Sentences with phrase «now at the cutting»
They will of course be judged by courts typically secularist in mindset and now at the cutting edge of introducing a new, inappropriatelylabelled, «liberal democracy».
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Until recently people heard in the word «modern» a reference to what is going on now at the cutting edge.
The nanotechnology approach that is being tested for inhibitor control could also improve the haemophilia treatment that is now at the cutting edge of clinical research: gene therapy.
Two thousand years ago, the Greeks unwittingly fabricated nanoscale crystals that appear to be identical to the quantum dots now at the cutting edge of materials science.
Not exact matches
After they returned from the adventure, they cut back their total spending by approximately 25 %; now they're planning to retire at 50 and hit the road again, under the new spending guidelines they've set up.
For now, the group is cutting ever deeper, and Saudi Arabia's Al - Falih chided nations that haven't been implementing their fair share of the curbs at the opening session of the Jeddah talks.
The FY 2019 request is an even greater disparity: Commerce's request increased to $ 9.9 billion while SBA received the third largest cut of all agencies, at $ 0.6 billion — now just 6 percent of Commerce's proposed budget.
Now, based on the experience in Europe, the Bank of Canada reckons it could cut the overnight target to at least negative 0.5 %, the central bank's new effective lower bound.
Kelly was once a fixture at the president's side, but Trump has now cut him out of a number of important decisions.
The shift, which now covers the vast majority of new phones sold, has helped improve the carriers» profit margins while cutting into upgrade sales at phone makers, including Apple (aapl) and Samsung.
But the first of many boycotts against Nike was followed by corporate efforts at reform, and the company now has a history of holding suppliers to account and cutting off those that don't measure up.
For now, Chevrolet alone still sells somewhere around 12 car models if you count Corvette, although there have been rumors and news it will cut or end production of at least some of those.
You might be cutting a person because they just can't perform at the level the company has now reached.
Neither cut was a particular surprise: Buffett had previously said he erred in buying Conoco at a peak price for oil (though now, of course, the commodity's rising price is putting a different cast on the investment) and he had publicly protested Kraft's 2010 purchase of Cadbury, which he thought not in the interests of Kraft's shareholders.
Trump's proposal seeks to cut corporate taxes down to between 15 % and 20 % from where they now sit at 35 %.
Furthermore, Boris Schlossberg, managing director at BK Asset Management, said Tuesday on «Trading Nation» that while neither stock is a buy right now, «the bullish case for both is if you're truly a big believer in a massive bull move this year in the market, and that the tax cut is going to increase spending on travel.»
«We're not cutting prices right now,» Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox told Re / code's Liz Gannes and Walt Mossberg at the inaugural Code Conference on Wednesday.
There have already been rumors of cost - cutting and the channel has shed a number of high - profile (and expensive) personalities such as Grantland founder Bill Simmons, now at HBO.
«This was cutting - edge stuff,» says Sharon Cohen Levin, a longtime chief of the asset - forfeiture unit in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, and now a partner at WilmerHale.
Its business model is tied into long - term contracts with those sports leagues that have no reason, right now at least, to cut ties with networks and pay - TV providers.
«And we are now at a decision point: sustained global commitments and recent funding cuts affect capacity and capability for a full - spectrum fight against a near - peer adversary.»
«I think in the country, people said at where we are right now, we need to have some of these things in place, but now with a dynamic and robust economy and what we see happening right now with the tax cuts and job bill, it makes a lot of things more possible,» Kelly said.
Rathi, now a journalist at Quartz, recently published an essay recounting the year he cut his nightly sleep hours in half in the name of getting more done.
It could be just enough to «turn off the sequester,» the second tranche of across - the - board cuts that will take effect in mid-January if Congress doesn't act, says Steve Bell, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee now at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
However, we have been getting jerked around by the SBA for nearly 9 months now and we are at a point where we may have to cut our losses if we can not secure the remainder of necessary funding in the very near future.
If your significant other forgot to grab you a box of your favorite chocolates last month, grab one for yourself now at a steep price cut.
