Sentences with phrase «take hold on»

Data provided by Etherchain.org indicates that many mining pools (groups that consolidate hashing power to increase their chances of mining the next block) have made the change, and if this trend continues, the soft fork is expected to take hold on 30th June.

The need for greater harmonisation between Africa's differing legal traditions is needed if international arbitration is going to take hold on the continent and attract a greater number of cases to African seats, according to delegates at the International Arbitration Conference hosted by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

There is a stated opinion by many on this blog that the climate scientists are liars, that the data is deliberately fudged and that AGW is therefore untrue and should at all costs be killed off and buried before it gets a chance to take hold on policy that does not support the BAU scenario.

Having had a dog with irritable bowel disease, I can attest to the havoc that can take hold on a dog's digestive system with even the slightest diversion from a diet that works (the dreaded table scrap!).

We expect to see the ear cuff continue to take hold on ears everywhere.

Finding a living thing whose fundamental chemistry is unlike that of any other known organism hinted at different kinds of biology that could take hold on faraway worlds.

Ellicott Development wants to turn the upper floors of the Busti Avenue building in 18 apartments while allowing for commercial projects to take hold on its lower two floors.

But you have to remember, this is something that had really not been talked about, not even by the Nigerian government itself, before this started to really take hold on social media.

Destructive trends that are already far advanced in the English - language world threaten to take hold on the European continent as well.

Even the best strategies will take some time to show results especially if there is a course correction that needs time to take hold on a system wide basis.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

Fear and insecurity took their hold on her, telling her she wasn't beautiful enough to make the world of 21st century celebrity.

The earth has things about it that are conducive to life taking a hold on it, but it is by no means a slam dunk.

Once lawlessness takes hold on society, it destroys the structure of it from within.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay bath taken hold on me.

This boom first took hold on Maldon's home turf, with the British food renaissance of the»90s.

There's a concurrent pro-am title up for grabs, but the usual Sunday coverage you'd get of the final round of the PGA Tour event is the priority and takes hold on CBS.

In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.

While he remains skeptical, Schopf believes that if biology ever took hold on Mars, it is probably still there.

If the novel H1N1 virus behaves like its ancestors, humans may have a rough road ahead, especially if it takes hold on hog farms.

The greenhouse effect was taking hold on Earth, and Arizona was warming into a desert.

The samples will tell scientists more about how the solar system formed, how planets grew and evolved, and perhaps how life took hold on Earth.

This is not my first experience with online relationships but this one seems to be taking a hold on me.

Along with her overbearing mother portrayed brilliantly by Kim Wayans, Alike's devastating story takes hold on your heart and shatters it before its 86 minute end.

Professor Howard Gardner, who has taught with Rose since 1986, points out Rose's unusual double trick of teaching while helping to create and move forward a field that has taken hold on both the state and federal levels.

Efforts to promote entrepreneurship in K - 12 education are taking hold on college and university campuses around the country.

I too take issue with use of imagery that gradually takes a hold on Gillian Ayres in, for example the great fungi that appear in the painting «The Bee Loud Glade».

His interest in art took hold on a family trip to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris when he was a teenager where he was introduced to the work of artists like Jean Dubuffet, Arshile Gorky and Roberto Matta.

What concerns me is less the mechanics of the transition — the shift from brown to green energy, from sole - rider cars to mass transit, from sprawling exurbs to dense and walkable cities — than the power and ideological roadblocks that have so far prevented any of these long understood solutions from taking hold on anything close to the scale required.

Still, there is no denying that analytics has taken a hold on the market, and its adoption rates continue to grow month by month.

Not exact matches

«One never holds people necessarily responsible for their government, but one does have the ability to be very careful in what one does with the government itself,» said Smith, who became Microsoft's president in 2015, taking on a title that had not existed at the company since 2002, when Richard Belluzzo left.

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

On each visit, Legere holds an almost campaign - like rally, talking up new products and promotions or recent financial results and taking questions.

A weak attempt at repeating the truce was made in 1915, but a tradition would not take hold due to «the high numbers of dead and hardened attitudes on both sides but also because of actions of senior commanders.»

Why do so few of us take a flexible, nimble approach to unfamiliar challenges while the rest of us hold on to outdated or incremental solutions?

Always agreeing to take on tasks, meet up with people and increase your responsibilites can hinder your business and hold it back.

The chain, which recently renewed its lease on the theater, has also held onto it so no competitors can come in and take over, the town officials told Business Insider — leaving Celebration residents and those in neighboring areas with the AMC in Disney Springs as the closest option for seeing a movie.

Taking employees» miles sends the message that you don't appreciate their sacrifice and that you'll hold on to every last dollar at their expense.

It turns out that nearly 60 % of those who took the smaller cheque held on to it for more than two weeks anyway before cashing it (30 % waited more than a month and 15 % never cashed it at all).

In the letter, Dimon described Congress's reform as a «historic» step that «shows that we can take on tough issues that have been holding us back.»

Much of this, it can be argued, is that HR analysis tends to focus on the past — for example how many staff have been hired, the number of days taken off sick and the volume of training delivered — rather than looking to the future to see what it may hold.

Since I have been on this path myself and have kicked the habit of just hoping, I have suggestions to help you to get out of the «fogginess of hoping» and take a hold of your business instead.

And then I think lastly, it's about just being very aligned with what the CEO — where the CEO wants to take the company, and really helping that CEO win on the things that he or she is being held accountable for.

The Deed: Chicago «Fires on Every Floor»: In this behind - the - scenes look, host Sean Conlon discusses the whirlwind that was Berta, a glamorous rookie flipper more prone to taking beach vacations than taking hold of her house flipping project, and all of the disasters her hands - off approach created.

Consumers» internet use increasingly takes place on hand - held devices, making the closed garden of iOS a sleeping monetization opportunity for Apple.

«We need to make sure that employers are on notice that we are going to come out and ensure that they're being compliant,» Benner said «For those that don't, we're going to take some very aggressive steps in terms of criminal investigations to make sure that we address them and hold them accountable.»

While there's no question that it will take sales growth to turn this company around, the majority of analysts do have a hold or neutral weighting on the stock.

«With this process taking close to two years to come to a conclusion, we think the final outcome and the structure of the transaction were well anticipated,» said Jain, who has a hold rating on Walgreens.

So if you take 18 months of parental leave and hold off on daycare until 18 months, you'll save about $ 642.

In the end, Rogen's take on Reid felt far more akin to his past roles than anything that could hold a flame to the defender of Gotham.