Sentences with phrase «observers when»

The members of my family are fans of SunChips, and we were interested observers when SunChip - maker Frito - Lay switched to a new, 100 percent biodegradable bag for the product.

When he did address a separate U.N. gathering, he earned the criticism of some observers when he seemed to suggest that practicing yoga is a viable strategy to combat global warming.

Each device also has an LED light that flashes to indicate to observers when it has received a signal from another sensor in the network.

Mr. Sanders consistently polled behind Ms. Clinton in the Wolverine State and shocked political observers when he won there in March.

That fall, she shocked observers when she pulled upward of a third of the Democratic primary electorate away from the far better - known and better - funded incumbent.

She stunned observers when she ended up capturing more than a third of the vote.

Astorino ran an underdog campaign and surprised many veteran political observers when he ousted the former Democratic incumbent, Andy Spano, in 2009.

Government efforts to deal with the problem baffled many observers when they focused on Labour's link to trade unions, although recent allegations around Unite's dealings in the Labour party have quelled some of the irritation around the proposal.

This is even more surprising to many observers when one considers that it happened in one of the most Islamic societies.

observer When Vic posts his Christian beliefs do I not have the right to then whine about him being Anti-Deist or Anti-Maltheism.

What I didn't realize until years later is that I actually loved the story and the writing itself, I simply hated Nick, the narrator, who in my mind takes the passive stance of the casual observer when he could have intervened.

The film's not quite as emotionally affecting as is should be, and I always felt like an observer when I should have been drawn in.

This makes the teacher's classroom performance look better to an observer when the teacher has academically well - prepared students than when she doesn't.

The first thing that might strike a neutral observer when reading the briefs is that the two sides are coming from completely different planets.

I'm not an unbiased observer when it comes to electronic wills.

Not exact matches

When T.J. Maxx and Marshalls parent TJX (tax) reported the chains» first quarterly comparable sales drop in memory in November, many observers wondered whether the off - price juggernaut was running its course after years of aggressive store expansion.

Whether accurate or misleading, the higher estimate crept across Twitter over the course of the week of July 26 when the story ran, drawing outrage among observers already critical of Mayer's tenure at Yahoo.

More than a few tech observers were amazed when the disappearing - message app creator rebuffed Facebook's $ 3 billion offer for the company in 2013.

Dropbox rival Box (box) went public in 2015, leaving many technology observers speculating when Dropbox would follow suit.

When Vancouver implemented a foreign buyer tax last summer, many observers and economists predicted investment would flow to Toronto.

Over a decade ago, when government deficits led The Wall Street Journal to list Canada an «honorary member of the Third World,» more than a few observers insisted our currency was destined to be worth less than half a U.S. buck.

«Observers seem to think that go - getters exert less effort than slackers, even when they're working on the same task, and even though they themselves rated the assignment as equally difficult.

When 87 percent of Millennials donate to a nonprofit in 2013, you know they are not content with being passive observers in a brand's larger plan.

With more than $ 4.6 trillion under management, it's the largest money manager in the world, and so economic observers take note when Chairman Larry Fink sees a problem in financial markets.

That alludes to rumblings around the Nike brand that have existed since as far back as June, when Nike reported fiscal fourth - quarter sales that disappointed Wall Street observers.

So when, in April of 2009, MTY bought Country Style, observers found the deal uncharacteristically rife with pitfalls — an also - ran brand in a highly competitive market.

When Oracle announced it was gunning for the software firm with an unwelcome $ 5.1 - billion offer, observers were stunned at the audacity of the move, which came as PeopleSoft was in the midst of inking its own $ 1.8 billion deal to acquire smaller software firm J.D. Edwards & Co..

According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned «the cowardly Jews for breaking the world - liberator on the cross» and swore «not to rest until the Jews... lay shattered on the ground.»

Pence raised eyebrows in May when he launched the Great America Committee PAC, a move some observers suspected could be aimed at promoting a future presidential bid while President Donald Trump is mired in controversy.

What we found was that when the supervisor behaved positively by calling the coworker a «good guy» and suggesting that they worked well together, the influence of the ingratiation had almost no effect on observers» impressions.

At least that's what observers deduced when the Biebs recently posted a video of himself playing a game of three - on - three with NBA star Steve Nash and Mike Duda, the duo behind Consigliere, a New York City — based venture capital and marketing firm.

When asked about Jimmy Fallon's interview with Trump during the election on NBC's «The Tonight Show,» which observers criticized for its lack of tough questions, Letterman offered how he would have behaved in the situation.

That's put downward pressure on sales and led some observers to wonder just when Gilead would use its massive cash reserves to make a big - name acquisition.

When news of the IRS probe first emerged, some legal observers predicted the agency's demands for all of Coinbase's customer records was just a negotiating tactic, and that it would ultimately ask for only a portion of them.

This evening the overpopulation problem is solved when Moore discovers that a marine escort and I are sitting in as observers.

When asked about Jimmy Fallon's recent interview with Trump on «The Tonight Show» that observers criticized for its lack of tough questions, Letterman said he would definitely have been harder on the Republican nominee.

Thanks to IP address tracking, observers can also quickly tell when company figureheads adopt fake identities for the sake of fluffing up their reputation.

The Wisdom of Keith Richards (Wall Street Journal) Keith Richards, shrouded in an ever - present cloud of cigarette smoke, wheezes a laugh when it's pointed out that many observers, based on evidence to date, disagree with his sense of his own mortality.

To many observers, Elliott appeared vindicated yet again this spring, when a soccer ball showed up at Paul Singer's door.

Fourteen months ago, when Canadian Business first took a look at Kobo, the company was partnering with booksellers and device - makers in North America and abroad; its platform would power their e-book stores and it would become, as one observer put it, the «Intel inside» for the e-reading sector.

When Saputo Inc., Canada's largest dairy producer, won a hard - fought battle to acquire one of Australia's biggest dairies in 2014, it may have looked to outside observers as if the company had jumped into the frenzied bidding at the last minute, spotting an opportunity to spin a fast deal.

Most observers yawned when the new appointee assumed the leadership mantle from longtime CEO John Lau, despite Ghosh's immediate message to the market that he was going to aggressively reposition Husky.

The concessions failed to change many minds, however, so when nine weeks later Graham announced the deal's death — ostensibly because Hydro - Quebec's due diligence revealed maintenance costs and civil liabilities that were riskier than it cared to assume — plenty of observers wondered whether New Brunswick politics, with a September provincial election looming, ultimately killed the sale.

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«The natural inclination among any observers of the market when they see Amazon is to be scared,» says David Vernon, a Sanford C. Bernstein analyst who tracks the shipping market.

Observers consider a number of elements when measuring companies that are the most successful at fostering diversity.

When interim CEO Tom Dooley said last week he'd be leaving Nov. 15, it was a signal that a merger with CBS was on the table, many observers say.

This has some observers asking if we're not seeing something resembling the 1990s tech bubble, when valuations ballooned, a few major tech giants led the way, and companies with no prospects to make money went public.

Market observers continue to tout the «divergence» narrative — that the U.S. zigged when Europe zagged — but I find this perception to be increasingly out of synch with what actually happened.

When analyzing broad indices, like the S&P 500, we note that a few of the largest weighted names are all trading at high valuations, likely skewing the casual observer's inferences.