Sentences with phrase «first felled by»

The Statue of Liberty, if not first felled by an earthquake, would likely be flattened by glaciers that have advanced on the region three times in the past 100,000 years.

I never worried about him because he seemed so robust until, of course, that dreadful moment when he was first felled by cancer.

Mouse's First Fall by Lauren Thompson is the first books I've read to my daughter about the coming season.

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Carlsberg's first - quarter sales fell 5 percent, weighed by a negative currency impact and lower volumes in Russia.

Chinese bets against the renminbi have snowballed since Beijing let it fall by 2 % against the dollar in August 2015, the first revaluation in years.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

It said production in the three months ended March 31 fell by about 10 per cent to 300,400 boe / d compared to the first quarter of 2017.

The New York Times, for example, says ebook sales fell by 10 % in the first five months of this year, according to the Association of American Publishers, which collects data from nearly 1,200 publishers.

Tesla reported in April that it had fallen short of its target to produce 2,500 Model 3s per week by the end of the first quarter.

In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in 2017, overall growth fell by 0.2 percent with Saudi Arabia seeing its first economic contraction since 2009.

Apple shares, which fell as much as 4.4 percent in the first 90 minutes of Nasdaq trading on Tuesday, steadied after the denial to be down 3.1 percent by 1642 GMT (1242 EDT).

Results from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test conducted by Department of Education, also showed average math scores for 4th and 8th graders falling for the first time since 1990.

And De Beers, the world's top diamond producer, saw sales during the first half of the year fall by more than 50 %, to US$ 1.7 billion.

In a similar fashion, the 36th (Ulster) Division went «over the top» on the first day of the great Somme offensive, July 1, 1916, led by a football kicked out by a lead battalion, only to be mowed down, counting among the 57,000 British troops who fell dead or wounded that terrible day.

That's in addition to a 500,000 - square - foot warehouse that opened in the fall in Louisville, Ky.; the launch of a mobile site; and the simultaneous debut of the biennial Super Nasty print magazine and the brand's first in - house collection, Weird Science, featuring color palettes inspired by computer cables and prints based on data - corruption visuals.

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)- GlaxoSmithKline's new shingles vaccine Shingrix exceeded expectations in the first quarter, but the drugmaker's sales and earnings fell 2 percent, held back by a stronger pound and more pricing pressure in respiratory medicine.

By the fall of 2015, more than a year after Dell and Durban first approached EMC, the financial commitments were in place — with nine banks, including J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, onboard.

And while she celebrated her acceptance to Yale by ordering Papa John's, Williams, who will be a first generation college student this fall, ultimately chose Auburn University.

Carlyle said most of its funds generating performance fees appreciated by 3 percent on average, even as the S&P 500 index slid 1.2 percent in the first three months of 2018, the index's first quarterly fall in 2-1/2 years.

Shares fell 5.1 percent to $ 5.22 in extended trading after the company missed first - quarter sales estimates, selling 2.2 million devices, compared with 2.33 million expected by analysts, according to financial data analytics firm FactSet.

Short - sellers who placed bets that the shares of four big tech leaders, known as the FANG group, as spelled out by their first initials, were due for a fall have made more than $ 4 billion in profits over the last two weeks and more than $ 1 billion during the first two trading days in...

You might found that you spend all of your time talking about the business, hashing out ideas, arguing about money, and that all the things that made you friends in the first place have fallen by the wayside.

Although Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) were lower, and the number of new listings fell to 31 from 43 in the first quarter of 2011, the amount raised through secondary financings was up by 89 %, and the amount raised through supplemental financings was up by 19 %.

Stocks fell across the board Wednesday as the year's final fiscal quarter opened to a market sell - off spurred by concerns over mounting global crises, including the first domestic case of Ebola, as well as the looming possibility of an interest rate hike.

The Canadian - born company's first major product since being acquired by Japan's Rakutan last year joins a slew of new tablets hitting the market this fall.

What with a doctor dragged screaming and kicking off a plane, another person in first class threatened with handcuffs if he didn't leave his seat for someone of «higher priority,» or the man reportedly stung by a scorpion that fell on him from an overhead bin.

