Sentences with phrase «under walls of»

But due to the Protestant competition for the title of true Christian, «all this was devoted to contempt and ridicule by men who called themselves Christians, the unworthy posterity of the heroes whose blood had flowed under the walls of Jerusalem.»

How can these people, we ask, after experiencing a miraculous liberation from a first - class oppressor, after watching the enemy collapse under walls of water, after waking up with manna at their feet — how can they carp about not having water?

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I had a Patty of my on early in my days on Wall Street, and I can't say enough about how much I learned under his tutelage.

It was renewed again for one year in December 2014, just as DWA was under the gun on Wall Street after a series of box - office misses.

Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in dealing with large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.

Stocks pared some of the gains, as stocks on Wall Street came under pressure.

American International Group gets its turn on the dissection table under the scalpel of Boyd, a Wall Street investigative reporter formerly of Fortune and the New York Post.

Verizon Communications Inc. is the clear favorite in the upcoming bidding for Yahoo Inc's core Internet business, according to Wall Street analysts, in large part because the telecommunications company's efforts to become a force in Internet content have gone relatively well under the leadership of AOL Inc Chief Executive Tim Armstrong.

Wall Street CEOs saw their pay rise an average of just under 10 % last year.

Heading into Tuesday's earnings report, Wall Street had fretted about the strength of the world's largest athletic gear maker at a time when Under Armour (ua), Adidas and other rivals were posting stronger sales in the competitive North American market.

The details of that investigation are under seal, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street hated it, but Congress enacted key parts of the accords under the Dodd - Frank financial reform act, which President Trump started to roll back on Friday with the latest of a series of executive orders.

On Jan. 10, he offered to support a Democratic goal — providing legal status to some 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — in exchange for money for the wall as part of down - to - the - wire negotiations for a short - term budget.

JPMorgan is exiting physical commodities trading, the bank said in a surprise statement on Friday, as Wall Street's role in the trading of raw materials comes under unprecedented political and regulatory pressure.

Wall Street support of similar measures also has convinced energy companies including Occidental Petroleum to address the Paris climate accord's goal of keeping global temperature increases under 2 - degrees Celsius.

The walled - garden nature of Facebook in particular has come under scrutiny, as they've recently had significant problems regarding the accuracy and efficacy of their advertising methods, with several big brands opting to reduce their ad spend on the site until more accurate metrics are released.

Thurston, a onetime professional cyclist who maintained MapMyFitness's position as a top fitness app from the iPhone's earliest days, tells the story in his new office in downtown Austin, in a brand - new building where giant images of Under Armour athletes adorn the walls (amid, of course, motivational mantras) and several hundred new engineers and other tech employees work.

The timing, of course, couldn't have been worse: The Wall Street meltdown was already under way.

Stocks in the region fell during the second part of the trading day, as Wall Street came under pressure.

Equity crowdfunding under the JOBS Act has been seen as a democratization of the startup and small - business investment process, and one which will put the ability of entrepreneurs to raise capital into the hands of «the crowd» and not just wealthy investors, banks and Wall Street brokers.

Under the heading of «you just can't make this stuff up,» Shulman was vice-chairman of Wall Street's favorite self - regulatory organization FINRA prior to being appointed by President Bush to run the IRS in early 2008.

The company has been under pressure since the Wall Street Journal published a series of reports that had raised doubts about Theranos's devices.

All but five of 131 bank M&A s announced this year were under $ 400 million, the Wall Street Journal noted in August.

Mnuchin is the first person with Wall Street experience to head the Treasury since his former boss, Henry Paulson, the former Goldman Sachs CEO who served under President George W. Bush and steered Treasury through the chaotic initial stages of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis.

Illinois - based Marathon Pharmaceuticals will market deflazacort under the brand name Emflaza for a topline price of $ 89,000, 70 times higher than its price overseas, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did not agree to the new climate framework, and said the likely direction of U.S. climate and energy policy under president - elect Donald Trump means we need to be very cautious about adopting climate policies in Canada.

