Sentences with phrase «written by a fifth»

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«In the long run the way to avoid refugee problems is to help countries develop by having good health, education and governance,» the Microsoft cofounder wrote in his fifth «Ask Me Anything» session on Reddit.»

If employees own one fifth of the shares under the program, for every four shares not owned by employees the chairman or the outside investors must write a put option on one share, and so on.

Fifth Circuit Judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the majority opinion that the DOL rule «fails the reasonableness test» of the Administrative Procedures Act by extending the department's ERISA authority to one - time IRA rollovers and similar transactions.

When we remove the impact of one - time write - downs and restructuring charges, we see that VIAB actually grew net operating profit after tax (NOPAT) by 7 % in 2015 and increased its ROIC for the fifth straight year.

What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song edited by Amy A. Kass, Leon R. Kass, and Diana Schaub ISI, 790 pages, $ 35 Writing early in the fifth century a.d. to bolster the spirits of Christians in chaotic political times, St. Augustine asked: «As for this mortal....

Malachi, probably to be dated in the first half of the fifth century B.C., is written by a man who stands between the era of legalism and the older epoch dominated by the prophet.

Jerome, the great Latin scholar who in the fifth century was responsible for the Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, in his brief biography of James, says: «James wrote a single Letter... and even this is claimed by some to have been published by someone else under his name, and gradually, as time went on, to have gained authority» (Lives of Illustrious Men 2).

Fifth, the right wing websites, who would never be caught dead reading a hostile left wing website and who would never read anything written by actual scientists (who they consider to either be part of the liberal elite or part of an ill - defined conspiracy), never hear about what poor science the study they're celebrating actually is, and go right on believing that their anti-global warming position is so obviously correct that everyone else must either be fools or conspirators.I believe the link pfft posted is step three.

This is the fifth of eight reflections on the Tory conference written by Tim Montgomerie, Editor of ConservativeHome.

«It,» Mr Baldry writes, «has helped reduce the number of children who die before their fifth birthday by 4 million since 1990 and the number of people receiving HIV medication has also increased tenfold as a result of aid assistance.»

U.S. Fifth Fleet Chaplain Mark Steiner wrote to Legislator Hardwick to express the gratitude of the servicemen and women who received valentines created by students attending schools in the City of Tonawanda, Grand Island and Town of Tonawanda.

That share had increased to 23 % by 2013, when its fifth report was being written, the survey found.

The press releases led to a slew of media coverage of the disorder; according to an analysis in 2006, one fifth of all articles written about it referred readers to the nonprofit Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation for more information, an organization that was then heavily subsidized by GlaxoSmithKline.

Adapted briskly and faithfully by Steve Kloves (who wrote all but the fifth Potter screenplay), the movie jumps right in where the last one ended - with Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) acquisition of the all - powerful Elder Wand.

Written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer (the latter's newsworthy credits include newsroom films Spotlight and The Fifth Estate), The Post has been described by Hanks as a story «about the week Katharine Graham became «Katharine Graham»».

Intramural is a sports comedy written by Jackson in his sophomore year of college about a boy named Caleb (played by Jake Lacey) who is a fifth year college senior in denial about life after school.

• Written in conjunction with Kojima Productions and Platinum Games in Japan, this is the fifth Metal Gear guide developed by Piggyback.

Rounding out the Top 5 in Fandango's horror category of most anticipated is The Purge: The Island in third place, Insidious: The Last Key (now in theaters) in fourth, and A Quiet Place (written and directed by John Krasinski and starring Emily Blunt) in fifth.

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This script, another in a lengthy series of plot retreads by Luc Besson (Wasabi, Kiss of the Dragon) and Robert Mark Kamen (The Fifth Element, A Walk in the Clouds), is rife with horribly written dialogue.

This fifth installment of The Witching Season is written and directed by James Morris, who also helmed the previous episodes Princess and Not Alone.

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer is the fifth narrative feature film written and directed by Joseph Cedar.

Vatche: I had been writing feature screenplays incessantly since my NYU thesis short film «Fifth Column» had been selected by the Cinéfondation at Cannes in 2010.

Release: Friday, September 18, 2015 (limited)[Vimeo] Written by: Adam Egypt Mortimer; Brian DeLeeuw Directed by: Adam Egypt Mortimer This review is my fifth contribution to Mr. Rumsey's Film Related Musings.

The review - proof production was again directed by David Yates (HP - 5, 6 & 8) and adapted to the screen by Steve Kloves, who wrote the script for all but the fifth episode.

By fifth grade, I no longer had significant difficulties with reading, writing, spelling and math.

