Sentences with phrase «vested in a few hands»

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

I had to put a company of mine into the hands of an administrator (kind of like Chapter 11 in the USA) a few years back in the midst of a partnership dispute.

After a couple of weeks, dozens of companies big and small had his resume in hand — but responses had been few and far between.

BI: On the other hand, ahead of the General Elections we hear demands for zero - hour contracts (in which employees have few rights and no guaranteed work hours) to be reformed or even abolished.

Legere has generally held the upper hand in the competition between the two companies performance in the market, as T - Mobile has added by far the most new subscribers over the past few years and surpassed Sprint last year to become the third - largest U.S. carrier.

Economic growth has traditionally meant that everyone is better off, but in Canada the latest surge of growth simply concentrated income gains in the hands of a few, with the richest 1 % taking almost a third of all income growth between 1997 and 2007.

For the past few weeks, customers at the home improvement giant's store in Framingham, Mass. have experienced what it's like to install bathroom tiles — all without having to get their hands messy with cement and grout.

That said, Trump did rally against mega-mergers like the AT&T - Time Warner buyout during his campaign, saying in October that it'd result in «too much concentration of power in the hands of too few.»

Still, it does have a few things going for it: The «fast delete» button lets you quickly scrap whole words at a time; there's a one - handed mode that lets you crunch the keys over to one side of the screen; and, when your phone is in landscape mode, it splits apart like an ergonomic keyboard, making it feel a little more natural for your thumbs.

Microsoft (msft), on the other hand, had not shown up in the past few years, but this year managed to place at # 37.

Raise your hand if you've ever held up your index finger to nonverbally say, «Hold on, I'll be done working in a few minutes...» to your spouse or kids.

She agreed, handed him a wad of cash and said that she couldn't pay for it all at once, but that she would pay it off in installments within a few weeks.

On the other hand, you'll have fewer options in application software than with Windows, and you'll need access to some new technical expertise.

But actually making stuff — creating prototypes, holding your invention in your hand — has until recently been a privilege reserved to relatively few.

On one hand, Apple has made it abundantly clear over the last few years that it's keenly interested in health.

Goldman's ROE, on the other hand, has regularly topped 10 % in the past few years.

But Bitcoin Unlimited's larger blocks would require more computing power, storage, and network bandwidth to process, which could concentrate mining in fewer hands, making the system both less secure and less democratic.

But at least a few of TDCJ's other claims seem suspect: TDCJ posted to Facebook a series of photographs and videos of staff handing food and water to inmates in a dry prison yard, but inmate family members and NLG assert that some of the employees pictured were no longer working at those units, and allege that TDCJ must have recycled the photographs from a previous event.

You just have to fill in many forms, hand in copies of all your IDs a few times and provide a packet of passport photos.

In recent weeks, a few hundred millions dollars» worth of Tether has changed hands on a daily basis across several exchanges, according to data on CoinMarketCap.com.

Once you have a few offers in hand, you'll want to compare a few key items.

That's why, ultimately, I can't really blame Jana Partners for pushing for a break - up... Qualcomm's licenses by themselves would be a money gusher, at least for a few years, and while I think most investors are more long - term oriented than people think, I can absolutely understand the temptation — and associated price premium — associated with money in hand now.

It's hard to believe it's just a few years since countries like Ireland and Spain had to go cap - in - hand to international lenders — at least if you look at their bond yields.

Statoil, Total, Shell and ConocoPhillips have all recently sold off oil sands stakes for a total of $ 27.3 billion in cash and shares, leaving most operations concentrated in the hands of a few large Canadian firms.

At an all - hands meeting a few days later, «the company was literally in shock,» said Hornsey, and Kalanick himself was «personally gutted, like someone had dropped his baby on its head.»

The market shakeout already under way throughout the Asia - Pacific region should concentrate capital in fewer, more experienced hands, easing the rampant competition that has kept asset prices high in recent years.

A few years ago, your best bet would have been to bury your nose in the Internet and read as much reliable information as you could get your hands on.

