Sentences with phrase «of string as»

Part of the problem with addressing the issue of divorce costs is that in some ways this is similar to trying to establish the length of a piece of string as it is possible to spend anywhere from hundreds of pounds to tens of thousands of pounds on a divorce.

Push one end of a string as far as it can go into a balloon.

In other Jackson opinions, an inadequate court record «shows us something of the strings as well as the marionettes» and the invalidation of an ordinance regulating speech may «convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.»

Not exact matches

It's just the latest in a string of disputes in recent months involving condo residents, owners, boards and property managers that have highlighted some of the downsides of condo life, even as scores of cranes erect new glass towers in Canada's largest city.

The investigation is the latest problem for a six - year - old company, known until last year as Trump University, that already faces a string of consumer complaints, reprimands from state regulators and a lawsuit from dissatisfied former students.

As Sanghavi and Shah launched the company with their life savings and on borrowed funds, there was a string of pretty anxious days.

Since the recession ended in mid-2009, the economy has been expanding at sub-par rates as a string of problems from higher gas prices to Europe's debt crisis have acted as a drag on the U.S. economy.

In his string of tweets, Trump argued that Amazon was costing taxpayers «billions of dollars» for using the Post Office as its «delivery boy.»

For Ferrero, the acquisition is the latest in a string of deals doubling down on sugary snacks that's come as its rivals retreat.

The store, which is popular with teenagers, is the latest in a string of once - popular brick and mortar retailers that are now struggling as online sales cut into their sales.

But the iPhone's poor performance overshadowed a couple of other more positive surprises: iPad sales weren't as bad as they could have been and sales in Apple's «Other Products» division, which includes the Apple TV set - top box, Apple Watch, and Beats headphones, jumped after a string of declines.

Just as those repeated years of 4 % and better growth in the 1990s added up to a stunning surplus, our recent string of 2 % and worse years add up to the opposite - and will keep doing so, unless something sparks much higher growth.

The ubiquitous success of e-commerce retailers worldwide is hardly deniable today, and enough to allow overlooking that the majority of its business models are still beset with bottlenecks in different areas - unless you refuse to turn a blind eye to this, as do the co-founders of Idealz, the latest in a string of promising startup ideas popping up in the UAE.

Participants were apt to complete a tedious task (entering 10 - character strings of code) faster when they could tackle quicker segments first, with their motivation increasing as they got closer to completing the task.

It was the latest in a string of quarterly declines in Apple's tablet business, which has been struggling to keep pace with two - in - one hybrid computers that can be used both as tablets and notebooks.

With that said, there are a string of phone scams taking place, asking people to make payments for things such as taxes, hospital bills, bail money, debt collection and utility bills.

He visualized it as a loose piece of string connecting two tin cans.

As a captain of his high school lacrosse team, he also has a business stringing lacrosse heads for the team.

Last year there was a string of serial rapes and we are speaking with some of the local advocacy groups and developing a plan to keep the space open and staffed Friday and Saturday nights until an hour after the bars close so that if there is anyone feeling uncomfortable or threatened by a situation can come and use the space as a safe haven and have the option of being walked home at the end of the evening.

The transactions are structured so as to spare institutional backers of the ride - hailing firm the pain of marking down the value of their investments, while at the same time offering staff an exit well below what they may have been hoping for before the company was hit by a string of governance scandals.

«Shakespeare this ain't, and Gears 3 struggles at times with its forced attempts at heart - string pluckery, but I can forgive it as much; gore - starved guns adorned with toothy chainsaws easily atone for any cheesiness suffered along the way... the Gears 3 story continues with what amounts to a blood - drenched tale of woe, suffering, loss and absolution, cathartica that stands out in harsh relief when framed by the»80s era Schwarzenegger - ness of most of the dialogue.

Prosecutors began to uncover a string of corruption scandals in 2014 and 2015, involving both private and state - controlled companies, like Petrobras, the nation's oil and gas champion, as well as current and former elected officials — namely, the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

These days, Reimer is experimenting with a small string of FXR retail stores as a way of further extending the brand and finding new customers.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

Starks first joined St. Jude in 1996 as part of the firm's purchase of another corporation, took over as CEO and president in 2004, and has acquired a string of smaller companies since.

The 40 - year - old Woods has not played on the PGA Tour since last fall as he deals with the latest in a string of injuries.

Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any US discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

A guaranteed minimum income often means different things to different people, but at its core it can be described as a no - strings - attached benefit that governments provide to citizens instead of various targeted social benefits.

A deeply complex password — a long string of random characters, for example — really only helps deter what's known as a «brute - force attack,» where a computer program tries millions of password combinations in an effort to find the right one.

As Trump addressed the 186 graduates in his speech, he offered his thoughts on the recent string of controversies surrounding his administration.

The simplest reason is to dodge an undesirable asset like a piece of real estate that could cost you more than you'd net by selling it (say, because of high property taxes or required repairs), or an asset that comes with strings attached (such as care of the deceased's pet or a requirement to marry).

He pointed to a string of Coinbase's top - level hires as evidence of the trend: Asiff Hirji, formerly of Hewlett Packard and TD Ameritrade, as chief operations officer; LinkedIn's Emilie Choi as vice president of corporate and business development; Twitter's Tina Bhatnagar as vice president of operations and technology; and Facebook's Rachael Horwitz as vice president of communications, to name a few.

Sure, a buzzword that's used as a shortcut for what would otherwise be a long string of words can be useful.

After taking over as CEO from Michael Eisner in 2005, Iger's tenure at the head of the company has been marked by a string of successful acquisitions that bolstered Disney's movie business, including purchases of Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, and Lucasfilm.

String cheese packages were stamped with the term «natural,» as were containers of frozen gluten - free chicken nuggets.

Fine explains, «as a former interior designer who never took a business course and didn't know what Ruby on Rails was a year ago, it's sometimes surreal when I hear words like «agile process» come out of my mouth, or the never ending string of VC and MBA terms that we now use to discuss the «health» of the business».

As the only IRS point - of - contact for the business, she strung this out over a three - year period and stole $ 439,000.

Shake Shack can be seen as more thrilling investment than McDonald's (MCD), which this week saw the resignation of its CEO after a string of poor sales.

The news also comes as Uber is still managing a string of scandals, including accusations of a sexist work culture as well as driver protests.

It's also a break from the food business, where Berkshire (BRKA) has done a string of big deals recently, including Heinz and Kraft, as well as providing financing for Burger King's acquisition of Canadian doughnut chain Tim Horton's.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal blog Independent Street, she outlined Magic's qualifications, as summarized by reporter Kelly Spors: «He's started a string of successful businesses, could draw celebrity attention to a stodgy federal agency, cares about helping the disadvantaged and urban revitalization and aligns himself with smart people.»

There are only four important Jewish chains in the field: the Ochs interests owning the Times and the Chattanooga Times, J. David Stern owning the New York Post, the Philadelphia Record, and the Camden (New Jersey) Courier and Post, Paul Block owning the Newark Star - Eagle, the Toledo Blade and Times, and the Duluth Herald and News - Tribune, and Emanuel P. Adler of Davenport, Iowa, owning a string of papers in towns such as Davenport and Ottumwa, Iowa: Madison, Wisconsin; Hannibal, Missouri; Lincoln, Nebraska, etc..

She didn't directly mention the string of executive departures, the layoffs, or the billions of dollars in losses that have plagued Alphabet's diverse «Other Bet» companies, whose projects are as varied as self - driving cars and high - speed internet service.

Meanwhile, Google has suspended efforts to add new cities such as San Jose, Calif., and Portland, Ore., using its prior strategy of stringing up cables to each customer's home.

Passwords composed of random strings of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation, such as J, can usually withstand an attack, but those are tough to remember.

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.

I like to think of my own brain as a kite on a string.

Cookies are stored as small text files containing a string of characters.

Also, if you're putting a CTA in a button, long strings of text won't have the same visual impact as a short CTA.

There's a brand - new menu chiptune as well, although this one is, of course, more identifiably Super Nintendo in its instrumentation, with string samples and otherworldly sounds instead of straightforward beep - boop.