Sentences with phrase «says floodgate»

«Now there is more of a culture of people thinking, «Hey, you should talk about these things even if they are rumors,»» says Floodgate's other cofounder, Ann Miura - Ko.

Listen, when I say the floodgates barreled open and the waterworks were in full effect!

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Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

Losing Ryan could open the floodgates and prompt more Republicans on the fence about running for reelection to retire, said Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky.

«They likely believe [claims of sexual harassment] are material information,» says Mike Maples Jr., cofounder of Floodgate, a Palo Alto — based VC firm with an investing team that's 40 % female.

Floodgate partner Mike Maples says Miura - Ko has made at least one investment in each of Floodgate's funds that could potentially return the entire fund.

Floodgate has reported that 20 % of its pitches come from female founders, whereas other VCs say they see roughly 1 % to 2 %.

If they are granted permission from regulators and they can solve hazardous driving scenarios, the floodgates for advanced autonomous vehicles will open,» Kelley Blue Book analysts Akshay Anand said in an email.

Research firm Kantar Retail's Leon Nicholas said retailers would open the promotional floodgates in October, while NPD's Cohen expects an early November start compared to last year's mid-November kick off.

On a conference call Thursday hosted by AdvisorShares, he said he doesn't expect a «huge switch» right after the ETF lists in March, but if it tracks PIMCO Total Return Fund well at the end of the year, «then the floodgates will open.»

OhmConnect is combining the power of software and networks to address what we believe is a massive opportunity in one of the world's most giant markets,» said Mike Maples of Floodgate.

«There's a real chance that this opens the floodgates,» said Chad Bown, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

When the Spirit comes this truly opens the floodgates and any concept we have of institution is severely shaken because as we tirelessly say: «We are the institution.»

When thet haranged Luther over preaching grace, they said to him «if we preach grace then the floodgates of iniquity will open wide.»

Test me in this,» says the Lord Almighty, «and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.

Test me in this,» says the Lord Almighty, «and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

His buddy Jordan Spieth said it was a potential «floodgates» situation for Thomas, and here we are again a week later, on a new Hawaiian island, with JT dominating the first full field event of the year.

We said when Scott bowed out of golf's return to the Olympics for the first time since 1904 that other big names were likely to follow and McIlroy's decision may open the floodgates for other withdrawals.

«Those who say that the ECJ decision has opened a floodgate for multiple vaccine liability suits are therefore mistaken.»

«It's great news that a bipartisan majority of State Senators and Assemblymembers support closing the corporate contribution floodgate Citizens United opened,» said Senator Daniel Squadron, in an emailed statement.

But the church, along with organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, has said a one - year look - back period would open the floodgates to litigation against organizations that could have to defend themselves in cases involving alleged abusers who have been dead or retired for years or decades.

Fearing it would open the floodgates for other Republicans to vote «no», Flanagan, sources said, spoke of hte conference's successes in the budget talks and urged unity, noting the importance in an eleciton year.

Last year, Governor Ambode devoted his birthday to raising funds towards the fight against cancer, a move the CECP said, went a long way to opening the floodgates of support to the cause.

The Business Council of New York has opposed the measure, saying it would open a floodgate of lawsuits for companies across the state.

None have seen the litigation floodgates open, he said.

«The weakening of Earth's magnetic field opens up floodgates for low - energy solar plasma to pour into the atmosphere,» says Gupta, whose team reports its findings this month in Physical Review Letters.

«It's been exciting to open the floodgates,» Harvey says.

«After that 2004 European heat wave paper, the floodgates really opened, and more scientists were interested in looking at individual events,» Cullen said.

Sebastián Yancovic Pakarati, an expert on Rapa Nui's natural heritage and one of Wynne's collaborators, says the island must develop a plan to better protect its natural and cultural treasures before opening the floodgates of tourism.

But critics say that opening the floodgates will eventually lead to «designer babies,» altering genes that code for athletic ability, intelligence, and physical traits.

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Now that Steven Spielberg has admitted that he thinks superhero movies are a passing fad, the floodgates have opened, and anybody who secretly felt annoyed about the preponderance of superhero films can feel free to say so.

«The voucher floodgates are wide open as unaccountable private schools take tens of millions of dollars from students in neighborhood public schools,» said WEAC President Betsy Kippers.

Mrs Morgan said the ban would remain and her decision would not «open the floodgates» to more selective schools, describing it as a «genuine expansion» of an existing school.

«I don't know that I think this means that all of a sudden we're going to have vouchers everywhere in Indiana, that it's going to open up the floodgates or anything,» says Behning.

«Just because our aim is to provide greater flexibility, we're focusing more on results now with regard to licensing of teachers, that does not mean all of a sudden «the floodgates are going to open,» Chu says.

«Sending a game into the wild opens the floodgates, and that's where we started seeing reports of long load times,» said game director Rand Miller of his 2016 game Obduction.

Vogel also said blaming Valve was not the answer, as it had been forced into a position of opening the floodgates and gradually phasing out its curation of the platform after becoming the gatekeepers to success, and whether some indies lived or died professionally.

-- Monday, August 28, 2 p.m.: A spokesperson for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston said in an email that «thanks to the advance preparations of our Hurricane Planning Group — from sandbagging and floodgates to emergency pumps — the storm's impact has been greatly mitigated so far.

Mann said that had the investigation been permitted to continue, «it would have opened the floodgates for others» to use similar methods to harass scientists whose findings threatened a powerful constituency.

«The Closing the Floodgates» report says that toxic pollution from coal - fired power plants «dwarfs the pollution from any other industrial category in the United States and is more than the other top nine polluting industries combined.»

About the lawsuit stopping the floodgate project, the court said that its opinion and order should «in no way be construed as precluding the Lake Pontchartrain project as proposed or reflecting on its advisability in any manner,» and it stressed that «upon proper compliance with the law with regard to the impact statement, this injunction will be dissolved and any hurricane plan thus properly presented will be allowed to proceed.»

Wheeler says the appeal decision should not open the floodgates to others who think they can claim catastrophic impairment.

Suzana Popovic - Montag, a managing partner at Hull & Hull LLP in Toronto who specializes in estate and trust law, said this ruling may «open the floodgates,» on similar challenges.

«I feel like that is one of our biggest challenges we have right now because there is a lot of attention on sexual assault and investigations,» says Mattoo, adding the public attention around the issue has «opened the floodgates» to a lot of different ancillary issues connected to those seeking help.

The floodgates and busybody warnings by the airline are not surprising, says Janna Promislow, an administrative law professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.

On the other hand, GigaOM Pro analyst Paul Sweeting (who has written about Aereo) said the initial court decision was a «disaster» for the networks and that a loss at the appeal level will open the floodgates.

The company is backed by an undisclosed amount («larger than seed,» says Breslow), from a number of investors including founders of PayPal, Intuit, Splunk, StubHub, and Oculus, along with Stanford's StartX fund, their Stanford computer science professor Jay Borenstein, Streamlined Ventures, Floodgate (Mike Maples), Great Oaks VC, Trevor Traina, Brainchild Holdings, and others.

While a direct listing may make sense for a high - profile startup with clear IPO ambitions and long - term plans like Spotify and Airbnb, the SEC is said to have some concerns about opening the floodgates to a new generation of extreme risk seekers who'd be able to use the public markets in order to raise cash from investors while providing them with little to no protections, sources claim.

Details surrounding said smartphone lineup had already been leaking for weeks or even months, when the floodgates open just days before the official announcement is set to take place.