Sentences with phrase «growing lead in the first»

«While Sadiq Khan has a growing lead in the first round, Zac Goldsmith appears to be doing better among second preferences than before and to be gaining ground on who Londoners trust to handle key issues.

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The first company on the list, Avella Specialty Pharmacy, led by CEO Rebecca Shanahan, grew by $ 469 million during the last three years, to about $ 800 million in sales.

That homework has allowed Diagnostics Biochem Canada to gain a first - mover advantage in growing economies; Hogue says that getting one client in a new country often leads to 10.

Overall, seed is a leading indicator for venture, and it has been growing year over year in absolute dollar terms and by percent since 2009 when we first started measuring these trends.

Companies in Stage 2 stray from the disciplined creativity that led them to greatness in the first place, making undisciplined leaps into areas where they can not be great or growing faster than they can achieve with excellence — or both.

Kalanick's desire to hire Levandowski to help lead Uber's growing self - driving team, first created in 2015, came out of a frustration with the pace of Uber's self - driving development.

«We were in need of more leads in order to grow our business and Bant.io team was on top by delivering ideal customers for us, right from the first week.

He helped lead the first institutional investment in Wayfair, which has grown into the second largest independent ecommerce vendor in the United States.

First, infoDev, a multi-donor program in the World Bank Group, recently published Growing Women - led Enterprises in the Mekong: Testing a Methodology for Accelerating Growth.

Raquel will remain in Toronto to lead a new branch of our Advanced Technologies Group — our first outside the U.S.. By setting up shop at the MaRS Discovery District, we hope to draw from the region's impressive talent pool as we grow, helping the dozens of researchers we plan to hire stay connected to the Toronto - Waterloo Corridor.

Katherine was responsible for building and leading the marketing team, and helped ride volume grow more than 3x in the first quarter.

I grew up in the UK, completed my graduate training at the BBC and after that, I launched off into startup land, as lead engineer at the first competitive phone company in the UK, which sold to the company that became Vodafone.

The first men's small group I was in ended when our pastor decided three of the five guys in the group needed to lead new small groups so we could «grow the program.»

Leading industrial chocolate supplier Barry Callebaut has opened its first cocoa pilot plant in North America, a move that follows its reported objective to grow its chocolate volume sales by between 6 to 8 per cent up to 2013.

THE installation of a third extruder at LINPAC Ritterhude is enabling the leading European food packaging manufacturer to deliver products made from up to 100 per cent recycled content for the first time and address the growing demand for PET and rPET in north - west Europe.

The group's focus brands grew volumes by 4 % in the first half, led by Budweiser internationally, Antarctica, Brahma and Skol in Brazil -LSB-...]

As the restaurant grew in popularity so did the long wait times, which led to the creation of Knott's Berry Farm's first attraction - Ghost Town.

When the founders noticed many Muslim cab drivers in New York City were looking for a place to buy halal food in Manhattan, they created their first food cart that quickly grew into a leading destination for American halal fare.

Team Malvin pushed the pace and jumped out to a huge lead in the first half and it only grew in the early stages of the second half.

Spurs grew into the game in the first half, and Dele Alli had a good headed chance to fire Spurs into the lead, but failed to convert.

And from that book that she has great plans to join me in making some tinctures and salves from what we have growing around here, leading to her hanging the first herbs of the season in the library for drying.

But as therapist Sheri Meyers notes, after a confession and an apology «the next critical step is growing up and showing up strong and ready to face and repair the issues that led to infidelity in the first place.»

Beth became interested in AP shortly after the birth of her first son, and that passion has continued to grow over the past 5 years leading Beth to begin the process of becoming an API Leader in her local chapter of Attachment Parenting International (API).

This all leads to ever - growing rates of inflammatory bowel diseases, asthma, diabetes, obesity, and many other chronic maladies — and it's largely linked to baby's beginnings in the womb, at birth, and during the first years.

On his maiden Premier League start, Martina became the first Curacaoan to score in the division and Southampton grew in confidence, doubling the lead 10 minutes into the second half via the first of a Shane Long brace.

It is the reason President Akufo - Addo must be cheered on at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly as President in about a fortnight from now and it is the reason we shouldn't endorse the growing tendency to wish ill of the Black Stars though I am not unaware of leading NPP officials making provocative statements about how the NDC Government was responsible for the poor results in earlier qualifiers and how only NPP supporters will be sent to Russia, but we must regardless always learn to rise above the misguided few and reach out for the Ghana Flag anytime it is about our dear country.

The research team, led by Dr Sarah Ayres, conducted interviews with senior Whitehall officials in which they found a growing awareness of the need to boost the competitiveness of England's economically weaker regions and to improve services through decentralisation and empowerment.Whitehall officials viewed the first round of RFAs in 2006 as generally positive - in particular, the main beneficiary had been the Department for Transport and transport policy.

Our faculty member, Dr. Jennifer Gilbert Jenkins, led the Morrisville effort and collaborated with JD Farms to grow the first successful crop under this permit in New York this past year.

