Sentences with phrase «sign over control»

Figure if a traditional publisher makes an offer and you can work a good contract, you will sign over control of the book for about eight years.

It soon became clear that the venture capitalists (to whom I had signed over a controlling share) were not on the same page as Insevo's founders.

«The B.C. Liberals have put the economy and the environment of the coast at risk by signing over control of these projects to Ottawa,» said Chandra Herbert.

Not exact matches

Three of the five members of the executive team at Leon's bear the family name — a sign that the sprawling clan still retains tight control over the business.

But now, mere months after the agreement was signed, a chorus of critics is already raising a host of concerns over privacy, transparency, public control, and the financial soundness of the deal struck by Toronto.

When Richardson International signed a deal in March to buy $ 900 million worth of grain - handling assets now belonging to Viterra, the company found itself indirectly caught up in the debate over Chinese control of Canadian companies.

The National Rifle Association has filed a federal lawsuit over gun control legislation Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed, saying it violates the Second Amendment by raising the age to buy guns from 18 to 21.

On May 9, Putin signed the Strategy for the Development of an Information Society for 2017 — 2030.91 Based on the Russian government's desire to establish «sovereignty» over the Russian portion of the internet, the strategy postulates that Russia must have the capacity to produce its own software and hardware independently, with all core information infrastructure ultimately under state control.

[246] On August 2, 2011, after a lengthy congressional debate over whether to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.

You can probably argue over whether it's a good or a bad sign, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter today a report in The Information that he has taken over direct control of the divisio

But even that demonstrator — who brought out an effigy of Obama with texts declaring him a liar and murderer — was fundamentally critiquing large corporations and their control over politicians when he declared in a sign that «TTIP and CETA is social murder dictated by the US.»

As in the Old Testament, therefore, the idea of God had been progressively formulated, not so much in the light of philosophic disquisition as in the light of his mighty acts for Israel, from the deliverance out of Egypt to the least and latest sign of his effective control over human affairs, so in the New Testament the idea of God was centered not in a concept but in a deed.

In this purified Logic (Henry Adams would have seen it as another sign of the triumph of the Dynamo over the Virgin), one sees that fear of loss of rational control over the sensible universe that led the seventeenth - century rationalist Fontenelle to tolerate poetry only as a social amusement.

Obama has already signed over 900 Executive Orders that pretty focus on greater government control over our lives.

True but we have no control over signings and we can't just keep harping on about who we should sign and whinging why we haven't signed anyone.

Finally, what you completely ignore is the fact that Wenger no longer has control over signings and contracts, so whats your problem?

A village committee has drafted amendments that would permit «tasteful» electronic signs in some areas of Orland Park, and the town still would hold tight control over the aesthetics of the message boards.

Two - year - olds are just beginning to have better control over their hand and finger movements, which are signs that they're building fine motor skills.

An abnormal plantar reflex (aka Babinski Sign) occurs when upper motor neuron control over the flexion reflex circuit is interrupted.

This urgent activity in early pregnancy is a sign that we women understand the importance of having control over who we choose to provide care to us over our maternity care journey.

Now I realize that those signs are an SOS of sorts - as in, «Do yourself a favor and please stay the hell out of my way because there's a time bomb on board that that could detonate at any second and I have no control over any aspect of my life, least of all my driving.»

Virtually no - one believes in absolute free markets (at a bare minimum, most people agree that courts should enforce a contract signed between 2 individuals or companies), and virtually no - one believes in complete state control of everything - even the USSR and China had significant amounts of private control over collectivised farms and allowed private farming as well for most of their history.

Speculation has been rife over the reasons behind the last - minute delay in signing a contract with EDF, with May's government keen to play down rumours that the decision was down to fears of Chinese control over national infrastructure.

The letter signed by 31 state headteachers says: «The Conservative party tells us that it believes that to ensure a high - quality education for all pupils, headteachers need to have control over how they run their school.

But, but, but: The Post's in - house pollster, Scott Clement, flags a 2013 Pew Research Study, which found that people who prioritize gun rights over gun control are four or five times more likely to contribute money to advocacy groups, contact public officials, sign petitions and express their views on social media.

De Blasio said that he has talked to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan only once in recent weeks — last Thursday or Friday — a sign of his rocky relationship with the Republican who year after year has seemed to relish tormenting the mayor over the issue of school control.

After facing sharp criticism over the state's response to water contamination in the village of Hoosick Falls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year signed the $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which is aimed at upgrading drinking and clean water infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measures.

«I hope that the State Senate will listen to the voices of Republicans and Democrats, listen to my two predessesors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Guiliani who agree as I do that we need mayoral control of education, listen to over 100 prominent business leaders who yesterday signed onto a letter calling for renewal of mayoral control,» he said.

