Sentences with phrase «of scrambling for»

Even if you've never taken the 38 to Clapton Pond (or Bondi Beach for that matter) you can still relive those heady days of scrambling for a seat on the top deck.

After months of scrambling for tenants, shopping center REITs reported a rise in leasing activity in the third quarter compared with earlier in the year.

Choosing to embrace the questions instead of scrambling for answers is the essence of the journey toward real creativity.

Having 3 years of funding also allows new junior faculty members to focus on a long - term research agenda instead of scrambling for immediate funding.

Spurs are still holding out hopes of catching Leicester City and, with United very much in the middle of a scramble for the last Champions League position, tomorrow's game is of huge significance for both teams.

This new IISS report finds that climate change is unlikely to spark interstate wars between major military powers in the next three or four decades, but it simultaneously cautions that climate change will boost the chances of scrambles for limited resources, mass migrations and civil conflict.

Note that if a word can be unjumbled into more than one word then use the one related to the title of the scramble for the solution.

For instance, «L'Afrique» has an insert map of the Scramble for Africa, which delineates the territories in Africa colonized by the French and British between 1880 and 1914, plus another outlining the «trends and levels of stunting» throughout the continent.

But today, the nation is in the first stages of a scramble for a new kind of digital resource.

Not exact matches

The technology swaps out private transaction data for cryptographic hashes, condensed and scrambled versions of that data, which conceals their true contents.

Alongside a Canadian Press investigation last year that revealed a «crisis» in faulty elevators, expect there to be plenty of opportunity as landlords scramble for qualified contractors to maintain aging systems.

Pay close attention when packing clothes for the workday, lest you, say, forget a shirt and find yourself scrambling to find a department store open at 8 a.m. (Pro tip: use the dry cleaner downstairs and keep a change of clothes at your desk.)

Hundreds of ambitious tech startups from across the globe descended upon San Francisco this week for TechCrunch Disrupt, scrambling to stand out from the crowd and snag some serious investor cash.

That fact is adding urgency to the task of electing cooperative Republicans — a need underscored last month when Cruz forced McConnell to scramble for votes on a deal to lift the debt limit.

The scramble for skilled workers in the state has intensified as the economy improves and training falls short of demand.

The experience was Bezos» first hands - on brush with retail, according to Wired, and he spent the summer «studying the company's automation improvements,» like beeps and signals for when to «scramble his eggs, flip his burgers, and pull his fries out of the boiling vat.»

In fact, in the autumn of 2008, when the rest of the world was scrambling to deal with the fallout of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, Harper made a priority of curbing public funding for political parties.

Flights into and out of Atlanta's airport are approaching a full schedule, as travelers scramble for flights.

Arkadium was scrambling to fill in for the Crimean employees who didn't make the move and trying to recover from a couple of big bets on new games that had vastly underperformed.

For someone supposed to be laundering millions of dollars in stolen funds, with investigators from three countries scrambling to track the money, Ding Zhize was a surprisingly unhurried man.

Asked for comment on the matter of encryption, spokesperson Sam Schumach told Fortune that the agency sometimes uses the scrambling technology to protect data, though he did not reveal when or how.

So the good of this huge amount of traffic was, well, we launched with a bang, but about six hours later, the website crashed and was down for about four or five hours before we could scramble to get it back up.

As the boxers for the main bout were summoned to the ring, a pile of officials and hangers - on scrambled in to mill around for the cameras from HBO.

The influx of hosts renting their homes has caused many municipalities to scramble for regulations.

That set off a scramble at Apple to find a new haven for its vast cash hoard, one that ended up at the Channel Island of Jersey, 12 miles off the coast of Normandy, France.

However, if TweetDeck's demise as a mobile and desktop app leaves you scrambling for a new social media management tool, here are a few of the top alternatives — they're not free, but they do offer a host of services that go beyond most free monitoring tools:

Toshiba said earlier it has chosen a consortium of Bain and Japanese government investors as the preferred bidder for its chip business, aiming to clinch a deal worth some 2 trillion yen ($ 18 billion) by next week as it scrambles for funds to cover massive losses.