A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, has taken the first systematic look at what large - scale, commodity farmers - not those mainly involved in organic growing - think about genetically - modified crops.

Lots of Cameron on the TV with some good policies + people remembering why they didn't like Brown in the first place = growing poll lead.

Allowing the first UK TV ad showing e-cigarette use flies in the face of growing concerns about their impact, says a leading public health expert

The work was led by Dan S. Kaufman, a hematologist, and James A. Thomson, the first scientist to grow human embryonic stem cells in culture.

Lead author Professor Gail Taylor, from Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton, said: «Atmospheric CO2 is rising — emissions grew faster in the 2000s than the 1990s and the concentration of CO2 reached 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history in 2013.

«This first study of this problem in mice adds to the growing body of evidence that inhalation of particulate matter from implantation through the second trimester of pregnancy is potentially dangerous,» says lead author and investigator Jason Blum, PhD, MS, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine.

«Interestingly, even the slightest manipulation of this balance changes the pattern of blood vessel growth, causing the blood vessels to grow into the motor neuron region prematurely,» explains the first author of the study, Patricia Himmels, a doctoral candidate in the research group led by Dr Ruiz de Almodóvar.

The researchers measured the zinc and lead concentrations in two large feathers removed from each bird's wings when they were first caught, and then did the same 1 year later for replacement feathers that had grown from the same follicle.

Professor Jose Iriarte, from the University of Exeter, who led the research, said: «This is the first study to identify when wild rice first began to be grown for food in South America.

To figure out what goes wrong in these mice, a team led by Jeremy Nathans, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, examined the skin of newborn Frizzled6 and normal mice under a microscope each day as their first hairs grew in.

Scientists have identified for the first time the «cell of origin» — in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows — in basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, and followed the chain of events that lead to the growth of these invasive tumours.

Online dating in Kenya grew significantly during the first decade of this century thanks to an influx of high speed fiber optic bandwidth that led to a reduction in internet prices.

«I really wanted this experience because I feel like my intent to grow this part of my life and led in a long - term relationship me to Amie and her program, and within the first few emails I received, I knew I was in the right place.

MANILA, Philippines — Following the success of Mario Maurer's movie, «The Love of Siam,» the Thai model - actor was rumored to be dating his leading Since this site was first put on the web in 1999, its popularity has grown tremendously.

In addition to casting actors with Down syndrome in key parts in recent hit TV shows like American Horror Story (Jamie Brewer) and Glee (Lauren Potter), 2015's Where Hope Grows made history as the first major US theatrical release to star an actor with Down syndrome in a leading role (David DeSanctisIn addition to casting actors with Down syndrome in key parts in recent hit TV shows like American Horror Story (Jamie Brewer) and Glee (Lauren Potter), 2015's Where Hope Grows made history as the first major US theatrical release to star an actor with Down syndrome in a leading role (David DeSanctisin key parts in recent hit TV shows like American Horror Story (Jamie Brewer) and Glee (Lauren Potter), 2015's Where Hope Grows made history as the first major US theatrical release to star an actor with Down syndrome in a leading role (David DeSanctisin recent hit TV shows like American Horror Story (Jamie Brewer) and Glee (Lauren Potter), 2015's Where Hope Grows made history as the first major US theatrical release to star an actor with Down syndrome in a leading role (David DeSanctisin a leading role (David DeSanctis).

Their stories have more in common than we're first led to believe, but for most of the film, they're married by parallel sensations of discovery and the fear of being far too young and disadvantaged to be navigating their grown - up quests alone.

Funnymen Martin Lawrence (Big Momma's House, Bad Boys I & II), Tracy Morgan («30 Rock,» First Sunday, Cop Out) and Chris Rock (Grown Ups, Madagascar) lead an all - star cast in this uproarious tale of a family mourning the loss of their patriarch over the course of one unexpectedly hilarious day.

PAI offers a suite of workshops supporting school leaders and their communities, including Teacher Wellbeing, Principal Wellbeing, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Graduate and Grow (mentoring and supporting early - career teachers), Leading Change (change management in schools), and more.

«I am very pleased to welcome the launch of the first Smart Wallcoverings into the range», said company director and founder Ronan Clarke, «as a company led by research and development we are committed to further growing this category of products in our range giving our international partners and customers a comprehensive and innovative range of functional surface products.»

In 2011, she led New York State's first successful public charter school turnaround as executive director of Harlem Prep, which grew from the third percentile citywide to the 96th percentile in just one academic yeaIn 2011, she led New York State's first successful public charter school turnaround as executive director of Harlem Prep, which grew from the third percentile citywide to the 96th percentile in just one academic yeain just one academic year.

Studying and researching the development of young children growing up in homes where English is not the primary language, has led her to believe firmly in how important first and second language development are to later learning.

Barnes & Noble, the largest U.S. bookstore chain, launched the first version of the Nook e-reader in 2009 to take on Amazon.com Inc's market - leading Kindle and secure a place in the fast growing e-books market.