Sentences with phrase «last year of the delayed»

We attribute this to: (1) an effort to avoid repeating the fatal mistake of last year of the delayed iPhone 5 launch, which gave competitors room to grab market share; and (2) the new iPhones this year are mainly designed on the basis of the current iPhone 5, which suggests development time could be reduced.

Not exact matches

The committee's increased scrutiny of foreign acquisitions led to delays in closing HNA's deal to purchase Scaramucci's ownership in SkyBridge last year.

PDVSA has this year bought 19,000 bpd of U.S. crude arriving in Curacao, down from 30,000 bpd imported last year because of payment delays, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

MSCI, which reviews its indexes twice a year, also delayed the inclusion of China's «A-shares» last summer.

«Delays increased sharply at Newark's Liberty International Airport last year, affecting more than one quarter of all flights last Thanksgiving,» the analysis found.

Universal would likely have fared much better this year had it not been forced to delay the release of Fast & Furious 7 following the death of lead actor Paul Walker last fall.

The company source compared this problem to Toyota delaying the new model year of its Camry with a «a bigger backseat and engine»: Most customers won't mind, the source said, since last year's model works fine — and the new version doesn't even have a release date.

The delivery was delayed from late last year; Qatar Airways first placed an order for the A350 - 1000 in 2005 and has 42 of the aircraft on order.

Q: Last year's decision by President Barack Obama's administration to delay approval of the Keystone Pipeline, which is meant to link Alberta's oil sands with Texas refineries, dramatically raised the profile of the environmental clash over the oil sands.

Global turmoil last summer, stemming from China, prompted the United States to delay raising interest rates until the end of last year.

Some of the changes, such as introducing a mobile order - and - pay app that was delayed after the franchisee association threatened legal action over its launch, are needed in order for Tim Hortons to compete against players such as Starbucks, which launched a similar app in Canada last year.

As the CIC points out, «Such delays hurt innovation, particularly in the informative - technology sector, where the commercial value of a patent may last only a year or two.»

But thanks to what happens each December, coupled with the Fed's delay in raising interest rates until mid-month, there was a lot more volatility in the last month of 2015 than there has been in past years.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

4) Most of the stimulus package Obama forced through last year subsidized deficit - ridden state and local governments and delayed layoffs.

The peak of the Florida strawberry season was delayed a little this year because of the warmer weather last fall.

I ran out of time last year to share it, so I apologize for the delay.

After weather pushed the final round of the RBC Heritage up four hours last week — a scenario that led to a tape - delayed Sunday CBS broadcast and scores of frustrated fans — the PGA Tour moves back into Texas for the third time this year.

While ratings are down overall, other factors — news coverage of the election cycle last year and of hurricane devastation early this season, viewers cutting the cord, and excessive commercials and game delays — are also key reasons for the decline.

But on top of all that he's spent the last couple of years driving a McLaren - Honda, which means he's well used to frustrating and inexplicable delays — an essential part of any commercial pilots job.

Maybe that's why he delayed signing his new contract because at that time (last year) he didn't agree with it, but now he knows that he has nothing to bargain with and with plenty of??

Last year, MVP odds were up in early July, but one would imagine that all of the Kyrie Irving hubbub has delayed the process this year.

The Spartans played some unsightly football this year but somehow managed a six - win turnaround from 3 — 9 to 9 — 3, highlighted by a weather - delayed 27 — 24 win over Penn State that lasted a total of seven hours and three minutes.

Barcelona launched an appeal to the decision, and although it was rejected, the delay in the eventual verdict, which lasted until August that year, enabled Barcelona to sign players such as Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic and Claudio Bravo in the summer of 2014.

The Barrington Park District had planned to resume demolition of the 74 - year - old Art Deco building Wednesday, but a last - minute legal challenge caused a delay that will last at least until Thursday afternoon.

The food companies that produce frozen pizzas, salt and potatoes have lobbied Congress for changes and now the final version of the bill released last Monday would block or delay school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.

