Sentences with phrase «surprise of the last year»

Despite the drama and surprise of last year, we weren't expecting a particularly exciting race in 2017.

One of the unexpected surprises of last year's festival season, Paul Schrader's grotesque dual homage to Diary Of A Country Priest and Winter Light casts Ethan Hawke as an alcoholic upstate New York reverend who is asked to hide a suicide bomb vest found in the home of a disturbed local man.

Really, Benh Zeitlin was the biggest surprise of last year.

One of the biggest surprises of last year's E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles was the announcement that home console series Metal Gear Solid would be coming to Japanese arcades.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was one of the great surprises of last year's roundly dreadful slate of blockbusters.

Eurogamer 2011 is fast approaching, which reminds me of my co-op surprise of last year; Kirby's Epic Yarn, a game I previewed at the show.

Penny Dreadful was one of the biggest TV surprises of last year.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... The cookies at Gutman — the quality, size, taste, and variety.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Founding Stay Woke Media, an online platform designed to spark conversation on issues of race, ethnicity, and privilege for grassroots activists, educators, and learners.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... The biggest surprise from last year was learning as much as I did from Rick Weissbourd and my classmates about how to help young people have ethical romantic and sexual relationships.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... This awesome Trader Joe's brand honey Greek yogurt.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Being recognized by my classmates and program director for the Intellectual Contribution Award was an amazing surprise.

The biggest surprise of the last year was... traveling to Cuba.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Perhaps I shouldn't have been considering we are at a school of education, but I've been truly surprised by how much faculty prioritize our learning both of content and larger «life» concerns.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Harvard doesn't have all the answers.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... I came into this school year expecting to learn about MOOCs, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence — and don't get me wrong, I certainly did.

The number one, biggest surprise of the last year was... Winning this award — am I allowed to say that?

Terraforming Mars is really one of my favorite games right now, and one of the real pleasant surprises of the last year.

Not exact matches

Given the nature of defensive stocks, it should come as no surprise that six of the names that were on this table last year pop up again — and most of them are banks.

The news was particularly surprising, considering Klein herself was a chair of the Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) that last year supported an anti-fraud intitiative backed by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), «the oldest international organization devoted to investor protection.»

There appears to have been a surprising shift in the music business last year, as sales of digital downloads fell, with fans turning instead to streaming services such as Spotify and vinyl.

Throughout the last year, I have been truly surprised at the amount of people who have been willing to help me, and it's inspiring.

For me, one of the most important, and surprising, discoveries over the last few years has been that choosing the best approach to balancing business and social concerns starts with a decision to make shareholder interests the higher priority.

So when he was named last year by Finance Minister Bill Morneau to chair the federal government's blue - chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, nobody who knew him was surprised that Barton set goals of scaled - up ambition.

Although the change may come as a surprise to the public and some Starbucks employees, the company has been sending to signals to Wall Street for the last year about its intentions to carry out a the succession plan, announcing a reorganization in the summer that gave Mr. Johnson oversight of the day - to - day operations.

Given that disparity, it shouldn't be too surprising that the Tigers posted an operating loss of $ 36.4 million dollars last year, while the league as a whole averaged an operating income of $ 34 million.

Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.

(Noted: last year he had a surprise audience with the leaders of Apple and Google.)

Some of these companies won't surprise you: There are several energy firms on the list of the Fortune 500's biggest losers, reflecting the enormous decline in oil prices that occurred in the second half of last year.

The hesitation is not entirely surprising given how the FTC last year pushed back on a number of mega-deals, notably scuttling Staples» $ 5.5 billion plan this year to buy office supplies rival Office Depot.

When Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt announced new regulations to phase out older rail tankers of the type that blew up at Lac Megantic last year, it wasn't a surprise for anyone familiar with the industrt play.

Last year, «PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds» became a surprise phenomenon, selling $ 400 million worth of copies in a few short months.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

That is the surprising new view of a number of economists in academia and on Wall Street, who are now predicting something the United States has not experienced in years: healthier, more lasting growth.

Saint John, who had been head of global and consumer marketing for iTunes and Apple Music, was a surprise hit at last year's WWDC conference.

Average in: While we expect higher equity prices globally in the balance of this year, political surprises likely will produce more frequent price swings than occurred last year.

What might be surprising is that the stock selection performance depicted above was my primary source of disappointment last year, and largely explains the tepid returns achieved by the Strategic Growth Fund in 2006.

Economic growth fell to a five - year low of 7.3 percent last quarter but investor sentiment was recharged by Beijing's surprise interest rate cut Nov. 22 that is expected to put a floor under the slump.

Nobody should be surprised that after having totally missed the fourth longest and fifth most powerful bull market of the last 100 years, the bears draped into professor Shiller's CAPE would decide to do a more thorough inspection of the fabric that made them so comfortable and confident during the past several years but which is making them feel totally naked now.

Analysis of last year's cash flow figures indicates challenges to BGI's No. 1 iShares brand could come in the future from some surprising places.

Inflation expectations and inflation surprises have tracked one another closely over the last couple of years.

Last year was certainly full of surprises.

Sylvia Flores, chief creative officer for Bad Agency, has used coworking spaces for the last couple of years and considers them to be «the hotbed for the latest and greatest ideas and technology — it wouldn't be surprising at all if the space I'm in adopted biometrics as a payment option.»

It is no secret that China has been dominating us in numerous ways and because of all of the outsourcing companies have done over the last 20 years or so it is no surprise that they are using some of their new found wealth to buy American companies.

And after President Donald Trump's surprise election victory in 2016, investors rejoiced over his promises of big tax cuts to provide further economic stimulus; late last year, Trump delivered.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

Now, randomness takes the shape of more pleasant surprises, like last year's performance at Atlanta music festival Music Midtown.

Looking at the progress of transformist views in the last hundred years, we are surprised to see how naïvely naturalists and physicists were able at the early stages to imagine themselves to be standing outside the universal stream they had just discovered.

Spread the word of love and you might be surprised what power lies in that rather than the usual «us» vs «them» that I've seen for the last 20 years.

It is surprising, given the events of the last year, to imagine that some members of the Roman Catholic clergy actively seek to be ordained a bishop, and even regard their path towards this office as an ecclesiastical «career.»