Sentences with phrase «like last year by»

Not exact matches

This led to tax refunds underperforming last year's year - to - date value by about $ 25 billion up until the massive windfall, which made it appear like there may be an economic problem.

Total sales topped $ 50 million last year, thanks in large part to experiences like the one provided to me by Laura.

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

For example, the «Fight Poverty Like a New Yorker» campaign run by the poverty alleviation group, The Robin Hood Foundation, was conceived at The Feast last year, says Chou.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

The first chart shows what the Hang Seng looked like in the immediate and long term after the Tiananmen Square protests, from a note shared by a Credit Suisse research team led by Andrew Garthwaite last year.

The story was first reported by Trade Secret, which said Google initiated a meeting last year, then independently backed up by RBC, which also quoted sources as saying Durov's proposal was not to Google's liking.

Last year, it ranked last in an annual ranking of fast food restaurants by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, only one of many surveys to find McDonald's severely lagging up - and - coming rivals like In - and - Out Burger in the western U.S. among many othLast year, it ranked last in an annual ranking of fast food restaurants by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, only one of many surveys to find McDonald's severely lagging up - and - coming rivals like In - and - Out Burger in the western U.S. among many othlast in an annual ranking of fast food restaurants by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, only one of many surveys to find McDonald's severely lagging up - and - coming rivals like In - and - Out Burger in the western U.S. among many others.

The increase in online shopping is driven by web giants like Amazon, which accounted for 60 percent of total U.S. online sales growth last year, WSJ reports.

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

Rather than trying to reconstruct the terroir and conditions those grapes experienced, though, this San Francisco start - up, founded by two bioengineering grads last year, is foregoing things like grapes and yeast altogether.

The Air Force — as well as specialized units like the special forces — have been especially burdened by ongoing military efforts over the last 20 years.

Compound annual growth rates of the overall fashion industry have been flat or grown by 1 % to 2 % over the last 20 years, but fast fashion — driven by chains like H&M, Zara, and Forever 21 — has grown by more than 12 % each year.

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.

«If you look at our holdings, you would assume that we like them in the order in which they rank by dollar value of holdings, but if you look at them in terms of recent purchases over the last year we've bought more Apple than anything else,» he said in a wide - ranging interview Monday on CNBC's «Squawk Box.»

You can check out our review of last year's BlackBerry DTEK50, which was also made by TCL, for a look at what the skin is like.

Not only are realtors facing new competition from people like Arora within their own ranks, but also deep - pocketed companies including Power Corp. are moving in on the for - sale - by - owner (FSBO) space, at long last creating a nationwide alternative to the MLS, which for years has been a near - monopoly marketplace.

Like last year, retailers including Amazon and market leader Tesco, are stretching promotions by up to two weeks, hoping to smooth out demand and reduce pressure on supply and distribution networks.

Uber will expanding Uber Movement, a website the company launched last year that offers anonymized and aggregated Uber data to show travel conditions across different times, days or months, and how travel times are impacted by things like big events and road closures in a city.

A former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, who like many others was repeatedly targeted by Fancy Bear but has yet to receive any warning from the FBI, said the lackluster response risked something worse than last year's parade of leaks.

The company expects to book an annual recurring revenue, an accounting term used by software companies like Zenefits, of $ 100 million this year, up from $ 20 million last year.

While policy doves like Rosengren currently hold sway over Chairman Ben Bernanke and the majority of Fed policymakers, minutes from last month's policy meeting suggest the quantitative easing program could draw to a close by year end, earlier than some economists had expected.

No investor likes to be surprised in their due diligence by non-disclosed individual or startup tax problems, regulatory issues or negative publicity, either currently or in the last five years.

That might sound like Business 101, but not every entrepreneur is capable of doing so: 39 % of small business owners failed a financial literacy quiz created by Intuit Canada last year.

The disagreement may, on the surface, look like it's over marketing but really be fueled by who got a promotion and who didn't last year.

In the wake of last year's results, the Liberals moved up the opening of the application period, then extended it by two weeks in January when it looked like there would be a shortfall in businesses applying for the program.

Like Magic Hat, Pyramid was purchased by Cerveceria late last year.

When asked which companies scored the highest by seven different criteria, Canadians ranked Tim Hortons at No. 10 this year (up from 29th last year), behind international heavyweights such as Walt Disney, Lego and Google, but ahead of big names like Honda, Apple and Amazon.

Westland Last year, around the time Bezos committed to investing as much as $ 5 billion in India to compete with Asian - grown competitors like Alibaba, he purchased this Indian book publisher, owned by outsourcer Tata Group, for $ 1.4 million.

