Sentences with phrase «wound up»

It wound up closing about 175 stores last year, the company reported in a quarterly earnings statement in December.

Two years later, after losing nearly 100 pounds, I even wound up on The Dr. Oz Show, alongside Dr. Fuhrman, where I discussed why Eat to Live, the eating plan I largely followed when I wasn't juice fasting, was (and remains) a key element to my health.

Also contributing to the IPO package is senior writer Jay Finegan, with an article about an air - traffic controller who became a cigar distributor and wound up taking his business public.

«The trees are a bit of a nightmare — a chap hit one at 180 kilometres an hour and wound up with some pretty bad bruising despite the harnesses,» he said.

He'd always had a backup plan in mind — piecing together a short leave by carrying over some holiday time and adding in a few weeks of future vacation — and in the end, he wound up using it and got his time with his daughter.

Wound up and unwound over and over, MacBook chargers can fray at the point where the cord exits the charger body.

We just completed a deal involving a foundry that wound up earning a much higher valuation for its equity than we might ever have imagined possible.

Instead, the group that converted wound up with a stake that totaled 7 %.»

During a sales - tax audit, we wound up having to pay $ 1,000 — but the auditor was helpful, too, by taking some extra time to show us how to avoid mistakes in the future.»

Secret Identitee wound up getting a recommitment for 15,000 pieces.

There's no doubt that Down N» Out is inspired by In - N - Out, but from looking at the menus and social - media accounts of the two companies, I don't think anyone who walked into the Australian chain would really think they were at the American company — any more than somebody who went to Outback Steakhouse in the U.S. might actually think they'd somehow wound up in Australia.

After the banking business was sold to ABN Amro in 2001, he wound up at Fulcrum (the «bucket research shop»).

The three longtime rivals wound up splitting silver behind Schooling, 21.

United Flight # 3411 wound up being delayed by two hours.

Ultimately, the plane wound up being delayed by two hours.

That valley wound up being flooded and turned into a sea that had drowned the massive group of hosts (including Teddy, whose dead body was the final shot of the episode).

Hoffman wound up investing in Tagged, and later, when Hoffman launched LinkedIn, Tseng helped supercharge membership.

They wound up generating 15.

The company also wound up with a torrent of free press.

Among the confessions were a junior associate who failed to include a timeline in a contract he was working on, which wound up killing the deal.

Last year, a designer at the firm won for an unorthodox publication design that wound up laying waste to the production schedule and resulted in a costly error.

I wound up doing four games the next season, and gradually did more and more games.

«We never really put two and two together, but about half a year ago we started thinking this would be a great idea, put a business plan together, and wound up invited to Moot Corp,» Koeris said.

It wound up on the cover of the June, 1985 issue of National Geographic and became «the most memorable image that we have ever published,» according to William Allen, the publication's former editor - in - chief.

A giant purple freight truck wound up in a snow bank on Monday morning across the street from the conference center, temporarily paralyzing the already slow - moving traffic.

«I wound up in the hospital with internal bleeding,» he says.

Cesc's homecoming did not have a fairytale ending and he wound up leaving home again.

First of all, it started raising money for the first time and wound up with about $ 163 million in funding.

So, they flew back to India — where they ultimately wound up purchasing one - way tickets to the U.S. on Qatar Airways, at a cost of several thousand dollars, to avoid having to travel through Russia again.

While we wound up winning along with two other teams out of a pool of more than 4,000 applicants, none of us had actually produced clean energy, fixed a significant element of the education system or tested a solution to the housing crisis.

Merck among companies wound up in global cyberattacks.

While the office redesign started as a strategic attempt to consolidate buildings, it wound up revitalizing the entire organization.

They wound up growing fast enough that Anchor Brewing was able to avoid a second capacity crisis altogether.

The company needed a boost, but wound up with mismanagement chaos.

This is not the first time that telecommunications companies have wound up in court, squaring off against the FCC.

A huge, well - capitalized rival already on the inside track and a ticking clock on the deal — you can see why Target, in the heat of the moment, wound up overpaying for the dowdy Zellers chain.

When he joined the company in 2004 it was still struggling against competitor XM, but with his help it dominated the rush for subscribers and wound up absorbing XM in 2008.

The company wound up mired in costly lawsuits and a slew of negative publicity that hurt its bottom line.

Though Krystal thought she had the date in the bag after throwing Kendall under the bus, she wound up being the one without a rose at the end of their date.

A self - driving Uber was caught on video running a red light, a Google self - driving car collided with a bus, and of course a Tesla failed to «see» a truck that was blocking the road and wound up killing its owner.

Shontell: You went off to Harvard, and then you did what a lot of Harvard people seem to do: You wound up on Wall Street.

Many wound up paying higher prices than they otherwise would have as a result of this strategy, which likely convinced some agencies to commit more cash to the up front auctions this year.

This trove then wound up in the hands of Moscow's spies.

The pledge wound up becoming a business plan of sorts, inspiring them to found the Austin - based fitness company Camp Gladiator.

The sale of Accurate wound up returning more than 100 percent to Evolution's investors and boosted the fund's overall return to more than 31 percent.

What's more, the insight wound up informing Coca - Cola's decisions around sustainability (more agricultural initiatives) and visual branding (changing the Minute Maid carton).

My days are quite well - prepared for me, and I sometimes feel like I'm being wound up at the beginning of the day and have got one hell of a lot of things on the plate.

«It's clear that the buyer wound up with something not quite what it thought it was buying,» says Kip Witter, a vice president at The Brenner Group, Inc., a Cupertino, Calif. - based financial management and advisory firm that works with Silicon Valley tech companies.

I wound up feeling that the Stelvio is splitting the difference between the Ultimate Driver's environment of BMW and the duller presentation you might get with an ostensibly lower - grade brand, such as Buick.

Jobs started Next and wound up working with Pixar before being welcomed back, Gates is now arguably the greatest philanthropist that the world has ever seen, Trump is running for president — and I have not ended up that bad either.