Sentences with phrase «months of talking with»

It took months of talking with him, but then he had me come in and talk with the higher - ups in Navy housing.

After months of talking with the banks, the coalition is yet to announce a deal, codenamed Merlin, under which the industry would to agree lending targets of up to # 190bn and show restraint on bonuses in return for less criticism from the government.

He alluded that he came to this conclusion after months of talking with Hoosiers on both sides of the issue.

United (UAL) has refused to appoint Bethune as chairman, ending months of talks with the funds in early March, the source and two other people familiar with the matter said.

From the article:... British Columbia plans to introduce measures next week to tax planned liquefied natural gas projects and limit emissions blamed for global warming after months of talks with developers such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc. (RDSA)

The decision follows months of talks with state officials, including Gov. Charlie Crist and Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael W. Sole, said Progress Energy Florida chief executive Jeff Lyash.

Not exact matches

So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

Starting off with my favorite holiday of the year, Halloween is one of the most mindless holiday marketing months and I am not talking about zombies; though when I read some of these Facebook pages it makes me wish I was one... What I mean is that it's relatively easy to research and find quality content that can be used to boost interest in your cause, so why not do something more ghoulish?

The world's largest brewer is also thinking much bigger: Earlier this month it confirmed talks of a possible merger with SABMiller.

We talked with 50 or 60 game - playing companies over the past couple of months.

The authors talk with a high - school phenom who was hounded for months and offered hundreds of thousands of dollars to sign with a college.

Jean met with all of the Virgin companies over the next six months and spent a lot of time talking to charities.

If you're one of the world's 284 million active Twitter users each month, you might be using the social - media platform to keep up with the news from media outlets, views of bloggers and conversations of remarkable people talking about whatever market your business is in.

After months of speculation, fast - talking dealmaker Quincy Smith has announced plans for CODE Advisors, a new type of investment bank that will combine traditional transactions with a heavy dose of advice.

In the past six months, Dyson has held extensive talks with some of the industry's largest suppliers.

A month later, Jackson delivered a 12 - minute mini movie to Jannard that was the talk of NAB 2007, with block - long lines forming to get into Red's tent to see it.

State Department envoy Clifford Sloan said last month that the United States was in talks with a wide range of countries to speed the transfer of prisoners as President Barack Obama looked to make good on a long - standing promise to close the facility.

New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay said he had talked with a number of TPP - member ministers at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week and he expected they would meet over the coming months.

In the past few months Fortune has talked with a few other institutions of the too - big - to - fail variety on background and all of them are using AWS to deploy applications.

The seventh round of NAFTA talks is set to begin later this month in Mexico City with substantial differences remaining on autos, a sunset clause and an investor - dispute resolution mechanism, and U.S. demands for greater market access to Canada's protected dairy industry.

«When people finally get to the point of coming to talk to me, it usually takes another six months for it to sink in that they have to file,» said Cara O'Neill, a legal editor with Nolo who also is a bankruptcy and litigation attorney in Roseville, California.

The death of the Unicorns, those startup companies with valuations of $ 1 billion or higher, have been the talk of Silicon Valley for the past several months.

Allen spent a month talking to members of his financial staff before he initiated discussions about the company's treasury - management system with its domestic bank, Miami's Northern Trust Bank of Florida, N.A..

Under U.K. takeover rules, Kraft's public withdrawal of its offer precludes it from reviving takeover talks with Unilever for six months.

«The amazing thing is when I visit sites today and talk with employees and ask what the growth was in a certain month almost all of them can repeat it immediately,» he says.

Mint reported on 14 April that Flipkart Ltd has held funding talks with more than 15 investors over the past six months, all of whom have refused to invest in the company at its preferred valuation of $ 15 billion.

Things began as suddenly as they ended, when on Oct. 29, Graham and Quebec Premier Jean Charest surprised their respective publics with a memorandum of understanding, the result of nine months of secret talks.

«After talking with him a bit longer, I learned of his recent focused efforts in creating a «servant leadership» environment, aka culture, that I concluded WAS the reason for high attrition in the past several months,» says Brown.

When we talked to Farhan Siddiqi a few months ago, he noted that trouble with making big changes at places like McDonald's — restaurants that serve unaccountably large numbers of consumers worldwide daily — is a bit like trying to turn a battleship around.

Possibilities for reforming the distribution of H - 1B visas, which are used largely by the tech industry, were discussed at a meeting last month with chief executives of tech companies at Trump Tower, said two sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to talk about the closed - door talks.

Libin started talking about finding a replacement with Evernote's board of directors in earnest early this year, and the company started zeroing in on candidates about four months ago.

MILAN (Reuters)- The owner of Italy's La Perla has agreed one - month exclusive talks with China's Fosun (0656.

The pattern on trade policy through the first 14 months of the Trump administration has been to pair blustery talk — about pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, for example — with more modest policy actions and negotiations that may avert real economic damage.

«There's nothing wrong with the company as it exists right now... I'm not talking about the company as I, kind of, took it over six months ago.

Representative Ileana Ros - Lehtinen, a Florida Republican who is retiring, wrote on Twitter, «After teasing #Dreamers for months with talk of his «great heart,» @POTUS slams door on them.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

We talked to former PC cabinet minister and life - long PC member, Heather Klimchuk about her life with the party that she loves, the women who have helped shape the party so far, and «the ugly side of politics» that has emerged in the past months.

Kicking off the month of March with our second episode, Tony and I talk in depth about what's happening in crypto this week.

One reason Uber is in talks to raise money again just a few months after a prior round is because of an overwhelming amount of investor interest, said a person with knowledge of the company who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the process is confidential.

Dan Gavitt, the NCAA's vice president of men's basketball, will be making the rounds this month, bouncing from conference meeting to conference meeting, talking with coaches and athletic directors about reforming college hoops.

Brian and I talked a bit about our days in divinity school with Kevin and the wonderful time the three of us had in St. Louis just a couple of months earlier.

Thanks to a grant from the Lilly Endowment, I recently had the chance to spend six months talking to all sorts of people about how theology might better connect with Christian laypeople.

After several months of brainstorming, talking with others in the publishing industry, doing hundreds of research on publishing methods, and reading dozens of books about publishing, I ended up with a process for book publishing which accomplished all three of my goals.

Communication happens only a couple of times a year with a six - month lag, lots of reminiscing, frequent stops to sigh or shed a tear as she gazes on their wedding photo prominently displayed, talking about him until her friends can almost bear no more...

While I was talking with our longtime contributor Hadley Arkes this month, he quoted a statement that I haven't been able to get out of my head: «One man's vulgarity is another's lyric.»

They talked for a while about programs and resources that might help, about staying with them for a couple of months, and, mostly, about her strength to receive the gift of life from the Lord.

One question I get asked a lot is how to come up with different recipes and have more variety with meals, so I'm going to be talking about that more this month (great for those of you who tend to make New Year's resolutions around cooking more and eating healthier food!).

Mr Clarke has been holding a series of «town hall» - style meetings in Melbourne with Treasury staff over the past 48 hours along with phone briefings for the major Treasury overseas offices following the announcement by the board that it had ended talks with private equity suitors about a proposed buyout after months of due diligence.

This is the second time in recent months I've found myself talking about coconut oil, the first being with an off - duty male midwife who my wife and I ran into at Wal - Mart one night, and that conversation somehow steered it's way into the realm of natural birth.

Mr Clarke has been holding a series of «town hall» - style meetings in Melbourne with Treasury staff over the past 48 hours along with phone briefings for the major Treasury overseas offices following the announcement by the board that it had ended talks with private equity suitors on a proposed buyout after months of due diligence.