Sentences with phrase «global hits like»

Finland is home to studios such as Rovio, Remedy, Housemark and Supercell, which have an annual revenue of over $ 2 billion — while global hits like Minecraft and Candy Crush were created by Swedish companies Mojang and King.

With a wealth of experience garnered whilst working on global hits like Project Gotham Racing, he nevertheless faced some fresh career challenges.

Not exact matches

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

They launched Indiegogo in 2008 (ahem, a year before Kickstarter); users like that it's global and allows all projects — and that there's an option to keep money raised even if they don't hit their goal.

In the latest quarter, eOne's TV revenues tripled year over year on the back of hits like The Walking Dead on AMC and Rookie Blue on ABC and Global.

Countries experiencing the biggest reductions in expected growth include Brazil and India, whose economies have cooled this year; newly industrialized Asian economies, like Korea and Singapore, hit by a broader global slowdown; and Britain, struck by austerity budgeting.

Like many carriers, both China Eastern and Shanghai Airlines reported losses last year and were already facing troubles before the worst repercussions of the global financial crisis hit China's economy.

Tighter financial regulations, strikingly synchronized global monetary policy and new competition from financial upstarts are hitting trading at banks like Goldman especially hard.

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

With rising global temperatures, the 2014 National Climate Assessment predicts that many communities will see more frequent extreme precipitation events like the one that hit Baton Rouge, La., last year.

The studio fell from 1st in domestic and global market share to 3rd domestically, though it placed second internationally thanks to hits like The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (# 2 in worldwide grosses overall in 2014).

The film — which also features the likes of Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Kathy Bates, Marion Cotillard and Adrien Brody — provided Allen with his biggest hit, banking over $ 145m at the global box office, and it will also contest the Golden Globe awards for Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor — Musical or Comedy (Wilson).

«Stand Up for Something» was written by Diane Warren, who specializes in power ballads — she has written nine Number One hits, including global smashes for mega-stars like Toni Braxton, Brandy and Aerosmith.

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He soon rose to global prominence after being cast as Jon Snow in the hit HBO show Game of Thrones starting in 2011, which soon led to other appearances in movies like Silent Hill: Revelation in 2012 and Pompeii and How to Train Your Dragon 2 in 2014.

It has been hit, like most industries, by the global economic downturn and problems specific only to the Russian book industry.

It's also a great choice for semi-frequent travelers since it comes with valuable perks like a $ 100 Global Entry / TSA PreCheck credit, a $ 100 airline credit, trip delay / cancellation insurance, baggage loss / delay insurance and no foreign transaction fees, so you won't be hit with any surprise charges when using your card abroad.

Well it looks like it has gone and hit the UK, with Sony confirming a global PlayStation price drop.UK PS3s will now be priced in at # 199 for what is presumably the 160 GB model.

If hurricanes like this have hit with some regularity in the past (which they have), is it not jumping the gun a little to slap down a global - warming tag on it.

Of course we will have another global influenza epidemic sometime in the next 50 years that will strike down millions, perhaps even tens of millions, so that will be a limiter on population growth, but an asteroid strike is more like a 1 in every 2,000 year chance, so many flu epidemics will burn through, odds are, before another big rock hits us... Either way, no fun there.

I fear until global warming filters down to hit us personally or «inconveniently» on an experiential level, meaning something devastating and unimaginable like our children or family members die or are unrecognizably impaired, (of course I'm referring to the wealthier countries whose children aren't dying or suffering from our hubris immediately anyway), only then will we see an environmental revolution that produces less discussion and more visceral healing «action».

Lester R. Brown, «Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland,» Eco-Economy Update (Washington DC: Earth Policy Institute, 16 August 2006); water and power from Connie Kline, «New Orleans Looks Like Katrina Hit Yesterday; U.S. Needs to Step Up,» Ventura County Star, 6 August 2006; garbage collection from Susan Saulny, «Despite a City's Hopes, an Uneven Repopulation,» New York Times, 30 July 2006; telecommunications from Gary Rivlin, «Patchy Recovery in New Orleans,» New York Times, 5 April 2006; sewer system from «Katrina Recovery Deemed a Mixed Bag,» Associated Press, 15 August 2006.

«With global temperatures hitting a new record high and repeated episodes of severe weather, including flooding in this country, helping people to understand the basic science behind climate change as well as the consequences for our nature, our businesses and food supply feels like an important thing to do.»

So hey, remember on Tuesday when I wrote about the massive new climate change report that paints a stark, detailed, and highly evidence - based picture about how global warming is hitting the U.S. now, and what our hotter future will be like?

In a global market, a single disaster like SoCal Gas's wouldn't hit the innocents that hard, but it would send a clear signal to other companies thinking of saving a few bucks on a safety valve or two: with a price on carbon, cheap is expensive.

The majority of my hits come from google searches and most of those are things like «global warming is a myth» «volcanos emit more CO2» etc..

-RSB- that it's very likely that poorer areas will be hit hardest by global warming and may also lack the resources to bring a large - scale legal action like that brought by the city of Boulder.»

Like the tobacco lobbyists who spent years denying the links between smoking and cancer, global warming denialists don't have to win the debate — they simply have to confuse the public indefinitely to successfully undermine any political action which might hit the interests of their backers in the fossil fuel industries

As the global population is projected to hit 9 billion by 2050, tensions over resources like food, water and energy are likely to swell along with it.

Snowstorms like the one that hit the east coast of North America this weekend are sometimes used by climate sceptics to argue that global warming is a hoax.

«Our actions have a big impact on what happens in these coral reef ecosystems, which are already hit hard by other forces like global warming, ocean acidification and overfishing,» said Tissot, lead author and professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at WSU Vancouver.

In India, the IMD says global warming could increase the frequency of storms like those that hit the north of the country on May 2nd.

These green visionaries have kept up a vocal attack, approaching heavy - hitting topics like global

Of course, there is another elephant in the room, which is that if our rate of consumption of global resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaglobal resources across the board already far exceeds Earth's ability to replenish them (see «Earth Overshoot Day,» «Ecological Debt Day,» which the Global Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populaGlobal Footprint Network says that we hit this year on August 20), then it's frightening to think what would happen if every country in the world had a population that consumed like America's or Europe's populations.

At 1080p, at least, the system hit the framerate cap in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive at medium settings, and flew past all but the most serious mobile gaming solutions, like the 2016 Razer Blade with a GTX 970M.

Important global economies like China and Russia have also been recently seen hitting hard on its local trading bodies and exchanges while putting up a curtain on cryptocurrency trading.

And soon thereafter, it will hit stores in the global markets to compete against other popular flagship smartphones like Samsung Galaxy S6, Apple iPhone 6 and HTC One M9.