Sentences with phrase «last years floods»

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Other matching fund offers flooded in from techies, including Patrick Collison, chief executive of online payment company Stripe, and Nat Friedman, co-founder and chief executive of Xamarin, the software development company acquired last year by Microsoft (msft).

They are behind last year's pace, while imports from China and elsewhere are flooding in.

The trickle became a flood, and in February it was announced that Heenan Blaikie would close, despite a $ 75 - million profit last year.

Florence Abraham had her bakery destroyed in the devastating floods in Nigeria last year, and she had to flee with her husband and five children.

Last year, for instance, it sent emergency drinking water to communities affected by California's wildfires, floods in Louisiana, and Hurricane Matthew, which made landfall in South Carolina.

Bank - to - bank lending rates have been in virtual freefall since November last year when news broke that the ECB was going to flood the banking system with ultra-cheap, three - year cash.

Bank - to - bank lending rates have been in virtual free - fall since November last year when news broke that the ECB was going to flood the banking system with ultra-cheap, three - year cash.

Bank - to - bank lending rates have been falling since November last year when news broke that the ECB was going to flood the banking system with ultra-cheap, three - year cash.

The digital currency exchange Coinbase has been on a rocket ship ride for the last year, signing up a flood of new retail and institutional clients eager to be part of the ongoing crypto craze.

Last year, a string of strong hurricanes that hit airlines» hubs cost airlines hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue, but clearing runways from a snowstorm is a much faster process than recovering from the floods, power outages, structural damage to airports and other infrastructure damage that 2017's storms caused.

Last year's explosive rise in the value of digital coins and the flood of new retail investors drawn to the market have rattled global regulators nervous about a sector used largely for speculation.

Colorado's «100 - year flood,» now known as the Front Range flood, lasted eight days.

On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Tavel, who is a partner at Benchmark, told Recode's Kara Swisher and Teddy Schleifer that there's a big difference between some cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, and the tidal wave of Initial Coin Offerings that began flooding the ecosystem late last year.

While the outflows account for less than 1 % of assets in U.S. equity funds, the flood of cash leaving stock funds marks a shift from the buy - the - dip mentality that characterized much of last year.

Former MLA George Groeneveld, who represented Highwood until last year's election, told CBC last week that allowing development in flood zones has been a mistake.

Fees shot up in December last year when millions of new cryptocurrency traders flooded the markets globally.

- There is no evidence of a global flood within Human experience, especially within the last 4000 years, and such evidence should be obvious if it happened.

The flood of Muslim immigrants moving to Europe over the last 10 years is incredible.

Since the ice sheet would have floated away in the event of a global flood, the ice core is strong evidence that there was no global flood any time in the last 110,000 years.

@@@@@ WIMPY WASP explained it when earthquakes and floods and famine hit really hard then most crazy broke really religious people who don't have a job go crazy like you.you religious people don't give back in my last three years I given back too helping the poor more then $ 20,000 dallors of my own money how much you so called chicken heads crazy religious people given out of your own income wait you crazy religious people got ta pay your light bill.by the way I own my own commercial health base buisness in Arizona.you still working for a pay check I write employees paychecks.

Do you have some record of a worldwide flood in the last 200,000 years?

He was also working at Edgewater Baptist Church in New Orleans and living in a parsonage when Hurricane Katrina hit last year, flooding the parsonage.

Most of what you asked is the same stuff I asked of myself and continue to ask the flood of people I've seen becoming «free - range» Christians over the last 5 or so years.

One man proudly told me that when floods damaged part of the structure last year, the men themselves repaired it, without any help from World Vision.

So when Burning man flooded the first two days last year, news outlets reported it everywhere.

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

I live in Boulder, CO where we have been experiencing a 100 - year flood the last two days.

Sometime last year, I stumbled onto a recipe for a honey cake — one that originates in the Greek island of Sifnos actually, and upon seeing the recipe, all my memories of Prague came flooding right back.

DAIRY imports hit a record $ 2 billion last year, on the back of a flood of New Zealand, US and European trade.

Late last year we revealed the traumatic shipping of baby calves from Romania to Israel — galvanising compassionate Romanians, who flooded their political representatives with demands to act.

The best of the worst came from Duncan Schaper, 10, of Ohio Township, Pa. (outside Pittsburgh), who asked for the money because the mound, fence, parking lot and Port - A-Potty at his field were swept away last year by a flood caused by Hurricane Ivan.

The hands that made him fit belonged to 81 - year - old Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the Belair Stud trainer, who spent the last days before the race shuffling back and forth between one end of Barn A and his living quarters at nearby Olympia Fields Country Club — sandwiching between trips a flood of radio and television appearances and more than one breakfast and luncheon press conference with newsmen on hand from California, New York, Florida and all stations along the way.

Last year, the company launched its «You're doing great» campaign, flooding us with images of mums coping with babies and toddlers at their most frustrating.

The park district is closing off a key section of the area for 30 to 60 days while it repairs damage caused in the last year from erosion and flooding.

Demos, who took office in April, inherited a years - long problem at Lake Ellyn, where overtopping during rain storms has flooded residents three times in the last five years.

Darien — A Park District project to aid young victims of last year's Mississippi River flooding has won recognition at the Illinois Park and Recreation Conference.

Most likely, last year you saw countless pictures of cute pool floats flooding your Pinterest and Instagram feeds.

The push for the money comes after Gov. Andrew Cuomo late last year suggested more money for flood - damaged communities could be included in a potential special session of the Legislature.

The money would be drawn from the state and municipalities funding to boost the previous aid for homeowners whose properties were damaged by flooding last year.

«After the severe flood damage of last year, a commitment was made by the Governor and New York State government to assist the homeowners impacted,» said Sen. Joe Robach.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

With totals from last year's historic flood still being calculated and paperwork for federal reimbursements still coming in, Lake Ontario leaders are preparing for more flooding.

New York state lawmakers have included $ 40 million dollars in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

New York State lawmakers have included $ 40 million in this year's budget to help property owners who are still cleaning up from last year's flooding along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

In its report the committee warns the recommendations made in the Pitt Review in response to last year's heavy summer flooding in England and Wales may not be able to be implemented unless the government addresses engineering skills shortages.

«LASEMA, in the last one year had responded to numerous fire incidents, road accidents, flooding, illegal parked trucks, gas explosion / emission amongst other emergencies in record time, thereby saving lots of lives and properties worth millions of naira,» Oladejo said.

Senator Bill Larkin said, «The storms of last year showed the necessity of having New York's flood control infrastructure operating at peak performance.

These grants will ensure our dams and flood control projects are the safest and most efficient they can be to prevent further catastrophic damage similar to what we witnessed last year.»

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- Nearly $ 3 million in additional relief funding is going to communities in five upstate New York counties along Lake Ontario to help them recover from last year's flooding.

About $ 1 million will be used to restore infrastructure damaged by last year's flooding, while the rest will be used to find projects to help prevent further damage in the event of future flooding.