The Bolingbrook Village Board decided Tuesday night to extend an agreement that would delay for a month the razing of a wave pool that was closed last year.

The sentencing of the 71 - year - old Hevesi was delayed last month after the Democrat had reportedly taken ill and was sent to the hospital.

Airports operator BAA will invest # 50 million in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year's snow - caused delays at Heathrow.

Last year, a Pol.SE question asked How would a minority party in the Senate be able to delay the appointment of the President - elect's cabinet?

Attorneys for the three disgraced politicos last month requested that the trial be delayed to the end of the year, so it would not interfere with the 2013 primary elections.

Amid delays that were based, in part, on political point - scoring, the system lasted only five years before the Welsh Assembly Government moved forward with a referendum to get rid of the LCO system and devolve further powers in one go — evidence, perhaps, that a system which requires the agreement of both devolved and central governments on policy changes might prove detrimental to effective governance.

The subway system's decline has had an appreciable effect on the city's economy — a study by the Independent Budget Office last fall found that the constant delays cost residents about $ 864,000 per day in lost wages, and a study by Comptroller Scott Stringer's office noted that the figure could add up to $ 389 million per year if the transit system is not brought into a state of good repair.

The latest annual report from the Civilian Complaint Review Board makes clear for the first time that the NYPD is challenging more and more cases and taking so long to do so — an average of almost nine months in the second half of last year — that scores of cases in which the agency already had substantiated allegations against police officers are being bogged down in delays.

After a long period of improvement, the system's reliability has dropped significantly, with delays more than doubling over the last five years, according to a review of MTA data.

In last year's election for chairman, he was among the committee members who called for a delay in the vote because of reports that the FBI had interviewed Zellner as part of its investigation into a 2014 State Senate election.

A number of individuals with connections to the party expressed relief that its leaders had finally decided to go this route, since this issue has caused so many headaches in recent years — including a probe by the US attorney's office, which contributed to the delay in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agreement to run on the WFP line last fall, but ultimately did not result in any charges.

After fighting the plan for a condo development on the site of the former Jesuit retreat Mt. Manresa, Oddo delayed designating house numbers to the new development last year.

Only a renewed pledge today to bring in Britain's first Bill of Rights and scrap the Human Rights Act — delayed from last year — is likely to spark any impassioned debate.

Unions say the delays can be attributed to job losses, which are running at 15 % despite a # 73 million surplus last year, and the closure of processing centres overseas and at home.

They accused government of unduly delaying the payment of their tier two pension funds being held by the National Pensions Regulatory Authority in the last three years.

The district originally selected the Trico building out of 11 proposals as its preferred location, but walked away from that plan late last year after delays cast doubt that the building would be ready by the target date.

In his state of the state address last year, Cuomo described LaGuardia, with its delays, crowded conditions, lack of amenities and dismal infrastructure, as «a disgrace.»

Halloran's lawyer, Vinoo Verghese, said his client had been in «purgatory» since he was accused in April of last year and was concerned about the delay and cost of a retrial.

A bill now on Cuomo's desk would delay the implementation of the bag fee by one year, a measure that passed both chambers last week and would likely kill the surcharge, which is due to take effect this week.

The US congress approved a direct subsidy of $ 13.7 billion last year for a new generation of power stations, of which # 2 billion is insurance against any building delays.

A total of 13,268 teachers across the country will from June receive their outstanding salaries that have delayed for the last two years.

A brand new year, and a brand new legislative session, though — like last year — we'll be getting a delayed start, thanks to the Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision to again merge his State of the State and budget addresses into one gigantic mega-speech, to be delivered on Jan. 13.

Britain's latest equivalent of a five - year plan — its fourth carbon budget — has been undermined by the government's decision to delay confirming it until the last day before the summer recess.

The increased trend of delaying decisions that would upset bills» supporters until after session ends corresponds with a broader pattern of delaying executive action until the last two months of the year.