Sentences with phrase «year as a catalyst»

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The move is especially pertinent to Cannes as mega-producer Harvey Weinstein, the catalyst of the #MeToo movement, was accused of assaulting women at the festival in previous years.

After a tough start to the year, investors are eyeing company earnings reports as a potential catalyst to boost the already fragile market.

This negative feedback served as the catalyst for the clinic to completely overhaul their people strategy, resulting in increased scores in the same assessment — beginning the very next year.

I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

The figure was brought down by an 800 billion won ($ 745 million) special employee bonus to commemorate 20 years since Chairman Lee Kun - hee announced a management strategy that the company regards as the catalyst to its recent growth.

Buyers say better - than - expected earnings, as well as lower prices at the pump and relatively positive economic data provide three powerful catalysts that should drive a slow churn higher into the end of the year.

In 16 years of running my own business, I've found that providing the «standard» benefits as well as other meaningful (but less expensive) perks can be a catalyst for employees to reach their full potential.

And there is no shortage of potential catalysts to move this rally in precious metals, both gold and silver, beyond the skepticism phase: military intervention on North Korea, government shutdown as the debt ceiling is reached in September, further implications of Trump's collusion with Russia, and the beginning of balance sheet reduction later this year by the Fed, to name just a few.

I think that the mere anticipation of corporate tax reform served as an important catalyst for stocks in general throughout the year.

New Dole looks to be massively undervalued, will still hold very good high value assets, especially saleable land, has some future potential catalysts that could help unlock value, it should be able to compete better with Fresh Del Monte and Chiquita, and new Dole will now be freed up to make acquisitions and improvements to its business and operations after the transaction with Itochu closes as it will not be burdened by the massive amount of debt that it has carried for years.

I see those trends in the first sentence as very big, important, and long - term catalysts supporting Textainer's business model for years to come.

As a result, the Bank of Canada's current stance to leave interest rates unchanged given its concerns about the country's lacklustre economic growth could be an important catalyst for preferred share performance going forward — especially when combined with the U.S. Federal Reserve's projections for multiple rate hikes this year.

The permission granted to SQM to ramp lithium production capacity to 216,000 tonnes per year by 2025 was viewed as a negative catalyst for the sector, but this ignored the permitting necessary, enormous capital requirements (perhaps over $ 1B USD), and onerous new royalty structure which penalizes price maximization.

As such, we also want to identify a catalyst that we believe will occur within that 2 year period.

The outbreak of a particularly vicious and meaningless little war in Asia that stymied America's leadership both militarily and politically for years on end, acted as a catalyst but did not cause the crisis.

Young adult and middle - years couples may be selected and specially trained to be available for enriching shaky teenage marriages in two ways — as catalysts in preparation for marriage groups and / or linked with teen couples who desire a young but more experienced couple as peer «consultants.»

He sees the move as the ideal catalyst for his career as he hopes to secure a spot in the team for next year's World Cup.

Arsenal have long been linked with interest in the 20 year old and the huge lead Bayern Munich have opened up at the top of the table may act as a catalyst for another high - profile Westfalenstadion departure, with the likes of Nuri Sahin and Shinji Kagawa both leaving in recent seasons.

A starter at left tackle (and occasionally the right) in 2017, Wynn was the catalyst that paved the way for top runners in Sony Michel and Nick Chubb, He served as the blindside protector for SEC Freshman of the Year quarterback Jake Fromm.

However, since the 25 - year - olds return to Old Trafford things have not necessarily gone according to plan and he has struggled to find the form that made him such a talent in Serie A. Although he won two trophies last season, the highlight coming as he was the catalyst for United's UEFA Europa League win against Ajax, he was recently dropped for a number of important games for the Reds.

We re-constructed the experiment with a group of local parents here in the Twin Cities about ten years ago, and it serves as a catalyst for important conversations about the role that self - discipline plays in our children's success and happiness...

When I started my small garden a few years ago it served as a catalyst for changing the way we live: Eating fresh, playing in the dirt, and doing crafts and DIYs that are inspired by nature.

«Sometimes state and federal dollars can serve as a catalyst for new private sector investment and you see that happening in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus which employs some 14,000 people today [and] will employ another 4,000 over the next four years.»

They were left to act as a catalyst for the government to seek consensual reform including the full removal of hereditary peers, originally intended within five years.

If the turbulent year of 2016 showed anything about the technology we use, it's about its role as a catalyst in driving «identity» based politics — a type of discourse where substance is less important than overall ideological positioning.

