Sentences with phrase «held the lead from»

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This is the first space - related investment from lead Accel, which held early investments in technology companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, Slack, Spotify and Venmo.

The many ETFs, which are by nature more tradeable than traditional index funds, can lead investors to unnecessarily deviate from simple buy - and - hold behavior.

For example, Google announced that it will hold its own Women's Demo Day, which will feature women - led startups from around the country pitching to a group of judges at the Googleplex, with the goal of driving investment and providing Google mentorship and introductions to each entrepreneur.

Neil founded Virtuzone in 2009 and quickly established it as the region's leading company formation expert, before launching Virtugroup, a holding company that has a wider mandate of supporting startups from establishment; to successful market entry; and all the way through to exit.

Petronas is the lead partner in the LNG terminal, with companies from China, Japan, India and Brunei holding minority stakes.

Now they can choose from sensations such as naked, relaxed, hugged, tight, and held - in — five categories that are easily understood and not at all weird and definitely will not lead to more confusion for consumers in any way.

Although Obama holds a clear lead in contribution from the legal sector, the number is dwarfed by the amount he received from the industry four years ago when he received a staggering $ 46.5 million.

The commanding lead held last week by Prime Minister John Howard and the Liberal Party was not all froth and bubble, according to the latest results from the Miss Maud's Coffee Bean poll.

«I will agree that there have been a significant number of smart, leading folks from the Ohio Democratic Party or who have held Ohio Democratic Party elected positions who have talked to Jerry about this,» he said.

A couple of hours later, according to Alloush, mediators from the rebel group held talks with a team led by a senior officer from the Russian defense ministry.

At one point in 2005, criticism from the community that Mozilla managers were being too secretive led Baker to hold a moratorium on all corporate - only meetings for several months; it only ended when managers needed to discuss a human resources question too personal to share with everyone.

Another argument for holding off came from International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who urged more coordination among the world's leading central banks in order to ensure an orderly exit from QE.

Bank - led efforts to shield loans held on balance sheet from new mortgage rules are drawing heavy fire from consumer activists and independent mortgage lenders.

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Today, we walk you through the anatomy of a volume - driven breakout stock trade from The Wagner Daily newsletter that led to a 37 % gain over a 1 - month holding period.

Angling to be the go - to marketplace for these gene - based businesses, Helix, the spin out from genetic testing research and technology giant Illumina, has held a first close on a planned $ 200 million funding round led by new investor DFJ Growth.

Most recently, the advocacy group held a Blockchain Education Day event in Washington, DC, in which members of Congress mingled with representatives from more than 70 leading companies in the blockchain industry to promote the use of new innovations like blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

The shareholders of Citigroup who are still nursing stock losses of 85 percent from the bank's pre-crash days aren't going to be too comforted by reading about Rubin's musings about existentialism in coffee shops around Harvard when he should have been cramming for finance courses that might have led to his questioning the more than $ 1 trillion bucks that Citigroup held off its balance sheet in the leadup to its crash.

Led by Vivek Wadhwa, who holds titles at Stanford and Duke universities, and Lesa Mitchell, a vice president at the Kauffman Foundation, the report «Women in Technology: Evolving, Ready to Save the World» draws on responses to an online survey from 500 women in the tech sector (inside and outside the U.S.) and is scheduled to be published this spring.

Stephen has held Business Development roles where he has lead efforts to commercialise technologies at various stages of development from a range of industry sectors.

I was joined by 13 other economists who have led the President's Council of Economic Advisers, a post I held from 2003 to 2005.

This month, Alibaba Group Holding, a Chinese e-commerce company, led a $ 206 million investment in ShopRunner, which offers unlimited two - day shipping from retailers, that valued the company at $ 600 million.

Even though the Vanguard ETF holds plenty of dividend stocks in areas that aren't rate - sensitive or can even benefit from rising rates, many of the dividend - paying giants in its portfolio were among those stocks that led the market to the downside.

A Singapore international property show being held in the next fortnight features developers from the most popular investment destinations, led by Malaysia.

On January 25th, 2016 JPMC settled two outstanding disputes with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and certain of its affiliates in which Lehman alleged, inter alia, that JPMC coerced several billion dollars from Lehman on the eve of its bankruptcy, draining Lehman of virtually all liquidity and leading a bank run that ultimately led to Lehman's bankruptcy.

Although Uber's self - driving program is only a few years old, Kalanick's typically no - holds - barred approach quickly led to the establishment in 2015 of an autonomous car team consisting largely of robotics experts raided from Pittsburgh's prestigious Carnegie Mellon University.

HONG KONG (Reuters)- Dalian Wanda Group's commercial property arm has snagged a $ 5.4 billion investment from a group led by tech giant Tencent Holdings, one of the Chinese conglomerate's biggest deals aimed at easing financial strains and streamlining operations.

