Sentences with phrase «shape a year ago»

Overall, Microsoft has found itself at the crossroads of an important change in the computing industry that it helped shape years ago.

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This time, it's the regimen of Robert Patrick, star of the CBS series Scorpion, the new film, The Last Rampage, and a guy (if you're my age) you probably first saw twenty - five years ago as the shape - shifting T - 1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

At the 40th celebration of Virgin Records, the 63 - year - old who has helped shape the music, space and airline industries, recalled crying when he sold the record label more than 20 years ago for $ 1 billion.

And since its inception 12 years ago, AWS has been shaped, led, and sold to customers by Jassy, a 47 - year - old transplanted New Yorker who's been at Amazon since he finished his Harvard MBA.

Reports surfaced this week that Grumpy Cat, whose underbite shapes her face into a permanent yet adorable scowl, has pulled in more than $ 100 million since ascending to viral fame two years ago.

Fast - food fanatics may also notice that the latest pizza has a similar shape to the chain's «Crown Crust» pie that was introduced in the Middle East a year ago.

One ideology in particular, which took shape a hundred years ago primarily through the ideas and practices of U.S. - based management thinkers, continues to dominate the way we think about management.

Their example can continue to shape the minds of dreamers, creators and leaders, much as they did more than a hundred years ago.

Blankfein, who underwent chemotherapy for cancer more than two years ago, led the firm through the financial crisis in better shape than most rivals, and the company capitalized with record trading revenues.

We will be better positioned to shape the forces of cloud, big data, mobile and security that are changing the way people live, businesses operate and the world works, just as we did when we helped revolutionize the power of the PC almost 30 years ago.

It is something we wanted ourselves years ago but couldn't find it and we feel fortunate that it's starting to take shape because of some of the great investors we've been able to work with.

Most notably, the company made a big bet on its Shape - Ups fitness shoes a few years ago, going so far as to air a Super Bowl ad featuring Kim Kardashian in 2011 to promote the shoes.

The people who disregarded my advice years ago are in much worse financial shape today because they could've use the money to invest and watch their money double or triple.

As he made clear in a Fortune story three years ago («The Rainwater Prophecy») he believes that the world is facing a future shaped by scarce natural resources.

Reid says such workarounds are far more common today than even just a few years ago, during the Great Recession, because the economic pain is confined to a single region and bank balance sheets are generally in good shape.

The different nationalities began taking shape around 4300 years ago after the flood.

I stumbled into the evangelical world by a kind of accident 15 years ago when some colleagues and I wanted to understand how the culture of a seminary shapes the ministers who are formed there.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

Porn, and the way it is shaping our individual and collective cultural mindset, has moved on dramatically since I last wrote on the subject for this title six years ago.

Prophets in Perspective first began to take shape a few years ago when I was asked to write an almost book - length article on «Prophet and Prophetism» for The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible.

Plants came out upon the land some six hundred million years ago, after the planet earth had shaped itself through a great series of transformations forming the continents, the mountains, the valleys, the rivers and streams.

It's an easy and fun way to get roasted potatoes that are actually crispy, and shaped like beautifully abstract flowers to boot.I saw this smashed potatoes idea over on Oh She Glows about a year ago, pinned it enthusiastically, thought about it often, and didn't actually try it until last week.

A couple years ago, I came up with this pumpkin - shaped cheese ball for a fall party, and it was such a BIG HIT that I just had to make up a variation on it for winter.

Mrs. W gave me some heart - shaped cake pans as a gift some 20 years ago.

Standing out to customers browsing store shelves requires more than just having a recognizable name — there's a reason Coca - Cola returned to its distinctively shaped bottle years ago.

But only 20 years ago, flexible packaging in the shape of a stick was a radically new concept, at least in North America.

It was those baby steps I began taking seven years ago that have shaped my life today.

The axing of Victoria Pale Lager, which was sold in an embossed VB stubby - shaped green bottle, is the first label to be discontinued by Foster's since it was taken over by global brewing giant SABMiller more than a year ago, as the brewer focuses more on its core beer brands.

After years of experimenting, the project took final shape two years ago and is now up and running and can deliver up to 8,000 lbs of shrimp per week.

I just scoop out the dough onto the heart - shaped pan I got all those years ago (sprayed with cooking spray first).

Ever since I discovered the Edges Only brownie pan a few years ago, I've been endlessly inspired to transform classic brownies into anything but their signature square shape.

Wenger is an old manager, when he came to Arsenal all those years ago he got brought into a system where football managers had a lot more say in a football club, they wasn't so business shaped.

As Hamilton didn't participate in spring training games while awaiting word of a suspension that never came, he does need this time to get himself back into game shape, lest the rest of his season look something like the awfulness that Kendrys Morales and Stephen Drew produced a year ago when they missed spring training.

A year ago she was out of shape, she looked kind of haggard and her game was slipping.

The Eagles will miss TO, but they're still in better shape for their run at the Super Bowl than they were a year ago

that's a joke you know right... apart from the Barca rumour years ago, which other top club have come with serious bid for the guy... it's only in Arsenal average performers are seen as giving their all... you want to be among the heavyweights in Europe, then sign the best players or bring in a coach who can shape the young minds into champions... you don't do the same thing year after year and expect a different result

Ps why did you take Cambell out after him Arsenal lost shape, it reminds me the decision he took against Man U some years ago when Ox was on top form and our beloved manager took him out even Van Persie was shock.

A year ago, Hibbert seemed to use the regular season to work himself into shape after signing a max contract with the Pacers many felt to be unwarranted at the time.

Little more than a year ago, Pascal Wehrlein's Formula 1 career was looking in pretty good shape.

Should Barcelona end up falling short in their pursuit of Arsenal man Bellerin, which looks likely, they certainly have some decent alternatives lined - up as the club try to fill the Dani Alves - shaped hole that was left just over two years ago.

Safety Elvis Bradley, a starter since his first game as a freshman three years ago, was as sound as ever, and soon Yeoman's two sets of ends, tackles and noseguards were playing into shape.

There's only one unit on the roster that appears to be in worse shape than it was a year ago: the defensive line, which has to replace its top three ends.

Today, I stand on this stage feeling honored to share the ways in which this incredible program has shaped my life and personal goals, and also privileged to have the opportunity to touch all of you the way I was touched just one year ago.

-LSB-...](think shape sorter and play kitchen, among others) in a great roundup two years ago entitled «Toddler fun: sitting in boxes.»

«Personal trainers hate me,» said Chang, who was overweight and out of shape a few years ago.

Tracing Shapes A few years ago, I taught...

If all it took to get your kid to try a new food was cutting it in fun shapes, you'd have had this figured out years ago!

If I had been writing this a couple of years ago I would have said that City and Westminster relations were in pretty good shape.

Hidden in a Post article today on the presidential campaigns» precarious financial shape was this remark: Ken Mehlman, who helped plan President Bush's reelection strategy four years ago, said each campaign is trying to isolate demographic groups and geographic areas to target with...

Ritchie says the state is in better shape now than two years ago, and that's in part because of her efforts to work with Governor Andrew Cuomo to pass an on - time budget, and because of the property tax cap.