Sentences with phrase «first moves by»

These first moves by rival e-book players are likely to be trial balloons.

In this Best of Dropout Nation from November 2009, Dropout Nation Editor RiShawn Biddle observed the first moves by states looking to get their hands on the federal cash that came as part of Race to the Top — and the battles with teachers unions that marked those steps.

Maybe there's a diplomatic solution to be found, but that is made difficult considering the first moves by those in power, whether it be the corporation or the Columbian government, have been in the interest of making money as quickly as possible, as opposed to creating a situation where all can thrive.

United probably made the best first moves by clinching Bastian Schweinsteiger, Morgan Schneiderlin, Memphis Depay and Matteo Darmian.

The Georgia tax bill is not the first move by state lawmakers that won't play well at Amazon.

Wizkid made the first move by inviting Davido to share the stage and spotlight with him to the delight of the audience.

Even if you are a submissive woman, you can still make the first move by reaching out to guys you find interesting.

The profile photo is the important first impression, and «it should be friendly and approachable» as well as attractive, says Alex Williamson el - Effendi, head of brand for the Austin, Texas - based dating app Bumble, where women make the first move by initiating the chat after a match.

Remember, if you really want a cougar woman to spend time with you, you'll have to make the first move by asking them out for a date or dinner with you.

Barnes & Noble on Monday announced it will release Nook tablets in Britain in the first move by the world's largest book seller to sell the e-readers outside the United States.

«Many older women appreciate the man making the first move by taking initiative.»

Not exact matches

«I'm really confident that as we move into the second half this year and into the first half of 2019, we're going to be seeing very material volumes of oil moving by rail,» he added.

By moving first, Rogers is looking to keep someone else from becoming the Netflix of sports.

«This will be our first ever structured hardware deal... and it really allows us in a consumer - friendly way to continue our step - by - step approach to move away from promotional activity and towards value for money,» said Mehr.

By checking KPIs first thing in the morning, I already know the answer to how we've been performing and can immediately move on to the why.

The company was founded in 1977 by Ron Ball (Eppel was an early hire, just 18 years old when he started), and it expanded quickly — first with a plant in Buffalo, then to Europe and, as the industry moved east, to China in 1996.

Opened as an experiment in 1912 near the company's most profitable location in Jersey City, N.J., the first A&P economy store was operated by a single man, who moved big volumes at warehouse prices.

While Walmart has been offering in - store pick up for several years now, this is first year the retailer is pushing the service this hard, in a move aimed in part at preventing stores from being overwhelmed by panicked last - minute shoppers.

And while your inclination might be to start your day with busy work — like checking emails — and then move onto to the harder things, you should try to get your brain moving by challenging yourself with with a bigger, more creative endeavor first thing.

Indeed, it takes longer to fix the mistakes you make when you're moving too quickly than it does to avoid those errors in the first place by taking the necessary precautions.

But the move by these two (although not the first) could have knock - on effects in several ways.

He thinks the US economy will expand by 2.9 % in 2018 and inflation may breach 2.5 % in the first half of the year because of the short - term moves in oil and the dollar.

Sony has indeed made some recent moves to prepare for this eventuality, first by acquiring cloud gaming provider Gaikai — despite its Japanese name, the company is also based in California — and Japanese broadband provider So - Net.

In addition, Rockwell's stock price has moved up by more than 13 percent since Emerson made its first offer.

NEW YORK / LONDON, Jan 18 - Gold was flat in a narrow range on Thursday, first dipping as the dollar rose and then rising as the dollar moved lower, but bullion's gains were limited by higher U.S. $ 12, or 0.9 percent, at $ 1,327.20 per ounce.

By summer of 2008, with his site moving into first place among dating sites in the U.S. and U.K., Frind began to wonder about his next step.

Startups survive by moving fast, so they're intrinsically motivated to look locally first.

SAP had been slow to move into the cloud, said Reuner, but after making the shift with acquisitions such as procurement software company Ariba in 2012, the first quarter of 2017 saw it sell more subscriptions than expected, with new cloud bookings increasing by 49 percent to 215 million euros ($ 244.9 million) and shares hitting a record high.

While the physical keyboard has long been an essential and beloved tool of so - called CrackBerry addicts, the move to release the touchscreen first was signalled by the company last spring.

While they opened the trial by admitting Tsarnaev's role, he has maintained his not - guilty plea, leaving prosecutors to first convince the jury of his guilt before moving on to the question of whether he should be sentenced to death or to life in prison without possibility of parole.

Co-founder and CEO Eli Pariser, whose site first staked a reputation for re-packaging liberal stories, says the move to partner with a traditional network (and MSNBC in particular) is one that makes sense for both companies: «We had a meeting with NBCU and realized that we were thinking about a bunch of the same things, and that it would be fun to collaborate on a project,» he says, by «bringing together what we learned from curating a lot of video for purpose - driven millennials, and what they know about visual video storytelling,» he tells Inc. exclusively.

The move to seek Trump's approval, first reported by Reuters earlier on Friday, comes after Lattice and Canyon Bridge, funded in part by Chinas central government, spent eight months trying unsuccessfully to persuade CFIUS to clear the acquisition.

The move represents the first big reversal of the controversial dual class stock structure that has been embraced by tech executives from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Snap's Evan Spiegel.

The offer is not the first move online to be made by Dubai billionaire Mohamed Alabbar, who made his name as chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai - government linked - developer of the world's tallest building.

The Emar offer was not the first online move to be made by Alabbar, who made his name as chairman of Emaar Properties, the Dubai government - linked developer of the world's tallest building.

But that's like believing that the first Mickey Mouse cartoons were really moving images when in fact the animation was created by moving from one image to another so rapidly the eye was fooled.

The broadcast failed to set any records — apart from just being the first of its kind — and feels as much like a desperate move by Yahoo (YHOO) to remain relevant as it does a ground - breaking vision of what TV could become.

In a counterintuitive move, Ingrassio decided to boost profits and ease production pressures by raising prices for the first time in his business's history.

The move represents the first major acquisition for Britain's biggest mortgage lender, which is part - owned by the government, since it was bailed out during the 2007 - 09 crisis.

The move, first reported by the Washington Post, followed comments earlier in the day by a White House spokeswoman that the...

The trend breakout in NYMEX oil, first signaled by the Guppy Multiple Moving Average indicator (GMMA), has been confirmed.

But in the past half - century, enabled first by the streetcar, then the automobile, aging citydwellers have become able to keep their connections, ideas, and jobs when they move to the easier, more spacious (but less innovative and wealth - creating) suburbs.

First, we are by definition still making offers and we may have to move down the list if some are not accepted.

First, the European Commission could — after review and if recommendations are not followed by Warsaw — decide to move on to the sanction stage.

Sure, its numbers were goosed by Amazon's 99 cents promotion, but the fact remains that the pop star's Born This Way became just the 17th album to move more than a million units in its first week in the U.S. since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.

This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

Low volatility had been replaced by high volatility — Q1 had 23 days of daily moves greater than 1 % in the S&P versus seven such days for all of last year, and the first few weeks of the second quarter have seen similar swings.

The move, first reported by Reuters, comes at a time when the two countries have threatened each other with tens of billions of dollars in tariffs in recent weeks, fanning worries of a full blown trade war that threatens global supply chains as well as business investment plans.

For example, the moving average consists of a forecast of nominal GDP for the first year (t) of the budget plan, an estimate for the previous year (t - 1) and a preliminary estimate by Statistics Canada for the first year of the moving average (t - 2).

The Hyperloop transportation system, the concept that was first popularized back in 2013 by Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk, is a high - speed way of moving people and cargo through depressurized tubes.