Sentences with phrase «weeks after the country»

The news comes just weeks after the country's Hangzhou government backed the launch of the Xiong «An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, which has $ 1.6 billion to invest in innovative startups - 30 percent of which will come from the city.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

Not exact matches

After this week's Indiana primary the country is poised to endure a six month, bruising battle between two of the strongest and most polarizing personalities of the modern political era.

Last week, a Chinese regulator suspended Marriott International's Chinese website for a week after it listed those places as separate countries in a questionnaire for members of its rewards program.

Less than a week after RHB Bank and AMMB Holdings received the regulatory go - head to start merger talks, the country's second largest lender CIMB Group said it sold a 50 percent stake in its stockbroking unit to China Galaxy Securities.

The upheaval comes after the Organization for the Petroleum Exporting Countries met in Vienna this week and said it will maintain its current output of 30 million barrels a day.

Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein has been taunting the U.K. government over Twitter in recent weeks about how he's getting ready to spend more time in Frankfurt after Brexit, as well as gently nudging the country to have a second referendum in case it wanted to change its mind.

Indiegogo established a global reach quickly after launch and within the first three years of operating, the platform was distributing funds to 70 countries a week.

After the first travel ban was blocked in court, President Trump signed a new executive order last week temporarily blocking travel to the U.S. from countries he said pose a high terrorism risk.

Banned during its initial release in numerous countries, the movie was not only blocked from viewing in Bertolucci's homeland of Italy until 1986 (after a one - week run)-- prints of the movie were also burned and Bertolucci was sentenced to four months in prison for obscenity.

Curiously, Netflix is priced the same in both countries — and will continue to be so after the price hike announced last week.

Fitch's warning comes after S&P Global Ratings downgraded China's long - term sovereign credit rating by one notch last week to A + from AA -, citing increasing risks from the country's rapid build - up of credit.

Barely a week after his inauguration, Trump moved to bar the travelers for at least 90 days, while declaring it would impose «extreme vetting» on those wishing to enter the country.

After suggesting last week that the US would be pulling out of Syria «very soon,» President Donald Trump reportedly told his national security team that he is open to keeping troops in the country for the time being, but wants to look to pull them out sometime soon, a senior administration official told CNN.

She was shocked to see the reports on the country two weeks later following uprisings after the 2009 elections.

Weeks after receiving regulatory blessing of its $ 48.5 billion merger with the country's largest satellite television provider, the 2nd largest U.S. wireless carrier plans to offer combined TV and wireless service in a single bill, the company said in a release.

A week after the U.S. Federal Reserve opted to leave the country's interest rates unchanged for the time being, Fed chair Janet Yellen is set to testify before Congress on U.S. monetary policy.

It's fitting that the week after the generation's greatest entrepreneur died, business leaders and academics descended on Washington to make the case for relaxing the policies that are cutting the country's richest vein of entrepreneurial talent: skilled immigrants.

But another Hudl benefit might: Every five years, employees are given a budget of $ 4,000 — after taxes — to take a sabbatical of at least two weeks in another country.

China is the best place for expanding manufacturing and investment, the country's premier told Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, less than two weeks after its chief executive Terry Gou went to the White House to discuss increasing investment in the United States.

Regulators have asked more companies, including Delta Airlines and Zara, to correct content on their websites in which they list Taiwan as a «country,» coming a day after Marriott International's website and app in China were shut down for one week for the same reason.

A climbdown from Ms Lagarde's office is even less likely after the Leftist Syriza government crossed the rubicon and became the first developed country in the IMF's 71 - year - history to default on the world's «lender of last resort» this week.

In the weeks after the shooting, students and activists have called on their peers around the country to demand action.

Missile strikes on Syrian government bases overnight killed dozens of pro-regime forces, raising the risks of a wider regional war just weeks after Israel was blamed for hitting an air station in the country used by Iranian elite forces.

Trump publicly fumed in the weeks after the raid of his longtime «fixer,» saying the FBI «broke in» and calling it «a witch hunt» and «an attack on our country.»

«It is noteworthy to mention that in a country like India where user - generated content is growing 30 % week after week, Vyng is adding over 20 % users week by week,» Soni said.

On a personal note, I am back home after taking a cross country road trip and visiting family and friends for the past three weeks.

Sun Country announced the added service and promotional fares about two weeks after taking a PR pummelling for stranding some 250 passengers in Mexico.

U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Shevrin D. Jones and Frederica Wilson this week are scheduled to attend Town Hall for Our Lives, a series of gun - control forums being presented across the country two weeks after the March for Our Lives...

Shares in China Literature — the country's biggest player in the business, comparable to Amazon's Kindle Store — shot up more than 60 percent on their debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange last week, after raising $ 1.1 billion in an IPO.

The Philippine securities regulator stressed the country's virtual currency regulations are in the works even after it shut down its first coin offering last week.

Greek banks are closed all week after news broke that the country will be holding a referendum vote on whether to accept the bailout measures offered by international creditors.

Libya's transitional leaders named a new Cabinet and said they would step down after the country is fully secured, putting an end to weeks of political infighting as the North African nation struggles to get back on its feet.

KFC expects disruption to some restaurants to continue for the rest of the week after chicken shortages across the country.

The US President issued an executive order on refusing entry to travellers from six mostly Muslim countries, however three judges this week refused to reinstate the measure after an earlier injunction.

infanticide is a doctor in Philadelphia who aborts sixth, seventh, eighth months into a pregnancy like you mention since he did this after the legal 21 weeks he broke the law and is being convicted to the fullest extent of the law in our country.

The article comes just weeks after the U.N. Security Council voted to enforce tougher sanctions on the country after it teased its potential nuclear and military capabilities earlier this year.

This week's hearing at the highest court in the land comes after Northern Ireland's three most senior judges overturned a ruling by the High Court in Belfast that the country's abortion laws were illegal.

The trip to the Middle East to visit American service members comes just weeks after he took his TBS comedy talk show to the country of Armenia for a special that will air on Nov. 17.

(Even Sweden, the poster country for women's equality and liberal attitudes toward human sexuality, strictly regulates abortion after the eighteenth week of pregnancy.)

A week after announcing plans to retire from public life, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu — who chaired his country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the fall of apartheid — talks exclusively to CNN International's Connect the World.

They have some new ones up of the country one week after the quake devastated the country...

Mawarire was taken into custody at the Harare airport last week as he re-entered the country after fleeing to the US last summer.

Despite government intimidation, churches throughout the country continued to gather weeks after orders to shut down.

On that particular Friday after Easter it had been a bad week in the world, a bad week in the country, a bad week on the Close.

Just a few weeks after the Houston prayer rally, roughly 200 religious leaders from across the country, mostly evangelicals, descended on a San Antonio - area ranch for the chance to meet Perry and his wife.

We are a capitalistic country, who allows its citizens to participate in some form of religious ritual on the weekends, after a week of storing treasures on earth.

Open Doors's rankings came out a week after the State Department released its list of countries of particular concern — those that have «engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.»

The decision to go to Haiti comes a week after Pres. Trump reportedly called the nation — as well as several countries in Africa — «sh ** hole» countries.

After weeks where every part of the country seems to have been tossed about with one type of extreme weather or another, it dawned on me that I should focus on building experiences that I could control.