Sentences with phrase «still closer ties»

Doing so, says Gartner biotech analyst Stephen Davies, will require forging still closer ties to big pharma firms — the lumbering giants whose inefficiency spurred Wojcicki to action in the first place.

Not exact matches

Still, the wholesale departure of Chinese companies from American stock markets would be a setback to closer financial ties between the world's two biggest economies.

Simeone is said to have very close ties with his fomer Serie A club and old friends of his that are still working there, but does this mean that Arsenal should forget about the Argentinean as a possible replacement for the prof?

Still, he has won 60 games in the last three seasons, finished on top of the league two years ago and tied for third last season when the Big Sky had one of the closest races in the country.

With my eyes closed and my hands tied I will still beat him in a race.

The wrap is easy to tie and will give you your hands back so you can get on with housework / blogging / eating cake / playing with older children and you can still have your baby all snug and close to you.

And if you can make these with your eyes closed and arms tied... umm, can we still be friends?

For millennia, people have worn their babies tied to them with simple wraps or slings to keep the baby close and still attend to the normal activities of daily life.

Gaspard, a former 1199 political director, still has close ties to Cuomo and the governor reportedly would like to see him back in New York after the 2012 election.

He also said there are «loose ends» that still remain to be tied up, but school aid is «pretty much closed down» with a tentative agreement to restore some $ 250 million worth of the $ 1.5 billion Cuomo cut.

Three PFI schools have been forced to close because of low pupil numbers, but local authorities are still financially tied to the private financiers.

Nevertheless, identification of the new toothy Texas pterosaur deepens a mystery surrounding the flying reptiles: There still is no evidence of close ties between North American and South American pterosaur populations, he said.

We're still awaiting official word on who will be cast as Dani Moonstar, a Native American mutant which has close ties to one of the film's antagonists, the Demon Bear, and Warlock, who's a bio-mecha alien.

Still haven't seen Prince Avalanche yet (thought I really want to) but with Jay's mention of Richard Linklater's Tape, another film which I find may tie in closer to some of the themes of Prince Avalance was Spring Forward w / Ned Beatty and Liev Shreiber.

While we are tied into a regional network of libraries, the next closest library is still two towns over.

But the committed bridge is there so BRK and 3G can close the acquisition, as in this agreement, consistent with market practice, there is no condition that the financing from the banks actually be in hand (a «financing out»), and, according to the disclosure, the banks» conditions have been tied to the acquisition conditions — there won't (or shouldn't be) be situations where they can refuse to fund but 3G and BRK are still obligated to close.

Still there are close ties between Solo, Yogya and Karangasem as their families have a common ancestry in the Hindu Majapahit Kingdom of Java.

TIP: Delta's closer ties to Korean Air means that you'll still be able to fly on a 747 using your Delta SkyMiles, but you'll be flying on one of Korean's new 747 - 8 birds - what a treat!

The recent Battlefront's X-Wing VR mission is arguably the closest players have gotten to feeling like they're behind the controls of a bonafide Star Wars space fighter, but before that, the gold - standard in this regard was (and still is) Star Wars: TIE Fighter.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Unfortunately, Kenneth quit after some major life events happened to him, but still has close ties to the company.

Many of us are immigrants, and still have close ties with our family in our native countries.

Still, Bluewater Wind faces challenges in convincing Delaware officials with close ties to the coal and gas industries.

Still, as Mark Obbie points out at his blog LawBeat, Biden's longtime ties to trial lawyers warrant closer examination by journalists and bloggers alike.

A significant number of nonresident fathers still maintain ties with their children (Amato & Sobolewski, 2004), and recent evidence indicates that when fathers maintain an active presence in their children's lives and foster close bonds with them, their children appear to benefit (Amato & Gilbreth, 1999).»

While Schorsch no longer had formal ties to the company at the time of the letter, Meister was clearly implying that people close to him were still on the board.

Since we were not closing up any of the openings or window locations and there were quite doorways and windows in this little room, I wanted to find a wall material that would make tie together the other elements and still offer the texture I was looking for.