Sentences with phrase «group led off»

The East End Photographers Group leads off the 2014 Summer Season with its «Spring Exhibition» held from May 31 through June 8, 2014 at Ashawagh Hall in historic Springs, located outside of East Hampton Village, N.Y..

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She did it in part by selling off a 7.8 % stake in TV broadcaster Mediaset and replacing the CEO of the group's core business, Mondadori, Italy's leading book and magazine publisher, where she is pushing an aggressive digital transformation.

American Airlines Chief Executive Doug Parker said on Thursday that a move by the leading U.S. black civil rights group to warn black travelers off the airline was «obviously a disappointment.»

The activist fund recently came off a bitter proxy contest at restaurant group Buffalo Wild Wings, where it won three board seats and led to the resignation of CEO Sally Smith.

The investor group, led by American private - equity firm Silver Lake, now has to figure out how to convince more Skype users to actually pay for the communications service, all the while fending off Google, which is becoming a major competitor.

A chance meeting with New York developer Stephen Ross led to the founding of The Related Group, which started off making affordable housing but today specializes in high - end condominiums.

The school offers more than 20 off - campus study groups — a study - abroad - like experience in which Colgate faculty lead a course at an international institution.

When Barbara Corcoran, 68, sold off her real estate firm, the Corcoran Group, in 2001, she reached a milestone that leads many entrepreneurs to call it quits.

Laissez - Faire: A form of management that is characterized by being very hands - off and allowing group members to make many big decisions, a laissez - faire management style has generally led to the lowest productivity level among groups.

The hard - line contingent — led by the president's chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, and the director of the National Trade Council, Peter Navarro — squared off against the more traditional group, which included two former Goldman Sachs executives, Gary D. Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, and the Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.

A few weeks ago, my buddy and former HBS classmate, Allan, asked me if I'd like to give a talk about my debt pay - off to the youth group that he leads at his church.

16 years of capital markets experience as Founder, President, and CEO of Tryton Financial, a leading private global merchant banking group specializing in mergers, acquisitions, spin - offs, funding and corporate restructuring (trytonfinancial.com).

«Advances were broad across all sectors, led by the materials group and gold stocks in particular which rebounded off last year's low,» said MacDonald.

Marketers that can hand off a lead to sales which tells them, for example, which LinkedIn group the prospect joined, what blog posts they read or Twitter feeds they subscribed to, along with which whitepapers or ebooks they shared with colleagues, gives the necessary lead intelligence to make alignment a reality.

While a Verizon group led by AOL Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong is still focused on integration planning to get Yahoo up and running, another team, walled off from the rest, is reviewing the breach disclosures and the company's options, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private information.

Treasury Wine was split off from the former Foster's Group in May, 2011 to become a separate entity, with wine brands including Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Rosemount and Lindemans, plus the large US wine business led by the Beringer brand.

Kyle Nelson had what he considered to be an «off night,» which for most would be a great Game, scored 24 points to lead the way for this group.

That first group includes the defending Masters champion in Willett, who shot a 1 - over 73 on Thursday, and Kuchar, who at even par is seven strokes off the lead.

Led by the starting five that played the second-most minutes of any group in the league, they won 54 games and knocked off the Rockets in an epic six - game series.

LaRocco was the Troubadours» top finisher at the state meet with a 16th - place result, and she has led the group both off and on the course thus far in 2013.

There are signs that the old - school group led by veterans such as Velasco and Palmer and Corbett are being overrun in the larger events by younger, uptight athletes coming off a background in Ironman competitions and road marathons.

Led in Week 2 by Ben «born ready» Hadelman this group rattled off an extremely impressive W against Team Wilneff.

He starts Saturday two shots off the lead at 8 - under, going out in the penultimate group at 1:46 p.m. ET.

I think Bretts comment of it being a group decision «led by Fultz» takes ownership of him not playing off of BC and BB.

A win in the final group game in Italy would have seen them qualify automatically, and they led until the last 17 minutes, but goals from Alessandro Florenzi and Graziano Pelle, allied with a Croatian win in Valletta, consigned the Scandinavians to the play - off berth.

Braaten back - heeled the ball in to give FCK a fifth - minute lead and they withstood a second - half charge from Gala to claim the win which sees them climb off the bottom of Group B and level on four points with their opponents.

