Sentences with phrase «thwart efforts from»

While this challenge poses a serious damping effect to Spotify's revenue, it stands as a facility to thwart efforts from experts to forecast the company's performance according to its operational cost, if not quickly taken care of.

Thereafter the patched - up Blues — with Gavin Peacock injured and off after a quarter - of - an - hour — dominated, but Ludek Miklosko performed magnificently to thwart efforts from Erland Johnsen, Neil Shipperley and, twice, Dennis Wise.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren is using feedback from big financial firms in an effort to thwart a DOL fiduciary rule delay.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

We had unshackled from the chains and were mostly out of the straight jacket when our escape effort was finally thwarted; our youngest picked up some sort of cold and woke up with croup, coughing like a seal the night after New Years.

Kane did have a good sight of goal on 56 minutes, just seconds after Fabianski had again thwarted Son, but our England striker rattled the crossbar with his effort from 12 yards.

Of course at the time Gov. Andrew Cuomo denied any connection to the efforts of Sen. Jeff Klein to form the IDC to thwart Democrats from getting the Majority in the Senate!

Trump railed against efforts by some frustrated Republicans planning a last - ditch effort to try to thwart him from becoming the party's nominee, threatening at one point to stop fundraising if Republicans don't rally around him.

Yet Clegg and his team feel they get scant credit from activists for constantly battling to thwart Tory efforts to sneak through illiberal measures on civil liberties and immigration, within a coalition in which they're out - numbered five to one.

Opposition from within the state Senate could thwart the mayor's efforts, according to Crain's.

Whoever emerges from the scrum holding the party's nomination will become the Democratic standard - bearer in a competitive congressional district where the party's electoral efforts have been thwarted time and again.

In a study published in Forensic Science International: Genetics, a team of graduate students and faculty from the Department of Forensic Science investigated several methods to recover and analyze DNA from improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, to help thwart terrorist efforts.

Swooping down in a last - ditch effort to thwart extinction, conservationists have airlifted 50 «mountain chickens» — frogs to us — from the Caribbean island of Montserrat.

Scientists are planning an attempt to extract DNA from the «hobbit» Homo floresiensis, the 1 - meter - tall extinct distant relative of modern humans that was unearthed in Indonesia, following a study that suggests problems in standard sampling methods in ancient - DNA research could have thwarted previous efforts.

Now Walker has a three - year, $ 870,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Physiological Mechanisms and Biomechanics program to learn how plants thwarted those past efforts and further, how plants firmly control iron in their systems.

In «Experiment in Terror» from 1962, Ross Martin hatches a plot to anonymously extort money from Lee Remick; his efforts are thwarted by FBI agent Glenn Ford.

C + Promised Land Rated R for language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Matt Damon and John Krasinski co-write and co-star in this little indie about a natural gas salesman (Damon) who goes into a small American town in order to convince them to allow his company to tap into their resources only to find opposition from a young out - of - towner (Krasinski) who is determined to thwart his every effort.

Both CCSA and CCSA Advocates work together to thwart legislative efforts that would increase charter oversight, such as AB 709 that would make charter board meetings public, allow the public to inspect charter school records, and prohibit charter school officials from having a financial interest in contracts that they enter into in their official capacity.

The fund, which is now the iShares S&P / TSX 60 Index ETF (XIU), preceded the first U.S. - listed ETF by three years, according to an article in The Globe and Mail that also noted how earlier efforts at creating an exchange traded fund south of the border were thwarted by a successful lawsuit from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

And they have improved their efforts to thwart thieves from hacking into your account.

In the original game, Garrett was a wry commentator on the corruption that was infesting his city, stealing from the rich and thwarting religious zealots, the pagans and the pious alike, in an effort to save his city.

Brought to you by the masterminds behind Banjo - Kazooie, play as Yooka or Laylee and thwart evil Capital B's plan to absorb all the world's books in an effort to profit from them.

It doesn't support online, but if you are playing alone it can be quite enjoyable as the AI does put up a decent challenge, but any title like this will always benefit from cries of frustration from your friend who was so close to killing the boss, but you just thwarted their efforts.

When we last left the Legends of Tomorrow in the season 2 finale, a time had been severely damaged by the team's efforts to thwart the Legion of Doom and prevent them from gaining full access to the powers of the spear of destiny.

Bloomberg points out that the Obama Administration is «facing mounting calls from conservationists to thwart new fossil fuel development as part of the «keep it in the ground» movement» — which Murkowski says is a «misguided» effort that «will harm local economies and threaten future energy supplies.»

Starting in 1989, the Green Belt Movement's advocacy efforts thwarted a 60 - story development from being built in Uhuru Park, a 34 - acre public green space in the heart of Nairobi.

No apprehension of bias arising from complainant and counsel statements to the media: The College submitted a reasonable apprehension arose from comments by the complainants and their legal counsel to the news media about government efforts to thwart the hearing of the complaint.

Before an ISP can take advantage of any of the four safe harbors, it must meet two conditions: first it must refrain from inhibiting Standard Technical Measures — the means by which copyright owners may identify or protect copyrighted works — meaning that ISPs can't thwart efforts to police copyrights.

Section 160 of the Income Tax Act is a collections provision that is intended to prevent a taxpayer from transferring property to a non-arm's length person to thwart efforts of the Minister of National Revenue (the «Minister») in collecting a tax debt.

The Court noted that the object and spirt of section 160 is to prevent a taxpayer from transferring property to a non-arm's length individual in order to thwart the Minister's efforts to collect money which is owed to him.

Its efforts have nonetheless won it some plaudits from Capitol Hill, where the company's top lawyer — joined by executives from Google and Twitter — faced a full grilling this November for failing to thwart Russian disinformation online.

The psychologist's evidence was that the ongoing efforts by the father to alienate the child from the mother might thwart the natural growth of the child's attachment and, in turn, hinder the child's normal development.