Sentences with phrase «of years in the making»

Luckily, these kinds of eruptions are few and far between, and they are tens of thousands of years in the making.

Hundreds of miles away, the colors of the Grand Canyon — layers of red and gold rock millions of years in the making — are often obscured by smog from the cars of Phoenix, Vegas and even Los Angeles.

The first begins with a cultural and historical analysis, asserting that mankind is moving toward the culmination of a process of human development thousands of years in the making.

Human freedom was billions of years in the making.

Does it tell you that it loves you and that you're a special creation billions of years in the making?

Does it tell him that it loves him and that he's a special creation billions of years in the making?

While the rendezvous was millions of years in the making, only the final two - tenths of a second produced gravity waves with the requisite intensity and frequency for detection by Advanced LIGO.

For now, it lies waiting, potentially hiding a story thousands of years in the making.

It's a tight system millions of years in the making.

Some of the language used, such as «ancient sea of Zechstein» and «magnesium millions of years in the making» are highly indicative of a scam.

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Now, eight years into an economic expansion, Home Depot is looking to make similar moves in anticipation of an eventual slowdown sometime down the line.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

I write these words on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period of segregation in Major League Baseball.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

His market, the New York tri-state area, already has in place many of the provisions included in the health - care overhaul, including a provision that dependent under the age of 30 need be eligible for family coverage, and he's seen rates continue to rise over recent years, making him skeptical of the plan's ability to hold costs down for small businesses.

These decisions — about how to reorganize supply chains, logistics and technology — need to be made quickly, unless they want to join the spate of retailers that have shuttered their operations in Canada this year.

They've made money in only five of the past 10 years.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that launched only two years ago, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices.

Spacey, who stars as President Frank Underwood in the acclaimed series, has been accused of making unwanted advances on Anthony Rapp, who at the time was 14 years old.

While employees from enterprise companies (defined as companies with 500 or more employees) like Salesforce and Dell have held memberships at the co-working spaces in the past, WeWork started making a concerted effort to tailor its spaces to these types of workers about a year ago.

Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.

«I'm working to create a space where it feels easy to include and imagine black girls and make black girls like me the main characters of our lives,» Dias said at Forbes» Women Summit in New York City last year.

«I believe — and I think the president believes — that we must be proactive, the years of talking about these problems has not worked, and that we must use all instruments we have to make it expensive to engage in non-economic behaviour, and to convince our trading partners to treat our workers, farmers, and ranchers fairly.

Any chilling effect on diplomatic relations could also affect the Chinese market's strict and complicated regulatory system, which limits the number of foreign - made movies that are released in the country each year.

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg acknowledged the damage the Facebook community is causing in the world, saying «Facebook has a lot of work to do,» and has made fixing it his personal challenge for 2018.

Of all the crops grown in Canada, a perennial version of wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last yeaOf all the crops grown in Canada, a perennial version of wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last yeaof wheat makes the most sense, since the grain is Canada's top agricultural export — $ 2.8 billion of wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last yeaof wheat was sold to more than 70 countries last year.

The bottom line is that when Trump blames the filibuster as his primary obstacle to achieving more legislative wins, he is often ignoring underlying factors, mainly that in most cases Republicans can not agree enough to make good on years of promises.

«Arkema has made a very strong start to the year, with a 33 % year on year increase in adjusted net income despite a high basis of comparison in first quarter 2017 and the very strong appreciation of the euro.

Whereas I imagine most of my peers clicked through their six - question survey like a fire - and - forget missile, I kicked things up a notch, making a simple spreadsheet to log my results, and committing to doing the same simple exercise, year in and year out, for the rest of my career.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

As earnings season comes to a close — and as the S&P 500 looks to rebound from its worst month in two years — investors are hungry for the types of large single - stock moves that create money - making opportunities.

«Instead of making a bunch of stuff months and years in advance and trying to sell it, we're able to see what's selling and make accordingly.»

While it remains far behind Verizon (vz) and AT&T (t) in number of subscribers, T - Mobile, which makes its debut on the Fortune Best Companies list this year, has undeniable momentum.

«In my paper, I read about a mattress company that floated on AIM yesterday and raised # 35 million, is now valued at # 140 million, but last year made an EBITDA loss of # 11 million,» Walsh said at Tuesday's conference.

For the second year running, Canadian Business declared BlackBerry our Loser of the Year, which makes new CEO John Chen a person of heightened interest in 2year running, Canadian Business declared BlackBerry our Loser of the Year, which makes new CEO John Chen a person of heightened interest in 2Year, which makes new CEO John Chen a person of heightened interest in 2014.

According to one study, 82 percent of shoppers made at least one purchase from an international merchant in a calendar year — despite the fact that only 1 percent of small businesses in the U.S. export goods overseas.

A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

«Last year we did a Twitter campaign last year in the US to raise awareness, and people started doing crazy fun videos about the brand, and made it a lot of fun.

But while Saunders» resume may ultimately be defined by his role in several massive mergers, his reputation in biotech is rooted in a rock»em, sock»em approach to deal - making which has led to his reputation as one of the industry's biggest boosters — especially in a year when biotech has been hopelessly floundering in the marketplace, with major sector indices plunging by 20 %.

And the Viacom CEO is caught in a Catch - 22 of his own making: Earlier this year, he maintained in a court case launched by the billionaire's former girlfriend that Redstone was fully capable of making decisions.

CBS says it is looking into recent allegations made by actress Ariane Bellamar that actor Jeremy Piven, who stars in its new drama series Wisdom of the Crowd, sexually assaulted her on the set of the HBO series Entourage several years ago.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

In 2015, Tom Zhu said Tesla would double its spending on Chinese - made parts, committing to buying $ 500 million worth of supplies from Chinese companies that year; such spending has likely only skyrocketed.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

This spectacle has been 25 years in the making, the result of the countless hours White has spent perfecting an innovative product, soliciting extensive customer feedback and deploying an innate talent for schmoozing.

That's why their cookies are an $ 800 million a year business in the U.S. (Such a shame that pesky child labour laws make it difficult for profit - seeking entities to exploit the selling power of Girl Scouts.

Woodside has made no secret of its dissatisfaction with Shell's failure to sell Australian LNG in recent years.

So by making roughly $ 2,555 a year through mining (at the current price of bitcoin), I'm on track to pay off the extra parts I bought for mining in about 230 days.

Last year, Greenblatt's network was one of several major companies to officially cut ties with Trump in the wake of the offensive remarks Trump made as he first announced his candidacy, when he called Mexican immigrants «rapists.»