Sentences with phrase «over calls by»

Though Mahama remained tight - lipped over calls by some party members for him to declare to once again run for the party's flagbearership, he on Saturday responded favourably to the calls.

The U.S. International Trade Commission this week will hear arguments over calls by bankrupt solar - panel maker Suniva Inc. for new barriers on imported solar cells.

Get Out won over Call Me by Your Name, The Florida Project, Lady Bird and The Rider.

Not exact matches

Your Skype call goes over by five minutes, the next group is chomping at the bit trying to get into the room for their meeting, awkwardness ensues.

Matias» Reddit study, conducted over 29 days during which he and Reddit moderators screened 2,214 discussions on the science forum, found that by making rules easy to see (via «sticky comments,» as they are called on Reddit), Reddit users were 7.3 % «more likely to follow the rules.»

The revelation follows the release in May, following another FoI battle, of the so - called «black spider memos» sent by the Prince to ministers over several years.

In addition, «Community,» which was cancelled by NBC, moved over to Yahoo in response to its fan base, which is so passionate that a documentary called «Harmontown» was made partially about them.

Holders of the cryptocurrency Ethereum had spent more than $ 2 million on virtual kittens by Sunday night, bought and sold over a new blockchain - based game called CryptoKitties.

The renting program, called Express Drive, is already operating in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.. Now, it is expanding over the next couple of weeks to San Francisco — Lyft's hometown — and by fall will also be an option for drivers in Denver and Los Angeles.

The findings come as a group of state's attorneys has threatened to sue the White House over DACA if it isn't halted by September 5, calling the program «unlawful.»

For its part, Google revealed in May that for over a year it had been secretly using its own tailor - made chips, called tensor processing units, or TPUs, to implement applications trained by deep learning.

Crowdinvesting platforms are a recent development, and an interesting option for funding that, to some extent, lets you call the shots by spreading the equity over a larger number of investors (as opposed to securing the full investment from a handful of investors or a VC firm).

On edge over rates and jobs Today's decision by the Reserve Bank on interest rates has become an extremely close call amid fears Australia's unemployment rate may have already reached 5.5 per cent.

The man who called bitcoin's rise to $ 10,000, fund manager Michael Novogratz, has over 20 percent of his net worth in cryptocurrencies and told CNBC that he sees the possibility of it reaching $ 40,000 by the end of next year.

That gives the recipient more control, because while they can choose to check their inbox, they can't really choose to ignore someone walking over to talk to them by their cubicle or calling them on the phone.

The activists said they were beaten over the protest, while top SNS officials called them «fascists» and «hooligans» and demanded that they be punished by the authorities.

Jerome called me this week to tell me that he had been contacted by people all over the country who felt inspired by his success, and by people who wanted to learn more about getting into parking lot cleaning.

A new survey of 800 execs, employees, and educators from across a range of industries carried out by communication training company Fierce uncovered resentment and annoyance over so - called «best practices.»

But it didn't take long for Leung and his partners to stumble across what looked to be a mammoth opportunity: There was, he realized, an enormous craving for IT specialists who knew how to develop and manage web platforms that relied on so - called open - source software based on Linux — a non-propriety operating system beloved by Microsoft - loathing tech geeks the world over.

He's since written a book called Social Media is Bullshit, in which he trumpets real - world experiences over virtual ones: «The idea that you're «leaving money on the table» by not using [social media] is patently false.»

But the sales numbers posted by «Advanced Warfare,» which has been a critical hit, were 23 percent lower year over year than those posted by last year's «Call of Duty: Ghosts,» according to Edward Williams of BMO Capital Markets.

The sale price was not disclosed, but according to the audio of an internal O'Leary Funds conference call obtained by Maclean's, Canoe agreed to pay $ 13.7 million with the possibility of up to $ 8 million in equity — provided the funds» assets could grow by another $ 200 million over the following year.

The Trump - Xi phone call came as Japan set up a missile - defense system in western areas of the country, following a threat by North Korea to fire missiles over Japan toward the U.S. territory of Guam.

Centra, a startup that raised over $ 30 million this year through a so - called «Initial Coin Offering» promoted by celebrities including boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., is the target of a class action lawsuit that seeks the return of investor funds.

The impact of CGI America is charted over time by what they call «progress reports,» which track how talk at the meeting turns into partnerships, programs, funding and jobs on the ground.