What does matter is that a store like Holt Renfrew is doing brisk business not just in $ 5,000 suits (top brands like Givenchy and Cavali are up by about 300 % since last year) but also in tie clips and bow ties and, yes, even bracelets.

As I said last year, Uber has at times seemed like a company run by irresponsible frat boys.

Those funds went to American purchases like luxury homes in Manhattan and Los Angeles, to help finance the Hollywood movie «The Wolf of Wall Street» and to acquire paintings by Picasso and Monet, they said in a civil suit last year.

Looks to me like Republican administrations over the last 55 years have been more fiscally irresponsible by an order of magnitude of almost 3!

The deal is a huge one by any standard — bigger than Walmart's $ 3.3 billion deal for Jet.com last year — and especially for a retail company like PetSmart, which was itself valued at only $ 8.7 billion when private equity investors took it over in 2015.

This narrative, in its most extreme version, says that cryptocurrencies today are like the internet in 1996: not just new technology but a radical new kind of technology, belittled or ignored by most, which has slowly and subtly grown in power and influence over the last several years, and is about to explode into worldwide relevance and importance with shocking speed and massive repercussions.

«We are encouraged by the performance of the pilot programs we tested last year in categories like women's shoes, fine jewelry, and furniture and mattresses,» CEO Jeff Gennette said in a statement.

Although we expect the overall stock market to get more selective in the days ahead, we do not anticipate it to get smacked by the «sell in May and go away» crowd like last year.

Over the last few years, employees say, the Paranoids have been routinely hired away by competitors like Apple, Facebook and Google.

He acknowledged that the House was drafting legislation similar to that proposed by the Senate that will place new limits on access to semiautomatic assault rifles, like AR - 15s, something the Florida Legislature refused to do after mass shootings killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in 2016 and 5 at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport last year.

It may have seemed like a shrewd move by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley last year when she named prominent environmental activist Tzeporah Berman to the new Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG).

Over the last 5 years, Sid has won multiple global investment research awards, judged by over 70 global fund managers and allocators by institutions like SumZero, Ira Sohn, Value Investing Congress and Factset.

Although the films Alibaba Pictures Group has invested in like So Young (by actress - turned director Zhao Wei, who is also a major shareholder of the company) and Tiny Times (by popular writer Guo Jingming) have recorded remarkable box - office revenues, the company has yet to turn a profit, with a net loss of HK$ 443.54 million for the first half of last year.

And Goldman Sachs, that looked like a winner during last year's market recovery but now has been charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

With the assistance of foresighted men like Msgr. Oesterreicher, and the unofficial but crucial input from Jewish historians and theologians, the declaration — after numerous drafts, several years of intense debate, and even a last second bid by reactionaries to thwart it — was voted on and finally passed at the Council, by an overwhelming margin.

Google «Muslims bible burning» to get all said references about Muslims burning the bible but note that once the «bowers» of Islam like Muneef see how they have been conned by their imams and ayatollahs for the last 1400 years, they too will burn their copies of the koran i.e. the angel Gabriel never existed so there is no way that the warmongering, womanizing, and hallucinating Mohammed got any koranic passages from some god.

Which is why I know that last Thursday, my Amazon ranking was all the way down to 4,222 in books (a mere 2,700 points away from John Acuff's Stuff Christians Like and 3,500 points away from Donald Miller» sA Million Miles in a Thousand Years), but that by Sunday night it was back up to 19,501 in books (15,000 points away from Pete Wilson's Plan B and 19,500 points away from Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest).

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

The Facebook group, which already has more than 4,000 likes, describes the impact the Elliotts have had on the town: «Support Dr. Elliott, «The doctor of the poor,» and his wife, helping people for over 40 years in Djibo, Burkina Faso, last kidnapped by AQIM.»

time for me to leave my country for 5 years study (medical field)... and while i am i that country (China) once i intercourse with a prostitute (i am really shamefull)... then after few times i found another girl in facebook (from my hometown only) then fall in love with her and that loves get stronger day by day (she is a christian) and i told her that im not virgin and i had this girlfriend and i did with prostitute so she forgives me and ask me to lie new life... but still i havent leave my e girl friend (i found difficult to leave her, i do nt love her much, but i do nt know how i love her in first place, she is much older than me), my ex gf came to suspects about my new relationship via facebooks post, comments, likes and all and sometimes i did told her that i have this new friend... as time passes by, she realised it and she do nt talk to me anymore till now... and last time i went home i met my new girl friend and we intercourse....

I have been overwhelmed by the love this congregation has shown us over the last year, and it's an honor to be asked to speak at a place that feels like home and among people I consider family.