Sentences with phrase «have some backing from»

Gin Lane had never taken equity before, but Harry's had backing from a number of venture capital firms Shine knew well, and one of the Harry's co-founders had helped launch online eyewear company Warby Parker.

With just under $ 70 million in revenue, the company is on a path to profitability and has backing from the likes of Catamount Ventures and Oak Investment Partners.

In Indonesia, the region's biggest economy and most populous country with more than 250 million people, it's in a fierce battle for customers with local app Go - Jek, which has backing from Google and Tencent.

Poloz nonetheless has backing from economists for hiking.

And a stocks and cash portfolio mix does have some backing from the investment community.

Lighthizer is expected to try to nix another transnational court for investment disputes, and he has backing from a wide variety of constitutional lawyers, environmental and labor groups, and conservative think tanks that say the special courts encroach on U.S. sovereignty.

Meredith had backing from the private equity arm of Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire conservative donors, to make the buy.

The proposed event at Providence appears to have both backing from the city and interest from IndyCar to compete on a 2.1 - mile, 11 - turn circuit within the capital of Rhode Island.

Vertonghen has been a key part of Spurs» good form, in both domestic and European competition, and having him back from injury will be a huge boost to the club.

While an MP might owe his or her place in parliament, or even cabinet, not due to patronage from above, but because he was an NUM MP, or had backing from the public sector unions, or the London Labour Party etc, s / he could enter into those discussions pre-vote from a position of real stregnth.

But there's a new plan to add tolls to the four southern East River bridges and Manhattan itself at 60th Street, and it has backing from the City Council's Progressive Caucus.

Tory unease over ban on books being sent to prisoners: Grayling stance «has no backing from any quarter» http://t.co/I4cLJP0985

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spoke recently at a rally of the parents and students with Alliance for Quality Education, a lobby group that has backing from the teachers union.

Burnham and Liz Kendall were each reported to have backing from under 4 % of respondents — Burnham with 715 supporters and Kendall with just 384.

In the end, his margins were particularly high in Erie County, where his running mate Kathy Hochul has her home base, and in the outer boroughs of New York City, where he had backing from the county organizations.

After initially signaling he would back from his plan to introduce his own enabling legislation for building casinos, Sen. John Bonacic today announced the introduction of a bill that would give priority to the Catskill region.

And he has backing from an anti-Schneiderman SuperPAC.

He traveled the state with his message, took to the Web, and had backing from a coalition of business interests who bankrolled an ad campaign in favor of his spending plan.

It pits state Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, who has the backing from just about every important figure in the Empire State's Democratic establishment, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, against New York City Councilman Charles Barron, whose views veer quite far from the establishment line.

It also hands too much power to the power brokers — up to 130 of Labour's MPs have backing from the Unite union, which has warned Labour to choose the «correct leader».

De Blasio's full - court press for universal pre-K and added social services has backing from the teachers and principals unions, which oppose many of Cuomo's reforms.

The group has backing from several officials — including City Councilman Mathieu Eugene, who spoke at a press conference Friday — and at least one mayoral candidate.

Benjamin had backing from Manhattan party chief Keith Wright and other area district leaders and State Sen. Bill Perkin was pushing for Adams, one of his aides.

To the chagrin of scientists who may have hoped to see the law derailed, it has backing from the country's top leaders.

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But Eric had fond memories of visiting Orcas Island, so when he was living in Delaware and got a call from a relative to come out for a construction job, he was enticed to go back.

The two - page, follow - up letter said that, in fact, only «a small number» of the thousands of emails found on the laptop had been forwarded there while most had simply been backed up from electronic devices.

«Lots of people have been waiting for this one to pull back to safer levels from much higher levels [where] it was, and that's exactly what's occurred over the last couple weeks,» he said.

Bank stocks have benefited from both the anticipation of higher interest rates, which the Federal Reserve is expected to raise next week, as well as the belief that the Trump administration will roll back some of the more onerous financial regulations stemming from the Dodd - Frank Act.

He has since contracted with a local private school to transport students from home to school in the morning and back in the afternoon.

Apart from smartphones, Xiaomi has backed dozens of startups producing a wide spectrum of products from wearables to rice cookers.

I learned the secrets of a two - time championship NBA coach who's taken the pressure out of the game for his players so they can be freed to take risks and I learned about where to find the courage to bounce back and reinvent yourself from the former CEO of the internet's most famous flop who has since rebuilt her reputation and a thriving business.

The Iraqi military, with support from the US - led coalition, Kurdish forces, and Iranian - backed Shiite militia units, have been slowly closing in on Mosul since the start of an offensive on October 16.

All of EmPowered's stylish bags can store enough juice to bring your smartphone from dead to 100 % twice before you have to plug it back in.

The government appears to have backed away from rumoured new regulations for the airline industry and, rather than regulating credit card fees, will instead compel more transparency.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has fired back at union claims that the resources sector does nothing to train the state's workforce, but relies on migrants and poaching workers from other industri

Mr. Thiel has long stood out in Silicon Valley for his vocal libertarianism, but he drew heavy criticism from many tech - industry peers — including fellow Facebook board member Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix Inc. — when he backed Mr. Trump's presidential campaign and later served as an adviser on his White House transition team.

ONE of Western Australia's largest Aboriginal organisations has come back from a damaging federal government review and received a clean report card from the official regulator.

Aurizon's West Pilbara iron ore joint venture has won backing from one of Australia's big four banks, ANZ Banking Group.

«I'm grateful for everything you've done to help connect the world, and for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands,» Zuckerberg wrote.

Nintendo (ntdoy) on Friday priced its first console in about four years above market expectations, disappointing investors and clouding its prospects of winning back gamers who have shifted from consoles to smartphones.

Because back in 1971 small business had trouble getting loans from Canadian banks to grow their companies.

Meanwhile, another labor law professor, Temple's Brishen Rogers, told me, «I wouldn't rule out an appeal to the 9th Circuit, which could then push the trial back quite a bit, but also set up an interesting comparison case with the FedEx case from 2014.»

Total retail sales, measured in dollars, have bounced back from a nasty fall in late 2014.

It shows how many have come back to buy from you after their first purchase, which provides a good indication of the success of your customer retention efforts.

White and partners bought back the company at a fraction of the investment cost, but had to scale back from 60 employees to 3.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D) of Ohio challenged minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D) of California for the leadership and was backed by a third of the caucus, some from the swath between the coasts.

The book, titled Modus Orandi Deum Aliaque Pia et Christiana Exercitia Nec Non Deiparae Virginis Maria Litaniae, was marked with an antique stamp from the Royal Library of Turin, and the purchaser was right to trust his instincts; it had been stolen from a display case there back in 2012.

Data from hedge fund analytical tool Kensho that examined patterns coinciding with U.S. military actions in the Middle East dating back to the 1990s show that in the day, week and month after a Mideast strike, oil has underperformed other assets, and the energy sector has been one of the worst in the S&P 500.

At the same time, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has patted itself on the back highlighting a 36 percent decline in apprehensions from 2008 to 2010 due to fewer people attempting to cross the border.