Sentences with phrase «prompted many»

The 15 - second spot from Burger King prompted audience's Google Home devices to ask what a Whopper was.

A higher nickel price and better returns on listed investments have prompted miner Independence Group to lift its first half profit guidance to $ 11.2 million.

That's what prompted Wilkins, the Maryland delegate, to introduce her bill, which passed the House this month and will be taken up in the Senate in April.

Until then, if people visit a site that uses Flash, they will be prompted to give the web site permission to run Flash.

Her lack of vision even prompted rare criticism from Germany's recent former president, Joachim Gauck, who publicly blamed her for «a lack of energy to tell the population very openly what is really happening.»

That prompted Macy's to sue both companies for violating its exclusive agreement with Martha Stewart.

Oil fell Tuesday as a stronger dollar prompted investors to take profits from a two - week rally ahead of weekly data that analysts have forecast will indicate an uptick crude inventories.

For example, concerns about the future of the pulp and paper industry prompted Power to sell Consolidated - Bathurst for $ 1.5 billion and netted more than $ 1 billion in the process.

«I wanted all the cute gear to wear to the range, and there wasn't any, which is what prompted the company,» Page says.

Trump's determination to push ahead with a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent duty on aluminum has prompted threats of retaliation from the European Union, Canada, China and Brazil, among others.

Public companies often have boards composed of serial entrepreneurs or prominent industry figures who offer their insights, and it was probably this step that prompted Facebook executives to take the direct, head - on approach.

He reads it once a week, when prompted by a recurring calendar invite.

The 50 - day conflict came on the heels of Operation Brother's Keeper, a large - scale counterterrorism crackdown in the West Bank prompted by the abduction and disappearance of three Israeli teenagers on June 12, 2014.

The petition prompted President Bush to defend his wife's choice to drop out of Smith College in order to marry him in 1945 and start a family.

Moorhead's post prompted plenty of well - deserved bashing of Intel's mobile failings and a recounting of how the once dominant company of the «Wintel» era had been disrupted by smartphones running weaker, slower but cheaper and lower - powered ARM - based chips.

You'll be prompted to select an icon for your Facebook Group.

After a two - year - long push by the Coast Guard to phase out the last of the lighthouse keepers prompted public outcry, the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans scrapped the plan.

The downing of the Malaysia Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine, struck apparently in error by rebels using Putin - supplied rockets, killed 298 people and prompted yet another round of sanctions.Photo: Maxim Zmeyev — Reuters

It has prompted concerns that AT&T might try to limit distribution of Time Warner content.

That episode had prompted the PandoDaily blogger Sarah Lucy to accuse the company of «sexism and misogyny» and announce publicly that she would boycott the service.

Their noble efforts have prompted the aid of their quiz «Which USA World Team Member Are You?»

This prompted the launch of the website.

The ban has prompted protests across the United States, but Trump defended it on Sunday.

In two weeks, the tool prompted an influx of 500,000 new account openings, turning Econet subsidiary Steward Bank into the country's largest bank by number of accounts.

Despite the fact that he's milked #BloggerGate for all its worth, Dublin hotel and café owner Paul Stenson doesn't want the argument he's making about the entitled behavior of influencers to come at the expense of the woman who prompted it.

The trip to South America prompted a light bulb moment that represented a huge gamble to Rincon and Whites.

What's more, the ubiquity of tech startups — and the decreased financial barrier to entry — has prompted Philadelphia and Detroit, among other cities, to begin offering venture capital in an effort to boost economic development, create jobs and attract young people, says Archna Sahay, Philadelphia's manager of entrepreneurial investment.

In his complaint, McGlaughlin describes a history of «abusive» practices and conflict with supervisors that predated — and he says prompted — his union - organizing efforts, and continued after he began seeking to organize his fellow workers.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's radical new economic policies, referred to as «Abenomics,» and expectations of a bold monetary policy have prompted Japanese shares to surge almost 32 percent in the last three months.

An MVP approach would be, for example, launching a minimalist website where customers are actually prompted to pay for your product or service before it even exists as a way to guarantee the market potential.

Musk's prejudice prompted him to donate millions to the ethics think tank OpenAI — and it's why he's urging other billionaire techies like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's Larry Page to proceed with caution on their myriad of machine learning and robotics experiments.

The declining sales of this year's «Call of Duty» prompted Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson to lower his price target on the publisher from $ 27 to $ 24, though he maintained an «overweight» rating.

The lack of a single fatality on a commercial flight last year prompted President Donald Trump to take credit for advances in safety in a Tweet that raised eyebrows in the aviation safety community.

The fires prompted officials to shut down parts of the 405 freeway, a major north - south commuter artery.

On top of that, Americans are also living longer, which has prompted providers to recalculate their premium and benefit frameworks as their clients spend more time under coverage than the insurers» underwriters had originally expected.

Kane points out that a shortage of ski instructors and service workers prompted the federal government to ease restrictions for Banff, Alta., and Whistler, B.C., earlier this year.

The National Transportation Safety Board concluded a pilot overreacted to a cockpit warning, causing the plane to plunge, and the case prompted improvements in training.

Its move prompted trading halts on Coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, and in futures trading at CME Group.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

But it's true, and seeing Dr. Sanjay Gupta comparing notes with President Bill Clinton about that fact prompted this blog.

Those troubles have prompted shareholders to worry about the future of Apple's iPad department.

Bombardier CEO Alain Bellemare said a couple of weeks ago that the company would do whatever is needed to deliver the streetcars following «disappointing» delays that prompted scathing criticism from the Toronto Transit Commission.

Antitrust laws hiked taxes, limited competitive pricing and prompted numerous court battles.

He said the combination of loss of radio contract and the plane's quick descent prompted the control centre to declare a distress situation.

The international community has been aggressive in trying to solve for this vulnerability — first prompted by South Korean regulators looking into a spate of complaints in 2013 linked to cars from the Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia, and a few others.

The belief that venture capital performance has been poor, and a desire to diversify internationally, have prompted many institutional investors to move their money out of the asset class, leaving «fewer and fewer venture funds with less and less to invest,» says Steve Hurwitz, a Boston - based lawyer and co-founder of an annual venture capital conference in Quebec City.

Reviewing Sue's site prompted me to turn to the experts.

Producers of the 2011 film «The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo» declined to show the movie in Gulf cinemas with the requested cuts, which prompted backlash.

Fixing the problem cost the company millions and prompted investors to question quality control.

«Hyperbolic rhetoric and provocative actions» by North Korea and President Donald Trump prompted the move, the magazine said.