Sentences with phrase «giant project of»

The society's giant project of compiling The Dictionary of American Hymnology — a comprehensive index to the texts of every hymnal ever published in North America — is perhaps five years from completion.

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The demographic data firm Sperling's BestPlaces based its predictions on factors including cost of living, access to transportation, infrastructure, and education, updating its analysis as the e-commerce giant continues to tease new information about the massive project called HQ2.

Keith stayed on for a while as a consultant, while Marcus became a vice-president, managing the company's bids on giant public - private partnership projects, such as the first phase of the reconstruction of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, a $ 300 - million gig.

Consider that under the proposed deal multinational aerospace giant Airbus will take a 50.01 per cent stake in Bombardier's C Series project and move some of the production to a plant in Alabama.

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An unlikely alliance of conservation and fishing groups has vowed to oppose plans by mining company Straits Resources for a giant salt project on the eastern shore of Exmouth Gulf.

The technology giant revealed the new data center projects, part of its Azure cloud computing business, on Wednesday but did not say when they would be ready to use.

Two giant waste - to - energy projects planned for Kwinana and Rockingham could gain extra financial backing after the federal government unveiled a raft of policy initiatives to address problems flowing from China's new restrictions on accepting foreign waste.

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

U.S. oil giants Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips both left huge crude projects in Venezuela's Orinoco Belt after President Hugo Chavez nationalized them as part of his socialist revolution.

US oil giant Chevron says it expects to «sanction» the Gorgon liquefied natural gas project during the second half of this year.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Joined now by his project manager, Marc Taplin, a giant of a man with tattoos up and down his arms, Chaulk rushed into his home office, tossing two open hockey bags onto the floor.

These two Googlers wanted to show the world what it's like working for the technology giant, so they took advantage of Google's 20 percent time policy (ergo the name), which allows employees to work on side projects up to one day a week.

But rather than keeping everyone in a fancy building in downtown Vancouver, the company has staff working out of 26 offices spread across Western Canada in towns of all sizes — something made financially viable by the resources brought in by the giant projects.

The social networking giant unveiled a research project on Monday that is aimed at jump starting the development of more powerful voice - recognition software used in things like Apple's (aapl) Siri, Amazon's (amzn) Alexa, and Google's (goog) Assistant.

That places Vargas in a similar position to a rising number of Silicon Valley workers brought in by tech giants to work on third - party firm contracts, not only janitorial services and caterers that can be found in any corporate campus, but more specific roles created for contractors as projects evolve.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum will proceed with development of its $ US1.9 billion ($ A2.6 billion) Greater Enfield oil project in the Carnarvon Basin.

Stern adds that Fidelity's mining project is not sophisticated compared to professional operations, which involve companies, most of them in China, connecting giant rooms of specialized computers to cheap sources of electricity.

A lawyer, he was senior counsel and vice-president at ABB Group, a Swiss engineering giant, and then had a string of titles, including strategic development director, at AMEC, a big London - based project - management company focused on the energy sector.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum says it has completed its $ US440 million purchase of ConocoPhillips» stake in an oilfield off the coast of Senegal, despite leaving a contractual dispute with one of the project's partners unresolved.

Subiaco - based explorer TNG has taken the next step towards formal agreements with South Korean steel giant POSCO over its Mount Peake vanadium project by signing a letter of intent with Global - Pacific Partners.

The search giant is among a number of technology businesses looking to «green» their operations with big, ambitious projects.

These efforts are bearing fruit for Weatherhaven, which recently partnered with Brazilian construction and logistics company Esbracon, to provide up to 10 sustainable camp projects for oil and gas exploration giant, HRT of Brazil.

Felten is one of the top executives at Alphabet's research arm, X, formerly known as Google X and birthplace to the tech giant's «moonshots,» ambitious projects that aim to solve major world problems with cutting edge technology.

Cloudera is closely affiliated with Intel, which owns 22 % of the company, and partnered with the semiconductor giant on several big technology projects, according to the filing.

