Sentences with phrase «unusual move of»

We not only saw the device teased in March at Mobile World Congress 2015, but BlackBerry made the unusual move of releasing pictures and specs for most of the device before launch.

In September of 2017, Apple made the unusual move of increasing the cost of iPad Pro models with higher storage by $ 50 to account for rising flash storage prices.

A day later, Tesla made the unusual move of publicly stating that Autopilot was engaged during a recent fatal Model X crash in Mountain View, California.

The Chief Justice herself made the unusual move of making a public statement in a public press release,

In January, Shell made the unusual move of backing a climate proposal from a group of activist shareholders.

News media inquiries to NASA headquarters about Griffin's comments prompted the space agency to make the unusual move of issuing a news release late Wednesday night.

Dating site OkCupid made the unusual move of announcing that it had.

«I will do everything I can to oppose this anti-democratic bill in parliament, but if the Tories force it through we need to be ready to take the unusual move of challenging them in the courts too.

Italy boss Antonio Conte has taken the slightly unusual move of naming his starting eleven for their upcoming friendly against England, twenty - four hours before the game.

Not exact matches

Northern Star Resources has announced a major board restructure that includes the recruitment of two new directors and, in an unusual move that is at odds with corporate governance guidelines, the promotion of managing director Bill Beament to executive chairman.

In a fairly unusual move for an acquirer's stock, shares of Marvell surged on news of the deal, closing up 7.8 percent on Tuesday.

The S&P 500 has moved at least 1 percent on nine of the past 12 trading days, an unusual clustering of jumpy action.

The unusual move comes as Dorsey works to rebuild employee morale and confidence at Twitter after a spate of high - level departures over the past several months.

«In an unusual bullish move for the non-yielding safe haven asset after a rate hike, this can be entirely attributed to the aforementioned USD weakness, as Wilders» Dutch election defeat eases some fears of a populist European backlash.»

«When a Tesla runs in any condition on a highway that is a little unusual — a cone in the middle of a lane — you have to move over,» he said.

It's the unusual work schedules, the prospect of moving... again, health issues, and the drop of deployment orders.

While a 30 percent discount is not unusual in a transaction like this, it does reflect some concerns about how the company can move forward after a year of upheavel that has not totally abated.

The move was unusual as only 4 percent of internet IPOs have revised their range downward since 2010, according to Dealogic.

The S&P 500 has gained or lost at least 1 percent on nine of the past 13 trading days, an unusual cluster of big moves.

In an unusual move, the National Transportation Safety Board investigating the crash publicly said on Sunday that it was «unhappy» with Tesla's public discussion of the accident.

This move is unusual also because gold has had a monthly standard deviation of ± 5.5 percent based on the last 10 years» worth of data.

It is an unusual occurrence because price movements are typically much more gradual, with the asset hitting all or most of the price points as it moves through the range.

An unusual move by a US regulator threatens to widen a conflict over potential manipu - lation of Hovnanian default swaps by Blackstone's credit arm GSO.

My son Stephen and I spent an unusual, albeit unusually moving, Independence Day: We attended the golden wedding anniversary celebration of my friends Piotr and Teresa Malecki, which began with a Mass of thanksgiving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of Cracow's Wawel Cathedral — the place where Piotr and Teresa had exchanged vows on July 4, 1964, kneeling before their old kayaking and hiking friend, the archbishop of Cracow (who, as Pope St. John Paul II, was canonized some two months before the Maleckis» jubilee.)

It's not unusual to have the lamps on for the entire day, moving from a black night to a dark and grey drizzle of a day and back into darkness, always cold, always damp.

Since the establishment of a Roman Catholic theological faculty in 1817 (an unusual move in a predominantly Protestant region of the country, but reflective of a conciliatory ethos at that time in Württemberg), a long history of engagement between the two faculties has evolved.

He has an unusual educational background: after graduating in Agricultural Sciences and Business at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Nicola Bertinelli moved to Canada to attend a Master in Business Administration (MBA) at the prestigious Department of Food, Agriculture and Resource Economics of the University of Guelph.