Net neutrality is the principal, established under a previous ruling by the FCC called the Open Internet Order, that essentially mandated all data passing over the Internet be treated equivalently.

Its NRA card was also highlighted in a New York Times opinion piece that called on the financial industry to exert its «leverage over the gun industry,» seeing as politicians — many of whom are funded by the NRA — continue to refrain from doing so.

Over the next couple of years, Willms introduced other products — a teeth whitener called DazzleWhite, an acai weight - loss supplement called AcaiBurn, and colon cleanse marketed as PureCleanse, all of which were made by private - label manufacturers.

Left unsaid by Zuckerberg were recent comments made by Elon Musk on Tuesday in which the Tesla (tsla) and SpaceX (spacex) CEO publicly called out Zuckerberg over what Musk believes is the Facebook CEO's «limited» understanding of AI.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

However, over the weekend it was also hit by fresh outrage over the fact that — as people discovered when they downloaded their Facebook data — the company was for years quietly harvesting users» call logs on Android phones.

In an era when Mark Zuckerberg can be called on the carpet by Senate investigators because of possible wrongdoing by Facebook over the Russian hacking scandal — and at a time when researchers are actively examining whether social media is psychologically, maybe even physically addictive — revenge porn as a public policy issue is on the ascent.

In a Chinese social media post on Saturday after calls for a boycott by some internet users in China, Balenciaga said it sincerely apologised to all Chinese customers and other shoppers over the incident, which occurred on Wednesday.

A May report by the Guardian detailed the tough work conditions at the company's Fremont, California, factory, revealing that hundreds of ambulances have been called over the past several years for injuries, fainting, and dizzy spells.

Over the course of five days ending May 3, Indigenous Media posted enough live, 10 - second clips — all filmed entirely through the picture and video sharing app — to constitute the bulk of a full - length, 68 - minute horror film called Sickhouse written and directed by Hannah Macpherson.

The New York - based company, backed by $ 54.4 million in venture funding, caters to what chief executive Jennifer Hyman calls the «woman 2.0,» a customer who values experiences over possessions.

With word of Hagel's impending selection circulating over the weekend, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham - one of Rice's critics - called it an «in - your - face» nomination by Obama.

Over the past eight weeks, thousands of publishers have been subject to bots creating fake versions of their websites, a technique called «domain spoofing,» according to a paper published Wednesday by ad technology company Adform.

For example, by tracking where our new customers are calling from using CallCap (a call tracking service) and our internal CRM, we managed to identify that Yelp reviews made us $ 1 million in new sales over just 10 months.

Pairing on - premises computing with cloud data centers is an example of what techies call «hybrid cloud,» and is seen by most tech vendors — other than Amazon — as a key advantage over Amazon, which is mostly about moving customer data and applications into AWS facilities.

By ending calls on a positive note, your sales reps will feel they at least have some control over the prospecting process.

PARIS, Oct 28 - Executives from nearly 100 of France's biggest companies called on the Socialist government on Sunday to cut payroll taxes by 30 billion euros over two years to regain waning competitiveness.

And way over in Ireland, which has been devastated by the financial crash and subsequent austerity, an organization called Debtoptions is taking the fight to the banks by suing them.

«Corporations that exercise sufficient control over their franchisees can not claim ignorance,» said Catherine Ruckelshaus, general counsel and program director for the National Employment Law Project, in a Tuesday conference call held by the organizations supporting the lawsuits.

By contrast, well over three - quarters of Starwood's 11 - brand portfolio was either in luxury, with properties such as St. Regis, or so - called upper - upscale, the category between true luxury and limited service, consisting of brands like Westin, Le Meridien, and Sheraton.

For months, Morel — an elder (read: over 40) member of Moment who jokes that his white hair makes the LAWA reps feel more at ease — has puzzled over what he calls the logistical nightmare posed by the work site.

The «alpha» produced by most VC's is less than the Russell 2000 over comparable windows, so to call them «smart money» is just wrong.

Hastings has taken some flack over the years for requiring conference - call questions to be sent by email in advance rather than letting Wall Street analysts question him in real time.

The rules, which were upheld by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals earlier in June, ensure that internet service providers treat data equally and can not give or sell access to so - called internet fast lanes that would prioritize certain internet services over others.

He had only just learned something was awry when, as an investor in three of Concrete's buildings, he had received proxy forms asking him to sign over his stakes to a company called Strategic Group in return for unsecured debentures, a kind of IOU not backed by real collateral, promising to pay him 6 % a year.