Sentences with phrase «promise more than a year»

Meanwhile, Heastie said internal reforms to how the Assembly operates, promised more than a year ago when he succeeded Sheldon Silver in the top leadership post, will be released sometime next week.

He made this promise more than a year ago.

A health review of fracking promised more than a year ago has never materialized, and the commissioner assigned to the job, who faced increasingly intense questions from reporters (including this one) each time he made a rare public appearance, abruptly left in May.

Obama promised more than a year ago to host such a gathering, one of several at which he has extolled the importance of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and lamented the mediocre performance of U.S. students on international tests.

Unlike rival systems that require a wired power connection, or the few battery - powered cameras already on the market which generally had relatively short battery life, Blink's promised more than a year of home monitoring from a single charge.

Not exact matches

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

Labour has said it will raise income taxes on people earning more than # 80,000 ($ 103,152) a year, promising no increases for the other 95 % of taxpayers.

It is the promise of «Abenomics» that has seen the yen shed about 15 percent of its value against the dollar since November and Japanese shares surge to their highest level in more than four years.

Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more than tripling of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2 percent) over the next two years, while raising the inflation rate from -0.3 percent to 2 percent — as the Bank of Japan is promising?

The company behind Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona, which makes more than a quarter of the world's beer, said the second half of the year also looked «promising.»

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.

Republican lawmakers in the Senate are days away from perhaps a final deadline on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, a seminal promise from the party for more than seven years.

The results go a long way to fulfilling the promise that the likes of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry than their previous distribution systems.

Indeed, the possibility of what those gadgets could be — especially in the case of Apple, which has repeatedly promised some «big plans» for this year — is far more intriguing than the supposed main attractions.

In effect, that means the company won't be raising list prices more than 5.4 % this year — a step further than other companies like Allergan (agn), Novo Nordisk (nvo), and others who have promised to keep spikes in the single digits.

94 year - old John Goodenough, one of the co-inventors of the lithium - ion battery that now powers everything from phones to Teslas, has developed a new solid - state battery formula that promises to hold three times more energy than li - on.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

But for those who take the broader view, recognizing both that even best - in - class healthcare businesses like Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson have underperformed for years on end and that also choose to analyze the company itself, GlaxoSmithKline looks more promising than its track record of investment performance would suggest.

So we are dealing with the irreconcilable fact that the Obama position threatens to lower living standards from 10 % to 20 % over the coming few years — making the United States look more like Greece, Ireland and Latvia than what was promised in the last presidential election.

And of course, Baltimore is competing against more than 200 other cities and regions to grab the biggest economic development plum in years: the $ 5 billion second headquarters of Amazon that promises to bring 50,000 new jobs to its chosen city.

The Liberals also made good on their promise to introduce a new 33 % tax bracket for people who earn more than $ 200,000 each year.

It has done so since 1896, and that gives it more than 120 years of living up to that promise.

With the federal budget coming soon, it is also worth recalling that the Liberals promised to run deficits of no more than $ 10 - billion for a maximum of three years, but the government's latest projections peg its annual deficits at almost $ 30 - billion with no timeline for returning to a balanced budget.

GFI's innovation department has two primary areas of focus — firstly, encouraging scientists and entrepreneurs to join the plant - based and cultured meat industries, and secondly, supporting the ongoing success of existing companies in the industry.26 They have assembled a list of potential companies based on what they believe are promising ideas that have not been capitalized on, 27 and they have developed a list of more than 220 entrepreneurs and scientists, many of whom take part in monthly video calls led by GFI.28 In the last year, they have had some success in assisting in the founding of a plant - based meat company in India, Good Dot, and a plant - based fish company in the U.S., SeaCo.29 The companies have both raised millions in venture capital and are making progress towards competition with animal products.30 Although venture capitalist funding is a good indication that the companies themselves will be successful, and while the companies might not exist without GFI, it is unclear what portion of the responsibility for the companies» outcomes should be attributed to GFI.

