Sentences with phrase «of the string at»

Where would I be if I hadn't thrown away my caution, released it, let go of the string at the end of it and watched it fly away?

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At the start of the special, Kelly promised «an electric exchange between yours truly and Donald Trump» before kicking off the program with a string of clips rehashing the pair's various clashes.

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.

The analysts» warning on iPhone shipments is the latest in a string of reports suggesting Apple's having trouble at the top of the market with its iPhone X.

Nike's vice president of footwear, Greg Thompson, has left the company, the latest in a string of executive departures at the sportswear maker.

Nike's vice president of footwear, Greg Thompson, has left the company, a company spokesman said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of executive departures at the sportswear maker.

Wearing the same dress Melania wore at the convention, and mimicking her accent, «Melania» defended herself against the charges of plagiarism by featuring a long string of lines and catchphrases taken from sources ranging from Charles Dickens to the movie Braveheart and the TV show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

At birth, every person is assigned a unique string of 11 digits, a digital identifier that from then on is key to operating almost every aspect of that person's life — the 21st - century version of a Social Security number.

That would normally be an end of the matter, but not everyone is inclined to take Deutsche's compliance department at its word after a string of governance scandals in recent years that culminated in a $ 630 million settlement for failing to police money - laundering by its Moscow office last month.

While the importance of execution is indisputable, a string of conversations we've had recently at Inc. has reminded us all that greatness always, always starts with the idea — or, to be precise, an idea backed by ferocious belief.

Lowe joins a string of central bankers globally who have warned of the downside of digital currencies, including his New Zealand counterpart Grant Spencer, who at the weekend said Bitcoin's gains looked «remarkably like a bubble.»

It's a compelling premise: that you can get more done at work, better understand your co-workers, and generally like your life more if you take some of the tension out of the string.

A lawyer, he was senior counsel and vice-president at ABB Group, a Swiss engineering giant, and then had a string of titles, including strategic development director, at AMEC, a big London - based project - management company focused on the energy sector.

This tightening of the purse strings has been a long time coming, says Owen Matthews, a general partner at Wesley Clover.

Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF Global), a rational observer might think the NY Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the financial system from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.

Today, decades after the breathtaking string of innovations at Bell Labs, much of their formula has been broadly adopted by the corporate world.

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.

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.

Rounding off another beaded string of platitudes, he changed gears and erupted with a burst of rhetoric referencing one of the ancient classics he had studied at Harvard and before.

His exit is the latest in a string of departures from the unit, Recode points out, highlighting that one of the project's other cofounders, Jiajun Zhu, recently left for an unnamed startup, while another group, including cofounder Anthony Levandowski, went to found a self - driving truck startup at the beginning of the year.

«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.

This crackdown is partly due to a string of recent, highly - publicized disasters including the West Virginia coal mine explosion, an oil rig south of Louisiana that blew up, and a fire at a Washington State oil refinery.

PayPal's latest rollout, which allows merchants to accept payment through an application that scans QR codes, is one in a string of developments aimed at overhauling the way customers pay for goods.

You give an insurance company money in a lump sum or in payments over a period of years, then at retirement, the cash gets «annuitized,» or paid out in a string of payments based on your life expectancy.

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.

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.

At the Dal competition, one of the cases teams had to address involved a company trying to recover from a string of bribery crises.

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

Foxconn, the giant electronics manufacturer that supplies Apple, Sony and other multinationals, doubled wages at its Shenzhen facility after a string of worker suicides.

American Apparel founder Dov Charney, who left after a string of sexual harassment allegations from his own employees, had a strange response when asked if he was having sex with workers at his new clothing company, Los Angeles Apparel.

Leerink's bullish Geoffrey Porges expects the big biotech, in bad need of some positive R&D developments after a string of setbacks last year, will use a priority review voucher to hustle this drug to a quick decision at the FDA, which he now expects to arrive before the end of 2017.

Kim Daisy, founder of Daisy Cakes, learned to bake at the apron strings of her grandmothers and great aunt Daisy.

Only, this time, the vast riches with no strings attached were actually true, at least according to Malaysia's attorney - general, who attempted Tuesday to draw under a line under a scandal that has badly dented the image of the relatively prosperous south - east Asian country.

MOSCOW, Russia A string of second - half goals helped a Brazil side deprived of talisman Neymar to an emphatic 3 - 0 friendly win over World Cup hosts Russia at Moscow's Luzhniki stadium on Friday.

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.

Beyond finding that companies owned by Mr. Trump had debts of at least $ 650 million, The Times discovered that a substantial portion of his wealth is tied up in three passive partnerships that owe an additional $ 2 billion to a string of lenders, including those that hold the loan on the Avenue of the Americas building.

Trump was about to hold a meeting with military leaders at the White House Monday to discuss the situation in Syria when he fielded a string of questions from reporters about the probe and attacked Mueller.

A look at how five years of siege, increased airstrikes, a fierce ground operation, a string of evacuation deals and a suspected chemical attack led to the fall of the rebel stronghold in the Damascus suburbs.21 days ago

I don't know if this is indeed what triggered the selling, but on Thursday, July 23, following a string of uninterrupted up days, the market closed at a new recent high of 4,124, after which it dropped sharply every day for the next three days to close down by just over 11 %, at 3,663.

In recent years, NCAA football has been rocked by a string of high - profile violations, including those at USC, Ohio State, the University of Miami, and Auburn.

SAN FRANCISCO — In another sign of the turmoil sweeping Uber, the company's president of ride sharing has quit after less than a year on the job, following a string of scandals at the startup and CEO Travis Kalanick's promise to hire a new second - in - command.

«Owning a home at market price in Canada still took an abnormally large bite out of household income, but RBC's aggregate affordability measure was unchanged in the fourth quarter after a string of six quarterly increases,» said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC.

A string of high - level executive departures at the beginning of this year, including its vice presidents of product and engineering, has stymied his efforts to kick - start growth at the $ 10 billion company.

Mary Jordan writes: «[Her] credentials included runway shows in Europe, a Camel cigarette billboard ad in Times Square and — in her biggest job at the time — a spot in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, which featured her on the beach in a string bikini, hugging a six - foot inflatable whale.

A string of bombings at various train stations, for example, could disrupt commuter travel across the country.

Another string of tweets pointed the finger at Amazon claiming it was the reason thousands of retailers were going out of business, and millions of US workers had been laid off.

Hopefully, you know the basics of on - site SEO — look at the title tags, URL string, and then connect the dots back to the Google Adwords tool to find the highest volume terms with the strongest relevance to your business.

«After a string of pipeline victories and over a decade of campaigning on at least three different continents, the Alberta government has finally put a limit to the tarsands.

If they see you applying for lots of credit at once, they'll tighten their purse strings and fire a few warning shots at your credit score.