Sentences with phrase «in back drop»

In the back drop of the spectacle at DEA headquarters, dozens of hemp business owners in town attending the HIA convention over the weekend fanned out across Capitol Hill to lobby lawmakers in support of hemp legislation introduced by Representatives Ron Paul (R - TX) and Barney Frank (D - MA) that would permit states to cultivate non-drug industrial hemp under state industrial hemp programs.

It was just another of our sensational days we are so lucky to be blessed with here on the Gold Coast.What a photo this is with the clear water, blue bird skies and the beautiful Greenmount headland in the back drop.

Magnetic Island Country Club is set in a back drop of rugged hills strewn with boulders and lush vegetation and backs onto National Park.

On a scenic boat cruise, skim across the lake's turquoise water taking in a back drop of staggering peaks.

We shot these pictures with the «Binghamton» in the back drop, a retired ferryboat that operated from 1905 to 1967 transporting passengers across the Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey.

Naturally I took the opportunity to snap a few outfit pics before our brunch, Nottinghill for me, is the ultimate in back drop locations.

In that back drop the first leg which will be held at The Etihad on the 18th of February become the vital fixture in deciding the tie.

Not exact matches

After the price drop, the oil companies scaled back operations in the Bakken area, and the demand for hotel rooms plummeted.

When the Kellogg's cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich., instituted six - hour shifts — back in 1930 — work - related accidents dropped dramatically, as did labour costs, turnover and overhead.

In the oil markets, prices dropped back from $ 90 amid some profit - taking — benchmark oil for October delivery was down $ 1.03 to $ 89.18 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile ExchangIn the oil markets, prices dropped back from $ 90 amid some profit - taking — benchmark oil for October delivery was down $ 1.03 to $ 89.18 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchangin electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Nonetheless, Fossil shares are back to where they were about a year ago at $ 15.33 after precipitous drops in the last 12 months, but just a fraction of their $ 131.98 all - time highs only six years ago.

But too much of that is due to people dropping out of the workforce altogether (because the job market is * that * good): now at 63.2 %, the labour force participation rate has been catapulted all the way back to that which last prevailed in 1978.

In South Texas, where drought has forced cotton farmers to scale back, local water officials said drillers are contributing to a drop in the water table in several areaIn South Texas, where drought has forced cotton farmers to scale back, local water officials said drillers are contributing to a drop in the water table in several areain the water table in several areain several areas.

North Korean state media implied that the programme could be resumed if South Korea sent back a dozen North Korean waitresses who defected to the South after working at a restaurant in China, but that demand appears to have been dropped.

The number of ad - tech companies raising money dropped 17 % last year compared with the year earlier, data from CBInsights shows, and the total volume of funding fell 33 % to $ 2.2 billion from $ 3.2 billion, putting it back where it was in 2013.

Some 10 companies — mostly Chinese, including the Temasek backed Innovent Biologics and Shanghai Henlius Biotech — are already planning floats and some have dropped U.S. IPO plans in favor of listing closer to home.

Dropping the Switch back in its dock is both effortless and click-less, a process that uses gravity and nothing more.

And then this happens: Some jerk drops into the seat in front of you, slams his seat back and practically crushes your MacBook Air.

Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil, BP, and Chevron announced dismal earnings this week, missing expectations and showing how slashing spending and pulling back isn't yet enough in a world where oil has dropped from a high of $ 115 - per - barrel in 2014 to a low of $ 27 - per - barrel in January of this year.

Millennials had been driving the nation's overall homeownership rate, showing the biggest gains throughout 2017, but they dropped back in the first quarter of this year.

Kamen's device got serious backing in 2012 when Coca - Cola signed a partnership agreement (for undisclosed terms) and pledged to help deliver the Slingshot to rural communities as part of its goal to become «water neutral» by 2020 — replenishing «every drop» of water used in the creation of the company's products.