Just off the leading group, Lizzie Armitstead climbed well, her months of mountain training showing, as she passed reigning Olympic champion Marianne Vos.

Your classes will then be led off the bus and organized into letter groups by class, each with their own tour card.

Assist instructors leading groups of 15 youth during lab and field - based science investigations at the Nature Museum and off - site.

fMRI experiments have shown that our attitudes towards those we perceive as out - groups are affected by the so - called «mirror neurons» (normally responsible for mimicry and empathy), which are «switched off», leading us to resist emotional connections.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

L - R: Deputy Director, Training, Mr Ifenayi Agoha, Los Angeles County's Chief Election Official, Dean Logan, External Member, The Electoral Institute (TEI), Dr Kole Shettima, Acting Director General, TEI, Dr Sa'ad Idris, Lead Facilitator, Conny McCormack, National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Prince Adedeji Soyebi and Deputy Director, Research and Documentation, Mr Emeka Nwachukwu take time off for a group photo at a professional training in Elections, Electoral Data Management, Storage and Analysis, which began on 14th December in California, United States.

The group, led by the Rev. Jason J. McGuire (pictured), claims that the state Senate, in adopting the legislation, violated the state's Open Meetings Law by closing off the Senate galleries and lobby; and by holding closed door meetings with Mayor Bloomberg and others who backed the law.

In August those efforts paid off when a group of geologists led by Matthew Jackson, now at Boston University, identified a reservoir of primitive mantle material that is 4.5 billion years old — almost as old as the planet itself.

Dr. Harmand, the lead author, says that the Lomekwi 3 artifacts show that at least one group of ancient hominin started intentionally «knapping» stones — breaking off pieces with quick, hard strikes from another stone — to make sharp tools long before previously thought.

In 2002, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group led by Ball spun off from AAAS to become an independent non-profit organization, The Martus Group.

That group, led by Beklemishev and Aleksandr Shestopalov of VECTOR, took samples from seals at a rookery on Maly Zhemchuzhny Island off the Russian coast and from a rookery on Kazakhstan's Bautin Bay.

Scientists knew all 10 of them — a male and three female - led family groups of four, three, and two — from the waters off northern British Columbia and southeastern Alaska.

Two years later a coalition of green groups led by NRDC and including the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), the League for Coastal Protection, Cetacean Society International, and Ocean Futures Society upped the ante, asking the federal courts to also restrict testing of more intense, harmful and far ranging mid-frequency types of sonar off Southern California's coastline.

«We were expecting to find that people who were able to mix with new cultural groups would be better off,» says Kamaldeep Bhui, the lead researcher.

A group of researchers and engineers led by Nathalia Alzate from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy whisked the solar filters off their telescopes to begin taking images of the corona.

Groups at Rockefeller and elsewhere are trying to understand how AID causes its off - target damage to DNA, which could lead to new treatments.

«We weren't looking to explain anything about choice bias to start off with,» said lead author Jeffrey Cockburn, a graduate student in the research group of senior author Michael Frank, associate professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences.

A recently signed agreement between Lockheed Martin, of Bethesda, Md., and the Beijing - based Reignwood Group should lead to the completion of the alternative energy plant by 2017 in waters off southern China's Hainan Island.

We show how the tactics of the tobacco industry's campaign for «sound science» led to the formation of front groups who, as they lost the battle to deny smoking's health hazards and keep warning labels off of cigarettes, turned their argumentative skills to the denial of climate change science in order to slow government action.

«Vegf sets off a signaling cascade that eventually activates a group of proteins, called Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases, or MAPKs,» said Gladstone Staff Scientist Joshua Wythe, PhD, the paper's lead author.

This was an informal group of people who decided to take a lead in testing the case for an association and willing to put in the backing to get it off the ground.

Also, the dating app's STD - awareness page helped Tinder fend off serious attacks from the leading sexual health advocacy group's crusade against unprotected sex and unsafe sexual hook - ups promoted via online dating sites.

An underdog group of cavemen, led by the plucky Dug (who's voiced by Eddie Redmayne) face - off against the powerhouse Real Bronzio team.

Along with a group of half - brained criminals led by Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson) and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $ 17 million in cash... only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall.