Sentences with phrase «year off the backs»

You have mentioned Pogba, Messi et al when making your point but lets conveniently overlook the fact these type of players are a one off, and let us also forget about the hundred of EPL youngsters hyped to high heavens in recent years off the back of a few spectacular performances only for them to flounder and disappear under rye scrutiny and pressure of expectation, the latest been the kid from Aston Villa who was meant to set the league alight this season but who has now totally flopped... nobody is disputing Iwobi's quality, but he still needs nurturing and care, AFC is a team who is expected to win things and the pressure can break a player, am dead sure you were drooling at the mouth about Ox few years back as you would have done with Walcott too, but 4 years and 10 years after we are still awaiting them to fulfill their potentials....

The British outfit is graduating to the WEC this year off the back of a successful race - winning European Le Mans Series campaign with the Aston Martin Vantage GTE.

But the revolution Amazon started with its 7 - inch Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet, which Amazon diligently plotted for the last couple of years off the back of its Kindle e-reader successes, has been jumped upon by Google and Co., and now the Kindle Fire faces competition from models with improved specs and software, for the same price.

Liberal estimates say the change would lift $ 3 billion worth of tax burden per year off the backs of middle - income earners.

My client are looking to grow significantly this year off the back of a great 2017.

They are looking to grow significantly this year off the back of private equity funding.

GLOBAL START - UP RECRUITMENT 50 GRADUATE POSITIONS The Company is a Global Recruitment start - up, with a number of niche, specialist Recruitment brands that cover Professional Services sectors globally they look to grow significantly this year off the back of private equity funding.

Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Recruitment Basic Salary of # 18,000 - # 20,000 + Uncapped Commission My client are looking to grow significantly this year off the back of a great 2017.

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To get Lulu back on track, experts believe, Potdevin needs to repair a brand tarnished by last year's see - through yoga - pants disaster, fend off new competition from well - heeled rivals Gap, Nike and UnderArmour, and keep growing fast enough to mollify the suddenly dyspeptic public markets.

This Peter / Paul conundrum is interesting: we very often see examples where people have paid off their credit cards using available lines of credit, only to have their credit card balances swell back to where they were within a year or so.

Back in the old days of television programming — say, 15 years ago — most standup specials like Black's ran for a limited time on one of the three main cable channels that aired comedy (HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central) before being shuffled off to the archives.

Perth - based Automotive Holdings Group has delivered a lower full - year net profit result on the back of restructures and one - off costs associated with its refrigerated logistics business.

«It took the Unites States 30 years to bring interest rates back up to 4 percent... with massive fiscal stimuli in between... to get people off that trauma.

A few years back, Netflix founder Reed Hastings told Inc. how he got started and how he fended off challenges from Wal - Mart and Blockbuster.

While this may sound like a pipe dream, the idea became a reality thanks to $ 50 million in venture backing — in particular, the $ 40 million invested by Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire Samuel Yin in a Series A round in 2011, which trimmed years off production and helped the company quickly ramp up to more than 450 employees.

Labor force participation is down significantly over the past 20 years, but rising pay and benefits could entice some people off the sidelines and back to work.

But she and her husband have since had to postpone their retirement by a couple of years to help support their 21 - year - old daughter, who's now going off to university, and their 27 - year - old son, who's moving back home to pursue culinary school.

When John Roth thinks back on the oil market of two years ago, a certain calamitous image comes to mind: «I liken it to pushing a freight train off the top of a hill,» says Roth, manager of the $ 3 billion Fidelity New Millennium Fund.

Since Legere kicked off the first Uncarrier deal and did away with two - year contracts back in 2013, T - Mobile has soared.

In July last year, when CIR was known as Asset Backed Holdings, it launched an off - market bid for the shares it did not already own in PRL at $ 3 cash a share.

With former chief executive Myron Ullman III now back at the helm, same - store sales in the fourth quarter inched up 2 % from the same period a year prior, though a healthy turnaround remains a long way off.

But something wonderful has happened in the last few years — technology has forced OPEC to back off.

