Sentences with phrase «while staking out»

This is a great PES with which to kick off the new systems — it retains its heart while staking out vital new directions.

Mr. Cuomo, while staking out a centrist fiscal agenda, this week reaffirmed his support for a number of left - leaning social positions, including same - sex marriage.

She, along with many other national leaders and social activists of different stripes, began fasting on November 12th while staked out in a tent on the National Mall in Washington D.C..

But initial trials are under way while they stake out intellectual property rights.

Not exact matches

When the deal was finalized, KKR cashed out a profit of $ 5.4 billion while still retaining a substantial stake.

While there are plenty of unknowns about the shape and form of podcasting's growth, Wall is optimistic that podcast lovers have plenty to look forward to: «The people that realize that they can stake out a unique niche will be successful.

Recapitalizing — the reorganization of a firm's capital structure — allows business owners to take cash out of their companies while maintaining a meaningful ownership stake.

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

These numbers reveal that while no government could please everyone, especially where economic stakes differ and emotions run high, the Trudeau government has laid out a path towards a lower - carbon economy that has alienated few and found acceptance by a large majority.»

Both sides have staked out nearly identical corners of the Bitcoin space, with one group occupying bitcoin.org, Bitcointalk and / r / Bitcoin, while the Cash upstarts are squatting on the barely - distinguishable territories of bitcoin.com, @bitcoin and / r / btc.

We have extinguished the preparatory stake fires, and some of us may even be able to cull out some edifying meat from your thoughts while still being on the edge of our doctrinal seats waiting to restoke the party we had been looking forward to (satire).

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.

I have just checked out the betting on the Saints star coming to Arsenal next season, and we are hot odds - on favourites with 888bet, 32Red and Skybet while Betvictor are slightly more reserved at 11/10, so there has obviously been a lot of money staked on him coming to Arsenal.

If stakes are this high, and technology has been available for a while to make things better, and that technology has been successfully implemented in other sports, why not AT THE VERY LEAST try it out?

The bureaucrat is often trying to figure how to get the most out of the system with the minimum amount of effort, while the entrepreneur is trying to create systems that add value for all stake holders.

While Russia may have lost out to Ukraine in the points stakes in Eurovision last night, the standoff between the two countries in the real world — where realpolitik and guns take the place of glitz and confetti - is far from over.

However, we are concerned that in one part of the opinion, it is stated that «this is a proposed stake as opposed to an actual stake,» while another part claims that «Government has accepted the proposal [to take a 24 % stake in the project] per the letter from the Ministry of Finance dated December 15, 2009...» As pointed out above Dr. Duffuor's letter of 15th December 2009 was heavily qualified, and none of the conditions contained in it had occurred.

«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and schools from being penalized for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high stakes tests.»

An analysis by Louis Jacobson, a staff writer for PolitiFact, asserted that partisan dominance was at stake in 12 of the 43 state senates with elections in 2010, while 31 state senates were very likely to close out the year with no change in majority party.

While DeRosa pledged to recuse herself from any issues where relatives had a stake, the perception of this web of connections can't help Cuomo when an opponent in Iowa makes hay out of it.

Besides, they were worried that the original traders in the market might be shut out upon completion, while the completed shops might be allocated to influential people who presently had no stake in the market.

This meant that while the resistant rats have the advantage in the survival stakes when warfarin is being used, when there is no poison around they lose out because social dominance — and success in feeding and breeding — depends largely on size and weight.

Dad loves to tie his boys & men to a tree at the farm... rub, pinch, squeeze, chew, spank, flog, tease and torment them... then perhaps stake out in the sun awhile to get a great tan... and after a good day of fun, sit by the fire and sip Jack Daniels while the sun sets... and perhaps more fun in the...

DJ (Mitchell Musso) has spent years staking out the neighborhood crank, Mr. Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), and his tumbledown house, the one in stark contrast to the otherwise pristine suburbs around it, all the while keeping a journal of exactly what he's been confiscating from the hapless neighborhood kids who trespass by so much as a millimeter on his sinister lawn.

It turns out to be a vampire nest piled high with victims in various stages of decay, but while Murray is able to stake one of the bloodsuckers, the object of his search has already fled the scene.

