

-- 80 - 90 % of the critical scholars believe the letter was written by a pseudo Paul toward the end of the first century, early second century.

There are two steps here: first, to ascertain what Millard Fillmore did as president, which is not nearly so easy as ascertaining the size, shape and color of a bird; and second, to decide what it means to have been a good president in the early 1850s, which involves not only historical knowledge but also some interesting value judgments.

In the second place, if we should find it possible to infer from the epistles what Paul preached, it would be in the first instance what he calls «my Gospel,» and not necessarily the Gospel common to all or most early preachers.

The more we try to penetrate in imagination to the state of mind of the first Christians in the earliest days, the more are we driven to think of resurrection, exaltation, and second advent as being, in their belief, inseparable parts of a single divine event.

Along with the New Testament, there are references to Jesus in the writings of first - century and early second - century writes, such as Josephus (Jewish) and Tacitus and Pliny the Younger (Roman).

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

The earliest fragments of scripture come from the first half of the second century A.D.