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Speaking of «tough to follow», there is also the plot which has gotten so convoluted that The Final Chapter begins with a ten - minute expository dump recapping all the major events of the first five films.

Not exact matches

The two social networks will have dueling online streams of the broadcast, marking the first time the tech companies face off over live coverage of a major news event.

As the holiday acquired nation - wide popularity, Alibaba became the first major company in 2009 to monetize the holiday by launching a special online sale and effectively transforming the day into the world's biggest 24 - hour online shopping event, one that reflects the growing wealth of China's middle - class.

This week is packed with major sporting events, starting with the first official games of Major League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and Momajor sporting events, starting with the first official games of Major League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and MoMajor League Baseball's 2016 season on Sunday and Monday.

Berger spoke yesterday at the first in a series of interactive and educational events happening this year at Major League Baseball's New York City event space the MLB Fan Cave.

The company Qwiki, maker of an iPhone video sharing app, was hatched at a Summit event and acquired last year by Yahoo for $ 50 million; Basis, a company that makes wristwatch health trackers, secured its first major investment at Summit and was sold to Intel last year for over $ 100 million.

Therefore the first major fossilisation commenced at this time, and the majority of the fossils are regarded as having been formed rapidly during this event.

«Next Generation»: agenda and goals of the next generation The organic industry's first major event of the year will be focusing on the theme «Next Generation» this time round.

SKIING — BILLY KIDD of Stowe, Vt. scored the first U.S. win in a major Alpine race in Europe in two years, winning one of two giant slalom events in Meg √ ® ve, France.

Nakamura won the Royal Rumble, though, and WWE has been doing a better job of making him feel important at those major events: the fact he'll now have a main - event - level match at his first WrestleMania when he challenges for the WWE Championship is further evidence of this.

The many pros Haney has spoken with don't share gamblers» optimism about Woods» ability to capture that elusive 15th major at the men's first grand slam event of the 2018 season.

They are one of the first sportsbook to offer betting odds on any major sporting event.

«This will be the first major event at the RAC since the completion of the new pool deck and the replastering of the competition pool,» commented TJ Kay, Woodcreek Aquatics President.

The program was the first this year of a series of major promotional events in which, more than ever before, leading department stores across the country will be joining with SPORTS ILLUSTRATED to prove that «selling with sport» plays an exciting and effective part in contemporary retailing.

The 26 - year - old won the third PGA event of his career, and his first major.

Woods may have published a book about his memories of the historic 12 - shot victory in his first major, but a Monty memoir of that event would certainly be far more entertaining.

The FedExCup leader and local hero will play the first two rounds of the Valero with four - time major winner Ernie Els and fellow Texan and three - time titleholder at this event, Justin Leonard.

After winning the season's first major last month for her second straight major and going back - to - back in LPGA Tour events, the 18 - year - old phenom said she was excited to head to Augusta to pick up her golf writers» Player of the Year award.

Should Ko win in South Korea this week, she would wrest the crown away from Park, who surpassed her 18 - year - old rival in June when she prevailed in the first of two major events this season.

Palmer, whose role at his own PGA Tour event this week at Bay Hill will be dramatically reduced from what it has been, will be at the first major of the year at Augusta and expects to attend the Champions Dinner.

First held in 1986 and now the official British Road Running Championships for young athletes, it gives many burgeoning world stars their first experience of a major event in front of a large cFirst held in 1986 and now the official British Road Running Championships for young athletes, it gives many burgeoning world stars their first experience of a major event in front of a large cfirst experience of a major event in front of a large crowd.

This won't be the first of such prophesies emerging from the camp of the prophet as he usually unleashes a flurry of controversial prophecies about major events to happen in every coming year.

Kennedy apologised after failing to attend the first major set - piece event of the conference, where he was due to appear with Clegg on Saturday evening at an electoral reform rally.

«Our first responsibility was to comply with the federal investigation,» said Arzt, adding that most of Liu's major fundraising events had come in the past three weeks.

The polls showed a boost for the «no» camp, Standard Life became the first major employer to say it might move its operations into England and there was further doubt about what Scotland would use for currency in the event of independence.

«Our enthusiasm for hosting the DNC is matched only by our capacity to execute large, world - class events such as Super Bowl XLVIII, leveraging the expertise of our city agencies, workforce and private sector,» the major said in the letter, which was first reported by The New York Times.

