Sentences with phrase «of a string of»

TORONTO — When Lise Cartwright grew tired of a string of full - time office jobs, she turned to the Internet to see if there were any writing gigs she could try on the side.

Though it ended without an accident, this is just the latest of a string of incidents in which drivers seem to have given autopilot a bit too much credit.

And Genuity was born out of a string of controversial deals and blunders at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, including one that resulted in a US$ 2.4 - billion payout to Enron investors.

Trapped by mortgages for apartments built on barren steppe under communism, residents of Sayanogorsk, one of a string of towns dominated by Rusal, have few options if a loss of customers for its aluminium leads the firm to cut jobs.

And that was only the latest of a string of downsizing efforts.

But if you notice this happens frequently, or is just part of a string of unkind moves by your now chilly manager, it's a bad sign.»

Home Depot, which had estimated that the theft would cost about $ 62 million, was one of a string of U.S. retailers attacked by hackers over the past year.

Thompson's alleged indiscretions are reportedly part of a string of infidelities that began before he started dating Khloe, who has yet to publicly respond to the allegations.

Charney had been at the centre of a string of employee sexual harassment suits.

The investor mutiny that pushed Kalanick out came in the wake of a string of challenges to Uber, ranging from allegations of sexual harassment from former employees, to the Waymo lawsuit, to increasing competition from other ride - sharers.

The recent ouster of Cheniere Energy CEO Charif Souki is the latest of a string of victories for the activist investor.

In reality, he's more of a mutt: a crossbreed fashioned out of plastic and animated by sensors, motors, thousands of strings of computer code — and the boyhood dreams of a pair of inventors who spent nearly two years perfecting their toy.

Though the arrival of the robot car promised a dramatic reduction in the 1.25 million road traffic deaths that occur around the globe each year, there was also the sneaking suspicion that someday, for some reason, a self - driving vehicle would cause a collision — perhaps because of a string of bad code, an unexpected equipment failure, or an impossible decision.

It came at the end of a string of other declarations to the effect that he's somebody who can govern the province, too — wrestling the deficit and all that.

Wells Fargo has earned a reputation as one of the financial industry's worst actors in the wake of a string of recent scandals.

«My guess is this is just one of a string of pieces of bad news that he's facing.»

Ideally, your blog post should consist of a string of ideas, each in its own paragraph, connected by transition phrases.

Thanks for you priceless forex lessons.My confidence was gone because of string of bad trades but reading through materials have actually boosted my confidence.I now place wining trade.

Bleaker economic numbers from new Bank of Canada forecasts fly in the face of the Harper government's vision of a string of surpluses

The announcement is the last of a string of difficulties Anglo has faced with the iron ore mine, which was expected to produce 16 million tonnes this year, but that will now generate just 3 million tonnes.

Since each Bitcoin transaction consists of a string of code encrypted from the sender and decrypted by the recipient, it saw increased usage by many criminal organizations.

Alderan is one of a string of successful investments Kumova has made in recent months.

Yet, String Theory is based of strings of vibrating energy that can not be «seen».

In discussing his results, Herman states that they demonstrate the ability of dolphins to respond correctly to semantically reversible sentences, offering «the first substantial evidence of syntactic processing of a string of lexical items by animals» (CSBD 199) 12 Evidence for such syntactic processing is found in the dolphins» correct responses to sentences having modifiers to direct and / or indirect objects: reversal errors were extremely rare.

His use of a string of such words was a way of saying, «I can't reach you; I'm giving up.»

A former Church of England priest has been convicted of a string of sexual offences against two boys dating back to the late 1980s.

It's so simple minded to believe in a man upstairs who pulls ALL of the strings ALL of the time... Praying is a waste of time.

The will was indeed master in its own house, just as a brothel mistress is mistress in the brothel, one of a string of abusive Lutheran epithets.

Gasparilla Island is one of a string of barrier islands along the southwest Gulf Coast between Fort Myers and Tampa.

Foster's made a large wine acquisition in the US in 2000 when it paid $ 2.9 billion for Californian group Beringer Wine Estates but that business struggled to live up to lofty expectations and was the subject of a string of hefty write - downs under previous management.

/ PHOTO CREDIT: Meehan's Public House One location of a string of popular Irish pubs closed its doors on Friday.

Beer, who has a national following and is the author of a string of cookbooks, made the difficult decision in 2015 to start succession planning for the business she built up over four decades.

It has also come in the midst of a string of allegations over the perceived power of the leading chains and their treatment of suppliers, which has seen the ACCC also weigh in.

After his performance tonight on the back of a string of poor games some may say that Arsenal do not really want Ozil but I think we need to step back and ask what effect a new manager can have on a player.

Arsenal is a big club, but even big companies fall, not because of one person but because of a string of many people & poor decisions.

After what seems like a start that will be a continuation of his string of excellent starts, does he get shut down and / or promoted?

They will be making their first appearance at the European Championships and go into the tournament off the back of a string of fine performances.

Even the fact that he got sent off may not harm his chances because he showed spirit and fight and was reacting to the latest of a string of bad tackles on him and the other young academy players involved and some fight would certainly give the Gunners something different to what the German playmaker offers.

That was just one of the string of players vocally jaded by the Suns organization and that's now the real problem.

The 16 - year - old has impressed despite his lack of experience, and it comes after Lopez had been guilty of a string of errors to start the season which saw coach Sinisa Mihajlovic lose faith in him.

The Uruguay international is seeking a summer exit from Anfield after growing disillusioned with his treatment in England - on the back of a string of controversies.

By the end of the year he'd earned the wrath of a string of others including Daniil Kvyat (Spain), Nico Hulkenberg (Hungary) and Fernando Alonso (Malaysia).

The first match at The Hawthorns ended in a 1 - 1 draw; Stuart Pearson scored the Hammer's goal but the hero of the hour was Phil Parkes who pulled of a string of outstanding man - of - the - match saves to keep us in the tie.

Those days are over in favor of a string of fresh diversionary tactics and my nimble escapes.

Yesterday's plant tour and shoring up of political support is part of a string of broader meat industry's attempts to rehabilitate BPI's maligned reputation.

Burundi is a first out of a string of key elections in the Great Lakes Region.

Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara took to Twitter yesterday, poking fun at Trump's «covfefe» typo in the latest of a string of sharply critical comments the ex-prosecutor has hurled at the current administration and Trump's personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, in recent weeks.

Speaking at the NRA's annual convention, Trump urged gun - rights advocates to support Republican candidates in the November congressional elections, warning that Democrats would try to tighten firearms laws in the wake of a string of mass shootings.

In the face of a string of Tory reversals, all down to his opposition, Labour MPs from across the party — from Blairites to the soft left — have been won over by his leadership skills, despite the minority of plotters and the «mainstream media» who rudely reprinted all the things he's said over the years about the IRA, Hamas, Kosovo, Iran, Israel, etc..

It was one of a string of embarrassments for Obama's political team.