Sentences with phrase «which first coined»

The Carbon Tracker Initiative, which first coined the term the «carbon bubble», foresaw last year that any oil price slide would make many unconventional and high - cost oil projects uneconomic and risked wasting huge piles of investors» cash.

The Resident Evil series which first coined the «survival horror» term some twenty years ago, innovates the genre yet again as Resident Evil 7 biohazard delivers an incredibly realistic horror experience updated with modern gameplay systems.

Civil rights advocate and Columbia Law School professor Kimberlé Crenshaw explains the term «intersectionality,» which she first coined in 1989.

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Business Insider first reported that the messaging app operator, which is a darling of the crypto world, was trying to raise $ 600 million in a private sale before its public initial coin offering.

It's believed to be the first time anyone has introduced a brand new cryptocurrency via physical distribution (though in actuality, Mainframe's tokens were to be exchanged for codes, which could then be redeemed online for virtual «MFT» coins).

In the first half of the year, initial coin offerings raised more than $ 1 billion for blockchain - based projects — many of which consist of little more than a white paper.

First, by trying to get the NXT blockchain rolled back and thus, undoing the transaction in which the coins were stolen.

«Through the use of your mobile device, Eternal coin is the world's first digital currency in which the transmission can be performed with the use of your mobile number.

There would need to be a whole fierce debate first which would turn the whole community into a metaphorical state of civil war, then a vote, then miners have to agree, then there might be a coin - split, price would probably dive, and so on.

«The sometimes perplexing domain of digital financial exchanges opens a window into a subject that requires explanation for many of us, hence the detailed definition of cryptocurrency as well as an entry for initial coin offering, which refers to the first sale of Bitcoin - like digital currency,» Merriam - Webster wrote.

Similar, even in name, to an initial public offering (IPO) in which a private company's stock first becomes public, an ICO happens when a cryptocurrency startup wants to raise funding in order to further the development of their coin.

This unleashed a wave of other cryptocurrencies also known as alt - coins, and a whole new community of computer experts formed who were inspired to share a spirit of exploration and experimentation which lead to the first wave startups utilizing bitcoin blockchain technology.

It is the most trusted site, which was introduced first by the team of hash coin experts.

The first example which came to light was the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (not to be confused with the initial coin offering type of ICO).

Other key exhibits include medieval stone carvings, chess pieces and gold coins which tell the story of the rise and dramatic fall of the first Cistercian abbey in the north of England.

This year, the red purse contains a # 5 coin, commemorating four generations of royalty, and a 50p coin commemorating the Representation of the People Act 1918, which reformed the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland, giving some women the right to vote for the first time.

1.3), 27 Whitehead coins the term «subject - superject» for this intimate connection, which is introduced here apparently for the first time.

This is why the word «freethinker» (coined during the Enlightenment) gathered the sinister overtones which it has to this day, even though it meant at first what it literally said.

Blauw's work was also significant in the writings of Francis Bubose, though his concern was to use the word «missionary» in a bit different way than Blauw (which is why he «first» coined the term missional).

That same coin flip determines which team picks ahead of the other in the first round if neither gets a top three pick.

The first rule in journalism is to follow the money, which brings us to that now famous coin that was embedded at center ice before the start of the Olympic hockey tournament.

There's a coin toss to decide which team gets the ball first.

The U.S. Mint is celebrating its 225th anniversary by minting a commemorative coin which depicts Lady Liberty as an African American for the first time.

BY MARC MATURO There was no coin toss to decide who would receive the ball and which team would be defending what goal, and there was no penalty called despite a late start as a long line of patient fans waited for the first autograph session to start.

If Alice and Bob are seated on two space shuttles moving in different directions, it is possible to set up a scenario in which they both flip quantum coins, but Alice says she flipped her coin before Bob, while Bob swears he tossed his coin first.

The field where the coins were discovered (left) first attracted the interest of metal detector enthusiast and event organizer Peter Welch (right) through Google Earth satellite imagery of the location, which clearly showed a ridge and furrow pattern indicative of medieval - era plowing.

Scientists first coined the term «epigenetic» (which literally means «above the genome») in the 1940s as a way of classifying changes that occurred between genome and phenotype.

The term «metabolic syndrome» was first coined back in the 1950's, when doctors noticed the alarming frequency with which all these conditions were diagnosed in patients.

The site may be accessed through one of two ways; the first is through coins, which you acquire by paying, doing a number of things on the site, or subscribing.

