Sentences with phrase «of hands raised»

A sea of hands raised against a dark sky suggests a moment of solidarity or, perhaps, affirmation.

That said, we're getting a lot of hands raised in favor of white jeans.

To vote on new laws, thousands of Greek men had a direct say: decisions would be made by an estimate of the hands raised in meetings of the Assembly of the demos (the people) that would be attended by thousands.

Not exact matches

(On the other hand, Wolff says Trump used to repeat stories inside of 30 minutes, raising the possibility that repetition is a longstanding conversational gambit of his.)

It means someone can raise their hand and ask for help, admit they have been given a responsibility they don't feel prepared or knowledgeable enough to complete, or admit they are scared without any fear of humiliation or retribution.

Of course, they haven't actually raised their hand, so you'll want to be careful not to overexpose them to your ads in the days and weeks to follow.

Oops: The $ 400 juicer which raised $ 118 million in funding from the likes of Kleiner Perkins and GV might not be so impressive, Bloomberg reports: Investors just found out they can make juice by squeezing the company's produce packs with their hands, no $ 400 machine (already a drop from the original $ 700 price tag) required.

NECK Raise your left arm and place hand at base of neck so the elbow sticks up like you're about to do a biceps curl.

And then, against the backdrop of Hong Kong's neon - rainbow skyline, they raised their hands as the countdown began: «10, 9, 8... FREEDOM!»

Typically, most of the audience members will raise their hand.

Typically 85 percent to 90 percent of those assembled raise their hands.

And lots of wildly successful founders I've met and worked with have acknowledged that they would have raised their own hands had they been in my classroom.

This raises the question of how the committee — with more than $ 90 million on hand — will use all that cash, which came in above its goal of raising $ 65 million to $ 75 million.

«I shouldn't have to suffer at the hands of my government,» said Zzyym, who was born in 1958 and raised as a boy.

Within days of launching, he and his co-inventor had raised almost half a million dollars, and had orders in hand for 1,000 units, with most of the customers in the fast - growing «maker» sector (groups of people who jointly rent work shops and share tools and equipment).

«A lot of people that didn't raise their hand, didn't get that job.»

Ware's statement suggested that the fact that Clinton's aides decided which emails to hand in raises questions about the «integrity» of the records, which necessitated the committee's subpoena.

Yes, of course it is; once they're fans, you know they've raised their hand telling you they want more content from you.

«Raise your hand if you're not scared of Dana and her hourglass,» tweeted Parkland, Florida high school student and shooting survivor Emilie Smith.

Equity crowdfunding under the JOBS Act has been seen as a democratization of the startup and small - business investment process, and one which will put the ability of entrepreneurs to raise capital into the hands of «the crowd» and not just wealthy investors, banks and Wall Street brokers.

While there was a smattering of raised hands in the auditorium, it was clearly not as many as Cohn would have liked.

But like all marketing, the purpose is to make you visible, to make you valuable, to get you on the radar of prospective customers and brand ambassadors to invite them to raise their hands and say, «More please.»

Ashworth and his colleagues, on the other hand, recently raised their economic forecast for next year based on the outlook for some sort of Trumpian stimulus.

The mere suggestion that CP could be put in the hands of Harrison was enough to convince JPMorgan Chase analyst Thomas Wadewitz to raise his rating on CP (to neutral from underweight).

On the other hand, Bank of America Merrill Lynch reiterated its buy rating and raised its price target to $ 220 from $ 180 for Apple shares, which is 25 percent above Tuesday's closing price.

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On the other hand, raising prices forces a company to do a better job of providing value — and explaining to customers what that value is.

And then he leaned across the table and said, «Not just kill a man» — and he raised his hands right on either side of my head — «but with my bare hands.

Of the ones that do not, if you could raise your hand as well, are you a B2B business?

The normal startup drill is that the company raises round after round of funding, thereby diluting the value of the stock options handed out to employees.

she estimates that 80 percent of the people in the room raise their hands.

Standing in front of the Centerville crowd with your idea, you might refrain from calling on those you know want to criticize when they raise their hands, hoping to limit the commentary to friends of the proposal.

«During early adolescence, the majority of girls stop raising their hands, participating in sports and extra-curricular activities, taking risks, and stepping into leadership roles,» says Catherine Connors, the company's co-founder and chief content officer.

«When I ask my MBA class whether they hope to found a company or work in a start - up, about 80 % raise their hands,» says Ralph Maurer, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Tulane University.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae - in raise their hands after signing on a joint statement North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and South Korean President Moon Jae - in raise their hands after signing on a joint statement at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea.

Finally one of them raised his hand and said, «Do you know what's going on?

On the other hand, McDonald's said its decision to raise wages and improve benefits for 90,000 workers in U.S. company - operated restaurants took a bite out of operating income.

Ms. Powell Jobs, a food lover, lives with her children in the same unpretentious red brick home she and Mr. Jobs bought two decades ago, where they raise bees and send friends Christmas baskets with hand - labeled Mason jars of honey.

Zillow Group raised more than $ 33,000 between employee contributions, a $ 10,000 Zillow Group donation and sales of Give a Hand to Houston shirts among our employee base.

To date, Facebook has always successfully squirmed out of seeing its chief executive with his right hand raised.

The optics of Facebook's founder with his right hand raised would likely be anathema to the feverishly PR - conscious company.

The CEO demonstrated willingness to bite the hand that feeds by ridiculing representatives of Wall Street's biggest banks, some of which have helped the company raise billions of dollars to fund his other - worldly ambitions.

«There's been an over-focus on buybacks and raising EPS to hit share option targets, and we know that those are concentrated in the hands of the few, and that the few is in the top 1 percent,» said James Montier, a member of the asset allocation team at global investment firm GMO in London, which manages more than $ 100 billion in assets.

But the fact that the data watchdog is forced to sit on its hands waiting to gain access to servers that the companies of interest to its investigation are in control of or able to access raises serious questions about the asymmetry between big data and regulation.

But NEB's requirement that the parent company keep a half - billion in cash on hand may signal the potential for Kinder Morgan, Inc. to remain on the hook for full cleanup costs — raising serious concerns for the parent firm's finances in the event of a catastrophic spill.

Every time a property changes hands at a higher price, building assessments are raised proportionally — and begin to be re-depreciated for these higher valuations, regardless of how often the buildings already have been written off.

We made a series of incremental adaptations to raise the priority of market internals over those syndromes, but it was only late last year that we finally threw up our hands and prioritized market internals over those syndromes with no exceptions.

5 And it doesn't seem to have much trouble with the amount of money it can raise: This round of fundraising involves «at least $ 1 billion» in institutional money and «several hundred million» from individuals, and «Uber still has some $ 1bn on hand from previous investment rounds.»

«There are plenty of teachers who are already licensed to carry firearms, have them raise their hands to volunteer for the training, and when something like this starts, the first responders are already on campus.»

Petrobras handed over $ 42.5 billion of the $ 70 billion it raised to the government for the right to produce 5 billion barrels of pre-salt oil in areas not previously awarded to the company.