Sentences with phrase «in the week before»

He had called my wife in the weeks before (as he had with all of his direct reports) and asked her if there was a Christmas gift — something I really wanted — that he could get for me.

Even in the weeks before the Fed's move, highly valued private companies faced other pressures as prominent mutual fund companies, such as Fidelity Investments, bid down the value of their holdings, potentially over concerns that they had become too bloated.

This may seem like a lot of extra work, but it's actually easy to pull off, because you'll be calling or texting or messaging these contacts anyway in the weeks before you vanish.

In the week before Easter last year, Americans bought $ 823 million in creme - filled eggs, chocolate rabbits and colored marshmallow Peeps, according to Nielsen data.

Moniz said the idea to come up with a bold R&D plan has been «bubbling now in the last few months» but accelerated in the weeks before the Paris summit.

From royal onesies to commemorative plates, an astonishing assortment of royal baby - themed merchandise appeared in the weeks before Prince George's arrival on Monday.

But the notion that an Olympic city is going to hell in a handbasket in the weeks before the Games — that this time, for sure, all will be chaos — is almost as predictable as the script for the opening ceremony.

«We had Cloud9 come in a week before Blizzard Entertainment's Heroes of the Storm North American Finals in Las Vegas and they won, and then they came back before BlizzCon and they won it all there.»

Our ClipperData show we saw a dip in deliveries to Latin American destinations in the week before last (reflective of lower loadings in the week of Harvey's landfall) but receipts have since rebounded, and should continue to do so in the weeks ahead.

Refineries ran at 88.6 percent of capacity last week, the EIA also said, processing 16.2 million bpd of crude per day, versus 15.2 million bpd in the week before.

NEW YORK — Federal investigators logged the phone calls of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, in the weeks before they raided his Manhattan home, office and hotel room, according to a report Thursday.

The EIA rejected the API's gasoline figures: according to it, gasoline stockpiles fell by just 2.1 million barrels last week, with average daily production at 9.8 million barrels, down from 9.9 million barrels in the week before.

Lastly, L.A. businessman / philanthropist and erstwhile Beutner associate Eli Broad, who told Tribune he wanted to buy its California properties in the weeks before Beutner was fired, considers a next buying move.

His brother, psychiatrist Richard Summers, recalled how in the weeks before Summers came to the White House, he was on a family vacation in Jamaica, barefoot and in a bathing suit, when he began grilling his children, nieces and nephews on what to do about General Motors, which was on the verge of collapse.

An adult - film star was paid $ 130,000 by a lawyer for Donald Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election to not talk publicly about a sexual relationship with the then - Republican candidate, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

[USD, CAD] USD - CAD has remained buoyant, posting a one - month high of 1.2914 earlier in the week before retreating to the mid-to-lower 1.2800 s.

While Cohen has strongly denied that Trump and Daniels had an affair in 2006, he declined to answer Tuesday night when asked whether the payment was intended to silence Daniels in the weeks before the election, as The Wall Street Journal reported last month.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn confirmed Friday that he is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about two conversations he had with the Russian ambassador in the weeks before President Trump took office.

Traders should look for opportunities early in the week before the Christmas holiday.

And in the weeks before this fall's elections, consumers are expected to learn of another wave of premium increases.

In fact, the format was so compelling, and the opportunity to meet dozens of prospective investors in one jam - packed day was so hard to pass up, that several founders who had never before skied went out in the weeks before the event and took their first lessons so they could come out and participate.

SAN FRANCISCO — In the weeks before the U.S. election, Valerie Robinson says she was bombarded by political ads on Facebook attacking Planned Parenthood and the Affordable Care Act.

In the weeks before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Pope John Paul II dispatched a Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Pio Laghi, to the White House with an unequivocal message: Stand down.

• This issue was put together in the week before Christmas.

Perhaps you reflect the ignorance of the right wing about political ideologies, those guys who flung the «Libtard» label around in the weeks before the elections.

I did a tour four years ago, with Professor Daniel DiSalvo of CUNY, in the week before the New Hampshire primary.

The outer court was in these weeks before the festival the scene of a market where animals and birds could be bought for sacrifice, and where pilgrims from abroad could change the money they brought with them into currency acceptable for religious dues and offerings.

She befriended Lewis in the weeks before he was sent to France, at a time when his alienation from his father, who did not come to see him before his departure for the front lines, was very great.

In the weeks before my college's big test on The Pilgrim's Progress, an enterprising student created a study guide with notes, mnemonic devices, and illustrations, and began to circulate it among my classmates.

The custom of the ancient Scottish University of Aberdeen is to erect a large tree on the quad in the weeks before Christmas.

The attraction does not lack for show - business hyperbole; in the weeks before the unveiling, Holy Land's promotional literature proclaimed, «The Gates of Jerusalem Are About to Open in Orlando!»

We have made this recipe a couple of times in the weeks before we left.

This year is a bit different — I'm working a lot in the weeks before Christmas and on Christmas Eve and Christmas day, so I...

These pancakes have been my go - to recipe for our leisurely weekend breakfasts in the weeks before Juliana's arrival.

But then I remembered that when I lived in CT, my raspberry patch did it's best work in the weeks before the first hard freeze.

The fan interaction events in the week before the game as well as the numerous adult beverages at the host party pubs will make the trip worth it!

In the week before the Yale game McLaughry considered several positions «still wide open» and, additionally, there were problems concerning some of his Iron Men - to - be.

With his team back to a more comfortable style of play, Beardmore's problem in the week before the finals was making sure the Terps did not become too relaxed.

But although Meyer had not addressed the dance in the week before 2008's game, he'd done so in an even more permanent medium: a biography published after the 2007 season.

But if Giroud misses those chances he's castrated, no matter what he's done in the weeks before or the weeks to come (Monaco)...

The launches continue tomorrow when Force India will reveal their car, with the other teams following suit later in the week before pre-season testing gets underway on the 27th.

That's one reason it's typically advisable to wait until later in the week before taking these unpopular teams.

«Right now, all I am thinking about is how we can beat Sheldon,» Browning said in the week before the Bulldogs routed the Huskies 80 - 27.

Were you able to grab the Under early in the week before the huge line movement?

Walter Mazzarri was shunted out at Watford in the week before the season ended.

I will respect your club a whole lot more if we don't start to see the quotes in the press in the week before our tie about Cesc and his fucking Barcelona DNA!

The Premier League had already started and De Gea was sitting in the stands in the weeks before the failed transfer.

Tomas Kalas helped Fulham to a pair of wins away to Nottingham Forest and QPR with strong defensive displays whilst Iké Ugbo got 90 minutes for Barnsley against QPR earlier in the week before being an unused substitute in their win at Millwall on Saturday.

We had planned well in the weeks before, decided on the theme for the display, designed the space (1 x 2 meters is quite compact) and sorted the marketing material.

A great tip for starting solid food is to get your baby familiar with being seated in the high chair in the weeks before you actually start solids.