Sentences with phrase «working on a raft»

It was rumoured that there were a number of parties interested in acquiring Rare, a studio that had worked on a raft of hugely popular games such as Perfect Dark, Goldeneye and Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Freshfields has won the mandate from German car giant Volkwagen (VW) to work on a raft of legal cases in the UK and Europe stemming from the emissions test rigging scandal that the company is currently embroiled in.

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Shortly after the ruling, Google posted a raft of help - wanted ads seeking «bright, well - organized and spirited individuals to work with a stellar team on cutting edge technology issues» at its offices in Berlin, Rome, London and Brussels.

Davidson had worked on the company's adventures team, crafting deals on snowboarding, skiing, rafting, wine tours and other trips.

Supply teachers are facing a raft of exploitative employment practices, including denial of entitlements on pay, pensions and working conditions, a survey by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, has found.

Quite a long time ago, back in 2005, I was lucky enough to work with my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles) and James O'Shaughnessy on the pupil premium, and little did we know then that it would be a raft for such a friendly and successful coalition.

But in the latest push to revisit a ban on the foam food containers and packing materials, industry opponents have gained the momentum, despite a raft of lobbyists working against them.

Supply teachers are being exposed to a raft of exploitative employment practices, including denial of entitlements on pay, pensions and working conditions.

That work revealed that the hummocks were rafted across the valley on a liquefied base layer.

It relied on a raft of published materials, including work by the Nobel Peace Prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a series of 21 studies from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.

His work on controlled free radical polymer chemistry started in the mid 80's with his Nitroxide work and colminated in the late 90's with the publication on reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT).

When I am not working Ill be on a trail in the woods, Love a good adventure rafting zip lining, want some to...

Which is saying a lot, given that Metcalf was on the acclaimed Roseanne for 221 episodes and has earned rafts of praise for her work onstage in the years since.

The River Wild ** 1/2 (Century 16, Century 12) While enjoying a white - water rafting trip on a river where she once worked as a guide, Gail (Meryl Streep) and her family are taken prisoners — first psychologically, then physically — by Kevin Bacon and his henchman (John C. Reilly).

A Field in England may not be nominated, but this year's awards line up showcases the raft of British talent involved in the industry — whether that's Framestore's visual effects in Gravity or Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor's powerful work on 12 Years a Slave.

This is the directorial debut of brothers Todd and Jedd Wider, though the two have worked as producers on a raft of documentaries, including the Oscar - winning Taxi to the Dark Side and the Emmy - winning Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God.

After traveling down the Mississippi River on a raft he made with friends last year to film his thesis, he's been hard at work ever since — well, in the film world that is.

It was revealed that supply teachers are being exposed to a «raft of exploitative employment practices, including denial of entitlements on pay, pensions and working conditions».

We need an integrated approach in which every aspect of safeguarding is working together rather than a raft of policies gathering dust on a shelf.

The NASUWT teaching union has warned that supply teachers are facing» a raft of exploitative employment practices» and are being denied entitlements on pay, pensions and working conditions.

Maybe what Volvo is really onto here is the fact that the traditional station wagon is no longer even a niche vehicle, but has, despite the wishes of the many wagonistas with whom I share a line of work with, evolved into a boutique one — at least here in the U.S. With a sales pace exceeded even by the likes of Lamborghini, the 2018 Volvo V90 offers its small crop of buyers what the XC90 and V90 CC can not: the exclusivity of an exotic that can hold its own on a canyon road while hauling the dogs or a raft of cargo at the same time.

She currently blogs at TanyaSavko.com and lives in southern Oregon, where she tries to find time to work on her next novel when she's not out hiking, rafting, or wine tasting.

The most important work we do is one - on - one, reaching out to every member of the community, holding the life raft, whether the open book or other device holding information and stories.

A raft of improvements make it possible for developers to write a single app that will work well on tablet and phone without the need to cut different flavours for the two form factors (that is the theory anyway!).