«Back in simpler times, you didn't have to worry about dropping your phone or constantly searching for a power socket to charge your phone, and it even fit in your pocket.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

One jaw - dropping detail Brown confirmed: The company's CEO «gave employees fake receipts for money wire transfers to convince them the company had paid their back wages when in fact it hadn't,» reports Julie Bort in a post published Tuesday about drama at the job search platform.

Rice's case apparently posed something of a dilemma for the court system, too: back in May, Rice was indicted for third - degree aggravated assault, but those charges were later dropped.

The Australian share market has closed 1.6 per cent lower, as a sharp drop in oil prices pulled back energy stocks, and resources stocks weakened.

Evan Spiegel dropped out of Stanford University in 2012, three classes shy of graduation, to move back to his father's house and work on Snapchat.

This drop in stock sent Bezos back down below Bill Gates on the billionaire list, and removed his short - lived crown.

But the number of venture - backed mergers and acquisitions didn't drop off nearly as much, with 348 in 2008 and 263 in 2009 compared with 378 in 2010, the report says.

Its stock, which surged for years despite narrow profits, has dropped 18 per cent in 2014 to about $ 326, in part because investors have been losing patience with its habit of plowing revenue back into new ventures.

On top of that, the tech giants are staring at a drop in corporate taxes starting in 2018, and they can bring some of the many billions of dollars they have stashed overseas back to the U.S. at a dramatically reduced tax rate.

Already, investors are backing away from the Toronto condo market, which reported a drop in third - quarter unit sales of 30 %.

The energy sector fell 1.1 percent on the back of a more than 1 percent drop in crude oil prices as the dollar remained near a four - month high.

Begun back in 2011, the quarterly parleys with reporters rarely provide any market - moving news, instead serving as an opportunity for central bank chiefs to carefully convey monetary policy direction without dropping any surprises that could jolt investors.

Drivers get to know repeat customers and the locations they live, so they know to drop food off at the back door or the easiest place to park on the block, said its CEO and co-founder Tri Tran in an interview with Business Insider in June.

But pessimism reigns for investment in other sectors: 61 % see a drop in clean - technology investment, 53 % see a drop in medical devices backing and 40 % expect biopharmaceuticals funding to decline.

Back in December, the Fed said it would hold the target short - term rate steady at least until unemployment had dropped to 6.5 %, assuming inflation didn't rise past 2.5 %.

It improved a little to just a 7.6 percent decline in January of 2016, almost reached even at a two percent decline in February, then dropped back down to a six percent decline for March.

The new content - oriented AOL debuted back on the chart at number 4 but steadily dropped in the following years.

Today is the 28th anniversary of Black Monday, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 508 points in one day back in 1987.

The uptick in investor confidence has brought the company's stock back up after an October swoon that dropped shares of Unilever more than 18 % in less than two months.

Boy Scout membership dropped about 13 percent in just five years according to the AP (from 2.6 million to 2.3 million)-- and it's way down from a height of 4 million a few years back.

In the last 2 years, HSE and Training has been set back 20 years, why MONEY of course, that is the only thing that counts, so constant cut backs from the big 3 Iron Ore producers, want everything as cheap as possible, as a result, standards have dropped to appalling standards, but they are cheap, and that is all that matters, and injury figures are easily falsified.

Even though I went over my monthly goal slightly, it was still far cheaper than the few hundred dollars I dropped each month on a car back in L.A., including gas, parking, insurance and registration fees.

A company spokeswoman told KHN that the drop in urine revenue worsened through 2016 but has bounced back somewhat this year.

«If you're getting back from a black tie and in your high heels, the car can't even drop you off in the front.»

If the company had the sales to back it up, it might not have mattered, but according to SEC filings, its net income had dropped from $ 237 million in 2012 to $ 55 million in 2013.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

Then it dropped back into the $ 200s in 2015, before climbing in value again.

US Gulf Coast exports have rebounded back above 1 million bpd last week, after dropping to below 200,000 bpd in the week of Harvey's landfall.