Sentences with phrase «utility have become»

Moving blankets deprived of their imagined utility have become the framing units for studies of surgical knots.

As FinTech evolves, the boundaries between currencies, stocks, and utilities have become blurred.

It's the interior, the area where last year's model really showed how out of date and out of touch Chevy's compact sport - utility had become.

Without stopping to count, Iíd guess that less than a dozen regulated UTILITIES have become windmill owners.

Given the skyrocketing price, the tenuous supply, and the irregular and chaotic administration by municipalities, utilities have become a major risk for property owners.

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The computer and the car have become utilities where the manufacturers are given great value by society.

Icahn's statement about Souki's termination also refers negatively to his stock sales and makes it plain that he thinks an entrepreneur like Souki had no business running Cheniere, which is poised to become a real energy utility.

The Amazon Echo, released in 2014, has become immensely popular and capable, awakening users to the utility of both voice control and smart home devices.

General Electric has become known for its quirky advertising over the years, but the utility company may have just surpassed itself with this hilarious «infomercial» starring Jurassic Park actor Jeff Goldblum.

Generally speaking, the longer U.S. Energy has had a client, the less labor - intensive it becomes for the company to assess that client's utility bill.

It becomes a bit more obvious when we talk about resources that might have entrepreneurial utility, but that aren't so obvious at first because they're not uniformly valued.

As facilities such as oil refineries and large electrical utilities become ever more reliant on remote - control systems linked by far - flung digital networks, the demand for highly reliable security has taken off.

But the blockchain has also become host to an array of startups who are building a range of products — from apps like uPort which aims to replaced state - issued IDs with an authenticated digital identity, to GridPlus, which uses the Ethereum blockchain to track energy consumption with the goal of lowering utility bills.

«The reason I feel Twitter is such a significant player, despite the fact that it has only 240 million users compared to Facebook's 1.15 billion, is the fact that it's become a utility whereas Facebook is pretty much just a website,» Levy said.

What would become Brascan, and then Brookfield Asset Management, first invested in a tramway system in Sao Paulo in 1899 before it became a major player in power generation and utilities in the South American country.

Building and shipping thousands of utility poles and power lines to the island, then setting them up on mountainous terrain has become a headache for utility crews.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

As a result, many utilities could pursue a «virtuous cycle» — spending more capital on more wind farms, while in turn increasing earnings - per - share growth and lowering customer bills given how cheap wind power has become.

The fate of several state policies that allowed SolarCity to operate had become more uncertain, thanks mostly to hostility from the entrenched utilities, and the company was forced to pull out of Nevada altogether after the state's public utilities commission voted to significantly cut benefits for homeowners with solar.

A trio of solar projects has become Australia's first utility - scale solar PV portfolio acquisition and financing deal, raising hopes that large - scale projects will find long - term financing more easily in the future.

Although traditional high dividend payers (think the utilities and telecom sectors) have performed strongly in recent years, they've become quite expensive by most valuation metrics.

On October 21, 1994, political watchers were stunned when Mr. Kowalski was shuffled out of Premier Klein's cabinet and announced that he would resign as an MLA to become chairman of (now defunct) Alberta Utilities and Energy Board.

I mean if it doesn't really have utility then it will fade in and become a novelty.

In a new collaborative report, «An Underappreciated Disruptor,» Morgan Stanley's Utility and Clean Tech analyst, Stephen Byrd and Shared Mobility & Auto analyst, Adam Jonas, argue that the price of both solar and wind energy, as well as new storage units, have reached a point where renewable energy can finally become a dependable rather than an unpredictable source of energy.

Yet rather than taking this opportunity to run these banks as public utilities and lower their charges for credit - card services — or most important of all, to stop their lending to speculators and gamblers — governments left these banks operating as part of the «casino capitalism» that has become their business plan.

