Sentences with phrase «hit by a self»

A woman in Arizona has died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber in what is believed to be the first time a pedestrian has been killed by an autonomous vehicle.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

I still get hit by self - doubt: maybe the book just wasn't good enough, maybe it didn't deserve to get published at all, maybe I'm just indulging in delusions of adequacy.

A pedestrian has become the first to die after being hit by a self - driving car.

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Galvanized by the late - 2013 release of her self - titled fifth studio LP, the fastest - selling album ever to hit Apple's iTunes, Queen Bey reached new heights in 2014.

The popular blogging and social media tool was hit by a hacker group that reportedly spammed 8,600 accounts with a crude message criticizing bloggers, calling them «self - insisting, self - deprecating, self - indulgent empty husks of human beings.»

Today, thanks to ebooks and Amazon (amzn), self - publishing is a global phenomenon — an independent route intentionally chosen by more and more authors — that has spawned not only mega-bestsellers like Fifty Shades of Grey, but also hits in other realms, such as the movie version of The Martian.

And in October or November, according to the latest estimates by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the government will once again hit its self - imposed debt ceiling, a legislated limit on how much the country can borrow.

Cristina Perez Hesano, attorney with the firm of Bellah Perez in Glendale, Arizona, said «the matter has been resolved» between Uber and the daughter and husband of Elaine Herzberg, 49, who died after being hit by an Uber self - driving SUV in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe earlier this month.

TORONTO, Jan 3 - Canada's main stock index hit a fresh all - time high on Wednesday, boosted by a jump in shares of BlackBerry Ltd after it announced a self - driving deal with China's Baidu and by sharp gains for several marijuana producers.

TORONTO, Jan 3 (Reuters)- Canada's main stock index hit a fresh all - time high on Wednesday, boosted by a jump in shares of BlackBerry Ltd after it announced a self - driving deal with China's Baidu and by sharp gains for several marijuana producers.

The family of 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg, who was killed earlier this month when she was hit by one of Uber's self - driving vehicles in Tempe, Arizona, has reached a settlement with the ride - hailing giant, an attorney for the family said Thursday.

Musumari's immediate family was hit by AIDS, and he shares songs of hope, sexual self - restraint, and Christian strength.

I don think all those responding this morning has woken up yet, man City put seven past burnley and unless we adopted the same tactics of two seasons ago by being very defensive and hit them on counterattack because it's important we get a result as we did against Chelsea when most pundits were fearing the worst and a point on Sunday will be wicked for it will do wonders for the players self confidence and send a message as well that arsenal can still do the business

This time Cox hit Brees with the hat trick: sack, caused fumble and the recovery... all by his damn self!

or simply trying to prove us all wrong again by showing that he could play just about anybody anywhere and win a game on the road against a top opponent; something he hasn't done in quite some time... regardless of the reasons, there is simply no excuse for the goings - on at this club... unfortunately it's unlikely that any real change will come without a dedicated effort on the part of those that feed the beast... our absentee landlord doesn't invest his own money into this club, so in order to force out Kroenke, Wenger and whatever other vermin currently haunt our hallowed halls we need to hit him where it really hurts... continually filling «his» stadium and the constant buying of endless merchandise, like one of the 58 different jerseys available over the last few years, makes us the greatest enablers of all time... have we no self - respect?

All too often, even hits hard enough to cause an athlete to display signs of concussion that can be observed by sideline personnel, or which cause the athlete to experience symptoms of concussion, go undetected, either because the signs are too subtle to be seen or are simply missed by sideline personnel or because the athlete fails to report them (a 2010 study [7] of Canadian junior hockey players, for example, found that, for every concussion self - reported by the players or identified by the coaches or on - the - bench medical personnel, physician observers in the stands picked up seven)- a persistent problem that, given the «warrior» mentality and culture of contact and collision sports, is not going to go away any time soon, if ever.

The imaging changes also strongly correlated with the number of head hits (self - reported by the athletes in a diary), the symptoms experienced, and independent cognitive tests, said lead author Jeffrey Bazarian, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine at URMC.

So when she couldn't even shower by herself anymore, it took a huge hit to her self esteem and she started getting depressed.

Three studies published in the past few weeks have offered more insight into that issue, concluding that the self - reporting of concussions by college players varies by position, with offensive linemen the least likely to report concussions and less significant hits to the head.

Mr Cameron hit back today, reiterating the UK government's commitment to the Falklanders» right to self - determination after being invited to condemn the «wholly deplorable» actions of the Argentine government by Conservative backbencher Andrew Rosindell.

Many of these will be owned by small businesses, charities, and self - employed Londoners already hard hit by the recession.

Assuming a world that is slow to adapt to climate change and focused on regional self - reliance, the researchers found that children in the developing world — which are the countries expected to provide the bulk of population growth to nine billion or more by mid-century — will be hardest hit.

The incident took place late Sunday night when a self - driving car operated by Uber hit and, ultimately, killed a woman crossing the street in Tempe, Ariz..

