Sentences with phrase «up these positions as»

Toronto police officers take up positions as they face off with protesters during a protest at the corner of Queen Street and Spadina Avenue on June 27, 2010 in Toronto, Canada (Photo: Jemal Countess / Getty)

Canadian Tire announced it has an agreement to snap up the upscale Pro Hockey Life chain, a move aimed at further shoring up its position as the country's leading retailer of sporting goods.

Lynch had served as C.E.O., before Manchester appointed Mike Hodges as his successor a year ago, and Lynch took up a position as investment advisor to Manchester.

Later his wife, Meijun Fan, gave up her position as chair of the department of Chinese literature in a Beijing university to work with him.

A previous High Court bid by Mr Birks to be allowed to resign, so he could take up a position as a curate in Portslade parish, Sussex, was also refused.

So we won't come from a one up position as in «yeh, God, straighten him out.»

He obeyed, giving up his position as CEO of a lucrative business, and has now served as the president of World Vision for over 15 years, guiding the organization in addressing poverty and injustice all over the world.

But it would be fair if he takes up a position as a Director or something instead of holding the club and her fans to ransom.

If you were to transport yourself to the El Paso of 1949 and take up a position as far south as possible — by the north shore of the Rio Grande, in a netherland not wholly of the U.S. but not of Mexico either — you'd be a cutoff throw from Bowie High School, the only public secondary school in the U.S. then dedicated to educating Mexican - Americans.

«I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible,» said the former England international.

To be fair to Kvyat, neither he nor Sainz was willing to give up the position as they entered the Maggotts / Becketts complex side by side.

We're delighted to have Chloe on board with us this year, as she joins our fantastic cohort of netball players and sport scholars at MMU and takes up her position as GS for our netball 1st team!

Having been made to adapt to new roles which see them take up positions as holding midfielders off the ball, time will tell as to whether or not they satisfy Guardiola's criteria to secure their long - term futures.

John Flanagan — 6 Returning from injury and taking up a position as a right wing back.

A government minister is set to stand down from politics to take up the position as the first independent chairman of the Football Association (FA).

She said: «I've decided to take up a position as special advisor to the chancellor of the exchequer.

Silver has since pleaded not guilty, and while he still holds his seat in the Assembly, he did have to give up his position as speaker.

Reconcile ourselves to the fact that farming and livestock farming in particular is a special industry and a special case for all the reasons I have identified and then that would free up the position as far as negotiations on other products is concerned.

He obtained his masters» and PhD from Princeton in 1966 and returned in the same year to take up a position as a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at KNUST.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has agreed to resign, he will officially give up his position as speaker to Majority Leader Joseph Morelle.

The opportunity then arose for me to take up a position as a researcher at Heriot - Watt University in Edinburgh.

Directly after this she took up a position as a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow in the Influenza Branch and then the Measles Virus Section of the Respiratory and Enteric Virus Branch at CDC.

She moved to Germany in 2010, where she took up a position as professor in Catalyst Characterisation at the Technical University Munich.

Finally, you could step back into push - up position as opposed to hopping back.

With the TRX Suspension Trainer anchored to the surface of your choice, assume the same elevated push up position as with the suspended crunch detailed above.

Assume the kick up position as outlined in the picture below.

I had to give up my position as a foster mentor because I just have way too much going on.

August Hämmerli is so convinced of the success of his idea that he gave up his position as scientist at ETH to found the company.

Chris «Ludacris» Bridges narrates Ward Serrill's inspirational documentary, which focuses on Bill Resler, a professor of tax law at the University of Washington, who takes up a position as women's basketball coach at nearby Roosevelt High School.

Further doubts have been cast over the potential for an educator from the United States (US) to take up the position as Ofsted chief inspector when Sir Michael Wilshaw steps down, according to reports from TES.

This introduction was done before they left the university to take up their positions as first - year teachers, so that the existing community could be used as the foundation for the community of practice.

Schofield and Condrey have taken up positions as the studio's Vice President and General Manager, and Vice President and COO, respectively, as it's working on an unannounced game and actively recruits «top industry talent to join their primary development team.»

Having left Ethiopia at a young age, Muluneh spent her early years bouncing between Yemen, England, and Cyprus before moving to Canada and later the United States, where she took up a position as a photojournalist for the Washington Post.

LAPADA appoints Patricia Stevenson as chief executive LAPADA has announced that Patricia Stevenson, a former director of Condé Nast UK, is to take up a position as its chief executive.

Jonathan Laib leaves Christie's for David Zwirner Jonathan Laib, a former senior vice president and senior specialist at Christie's, has left the auction house to take up a position as director at New York's David Zwirner gallery.

Sylvie Patry to return to Musée d'Orsay Sylvie Patry, chief curator of Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, is to return to the Musée d'Orsay to take up a position as deputy director for curatorial affairs and collections.

The resignation letter says he will take up a position as a visiting scholar at Harvard in the fall.

He continued to take art courses while getting his BA at the University of Michigan, and upon his return to Chicago he took up a position as studio assistant for Ukrainian - born sculptor Alexander Archipenko.

Environmental news magazine Grist summed up her positions as not bad but «not quite the climate hawkishness we need.»

Continuing to feel the pressure of control over her teaching curriculum, she gave up these positions as well to instead give a free private class to a select group of female students.

Dean Monahan had another distinction: he was, until taking up his position as VP, the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Law Commission of Ontario.

Paul Henry moved to Kelowna to take up a position as staff lawyer with the legal aid office in Kelowna, involved in poverty law.

«I am really honoured to be taking up my position as chairman of Mackrell International, it feels like the realisation of a lifelong aspiration of mine,» said Nigel.

Barra was formerly a high - up on the Android team but left to take up a position as Global VP at Xiaomi.

The mono speaker plays out of the headset speaker above the display, which is nice when you are using your phone in a face up position as audio sounds towards you rather than the back or bottom.

Since the launch of the Pixel family, Google has upped its position as the closest rival Apple faces in the American smartphone ecosystem.

Apart from the one brief period in November during which Bitcoin Cash overtook Ethereum for several hours, Ethereum had not given up its position as the second most valuable cryptocurrency behind bitcoin throughout the past 12 months.

Just before I took up my position as Social Justice Commissioner, the Howard government announced the abolition of ATSIC.

Not exact matches

People sign up for a show for a number of reasons: It can serve as a launching pad for new products or concepts, a way to build up your brand and distribution, a means of nurturing relationships or even a place to position your company for sale.

In the future, if a mobile or online game company wants to position itself as a way to boost memory of any other aspect of cognitive performance, it will likely need rigorous scientific validation to back it up — and quite possibly, approval from the FDA.