One also has to question the editorial wisdom of allowing a biography of a famous Supreme Court justice to meander more than 450 pages before its subject even becomes a justice» a long walk through such dusty disputes as the Ballinger «Pinchot scandal and the 1890s battle over Boston's utility rates.

While questions remain about how good of a shooter Bridges actually is and how much of a defensive plus he can become, he's extremely athletic and has the makings of a utility - type combo forward.

The Ghanaian utility man can play on the left wing, central midfield, left - back and as a wing back and has become a crucial part of Juve's recent success.

With an eye for the safe ball and a crippling one - footedness, the former flying winger's contribution to the attack dwindled so much in recent seasons that he has become a utility player at right back.

After becoming unemployed by the dot - com bust in 2000, she and her husband, Jimmy, had $ 30 a week after the rent, utilities and other basic expenses were paid.

«The government is not able to maintain the value of the currency so the 80 percent tariff increase in six months become valueless because the utility companies have to run on inputs that are imported with dollars,» he stated.

Yet it is clear that since 1997, public opinion has become more hostile towards private ownership of the utilities, especially rail.

The seat became vacant in July 2017 after Bill Stone (D) resigned to become manager of the Holly Springs Utility Department.

Earlier this year, France arranged for state - controlled firm Gaz de France to take over Suez, after it became a target for Italian utilities group Entel, and Luxembourg has been accused of blocking a bid approach for Arcelor from Netherlands - based Mittal Steel.

POUGHKEEPSIE — Central Hudson and IBEW Local 320 have negotiated a new contract for utility workers, who would become employees of Fortis, Inc. should the buyout of CH Energy Group be approved by the State Public Service Commission.

In their statement, they said, «This endorsement of Nana Akufo - Addo has become very necessary considering the high level of incompetence, corruption, mismanagement of the economy, high rate of unemployment, killer taxes, collapsing of the private sector businesses, high utility bills, nepotism, tribal politicking etc. under the 8 years rule of John Mahama NDC.

Majority Leader Peter Grimm, D - Troy said it would be interesting to see what becomes of the two Ford Utility Police Interceptor vehicles the legislators approved Tuesday to be bought purchased for $ 94,296.

The governor «imposed a foregone conclusion» on this panel «pressuring it» to decimate LIPA and have a New Jersey - based utility, PSEG, become the main electric utility on Long Island.

Good government and public policy advocates have taken withering looks at the water authority and other public utilities that have become frequent stops for political patronage appointees.

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As fewer and fewer of my friends use the platform, Snapchat has become a haven from the grinding utility of the internet

For HBO, «True Blood» has become what amounts to a utility player — a 10 - episode bridge (reflecting a slightly shortened run compared to previous seasons) to keep some sizzle going during the summer, with «The Newsroom» due in July.

Rather than merely a place to meet academic needs, the school has become a place for families to come for assistance with needs such as groceries, utility bills, and health care.

1997: Toyota RAV4 Why it won: It was one of the first in a wave of compact sport - utilities that we predicted, correctly, would become a major force in the American marketplace.

«To see the Bullitt under glass within steps of the Smithsonian museums, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Washington Monument is a fitting tribute to automobiles that have transcended utility to become truly iconic examples of America's culture,» said Carl Widmann, Ford Mustang chief engineer in a statement.

BMW speaks to us of beauty, technology, and utility, and since car enthusiasts have come to embrace these same values, we all have become BMW drivers in a way.

CHICAGO - The Honda Accord and Toyota Camry are the most frequently stolen cars in the United States, but pickups, minivans and sport - utility vehicles also have become hot targets, according to a study released Monday.

In markets such as India, They were originally a sub-segment of Utility Vehicles, but the smaller size versions have grown to become a dominant segment.

Stability control has become one of the new must - have items on new vehicles, particularly sport utilities, where the higher center of gravity often makes them more susceptible to rolling over.

Despite questionable styling, a less - than - premium interior and minimal utility, the BMW X1 has become one of the German brand's best sellers in Canada.