Sentences with word «witnessed»

This interaction, which I witnessed earlier this week, ended without incident — the cops went on their way and the men continued on their commute — but the mild hostility speaks to a nationwide problem.

Some of the most cringe - worthy moments Bryce Benjamin has witnessed involved people who got defensive and argued with the judges.

But failing to address inappropriate behavior that you've witnessed can still cause harm.

«We have not witnessed such extreme levels of concentrated wealth and power since the first gilded age a century ago,» the report says.

If you've ever attended it though — or even just witnessed the gathering from outside — you know that there's a whole lot more going on than people sitting through sessions on how to use various sales apps.

While the ramifications of this dramatic move lay chiefly in the political realm, the business side of this drama is inspiring; when was the last time you witnessed one of the largest companies in the world going head - to - head with such A large foreign government?

As many consumers and retailers witnessed last year, shipping can play a major role in determining the success of the holiday - shopping season.

Standard and Poor's estimates the federal government's partial paralysis cost $ 24 billion, and consultancy IHS Global Insights said on Wednesday that the spike in short - term interest yields witnessed in the week of Oct. 14 alone will add $ 114 million to the federal debt.

Michael Adams, who has been surveying Canadians quarterly since 1976 at Toronto - based Environics Research, witnessed a seismic shift in attitude.

The 1990s witnessed a mountain bike boom that was followed by the popularization of road biking in the early 2000s.

During the 12 years Barton spent in Asia, he witnessed a massive transformation.

According to a study by the Pew Research Center, «60 percent of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names.»

There he witnessed the $ 25 low - tech gizmo known colloquially as the «magic clock» in action (officially it's known as a Time Timer).

With the benefit of having witnessed the daily operations of Congress firsthand, I can't help but wonder if Congress itself has been rendered obsolete by such advances.

Through the 40 - plus investments I've made through my venture fund, Jumpstart Ventures, I've seen that the music is still playing, and have witnessed the impact that this good news has had on entrepreneurs.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that for fiscal 2009 the deficit will be US$ 1.6 trillion, or 11.2 % of GDP — a crippling magnitude last witnessed during the Second World War.

«When the EMT arrived, she stayed to make sure everything was okay,» said an X17 photographer who witnessed the scene.

The film boasts an accumulation of black artistic talent unlike anything we have witnessed in recent cinematic history.

Udacity was founded by Sebastian Thrun, a former Stanford University professor who in 2011 offered a free online course in artificial intelligence and witnessed 160,000 students in 190 countries enroll.

As an advisor with a traditional wealth management firm, Ahluwalia witnessed a burgeoning need, which led him to co-found National Social Security Partners, a national network of advisors that provide outsourced Social Security income - maximization planning to clients of CPAs, law firms and banks.

In the last few weeks I personally witnessed each faux pas listed and am sharing below remedies to fix each one.

But today, every Starbucks customer has become a potential citizen - journalist, and every social media user feels empowered to react as if he or she had witnessed the event first - hand.

He points to a strong correlation between the Fed's balance sheet and equity prices never witnessed before.

Mainframe initially sold its tokens in a private pre-sale exclusively for accredited investors (several of whom witnessed the airdrop), raising 27,000 of Ethereum cryptocurrency that's currently worth some $ 15 million.

In the past, I have witnessed many major tribes in their creation and coming of age.

There he witnessed many people, including his father, who were left out of the American dream.

In 1994, I witnessed perhaps history's most insane commencement addresses, at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass..

Perhaps a person watched as half their 401 (k) plan savings vanished when the dot - com bubble burst, or witnessed their mother get fired unexpectedly.

Though the world has witnessed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg undergo some striking changes over the past 10 years, some fundamentals — like his wardrobe, for instance — have remained largely unchanged since he started a college social network in 2004.

Although no state has defaulted on general obligation bonds in over 80 years, the 19 th century witnessed numerous instances in which states - and the Florida territory - defaulted on their debts or even repudiated them outright.

Yet far too often you may find yourself falling back into patterns you witnessed over and over again in your youth and were displeased by.

«We have witnessed abuse, harassment, troll armies, manipulation through bots and human - coordination, misinformation campaigns, and increasingly divisive echo chambers,» Dorsey said.

The «old fashioned» risk - off environment that we witnessed at the start of the week — with stocks and bonds moving in opposite directions — seems to have subsided.

A LendingTree survey found that customers who received five quotes on its platform for a typical 30 - year home loan of $ 223,000 witnessed a difference of 52 basis points from the highest to the lowest quotes.

Depending on the invention, you may also need to build and test it, documenting all of these efforts in your notebook (and having them witnessed as well).

The audience witnessed a performance by someone who wasn't trying to impress.

The announcement of the vote, witnessed by reporters in the Great Hall of the People, passed with two «no» votes and three abstentions among almost 3,000 delegates.

But as Assad reasserts control after the army and its allies routed rebels in Aleppo, these Syrians living in exile fear that a new crackdown that will include arrests and executions, and be worse than anything witnessed pre-war.

We witnessed an analogous situation in 2005 when PetroChina invested in Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway oil pipeline project, then withdrew its support two years later (whereupon Enbridge shelved the project).

The company, however, has witnessed declining sales, hurt by changing consumer habits as they adapt to online shopping.

At the end of his speech he challenged the audience to contemplate boldness, and take bold action when they witnessed opportunity to improve the diversity and equality at their own companies.

The investigation witnessed a worker chucking a live chick in a wheelbarrow of dead and dying birds and leaving it for an hour, before coming back to empty the wheelbarrow into another bin.

Fauxbae'ing is a curious habit 19 % of single men have witnessed.

The report's most graphic allegation details how, in Moscow, Trump supposedly witnessed prostitutes perform «golden showers» for him in the Ritz - Carlton hotel, on a bed where Obama and his wife had stayed during one of their trips to Russia.

Because of the possibility of a patent interference, it is wise to document all invention - related activities in a signed and witnessed inventor's notebook so that you can later prove the date the invention was conceived and the steps you took to build and test the invention or quickly file a patent application.

That sparked the idea for Endeavor, the New York - based organization Rottenberg launched in 1997 with Peter Kellner, an investor who had witnessed the same lack of advocacy for entrepreneurs during a Harvard Business School trip to China.

Now I'm sure some people won't agree with these descriptions, but I've certainly witnessed them many times over the years.

GE has no tolerance for hate, bigotry, racism, and the white supremacist extremism that the country witnessed in Charlottesville last weekend.

Cooper, one of the first journalists on the ground after the massive earthquake that reduced much of Haiti's capital of Port - Au - Prince to rubble, on Thursday night detailed harrowing feats of humanity and strength he witnessed there.

Chris's response was telling: «The Americans, the local Iraqis, anyone who I witnessed violence coming down on them and I could not save them.»