Sentences with phrase «last year of trying»

Former Democratic Majority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens, who lost power in the wake of the Senate coup of 2009 — a scheme organized in part by Skelos — was convicted last year of trying to bribe his way to the 2013 Republican nomination for New York City mayor.

Mr. Sampson was convicted last year of trying to thwart an investigation into allegations that he had embezzled state funds.

Not exact matches

Last year the group warned of «unscrupulous» parties who might try to use the yet - to - be-defined crowdfunding rules to steal from investors.

Lending Loop, when it launched its online peer - to - peer loan portal last year, first tried the Uber approach, but it quickly ran afoul of provincial securities regulators.

«The last couple of years I've been trying to learn percussion a bit, which has been challenging,» he said.

It even made a short list of companies Alphabet was mulling trying to acquire, Recode reported last year.

«I think if you weren't skeptical of Trump before the election, you might be a little naive, but if you afterward you still remain «Never Trump,» I think you're trying to ignore what happened last year,» he said.

(There was also speculation last year that Disney may try to acquire Vice outright, but those rumors have died down of late.)

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was offered $ 60 million by Congress from Defense Department funds last year to fight Russian election interference efforts — but after Tillerson waited for seven months trying to decide whether he wanted to spend it or not, the offer was withdrawn, and none of the money was used, according to The New York Times.

I'm a firm believer that there's always a better way and that's a part of the culture we're trying to federate through the organization so we can celebrate where we break something down that perhaps we were really proud of last year.

Then - president Barack Obama tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg about the risk of fake news on Facebook last year.

In Colorado Springs, Trump got sidetracked by a couple of disputes from last year as he tried to rebut a Clinton campaign ad.

In a survey of more than 800 full - time U.S. employees conducted by Globoforce in November of last year, 47 percent of respondents said they didn't think their company leaders cared about or were actively trying to create a «human» workplace.

Last year, I tried Airbnb for the first time when traveling in order to save money on the costs of a hotel.

For instance, 30 - year - old Daniel Carlos Garcia was one of the last two defendants to be tried.

The BLO, backed by the powerful and violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, has tried to reassert control in Acapulco since late last year, clashing with local groups like the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA), according to The Associated Press.

In one entry from last year, Baker mused on how an entrepreneur typically has a broad vision — she calls it a «sense of possibilities» — for a company that prompts a leader to try to exert control over everything that goes on.

Because consumers are such a crucial driver of GDP, governments the world over have spent the last several years trying to coax consumers to open their wallets to fuel economic growth.

While these issues are coming to the forefront for some companies, others are trying to fight the gap: Salesforce invested $ 6 million in the last two years to adjust the gender pay gap that impacts 11 percent of the company's 25,000 employees.

Try to finish all your critical tasks during the first half of the month and don't schedule important meetings in the last two weeks of the year, unless it's an emergency.

But while the Coastal brand was built on affordable contact lenses — a side of the business that grew a modest 12 % last year — the company has spent the past three years trying to get the world to buy its glasses online too.

In a statement Monday, Mylan says it has tried to make EpiPen accessible and affordable to people who really need it, offering rebate cards that allowed 80 % of patients with commercial insurance to get the product for free last year.

During the busiest six months of last year, I almost purposefully let go of even trying to exercise.

LincolnLabs, founded last year by three young tech workers, is trying to create a sort of community for the Silicon Valley's «conservatarians,» a play on conservatives and libertarians.

But the extent of Russia's infiltration in election systems across the country last year remains unclear, and congressional investigators apparently are trying to find out more about what the Russians accessed and why.

Throughout the last 5 years I have always tried to maintain an optimistic and positive outlook, to focus on the long term, to think about the potential to lift billions out of poverty.

A tit - for - tat trade war could evolve into a full - blown one that hurts everyone, and would be a slap in the face of the global statesmanship, and commitment to globalization Xi has tried hard to display, most notably with his speech at the original Davos last year, where he presented himself as a counter to the newly - elected Trump's protectionism.

So I really hope that people like the ICO [Information Commissioner's Office in the UK which rules on data privacy for individuals], who are suddenly trying to catch up on the last five years of data.

In a series of statements last year, Ellison said Lynch and investment banker Frank Quattrone tried to persuade Oracle to buy Autonomy.

The officer, Shawn Wilson, claims in the lawsuit filed last week in San Patricio County, that Hitt»... seemed to be trying to cover - up...» an investigation into alleged assault against a 15 - year - old boy at the hands of a Taft official, last year.

I have a masters in finance and understand the math of keeping the debt but my emotions are such that I need to try to finish off paying off my last debt (mortgage) in the next two years.

Part of this is likely to come from Goldman Sachs, traditionally one of the top three commodities banks, which is trying to turn around its commodities unit after revenues collapsed last year.

On the last day of Yom Kippur, Zuckerberg atones for his own failings in a Facebook post but also mentions unspecified instances of others abusing Facebook for divisive means: «For those I hurt this year, I ask forgiveness and I will try to be better.

Clearly, the last of these four is the optimal response, but Beijing has been trying unsuccessfully to do this for nearly ten years, and neither the arithmetic nor the historical precedents give observers much hope that this can be done to any serious extent without a radical transformation of the country's development model.

I get maybe 10 % of that, but I'm just getting into the real estate game these last few years and trying to peak early in my career.

As we've seen from the Honest Ads Act, a bill proposed late last year to better regulate online political ads, any regulation will likely take time, and Facebook is already trying to get ahead of potential rules it might one day be forced to follow.

«The history of the Europe is for the last thousand years is every generation they try to kill each other and the last one was in World War 2».

They so much want to believe in Buy - and - Hold that their minds can not take in the message that the last 36 years of peer - reviewed research is trying to tell them.

The big increase in the in the last six months of 2012 was because of tax changes, with entrepreneurs and companies trying to close deals before New Year's to take advantage of capital gains treatment, John Guzzo, managing director of Berkery Noyes, said.

In the throes of the end of last year, when people were trying to figure out whether to incorporate a C Corporation before year end to try to set themselves up to qualify for the Section 1202, qualified small business stock... Continue reading →

Just like last year, I'll try to list the best link building related posts of the year.

As part of that investigation, the House and Senate intelligence committees pressed Facebook, Twitter and Google last year to provide information about how Kremlin - linked individuals and companies used the U.S. platforms to try to influence the election and sow discord among Americans.

I see a lot of Atheists responding to the last 2k years worth of mankind's legacy of irrational fear in trying to explain who God is, using those silly fears interpreted in the Bible (although yes I agree, they stated them as fact) as justification to deny the existence of God, & not the concept itself.

I'm sure I'm not using the right wording but it is easy to say something is outdated dogma by only looking at the last line of a book that has been in process for 2,000 years (i.e. 9 times older than the government trying to tell it what to do).

There were of course some who saved records, but for the most part Christianity tended to condemn anything not like them, blamed them as heretics and causes of plagues and poisoners of wells trying to wipe out any alternate religions that remained in Europe through much of the last two thousand years.

Robbie williams, a UK singer last year wrote in a major newspaper that he had tried all the major beliefs of the world but christianity.

He spent the last 20 years of his life trying to disprove his own theory.

I came home and reflected a lot on what a number of the churches and Christian business men in our city have spent the last 5 years trying to maintain as a «witness to our city».

Every year around Easter, I try to write several posts about the final week of Jesus, including the Last Supper, and His death and resurrection.

Our book is meant t be suggestive only LOL God luck I have feeling AA will weather the hate as it has the last 75 + years and continue to reach out to those so desperately in need of sobriety for free LOL If you read this and want to get sober please try AA if it doesn't work for you find something that does.