By the end of the last school year, I could write a personal letter to all the parents highlighting just where their children were based on the promotion standards and what areas they would have to work on in the pivotal fifth grade.

The court's decision, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, contended that the Fifth Circuit reviewed the Texas admissions policy under the wrong standard.

Below are the first two paragraphs from a letter written by a Hollywood, Florida, fifth grader.

For example, I wrote in a previous blog about a teacher that teaches every fifth - grade math lesson by first presenting students with a challenge problem to see what they can do, then based on results from that task, breaks the students into three groups - remedial, progressing and advanced.

My daughter started writing books in first grade, was a better writer than me by third grade, and now here she is in fifth grade, afraid of a standardized writing test.

An article in U.S. News and World Report written by Robert Pondiscio, a journalist turned fifth grade teacher for a while (how he became a teacher is unclear), is entitled, «No Time to Lose» and «Early Reading Isn't a Threat to Kindergarten, Nor is Common Core.»

Three fifth - grade students of J.L. Bowler Elementary School were selected on June 3 at the school for writing the best essays for the Americanism Essay Contest, sponsored annually by the Mesquite Elks Lodge 2811.

However, by the fifth grade, the percentage of Capital Preparatory Students to meet or exceed CMT proficiency standards in reading and writing was greater than the state average, and the percentage of fifth grade students to meet or exceed CMT proficiency standards in math was significantly closer to the average state percentage.

He writes that a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics found that «10 percent of new teachers in 2007 - 08 didn't return the following year, increasing cumulatively to 12 percent in year three, 15 percent in year four and 17 percent in the fifth year.

Scenarios, rough draft writing samples, items, and prompts will be appropriate for fifth - grade students in terms of difficulty, interest, and reading level, as determined by the Content Review Committee.

The Fifth Woman (A Kurt Wallander Mystery) Written by: Henning Mankell Published by: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard

By the time I contacted Smith Publicity, I was exhausted and stressed from years of researching and writing my book, The Fifth Decade, Is It Just My Life or Is It Perimenopause, from finding a literary agent and then a publisher, and finally choosing a PR firm.

Touched by the story, he wrote a play based on the novel for his fifth - grade classroom, using the desks as «No - Man's - Land.»

After that, Cohen wrote a children's book about dinosaurs on a crime spree, then began the writing his fifth novel, This Is How It Really Sounds, published by St. Martin's Press in April 2015.

He was obsessed with time lately: how much time had elapsed between one event and another, how much time had gone by since the beginning of the world, since he had written his last Henry story, since he had given Joan a story to read, since he began reading the latest big book he was reading, how little time was left before he was late to a friend's house, before he started fifth grade, before his tenth birthday in late December, before he was all grown up.

(1) Each contract between the buyer and a credit services organization for the purchase of the services of the credit services organization shall be in writing, dated, signed by the buyer, and include all of the following: (a) a conspicuous statement in bold type, in immediate proximity to the space reserved for the signature of the buyer, as follows: «You, the buyer, may cancel this contract at any time prior to midnight of the fifth day after the date of the transaction.

This article is the fifth of this weekly series called Latticework of Mental Models, which will be authored by my friend and partner in writing the Value Investing Almanack, Anshul Khare.

The other source of value on TBAC's balance sheet is its receivables, carried at $ 26.4 M or $ 3.75 per share and written down by a fifth to $ 21.1 M or $ 3.00 per share.

By the end of my French course, I had refreshed my vocabulary and I could write sentences that didn't read like they came out of a fifth grader's notebook.

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As of this writing, a seventh fifth - floor classroom has been jointly underwritten by Cooper couple Paul Antaki (ME» 80) and Eileen Foy Antaki (ME» 81), Thomas W.Genega (EE» 78), RonaldS.Niles (BSE» 87), Robert G. Parkanyi (CE» 81) and Sheila F. McShane (CE» 80).

Editor's Note Yishu 72 is pleased to present essays by Dong Bingfeng and Lesley Ma, recipients of the Fifth Yishu Awards for Critical Writing on Contemporary Chinese Art.

It goes well beyond defending the integrity of the process and echoes earlier calls, some made by longtime panel contributors, for a series of changes that could reduce the chances that outright errors and errors of omission will creep in when the panel's fifth set of assessments is written in the next three years.

For those new to WattHead, the site is now in its fifth year (6th Anniversary will be this August) and has over 1,000 posts in the archives providing news, original analysis and opinionated commentary written by myself as well as the more than two dozen sometimes contributors, a group that includes some of the brightest and most insightful young thinkers, writers and activists on the web.