Sentences with phrase «more years fighting»

Not exact matches

Uber earmarked more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam, over the last year.

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct.

However, in the last two years, the practice has decreased (falling down to just 30 percent of purchases in 2013) as businesses have found more effective ways to fight back.

The civil war in Syria has been raging for more than six years as rebels fight to oust Assad, a brutal authoritarian who has terrorized Syrians for years.

There's probably no Wall Street adage that's been repeated more during this six - year bull market than «don't fight the Fed.»

«I will plead not guilty,» he vowed, «and I will fight 10 more years.»

She worked at Yahoo for more than a decade, fighting off a copyright infringement suit from Sony BMG, helping the company navigate issues of online privacy and working on deals like a Microsoft search agreement (which was just revised this year).

It is still not clear to me, but the company had only raised less than $ 2 million and after more than a year of fighting against a larger company, and after many hundreds of thousands of dollars, they finally settled out of court.

Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been working together more closely behind the scenes to fight financial fraud and other crimes committed online.

It's been more than 50 years since the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, which mandates that men and women receive equal pay for equal work, but women are still fighting for compensation equality.

The FDA is studying this year's flu so it can create a more effective vaccine to fight next year's flu virus.

Doctors and hospitals spend more than $ 90 million each year on cancer - fighting drugs.

Expectations had run high for Twitter since the messaging service, which for years had fought to revive growth in users, surprised Wall Street in the second quarter by signing up 24 percent more people globally.

Abzug's push for Women's Equality Day was, in fact, far more symbolic than many of the more concrete policies she made a reality in her six years in Congress, not to mention in the two decades prior to her election, which she spent as a lawyer fighting for human rights and civil rights.

Despite having to fight city by city to get stores built, Adam & Eve has opened 53 units in 24 states, with up to 400 more coming in the next 10 years.

Giving one of the best performances of the year and her career, Chastain plays Sloane less as a trailblazer fighting for a good cause and more as an unapologetic addict of winning at any cost.

The company reportedly spent upwards of $ 8 million fighting the proposition, which would have kept hosts from renting their homes for more than 75 days a year.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to «fight and win» battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat.

Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and wife Dr Priscilla Chan have pledged to invest more than $ 3 billion over the next ten years to develop research technology that can fight and cure diseases globally.

The next big battle is in southern B.C., as citizens fight to stop Kinder Morgan's proposal to load more than 400 oil tankers a year in Burnaby.

Although such a move would incur taxes, it would be swifter and more certain than pursuing an Alibaba spinoff that could lead to years of fighting with the I.R.S.

You'd never know from the fighting language used by the B.C. premier that the pipeline has been safely transporting oil through the province for more than 60 years.

Maria has more than 20 years» experience in the proxy solicitation industry and specialises in the strategic advice and execution of mergers and acquisitions, annual meetings, proxy fights and other extraordinary transactions.

There are many years left before deficit problems and euro market problems are solved, so making money from a downward market will be more and more common than going long, instead of fight it, swim with it.

Harry's last few years were spent fighting the UK government over an injustice that hits more than half a million British pensioners.

The federal review of tax expenditures was announced in last year's budget alongside a pledge to give the Canada Revenue Agency more money to fight offshore tax evasion.

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If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

Over the last year and a half, Uber has taken aim at the Asia Pacific region, earmarking more than $ 1 billion to face regulatory fights in Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam.

Deutsche Bank fought its way to the top of Western Europe's equity league tables, raising $ 21.8 billion in 78 deals last year — more than double the equity capital it raised in the region in 2012 — for a 10.8 % share, according to Dealogic.

From the period of 1560 to 1913 we can see that this decision to leave the Gold Standard to allow England the freedom to inflate and fight to the death with Napoleonic France was the most noteworthy price move during more than 350 years of pricing history.

If you believe that stocks will continue to advance in the months and years ahead, with no intervening bear market decline, those instances are the main points where «don't fight the trend» might outweigh negative return / risk considerations more generally.

The original program was all giant dinosaurs fighting it out, but this was formatted fresh 65 million years ago and the programmer became more fancy and diverse.

Only strategy Christians has to do is fight for what ever Tradition is going on for years by co-ordinating within the different Christian sects as well as DISPLAYING MORE NATIVITY SCEANS AROUND THE NEIGHBORING HOUSES OF ATHEIST FOLLOWERS especially near the leaders houses for for sure, yea I mean purely private property.

American Muslims are far more likely to believe that the United States is sincere in its efforts to fight terrorism now than they were four years ago, the study says.

Dewey, who died in 1952 after reigning for more than fifty years as America's most influential public philosopher and educator, appreciated that the churches had not gone out of business, and that they could even be useful in promoting peace, fighting economic injustice, and, more generally, in «stimulating action» for what he called «a divine kingdom on earth.»

He had fought extradition for more than 10 years but in July he lost a High Court battle to stay in Britain.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

My five - year - old patients in particular, wheezing after family fights, obviously need the more sophisticated grasp of orgasm which Dr. Perls apparently provided to his clients.

The reality is, gay marriage will be legalized, younger more reasonable and flex able generations will assure that in our life time, problably within the next few years, and those who have a misguided concept of god and think gay marriage is wrong are fighting a battle that they can not win, however, they do have the right to fight it.

Had he been born a hundred years earlier, when the wars which preceded the creation of the principate by Augustus were still to be fought, or had he appeared two centuries later when the imperial structure was beginning to crumble, the course of the Christian faith would have been much more difficult.

For more than 40 years, this army has been fighting Myanmar's Buddhist - friendly military regime, which, according to Operation World, is seeking to marginalize or even eliminate Christianity.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

The year ahead is expected to bring about continued competitiveness among restaurants as they fight to attract consumers who continue to get more sophisticated and as technology advances.

I have been on medication fighting flare ups for more than 10 years now and have had enough.

In recent years, the Board of Health has fought to ban trans fats in restaurant meals, require restaurants to post caloric content on menus and menu boards and limit the size of sugar - sweetened beverages to no more than 16 ounces.

Early results of a 12 million pound, 4 - year EU study on the benefits of organic food suggest that some of them, such as fruit, vegetables and milk, are more nutritious than non-organically produced food and may contain higher concentrations of cancer fighting and heart beneficial antioxidants.

Sorghum: Domesticated in Northeastern Africa more than 5,000 years ago, sorghum — a good source of vitamin B6, riboflavin, thiamin and magnesium — is known to support digestive health, help fight cardiovascular disease and help control blood sugar levels.