The Labor Department reported on Wednesday that consumer prices fell for the first time in 10 months in March, hampered by a decline in gasoline prices.

Auction sales at Scottsdale — the U.S.'s largest auto auction by volume — fell by 15 percent to $ 251 million in January, marking the first drop in sales since 2010.

Last week, the oil rig count fell for the first time in four months, by two to 441.

Visitor numbers also fell nearly 10 %, the first decline since at least 2008, driven by a steep drop in mainland guests.

«Looking at the quarterly data, the underlying trend as suggested by the three - month on three - month movement is one of growth, following a fall in quarter 1, suggesting a relatively flat first half of 2017.»

That is still dwarfed by a new luxury watch sector worth 37 billion euros ($ 45.3 billion), according to consultancy Bain & Cie.. However Swiss watch exports fell 3.3 percent in 2015 and 9.9 percent in 2016 before posting a modest 2.8 percent rise in the first 11 months of 2017.

First voiced in the 1970s by Arthur Laffer, an adviser to the Nixon administration who came from the conservative Chicago school of economics, it was embraced by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and, consensus has it, went a long way to alleviating the stagflation of that era (though falling energy prices and interest rates, demographic shifts and yes, deficit spending contributed too).

For example, Twitter's revenues fell on a year - over-year basis for the first time, dropping by 8 % to $ 548 million.

After falling steadily since April, U.S. crude stocks rose by 15 million barrels in the first three weeks of September, according to the Department of Energy.

Carlsberg's first - quarter sales fell 5 percent, weighed by a negative currency impact and lower volumes in the key Russian market where its market share continued to decline, the Danish brewer said on Tuesday.

In the first quarter of this year, its cigarette shipment volumes fell by 11.5 % year - on - year, but its heated tobacco shipments were up almost ten-fold — overall, unit shipments were down 9.4 % and net revenues were down 1.4 %.

Revenue from Citigroup's fixed - income trading business fell 7 percent to $ 3.4 billion in the first quarter, but that was offset by a 38 percent hike in equity trading sales.

During the first few months of the year the S&P 500 rose by less than 2 %, but Canadians who invested in the index are up more than 5 %, thanks to the loonie's fall to 90 cents (U.S.).

In the spring of 2016, Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck went on CNBC to make a bold prediction: Chipotle comparable sales would fall by 29 percent in its first quarter.

But the explanations why the rate fell by nearly half a percentage point in Statistics Canada's latest jobs report hint at another trend — the first wave of baby boomers leaving the workplace.

Bartlett said gross domestic product output likely fell by about 1.0 per cent in the first three months of 2015 and by 0.6 per cent in the second quarter.

The company's operating loss for its first three quarters fell from $ 17.1 million to $ 11.2 million, and Jones predicts that Shopify will break even by the end of 2017.

Last fall, we introduced our first family of Made by Google products, including Pixel smartphones, Google Home, Google Wifi, Daydream View and Chromecast Ultra, and we're preparing to unveil our second generation of products on October 4.

Average daily traded volumes across cryptocurrency exchanges fell to $ 9.1 billion in March and to $ 7.4 billion in the first half of April, compared with almost $ 17 billion in December, according to data compiled by crypto analysis website CryptoCompare.

Adjustable - rate mortgages are a hybrid type of loan in that the interest rate is usually fixed at first, but then fluctuates based on the rise or fall of an index chosen by mortgage lenders — commonly, an index tied to an investment in U.S. Treasuries.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- U.S. productivity fell in the April - June quarter by a larger amount than first estimated, while labor costs accelerated sharply.

Americans were able to save more because their inflation - adjusted incomes climbed by 3.4 % after falling sharply in the first quarter — the result of higher Social Security and other taxes.

The pattern is marked by the stock's price rising and peaking (the first shoulder), then falling, then risking again and surpassing the previous peak to reach a new peak (the head) before falling, then rising once more and peaking a third time (the second shoulder).

Russian military spending fell by a fifth last year, its first decline in nearly two decades, with tighter purse - strings likely to affect Moscow's military activity...