If film as intellectual history sounds arduous, a single scene of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy arguing out ideas while playing pool will convince you otherwise: Margarethe von Trotta's gripping dramatization succeeds not only in bringing complex ideas to life without dumbing them down, but in teasing out their emotional stakes.

From creating tradable «enrollment rights» to help integrate schools to providing parents with better school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over school choice offers ways to enhance the benefits while mitigating the risks.

Andy, who is credited with authoring a Brookings white paper that helped inspire RTT, points out that «In the case of Race to the Top, while it wasn't a disaster, there were enough problems that some people favorably inclined... are now asking if the federal government, with all the political and substantive constraints upon it, can really run a reliable high - stakes competition.»

While Dede urges the edtech and education worlds alike to consider the impact of high - stakes testing and the process of rolling out such exams, he also recognizes its symbolism in moving the education system forward.

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

The practice of forcing students to stay in the testing room, despite having been opted out of the SBAC program by their parents, is an ugly strategy to embarrass, humiliate and ostracize children who are inappropriately being required to sit in the testing room for hours while their peers are taking the defective and high - stakes SBAC tests that are designed to unfairly fail a significant number of the state's children.

The Syrian is a solitary animal and while you might see them kept together in the same cage at the pet store, when they get older they will begin to fight it's cage mates as it tries to stake out it's own personal cage space.

This time of year, some big city folk like myself are not only pasty, but content with staking out a small stretch of sun - drenched sand and doing little else while on holiday in Mexico.

While United MileagePlus narrowly beat out AAdvantage in the earning stakes, AAdvantage trounced MileagePlus when it came to a comparison in the cost of awards.

Though the artist had finalized the arrangement for the earthwork, he died tragically in a plane crash while aerially viewing the staked - out form.

As his recent traveling retrospective showed, for the last three decades he has staked out a range of concepts and practices while the rest of the contemporary - art world seemed to follow in tow.

Over the past two years, Guccivuitton has staked out a unique position that meditates on the rich history of artist - run galleries while presenting content that reflects authentic regional material and vernacular culture.

The careful studies allude to the surprising intersections between the spheres of athletics and textiles while successfully staking out new territories where the two can coexist.

It seems to me that many have predicted what we are now seeing: As the position of the warmistas begins to become ever more untenable, there will be a variety of reactions, with some increasing the drumbeat of doom and becoming ever more shrill, attempts were made to completely silence critics of the True Faith by Any Means Necessary, some others backtracking and staking out a position on the fence, while still others fled like rats from a sinking ship.

While no one has since come forward to stake an earlier claim, Olson yesterday acknowledged that he could have been first, writing, «I actually don't remember whether there were any other law - related blogs when I started out eight years ago.»

I decided changing things up might help, so I staked out a table at the karaoke dive bar, ordered some fried mushrooms and a Diet Coke, and cranked out that draft while listening to folks do their favorite songs.

While some politicians have tried to avoid comment by arguing that this is an internal U.S. matter, the far - reaching implications for the world and for the millions of people whose lives are at stake does not allow for such an easy out.

While spending per litigated case went up, so did the average stakes per litigated case — the average stakes were higher under loser pays because the really weak cases had already been weeded out.

Some have argued that innovations like the Lightning Network will scale this problem out of existence, while other critics claim that a proof - of - stake, distributed consensus mechanism could prove to be more ecologically sound.

Both sides have staked out nearly identical corners of the Bitcoin space, with one group occupying bitcoin.org, Bitcointalk and / r / Bitcoin, while the Cash upstarts are squatting on the barely - distinguishable territories of bitcoin.com, @bitcoin and / r / btc.

Apple is staking out the premium category while Amazon goes for the masses.

It is import for companies like WhatsApp to stake out their own voice assistant messaging territory while consumer habits are being formed.

If the proof - of - stake turns out to be the future of cryptocurrencies and blows the older models out of the water, expect ETH to take off while the Ethereum Classic price will likely not see a benefit from this innovation, and may in fact be hurt by its reliance on an old - school model.

My thesis is that in the last decade, when organizations have reinvented, right - sized, downsized, off - shored, out - sourced, and cut expenses to the bone, HR has retrenched as employees stake out their turf while living in continual survival mode.