Republican - backed groups are using the Percoco trial as a catalyst to hurt Cuomo's re-election chances as he seeks a third term this year.

Cuomo remarked that the story of Kalief Browder, the 22 - year - old Bronx man who committed suicide after spending three years on Rikers, often in solitary confinement, served as the catalyst for getting the legislation through.

«As we near the end of phase one, the AUD continues to be the catalyst for «The U District,» a vision that has been in the works for five years,» said Mohawk Valley Garden President Robert Esche.»»

What enthuses people, he says, is seeing the fruits of their labours — such as a new car catalyst — on the market on a timescale of a couple of years.

«If you put humans as the target, even though you are not going to make a human baby, it will be provocative, it will be misinterpreted, but people will engage,» says Andrew Hessel, a self - described futurist and biotechnology catalyst at Autodesk in San Francisco, California, a successful software company that specializes in 3D design programs for architecture and other fields that has been exploring synthetic biology applications in recent years.

In recent years, researchers have been testing whether so - called dendrimers — polymers grown into spherical particles — can be used as everything from drug carriers to catalysts.

Undergraduate David Austin, who completes his four - year MChem degree this year, has also participated in the research, working on using sugars as the catalyst for producing drug - like molecules.

This group's achievement demonstrates the possibility of changing high - value chemical compounds such as bioethanol, which has been gathering attention in recent years, into different chemical compounds by using catalysts differently.

The research team expected that it would take a year or so to commercialize this technology as the nano - catalyst and the filter coating technologies had been developed already.

Although much progress has been made in recent years in the development of catalysts devoid of noble metals, photosensitizers still rely, in the main, on molecular compounds containing rare and costly metals, such as ruthenium and iridium, or on inorganic semiconductor materials containing cadmium, a toxic metal.

(f) The BRAIN Initiative has the potential to be a major driver of new industries and jobs in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and information technologies, as well as a catalyst for major breakthroughs in brain - related diseases, injuries, and illnesses, including Alzheimer's disease, which is programmed to cost California over thirty billion dollars ($ 30,000,000,000) a year by 2030.

As part of the three - year grant, McEwen and his colleagues will develop and test computer models to accurately predict catalysts» behavior under real - life conditions.

I think that this investment has accelerated to the pace of research in the field of glaucoma; the number of publications that are really focusing on these mechanistic insights have just exploded in the last ten years, so this investment by Glaucoma Research Foundation was really a catalyst that allowed us to dig in deeper to understanding what's actually happening in the disease as the disease is progressing.

And, yet, throughout the years, what we wear and carry with us has served as vehicles, reminders, and catalysts for those crucial things.

After years as a researcher, teacher, and communicator, she has gathered tons of insight on how we can use complicated, deep - rooted emotions as catalysts for change.

This was an excellent breakdown of how workwear has changed in 20 years and I think you are spot - on citing the whimsicality of Sex in the City and the stylish comfort of Michelle Obama's looks as catalysts.

When I started my small garden a few years ago it served as a catalyst for changing the way we live: Eating fresh, playing in the dirt, and doing crafts and DIYs that are inspired by nature.

The rise in interracial relationships, dating and marriage has seen an upswing in the past few years and websites like afroromance act as a catalyst fanning the desire to reach out and date black men and women of their choice.

Regrettably, there is actually a market for movies like this, and the crowds of fifteen - year - old boys that manage to sneak in to the R - rated flick will enjoy every minute; including the 20 - minute party sequence that functions only as a catalyst for more marijuana - induced comedy.

And how he is determined not to let his worthy film be defined by that case, lest it detract from his mission to use Turner's story as a catalyst for discussion on the turbulence between blacks and whites that has roiled major cities across the country this year.

The beginning bares a slight resemblance to his film Southpaw from last year as both have the wife character dying at the beginning which acts as a catalyst to how the story unfolds.

Wells says one of those popular shows, As Schools Match Wits, was actually the catalyst behind WGBH's decision to invest in a new program last year.

Keith Collar, associate dean for planning and outreach at HGSE, said advancing the idea of entrepreneurship as a catalyst for influencing the field of education is a logical outgrowth of the work by faculty during the academic year.

Now, more than 20 years later, Jenkins has used that spontaneous act of theatrical transformation as a source of inspiration, with a program he created that attempts to use theater as a catalyst for positive change in prisons throughout the world.

IEL published a retrospective, Fifty Years of Growing Policy - Savvy Leaders - and More to Come, highlighting EPFP's five decades as catalyst, guide, and premier cross-boundary leadership development opportunity.