Sentences with phrase «first headed by»

The office was first headed by Will Hays, a former U.S. postmaster general who knew little about movies but a great deal about politics and protocol.

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He recalled that another student in his class shattered the record, in part by racing down the slide for life head - first, instead of the slower, safer method that everyone else used.

Using a «head posture» You can win over or lose your colleagues in the first 30 seconds of meeting with them, says Morgan, just by the way you hold yourself.

Perth - based Volta Mining, headed by former DMC Mining founder and managing director David Sumich, is venturing into central West Africa with the acquisition of its first iron ore project.

If you head into «Infinity War» without seeing «Ragnarok» first, you may be confused by Thor's shorter hair and his one missing eye.

BGF Ventures led the round and was joined by investors including LocalGlobe, Entrepreneur First, TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus, and Microsoft's former head of corporate strategy, Charlie Songhurst.

It's the first car from Fisker Coachbuild, which was co-founded last year by Henrik Fisker, the former head of design at Aston Martin.

Why It Took Off Fandeavor's first offering was two $ 400 behind - the - scenes immersion «experiences» at the Las Vegas Invitational college basketball tournament; each package included a «chalk - talk» with an assistant coach from UNLV, two seats in a luxury suite and a basketball autographed by the head coaches of all the teams in the tourney.

Presumptively there is a recognition that they must first get a bill introduced by the Republican - controlled Congress, passed by that same body and then passed by the Senate before heading to the Democratically - controlled White House.

The Bank of England Thursday raised U.K. interest rates for the first time since 2007, in an effort to support the pound and head off inflationary pressures caused by a slump since the U.K. voted to leave the EU 16 months ago.

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.

Goldman, headed by CEO Lloyd Blankfein, is already expected to report steep cuts in expenses in its first quarter earnings on Tuesday.

Anthony Armstrong, who was a managing director and head of technology in the Americas, left the firm for Morgan Stanley last year, as first reported by The New York Times.

According to an internal memo obtained by Fortune, but first reported by Recode, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick wrote: «I wanted to let you know that Rachel Whetstone, who heads up policy and communications globally, has decided to leave Uber.

«First, the lagged reporting of inventory data and OPEC's own inertia create risks that the group exits the cuts well after inventories have normalized,» wrote a team led by Jeffrey Currie, Goldman's global head of commodities research.

Reuters pointed out that this would be the first major penalty issued by CFPB since Mick Mulvaney, who also heads the Office of Management and Budget, took over.

Dickon Pinner, a McKinsey director who heads up the consulting firm's clean - tech practice, says, «The utilities for the first time are feeling that their business model is being threatened by distributed - power systems like solar and are starting to respond.»

Isabel Dos Santos, the woman listed by Forbes as Africa's first female billionaire, has been unceremoniously fired from her post as head of Angola's national oil company Sonangol, according to newswire reports.

Libratus, created at CMU by Tuomas Sandholm and PhD student Noam Brown, aims to be the first bot that can beat top human players at Head's Up No - Limit Hold»em.

The Council included $ 212 million in funding for Fair Fares, a proposal first initiated by the Community Service Society of New York, headed by David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio as well as the Riders Alliance, which is led by John Raskin.

Like the heads of other companies in this bind, Kinni was forced to respond first, by looking for every possible way to put a lid on current cost hikes.

Roadie, the first on - the - way delivery network, puts unused capacity into passenger vehicles to work by connecting people who have items they need to send with drivers headed to the same destination.

The Port of Seattle received the first cargo ship from China to the United States in 1979, and the first state trade mission to China was organized and headed by then - Gov Dixy Lee Ray.

There are many remarkable aspects to SpaceX: for instance, the way it has challenged accepted rocket manufacture by making rockets for a fraction of the cost; the way it has become the first private entity — rather than a country — to successfully launch spacecraft into orbit and then return; the way it went from an idea in Musk's head to a company that resupplies the International Space Station and that hopes to soon ferry astronauts back and forth.

Speaking to Kitco news on Friday, Ken Hoffman, sector head of global metal and mining for Bloomberg Intelligence said that, «China is in decrease mode [and] we actually think their copper demand, for the first time in 30 years, will actually decline by 2 - 4 %.»

The first official state visit by a foreign head of state to a «new» White House usually offers cause for hope.

But, despite BlackRock's filing, Jennifer Grancio, head of BlackRock's iShares U.S. distribution, is not anticipating «huge assets to be raised in the active ETF space by the first generation of active funds.

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).

The homeownership rate of households headed by people aged 30 to 34 fell to 46.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018, a disappointment for those who hoped the upward turn in the fourth quarter of 2017 (to 47.1 percent) was a sign of better times to come.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner already vetoed the first bill that reached his desk, which includes tax hikes, but the veto was immediately overridden by the State Senate and is now headed for the House.