While she said she doesn't count calories, her diet often consists of a chia bowl and coffee for breakfast, scrambled eggs on bread for lunch, something like turkey chili for dinner, and Greek yogurt for dessert.

North Korea's hidden artillery pieces have managed to deter outside invaders for decades, but with Kim scrambling to perfect his fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles and top US officials viewing Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions like a ticking time bomb, the use of the US's most advanced aircraft in exercises signals the US is serious about the possibility of war.

Wealth management firms and accountants to the rich are scrambling to prepare their clients for the biggest set of tax changes since 1986.

Losing the lease on his Manhattan storefront left men's clothing and costume designer Michele Savoia scrambling for funds last summer, traditionally his slowest time of year.

If you're one of the many small business owners who hasn't done his or her bookkeeping all year long, this tax season will unfortunately be a stressful time as you frantically scramble to pull together all your receipts and business expenses, trying to account for every single thing you did in 2014.

While there are probably a few things Millennials themselves can do to beat back perfectionism (for the love of all that is holy, spend less time on social media, for instance), the underlying causes of this shift suggested by the study, including an increasingly terrifying scramble for a shrinking number of slots in the middle class, are something we're all going to have to address together.

Massachusetts is beefing up security around abortion clinics and scrambling for a legal fix after the U.S. Supreme Court voided the state's buffer zone law that kept protesters 35 feet away, saying it violated freedom of speech.

The big banks say clients are clamoring for impact investing, so they're scrambling to accommodate: they're lowering thresholds, reducing bureaucratic obstacles, making it easier for some of the smaller deals to get through the door.

«Those wondering how much it costs to be the kind of awesome country that can scramble a permanent elite squadron of jets and square - jawed pilots in case of emergency international demand for an aerobatics display were out of luck.»

As the room fills up, there's a scramble for seats: Managers and sales reps plop down beside first - shift machine operators coming off nine hours of work and second - shift people who've come in early, still yawning.

PLAN aircraft were responsible for 51 % of JASDF scrambles from April 1 to September 30, according to data from the Japanese Ministry of Defense.

In the air, Russia was responsible for 48 % of JASDF air scrambles from April 1 to September 30, the second most behind China.

Meanwhile, the FBI, other law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity vendors are collaborating in the hunt for ever - evolving ransomware and «the bad guys» who scramble to stay one step ahead of the cyber cops.

Sales have exceeded initial estimates, on track to beat the lifetime numbers of its predecessor Wii U, leaving suppliers scrambling for parts.

Tetrick acknowledges that the roll out of what the company is calling Just Scrambled could be more challenging for consumers from a psychological perspective since it's a replacement for an actual egg, not just the egg as an ingredient.

HealthHelp encountered more difficulty this time around in part because it faced tough competition from other kinds of businesses that were scrambling for financing.

I make my daily cup of tea and two scrambled pesto eggs, and then sit in front of more episodes of Grace and Frankie before I shower and get ready for work.

Don't scramble for the crumbs of revenue from other platforms.»

Silicon Valley venture capital firm IVP on Tuesday announced the close of a $ 1.5 billion fund, the latest in a string of massive new venture funds that are appearing as global investors scramble for a piece of the tech boom.

With governments scrambling to find new sources of revenue to pay for important social objectives such as health care and education expect to see the idea raised in Parliament sooner rather than later.

A week after Amazon sent cities across North America scrambling to compete for the e-commerce giant's second headquarters, Philadelphia government leaders are beginning to settle on three locations to pitch most forcefully as the nucleus of a vast regional presence for the Seattle company: The Schuylkill Yards and uCity Square sites in West Philadelphia and South Philadelphia's Navy Yard.

As Zillow Group and multiple listing services (MLSs) have been scrambling to come to terms over direct feed agreements ahead of today's deadline, a couple of deals — one successful and one unsuccessful — show what's at stake for brokers and MLSs.

For all the misplaced criticisms aimed at lawmakers» attempts to unpack Zuckerberg's brain — or push him off script — the CEO's testimony told a chilling tale of an immature company seemingly untended and out of control, scrambling to establish mechanisms aimed at preventing the bad stuff from ever happening again.