Sentences with phrase «hold open a number»

Combining literature and design, twirls and twists of metal rods hold open a number of publications collected from the surrounding bookshops of Cecil Court.

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There are a number of reasons for Amazon's newfound energy in advertising: It is doing more outreach with Madison Avenue, striking deals with holding companies and agencies; it opened an ad platform last year, an application programming interface that lets marketing developers build easier ways to buy ads; and it is opening its Amazon Ad Platform to more brands.

The Progressive Conservatives have opened their nomination process, leading a number of candidates to declared their interest in opposition held constituencies.

The quarter - billion dollar take isn't final (confirmed numbers will come in Monday afternoon), but if it holds true, Infinity War will edge out Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which opened to $ 248 million in 2015, for the all - time record.

As the eighteenth century opened, a number of Quakers as well as Puritans, Presbyterians, and Anglicans held slaves.

I realized a cell phone was nearby and was able to flip it open and hold number 9, the quickest way to dial 9 -1-1.

Before opening her own firm, Bailey - Chapman held a number of public affairs and advocacy leadership positions including vice president of public affairs for Penn National Gaming, the country's second largest gaming company, where she oversaw a multi-state government affairs team and managed several local and statewide referenda campaign efforts.

Laurent Koscielny was also unable to return to action for the opening Premier League weekend, and Calum Chambers and Rob Holding were fielded at centre - back, and failed to stop rivals Liverpool from putting four goals past them, highlighting the lack of numbers at the back.

The home side created a number of openings in the dying stages but The Bees managed to hold out to take a point back West.

While Bookmaker.eu is holding strong at -2 (where they opened), oddsmakers at Pinnacle have moved their number from Celtics -1 up to -2.5.

A number of competitive races are noticeably absent from the current round of ad spending, for example the race in Iowa's 3rd District, an open - seat contest to replace retiring GOP Rep. Tom Latham, and New Hampshire's 1st District, currently held by Democratic Rep. Carol Shea - Porter.

Currently the director of a research and training consultancy, she has previously held a series of positions at a number of universities, including being Deputy Regional Director of the Open University in Wales and Head of Information Support Services at Bangor University,

Whether the reunification holds is an open question, as there are a number of potential stumbling blocks — most notably, the need for Democrats to win two special elections for Senate seats that will become vacant in January.

A growing number of MPs, councillors and activists want the party to commit to staying in the single market and customs union at the very least, with some saying he should hold open the option of campaigning at a future election to stay in the EU to safeguard jobs.

We produce two grant programs: the NYC Community Composting Grant and the NYC Reuse and Repair Grant, hold monthly meetings, provide information online about waste reduction and diversion in NYC, and have a number of active committees, all of which are open to the public.

A medical doctor and researcher trained at China Medical University and Nihon University in Tokyo, Wang has held a number of administrative positions and is a representative of a «new generation» of more open and competent Chinese leaders, says virologist David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, who recently met him.

The venue is only open for the summer, which limits the number of workshops that can be held, and hosts need to apply two years in advance.

You'll also stumble upon a number of firsts for the franchise, such as voice acting, shrines and an expansive open world that never, ever holds your hand.

One of the best reviewed movies of this or any year, the Alfonso Cuarón - directed dramatic thriller has topped the box office for three consecutive weekends in North America as well as internationally, holding the number one spot in every major market in which it has opened.

Plus, if the preliminary numbers hold up, it bodes extremely well for Deadpool 2, which, according to early tracking estimates, was set to make a so - so $ 100 million in its opening frame.

If that number holds up — and despite the mild reviews and decent opening weekend — let's just say someone isn't going to be seeing profits off this one.

Should those numbers hold, it could land among the five largest opening weekends ever for a superhero film.

The school is holding a number of open evenings for admissions into Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3, for the academic year starting in September 2018.

When that school opened, a number of Massachusetts charters were already achieving great success with educational models that hold students to very high standards and expectations.

Many high performing charter schools accept a large number of students in the early grades, but as students leave a charter school for one reason or another, charter schools are allowed to leave those seats open; clearly this can produce exceptionally low teacher - student ratios creating an uneven playing field for those in traditional public schools that are held to a higher standard.

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Although indie bookstores took a hit during the first decade of the 21st century, 2017 gave rise to increased bookstore sales as well as an increase in the number of indie bookstores opening up and holding their own.

Prior to the expiration date, traders have a number of options to either close out or extend their open positions without holding the trade to expiration, but some traders will choose to hold the contract and go to settlement.

