Sentences with phrase «granted it years ago»

Splashy global sporting events seemed like a chance to show off Brazil's go - go economy when they were granted years ago.

Greece's new debt deal would give the country an extra $ 179 billion (euro130 billion) in rescue loans from the rest of the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund - on top of the $ 152 billion it was granted a year ago.

Credit is something that we all took for granted years ago and now it seems that many of us are suffering because of it.

What I saw, and what I rejected, had much more of an impact than I ever granted it years ago.

Not exact matches

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

Twenty - one years ago Congress granted community - owned Alaska Native corporations, as they're called, contracting advantages that other 8 (a) s don't have, creating, in effect, a preferred class within a preferred class.

Scott Spector, a Silicon Valley compensation expert with law firm Fenwick & West, says the typical small technology company he advises may well grant options equal to 24 % or more of total shares outstanding, up from 15 % just three years ago.

Two years ago Will Raap, CEO of Gardener's Supply Inc., a $ 26 - million mail - order business based in Burlington, Vt., granted a half - dozen employees their dream assignment.

Two years ago, the Huntsville - based Von Braun Center for Science and Innovation, a non-profit research and development organization, applied for an SBA grant to create a «cluster» or business network that could help business owners tap the rich vein of government contracts in the defense industry.

This doesn't take into account postsecondary institutions, which have seen long - term building maintenance cuts, and whose students, paying some of the highest interest rates on student loans in the country, saw their grant program replaced with a loan - reduction program nine years ago.

Around six years ago, SCL entered the US and set up Cambridge Analytica, which received a grant of around $ 10 - 15 million from hedge fund billionaire and Republican party donor Robert Mercer, who partly owns the firm.

«This first patent grant by the European Patent Office marks a major milestone in Nchain's ambitious research and patent program, which started approximately two years ago,» Nguyen explains.

And in Silicon Valley, Icahn pounded on Yahoo's door a few years ago until the company granted him a seat on the board.

In a week when business lobby groups are appearing before the House of Commons Committee on Finance and calling for more tax breaks, the federal R&D Panel appointed a year ago released a very good report saying Canada's very generous system of R&D tax incentives haven't been effective and what we need instead are more direct grants -LSB-...]

Granted it was 40 years ago and things change, but considering that ethopian jews are in israel and have the right to protest in the first place is a pretty big deal and worth considering before making blanket statements without understanding the entire situation.

How come 200 years ago, I, as a white male land owner, had a right to vote — a right apparently granted by your god.

Sixty years ago, it was taken for granted that a significant portion of American writers were Catholics who balanced their dual identities as artists and believers.

Why thank you for granting me salvation from that apple thing about 2600 years ago.

Fifty years ago, the former could be more or less taken for granted in the sense that most Americans recognized that, at least for purposes of social policy, they should be concerned for the people of the nation as a whole and that, for purposes of international policy, they should be concerned for the world as a whole.

And though the dates I've seen have ranged more like 50 - 100 years after Jesus» death, even if we grant only 30 years... Well, try thinking about any conversation you had or event you witnessed 30 years ago, however important or profound that event was in your life.

When President of the National Council of Catholic Bishops / United States Catholic Conference twenty - five years ago, the late John Cardinal Krol wrote the CHD's guidelines with regard to upholding the Church's moral teaching when it grants funds.

This long - held popular attitude was elevated to the status of law a few years ago when the Supreme Court of Israel refused to grant Israeli citizenship to a Roman Catholic monk who claimed that he was eligible for it under a law authorizing

Will he be granted a Catholic funeral, as was his son three years ago?

Although Grant, as a Red Tory, tended to support the Conservative Party, he would scarcely be enthusiastic about what that party has become today under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who moved two years ago to shut down a backbencher's effort to reopen the issue of when human life begins.

Chad: Sure, I grant you that evidence supports the assertion that a rather large flood occurred in that region thousands of years ago.

Legendary head coach Max Miller led the Lancers to the playoffs 10 years ago, where they lost to Grant - Sacramento on Nov. 17, 2006, and four different coaches have managed just one winning record in the last decade.

It was granted by congress about 100 years ago.

Not just «Well at least he's better than Payne and Grant» excited but «Oh yeah this guy was the # 5 pick in the draft a year ago...» excited.

Today's medical technology is so far advanced compared to just 10 years ago that careers that ended prematurely like Grant Hill, Brandon Roy, TMac, Penny Hardaway, and even Greg Oden if they were born 10 — 15 years later they may have been able to come back.

That Earl Grant predicted this moment four years ago and executed it as planned is impossibly prescient.

So the Prof is determined to make sure that his players do not take this game for granted, reminding them that Brighton nearly managed to give us a scare a couple of years ago.

He has trained with top pro rider Grant Roberts and just four years ago started competing.

Granted, that was 3.5 years ago and Whittaker was like 23 back then.

Granted, cord - cutting might lead to a shift in what drives conference realignment in the future, but needless to say, the Big 12 is no more well - positioned to exist in the future than it was a year ago.

He said the park site, at 5900 S. Main St., was acquired with the help of a $ 300,000 grant about six years ago from the Conservation Department.

Ellman said the district began seeking a grant three years ago by developing a master plan.

«We expect to hear the results of our request by December of this year, much as we did a year ago when we received another grant for the Clauss Recreation Center,» McCray told board members during the session Wednesday evening.

That study was two years ago, and we have yet to see anything like that be recognized (and granted, it was for an insurance company so I take it with a grain of salt).

I should mention that I'm on Laura's book as well, which is super fun, but talking about my experience with using online support, and granted this was a couple more years ago, and it wasn't for breastfeeding, it was for parenting.

Don't assume and don't just accept for granted what your friend who went through a divorce three years ago tells you.

A few years ago, players in the Central Missouri Eagles Youth Ice Hockey program which I help coach spent the afternoon with sick, injured and disabled patients at a local children's hospital who must clear substantial hurdles before they can play the sports so many families simply take for granted.

I remember 15 years ago attending a conference in Ashland, Oregon, on grant writing and meeting an interesting woman that lived in Ashland.

The grant program began about 25 years ago when the National Park Service began setting aside money from off - shore oil leases and formed the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

This is one of eight pilot programs around the country begun two years ago with a $ 700,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to the Bank Street College of Education, which directs and coordinates the program.

A few nights ago at a local restaurant, a waitress made a comment to my husband and I that her 7 year old son is starting to take his toys for granted.

Kennedy narrowly defeated Grant in a primary for the 63rd State Senate District two years ago.

The village of Hoosick Falls has received a $ 220,000 grant from the state Environmental Facilities Corp. to help cover engineering and other expenses that followed the discovery three years ago of a toxic chemical in the community's water supplies.

Donna Hylton, who was paroled from Bedford Hills two - and - a-half years ago after spending 27 years in prison for murder, said Cuomo's refusal to grant clemency makes the penal system only about punishment, not rehabilitation.

A few years ago, Ulster Town Assessor Jim Maloney, who doubles as a Republican county legislator from the town, granted the perennially struggling Wiltwyck a near - 50 percent reduction in its assessment.

The Vermont town of Moretown, hard hit by Tropical Storm Irene's flooding two years ago, has won a $ 700,000 federal grant toward construction of a new town office building.