Sentences with phrase «hand of»

«It strengthens the hand of investors in other price - fixing cases based on benchmarks that were reached in collaborative, or outright collusive, arrangements,» said Lawrence White, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.

Obama's visit in March 2016 had left Cuban leaders ambivalent about the hand of friendship he extended: Fidel Castro, ailing and almost 90, stirred from his retirement to attack the American president's «syrupy words,» and what he saw as an insidious plea for Cubans to forget the Americans» dark history with the island.

«Hand of God,» the TV debut of filmmaker Marc Forster («Monster's Ball»), will star Ron Perlman («Sons of Anarchy») as a powerful judge who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart.

«When you let your card expire,» he explains, «essentially, you're so inactive with the use of that account that you're almost forcing the hand of the credit card issuer to close the account underneath you.»

For his part, Goldman said the lack of available land in Manhattan has forced the hand of some developers.

By the time the West struck back just under a week later, armed resistance in the areas around the Syrian government's seat of power had all but collapsed, further strengthening the hand of President Bashar al - Assad.

The absence of a nominee from the White House tipped the hand of the board in favor of Williams over a candidate that was either diverse, or one who had expertise in financial regulation.

Unfortunately, we can't force the hand of a company to change their culture overnight.

Adam Lowry: There are those who still cling to the antiquated idea that the invisible hand of the free market is all we need to prosper and ensure equitable outcomes for shareholders and stakeholders.

She took 15 seconds of videotape showing the applicant as he or she knocks on the door, comes in, shakes the hand of the interviewer, sits down, and is welcomed by the interviewer.

Capitalism is based on the idea that The Invisible Hand of self - interest will drive markets to benefit all participants.

Do I want to look back and say, «I played my hand of life to the fullest, and I have no regrets» or «I played it safe, no one noticed me and I survived»?»

The video supposedly showed the pharmacist touching the hand of the customer, who was crying, according to ABC News.

«In a weird way, mobile is forcing the hand of IT, to be more co-operative,» says Nigel Wallis, a research director at IDC Canada.

Even before we launched, my co-founders and I had a big requirement that we wanted to have enough doctors on the website, so that there is actually a scroll bar on the right hand of the site and I remember it was a couple days before launch and we only a handful of doctors on ZocDoc.

The rest need help: They run and reach for the outstretched hand of a stranger who they hope will catch them and haul them up.

«Holding the hand of someone you don't want to hold hands with is almost as hard as looking into their eyes.

«It is a tremendous weapon in the hands of an adversary.»

To supporters of this strategy, only a gun in the hands of a good guy can stop one in the hands of a bad guy.

The product symbolizes Taxa's goal of proving that GMO technology doesn't have to just be in the hands of large corporations.

Perth - founded IT company XciteLogic has been placed in the hands of administrators with debts of just under $ 4 million.

A number of these highly addictive painkillers get diverted, landing in the hands of patients who misuse them or lack a legitimate medical need; often, they wind up with people to whom they were never prescribed.

Travelers who dare to try to smuggle marijuana from California abroad might end up in the hands of U.S. officials.

Although the final fate of the sweeping health care reform lies in the hands of the Supreme Court, one can't fault Obama for not staying true to his word on this one.

Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016 about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.

But anytime you place your revenues in the hands of another company, you subject yourself to both the positive and negative consequences of their actions.

But that's the situation that fans of the critically - acclaimed NBC drama This Is Us found themselves in after Tuesday's episode, in which the long - anticipated death of a leading character (actor Milo Ventimiglia's Jack) is hinted to ended up coming at the hands of a faulty slow - cooker, of all things.

Decentralized authentication places the power to manage one's identity back in the hands of those to whom it belongs, its owners.

It took most of the year, but now I am able to leave the business in the capable hands of my employees and get some balance in my life.

Perth law firm Rockwell Olivier has been placed in the hands of administrators, after its sole director concluded the business was insolvent.

Putting your brand into the hands of a social media influencer can be a high - risk, high - reward proposition.

The most important thing for you at this moment is to get your product in the hands of the customer.

In short order, Casper has already made a name for itself in the $ 13 billion U.S. mattress industry, which remains predominantly in the hands of traditional retailers and powerhouse - brand manufacturers.

Below is an interactive timeline of the dramatic fight over Dell that ultimately ended up with the PC maker back in the hands of the man who created it.

If those services get hacked, as was the case with Ashley Madison, or purchased by other companies, customer information ends up in the hands of different people and organizations — from the annoying to the downright nefarious,» Rodriguez reported in November.

Detailed reports and allegedly leaked audio paint a picture of an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the US military, and how the remains of dead Russian mercenaries are being held until after Russia's presidential election in March.

He can now rush it through a vote and wash his hands of it when it fails.

As such, it also gives owners and investors more control over the business, in a way that they would not be subjected to the mercy of the hands of the programmers.

Some of the losses appear to be coming at the hands of IPTV providers, the big two of which are Bell and Telus.

Costly distributors and retailers are made irrelevant and unnecessary when manufacturers control the supply chain from product conceptualization and R&D, to manufacturing, to ecommerce sites and into the hands of our consumers.

This puts the power back into the hands of the consumer.

We're going to use the additional investment to put our app in the hands of every single person worldwide who does weekly shopping.

As with Facebook's Instant Articles, however, Medium's offer to publishers brings up many of the same risks: Number one being that your fate — and the discoverability of your content, and any relationship you have with your readers around that content — is essentially in the hands of a third - party provider.

Choung now employs 60 people, and nearly all his $ 6 million in annual revenue passes through the hands of his factor.

You want to put most of Canadians retirement savings in the hands of government?»

Evidence of his legacy is virtually everywhere you look, glowing in the hands of passersby and most likely in your own clutches.

In general, founders don't seem to worry about failure at the hands of their competition — only 5 percent cited this as a concern.

If we put technology into the hands of these entrepreneurs and into other great minds, what could we be capable of achieving?

«Lots of sensitive data is the hands of third parties.

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