In the late 1960s, he slipped off a bank along the Manistee River in Michigan, injured his back, lapsed into a semi-coma and for some two years was forced to wear a corset.

After featuring actor Anthony Hopkins last year, the tax prep software company is back with a teaser for a three - part series of ads showing Humpty Dumpty falling off a wall while doing his taxes.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

After two and a half years of a cramped existence defined largely by the pain in his back and arms — he says he used to lie in bed for hours pressing a spot on his forearm, imagining he had a button there that could shut the pain off — Rahimi is largely pain free.

Even after this year's sell - offs, it remains above its two - year trendline dating back to early 2016 lows.

What if there were a way you could take off months, or even a year, and come back reenergized and ready to take on the corporate world?

About five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell, author of bestselling books like The Tipping Point and Blink, made this prediction, basically writing off the power of social media for businesses: «In about five years, everyone will head back toward traditional advertising.»

It's that time of the year again, when kids drag their parents along the different store aisles to check off school supplies, clothing and electronics on their list of back - to - school items.

But his journey actually goes back 14 years, when his claim to fame was being the creator of an off - Broadway hit show.

Last year Maker's Mark drew brickbats after it announced that it would reduce the proof on its signature expression from 90 to 84 (proof is twice the alcohol percentage) as a way to make supplies last (it backed off).

While Barnes & Noble's business has stabilized as the growth of e-books has slowed, the retailer has pulled back on its Nook e-reader business and last year spun off its college bookstore division, putting fresh pressure on the company to prove it can make its core bookselling business grow again.

Years of self - described «fiddle - faddling» with valves and wires in the back of his real estate office paid off with Marotta's 1968 invention of the Mr. Coffee coffeemaker.

The U.S. economy continues to strengthen largely as we expected, shaking off the temporary factors that held it back earlier in the year.

Lenders took heart from its state backing, which appeared as solid as the millions of tons of steel pipes that rolled off its production lines each year.

Over the course of the mortgages, however, paying back the borrowed $ 250,000 costs $ 414,763.20 when paid off over 30 years, but just $ 311,410.80 when paid back over 15 years — which would save a borrower over $ 100,000 in interest.

Similarly, homeowners who have bought solar tiles will be able to sell energy back to power grids for additional income once they pay off their loans, which can take from eight to 11 years.

The San Francisco company has since bounced back under Hammergren, but the comeback took years to pull off.

The transaction is another loss for Uber after exiting China last year, as the company backs off from a once very aggressive international expansion push.

Joel Greenblatt, he is Wall Street royalty, he's a legend in the hedge fund and mutual fund worlds, he ran a fund called Gotham Capital 10 consecutive years compounding it 50 percent a year, those numbers are just off the charts at the end of the decade, he returned money back to investors and said I'm just going to manage my own money for a while, thanks.

TIL, which typically uses its own resources or that of its deep - pocket parent BCCL to fund growth initiatives, had kicked off the uncharacteristic move of raising substantial external capital for MagicBricks Realty Services Ltd early last year when the digital real estate business in India saw the emergence of a host of new players backed by global investors such as SoftBank, News Corp and Tiger Global.

The headline we took from this year's edition is that Ottawa is not backing off on climate action.

That was when we knew the company was off to the races — they did over $ 200M in loan volume that year and never looked back.

The news comes as global debt markets were already selling off amid signs that central banks are starting to step back after years of bond - buying stimulus.

Once an item is killed off due to oversaturation, it can take years to build back the credibility and demand.

As the year progresses, more off lease vehicles will come back driving down the price of used and further reducing residuals on leased vehicles making new leases more expensive.

EM equities are coming off a stellar 2017, but we see room for more gains as investors flock back after years of EM under - allocation.

Democratic lawmakers lashed out at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday amid a report that the agency was backing off an investigation into a massive data breach at Equifax last year that exposed sensitive data about millions of people.

After taking a few years off due to the Great Recession, people are now back in their cars, driving to work and going on vacation.