When Stephanie Rubin, a landscape designer by trade, turned the five - square - foot prototype of her organic, self - sustaining, living roof concept into a home for her chocolate - brown mutt, she hit on an eco-conscious dog owner's dream.

She wrote: I've been hit by a strong dose of doubt about the path, meditation, Buddhism, self... Read More

i love guys who iz dem selves n not tryin to be sumone dey nt i hate dat but im taken by tha best boii n tha world he my one n only i'm just lookin for ppl to kick it wit frm s. carolina if u near tha west metro area hit me up dueces

But Cop isn't the only one chasing Driver; Killer (played by Jackson - Cohen), a self - made millionaire - businessman who works as a hit man on the side just for the fun of it, also accepts the task of hunting Driver down as his last job.

Whether it's a long tracking shot of a steaming dog - diarrhea trail soundtracked by Debussy's «Clair de Lune», or a surreal, gut - wrenching hallucination suffered by the lonely old widow of the final story (Ellen Burstyn)-- in which her multiple past selves visit her as a reminder of her failures and missed opportunities — these expressionistic touches, rather than dreamlike whimsy, hit deeper disappointments and realities.

When he faces his older self, played by Bruce Willis, he botches the hit and must find a way to track him down and kill him before his criminal boss does the same to him.

In the 2044 of Looper, time travel exists, but it's mainly used by a giant organized crime syndicate, which sends hit men who have outlived their usefulness back in time to be murdered by their younger selves.

2004 remake Walking Tall is self - serious but does feature some great «The Rock hits people with a two - by - four» action.

Cadillac has begun public road - testing its Super Cruise system, semi-autonomous driving that could beat Google's self - driving cars to market by hitting production models within this decade.

My 12 - year - old self crafted a fiscal strategy that, when combined with my offer of a 49 - percent share of ownership in the car in return for my parents» contribution of 80 - percent of the purchase price, would see me behind the wheel of a Typhoon by the time I hit college.

The Joy of Self - Editing: How to Hit Delete Before Your Editor Does, taught by Cynthia Ruchti.

Hocking was picked up by St. Martin's after she hit the Amazon bestseller list as a self - published author.

While self publishing, especially ebooks, offers writers an incredible opportunity to get their books under reader's noses, one of the most common mistakes made by those new (and sometimes not so new) to self publishing, is to get caught up in the euphoria of publishing a book, and rushing to hit the publish button.

Learn how to PROFESSIONALLY self - publish your book by replicating my step - by - step methodology (marketing starts before you hit «publish»).

Like say, if we were to rewind 20 years before self - publsihing really took off, walk into a bookshop and buy a book, published by a a mainstream outfit, we could still decide it didn't hit the spot, and was flawed in some way.

«By the end of the writing and editing process I was so sick of my characters that I wanted them to get hit by a subway train, so I needed to get them out there and self - publishing allowed me to do thaBy the end of the writing and editing process I was so sick of my characters that I wanted them to get hit by a subway train, so I needed to get them out there and self - publishing allowed me to do thaby a subway train, so I needed to get them out there and self - publishing allowed me to do that.

This month Carnival # 83 includes blogger posts on My Fourth Year in Self - Publishing; The Quick and Easy Guide to Using Beta Readers; 5 lessons I Learned About Blogging; How I Accumulated 38,000 Twitter Followers by social media expert, Frances Caballo, and my recent blog, Before You Hit the Publish Button.

So for anyone who has, however briefly, played that reviled gatekeeper role, a darker question arises: What happens once the self - publishing revolution really gets going, when all of those previously rejected manuscripts hit the marketplace, en masse, in print and e-book form, swelling the ranks of 99 - cent Kindle and iBook offerings by the millions?

As a matter of personal experience, if I look at my taxable earnings from FY 2010 through FY 2013, I made less money in 2011 (when I first self - published) than in 2010 by a factor of 2.5, and that was with Unlocked taking off and hitting the New York Times list.

He is the Digital Content Director at Parallax Press, an independent spirituality / self - help publisher currently best known for its smash hit, How to Love by Thich Nhat Hanh.

This is another excellent book on self - publishing written by David Gaughran, author of two historical adventures, «A Storm Hits Valparaiso» and «Mercenary» and a non-fiction book «Let's Get Visible».

Denial ran so high that when the self - pubbed book, Her Last Letter by Nancy C. Johnson hit The New York Times bestseller list, the good folks at the NYT were still saying that they'd never include one!

Guy Kawasaki launched his hit self - publishing book APE by giving away away thousands upon thousands of advance review copies.

We are more likely to get hit by lightning then to get a book deal from a top publishing company, even writers like Stephan King are going the way of the Ebook, so how are we the self publisher going to compete?

Your chances of «hitting it big» with your first self - published book are dreadfully slim, but you can do quite well by building momentum and laying a foundation with numerous shorter books.

In 2016, B&N began to further leverage the power of its bricks and mortar stores by offering promotional inclusion for self - published books that hit a certain threshold of B&N ebook sales.