Sentences with phrase «hit the headlines after»

The use of tax dodging schemes recently hit the headlines after comedian Jimmy Carr was found to use one, despite doing a routine mocking the issue.

This advice hit the headlines after a judge spared a sex - offender from a jail term, directly citing the home secretary's advice in his judgement.

Tini Owens, a wife who hit the headlines after her divorce petition was rejected by the High Court, will argue that she should not have to prove unreasonable behaviour in her continuing f... Read More

Alexander Carter - Silk, European head of IP at Brown Rudnick, hit the headlines after sending a message on professional networking site LinkedIn to human rights barrister Charlotte Proudman, commenting on her picture.

A closer look at the company that has hit the headlines after it was revealed that 50m Facebook profiles were harvested

Cambridge Analytica first hit the headlines after helping US President Donald Trump to his shock win in 2016.

Not exact matches

In 2011, Handy hit the headlines: Her strategies beat the returns of the endowments at Harvard and Yale universities after her gutsy bet against U.S. stocks prior to the financial crisis.

Flint, Michigan hit the headlines early this year when President Obama declared a state of emergency after the area's water supply was rendered undrinkable due to lead contamination from old pipes.

This week bitcoin, a relatively young synthetic currency that people use to buy items over the web, made headlines after it hit an amazing peak in price of $ 4,726.

A version of this article appears in print on, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: After 30 - Year Run, Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall.

Just Eat hit the headlines in May 2015 after outlaying $ 855 million for Menulog, which was 55 per cent owned by co-founder Leon Kamenev and 25 per cent owned by online retailer Catch Group, which sold a similar business, EatNow, to Menulog earlier in 2015 in return for an equity stake.

The last time they hit the headlines was under the Labour government, during the passage of Ed Balls» fortunately doomed Education Bill, when after a supposedly heroic process of negotiation with the government, they almost totally capitulated.

His nomination has hit the headlines, after Mr Sanders questioned his faith during the Senate Budget Committee.

The scandal hit headlines last September, when a senior official in the Hellenic competition authority was charged with blackmail after allegedly demanding about $ 2.5 m from a company under investigation.

The troubles between the pair have hit the headlines this week after things seemed to hit a wall at the Catalan club after their 1 - 0 loss to Real Sociedad on the weekend.

Andy Murray's fiancee Kim Sears hit the headlines earlier this week after being caught on camera swearing during her man's semi-final win over Tomas Berdych at the Australian Open.

The last straw for Manchester City was when the striker and his manager hit the headlines in January after a brawl following a stern tackle from Balotelli on City's Scott Sinclair.

It had already been an amazing run for the Imps from Lincoln who have already got past Premier League chasing Brighton and an another Championship side in Ipswich Town, but they really hit the headlines today after beating EPL club Burnley to become the first non-league club to ever reach the last eight.

The Brazil international hit the headlines earlier in August after he sealed a world - record $ 222m move from Spanish giants Barcelona.

Akpom hit the headlines for the wrong reasons recently when he reacted petulantly after being substituted.

Katie Price is no stranger to hitting the headlines but this time it's in a heated online parenting debate after her decision to get her 17 - month old daughter, Bunny's ears pierced.

The «stock tip» story shot back into the headlines again Tuesday after Collins mistakenly hit «reply all,» including reporter in an email intended for the head of Innate Immunotherapeutics, the company at the center of the accusations.

Jacqui Smith has hit headlines once again after revelations that two prisoners on day - release spent time painting her house.

The commission, set up by President Bill Clinton last year after details of a number of experiments hit the headlines, identified more than 4000 radiation studies conducted between 1944 and 1974.

Tasmanian tigers hit the headlines recently after Bill Laurance at James Cook University in Queensland and his colleagues announced plans to search for them in the remote Cape York peninsula at the northern tip of mainland Australia, where there were two alleged sightings in the 1980s.

Last year, a headline in The Wall Street Journal caught my eye: Drinking After 40: Why Hangovers Hit Harder.

Affleck has had quite a decade, after his breakout hit Good Will Hunting alongside pal Matt Damon, he went on to star in a string of hits (and misses), headlining quite a few big budget action films.

«Black Panther» star Chadwick Boseman, «Star Wars: The Last Jedi» breakout Kelly Marie Tran and «Wonder Woman» herself, Gal Gadot, all will be presenting at the Oscars after headlining three of Hollywood's biggest recent hits, both in terms of box office and representation.

After headlining a half - dozen forgettable movies that wasted his talent, it seems that Franco's film career has finally hit its stride.

The trust hit the headlines in September last year after it sacked the entire board of governors and suspended eight staff amid cheating allegations at one of its schools, Goole High School Academy.

Dixons, in Bradford, faced a challenging time after it hit national headlines when a teacher was stabbed by a pupil, and earlier this month when its founder, former financial director and a former teacher were all found guilty of defrauding the Department for Education out of # 150,000.

One of the stories that recently hit national headlines told of a woman who alleges she was gang - raped by officers after they forced her to drink alcohol.

«I was going to mock this Wall Street Journal article somewhere, and there's no better place than A Newbie's Guide for that... So okay, today the Wall Street Journal ran a piece headlined, «E-Book Sales Fall After New Amazon Contracts: Prices Rise, but Revenue Takes a Hit.»

HTC hit the headlines twice this week after their news of the previous week making a big splash, with two new flagship handsets arriving.

The group hit the headlines in 2011 after attacking a string of high - profile targets, including Nintendo, Sony, Bethesda, 20th Century Fox, the NHS and SOCA - the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Last year, self - proclaimed Arctic ambassador Lewis Pugh hit the headlines when he set off to canoe to the North Pole to raise awareness of the shrinking summer ice, although he went rather quiet — as did the media — after he failed miserably in his mission, having been blocked by summer ice.

Almost exactly four months after the collapse of the legacy SJ Berwin business, the EMEA operation rebuilt from its ashes by King & Wood Mallesons (KWM)-- dubbed KWM 2.0 — has been hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons.

The bitcoin markets hit $ 2,000 for the first time ever in May, followed by $ 3,000 in June and up to $ 4,000 in August, making headlines each time — after which the price retracted a bit toward the end of the summer.

Draper: Tezos «Going To Improve The World» Draper, who first hit the headlines in Bitcoin after he won around 32,000 BTC in the Silk Road auctions in 2014, called Tezos «one of the tokens that is going improve the world.»

And so we have come to voting time, after a long #AusVotes campaign in which health concerns hit the headlines, although generally in a most unsatisfying way.