Sentences with phrase «of earlier pressure»

As a result of earlier pressure from Gulf veterans, the British government commissioned two reports.

Mauricio Pochettino's side went into the clash at a disadvantage having conceded the away goal in last week's 1 - 1 draw at White Hart Lane, but a period of early pressure saw Spurs in the driving seat for most of the first half.

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In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

Walsh offers these as red flags: a broker who pressures you to make important financial decisions on the spot; suggests that «everyone can retire early»; or promises a return of 12 percent or more.

Officials in Washington put pressure on their Colombian counterparts to bring down the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers and their partners in the early and mid-1990s, after years of what seemed to be little official action against their activities.

It's the latest Hollywood - China tie - up to unravel due to regulatory pressure, following Wanda Group's abandonment of a deal to buy production company Dick Clark Productions for $ 1 billion earlier this year.

Jia was placed on an official blacklist of debt defaulters in early December, a move taken by Chinese courts to put pressure on people and entities to repay debts.

Whole Foods hired the advisory firm Evercore Partners earlier this year to defend itself from pressure by activist shareholder Jana Partners, which announced in April it had amassed an 8.3 percent stake and pushed for changes to the Whole Foods board of directors.

That lack of pressure allowed him to build FUBU at a pace that made sense — and to ultimately take advantage of marketing triumphs that built the brand's popularity in the early part of the century.

Earlier this year, top venture capitalist Bill Gurley sounded the alarmon the «unique circumstances» start - up CEOs find themselves in caused by «the pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A».

«Addressing the prenup early takes the time and emotional pressure out of it,» Jacobson says.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

And in the early stages of running a new enterprise, the way you handle pressure can often make the difference in whether it survives.

Recall that in the wake of the London riots of early August, Research In Motion faced pressure both to assist British police in their investigations and to resist doing so.

Earlier this month, CEO Travis Kalanick also decided to quit his role as an advisor on President Trump's business council after consumer pressure from hundreds of thousands of displeased users.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

A press release elaborated on its plot: «The comic depicts early events in Colonel Sanders» life that eventually led to the discovery of his real super power: the combination of a pressure cooker and secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, better known as his world - famous Original Recipe Chicken.»

The students are in the middle of a diplomatic dispute between Bangkok and Rangoon - after the Myanmar embassy in Thailand was occupied earlier this month, Thailand is pressuring the...

Unlike earlier episodes, these actions will not be taken in the context of an overheated economy that requires a quick and substantive dose of policy tightening to dampen economic activity and inflationary pressures.

Earlier this year, under investor pressure, Apple decided to increase the size of a dividend - and - buyback program to $ 100 billion, including $ 60 billion to repurchase stock through 2015.

However, given the ageing of the population and the accompanying pressures on health care costs, it is important that such discussions begin much earlier and involve the public, rather than being held behind closed doors.

Issued in response to pressure from institutional investors, the statement in effect revised the Roundtable's earlier position that «the shareholder must receive a good return but the legitimate concerns of other constituencies also must have the appropriate attention.»

The major banks tended to scale back their regional presence, in response to the cost pressures on them after the events of the early 1990s, and the changing economics of branch banking which became apparent as financial liberalisation proceeded.

Last week, we also observed early indications of an improvement in the quality of market action, and an easing of the upward pressure on risk premiums.

The new platform appears due to pressure from the Chinese government to more rapid development of technology in the country to maintain global competitiveness, and as a result praise the Blockchain technology for political consultants during the biggest event of the political situation in the country in early March.

Shares of ExOne were under pressure during early trading today after yesterday's release.

The value of XRP was relatively unaffected by the news, as the broader cryptocurrency market remained under pressure following a regulatory announcement by the South Korean government earlier this week.

The easing in price pressure largely reflects an unwinding of the earlier run - up in food prices; the ex-food measure has drifted higher to be up by around 1 1/2 per cent over the year.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

Subsequent statements have seen some OPEC member countries canvassing the possibility of further quota increases, placing downward pressure on prices since early July.

The earlier strong upward pressure on the Korean won, which had been resisted by the Bank of Korea through intervention, also seems to have abated in recent months.

The pick - up in the WCI data in the second half of 2003 partly reflected the spreading out of increases in wage pressures to a broader range of industries, after having been concentrated in public - sector and related industries earlier in the year (Table 17).

Well, just like a mission to mars and frozen pizza that doesn't taste like cardboard, that pretty crazy idea had some legs — and, whether relenting to investor pressure, or because it saw the light of truth (or most likely a mix of both)-- early this year Facebook rolled out significant changes to its newsfeed algorithm.

In cases where a startup is courted with an early - exit opportunity, it's because competitive pressures in their market space are demanding consolidation, economies of scale, or accelerated R&D.

Expectations of monetary easing in the second half of the year increased in May and into early June, due to concerns about continued global weakness and upward pressure on the exchange rate.

From early May to mid June, domestic bond yields followed global yields lower on concerns about potential deflationary pressures in the US and related expectations of easier monetary policy abroad and in Australia.

Nonetheless, it is likely that considerable slack remains in the labour market, with the participation rate remaining well below the level of earlier years and little sign of upward pressure on wages.

The monetary authorities of the US and Japan have reiterated that monetary policy will remain accommodative for the foreseeable future as the excess capacity that has built up as a result of the earlier period of economic weakness is seen as limiting inflationary pressures for some time.

However, at its meeting in July, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) highlighted how far the country's economy still has to go to overcome deflationary pressures, as the central bank further reduced its inflation forecasts for the period up to early 2019.

Would I be wrong in assuming that some of these kids are expected, encouraged and even pressured into becoming a Christian at such an early age?

Early this month, an American theologian resigned under pressure from his post as theological advisor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Christianity has already dwindled in the U.S. and supposedly we are better for it as unwed mothers put pressure on the system, people kill each other for a pair of shoes, children are corrupted as early as we can manage to corrupt them, etc..

The concentration of capital has produced an unexpectedly durable system of monopoly capitalism, which is no longer subject to the pressures of price competition that at earlier stages led to ever declining rates of profit.

I used to run a semi-popular forum back in the early pioneer days so I kind of know the pressure being exerted on you to delete, moderate, etc..

[T] he exposure of persistent human rights violations by the contras has led the Administration not to pressure contra leaders to enforce international codes of conduct,» the Americas Watch Report cited earlier states, «but to drown U.S. public opinion with praise for the «freedom fighters,» and to attempt to discredit all reports of their violations as inspired by communist or Sandinista propaganda.

However, if one chooses to regard it as a sin, it is well to remember that even the early drinking of the alcoholic is part of a total behavioral pattern which is strongly influenced by his damaged personality as well as by cultural pressures.

The Boy Scouts spent much of their early history unsuccessfully trying to eliminate the Girl Scouts by legal attack and social pressure.

There are such pressures in American society, but the court has not fallen captive to them, at least not since 1970, when Chief Justice Warren Burger spent many words rejecting the earlier hard - line — though still not «absolute» — separationist stance of the Earl Warren court.

The cracks in the church's foundations resulted from pressures that built to the breaking point because of neglect, and the effects of social activism in the «60s and early «70s.

Those earlier decisions were also the self - determined outcome of the interaction of the pressures coming from the past and the fresh calling of God.