Sentences with phrase «passed every year at»

The resolution, passed every year at the United Nations since 1999, claims that speech deemed offensive to another faith is a violation of international law.

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At the time, each day seemed to pass really quickly — since each day meant I was one day closer to missing my deadline — but because I have so many detailed memories, looking back, the year feels like it passed really slowly.
The 23 - year - old quantitative trader was in the middle of an extracurricular bet — on the web site PredictIt — that Senate Republicans» second attempt at overhauling Obamacare would fall short of the 51 votes needed to pass.
Unfortunately, that day came much sooner than he expected when his dad passed away only a few years later, at the age of 59.
In 2017, after years of failure, shareholders at my former employer, Exxon Mobil, passed a resolution calling for the company to outline its plans for dealing with climate change.
With the New Year passed, let's make a resolution: no more resolutions — at least ones that can not or will not be kept.
Less than a year after growth picked up at the test prep company, Hansoo Lee, Parikh's co-founder, passed away from lung cancer.
After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.
Though Baskerville and his partner at the time had each put in several years managing large chain restaurants, that industry is notoriously unforgiving, and both Wachovia (NYSE: WB) and SunTrust (NYSE: STI) passed on the loan.
Imagine this is you, and after seeing the years pass before your eyes you finally disembark at a lovely home where you are greeted by your future self — an older and wiser you.
Pros: It's super cheap, extra protection at stress points, passed a 4,000 bend test, it's MFi certified by Apple, and it has a one - year warranty
You'll also have to get licensed by a provincial or territorial association of professional engineers, and you need at least 3 — 4 years of work experience as well as a pass on the professional practice exam.
The lawsuit, to be filed sometime late Tuesday in federal court in Sacramento, the California state capital, will take aim at three state laws passed last year that the Justice Department contends violate a clause in the U.S. Constitution.
''... the chances of TPP passing this year are not high, and if it is not passed by the end of the lame duck session of Congress, then it probably will not be passed at all — at least, as presently constituted,» wrote analysts at BMI Research.
Still, investors and the market are likely to give Twitter a pass for at least a couple of years, Zilberman says.
At the end of the first year, 1984, Foster personally passed out profit - sharing checks, although profits were minimal and he could have retained them for working capital.
We've seen that before: The bill that averted a debt - ceiling crisis earlier this year — by temporarily suspending the borrowing limit — would have frozen Congressional pay if the House or Senate had failed to pass a budget by April 15 (lawmakers would have received their salaries anyway at the end of the current legislature).
She's been working at the company for 47 years and actually passed away five years ago but no one's noticed yet.
But over the last 40 years, every British minister has done what our bosses (usually their former classmates at Oxford and Cambridge) tell them to do: keep income tax rates low, make evasion easy with a ton of loopholes, turn a blind eye to our bonuses and our market - rigging, hand over tens of billions of pounds in bailout money when necessary, and pass the check to those mythical non-Londoners in their seaside retirement homes and Amazon logistics centers.
She was passed over for the CEO job at the health conglomerate earlier this year.
Meeting with leaders of various business interest groups at the White House, Trump said he wanted the House to pass a bill by Thanksgiving and final approval by the end of the year.
After a period of at least 13 years — assuming they paid taxes, passed background checks, and stayed out of legal trouble — they could have qualified for citizenship.
At first they claimed Austin - based computer - network consultancy NetForce was too small; a few years later they passed again on NetForce, because it was already saddled with a Small Business Administration loan.
«Colonial links are very strong; it is incredibly how strong they still are given the years that have passed,» Ravi Bhatia, a director at Standard & Poor's who specializes in Africa, told CNBC on Monday.
The same philosophy drives NEXUS, a «trusted traveler» program introduced at airports earlier this year, in which passengers submit to detailed security checks in exchange for passes that help them clear security more quickly.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos came in a distant second, with 10 % of respondents giving him the top spot, followed by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg with 6 %, and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs (who passed away more than five years ago) at 5 %.
«Overseas Development Aid from Europe is still focused on former colonies, but it is becoming less and less biased... Colonial links are very strong; it is incredible how strong still are, given the years that have passed,» Ravi Bhatia, a director at Standard & Poor's who specializes in Africa, told CNBC this week.
If passed, cable companies with at least 1 million subscribers would have two years to create apps that comply with the new rules.
Beyoncé was supposed to perform at Coachella last year, but had to pass on it because of her pregnancy.
The solution would be for Congress to pass a «continuing resolution» that would fund the government at last year's level.
Established at St. Omer on Dec. 8, 1914 Number IX (B) Squadron has been the first unit to pass the 100 - year mark.
The company said its sales passed last year's Singles Day total at 1:33 p.m. but gave no financial amount.
Before another Veterans Day passes, I challenge my CEO colleagues to take up the cause and mentor at least one transitioning veteran a year.
He said that California's latest energy plan, which would require that half of electricity come from clean energy by 2030, took just a year to get passed compared with seven to ten years at the federal level.
(This is the same method that the Senate used to pass the GOP tax bill at the end of last year.)
That lead remains safe at least into 2017, after an attempt by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (teva) to release a generic version failed to pass FDA muster earlier this year.
«My grandmother just passed away at 100 years old, so there is a real possibility that I, or my parents, might live a good many years after we are no longer working and bringing in income,» says the 26 - year - old youth services specialist at a New York nonprofit.
You may be able to file as «qualifying widow / widower» if your spouse passed away sometime during the previous two years, you have not remarried, and you have a dependent at home.
One is a passive income update of Achieving Financial Freedom One Income Slice At A Time now that a year has passed.
* Information efficiency * Economic slack * Contained inflation * Coordinated Central Banks * The growth of China and India and their continued purchasing of US debt * The growing perception that US dollar denominated assets are the safest assets in the world * A 30 + year trend of declining rates that is telling us we're more adept at managing inflation with each new cycle that passes
Last year, another undercover investigation revealed that Amazon warehouse employees were worked to exhaustion, causing employees to pass out at work.
Berkshire recorded a hefty windfall from the tax bill that Congress passed at the end of last year.
If you paid any attention at all to what was going on in 2010 when it was passed, it allegedly had a cost of $ 1 trillion over 10 years.
Pass a credit check and make at least $ 40,000 per year (combined if the primary borrower and co-signer live together, $ 40,000 each if they live separately)
Industry veteran Caitlin Long spent much of this year working to get legislation passed in Wyoming that recognized the legitimacy of utility tokens at the state level.
Last year, the city passed a law that requires entities to draw up a written contract with freelancers on work valued at $ 800 or more, and establishes penalties for not paying freelancers on time or not paying them the agreed - on amount.
It said that the average federal income tax rate on pass - through business income was 19 percent and that if pass - through activity had remained at 1980s levels, that tax revenue would have been about $ 100 billion a year higher.
Assessments of the extent to which these price falls will be passed on to consumers at the retail level will need to take account of the unusual behaviour of import prices at the retail level in recent years.
«I personally wish they had done more to directly link corporate rate reductions and pass - throughs, for that matter, to real and tangible benefits for employees, things like IRA matching or employee profit sharing or employee ownership,» Dean Zerbe, managing director at the tax consultancy Alliantgroup and former tax counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, told me last year.
Holders of this gold - standard designation in the financial services industry must take college - level financial planning courses, log at least 3 years» experience in financial planning, and pass a 10 - hour examination.
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