(Can't give you the details as I'm writing a memoir and don't wish to give the good bits away in case it gets published) Even though I have doubted all the other stuff along the years — promises etc that didn't come to pass, despite my diligent prayer and obedience, I still cry out to «something out there» because I am spirit in a human body, and know that I am on a journey that has to mean more than simply this earthly plain.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

Last year Promise Keepers drew more than 720,000 men to 13 stadium events nationwide.

Promise Keepers, an organization founded by a former college football coach, has done precisely that, packing more than 1 million men into stadiums nationwide since it started five years ago.

The 7th India International Coffee Festival is back in «NAMMA BENGALURU» after four years and is bigger, better and promises a lot more than just a brew for your business!

Breyers ® is committed to high quality ingredients — a promise that has been on Breyers ® packages for more than 100 years.

Mr Garvin also queried the «premium» Murray Goulburn has promised to pay farmers, pointing out that Parmalat has paid 12 per cent more on average than Murray Goulburn and 6 per cent more than Norco for milk over the last four years.

Arsene Wenger shouldn't be hassling too much over a player who is unlikely to cost more than a few million and with the investment he could bring to Arsenal at 20 years of age, it makes him a very promising target.

For «no more than $ 34.50,» The Gloveman, a.k.a. Lee Chilton, promises to rebuild your glove and even guarantees his work for one year.

Now we are a facing the worst start to a season in more than 30 years, after years of broken promises, increasing ticket prices and poor decision - making by Arsene Wenger & Co..

Now we're here in that promised land, more than a few years ahead of schedule, where both teams are fighting for the AL West.

The 22 - year old, widely regarded as one of the world's most promising centre backs, spent more than three years at Everton where he built a reputation as a ball - playing, 21st century defender, equally adept at neutralising opposition attacks as launching the first key pass out of the defensive third.

With an even younger squad of players than Viveash worked with a year ago, they promise to cultivate perhaps a tactically more flexible and dynamic approach by comparison, seeking — as ever — to produce the sort of player who is capable of eventually breaking through the glass ceiling dividing them from the first team.

Centre manager Karen Keenan says assessments, including residential stays of an average of 12 weeks, make no assumptions about whether children are likely to be «better off» with mum, dad or both, but take a firm line that fathers are important: «We start from the point of view of the child, and over many years we've found that often it's the father, rather than the mother, who is the more competent or promising parent of the two.»

More than a year after Republican leaders promised to investigate Russian interference in the presidential election, two influential Republicans made the first known congressional criminal referral in connection with the meddling — against one of the people who sought to expose it.

In committing to the state's portion of the MTA's five - year, $ 26 billion capital program, Cuomo promised more than $ 8.3 billion to the authority, except he didn't really spell out where more than $ 1 billion of that money would come from.

Cuomo promised his fellow Democrats that if he has four more years in office, New York would be stronger, better, sweeter and fairer than before.

Under the Tennessee Promise program, more than 16,200 students were enrolled in the 2015 - 16 school year at 41 institutions across the state, including at 13 community colleges, 27 colleges of applied technology and other eligible institutions offering an associate's degree program, according to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.

It can be argued that Cameron has double - crossed Clegg on democratic reform before — taking a more active role in the no campaign in the alternative vote referendum last year than he had promised in private.

It comes after more than a year of promises to tackle pharmacy costs that are squeezing millions of Americans.

This is a new post-1999 high, and is 172 more than 13 years ago, and gets to be expensive for a coalition that promised to cut the cost of politics.

Several other states and more than 100 communities have established the College Promise program, though SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher said adding four - year public colleges «makes this proposal above and beyond what any other state is talking about.»

This looks promising on paper: the district contains more Democrats than Repblicans, and polls taken last year in a race for district attorney showed the appearance of corruption was a major issue in voters» minds.

Highlighting his well known community support and advocacy, he repeated he was «proud to now be a Democrat... but the privilege of representing our communities has and always will be about much more than party registration... this is my challenge, my purpose and my promise for the next few years.»

Luke Martland has agreed not to practice law while in office and has promised no more than 10 years in office, I expect if elected, him to stay true to his word.

Almost ten years after he first got the job, his chances of delivering on that promise now look more distant than ever.