A rate hike was expected to lead to a breakout from the 1.3000 - 1.3300 range that the pair held from the start of October and catapult the pound sterling towards 1.3650 - 1.3700.

Wealthsimple is backed by $ 165 million in investment from the Power Financial Group, a leading financial holding company.

At McKinsey, he worked with leading global corporations in a variety of industries on strategy and organization challenges and held a number of leadership positions, including serving as a Managing Partner of the Canadian practice from 1991 to 1997 and co-leading its Global eBusiness practice.

Neo-Platonism held, among other things, that the most perfect being was the least physical, and had the least to do with the physical; that the way of salvation necessarily leads from the body, from the earthly - historical, to a realm of pure spirit.

But too often they direct their attack not at this great weakness of the church but at those who do have fervent beliefs leading to commitment and action, when these beliefs differ from the one's held by evangelicals.

The postulation of extraneous organizational principles leads biologists like Monod to classify Polanyi's thought as vitalistic.2 (Vitalism is the philosophy of nature which holds that the existence of life is exclusively the result of some extra-material principle totally different from matter.)

He was disappointed that some of them subsequently fell from this condition, but this did not lead him to deny that they had held it, and that others continued to do so.

Jaeger holds that this model»... can be pursued through the Middle Ages; and from the Renaissance the line leads straight back to the Christian humanism of the fathers of the fourth century A.D. and to their idea of man's dignity and of his reformation and rebirth through the Spirit.»

In the act of admonishing even he will say (for it is no rare speaker that is here introduced to talk, and just on that account the praise of the Good is so much the more glorious because it does not require the approval of eloquence, for here it is well to note that it is one of life's most tragically spoiled children who speaks admonishingly to a youth) even he will say, «Do not be afraid, be slow to judge others, but attend closely to yourself, hold firmly to willing one thing, to willing the Good in truth, and thus, from now on, let this lead you wherever for now it will lead you — because eternally it will lead you to victory.

This just goes to confirm my deep held belief that if you are a gifted charlatan, the idiots will come crawling from out of the woodwork to hand over their hard earned money to be led by the nose and support your lavish lifestyle.

Cobb holds that our task is to find a way between the Scylla of ecological holocaust to which our present policies are leading us and the Charybdis of degrading poverty that would follow from deindustrialization.

In the months leading up to this week's Supreme Court hearings, religious leaders from across the country have held prayer vigils and rallies for their respective causes.

Led by Archbishop Nathan Soderblöm of Sweden, a conference had been held, in 1925, at Stockholm, from whose deliberations the matters of creed, sacraments and orders were excluded.

Four electric guitars, an electronic keyboard, three young women holding mikes, leading us in a praise song that begins, «Oh how I appreciate you, Jesus»: do these words and this music fit Jesus, divine Son of God who dwelt among us, was crucified and rose from the dead?

Many things in this story seem like coincidences: that I happened to get interested in James Joyce and ask my Catholic friend about chasubles; that I and my boyfriend Steve, now my husband, happened to meet the same Polish Capuchin in little Broken Arrow; that the priest who prepared us for marriage ten years later happened to be a Polish Dominican from the priory in which the Krakow seminar was held; that Prof. Russell Hittinger happened to come to Tulsa, which led me to Poland and to First Things, all of which played a part in bringing my parents into the Church.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

Goodspeed holds the opinion that the letters were carefully kept by the churches to which they were addressed, perhaps read and reread from time to time, but that there was no attempt made at collecting them until after the appearance of Luke's early history of the church, the Acts of the Apostles, and that it was this which gave the impulse to a revival of interest in Paul, and led to a search for and collection of his extant writings.

Kiel, WI — May 18, 2016 - Stoelting Foodservice, a division of the Vollrath Company, a leading manufacturer of foodservice equipment and smallwares, announces its participation in the highly anticipated National Restaurant Association ® (NRA) Show, held from May 21 - 24 in Chicago, Illinois at McCormick Place.

Vinitaly, held in Verona from April 15 — 18, confirmed what's trending in Italian wines, with rosato, organic wines and sparkling wines leading the pack.

Led by Greg and David Figueroa — two brothers from New Orleans with chiles in their blood — the privately held Melinda's brand has been growing at nearly quadruple the 4.73 % growth rate of the $ 427.2 million hot / Cajun sauce category (according to Chicago - based IRI).

New data from Innova Market Insights reveals that California almonds were the number one nut used in new products worldwide in 2016, the tenth year that almonds have held the lead position for nuts used in new product introductions.

Flexco, the world's leading light - duty endless splicing and fastener solutions provider will be presenting the new FGP Food Grade Precleaners and other innovative conveyor solutions at ProPak Asia 2015, held in Bangkok, Thailand from June 17 to 20.

Recently the Food Waste Reduction Alliance — lead by Food Marketing Institute, Grocery Manufacturers Association and National Restaurant Association — held a convening of representatives from the food industry, government agencies and non-government groups, all sharing an interest in addressing the issue of food waste.