Sentences with phrase «own year of call»

Despite two years of calls for a structural overhaul, the new funding deal includes only modest revisions.

The charity said in a statement: «After years of calling for justice to be done to the victims of genocide in Iraq, the UN has at last heard a plea for the forgotten minorities such as Christians and Yazidis who have been erased from their homelands.

nce heard someone say they like that warmed dust smell, and I thought they were a little crazy, but after nearly 15 years of calling this colder climate home, I get it now.

After years of calling out for top class stirkers we now have aubameyang and lacazette and you idiots want to sell one of them?

Facebook is also being questioned over reports that it collected years of call and text logs from Android users.

New York has taken recent steps toward legalizing marijuana after years of calls from advocates.

After years of calls by scientific leaders for young scientists to become independent much earlier, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has put its money — close to half a billion dollars, thus far — where its mouth is.

Activision have just released the full lineup for the next 20 years of Call of Duty films.

The event officially kicked off Oct. 14 for the first time on the USC campus, home to the prestigious and top - ranked USC Games design program, after seven years of calling Culver City, California, home.

Throughout the years of Call of Duty, Activision have always had multiple studios working for the major franchise...

Christa previously served as the Foundation's Artist Support Director, and then Deputy Director, overseeing national programs including the inaugural years of the CALL Program.

Not exact matches

We want them to play Call of Duty year - round.

Originally planned as a five - year competition, the deadline shifted a number of times before being called off in January.

Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

On what he wants to see happen next: «I would advise [Obama] personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous «State Secrets» privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing.

-- Blodget said on the conference call that the company still has about $ 22 million of the $ 50 million in financing that it has raised over the past couple of years.

The so - called «buy the dip» phenomenon has been a hallmark of the eight - year bull market, helping sustain it as traders use weakness as an excuse to load up on more shares.

«Despite the temporary pullback in production in the first quarter, we still expect our oil sands volumes for the year to be within our original guidance of 364,000 to 382,000 barrels per day,» he told a conference call with analysts.

This 88 - year - old structure, which carries no external signage of any kind, is what Levi Strauss & Co., the 165 - year - old inventor of the blue jean, calls its Eureka Innovation Lab.

Forty - five percent of us go so far as to call it the most stressful day of the year.

T - Mobile now deploys a social media team of about 300 people (up from 23 four years ago) called the T - Force to address whatever issue is upsetting a customer.

The Small Business Success Index, as it's called, is the third in a series of surveys the pair have done over the past year.

And so it is no surprise that a four - year - old gene - editing tool called CRISPR - Cas - 9 has been hailed as the biotech breakthrough of the century.

Amazon now joins Apple, Google, PayPal, Visa, and a scary - sounding consortium of telcos who started something called Isis, who have all toiled for years to bring the idea of a digital mobile wallet to fruition.

Oregon's legalization of recreational pot two years ago created room for entrepreneurial cross-pollination in this fertile region abutting California's so - called Emerald Triangle, a well - known nirvana for outdoor weed cultivation.

When legendary film director Martin Scorsese expressed interest in executive producing Verdi and Kraft's biopic about world champion boxer Vinny Pazienza, called Bleed for This, Verdi was out of town, but sent the then 22 - year - old Kraft to Scorsese's house to take the meeting.

Andrew Pask, a 44 - year - old City of Vancouver neighbourhood planner, says he and his colleagues are called in to work on files that range in scale from single - parcel development applications to regional strategies.

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.

While even a few years ago it would have been deemed unethical to «buy» media coverage (unless of course it was clearly labeled «advertorial»), today, there are entire companies dedicated to enabling brand leaders to buy coverage from so - called social influencers.

The 12 - year - old company, which calls itself «the front page of the internet» and boasts more than 300 million monthly users, has raised an additional $ 200 million in venture capital funding that gives Reddit a valuation of nearly $ 1.8 billion.

A study of increases or decreases in rates of a disease across years, calculated for groups of people, is called an ecologic study.

Saujani also called out the bias of tech - related curricula — and culture more generally — which she says is almost invariably written to «speak to a 13 - year - old boy from Silicon Valley.»

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

The Fed is forecast to hit its so - called terminal rate in the third quarter of next year.

The J.P. Morgan representatives on the call said they plan to open source the documentation and code base behind Quorum by the end of the year.

Bitcoin - related startups raised $ 343 million from venture capitalists in the first half of 2017, according to CB Insights, and more than $ 2.2 billion from all sorts of investors so far this year through so - called ICOs, or «initial coin offerings,» according to CoinSchedule.

President Donald Trump asked the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, to call the Department of Justice last year and ask a senior official to persuade then - FBI director James Comey to publicly clear the president of wrongdoing in the Russia probe, The Washington Post reported.

In an Entrepreneur article last year defending Donald Trump's long trail of bankruptcies, editor - at - large Ray Hennessey called failure «a badge of honour.»

Meanwhile, the turmoil at Politico may be giving some media watchers déjà vu, or at least flashbacks to another Allbritton - backed venture that went through substantial upheaval: In 2010, a number of senior journalists including former Washington Post digital chief Jim Brady started an ambitious hyperlocal effort called TBD, only to have the entire effort implode in less than two years after what appeared to be a power struggle with Allbritton over the future direction of the site.

As you'd expect from the founder of Facebook, he started a book club of sorts called A Year of Books on — you guessed it!

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.»

Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

Activision Publishing has the $ 3 million Call of Duty World League launching in 2016, an expansion of the publisher's five - year commitment to eSports.

TORONTO — Ontario will be the first in Canada to issue so - called green bonds next year to generate the billions of dollars that's needed to expand public transit, Premier Kathleen Wynne said Wednesday.

When Guy Laurence, the former CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. (which owns Canadian Business), took the reins of the telecom three years ago, he spent several months touring the country, talking to everyone from cable installers to call centre staffers to mid-level managers about their concerns.

Last year, the CBO published what it called «115 options for reducing the deficit,» and all of those painful suggestions were among them.

Acting U.S. Secretary of State John Sullivan called on Moscow to stop creating impediments to peace in Syria and to play a role in ending the seven - year - long conflict.

On a conference call to discuss RIM's fiscal third - quarter results in December, the co-CEOs revealed that their newest smartphone line, dubbed BlackBerry 10, will not be available until the latter part of the year.

The whiskey, called «Jameson Bow Street 18 Years» is a cask strength whiskey that represents the brand's strongest globally available whiskey ever, and its new top of the line.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.