«In the move to offer something new, we are also starting to see an increasing variety of non-soy plant - based alternatives, including cereals such as rice, oats and barley, and nuts — such as almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, walnuts and macadamias — as well as more unusual options such as hemp and flaxseed,» notes Williams.

Despite the unusual nature of this move United seem to be pressing on.

Yet even in these unusual circumstances, with the club in straitened financial circumstances and in the need of serious repairs to its status, Allardyce has moved to pre-empt those that might be discomfited by his methods, assuring the fans that he will offer more cultured football, at least at home.

This is an unusual move for Wenger as he is not known for giving many contracts to the over 30's and Arteta passed 32 before the end of last season.

This, in conjunction with Chelsea's apparent hijacking of Tottenham's move for Willian, has breathed new life into one of the summer's most unusual rumours: the initially - baffling - but - curiously - unflushable Rooney - for - Mata part - exchange - plus - maybe - some - cash hyphen-fest.

It would be unusual for a player to move on after being with a club for such a short time, but if Arsenal can meet Sevilla's valuation of the player then a deal may be possible.

It's a bit of an unusual move from a sports franchise to give fans a heads up about upcoming roster decisions, but it seems like the team is hoping to soften the blow from what could be a major fire sale.

It would be an unusual move for United with the Colombian offering little in the way of goals, the area they really struggle in.

Not too unusual, either, given that he began his career in Chacarita's youth system as a striker, before being moved into defence at the age of 13.

In an unusual move, federal authorities have indicted a Downstate man on felony charges of conspiracy, transporting uninspected poultry and lying to federal authorities in a 2002 food poisoning incident that sickened more than 100 children and teachers at a Joliet school.

The unusual move after the jury had been sequestered since Wednesday culminated a peculiar day of deliberations in the trial of midwife Yvonne Cryns.

«Baroness Smith of Basildon to move that this House regrets that Her Majesty's Government's plans for the introduction of the draft Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment)(No. 2) Order 2014 do not include provisions for a 12 - month review of the impact of the reclassification of khat in view of the highly unusual community focus of its use, for putting a detailed policing strategy in place before a ban takes effect, or for a health strategy to prevent a transfer of addiction to other substances; and do not commit the Department for International Development to do more work with the government of Kenya to alleviate the effect of the reclassification on the Kenyan economy.»

After Libous was forced from office, Cuomo quickly endorsed Fiala's bid for the seat, an unusual move for a governor who has often sought to stay clear of the state Senate's thorny politics.

In an unusual move, de Blasio is replacing the head of the city's Commission on Human Rights — one day after getting a strongly worded letter from Public Advocate Letitia James attacking her and demanding she be fired.

Politics is moving with unusual speed at the moment but it is worth reflecting for a moment that until the election May was proposing a range of policies that formed her distinctive pitch and a new approach for the government.

By most accounts, the task will not be easy, even for the highly popular Democratic governor, whose wide margin of electoral victory and long history in Albany has given him unusual influence within the slow - moving culture of the capital.

ALBANY — In an unusual move, the state Board of Elections is suing a group of breakaway Democrats and the Independence Party, claiming a campaign fund they set up together is illegal.

Supporters of the presidential system note that parliamentary systems are prone [citation needed] to disruptive «cabinet shuffles» where legislators are moved between portfolios, whereas in presidential system cabinets (such as the United States Cabinet), cabinet shuffles are unusual.

Mr Blair took the unusual step of briefing the media about his concern that the Liberal Democrats would get nowhere if they moved to the left of Labour, demanded higher taxes and attacked his social exclusion initiatives.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

Trump reportedly let a rival chief executive listen in on a call about lowering the cost of Lockheed Martin's F - 35, a move that has been described as «unorthodox» and «unusual.»

In a highly unusual move, the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone last week placed newspaper want ads for a new deputy police commissioner even though Bellone announced his choice for the job three months ago.

Dr. Marcus Martinez, who helped blow the whistle on the problem after he noticed a high number of people visiting his office with unusual types of cancers, already is hearing from people who moved away and are now sick.