The task fell primarily to David Estrada, at the time the legal director for Google X, the secretive part of the tech giant that houses ambitious, cutting - edge projects.

The company's float is underpinned by a key strategic alliance with gold giant Placer Dome Asia Pacific Limited covering resource projects across South East Asia and Australia — including some world - class targets in the Philippines — plus a suite of gold and diamond projects in WA.

As electric cars go, it's wildly impressive, and evidence of what a giant carmaker can do in a short period of time when it throws all its muscle behind a project.

Placer can claw back its interest in these projects, or any of Templar's other gold exploration projects in Australia, to 70 per cent if further exploration proves them to be of a size and quality which would interest the gold giant.

Japanese technology giant NEC Corporation and Alcatel Submarine Networks are helping Google with the latest cable laying project, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2019, Vusirikala said.

Last week at Google's annual developer conference, the search giant detailed more of its AMP project as well as its sister - initiative known as the Progressive Web App (PWA).

Mr. Mulcair would argue that projects like the Giant Mine Reclamation project illustrate the failure of previous governments in this regard, since taxpayers are being forced to pay the costs of cleanup for a now - bankrupt operation.

The tech giant is moving away from the ill - loved brand in favor of a new browser codenamed Project Spartan.

The California tech giant has partnered with some of Indonesia's top telecom companies for its Project Loon initiative that aims to improve connectivity in the Southeast Asian nation of 250 million, especially for those scattered across its 17,500 mountainous and jungle - filled islands, USA Today reports.

Genius Conseil president Michel Lalonde said a number of major engineering firms — including global giant SNC - Lavalin — participated in a collusion scheme to raise the price of construction projects in Quebec.

Energy giant Woodside Petroleum has put on hold its multi-billion dollar Browse liquefied natural gas project in view of the challenging economic and market environment.

The batteries are being built by an arm of power giant AES, called AES Energy Storage, and the company has been building such projects for close to a decade.

South African diamond mining giant De Beers is to extend its dominance of the international diamond market with a C$ 167 million hostile bid to acquire a majority shareholding in the Snap Lake diamond project, in the Canadian North West Territories.

The San Diego projects will use batteries from Samsung SDI, the battery arm of Korean electronics giant Samsung.

I get frustrated and annoyed with things just like anyone else, but I've never felt the sentiment of these sentences - yet I've heard them from entrepreneurs looking to start their own companies, from consultants working on projects, and from people trying their best to orbit the giant hairball that is a Fortune company...

The company projects it will pay about 36 percent for the year, while it competes with foreign giants such as AB InBev, which had a rate of about 21 percent last year.

Project Loon aims to deliver high - speed internet connectivity by using giant helium balloons to function as airborne mobile phone towers, floating untethered at an altitude of 20 km.

There are so many hopes and expectations pinned on the new film version of «A Wrinkle in Time,» I feel like it should be projected on giant bulletin boards instead of movie screens.

Through this project, the search engine giant aims to provide a premium Android device along with the best of services and features.

The project lies on the prolific Yellowknife greenstone belt, and covers 45 km of strike length on the southern and northern extensions of the shear system that hosts the high - grade Con and Giant gold mines.

Six of the world's premier lenders — Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) and State Street — have recently joined a project led by Swiss banking giant UBS — in addition to existing members Deutsche Bank, Banco Santander, Bank of New York Mellon and NEX — with the goal of creating the utility settlement coin, a digital currency that will primarily be used to quickly clear and settle financial transactions using blockchain.

People have braved the elements and matched the energy giants with their own brand of force, as residents nationwide turn to a mix of creative and traditional tactics to halt as many projects as they can.

Ma Huateng, or «Pony Ma» as the CEO and Chairman of Chinese internet giant Tencent is popularly known, is enthusiastic about blockchain technology, and several projects undertaken by his company reflect this exuberance.

The ATO had been expected to focus on interest deductions claimed by the Australian subsidiaries of Exxon and rival oil giant Shell, both of which are shareholders in Gorgon, after the operator of the giant gas project, Chevron, lost a $ 340 million tax fight in the Federal Court last year.