If Facebook is a castle, it must build its walls, maintain them, and make sure its more than 25,000 employees work to protect them — all while constantly imagining new ways of coming under attack.

One of the most fortunate events in my life was to study under four brilliant economists at Stanford, who also formed my dissertation committee - Ronald McKinnon, an influential and original scholar in international economics; Thomas Sargent, a leading «rational expectations» theorist; John Taylor, also a «rational expectations» macroeconomist (currently serving in the Bush administration, and a leading candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Fed, according to the Wall Street Journal), and Robert Hall, who heads the official Recession Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Some critics blame Wall Street, arguing that pressure for shareholder payouts is causing companies to systematically under - invest, harming the growth of the US economy.

Known as «Mr. Wall Street,» Mr. Weinberg began a tradition of Goldman executives taking leading roles in public service that is continuing under President - elect Donald J. Trump.

The Committee was established under the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to advise the Commission on regulatory priorities, regulation of securities products, trading strategies, fee structures, disclosure effectiveness, and initiatives to protect investors and promote investor confidence and the integrity of the U.S. securities markets.

But under the pressure of Wall Street's lobbyists, the rule has morphed into almost 300 pages of regulatory mumbo - jumbo, riddled with loopholes.

Fighting under the banner of «free markets,» it is now fighting to centralize economic planning power in Wall Street, the City of London and other financial centers.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

Now, as Wall Street executives come under pressure from shareholders for their mounting subprime - related losses, Mr. Steel's mix of a Goldman pedigree and years in the thick of the government's effort to grapple with the housing crisis has made him a short - list regular on investment bank board committees looking for new leadership.

Wall Street critics should consider Under Armour's track record of success before counting it out, CEO Kevin Plank told CNBC.

Under the leadership of Wall Street veteran Steve Hash, RenMac's research efforts are dedicated to deciphering and understanding the macro factors that impact the investment world and delivering value - added ideas to clients for their portfolio needs.

In addition to being able to issue analyst stock ratings on GE and dozens of other companies and significantly benefit financially from debt underwritings that bury a company deeper and deeper under debt, these same Wall Street firms are permitted to trade shares of GE (and hundreds of other stocks) in their own internal Dark Pools — effectively unregulated stock exchanges inside the firms.

David Melcher, chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association, said companies have turned to buybacks because of a dearth of new weapons programs and under pressure from Wall Street.

«As the government of Mexico has always maintained, our country will not pay for, under any circumstances... a wall or physical barrier built on US territory along the Mexican border.»

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

But the concept of Too Big To Fail was legislated under Obama and Wall Street indictments / prosecutions fell precipitously from the previous Administration.

Under pressure from some corners of the Wall Street universe, implementation of the rule's key provisions was later delayed until July of 2019.

An August 2001 Wall Street Journal study found that for every dollar of operating earnings the S&P 500 companies reported in their most recent three - month period, 60 cents wouldn't have been there if ordinary business expenses under GAAP hadn't been excluded 2.

The portion of the program that likely galvanized the White House was the startling report by prosecutors that had worked under Breuer in the criminal division of the DOJ that there wasn't even a pretense of a real investigation against the major Wall Street firms: no subpoenas, no document reviews, no wiretaps.

Under Armour could rebound from a difficult year with the help of the latest sneaker launch from superstar NBA player Stephen Curry, one Wall Street firm says.

Similar to when Fannie was plugged full of derivatives under former CEO Franklin Raines — who by the way had no clue how catastrophic the situation was and should be in jail but instead received a $ 100 million «you're fired» severance agreement — the Government has once again looked the other way while Wall Street unloaded another avalanche of derivatives onto FNM / FRE.

** JPMorgan Chase & Co's commodity trading arm is looking to sell more of the electricity deals it has with U.S. power plants and wind farms, a source familiar with the business said on Wednesday, at a time when Wall Street's involvement in physical commodity markets is under heightened scrutiny.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

Under the «Push - Out Rule» (Section 716 of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act), insured banks were not going to be allowed to hold these derivatives when the rule was fully implemented in July 2015.