Sentences with phrase «first significant announcement»
This news was the first significant announcement made under the leadership of the state's new education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, who started the job on Monday.
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Often, employees» first reaction to the announcement of a team - building event is the thought that they have no time for what they see as a recreational activity with no significant takeaway.
«Today's announcement by Governor Cuomo is an encouraging first step,» Gianaris said in a statement, «but significant questions remain regarding the source of this new capital funding and the continuing budget hole of several billions of dollars beyond the amount announced today.»
«Today's announcement by Governor Cuomo is an encouraging first step, but significant questions remain regarding the source of this new capital funding and the continuing budget hole of several billions dollars beyond the amount announced today.
«The moment that I seized upon was the mayor making an announcement — a very significant, first - in - the - nation bill that he wanted to advance — regarding hiding cigarettes [at retail points of sale],» said Gennaro.
«The company is at a significant point in its history, with the recent announcement of its first all - electric car the RapidE.
2015 was also a significant year for the expansion of the company's manufacturing footprint to support continued growth, most recently with the announcement that Jaguar Land Rover will be the first British carmaker to open a manufacturing facility in Slovakia.
Following the exciting announcement of Hostelworld.com's partnership with Travelport, where tens of thousands of travel agents worldwide will now be able to book Hostelworld.com properties on the Travelport portal, www.travelportleisure.com, Hostelworld.com has announced that interest in its budget accommodation content, has been significant in its first week of operation.
It had some pretty significant advantages over those consoles in its first year: the Xbox One cost $ 100 more at launch and came with the kind - of - creepy Kinect camera, and Microsoft had trouble explaining some of its decisions regarding DRM to gamers following its announcement at E3 2013; the Wii U is underpowered and doesn't get many of the third - party games that come out on the PlayStation and Xbox.
The shortest month of the year has also been a relatively quiet one for acquisitions, but among the announcements are several significant firsts — including LACMA's first architectural acquisition and the first Dalí in Dallas.
After the significant upwards revisions made to global solar PV manufacturing capacity expansion announcements in the first half of 2017, which we reviewed in a previous blog, the third quarter was characterised by much more tempered plans.
For the formal announcement, Pruitt was introduced by NADA's President and CEO Peter Welch, who praised the administrator for «[spearheading] over two dozen significant regulatory reforms worth over one billion dollars in savings in his first year at EPA» and «issuing more deregulatory actions than any other federal agency under the Trump administration.»
Even if the commitments from the US and China are perhaps not as ambitious as they first seem, the nature of their announcement is hugely significant.
It could be more significant than that other «game - changing» development last year: Irwin Mitchell's announcement that it was to become the first major firm to seek external capital.