There have been some interesting developments in a number of our holdings and we look forward to updating our open positions over the course of this week.

And secondly, Chase is one of a number of banks that no longer offers jointly held credit card accounts, though they continue to support joint accounts opened before making this policy change a little more than a year ago.

The system then holds inverse - volatility - weighted positions for a certain holding period, with a number of positions open at any time if the holding period is greater than one day.

And what 3.5 % does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye - opening.

Coldwell Banker Wallace & Wallace, Realtors ® ran a featured ad in our local newspaper and held a number of properties open on September 10 as part of this special event.

The club holding the trial may reduce the number of entries by designating the Open stake to be a Limited, Special or Restricted.

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Eligible Participants may Gift Avios (purchase for someone else) during the promotional period, provided that the recipient holds or opens a British Airways Executive Club account and the recipient's BAEC membership number is entered at the time of purchase.

Once again, the show welcomed a number of new initiatives including the launch of the ATM Global Stage, which opened the week's proceedings with a high level panel discussion on the future of tourism in the UAE featuring leading industry leaders including Issam Kazim, CEO, Dubai Corporation Travel and Commerce Marketing; Sultan Al Mutawa Al Dhaheri, Acting Executive Director, Tourism, Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority; H.E Khalid Jassim Al Midfa, Chairman, Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority; Haitham Mattar, CEO, Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority; Marwan bin Jassim Al Sarkal, CEO, Shurooq; Thierry Antinori, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Emirates Airline; Gerald Lawless, Head of Tourism, Dubai Holding and Honorary President, Jumeirah Group and Aligi Gardenghi, VP Marketing EMEA and Commercial Director MEA, Hilton.

Additional variety is provided in the form of different event types such as 3 lap single races; completing a lap within only a strict number of laps in time attack; head - to - head races sees the player having to overtake their rival as quickly as possible within a set time limit on a track day which is open to the public followed by holding your position; track days require a certain amount of overtakes within a set time limit; and drag races are knockout tournaments which requires the player to shift through the gears manually to maximise their top speed in order to cross the finishing line ahead of the opposing rider in each round of the competition.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

There have been a number of open world crime games, most notably Rockstar's own Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars and Gameloft's highly «inspired» Gangstar games released on the App Store but neither game holds a candle to the original GTA3 The level of immersion that's possible in the full 3D Liberty City, especially as you become familiar with the cast of characters you'll spend your time taking missions from, feels downright incredible.

You'll also stumble upon a number of firsts for the franchise, such as voice acting, shrines and an expansive open world that never, ever holds your hand.

«Everyone was there for the opening, and they started in with them holding these beams against the wall, and then suddenly a number of the guys dropped the beams and there was this conference in the middle of the room, and this older, distinguished African American man is leading the discussion about «Why are we being paid to do this demeaning thing?»

The pavilion is part of a major push that the Vatican has been making in recent years to re-engage with living artists through such some - what successful attempts as a conference of contemporary artists that Pope Benedict XVI held in the Sistine Chapel in 2009 (250 came, an equal number declined) and a new room dedicated to materials from the Matisse Chapel in Vence that Forti opened in the Museums in 2010.

On occasion of the opening of the Visual Arts Centre Helga de Alvear Foundation, on the 4th of June, for the first time in Spain Hans Ulrich Obrist - co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes, and director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London - held a number of live interviews with some leading international artists whose work is included in the Centre's collection

It's held in a gallery space, with a limited number of participants, so it feels more like the opening for a large group exhibition than a fair.

The free and open - access guide, aimed at helping students, journalists and educators, contains a number of «recipes» for tracing things like trolling practices, the circulation of viral memes and the financial incentives that hold it all together.

«This is a critical step toward the commercialisation of stealth turbines and holds potential to open a significant number of wind power locations for Vestas customers,» Madsen said.

On Sunday we held business meetings of the various committees and special interest groups, as well as held a Vendor Liaison Committee Open Forum to discuss publisher / vendor issues, followed by demonstrations by a number of the vendors.

Of the states that accredit in - house courses — courses held in law firms, for example — some are subject to a slew of restrictions including: activity must be open and advertised to outsiders, all or some of the faculty must be from outside the firm, a minimum number of attorneys must be in attendance, and the activity must not be for the sole or principal benefit for members of the firm.

For the growing proportion of readings used in instruction that are published in an online format, which includes most journals and an increasing number of books, why not have students use the library holding or an open access online version of the reading, either of which they are able mark up and share among their peers, much as their instructors do with their research colleagues.