Sentences with phrase «last year commissioned»

From a report last year commissioned in part by the Swedish Energy Administration (Energimyndigheten) came the conclusion that using electric battery technology for long distance trucking will be difficult to make cost - effective due to the weight and cost of sufficient battery power - electrifying the roads to support hybrid electric trucks is considered a more reasonable option.

Last year it commissioned a second SBI study, this time on Brazil.

Last year it commissioned Montreal lawyer Lloyd Lipsett to review Bisha's current practices; his report, published in April, said spot checks of discharge papers and interviews with Segen workers confirmed they'd been discharged from national service.

Indeed, last year the Commission fined Google with a massive $ 2.4 billion fine for allegedly abusing its dominance as a search engine provider to give illegal advantage to its own shopping services.

You're not the only one who's told us that ~ we even had a guest this last year commission a local artist to paint her a portrait of Old Love so she could «take it home with her».

Not exact matches

With its tropical climate and beautiful beaches, Hainan attracted 70 million tourists last year according to the Hainan Tourism Development Commission.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Investigators with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission last year began probes into the loss but have not brought any public actions against the company.

Microsoft (msft) is reportedly developing «the Netflix of video games» and last year Hulu commissioned four original series about online gaming competitions.

The Insurance Commission of Western Australia increased spending on the Bell Group litigation to $ 9.6 million last financial year, while also revealing in its annual report it has applied to the Supreme Court for a single trial to cover all related matters.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) subpoenaed cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, and Tether, a digital coin company at the end of last year.

Last year, a study commissioned by Larato found, «Salespeople spend 11 % of their time traveling.»

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating reverse takeovers last year, in fact.

Newly available data from the Taxi and Limousine Commission that was analyzed by the New York Daily News shows total trips in the first half of 2015 were down 10 percent to 77 million, compared to same period last year.

The Federal Trade Commission issued a striking holiday missive last year: If you're thinking of buying an at - home DNA testing kit, make sure to consider the privacy implications: «Although most tests require just a swab of the cheek,» the agency wrote, «that tiny sample can disclose the biological building blocks of what makes you you.»

Last year, the Financial Services Commission banned local finance firms from trading bitcoin futures, according to local publication Business Korea.

In its spring forecast, the European Commission said it expects economic growth across the 28 - country EU to dip to 2.3 percent this year, from last year's decade - high rate of 2.4 percent.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the action Tuesday against the company, which is now called Altaba after its email and other digital services were sold to Verizon Communications for $ 4.48 billion last year.

Murdoch University has appointed Eeva Leinonen as its first female vice-chancellor, replacing Richard Higgott who resigned last year after being investigated by the Corruption and Crime Commission.

The Commission said that initial findings of an investigation launched last year showed platforms were delisting products or services without due notice, restricting access to data or not making search result rankings transparent enough.

Last year, Douglas Cummings, a professor of finance at York University's Schulich School of Business, published a report commissioned by the CSA on how fee structures affect fund sales.

Among the firm's major projects last year were Phillip's Petroleum, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Insurance Commission of WA and Sons of Gwalia.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission late last year started clamping down on some digital token sales.

According to a report published last fall by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, awards for damages caused by «mental injury» in the workplace have soared 700 % over the past five years.

The state of Washington became the first state to pass its own net neutrality legislation after the Federal Communications Commission last year repealed its own rules barring discrimination against online sites and content.

When the Securities and Exchange Commission writes final rules for the laws that were passed last year in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, equity crowdfunding among non-professional investors will be legal in the U.S., too.

But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how, for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.

When Chinese bank regulator Li Jianhua died at his desk last year finishing a report, his employer, the China Banking Regulatory Commission, released a statement saying he was a «model for party members and cadres.»

«Next year's Commission should consider acting quickly to reverse any damaging policies put into place over the last eight years and in the last few weeks of this Administration,» O'Rielly said in a speech last month.

Last year, it abandoned a pilot in Canada of a computer system it hoped to transfer to the U.S. to make interacting with reps, including taking orders and paying commissions, smoother.

Jay Clayton, the attorney tapped last year by President Donald Trump to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, argued that the agency doesn't need Congress» help in prosecuting insider trading.

The Federal Communications Commission has done what no one, including apparently chairman Tom Wheeler, once thought possible when the debate over net neutrality erupted early last year.

A Marketing Evolution study commissioned by inPowered late last year found that when consumers read something positive about a product or brand from a credible source, it increases purchase intent by 50 %.

While Coinbase has released few details about its financial performance in the last year, it can likely afford the hiring spree thanks to the soaring volume of crypto - transactions, on which it charges commission fees that are typically around 1 %.

Baker won't reveal the details, but the company is said to have pulled in revenue of around $ 70 million last year, most of it from a deal with Google in which the search engine giant kicks back a commission on ad revenue obtained when a Firefox user enlists the browser's Google search bar and ends up clicking on a sponsored link.

One of their past «joint ventures» was with Steven Friedland, whom the B.C. Securities Commission last fall banned from dealing in securities for 20 years.

«Everything that has happened in the last 20 years has suggested that the commission is moving away from these required carriage regulations and is much more in favor of a market - based approach,» says Nick Ketchum, a consultant and former senior director with the CRTC.

Its stock has shot up by 40 % since last year, and it continues to book significant contracts around the world, including with the Swedish Transportation Authority, the Texas Railroad Commission and the State of California.

Profits at conventional Canadian broadcast networks fell 85 % last year, according to the Canadian Radio - television and Telecommunications Commission, from $ 152 million in 2011 to $ 23 million in 2012.

Ackman, who has been betting against Herbalife stock for the past four years, made the allegations during a presentation to his investors Wednesday about why he was still shorting the nutrition products company even after Herbalife's settlement with the Federal Trade Commission last week.

Ever since the Ontario Securities Commission implemented a rule last year that TSX - listed companies must address gender diversity on their boards or explain why they haven't, corporate Canada has been scrambling to hire female directors.

IEX, which has up until now operated as an alternative trading system (ATS), filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to become a stock exchange last year.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

«As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has emphasized, background checks have limited predictive value and can have a disparate impact on minority drivers,» Rogers wrote in a white paper on Uber that was published last year.

Last year, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada issued a report finding that rooftop solar customers actually give back more to the grid than they cost.

Last week, publisher Fairfax Media Ltd followed rival News Corp with plans to enter the mortgage broking business which generates A$ 2 billion ($ 1.53 billion) a year in commission.

Last year, the tax was REMOVED but Amazon still has not enabled Colorado residents to get commission on product sales, as far as I know.

A federally commissioned report last year warned the government was «simply not up to the overall challenge» of fending off cyberthreats on its own and must partner with the private sector and the United States to tackle the problem.

APRA commissioned the report last year, after CBA was sued by Australia's financial intelligence agency for breaches of money - laundering laws.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.