The company has never had a COO in its history, but in March, just a few weeks after a former Uber engineer published a scathing tell - all about the company's sexist workplace culture, Kalanick himself admitted he needed a right - hand executive «who can partner with me to write the next chapter in our journey.»

«Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy,» Justice William O. Douglas wrote.171 Decentralizing this power would ensure that «the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudice, the emotional stability of a few self - appointed men.»

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

In view of the fact that the stock market action has gotten a bit out of hand again this week, we are providing a brief update of charts we have discussed in these pages over the past few weeks (see e.g. «The Flight to Fantasy»In view of the fact that the stock market action has gotten a bit out of hand again this week, we are providing a brief update of charts we have discussed in these pages over the past few weeks (see e.g. «The Flight to Fantasy»in these pages over the past few weeks (see e.g. «The Flight to Fantasy»).

In this unfortunate tipping point, the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few results in economic implosion because the 99 percent can't afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to selIn this unfortunate tipping point, the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few results in economic implosion because the 99 percent can't afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to selin the hands of the few results in economic implosion because the 99 percent can't afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to selin economic implosion because the 99 percent can't afford to buy anything the 1 percent has to sell.

But over the last few years (since 2008), I think there's been a pretty dramatic growth in what we'd call Tea Party politics in that set — extreme conservatism that goes beyond hands off fiscal and regulatory policy, the kind of feverish mindset in which you could write with a straight face that progressives might be building toward some sort of mass wealth confiscation or internment or even extermination for the likes of Tom Perkins.

On the other hand, investing in mutual funds or exotic commodities would lead to fewer trades.

On the other hand, there were 1.3 million fewer manufacturing jobs in October than there were at the start of the recession (although the sector has added 1 million jobs since bottoming out in early 2010).

On the one hand, there are few investors who will only invest in a few businesses per year while on the other hand, you have many entrepreneurs seeking funding for their business.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

In addition to reviewing the money coming in, your lender will want to make sure you have enough cash on hand to cover closing costs and your first few mortgage paymentIn addition to reviewing the money coming in, your lender will want to make sure you have enough cash on hand to cover closing costs and your first few mortgage paymentin, your lender will want to make sure you have enough cash on hand to cover closing costs and your first few mortgage payments.

He has captured them in a short, one page document «A Few Musings on Business Life» which he hands out to his team.

Knowing that venture funds have plenty of cash on hand from last year's unprecedented run of fundraising ($ 41.6 billion in 2016) leaves us optimistic about the funding prospects for NYC's seed - stage startups over the next few quarters.

A few weeks ago, I read «Finance Pros Say You'll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands» in the Wall Street Journal and I've been thinking about...

You have a few offers for personal loans in hand.

As we look back over the last few decades, it is clear that the foreign sector and the mutual fund complex have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

I have no first - hand experience in this, we didn't put any funds into starting up Six Revisions or Design Instruct because they were all allocated to content production, development, and our technology infrastructure, but I personally know a few bloggers that have invested in online advertising like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc. and it really shortened the time it required for them to get serious site traffic compared to others (like us) who chose not to invest in getting that initial boost in site traffic.

For example, Guidant CEO David Nilssen recommends providing incentives to customers to pay in lump sums rather than installments because having enough cash on hand essential in the first few years.

As a tour de force of semantic gymnastics, Casey has few equals in the annals of modern jurisprudence; it is, next to Roe itself, perhaps the starkest reminder of the extent to which our Constitution has become, at the hands of the Court, a thing of almost infinite plasticity.

He has never been one to make the Church feel secure in his membership, and he's not short of a few expletives or shy to be caught with a bottle of Jack Daniels in his hand.

A few people might shake their hands and greet them, but usually newcomers were themselves responsible for getting to know other people in the church and for finding out what the church might have to offer them.

I often meet abortion rights advocates who honestly thought that the national controversy over abortion would simply melt away within a few years of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.

-- Also I grew up a child of refugees and in post war Germany and, therefore, have a few first hand stories and experiences.