I can, however, safely say that Wright's attempts to mend cinema, video games, and comic books work — it is the first film in which enemies turn into coins when defeated, health bars are displayed, and towering «thuds» invade the screen during fight sequences, and honestly, it was all awe - inspiring.

This isn't to put down the film's first half, which sets up a genuinely distinctive near - future world (where Johnson's retro trappings make narrative sense, rather than feeling tacked - on), introduces two tremendous sides of the same coin in the performances from Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon - Levitt, plenty of intriguing philosophical dilemmas, and a grisly hall - of - fame demise for Paul Dano «s character.

In Manic Pixie Dream Girl, which I coined to describe Kirsten Dunst's irrepressible flibbertigibbet in Elizabethtown, the very first entry in My Year of Flops, I created a phrase that would be used for the titles of books and albums and NPR segments and musicals and will undoubtedly outlive and outlast me.

In the first entry, I coined the phrase Manic Pixie Dream Girl, which set me on a surreal, bizarre and unexpected path that has included being a question on Jeopardy (Manic Pixie Dream Girl - related, of course) and the phrase making it in into the Oxford dictionaries, which define it as:

Parzival's first challenge is a road race in which participants have to dodge various lethal obstacles including rampaging T. Rexes and a Kong - like ape, while contestants killed in mid-race explode in showers of gold coins.

Professor Khan has the credit of first coining the phrase Web based instruction and popularizing the concept through his 1997 best - selling Web - Based Instruction book which paved the way for the new field of e-learning.

Toss a coin to see which team goes first.

This Ghost was also the car for which the phrase «Best Car in the World» was first coined, either by The Autocar or by Rolls - Royce itself, which raised the banner «Best Six - Cylinder Car in the World» over it at the 1907 British motor show.

Enter the all - new Giulia; the first Alfa Romeo in which power and lightness coexist as two faces of the same coin.

The now discontinued Dell Streak 5, which can be termed to be the first phablet (though the termed wasn't coined then), came in third.

James Montier: A Value Investor's Perspective on Tail Risk Protection: An Ode to the Joy of Cash http://myinvestingnotebook.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/james-montier-value-investors.html Warren Buffett first coined the phrase «an economic moat», by which he meant the factors that enable some businesses to sustain and protect above average profits for a long period of time.

About external publishers, It's always a coin - flip about what we get first between video - only game trailers / presentations (aka with no in - the - game gameplay elements to show) or announcements about uninspired sequels / remakes / whatever for which year - long waits and / or delays concerning the more intriguing titles are always behind the corner.

Full disclosure: I've never been much for collecting items in games, besides the basic «get coin» mechanic first realized in Mario and Sonic games, which basically force you to get coins by allowing you to do little else besides survive environment and enemy obstacles (not to mention get extra lives for coin collecting).

To counteract that you must upgrade your character, which has you replaying the first couple of levels repeatedly to earn enough coins to upgrade your outfit (yes, proper outfit selection changes gameplay as outfits offer varying gameplay bonuses) and your equipment.

A group of Thwomps are guarding Magikoopa's fortress in Flown the Koopa, and depending on how the accompanying puzzle is solved, the Mario Bros. are either crushed by them, or make their way through the first three, and the fourth and final giant one by distracting it with some coins (which fall out of Mario's pocket when he tries to convince Luigi to use some of his cookies instead).

amiibo Party mode is the more traditional Mario Party mode, as it was in the old Mario Party titles, from the first game to the eighth game, which has the classic way of paying 20 coins for one star format, in nine of the character boards.

Coins collected in Sly 2 are used to purchase abilities (whereas the first title used them for protection) which are unique to each character, and occasionally you will come across valuable items that you can sell, should you manage to return them back to base without being harmed.

After collecting the first set of five Pink Coins in one run, the level is then populated with Purple Coins, which are in harder - to - get places and require more experienced Mario - jumping.

Intervention could also relate to the performance elements of conceptual art — and their blurring of public / private space and viewer / participant — which in turn related to the early «Happenings» (Allan Kaprow coined the term «Happenings» which he first staged in 1959) and early Black Mountain performances by Rauschenberg, Cage, and Merce Cunningham.

[73] The word «surrealist» was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.

In the Russian word faktura, which the Constructivists coined to describe the way in which an art work displays the process of its own making, we can glimpse how an idea animating all of John Chamberlain's work was first explored by Russian artists in the early part of the century.