All of this is separate from issues about what is moral, and what is right, but New York, California, and other places with stringent gun laws are frequently and repeatedly sued over them, California is currently a hotbed of lawsuits over the raft of gun control bills Jerry Brown signed recently.

Three of the four legislative leaders have signed former NYC Mayor Ed Koch's pledge to reform the redistricting process by handing over control to a nonpartisan commission.

Control of the party has been challenged by two additional groups seeking to wrest power from a group led by Cuomo, leading a state Supreme Court judge to declare no one could claim leadership over the line until a majority of the candidates who ran last as WEP candidates sign off on the rules.

The shift to the right is a sign of Cameron's increased need to day - to - day practical control over his party, as it became nearly ungovernable in the wake of rebellions over House of Lords reform and Europe.

Massey blamed de Blasio for the current impasse over mayoral control with just days left in the legislative session, but said state senators should nonetheless sign off on an extension of at least six months to a year.

Kolb, who is consdiering a run for governor next year, says the concerns over the deficit are potentially overstated, but is a sign spending needs to get under control.

Clergy members, labor unions, technology leaders and over 100 typically de Blasio - averse business executives signed letters calling on Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pass a multi-year mayoral control extension.

A change.org petition called the gun - free zone inside the Quicken Loans Arena an «affront to the Second Amendment» and has been signed by over 55,000 people — although it was largely a satire by liberal groups to shed a spotlight on the issue of gun control.

But in the state Senate, where Democrats are hobbled by a redistricting plan drawn by Senate Republican lawmakers (and signed off on by Cuomo) and the poor image of dysfunction and corruption from their time in control, the minority conference still holds out hope that the presidential election year will help put them over the top.

In a sign that he has tightened his control over the party, Abbott, a friend of Corbyn whose constituency neighbours his own, was promoted from being shadow health secretary to shadow home secretary.

Apparently not content with making up over 80 % of the party's donations, the unions are intent on seizing direct control through selecting its own placemen (and placewomen, if that's a word), even to the point of signing up hundreds of new party members to pack out votes.

So far as the English Local Elections go - it's a major extension of control of English Local Government for the Conservative Party, but following on from results in 2003 that were still before Labour were hit by a backlash over the War in Iraq - if the Conservatives had failed to advance from 35 % in 2003 and Labour had held it's vote of 30 % then it would have been remarkable, it's still slightly up on 2006 for the Conservatives and Labour have only recovered marginally so far - it's a sign of continued revival of the Conservative Party, but also of a Labour revival, disappointing news for the Liberal Democrats who lost support even compared with last year where elections were fought, heavy losses of support nationally compared to 2003.

The researchers then looked at clinic records over the next three months, comparing rates of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions to a control group that did not sign or post a public commitment poster.

[10] No surprise, then, that so many corporations are rushing to sign land deals that give them wide - ranging control over African water.

Participants were divided into four groups: those diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's when entering the study, healthy controls with no sign of dementia, individuals with mild cognitive impairment that remained stable over the two to three years for which scans were available, and those with mild cognitive impairment that progressed to Alzheimer's disease during the study.

Understanding Low T and knowing the signs and symptoms to help you identify it early on can help you take control over the situation as it develops, and put you in the best situation to take steps to stabilize your hormone levels and return to a healthy and more normal way of feeling in no time at all.

It's why there are, you know, that's why even if I do not feel that our government should not be controlling drugs and pharmaceuticals per se, you know it's the reason for President Bush I believe it was, who signed it, the anabolic steroid control act, in the process that really controlled a lot of these pro hormones from getting distributed willingly you know, over here in America because they can be so dangerous and most of them, if you're gonna order them you got ta go over to like world-pharma.org and order them from the European Union just because they're more available over there so if you wan na order like Andro or any of these pro hormones, something like that, usually you're gonna be getting it from Europe.

I just signed up for the yearly membership, that way I can have more control over what colors, etc. they send me.

Instead, you drove around town to various department stores, mattress sellers and warehouses, maybe timed it with the high school mattress selling fundraiser, and, after lusting over the idea that you might wake up a millionaire and get to bring home one of those remote controlled feels - like - you're - alseep - on - a-cloud-in-Heaven sets, you buy something from a brand you've probably never heard of and hope like heck you haven't signed yourself up for a lifetime of chronic backpain.

Quality control quickly became an issue, particularly in the case of the Adam Sandler Agreement which saw the comedian sign a lucrative six - picture deal, resulting in The Ridiculous Six, The Do - Over and Sandy Wexler.

Eastman explains signing over creative control to Laird, who recalls his 2001 revival comic being received poorly and laments the loss of their fruitful collaboration.

Now I realize an actor like Mickey Rourke may not be a casual stroll in the park, but does McDonagh's inability to control Rourke and win him over with his project a sign of bad things to come?