Sentences with phrase «made by a number»

In the days following election, numerous boycotts are floating around on both sides of the aisles as comments made by a number of executives win praise or condemnation taking some sort of stance as it relates to the election.

For Theranos, these kinds of endorsements were made by a number of high - profile investors, such as software giant, Larry Ellison, and a prestigious board, which included high - profile lawyer, David Boies, and former secretary of state, Henry Kissinger.

Airbnb has more than 2 million listings on its platform, arguably making it by number of rooms the largest hotel chain in the world.

It continued: «A number of mistakes were made by a number of individuals in handling the matter under consideration», adding «the bank's systems did not prove robust to the strain under which they were placed.»

He also repeated the argument made by a number of senior ministers and judges recently that the only way Britain would fight terrorism was by presenting an image of a different society, one where freedom and tolerance were the rule.

For director Brad Peyton this is clearly film - making by numbers.

For director Brad Peyton Rampage is clearly film - making by numbers.

Chromebooks, like Windows, are made by a number of third - party manufacturers, including Asus, Acer and Samsung.

The works have been made by a number of prominent young players on the global art scene: Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin, Ian Cheng, Pamela Rosenkranz, Hannah Levy, Ed Atkins, Cécile B. Evans, Louisa Gagliardi, Dora Budor and Bunny Rogers.

Despite the case made by a number of organizations, the government's decision was made to limit this exemption to registered charities.

However, calls for a «public advocate» to be introduced into FISC proceedings have been made by a number of political figures, including President Obama.

Those phones will also likely be the first ones that will be designed and made by a number of former HTC team members, which Google acquired several months ago in a $ 1.1 billion deal.

Some insight into these two constraints may be gained from observations made by a number of Federal Court judges who have long experience dealing with native title cases.

Not exact matches

The shift downwards could be due to a number of factors, with the most likely culprit being comments made recently by American Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, indicating an upcoming pullback in the Fed's economic stimulus program.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

If Dunn and Spaly can bring down their bounce rate to 20 percent and maintain a decent conversion rate (the number of visitors who make a purchase), their sales could increase by as much as $ 10,000 a month.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

The large numbers were because it was an attempt by Germany to break the blockade of its navy by the Allies, who made it almost impossible for Germany's to get its surface ships past Denmark.

Record numbers of consumers drive out to malls, big boxes and smaller retailers only to be ignored by skeleton staffs and made to feel like they are troubling the staff when asking for help.

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

Google is aware that slow sites make for a poor user experience, and because they can measure site speed with their crawls and poor user experience by the number of people that immediately return to their results pages after clicking on a link, site speed is an important ranking factor.

What makes this method particularly useful is the fact that you will have a very clear picture about its effectiveness just by counting the number of leaflets returned.

Naveen Jain's motto: «Success is not defined by the size of your bank account but by the number of lives you make a positive difference in.»

Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.

He tried to make up for it by scribbling his phone number on another business card, which happened to be the one a woman gave him right before he reached me.

«Apple Pay is by far the most secure way to make a payment in general today,» McKee says, noting that it uses biometrics and tokenization (in which the credit card number is replaced with a unique code recognized by the bank).

By building a portfolio that ties back to your Family Index Number — the average annual return needed to make sure you reach your financial goals — your advisor is able to create a customized yet repeatable process.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Alcoa had voluntarily shut - off the plant's burner in 2002 after a number of multi-million dollar compensation claims were made against the company by workers relating to adverse health effects.

Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, he's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.

«While our goal is to preserve hashtags on the platform, the safety of our community is our number one priority, so we will take steps to limit the spread of violating content and hashtags that are being abused by making them unsearchable.»

Those numbers make LendingTree by far the industry's dominant player.

In Baltimore, officers were evaluated by number of arrests — so they made many arrests, but for infractions like not having a bike light or failing to carry I.D. Meanwhile Baltimore's crime rate remained persistently high.

The Community Bankers Association (CBA) says they want to be let off the hook if a robocall is made to the wrong cellphone number by mistake.

By 1913, the number of attendees had ballooned to 250,000 — making the annual show, which had been relocated to the Olympia due to the growing number of displays, more popular than the city's Horse Show.

«This year our target is to increase the number of pieces made with at least 20 percent recycled fabric from collected garments by more than 300 percent compared to 2014,» the rep adds.

Doing the minimum required by a franchise system is not the way to make big numbers — he recommends doing as much as possible in the beginning, theorizing that if franchisees are scrimping on advertising or labor in the first year just to keep the doors open, they didn't have enough operating capital to begin with.

The new numbers from the agency show that these companies that outsource IT roles do make up a large portion of the H - 1B visas issued, according to analysis by Quartz.

Throughout adulthood, we have a choice to pursue greater likability or greater status - a decision made so much more difficult by the growing number of platforms (reality TV, social media, etc.) designed to help us gain status.

«Throughout adulthood, we have a choice to pursue greater likeability or greater status - a decision made so much more difficult by the growing number of platforms (reality TV, social media, etc.) designed to help us gain status.

Little do these skeptics, who rain on the home business owner's parade, know is that the number of people working from home, and making very good annual incomes, has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

A recent study by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce called Emerging Stronger makes a number of recommendations to help provide even more financial fuel.

The fund had managed to reduce expenditure by cutting the number of payments made to subsidise apprenticeships; it paid out 5,199 subsidies to employers of apprentices, down 6 per cent.

And when you look at the numbers, they would indeed make a decent - size post-secondary institution by almost any measure.

There is such a circumstance that exists in the newly expanded market of alcohol delivery, which is being pioneered by a number of tech startups that are making serious progress.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

Struggling to support goals that included beating Elon Musk's Tesla Motors in premium EV making, Jia has been trying to ride out the cash crunch by taking measures such cutting staff numbers and selling assets.

The number of black women - owned businesses has more than tripled since 1997, making black females the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. Between 2007 and 2012, the number of black women - owned businesses grew by 67 % according to the National Women's Business Council's Survey of Business Owners.

These numbers make the even lush paydays of top U.S. executives seem pitiful by comparison.

As I made my way up to the second - story balcony — all orchestra seating had been taken by the time I arrived — I was overwhelmed by the number of people climbing up the stairs alongside me.