Sentences with phrase «unusual step»

This is a highly unusual step for any party to take.

After issuing a final developer beta of iOS 11.2 to developers last night, Apple decided to take the highly unusual step of issuing iOS 11.2 to all iPhone owners to fix the crashing issues today.

TaskRabbit took the somewhat unusual step in July of ensuring a minimum wage floor of $ 11.20 per hour for the 30,000 contract workers it calls «taskers» who transact through the network.

This background helps explain why 19 past SNA presidents recently took the highly unusual step of publicly breaking with their own organization to urge Congress not to roll - back healthier school food standards.

The company noted that the very unusual step of a public blog post explaining the decision to act against Cambridge Analytica was due to «the public prominence of this organization.»

Rather than being released through publication in a peer - reviewed journal, however, Muller and his associates took the somewhat unusual step of publishing draft copies of their studies, and made themselves available for comment in the media.

O'Rourke has also taken the more unusual step of classifying his company as a «for - benefit» company, which means that it has a social aim, and dedicates a certain amount of profits for social benefits.

Dragon Ball FighterZ game producer Tomoko Hiroki has taken the rather unusual step of posting a video explaining the roadmap for the game.

West Ham's owners, David Gold and David Sullivan, have taken the slightly unusual step of not just ordering an improvement but publishing the steps they have prescribed for «a way forward with him that will ensure our much - deserving fans have more to cheer about next season».

Chosen as one of District 12's two representatives is young Primrose Everdeen (Willow Shields), but before she is taken away, her teenaged sister Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) takes the most unusual step of volunteering in her place.

It was a very unusual step at the time for Sony to invite an independent developer like us to their console launch announcement — as far as I know, it was unprecedented — and it was a nice experience for us, and it probably helped a lot of new people find out about the game.

Rather than publishing their findings in a peer - reviewed journal, however, Muller and his associates took the somewhat unusual step ofpublishing draft copies of their studies, and then made themselves available for comment in the media.

A source tells ATL that not only has law firm Nixon Peabody been conducting additional, «stealthy» layoffs cast as performance - based (when «the performance issues are simply low hours during the recession,» according to the source), but also going one unusual step further.

And while the officials wouldn't reveal details of the closed - door discussions, it seems that the only options for keeping it open would involve the Cuomo administration taking unusual steps.

16:35 - Peter Bone praises Khan for delivering a «powerful speech» - a very unusual step for a government backbencher, talking about an opposition spokesperson.

Born in 1903 in Russia, trained by his father in the Brisk (Brest «Litovsk) school of Talmud study (which his grandfather invented), he took the then unusual step of studying philosophy at the University of Berlin.

In a more unusual step, the Cubans also allowed a team of FBI investigators to come to Havana to investigate for themselves, building on improvements in the law - enforcement relationship that were formalized with a bilateral agreement in late 2016.

The company noted that the very unusual step of a public blog post explaining the decision to act against Cambridge Analytica was due to «the public prominence of this organization.»

The Honest Kitchen has taken the rather unusual step of applying for and receiving FDA approval to label its pet foods human grade.

The new Lord Chief Justice (LCJ), Sir Ian Burnett, has taken the somewhat unusual step of delivering his first public speech as the judiciary's head honcho via YouTube.

The U.S. and U.K. have taken the unusual step of attributing last year's massive «NotPetya» cyberattack to Russia.

Zynga, a once highflying maker of popular internet games such as «FarmVille» and «Words With Friends,» has taken the unusual step of scrapping its founder - friendly structure.

Pinterest, another Paradigm client, did take the unusual step of committing itself to specific diversity targets recently.

The Senate Commerce Committee took the unusual step of subpoenaing Mayer to testify on Oct. 25 after a representative for Mayer declined multiple requests for her voluntarily testimony.

Kwinana manufacturing company Ausclad Group has reported its biggest profit and completed its second acquisition in a year after taking the unusual step of listing on Singapore's SESDAQ stock exchange.

On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that after a series of public disclosures by Tesla it had taken the unusual step of revoking Tesla's status as a formal party to its investigation of a March 23 crash in California that killed a driver who was using Autopilot.

WASHINGTON, April 12 - Tesla Inc lashed out at the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday after the agency took the unusual step of removing the automaker as a party to its investigation of a fatal crash in March in which a Tesla vehicle's «Autopilot» system was in use.

In March, the board took the unusual step of filing its latest decision with the Federal Court for judicial enforcement because it expected CP to ignore its orders.

Last year, the IMETs» first major corporate fraud case — involving Royal Group Technologies, a plastics and building - supplies manufacturer — ended with an Ontario judge taking the unusual step of formally vindicating all of the accused.

To mount his challenge to EPA's rule to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, he took the unusual step of accepting free help from a private law firm.

The US, which adheres to a policy of nuclear deterrence, has criticized the nuclear - weapons ban, but Mattis» letter is seen as an unusual step in bilateral relations, particularly between the US and Sweden.

The unusual step of launching an investigation comes as Trump is pressuring China to do more to rein in an increasingly belligerent North Korea.

So CEO Sam Lombardo took an unusual step: He joined forces with some of Benecon's direct competitors in the insurance industry.

«We took this unusual step because there is an overlooked minority of our users that are at particularly high risk of targeted online attacks,» Dario Salice, the Advanced Protection product manager for Google wrote in a company blog post.

The Supreme Court refused to take the case and potentially give the defendant a retrial, but Sotomayor took the unusual step of writing a statement that condemned the prosecutor's words, Reuters reported.

Because these transactions are all digital, the company takes some unusual steps to try to sniff out unscrupulous borrowers.

Although no executive was charged in the cases, JPMorgan took the unusual step of acknowledging that it had violated federal securities laws.

The companies» unusual step of making a joint announcement on the canceled negotiations could indicate they still recognize the merits of a merger, keeping the door open for potential future talks.

And under the settlement deal with the S.E.C., JPMorgan took the unusual step of acknowledging that it had violated federal securities laws.

In the latest turn of the developing scandal around how Facebook's user data wound up in the hands of Cambridge Analytica — for use in the in development in psychographic profiles that may or may not have played a part in the election victory of Donald Trump — the company has taken the unusual step of suspending the account of the whistleblower who helped expose the issues.

Multiple sources further claim Spotify is taking the unusual step of filing for direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange rather than for an initial public offering, which indicates that the company wants to start selling shares without first putting on a series of presentations to investors in what's commonly known as a roadshow.

The unusual step, disclosed by the company that makes Tylenol, comes amid a growing number of...

U.S. regulators blocked stock exchanges» request to raise some fees for market data, an unusual step suggesting closer scrutiny of an increasingly important slice of their businesses.

Having taken very little venture capital (the lead investor was Union Square Ventures) and being both founder - controlled and profitable, gives Kickstarter the power to take such an unusual step, Strickler says.

Founders Fund, the investment vehicle started by Peter Thiel that has also taken the unusual step of buying cryptocurrencies directly, is also still deciding whether to allocate money to the ICO.

BlackRock went public with the questions that it is asking gun makers and sellers in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., an unusual step by the world's largest asset manager.