Sentences with phrase «hit the headlines in»

GIC rarely comments on individual holdings, but it hit headlines in May when it pared its stake in UBS Group at a loss to 2.7 percent from 5.1 percent.

BioNTech hit the headlines in July when its experimental personalized cancer vaccine, tailored to the tumors of individual patients, kept disease in check in an early - stage clinical trial.

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 dire plight of Christians in the Middle East has regularly hit the headlines in recent months.

Questions directly related to Christian doctrine rarely hit the headlines in Britain these days, and there has been no public theological debate since the furor created by Bishop John Robinson's Honest to God in 1963.

He first hit the headlines in 1972 when he wrote an internal memo with the line «I would walk over my Grandmother for Richard Nixon.»

The Druids have hit the headlines in the recent days because religious charity status has been granted in the UK to The Druid Network - a group set up to foster Druid values and projects.

Rebates hit the headlines in 2014 when global supermarket giant Tesco was caught overstating profits to the tune of # 263 million by incorrectly booking rebates from suppliers.

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.

Age: 17 Nationality: English Position: Attacking Midfield Right / Left Current ability: 109 Potential ability: -8 Leko hit the headlines in 2015/16 when he became the first player born in 1999 to feature in the Premier League and the winger immediately impressed with his mazy dribbling ability and confidence on the ball.

Scottish Championship team Queen of the South hit the headlines in February, 2018 when their youth team goalkeeper Sam Henderson was injured by a runaway cow on his father's farm.

With Amanda Staveley's interest in Mike Ashley's Newcastle United the biggest potential takeover to have hit the headlines in quite some time, Chaudhuri revealed the regularly - overlooked minutiae that can both accelerate and decelerate the completion of any big deals.

This idea hit the headlines in the UK last summer due to the now Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn floating a similar proposal.

I hit the headlines in 2000 when I achieved my dream and won gold at the Sydney Olympic Games.

Lord Mandelson hit the headlines in 2008 when he joined George Osborne on a yacht belonging to Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, as a guest of financier Nathaniel Rothschild.

Sandra Osborne's name hit the headlines in 2003 when she resigned as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Helen Liddell following her opposition to the war in Iraq.

Norovirus hit the headlines in the UK this winter when a million people caught it in just a couple of months.

BeppoSAX, launched 5 years ago, hit the headlines in 1997 when its wide - field x-ray cameras enabled astronomers to pin down gamma ray bursts, the most violent explosions in the universe (Science, 23 May 1997, p. 1194).

The site also hit headlines in 2011 when a hack allowed 30,000 «sub-standard» people to sign up,...

The former Alias star has been hitting the headlines in recent weeks due to her public battle with French businessman Jean - David Blanc, which...

The Guardian journalist hit the headlines in 2017 when she suggested Admiral Nelson's statue in Trafalgar Square should be taken down because he was a «white supremacist»

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.

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.

In the scorching summer of 1988, when global warming first hit headlines in a significant way, presidential candidate George H.W. Bush used a Michigan speech to pledge meaningful action curbing heat - trapping greenhouse gases, saying, «Those who think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget about the White House effect.»

Once again, family law cases hit the headlines in national newspapers in 2015.

Searching for clarity in the family courts The differing opinions of senior judges on matters such as the privacy of proceedings mean family practitioners can struggle to accurately advise clients, explains Alex Carruthers Once again, family law cases hit the headlines in national newspapers in 2015.

Of course, many will be thinking that the Lightning Network is what will really be hitting the headlines in the next few months as it gains more traction.

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.»

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa first hit the headlines in March last year and since then more lives have been lost to the disease than in the entire period since its discovery in 1976.

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.

That would let them avoid nasty headlines in the future, but it would also mean a significant economic hit for a country that can't exactly take it in stride.

Consumer confidence hit a five year high this month, the headlines blared in response to the release of the most recent University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index.

A cyber attack that hit A.P. Moller - Maersk's IT systems in June 2017 and made global headlines did not involve navigation but underscored the threat hackers pose to the technology dependent and inter-connected shipping industry.

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.

Given that the headline payroll growth has been solid, the latest round of US GDP data (for Q2) surprised to the upside, and personal consumption, real personal consumption and personal income data also surprised to the upside (July data), PCE inflation (fell to 1.4 % Y / Y in July, hitting the lowest since late 2015) and general wage growth has been the missing piece of the puzzle for the Fed.

Inflation data published last week showed the headline personal consumption expenditure (PCE) inflation index hit a 2 per cent annual pace in the year to March and the Fed's preferred underlying measure, the core PCE which excludes volatile energy and food items, rose to 1.9 per cent.

And yet with these risks dominating news headlines seemingly every day, volatility in markets was muted virtually all year and the VIX is sitting just off its all - time low hit in November as we end the year.

A version of this article appears in print on 09/24/2013, on page B1 of the NewYork edition with the headline: As JPMorgan Settles Up, Shareholders Are Hit Anew.

In 2011, a similar struggle hit the headlines.

A more appropriate headline should be «America's rudeness has hit an all time high because of a spike in narcissism»... We are smart, you are stupid.

The word Rohingya hit the headlines as members of the minority group were forced to flee violence in Myanmar to neighbouring Bangladesh.

Reports of churches doing well don't usually hit the headlines, but in villages, towns and cities right across the nation, there are many reasons to be hopeful.

That's the headline on a hit piece at Media Matters for America, which specializes in something that you'd think would take four arms to accomplish — pounding the table with both hands while sticking fingers in both ears.

By layering rare, ambrosial flavors in presentations of sheer poetry, Mexican chefs are hitting the headlines: the gastro

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.

Not exactly the sexiest spot, and we aren't in the market for a QB, again another hit to how flashy or headline making our pick can be.

Dixie Pratt, 19, hit the headlines back in January for dating Brazilian football legend Romario, and we've been keeping one eye on her Instagram page.

At the end of March a brutal fight broke out in Argentina's Primera B division, with both sets of players from Instituto and Guillermo Brown ending the fixture in chaos — and now the country's Primera division has also hit the headlines for violence, in what is an appalling advert for Argentine football.

He scored in their friendly against Italy on Thursday and will be hoping to hit the headlines again on Tuesday when they take on Belarus in the first of the games in the World Cup qualifying group.