Sentences with phrase «shakedown of»

Bitcoin price fell 23 % into Friday as a broad shakedown of markets saw every cryptoasset in the top 100 sustain major losses.

But it's hard to see why he should be presiding over a multi-trillion-dollar shakedown of the global economy.

Then there is Windows 8 coming into the scene soon and another shakedown of the tablet hierarchy seems imminent.

The team is hoping to have a shakedown of the car in England on the Monday or Tuesday prior to the season - opener at Silverstone next month.

Likewise, McLaren completed an early shakedown of the F1 underneath a couple of Ultima kit cars before returning to an Ultima for work on the MP4 - 12C, while adding a couple of discreetly modified Ferrari 360s into the mix.

«We saw this first with his pay - to - play shakedown of state contractors for campaign cash, and we're seeing it again now through his apparent illegal coordination with the Democratic Governors Association and Connecticut Forward.»

Franck Montagny completed a shakedown of the car but more snow showers returned during the day, which basically cut short Renault's running.

The Mercedes W08 broke cover on Thursday and now the team has released a 360 - degree onboard video from Lewis Hamilton's shakedown of the car.

If Quebec's economy minister Jacques Daoust followed through on his promise (and there's no reason to think he didn't), within minutes of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing his new cabinet on Wednesday, Daoust commenced the latest shakedown of federal taxpayers on behalf of Bombardier.

Not exact matches

The attack was just one of many instances of what has become the newest trend in cyber shakedowns: ransomware.

In both cases the explosion was enabled by the growing commoditisation of components but because maintaining an operating system and an app ecosystem, whether on PC or smartphone, is an expensive business, there was a shakedown.

Through use of the latest technologies, criminals have lately found a particularly effective way to scale their shakedowns.

Clark's shakedown effort is reminiscent of the manner in which Quebec, nearly 50 years ago, used its geographic leverage to extort Newfoundland's Churchill Falls hydro project into selling it electricity at an enormous discount.

There have certainly been other reports of vicious shakedowns by employers.

If one searches for news on LIBOR (= London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e., the rate at which banks lend dollars to each other in the euro - dollar market), they are currently dominated by Deutsche Bank getting slapped with a total fine of $ 775 million for the part it played in manipulating the benchmark rate in collusion with other banks (fine for one count of wire fraud: US$ 150 m.; additional shakedown by US Justice Department: US$ 625 m., the price tag for a deferred prosecution agreement).

The Olayan Group — which is run by Lubna Olayan, an heiress of magnate Sulaiman Olayan — may already be feeling the effects of the Saudi shakedown.

Equality of opportunity was passé; racial quotas masqueraded under the euphemism of «affirmative action»; King's righteous demand that his children be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin was inverted by race - hustlers and shakedown artists» an inversion subsequently validated by activist judges.

Even if this was a «shakedown», the question still remains: Why did Bishop Long settle instead of FIGHT?

The decision of the Government and Fonterra to keep the DCD residues discovery a secret between them for months and not inform other dairy exporters is to get a formal industry shakedown this month.

While we've seen some of the new cars take to the track during their launches and shakedowns, this video gives us a clear view of all the teams out on the circuit.

If they only had 90 minutes in which to shakedown their cars, work out a setup, figure out the tyres and run a qualifying sim, then the teams would inevitably have to sacrifice some areas of their programme and focus more on others.

Hamilton braved Storm Doris in the morning to complete a shakedown run of the W08 EQ Power + (yep, that's it's full name) at the home of the British Grand Prix, providing us with our first glimpse of the new car.

That means he'll miss the shakedown session in New York, but in spite of that he's looking forward to making his Formula E debut.

Really it's just an excuse for the team to test out and shakedown the car, and although teams are limited to 100 km of running on filming days, Red Bull had to cut the day short because Ricciardo binned it.

«From Republican Rep. Joe Barton, who apologized to BP for President Obama's «$ 20 billion shakedown» of the company, to GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul, who called President Obama's criticism of BP «un-American,» Harry Wilson, who comes from the world of unregulated hedge funds, now joins the pantheon of Big Oil defenders.»

Such theatrical thuggishness may have been effective in the era of backroom shakedowns and party bosses, but today's politics is suffused with irony and live - cast on Twitter — and tough - guy threats are more likely to get mocked than they are to make delegates and congressmen cower in fear.

While this is quite the shakedown, and without the Turkish invasion it would be preposterous - Turkey and the Turkish FSA now control close nearly half of Afrin, and are in sight of Afrin town.

Veteran left - winger David Winnick also joined in the attacks, claiming MPs who back bombing were facing a «shakedown» and threats of de-selection from the pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum.

Drew also said that he expected no problems as a result of the State Elections Enforcement Commission's decision, also on Oct. 18, to investigate a complaint by Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst's campaign manager that Drew attempted a «shakedown» when he sent gubernatorial campaign fundraising letters to Middletown city employees in September.

Veteran left - winger David Winnick meanwhile claimed MPs who back bombing were facing a «shakedown» and threats of de-selection from the pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum.

Dean Skelos» conviction for running a shakedown scheme should be tossed because prosecutors» arguments now conflict with a new interpretation of public corruption law, his lawyer said Thursday.

Can not be serious, only john Cahill maybe takes this seriously, and some members of the Albany media crowd, except as a shakedown operation.

The bold particulars — $ 4 million in personal gain, a shakedown to turn cancer patients into fee - generating plaintiffs — unfurled over a three week trial as prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara painted Silver as a dry, inscrutable, greedy embodiment of Albany's problems.

But instead of denouncing his shakedowns, both parties wooed Espada with offers of huge political power.

Of course, the biggest reason Cuomo and Wilson should've known about the Independence Party's shakedown tactics hasn't come out yet.

It also flew in the face of repeated predictions by the elder Skelos — including as recently as Wednesday evening — that he and his son would be acquitted of the shakedown scheme.

Adam Skelos, 35, and his dad, a former state Senate majority leader, 69, saw their December 2015 convictions for a shakedown scam tossed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in September.

NUCLEAR SHAKEDOWN Rumblings of seismic waves reveal clues about North Korea's nuclear weapons tests, detonated in a mountain.

After a shakedown period of several months, the collider began running at full energy for the first time in July with a series of experiments that continued until year - end.

Last April, Wurden finally combined all the elements of canned fusion into a single device and put it through an engineering shakedown.

But the team decided to change the terminology because, «if you have a Sicilian mafia background, [«shakedown»] has a different connotation,» he said, referring to the illegal practice of extorting money from small businesses, generating laughter from the audience.

Inside NASA, the yearlong mission was being casually referred to as a «shakedown cruise,» which is a term used in the Navy to describe a trip intended to test the performance of a new ship, Williams said.

In «The Facts of Life,» a seemingly innocent British youth (Jack Watling) is targeted for a shakedown by a beautiful adventuress (Mai Zetterling), while Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne perform their usual brilliant byplay.

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