A first in good governance call to action article could also be written by seven women CEOs, seven heads of Crown corporations, seven heads of hospitals or universities or seven CEOs of non-profit organizations.

This step - by - step guide will walk you through how to build your first content marketing strategy if you're heading up a new initiative.

The so - called January Barometer, as first mentioned by Yale Hirsch of the Stock Trader's Almanac, suggests the performance of stocks in the first month of the calendar year dictates where prices will head for the year overall.

As Saudi Arabia celebrates its first ever emerging - market classification by a major index compiler, history suggests the market may be headed for a retreat.

Despite its technical staff ruling in 2010 - 11 that Greece's foreign debts could not be paid and hence needed to be written off, its heads — first Dominique Strauss - Kahn and then Lagarde — acted in blatant conflict of interest to support the French bankers demands for payment in full, and U.S. demands by President Obama and Wall Street lobbyist Tim Geithner to insist there be no writedown at all.

This could be caused by an impractical plan in the first place, a lack of stakeholder buy - in, an organisational culture that does not value collaboration of stakeholders or where an appropriate forum to facilitate collaboration and transparency is not yet in place, says Ukwazi head of site services Ticharwa Chikosha.

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

Do you know that the nonprofit headed by Franklin Graham provides education, clothing, shelter and first - class medical aid to people all around the world?

On the first of two appeals to the Ninth Circuit, Judge Rothstein's opinion ran into a three - judge panel headed by the formidable John Noonan, a prolific author and scholar who has spent a lifetime studying common, canon, and natural law.

8) «This conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155

The head of megachurch First Baptist Dallas, who is also a member of President Trump's evangelical advisory board, criticised a «crusade by secularists to remove any acknowledgment» of God in the country's schools.

With his path now clear to the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney is on the verge of becoming the first Mormon to head a major party's presidential ticket, a new milestone in America's embrace of religious groups that were once shunned by society.

18:15, 19 Matthew 21:11 John 6:14 John 1:45 Acts 3:22 - 23 Messiah to be the Son of God Psalm 2:7 Proverbs 30:4 Luke 1:32 Matthew 3:17 Messiah to be raised from the dead Psalm 16:10 Acts 13:35 - 37 Messiah to experience crucifixion Psalm 22 Psalm 69:21 Matthew 27:34 - 50 John 19:28 - 30 Messiah to be betrayed by a friend Psalm 41:9 John 13:18, 21 Messiah to ascend to heaven Psalm 68:18 Luke 24:51 Acts 1:9 Homage and tribute paid to Messiah by great kings Psalm 72:10 - 11 Matthew 2:1 - 11 Messiah to be a priest like Melchizedek Psalm 110:4 Hebrews 5:5 - 6 Messiah to be at the right hand of God Psalm 110:1 Matthew 26:64 Hebrews 1:3 Messiah, the stone which the builders rejected, to become the head cornerstone Psalm 118:22 - 23 Isaiah 8:14 - 15 Isaiah 28:16 Matthew 21:42 - 43 Acts 4:11 Romans 9:32 - 33 Ephesians 2:20 1 Peter 2:6 - 8 Messiah to be born of a virgin Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:18 - 25 Luke 1:26 - 35 Galilee to be the first area of Messiah's ministry Isaiah 9:1 - 8 Matthew 4:12 - 16 Messiah will be meek and mild Isaiah 42:2 - 3 Isaiah 53:7 Matthew 12:18 - 20 Matthew 26:62 - 63

Interestingly, the first thing that jumped in my head from the bible, about how to pray, was the Tax Collector and the Pharisee... it took a Google search to come up with verses, and it also jogged my memory to the song «Pride (In the Name of Love)» by U2, in which I thought the lyrics «one man come in the name of love, one man he come and go» in part was a call - out to that story.

He attended Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford universities, and his mother was appointed by President Ronald Reagan as the first female head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

He can preach these things because his own achievements are remarkable: by age 33, the chief pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins; the surgical - team leader in the first completely successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the head;...

At first intimidated and sent away by abusive military guards — who machine - gun the tabernacle — Romero soon returns to pick up the hosts scattered about the floor, as the soldiers fire over his head.

By the first century, Baal is a distant memory, but Jesus immediately heads to Herod's temple, which he condemns as a den of thieves, repeating the words of Jeremiah against the first temple.

The isolationism of the first policy can only enhance conflict by its collective selfishness and head toward future wars in a world meant by nature to be one.

This new confidence was first prompted, unless memory at this point is all wrong, by two very hard facts: the invincibility of a clear - headed medical student dying of cancer, and the impassive bulk of the Rockies above timber line, which I saw for the first time four months later.