Sentences with phrase «for hundreds of millions of»

Equity Residential also cashed in by selling two properties in East Palo Alto, Calif., and New York City, for hundreds of millions of dollars more than it spent to buy them in 2010 and 2011.

In less than six months, Yahoo admitted that its security was breached twice, with hackers stealing data for hundreds of millions of users.

The TON blockchain allows for hundreds of millions of transactions to take place every second.

There are already a few rivals who can make an OLED display, and if Apple suddenly has a real need for hundreds of millions of them, chances are that the interest in getting into the business will become all the more appealing.

ICOs Float Between A Rock And A Hard Place The free - for - all of the first six months of 2017 when Blockchain startups and «projects» created and sold tokens at will, often for hundreds of millions of dollars, has changed thanks to snap regulatory decisions.

This may not be a big deal, because Amazon already has contact information for hundreds of millions of people.

The social media giant was forced to apologize and overhaul its privacy and data sharing practices, but it still remains in the media spotlight and in the crosshairs of the Federal Trade Commission, which says it may be liable for hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines.

Over the coming months, Huawei will make it even easier for hundreds of millions of people to express themselves via mobile messaging by integrating Android Messages, powered by RCS, across their Android smartphone portfolio.

If you want to talk about a revolution for hundreds of millions of smartphone users, Apple's removal of the iPhone's home button is it.

Court Technology Opportunity: Courts are legally responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in estate assets — both willed and in situations of conservatorships.

Obtained dismissal of a regional bank from a multi-district class action for hundreds of millions of dollars in an alleged Ponzi scheme.

Lyons has recovered hundreds of millions in judgments and settlements on behalf of his clients and successfully defended complex business and tort cases where his clients were being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars.

I completely agree that the earth has to have a thermostat, given that temperatures have remained in a narrow band for hundreds of millions of years.

The Ganges river delta is the main source of drinking water for hundreds of millions of people.

Whenever gas prices get too high, it can cause an economic shock for hundreds of millions of people.

We humans tend to think we're better at this than other living things, but there are plenty of life forms that have used exactly this process to thrive on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.

Electric cars (including plug - in hybrid electric cars) are now a better automobile solution than gasmobiles for hundreds of millions of people.

Species that have thrived for hundreds of millions of years - almost living fossils - facing oblivion, for what?

Efficiency standards for the hundreds of millions of internal combustion engines that will still be sold, especially trucks, will need to be strengthened.

It's become a life - altering nuisance for hundreds of millions of people.

Since the CO2 does not show alternation the hypothesis has a problem, and obviously the farther back the bigger the problem as CO2 has been on a down trend for hundreds of millions of years.

Patriot was also on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up discharges of the mining pollutant selenium from its operations.

Budget for hundreds of millions of dollars * and harness the intellectual power of the top companies in AI.

If so, why throw trillions of dollars at an issue with limited certainty and often hyped benifits when definite benefits can be had for hundreds of millions of people with so much less money?

Sequestration takes carbon that has been locked away from the atmosphere safely for hundreds of millions of years and places it where we hope it will not get back into the atmosphere for decades or longer.

An order surviving for hundreds of millions of years is not at all unusual.

There are also fossil fuels which have stored this energy for hundreds of millions of years.

Maybe the planet just naturally warms and cools, as it has for hundreds of millions of years, as it has for the past two centuries when the climate was cool (the Little Ice Age) up to 1850 or so, then warmed up to 1940, then cooled until the mid-1970's, then warmed until about 2000.

Aren't those glaciers water sources for hundreds of millions of people?

The climate has been warming and cooling for hundreds of millions of years, long before humanity evolved, much less before the Industrial Revolution.

If gymnosperms have been around for hundreds of millions of years, why do these chronologies extend only to a little over 10,000 years, which is an upper limit?

Fisheries and aquaculture remain important sources of food, nutrition, income and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Given the fact that tree rings indicate the oldest living tree to be about 5,000 years old (roughly when you would expect the worldwide flood to have happened), and given the fact that the oldest tree ring chronologies (which are upper limits) extend only to a bit over 10,000 years, it is hard to believe that these kinds of trees have existed for hundreds of millions of years.

The decades ahead will witness our planet become progressively uninhabitable for hundreds of millions of people...»

Second, increased CO2 is changing the way that plants absorb and emit CO2, and that in turn is altering a seasonal cycle that has likely been unchanged for hundreds of millions of years.

Despite the enormous potential for hundreds of millions of acres of private forestlands in the U.S. to participate in the carbon market, to date only five forest carbon projects have been registered and verified.

55a «Within a few centuries the ocean pH may reach a level not seen for hundreds of millions of years, and within the present century many organisms are likely to be affected» is the authoritative conclusion of Denman et al. (2007).

In fact, a reasonable person can immediately challenge it by asking the sensible question — «well, how has the climate managed to avoid a nudge (and resulting crash) for hundreds of millions of years?»

So for hundreds of millions of years the Earth has been cooling long term in the face of significantly increased RF.

Although Antarctica sat over the South Pole for hundreds of millions of years, it remained ice free for most of the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic because the «refrigerator door» was left open.

I - 732 provided for hundreds of millions of dollars in tax cuts for corporations, helping to generate an estimated net revenue loss of $ 800 million over six fiscal years, according to the state's Department of Revenue.

«Life on earth flourished for hundreds of millions of years at much higher CO2 levels than we see today.»

Once you gain considerable experience with complex computer systems you start to get a feel for how robust a system must be that has operated for hundreds of millions of years if not billions of years.

While the fossil fuel industry tries it hands at by squandering billions of dollars of research on unfeasible technical solutions such as geological sequestration of carbon emissions from power plants, soils are a natural solution which has been proven for hundreds of millions of years of biological and evolutionary history.

Some scientists who question whether the carbon dioxide buildup poses a danger to corals stress that corals have endured for hundreds of millions of years.

So conserving tropical forests combats climate change, protects biodiversity and ecosystems, and maintains essential resources for hundreds of millions of people.

Mountain glaciers are the source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people.

And that demonstrates how dangerous it potentially is for us to do something that's never happened in the history of the planet... to very dramatically change the CO2 concentration, in a matter of mere decades as compared to the usual centuries or millenia involved in an ice age feedback scenario, through a mechanism never found in nature — uncovering plant matter that's been buried for hundreds of millions of years, and burning it for energy.

Climate will do what climate will do as it has for hundreds of millions of years.

But I think it an exaggeration (perhaps inadvertent) that it is a serious issue for hundreds of millions of people.