The thoroughly researched and properly written business ethics thesis is the raft of your future professional work on the business plan and organization of your own thoughts.

Costa Rica is a member of World Green Building Council But do not think that volunteering is a lot of hard work, many offer surfing and Spanish classes, go on river rafting and ziplining adventures, and watch the whales.

Go rafting on the Rio Bueno and work together as a team to paddle over gorgeous pools and splashing rapids.

Forty of his paintings and a full raft of works on paper held the exhibition halls of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts» oldest and grandest buildings with astonishing ease and gravitas.

Adam Weinberg: Raft of the Medusa is a sculptural work that is actually very painterly in many ways, because although it's hard to believe, it actually is more related to what he did early on in the Black Paintings than you might think.

Among the works on view will be Swoon's handmade raft, Old Hickory, 2009, Mark Dion's Cabinet of Marine Debris, 2013, Bas Jan Ader's installation, In Search of the Miraculous, 1975, Simon Starling's large format projection, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006, and detailed models by R. Buckminster Fuller (Triton City Model, 1980), Pedro Reyes (Floating Pyramid, 2004), and Cesar Harada (Protei 010.9 Mini Cargo, 2014).

I am learning to make more time for this and consider it an essential part in finding my life's balance.I have also taken on commission works, most recently, the poster and cover program for the famous Lewes to Newhaven Raft race, and this year's cover for the well known Cliffe Bonfire society.Many of my pieces over the years have been murals, and my own home is like a gallery in itself.

Artists including Pure Evil, Pam Glew, and Enzo Marra have massively downscaled their often large, even mural - like works for the Art on a Plectrum project which, as the name suggests, sees a raft of creative talent making art on guitar picks.

The artist takes his painterly observations to the point of critique with Rift / Raft, a diptych that juxtaposes people decadently lounging around art with refugees arriving on a beach, a scene taken from one of his earlier works.

Upon entering the gallery, the largest work in the exhibition Breach (large figure on raft)(2016), takes center stage.

Accumulation (1971), which is executed with the dancers on their backs, has been performed in public spaces of all kinds, including on water, with the dancers floating on rafts as they methodically work through the piece's graduated gestures.

Her early works, e.g., 1971's Walking on the Wall, Roof Piece, and Accumulation, were experimental, often utilizing «equipment» such as ropes, pulleys, and harnesses, or set in unusual locations such as rooftops, rafts, and the sides of buildings, and were frequently performed without music.

Since she began presenting work as a member of the experimental Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s, Trisha Brown has staged dances on rooftops, rafts and the sides of buildings, performed inside a cloud created by mist makers and danced on a skateboard in a parking lot, lit only by a Volkswagen's headlights.

Gathered on the raft are also over a dozen works by several generations of First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists from Remai's collection.

From the crews romp at Rios Tropicales, a Costa Rican low - impact river rafting company supporting the sustainable development of a local community, to their flight on Nature Air to destination Leatherback Trust, an organization working to protect the leatherback turtles nesting on the beaches around Playa Grand — it's an adventurous read chock full of inspiring companies and people making a difference.

With the advent of Legal COOs now running legal as a business, this range of services is becoming hard to stay on top of: complex legal advisory work, mid-tier business - as - usual work, low level but high - volume work, legal project management, consulting around how legal matters are managed, a raft of new legal technology to implement, AI, the need for a flexible lawyering service... the list goes on.

So add to this context the raft of measures in the 2014 Budget targeting younger Australians: significantly higher university education fees, the withdrawal of the (manifestly inadequate) Newstart allowance for those under 30 unemployed for more than six months, the forced mobility for work provisions, the withdrawal of the «Tools for Trades» program for apprentices, the loss of other key support programs like Youth Connections and Young Parenting Programs, the introduction of tighter requirements on access to the Disability Support Pension and more.

One group he targets is Cuban immigrants (some of his recent prospects arrived in the United States a year ago on a raft) because he's found that «they tend to like working with someone from their own culture.