In fact, for temperature the major step toward the ice ages that have characterised the past two to three million years was a cooling event at 2.7 million years ago, but for ice - volume the crucial step was the development of the first intense ice age at around 2.15 million years ago.

«Although the regions experienced several major haze events over the past twenty years, the 2015 event was one of the worst,» said Shannon N. Koplitz, first author and Harvard graduate student.

«To my knowledge, this is the first record that so clearly shows sensitivity to one set of major abrupt climate change events and not another,» said Cobb.

This becomes a major problem for firefighters and first responders in the event of an accident involving lithium - ion batteries.

«Whereas the avian annual cycle may be synchronized to segregate the major energy - demanding functions of molt, migration and reproduction, we recognize that events during any one phase of the annual cycle have repercussions across the entire annual cycle,» adds Frank Moore of the University of Southern Mississippi, the ornithologist who first outlined the two hypotheses.

According to fossil evidence, small primates — a group of mammals that includes humans and our closest monkey relatives — first arrived in Jamaica during the Miocene (23 million to 25 million years ago), probably on mats of vegetation that can form during major weather events, like hurricanes, that could have carried them from the American mainland.

Whatever the cause, this major evolutionary event led to a wide range of biological innovation, including the origin of modern ecosystems, a rapid increase in animal diversity, the origin of skeletons and the first appearance of specialist modes of life such as burrowing and swimming.

The first is the Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago, which eliminated the non-avian dinosaurs, and represents the beginning of a major radiation of Paleocene mammals including plesiadapiforms.

«Well, the first major event is that my family and I are packing up to move from Sweden to the U.S.. There, I will perform the experimental work of this project in the lab of Professor Jo Handelsman at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Our group has 3 major goals: Develop novel therapeutic approaches based on centrosomal clustering To further develop our first prototype inhibitors of centrosomal clustering preclinically and to establish a robust and specific high throughput small molecule screen Discover key events in myeloma pathogenesis To investigate the pivotal transition from the pre-malignant, asymptomatic to malignant, symptomatic stages of plasma cell dyscrasias in order to understand the pathophysiology and thereby identify novel targets Translate small molecule therapeutics from bench to clinical trials To evaluate novel agents in the preclinical setting and to initiate early phase clinical trials in hematologic malignancies with focus on multiple myeloma

Most major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record, an event popularly and scientifically called the «Cambrian Explosion».

I went with a serious 70s vibe for my first Kansas City Fashion Week event: a floaty dark floral boho dress with major bell sleeves and a pair of Stuart Weitzman Highlands (aka, the birthday boots).

I exercised major self - control and added them to my wishlist instead =) Whenever I find something cool (a pair of interesting shorts or shoes or anything), or come back from a shoot or event, the first thing I think about is «I can't wait to share this on the blog!»

Each year since the first event in 2004, owners of major internet dating businesses and senior executives come to the January iDate Conference.

Thus are the wheels set in motion for the first major Civil Rights demonstration of the 1950s, with Rosa rising to heroic status in the eyes of her people, an event that also profoundly alters the life of local religious leader Martin Luther King Jr. (played by the Reverend's son, Dexter Scott King).

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Set between the two World Wars and inspired by actual events, «Bitter Harvest» is the first major dramatic film to convey the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by Joseph Stalin that killed millions in Ukraine.

signal the end of the universe's first overarching story, this means they would also set up the next major event.

The Last Airbender is hopelessly overambitious, attempting to squeeze in all the major events from the 20 or so half hour - long episodes that make up the first season of the show into a 99 minute long feature film.

The first edition of the International Film Festival And Awards Macao kicks off next month and a major part of the event will be the industry focused project market, Crouching Tigers, which will run in parallel.

The BAFTAs happened in London yesterday and, ahead of the event, since the BAFTAs are the first major red carpet after Time's Up was launched, attendees were encouraged to wear black in support of the movement, just like they did at the Golden Globes.

As the first major Tinseltown gathering since ongoing sex harassment revelations began last fall, Sunday's Globes event turned into the serious and politicized affair the Oscars are often accused of being.

Star Wars Celebration Europe 2016 has officially kicked off in London, and as part of the major three - day Star Wars event, a first poster and sizzle reel featuring new footage from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has dropped.

The group's first major event was held October 2013, in Manhattan, to demonstrate to then - candidate de Blasio the size and strength of the city's charter sector.