Sentences with phrase «public this year despite»

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Over the past decade, public stock markets have outperformed the average venture capital fund and for 15 years, VC funds have failed to return to investors the significant amounts of cash invested, despite high - profile successes, including Google, Groupon and LinkedIn.

(Despite the policy, IHOP has not yet responded to Gawker's public plea that a 27 - year - old waiter, arrested for giving away $ 3000 in free beverages at a Brooklyn IHOP, be exonerated.)

Despite becoming aware of the breach and having it reported to Yahoo's senior management and legal department, the company failed to properly investigate and did not disclose it to the public until more than two years later, when it was in the process of being acquired by Verizon Communication Inc, the regulator said.

Greifeld said the IPO market remains strong this year despite a steep drop in initial public offering volume in the third quarter amid extreme market volatility.

Despite growing public awareness, data shows that of the total companies that received funding last year, only 4 % were owned by women.

Despite public outcry and fierce resistance from unions, cities across New Jersey cut police departments by 15 % late last year.

Despite Vogel's involvement in the case that took away 18 years of Avery's life, the attorney does not seem to be experiencing the same level of backlash as Kratz (perhaps because the state's failures in 1985 have been well known to the public for more than a decade at this point).

Meanwhile, Snap founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy entered the list for the first time despite the under whelming performance of the tech firm since going public earlier this year.

Shares of newly public cloud company SendGrid were unchanged in late trading despite beating earnings expectations and raising its outlook for the year.

Silicon Valley darling Dropbox is aiming to go public at a valuation well below the $ 10 billion it clocked in its last private funding round, despite posting healthy revenue growth and turning cash - flow positive in the intervening four years.

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

The 31 year old, who was diagnosed with depression aged 19, told The Sunday Times that, despite her father's public role in the Church, she decided initially not to seek his help.

Despite this, today a majority of the Irish public supports Kenny's bill, swayed by the Savita case» not to mention other factors chipping away at the pro-life position for years, like the eroding influence of the Roman Catholic Church.

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

Wenger is expected to have a two - year contract announced tomorrow, but despite an official announcement, Twitter as well as many news sources are reported confirmation of his new deal, with it having been public knowledge that the 67 year - old and the board were to sit down today.

«Despite the Knicks being largely inept, they are a public team and get championship action every year so we would make a very small adjustment there.

They «struggled» in the first half of the year against the spread despite going 35 - 6, but turned it around in the second half as oddsmakers and public bettors realized that they were men, not machines, and lowered their expectations.

Despite the struggles of our betting against the public strategy this season, this is an interesting time of the year for contrarian strategies.

We saw a prime example of that last year when public money caused the Panthers to move from -3.5 to -4.5 in Super Bowl 50 despite several sharp money indicators on the Broncos.

What was a surprise was that the public liked Notre Dame big despite the fact that no one has like Notre Dame big all year.

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $ 600 million to $ 700 million in 2013, with the cost of a longer school day still unknown, officials said.

Despite the fact that the city's meter lease brought in $ 1.16 billion, and the Park District's new fees may bring in as much as $ 1.5 million a year, none of this money has been committed to increasing and improving the city's public transit.

Despite public health concerns and pleas from a 12 - year - old boy worried about animal cruelty, Glenview officials will continue stocking a public pool with goldfish to mark the end of the swimming season.

Despite assurances from Ministers last year that a decision would be swiftly taken following a public consultation, the Government are now dragging their heels and halting the wedding plans of hundreds of couples.

Yet, despite the carnage of that war, just 21 years after its conclusion, there was sufficient public and political support for Britain to go to war with Germany again.

While Ed Miliband floats around the country playing the role of a man with integrity, it's worth noting that despite «marching for the alternative» a few years ago with the people he claims to represent, he turned his back on public sector workers and those on «Workfare», whilst allowing changes to employment law to go through virtually unchallenged, allowing the coalition to force through it's anti-worker agenda.

Despite the «good job» in recent years by the Department of Health and Home Office, Mr Shenker said regulation of the drinks industry had been «very poor» and «producing huge levels of harm to the public».

Let me offer three reasons why standards issues continue to trouble us so much, despite the many years of good work by the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

What's more, in this year's Governor's race, Andrew Cuomo lost Hikind's district despite Hikind's endorsement of Cuomo and very public lambasting of Carl Paldino as an anti-Semite.

According to the report, despite the convictions, Percoco is eligible to collect $ 36,000 a year in pension money, despite a new law that was passed in the fall that would authorize a judge to cut or reduce pension payments for public officials found guilty of a felony crime, but since Percoco's crimes were committed before Jan. 1, he will not be stripped of his payments.

Spitzer was a major force in American public life for eight years despite having no particular talent for politics.

A year on, the report of the accident has still not been made public, as both government and the Police have remained tight - lipped on the issue despite public demand for what caused the accident that shook the media sphere.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

According to ICO head Richard Thomas, «each pleaded guilty yet, despite the extent and the frequency of their admitted criminality, each was conditionally discharged [for two years], raising important questions for public policy.»

Despite legislative wrongdoing over the years, expelling a lawmaker from the state Legislature is a highly unusual step and one that's often taken in the heat of public outcry.

Despite its rapid growth, Wall Street analysts differ on SolarCity's long - term prospects because the company has reported ever - increasing losses since going public five years ago, including a record $ 375 million deficit last year.

Labour have been in the lead in the polls for a couple of years, despite the public being well aware of Ed Miliband and having a negative view of him.

She was remanded without bail to jail on May 5 2014, despite having missed no court appointments over two years of hearings and her public insistence on refusing to plea out.

But it has no formal public access, despite conversations that date back 20 years to turn the property into a park.

Still, despite their involvement in the situation dating to last spring, some lawmakers have questioned why it took more than a year from the time that concerns were first raised to warn the public.

With more than 13 years of public service, despite political differences, I have a proven track - record of working collaboratively with individuals across aisles, at various levels of government and maintaining professional relationships even with those whom I viscerally disagree.

The Bronx pol managed to receive his per diems — payments for each day spent in Albany — despite missing 173 votes last year, about 15 % of the total votes held during the year, according to the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Despite the severe constraints of our public finances, which have resulted from years of mismanagement and corruption, Government has contributed US$ 10 million as seed money for the Plan.

Despite a reduction of 98.5 open hours per week (6 % of 2010 total weekly open hours) in response to reduced funding in 2011, B&ECPL has experienced no decrease in circulation through October, while year - to - date public access computer use has decreased only 3.6 % across the System.

Why are they hiding from a victim as I am during these many years, despite my public challenge to clarify the case with confrontation all the time?

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan earned up to $ 150,000 last year from a Long Island law firm despite claims that he was giving up his outside legal work, according to documents made public yesterday.

Aamer has been detained in Guantanamo Bay for over 11 years, despite the public calls from foreign secretary William Hague for his release.

Now, after once again coming up short in last year's elections, Democrats in the mainline conference are making a public show of independence from a governor who, despite sharing their political affiliation, has shown little desire of seeing the conference take the lead in the state Senate.

During last week's prime minister's questions, David Cameron was confronted by Caroline Lucas MP on why the government had done nothing to change our rotten extradition laws, despite a clear call from two separate parliamentary committees, a Commons motion in December last year and well - supported public petitions to do just that.