Sentences with phrase «shaken up»

My world is being driven through Port au Prince, at break neck speeds, in chaotic traffic, in the heat, and the dust, and the crush of humanity and wisdom and grace, and so yes, suppose it is just about right that my world is a bit shaken up tonight.

Late - twentieth - century thinkers are rediscovering many things Augustine knew» that knowing begins with the self as a basic datum; that the knower tends to become what he or she knows; and that knowers «must be roused and shaken up from time to time if [they are] to pay real attention once again.»

«I think everyone is very shaken up...

«I think everyone is very shaken up and very shocked at this really, really dreadful things that's happened,» Unger - Hamilton told Matt Connor.

However, the order was shaken up a bit.

The media landscape was shaken up Thursday with the announcement that Disney will acquire 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets in...

The prospect that financial services could be caught up in the disruptive innovation that has shaken up many other industries moved a step closer after the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) announced it would start to use blockchain technology in its equities clearing and settlement systems.

We are now shaken up by the fact that 130 Parisians were murdered by terrorists.

The disruptive nature of blockchain and cryptocurrencies has shaken up various industries around the world and certainly didn't spare the gaming space.

While the housing markets were shaken up by new tax regulations announced in April 2017 and the turbulence at Home Capital, a large mortgage broker, heavy rains and flooding across the region made matters worse.

Billionaire Xavier Niel has shaken up French telecoms, but the cut - throat Italian market will be tougher.

The world of ETFs and indexing just got shaken up, as Vanguard wins indexing licenses from S&P and Russell as part of a plan to add 20 ETFs to its line of products.

Meanwhile, in England, there's Richard Branson, who has already shaken up the status quo in industry after industry, from music to telecom to airlines and beyond.

«They have the same underlying approach to a market that has not been shaken up in a way to match what the consumer wants.»

His first payroll check had just bounced and he was shaken up about it, as his franchise employed 30 people and he dreaded the thought of having to shutdown.

There's no doubt that Rihanna has completely shaken up the cosmetics industry after releasing Fenty Beauty in 2017, and now its influence is helping to break the taboo of men wearing makeup.

SpaceX has famously shaken up the space launch industry by undercutting its competitors on launch price, in some cases by as much as half.

Icahn started taking positions in individual companies during the late»70s and has shaken up quite a number of corporations throughout his career: Nabisco, Viacom, Western Union, Time Warner, Dell, Netflix, Marvel.

The fifth change is the New Structure of how startups get funded The plummeting cost of getting a first product to market (particularly for Internet startups) has shaken up the Venture Capital industry.

However, cloud and mobile computing have shaken up the old model.

I was on the Newark - to - SFO flight on the 10th — or maybe I'm off by a day — but within a day or two on the same flight, same flight number, and so I was personally shaken up by my connection to it, and I actually lost a family friend on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania, and so that was obviously difficult.

Shaken up by the advent of digital tech, education is changing.

«I was very banged up and very shaken up,» she says, recalling that she texted her husband, Sharif, to tell him what had happened and that she would head home.

When things go bad, our world gets shaken up, which requires us to grow, see new things and start afresh.

Features like Live Video, Instant Articles and Canvas ads are shaking up digital marketing and might be a cause of concern for advertisers.

This came in handy: Virgin became known as the brand that could go into sectors with troublesome reputations and shake them up by applying our values.

So you might logically think that the most successful fast - growth companies are started by very young founders who are unfettered by convention and unwritten rules, able to take risks, and unafraid to shake up the old order.

The musician — real name Jayceon Terell Taylor — is sitting on the advisory board of Paragon, a tech firm that hopes to use the blockchain to shake up the marijuana market.

Google Inc. (GOOG) is shaking up its news service in Europe, in a move that may help beleaguered publishers, bolster its position vis - a-vis Facebook Inc. (FB)-- and gain the company some allies in its battle against European Union antitrust charges.

There's also Ouya, the Kickstarter - funded, Android - software - based console that launched in June with an aim to further shake up the business by offering inexpensive, independently developed games for the TV.

British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline is seriously shaking up (among other things) its R&D operation as part of a bid to realize one billion pounds in annual savings.

He's started his own company — one that he believes has the potential to completely shake up our national healthcare system.

Paul Singer's fund has built a 9 percent stake in TIM to try shake up the way Vivendi - which owns 24 percent - runs it.

T - Mobile CEO John Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure speak to «Squawk on the Street» about inking the $ 26 billion deal that could shake up the telecommunications sector.

The firm (which owns Canadian Business) has made a number of major moves leading up to and since then, including shutting down video service Shomi, paring down their print magazine portfolio and shaking up their management structure.

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban called President Donald Trump «s time in office so far «political chemotherapy,» suggesting that supporters of the President knowingly voted for a «poisonous» leader in hopes of shaking up America's political system.

Jana, along with several allies, wants Whole Foods to better operations and technology, shake up the board, and research how much possible bidders might be willing to pay.

The activist fund has built a stake of 9 percent in TIM to try to shake up the way Vivendi has been running Italy's...

The lure of predictable revenue is so attractive right now that even companies which, like Cisco, were once synonymous with hardware development are shaking up their strategy and benefitting from growing subscription channels.

The country's decades - old currency peg to the dollar means it «must heed the Fed» as it shakes up the economy, one analyst told CNBC.

Activist investors, who now manage some $ 174 billion in assets, have exploded onto the scene, shaking up boards and pushing for share repurchases, company breakups, or outright sales in order to get stock prices higher.

Financial technology companies are shaking up banking — especially for entrepreneurs seeking funding

Moreover, rather than being the insignificant populist pandering that some are suggesting, such a plan has the potential to shake up and transform the way people inform and entertain themselves.

Retailers are filing for bankruptcy at record - high rates as Americans» changing shopping habits, along with years of overly aggressive store growth, continue to shake up the industry.

I probably would shake it up a lot.»

A WA - based company could potentially shake up the $ US96 billion global textile industry with a natural fibre originally sourced from wine.

Below, six entrepreneurs share the words they find most compelling in describing a company that's truly shaking up its industry — and proving its staying power.

In fact, this is a reason many businesses launch new brands — sometimes creating a whole new product is a better way to shake up your company's image.

Shortly after the sale, a proxy battle nearly ensued when West Face sought to shake up the board and oust directors who it considered too close to the McCain family.

How many seconds does it take to shake up the social video game?