Sentences with phrase «surprise of the past year»

Nioh was one of the biggest surprises of this past year.

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Given their home - market bias, many Canadians have likely been surprised by just how little their portfolios have moved over the past couple of years.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Through all of the successes and challenges of the past year, Dan has never once put himself first,» read the post, which includes a video of Price accepting the surprise gift.

Casual observers might be surprised to learn of the company's astonishing growth over the past three years.

Indeed, when one ponders the changes that the global economy has had to digest over the past 25 years, from the fall of the Iron Curtain to the flowering of the Internet - based economy to the entrance of 1.3 billion Chinese into the labor force, it would be surprising if the effects weren't felt by American workers.

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

Thus, it's no surprise that in the past 20 years, the number of dads who stay home with children has dramatically increased and men in general are spending significantly more time parenting their children.

Apple recently unveiled some news that may be surprising to some: in the past quarter, revenue of its services division (including Apple Music, Apple Pay, AppleCare, the App Store, iTunes Store, iCloud, licensing, among other services) jumped 34 percent year over year.

The stunning growth of WA's nickel industry over the past two years has more than surprised even the most optimistic industry observers.

Knowing I was injecting enough surprise in the schedule itself, I stuck to the CBC's dry - as - toast format of years past in presenting it (on Mondays at eight, we'll have this... at eight - thirty, we'll have that...).

By far the biggest revision, on a percentage basis, came in the mining sector, which isn't surprising; the oil and gas industry, which is part of the mining sector, has been extremely volatile in the past year due to tumbling oil prices.

One of the many surprising aspects of financial market performance over the past year has been the weak performance of the US dollar, which has fallen by close to 10 per cent on a trade weighted basis and by more than 10 per cent against the euro.

Given the large number of borrowers switching to P&I loans, it's not surprising that scheduled housing loan repayments have increased over the past year (Graph 3).

It's no surprise then that the tech sector has been at the forefront of the bull market over the past year.

With funding to the tune of $ 500,000 from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch's foundations from 2005 — 2011, and $ 1.4 million from Exxon Mobil this past decade, it shouldn't be a surprise that ALEC has had many successes in its 40 years of existence.

I was surprised at how many of the rich habits I have managed to adopt over the past several years since my financial awakening.

Over the past five years, the economy has been through a number of shocks, including the eurozone crisis, the fiscal cliff, China's surprise currency devaluation in the summer of 2015, and the shale oil bust.

Given the remarkable amount of emphasis placed on link building over the past five or so years, it's not surprising that third - party linking analytics tools have proliferated as well.

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.

While there was some improvement in December, the number of those not in the labor force is surprising, to put it mildly — up some 2.9 million in the past year and up 10.4 million, or 13 %, since July 2009, when the recovery officially began.

In these circumstances it is not surprising that business investment has contributed strongly to the overall growth in demand during the past year, and indicators of investment intentions suggest that it will continue to do so.

 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).

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

It's no surprise then that so called «fintech» startups have emerged as one of the hottest and most innovative technology sub-sectors, with financial technology firms securing more than $ 23 billion in venture capital and growth equity over the past five year.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

Bishop Martyn told Premier, while it's not surprising people assumed it was a terror attack because of what the UK has faced in the past few years, people should avoid jumping to conclusions.

But what is even more surprising is that at no time in the past hundred years has more than forty percent of the cabinet been comprised of people that have had some relevant non-governmental experience.

There is nothing she has said this week that is a surprise to those of us who know her and love her let alone to anyone who has followed her leadership over the past few years.

Michael Smith The performance of Treasury Wine Estates over the past year has had more than a few shareholders reaching for the bottle so it should not be a huge surprise that an opportunistic private equity firm has as come knocking.

I was a bit surprised by the question, as kale has been one of the most hyped ingredients these past couple of years and you can buy it in most food stores now during the autumn.

Nikki Bella, surprise HOSS of the past two years, cleaned Natalya's clock with a forearm shiver and netted the win for the Bella twins.

It's served me well the past two years in regards to who they pick and honestly, ever since Quinn has been HC, none of his picks surprise me.

Surprised by Joel's success (in light of his lack of playing over past few years and minute restrictions)?

I'd be VERY VERY surprised to see them take a RB with their first pick in this draft, just based on their past valuation of the position, especially with the 5th year option.

Phil Mickelson is nothing if not a cockeyed optimist so it's hardly surprising that the defending champion at this week's British Open believes he can overcome some rather ugly golf over the past year and maybe even sip some more of that pricey «good stuff» from the claret jug once again.

He revealed that at times he was worried that he would never play football again and it would not surprise me in the slightest if he had to deal with various symptoms of depression over the past year as a result, juggling trips to Prague, Germany and London in a bid to keep his spirits up.

Harry Kane has emerged as one of the most prolific strikers in Europe over the past few years and it has been no surprise whatsoever to see the Tottenham Hotspur star being linked with some of the very best clubs around in recent times.

According to Edwards, when Sir Alex Ferguson conveyed to the board in the summer of 2002 that he did not intend to continue further at his post which he had held for the past 16 years, it took all the members of the board by extreme surprise.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

Cannon also surprised his wife with a video of intimate moments from the couple's past year, which brought Carey to tears.

Many families are surprised to learn that our office space of the past almost 30 years is actually located in a home.

The last time I did this presentation this past fall, I was happily surprised to realize that in 8 years, we have come more than 3/4 of the way towards the side of the angels, and that the flames of hell are far, far behind us.

«I am not surprised that Peter Hain is talking about London because he does not want to stand there and talk about the failures of Labour for the past four years,» Ms Williams added.

Announcements of corruption charges no longer surprise anyone in New York, where at least 12 sitting or former state lawmakers have been arrested, convicted or sanctioned, or have resigned, after a host of ethical transgressions in the past two years alone.

It's going to come as no surprise that the city's priciest properties are in Manhattan, but a new study shows the borough accounted for fully 86 percent of all home sales for more than $ 2 million over the past three years.

Considering that Google Trends reveals a total of 370 searches for his name in the past year, 100 of which in the past week, the surprise is likely to be vast.

The evidence suggests that it makes little difference, and as the decline in physics A-level entries started around 1982 and the introduction of balanced science was only introduced in the past year or two, that is not surprising.

Over the past 4 years, a new and surprising dietary supplement has been edging its way onto the shelves of health - food stores.

When the peat fires, almost all of which are intentionally set to clear forests for palm oil plantations, began this year, the president broke with past leadership, expressed his dismay and threatened to sanction palm oil company PT Tempirai Palm Resources after he paid a surprise visit to its land concession in South Sumatra where fires are raging (ClimateWire, Sept. 14).