On the demand side, individual investors and mutual funds are still buyers, as individuals experienced a somewhat modest tax cut overall (the top income tax rate fell from 39.6 % to 37 %, for example) and many are looking for protection from the tax man now that the federal deduction for state and local taxes is capped at $ 10,000.
Of course, OPEC now is entering month number 16 of their crude oil production cuts and that certainly has a big hand in what we «re seeing at the pump.
With the deal now apparently dead, Sysco can refocus on cost - cutting efforts and technology upgrades that were shelved in anticipation of the merger, according to Erin Lash, an analyst at Morningstar Inc..
You've probably heard by now that, in an effort to lift oil prices, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) tentatively agreed to a production cut at its meeting in Algiers last week.
Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.
The economy continues to grow at roughly its Obama - era pace, but corporate America is now enjoying a surge of deregulation and tax cuts that powered enormous stock market growth in 2017.
Now Mr. Levin's allies at government pension funds are joining the campaign to cut Mr. Dimon down to size.
The manufacturing sector and services sector are doing quite well, sentiment is actually quite strong, and, in fact, we are right now moving into Q1 earnings season, and with the tax cuts that were enacted at the end of last year, corporations are expected to increase their earnings by 17 %.
NO: Federal spending at these levels is unsustainable and must be cut sharply now by empowering state and local governments, consolidating duplicative programs and privatizing government programs.
O'Reilly: It seems to me, Kinder Morgan obviously cut their dividend recently in order to fund their expansion projects because Wall Street definitely is not throwing money at energy companies right now, but I do think the dividend will eventually get reinstated.
After all, there's now a businessman in charge at the White House rather than a politician, and Trump has promised to cut taxes, boost infrastructure and defence spending and slash regulations.
Under the B.C. Liberals, ferry ridership has fallen, fares have climbed, debt at the corporation has ballooned, the government has failed to curb exorbitant executive bonuses, and now people up and down the coast are facing devastating service cuts, said Trevena.
The dollar is headed down and at the G - 20 meeting in London on September 4 - 5; the US will ask China and others to cut it more slack, because they can not now reverse the reversal of fortune.
Now that the government is planning for an $ 8 billion cut,  the potential job losses could drive job losses to between 99,000 and 108,000 full time positions across Canada. At this much higher level, the federal government could be single - handedly responsible for pushing national unemployment from its current 7.5 % to 8.0 %.
Meeting defence spending alone, now estimated at 11 per cent of GDP and rising, will mean making cuts elsewhere.
It seems that, for now at least, we will just have to keep paying for our tax cuts the old - fashioned wayâ $
Arguing that OPEC «has not failed at all» in its attempt to drive oil prices up, Oreshkin said that the price of oil is now much higher than it was this time last year, before the cartel and 11 non-OPEC producers led by Russia struck the initial output cut deal.
Natalia Orlova, head economist at Alfa Bank, said the central bank might now take more time over interest rate cuts that could boost growth: «Based on economic logic... it seems to me that it is dangerous to hurry with a rate cut in such uncertain conditions.»
At $ 100 a barrel, prudent development of U.S. reserves could cut imports in half, and coupled with better use of abundant natural gas and wiser application of now available internal combustion technologies, the United States could become an energy exporter.
In honor of our undaunted Speaker, let me give you two more ways in which the Democrats didn't win the showdown at the cliff: 99 % of the Bush tax cuts are now permanent, including the family - friendly features we Porchers keep forgetting to be grateful for.
Rt Revd Lord Harries, a former Bishop of Oxford and now peer, told Premier it «doesn't bother me at all» that the number of Church of England bishops in the House of Lords could be cut.
Until I found out that my then - boyfriend - now - husband (a poor, broke, medical school student at the time) spent close to two months eating bologna sandwiches every day in order to cut down his grocery budget to $ 10 a week, just so he could save up enough money to buy me an engagement ring.
The Government tells us that we need to introduce confidential access to EBC to cut teenagepregnancy rates; they introduce the policy; we now discover that this policy does not work, yet there is no sign at all of the policy being withdrawn as a result.