Sentences with phrase «which staked out»

On one front came the insidious march of biology, which staked out the study of biological molecules.

He also had made public statements during a 2012 run as a Republican for U.S. Senate, in which he staked out conservative positions on issues such as abortion, climate change and same - sex marriage.

His love affair with the world and all its complexity comes through loud and clear in Consilience, in which he stakes out the ground of High Theory.

Not exact matches

Yahoo (YHOO) originally sought to spin out the stake; now it's considering spinning off its core media business, which makes money largely from display advertising.

What probably will make a difference is whether the board — which last fall paid out a $ 300 million special dividend to shareholders — accepts the offer by Arthur T. Demoulas to acquire the 50.5 percent stake in the $ 4.6 billion company now controlled by his cousin Arthur S. Demoulas and other family members.

Clark and his family lost out in a 1996 battle, which saw the company sell a 57 % stake to Quebec's Caisse de dépôt.

During a high stakes conversation, you are often operating out of the part of your brain called the amygdala — the fight or flight center — which is not conducive to a calm exchange or constructive outcome.

Google, Facebook, and Apple have all staked out claims in the sphere of AI virtual assistants — tools which, as Facebook's M has shown, could take a bite out of search and e-commerce.

This can amount to a lot of money in the U.K., which has a reputation of being a more sympathetic place to play out high - stakes divorces, because judges generally order a 50 - 50 split of assets, giving equal weight to the work of a wealth creator and a partner.

And so in the case of TPG, we had bought Continental Airlines out of bankruptcy, America West Airlines out of bankruptcy, Ryan Air, which is the largest airline in Europe, and we had sold much of the Continental stake to Northwest, so by the time I got there, in the late»90s, we basically controlled four airlines.

It is not the first time Brookfield Property's attempt to buy out a real estate investment trust in which it already owns a big stake has been rejected.

Fan also pointed out that Verizon Wireless can not invest outside of the continental U.S. due to a shareholder agreement with British telecom company Vodafone (which owns a 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless), and that it would be unlikely that any wireless investment by Verizon Communications Inc. would occur outside of Verizon Wireless.

Sprint needs investment from SoftBank to help it pay for a network upgrade and its proposed buy out of the minority shareholders of Clearwire Corp (CLWR.O), in which Sprint already has a majority stake.

A report released by the Global Public Policy Institute and the Mercator Institute for China Studies, both of which are based in Germany, said Europe's economic ties with China are more important than those it has with Russia, and the stakes associated with calling out Beijing are much higher.

But their collective screaming eventually scared the daylights out of the Street, which suddenly realized that CCAA voting rules gave each and every one of the estimated 2,000 average Canadians caught up in this mess as much say in approving any restructuring as any institutional investor with billions of dollars at stake.

AVAST continent of heavy industry and finance may therefore be staked out in which Jewish participation is incidental or nonexistent.

He's also staked out some controversial views on policies that could stir up trouble among business owners who like stability and predictability, which helps them plan and grow.

Bren held a 34 % stake in the company and served as the vice chairman before buying out five stockholders, which increased his stake in the company to 86 %.

CSC holders get paid on the earnings from our entire basket, this not only diversifies your holdings but also helps to even out earnings as there is a great variety in the % earned from staking coins as well the time frame in which they stake.

You finally arrive at the bottom, where you find a figure known as net income applicable to common shares, which is the profit the stockholders are entitled to enjoy after backing out things like costs, interest expense, taxes, minority stakes, etc..

Yahoo, the company from which Hortonworks spun out, is its largest shareholder with a stake amounting to about 20 percent.

In Miami, however, the cars — powered by self - driving startup Argo.AI, in which Ford bought a majority stake — are still mostly mapping out the city's streets for now.

Before being ushered out of view in November, the prince was considered to be one of the world's richest men, with Kingdom Holding owning or having owned meaningful positions in satellite TV networks, as well as in News Corp. (a stake it mostly sold), Citigroup (shares of which it has owned since 1991), and a growing number of tech companies.

The investment firm BlackRock, which owns the largest stake in American Outdoor Brands and Sturm Ruger, said it has reached out to gun industry executives to see what they plan to do about gun violence.

And whoever buys Yahoo has to also deal with SoftBank and its desire to get out of large annual payments it makes to the company, which owns a big stake in Yahoo Japan.

