Sentences with phrase «sold him back for»

Her older sister Shaha remains captive in Raqqa, and a few weeks ago, an uncle received a call from an IS militant there offering to sell her back for $ 40,000 — without her four children.

Add that to Pogba's, he instigated to Pogba leave in the first place and then sold him back for 89 million pounds, he basically holds clubs to ransom and make them spend more than is necessary not to talk of his disruptive influence in the dressing room.

If you factor in the price of buying a book and then selling it back for a couple of dollars less, buying may not seem like such a bad idea.

When you earned the RBC Avion points, you had a value in mind that you thought you wanted to sell them back for.

Beat it once, then sold it back for the three damned dollars Game Stop credited me.

Then throughout the in - game week on the calendar, you're given opportunities to sell them back for ideally big profits.

First, you can sell that back for a great amount of money, but also, that jump point [will be] named after you in the game, for the rest of the game going on.»

Just as if I had bought US Dollars with my British Pounds, waited a while for the value of dollars to go up, and then sold them back for British Pounds to spend living the Vida Loca here in London.

Not exact matches

The company announced Wednesday that it will sell off the division to its original owner, Eric Carreel, the co-founder of Withings (which Nokia bought back in 2016 for about $ 200 million).

The Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley startup, valued at $ 1.1 billion, became the first company allowed to sell genetic tests (and accompanying health - risk reports) for 10 different diseases directly to consumers without a prescription.

«Some stores are practically selling generators off the back of the truck because people have been waiting in the stores for the generators to arrive,» he said

Everyone knows that Travis is not coming back; still, Benchmark said a lot of nasty things about TK and is now sitting back and watching other people try to convince them that the best thing to do «for all concerned» would be to sell out.

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.

If fears of a full - blown trade war come back to terrorize markets, prepare for another steep sell - off, Hooper warned.

No venture - backed companies successfully sold to an acquirer or held an initial public offering for $ 1 billion or more.

But he couldn't resist a final dig at those rooting for his firm to fail, relaying a «little ditty» about how short sellers were apparently dealt with in the 19th century: «He who sells what isn't his» n, must buy it back or go to pris» n.»

The company said it is selling digital scale and smartwatch maker Withings back to one of the unit's co-founders for an undisclosed sum.

A minor celebrity in both Davos and Big Data circles, Goldman sold his first company for $ 225 million, back when less than a billion dollars was actually worth something.

When the couple got back to California, after waiting two months for all the belts to be made, they spent another three months driving up and down the coast and living in Woodman's 1974 VW bus, stopping at street fairs and concerts to sell the belts.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

For a resident of Campbell River, working with a knowledgeable local with big - company backing is a major selling point.

Larger automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. have also said they will cut back on the coquetry in Geneva, marking a potential sea change for an industry that has long pandered to male customers by using attractive women to sell cars.

«Funded in large part by the asset - backed securities market, many lenders made money by originating and then selling private student loans with less regard for borrowers» creditworthiness.

Some say the benefit of tax - loss harvesting is overstated, that the net effect of selling securities that are down and buying them back really just amounts to a tax deferral for most.

Sony is also touting standardization as a key selling point for its system, which goes back to the differentiating roots of consoles versus PC gaming.

While that brings back the risk, it's worth noting that if the Newport Beach car dealer had kept the bitcoin, he would have sold that Tesla for around $ 1.5 million in today's money.

They took a step back in March when townhomes starting selling for more than $ 700,000 («They're not worth it,» Small says) and stopped packing the whole family into the car every weekend to tour open houses.

Hsieh kept coming back, and in 2009, when he mentioned that he was looking for a new headquarters, Cornthwaite jumped on the opportunity to sell him on downtown.

Why it's hot: A big selling point for Home Instead Senior Care franchises is the idea that one is purchasing a stake in a gratifying, rewarding business that will give back to others.

You may not land a sale for a single cornflake in the shape of Illinois (that already sold for $ 1,350 a few years back), but chances are good that you'll be able to generate quick cash just from things you have around your house.

Anyone who's gone through a holiday shopping season trying to find the «It» thing for the year knows the panic of having it sell out and hoping for it to come back in stock.

At McCann back in 2006, Edwards helped make the influential «Mad World» spot for Gears of War, which sold 2 million copies in six weeks, reportedly increased Xbox Live subscription by 50 % in that time, and made the song «Mad World» the top seller on iTunes.

Many North Koreans who don't have relatives in China bribe officials for documents and bring Chinese goods back to their home country to sell for profit.

For example, thousands of families not only have solar panels on the roofs of their houses but also have the right to sell electricity back to PG&E.

For Fox, the question of whether to sell may take a back seat to what price and which currency it would prefer.

He cut back the Baby Jogger's retail distribution, pulling his strollers out of the big boxes and Amazon.com in favor of specialty stores such as Buy Buy Baby, where they now sell for about $ 350.

You still put $ 20,000 of profit back into the business and eventually sell it for $ 300,000.

Back around Black Friday, it briefly sold for $ 75.

After being sold for hundreds of millions of dollars and later being bounced from owner to owner, the site is back in the hands of its original founders, Michael and Xochi Birch.

Traditional banks have also sold their bad loans to these nonbank companies, which have then packaged them up in products for sale to consumers and, also, back to the banks.

«My job is to say that when you hear sell everything, that comment is, one, most likely wrong, and two, most likely meant for someone with no memory or who can accept a buy everything back pitch the very next day,» the «Mad Money» host said.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

For instance, what if Patagonia works with retailers and consumers to recycle clothing that has been too worn to be resold and then sells the used materials back to its upstream suppliers at a lower price than comparable virgin materials?

Though somewhat tattered, the book, which has sold for more than $ 2 million in mint condition, was still worth about $ 200,000 - at least until he showed it to his aunt and the pair tore the back cover in a scuffle, reducing the value to a mere $ 137,000.

She figured out that we could sell the teriyaki chain for more than we were willing to put back into it, so we could get into fast - casual.

For flood damage, property owners must turn to the NFIP, which backs flood policies sold and serviced by private insurers, including Allstate, Assurant and others.

Using some algebra and a few modest assumptions back in February, I found that out of about 77.4 million iPhones sold, 27.2 million were for the iPhone X and 50.2 million, other versions of the phone.

But the key factor for von Holzhausen is that as Tesla rolls out its Model 3 sedan, attacking the mass market, he's witnessing the return on his risky decision to join CEO Elon Musk back when Tesla was selling only one car, the original Roadster.

So, for you to qualify in this category, you'll need to show that either the company can make enough money to pay back the investors in two to three years or will be ripe to sell in that same period.

«This resolution holds Goldman Sachs accountable for its serious misconduct in falsely assuring investors that securities it sold were backed by sound mortgages, when it knew that they were full of mortgages that were likely to fail,» said Acting Associate Attorney General Stuart F. Delery in a statement.