Sentences with phrase «met years before»

During the 1920s, Carles began experimenting with cubist planes of color and renewed his acquaintance with Hans Hofmann, whom he had met years before in Paris.

I sold one immediately, and now have some paintings with an art consultant who I had casually met years before, and she has sold four.

The two met years before the making of «The Room» at an acting class in San Francisco, where they became good friends.

I went with him to a Templeton shareholder meeting years before I worked for the company.

The two young artists had met the year before at the Art Students League of New York, where they studied.

Not exact matches

Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy met sometime in the early»80s and dated on and off for 15 years before deciding to tie the knot.

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

Over the next few weeks the best teams in college football will meet for one final game before heading back to the weight room and recruiting circuit to get ready for next year.

He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

The official vote tally was announced before a packed room of 300 in a Tampa, Florida, office park, after an often - contentious two hour meeting that was no frills this year with no food or drink was provided for shareholders.

The payment was made more than a week before revelations that Trump Jr. had met with Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with strong ties to the Kremlin, during the campaign last year.

I had looked up to Esther from afar for years before we first met at a healthcare conference in 2012.

Still, Graham ended racially segregated seating at his Southern crusades in 1953, a year before the Supreme Court's school integration ruling, and long refused to visit South Africa while its white regime insisted on racially segregated meetings.

«He had a crush on Rachel Zane (Markle's character on «Suits») two years before he met Meghan and the reason I know is because I was having drinks with one of his friends,» Nicholl told the site.

So Vanguard has beefed up «engagement» efforts — holding 817 meetings, phone calls, and videochats with companies in the past year compared with 685 the year before.

Frank L. Buckley had never heard of employment - practices liability insurance, or EPLI, before someone mentioned it at a Young Entrepreneurs» Organization meeting two years ago.

When he testified before the committee last year, Page denied meeting with Diveykin, adding that the encounter in question was «a brief, less - than -10-second chat with Arkadiy Dvorkovich,» Russia's deputy prime minister.

In January 2013, according to Page's testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last year, he met Russian businessman Victor Podobnyy, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, at an event in New York.

Page met with several top Russian officials during the trip, according to his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee last year.

While Musk has delayed this goal twice before, it's imperative for Tesla to meet this target or, as the Wall Street Journal reported, it runs the risk of burning through its cash by the end of the year.

«You have a psychological advantage when you can go into a morning meeting with suppliers or distributors, having tested various pricing assumptions the night before,» says Maytag, whose 15 - employee operation — one of the few surviving small breweries in the United States — produces 25,000 barrels of premium beer a year.

STANLEY FISCHER: He — well, my guess is — based purely on hearsay, that it is much less heated than it would've been before they published the transcripts — within five years of the meeting.

Even before the devaluation, Schlossberg had said the Fed won't hike rates for the first time in nine years at its meeting next month, as many on Wall Street believe following Friday's solid July employment numbers.

Luckey first met the alt - right provocateur in Los Angeles about a year and a half ago, before Yiannopoulos began working on a charity to send white men to college.

The company is on track to meet its target of producing 80,000 vehicles this year, before its ambitious target of 500,000 cars in 2018.

Each automatic triennial stock option grant and each stock option grant for service as lead independent director, member of a Board committee or chair of a Board committee, in each case as described above, will vest 1/36 per month for three years starting on the one month anniversary of the vesting commencement date, subject to continued service in the capacity for which such grant was made (except that if a director who was granted such an option ceases to be a director on the day before an annual meeting that is held earlier than the anniversary date of the vesting commencement date for that calendar year, vesting will accelerate with respect to the shares that would have vested if such director continued service through such anniversary date).

Greece was already back in recession even before the recent deepening of the crisis and looks unlikely to meet the IMF's forecast of 0 % growth this year.

Asked how long it might be before a blockchain - based system could be used by a major corporation for a shareholder meeting, Kotsialou reluctantly estimated five years, but she made no promises.

Executive Management Bonus Plan, (4) «For» ratification of the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2010, and (5) in accordance with the best judgment of the persons named in the proxy card on any other matters that should properly be brought before the Annual Meeting.

But there remained, before the central bank meeting on Thursday, many questions about how large the program would be and whether it would be powerful enough to reverse a two - year decline in inflation.

When I went to training about a year before I opened my first studio in Florham Park, I met a studio owner who told me that there would be one client that would walk into my studio and I would know that I made the right decision (Love you, Jill!).

Even before Mao Zedong took over the reins in 1949, and the first Five Year Plan began in 1953, centuries of history demonstrated that long - term planning, while not always meeting expectations, is a core behavioral trait of the Chinese psyche.

NDP's federal council met to review terms for leadership race, which will pick a new leader two years before next election

Exxon spokesman Scott J. Silvestri declined to address questions about the Tri-State resolution, saying the company will respond next year before the shareholder meeting.

But starting next year the fund will reveal its voting intentions before shareholder meetings, not only to be more transparent but also to influence the debate and the subsequent voting.

Over the years, i have met individuals with brilliant business ideas but surprising enough, they don't know what to do with such ideas and before you know it, someone else picks this same idea and make millions out of it.

He enjoys a couple of years of wine, women and song — often all at once — before meeting his end sky - diving in the Andes.

About a year before Ms. Judd was in contention for the «Lord of the Rings» role, Mr. Weinstein had her meet him in a hotel room in Beverly Hills — under the guise of discussing business — where he appeared in a bathrobe and, among other things, asked her to submit to a massage and watch him shower, the complaint said.

Nevertheless, the apparent success of the ECB's policy in overcoming the threat of deflation increased speculation about a potential tightening of monetary policy, possibly even before the cessation of the central bank's bond purchases — scheduled to continue for at least the rest of the year — and in the wake of the ECB meeting pushed market estimates of the odds of a rise in official interest rates before the end of 2017 to more than 50 %.

Ideally, that's about 5 (or more) years before you hope to retire, when retirement is close enough to know what you want it to look like, and yet far enough away that there's still time to hone your strategy to help meet those goals or alter your plans.

How can Peter be an eyewitness when jesus died 30 years before, and the Peter who wrote that letter NEVER, EVER, met jesus?

The two met in Springfield, Illinois, and practiced law together for 17 years before Lincoln became president in 1861.

Each year the faculty retreat set a theme that was developed in discussions held before regular faculty meetings.

Four years later, Obama hired religious outreach staffers like DuBois for his presidential campaign and made a point of meeting with Christian Right leaders who'd never before heard from a Democratic presidential nominee.

• We were talking outside the exhibition hall at this year's meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in Baltimore the week before Thanksgiving.

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I've written about some of my experiences before — meeting a six - year - old forced to memorize and recite the Westminster Confession at dinnertime, nearly losing my faith over the notion that God created the majority of the human population for no other purpose but to suffer in hell for eternity, and encountering the famed «Jonathan Edwards is My Homeboy» T - shirt in the midst of the so - called «Calvinist resurgence.»

I can eliminate Islam as a candidate because Mohamed met with Rabbi and Christian before pulling together the vision 600 years after Christ.

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

Burden returned to the old wagon - road crossing where he had first met the slightly older girl so many years before.