A prolepsis, as he uses the notion, is simply a claim staked out in history, which, when and if history is fulfilled, will be verified or falsified, and which is of such a nature that those who in the meantime have accepted it will all along have been living appropriately to the truth that will at the end be discovered.

(Other issues were also at stake, especially a shift in eschatology in which premillennialism tended to erode the commitment to social reform and probably various sorts of social class sortings out, but the themes sketched above better represent the fundamentalist self - consciousness.)

Coming out, I stake my sexual identity on the claim which I hold to be the gospel at its heart: that we are here to love God and our neighbors as ourselves.

Whatever Whitehead's position may have been, I will here stake out my own interpretation of creativity Previously I argued that an analysis of an actual entity reveals that each actual entity has a «particularity» for which creativity provides an account.

What is at stake is not simply rubrics, vestments and lace, but the way in which, as Catholics, we carry out what is, as Vatican II put it, the source and summit of the whole Christian life.

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After last year's Valentine's cake disaster, there were some things at stake: my pride, my confidence in my ability to carry on my family's decades old tradition, my craving for this almond cake which had only grown stronger after having to practically miss out on it last year.

RBS Morgans analyst Belinda Moore said Bega had to consider its own shareholders and needed to consider the potential to cash out its stake, which was more than $ 90 million based on Murray Goulburn's $ 9 bid.

Bega, which dropped out of the WCB takeover race last month, owns 18.8 per cent of WCB while Lion has a 10 per cent stake.

Rival WCB bidder Murray Goulburn, which has a 17.7 per cent stake in WCB, can only watch and hope that Bega and Lion hold out.

Meanwhile Bega, which pulled out of the Warrnambool takeover race last month, is mulling its options regarding its 18.8 per cent Warrnambool stake.

Belmont's stimulating fall meeting has 15 stakes on the flat including the all - important Futurity, which will sort out the two - year - olds, and the Jockey Club Gold Cup, which could resolve the three - year - old mix - up.

The game is a freeze - out, meaning that once your chips are gone you're finished, and the stakes are no - limit, which makes for outrageous bets and bluffs.

It's not easy to stake out a small space within which to be creative, even for those mothers, like me, who create to express themselves, rather than to make a living.

Which means that a new New Jersey crew has moved in to stake out positions on behalf of the Garden State.

Although this letter was silent about the value of the alleged 24 % stake that SSNIT was to be directed to acquire, what is apparent is that either SSNIT or the Government was expected by Woyome to fork out a colossal 24 % of US$ 25B for that acquisition which comes up to a whopping $ 6 billion!

Although less than 9 percent of the city's overall budget is comes from federal aid — excluding Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery and other Hurricane Sandy - related aid — 11 out of more than 40 mayoral agencies that represent 59 percent of total city spending get 92 percent of federal grant aid, according to Stringer's initial analysis of federal funding, which he conducted to pinpoint what's at stake for New Yorkers ahead of Trump's inauguration in January.

«What you can do in L.A. or in New York may not work in other places,» she told reporters after a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last summer at which she also staked out other positions short of the progressive ideal.

Now, both Silver and Skelos are staking out their positions in advance of the unveiling of the 2015 - 16 budget proposal, which is expected to include a number of changes to the state's education policy.

Reporters are staking out the following locations in the Capitol this morning: The Senate GOP conference, the governor's office on the Capitol's second floor, and a Senate Democrats» press conference at which minority members are decrying the so - called «work stoppage» by the Republicans.

This year's unusually quiet budget season saw some action yesterday when the two houses each passed their individual spending resolutions, formally staking out their positions and starting the countdown to April 1 — the deadline for a new state budget, which is likely to top some $ 150 billion.

«Every several years or so a legislator is called upon to cast a momentous vote in which the stakes are high and both sides of the issue are vociferous in their views,» Mr. Schumer said, saying he had thoroughly heard out arguments for and against the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

It raises issues that deserve serious analysis, and stakes out positions with which I agree profoundly.

In a remarkably short period of just over four years — which included one unopposed reelection in 2011 — Ulster County Executive Mike Hein has defined his office, staked out his turf, and brought order and direction (as in making the trains run on time) to where there had mainly been rule by legislative committee.

After months of staking out conservative positions to win support from New York's Republicans, Long now faces an electorate in which Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 2 to 1.