Sentences with phrase «off the year by»

Finish off the year by planning ahead to making clearer goals and setting more consistent expectations for your team members through the lost art of one - on - one conversations.

Federer kicked off the year by winning the Australian Open, then won his eighth Wimbledon without dropping a single set.

And we finished off the year by traveling to Michigan for 13 days.

I feel a bit like Rodney King... but couldn't we have at least started off this year by wishing each other a Happy New Year instead of charging in here and making disparaging remarks about the host and this guests?

As usual, the people of Colorado started off the year by moving outdoors.

However, it looks like Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire are both in danger of falling off this year by failing to secure five percent of the vote, and neither Roger Clemens nor Barry Bonds looks as if they've made any progress towards election.

I'm delighted to kick off the year by helping to support Scotiabank's Around The World With $ 20K contest!

The school district kicked off this year by feeding the kids healthy and often vegetarian food but many kids seem to be responding by skipping lunch entirely (DoubleX)

Swept up in a Michelle Obama - led tide of enthusiasm for healthy eating, the school district kicked off this year by banning nachos and chicken nuggets from the cafeterias, and feeding the kids healthy and often vegetarian food.

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton kicked off the year by announcing his running mate would be the former mayor of Groton, Heather Bond Somers.

I thought I'd kick off the year by summarizing for you all my personal longevity formula.

I didn't do this at all last year, so I figured I'd start off this year by seeing Lady Bird, and stuff my face full of Whoppers (they were sold out of Sour Patch Kids... sad).

I'm glad I got to start off my year by hearing something like that.

We also shaved off some years by ignoring the Universal Monsters / Hammer Films and focusing solely on every horror sequel that followed 1976's The Omen.

I kicked off my year by visiting Washington, D.C., last week, to meet with policymakers and education advocates.

Springfield Public Day Middle School, in Springfield, Massachusetts, kicked off the year by putting their instructional priorities front and center — and making sure everyone is aligned in pursuing them.

Martin, a Special Education teacher with a class of eight students, starts off the year by talking with his students» teachers from the previous year.

SUBARU OF AMERICA +21 % Subaru starts off the year by elbowing past both Mazda and the BMW Group.

In addition to our sales accomplishments, we capped off the year by leading the industry in both fuel economy and safety.

What we should do is make tax planning a year - round concern and position ourselves to take full advantage of the many opportunities that are available to lessen the amount that is siphoned off each year by the IRS.

It's a good idea to start off your year by complying with the law so you can be on your way and do other important things, like running your business.

CASEpeer kicked off the year by introducing an e-Signature feature, facilitating fast and streamlined contract signing for law firms.

T - Mobile starts off the year by unveiling new smartphone deals for both new and existing customers.

Asus has started off the year by introducing the ZenFone 2 devices, four handsets one of which sported 4 GB of RAM on the inside, and was the first such smartphone to reach the market.

Asus has started off the year by introducing the ZenFone 2 devices, four handsets one of which sported 4 GB of RAM -LSB-...]

Outgoing Friends Guild President Connie Kinnear chose the theme of «The Angels of Hope» for this past guild board term, and chose to cap off the year by honoring Tim and Jinnie McCormick of Billings Photography with the first - ever «Angel of Hope» award.

Not exact matches

The Desmarais family kicked off the new year by snapping up Performance Sports Group, the company behind the Bauer and Easton brands, for $ 575 million with partner Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd..

With Pokemon GO still taking the world by storm and Nintendo's new Switch console flying off the shelves, 2017 looks set to become another bumper year for the resurgent games company.

To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Associatioff, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel AssociatiOff, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

Index - tracking products have taken off over the past few years, especially in the United States, where the broad S&P 500 index has risen more than 200 % since the market bottom in 2009, aided by the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus.

Keep in mind that this exemption is based off the depreciation of your building over the past 39 years, and that you must also multiply by your tax rate.

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

Spitzer was quietly mugged, off - record, by his Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who was only too glad to capture the governorship himself two years later.

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.

AYR, which stands for All Year Round, originated as a part of Bonobos and spun off in 2015 as an independent company led by Jac Cameron, Maggie Winter, and Max Bonbrest.

«I took off what I thought was going to be 6 months of work, that turned into a year and I had already been to about 160 countries by then,» Lavallo told CNBC.

The standard set by Netflix sounds «incredible» to Danny Carroll, an Indianapolis pastor who took little time off when his 4 - year - old son, Ethan, was born.

Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

Up to now, the three - year - old start - up has gained popularity by offering dynamic pricing for song downloads; songs start off free and their prices increase to a maximum of $.99 the more they are downloaded.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

By the time he was 30 years old, Omar Amanat had sold off his brokerage firm, Tradespace, for $ 100 million.

Microsoft, for one, opened a new studio last year that is devoted to creating Kinect games, while other, smaller game companies quickly moved to try and snap up employees laid off by Radical.

Battered by nearly a year of off - and - on declines from record highs because of fears of a slowdown in iPhone sales, Apple «s stock now is valued closer to IBM, which has disappointed Wall Street for the past four years with declining revenue, than to Silicon Valley technology pioneers Alphabet and Tesla Motors.

There's also a Christmas tree designed by Dolce & Gabbana, with whom the department store partnered up this year, even hosting a one - off D&G fashion show in its food hall.

The aerospace startup, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, has successfully pulled off 16 rocket launches in that last year, about double the amount from 2016.

The Carnival Triumph fire comes two years after another Carnival ship, the 113,000 - ton Carnival Splendor, was disabled off the Pacific coast of Mexico by a fire during a cruise from California — a similar incident that ultimately affected bookings leaving Texas, Driscoll said.

In London, it has fended off attempts by drivers of the city's famous black cabs to have the app ruled illegal, and transport bosses decided earlier this year not to impose tough new rules on the app.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

He pulled it off by sheer determination, although it took nine years.