Sentences with phrase «years battling in»

If an hourly - paid desk jockey without Errors and Ommissions Insurance does same, what recourse have you... the five - year battles in the courts?

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Luckily, there was less emotional investment in the game this year, with the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots going to battle.

The revelation follows the release in May, following another FoI battle, of the so - called «black spider memos» sent by the Prince to ministers over several years.

Despite Hefner winning a nearly two - year battle with the U.S. Post Office to secure second - class mailing privileges for Playboy magazine, the publication was still reviled in many quarters of pre-sexual-revolution America, and cautious investors wanted nothing to do with the project.

The New Republic formed in the wake of the Battle of Endor (seen in «Return of the Jedi») as the new central government, but in the 30 years since, it fell into disarray and began to collapse.

This year, the startup measured a few star - studded standouts: an Amazon ad in which Alexa loses her voice and gets replaced by Anthony Hopkins and Cardi B; a joint Mountain Dew - Doritos campaign highlighting a rap battle between Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage; and a Tourism Australia spot starring Danny McBride, Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie, and Russell Crowe.

In addition to the battle for control, which has pitted Dauman against 93 - year - old controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone and his daughter Shari, the company said that advertising sales have been weak, and they are expected to be down by 4 % for the quarter.

His efforts come after a year of distractions for the company as the Redstones battled to maintain control, resulting in the departure of former CEO Philippe Dauman.

When unemployment hit rock bottom a few years ago, few people credited that it would battle back so strongly in the post-recession climate.

Procter & Gamble (pg) waged a number of battles last year with activist investor Nelson Peltz, who succeeded in gaining a board seat after months of fighting.

In a market research battle of the brands study last year, the allure of bacon was put up against the popularity of Angelina Jolie.

During a year - long battle with the bank, I lived in daily fear of losing my home, in addition to everything else.

After a seven - year legal battle, European authorities came down hard on Google on Tuesday for taking advantage of its dominance in online searches to direct customers to its own businesses, fining the tech giant a record 2.42 billion euros ($ 2.72 billion) and raising the prospect of more.

While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

This spring, he spent two weeks running the numbers and battling insomnia before making a dramatic announcement to his 120 - member staff on April 13, inviting NBC News and The New York Times to cover it: Over the next three years, he will phase in a minimum wage of $ 70,000 at Gravity and immediately cut his own salary from $ 1.1 million to $ 70,000 to help fund it.

The 69 - year - old railroad veteran stormed into Canadian Pacific in June 2012 after a proxy battle led by activist investor Bill Ackman and has made good on his promise to repair the underperforming company.

Citing concerns about giving Google «a significant advantage over competitors,» a New York federal judge shot down a settlement that would permit Google to make millions of books accessible online — the latest setback in the Internet behemoth's six - year - long legal battle over its digital library.

It forced AT&T to scrap a plan to buy T - Mobile USA in 2011 and last year successfully battled in court to stop two insurance industry mergers, among others.

Even Atlantic Canada, which has battled declining enrolment in recent years, saw its undergraduate numbers rise by 1.5 %.

The CBC story rightly points out that, 20 years ago, a young Canadian woman named Gwen Jacobs fought and won a legal battle for the right to go topless — entirely topless — in public.

The conglomeration effort died ignominiously in 1987 amid a shareholder battle, two years after the Hertz acquisition and almost 20 years after the company had bought Westin.

This year's winners incorporated the advent of the information age and developed models of how markets can also respond to day - to - day and minute - by - minute information, such as the minutiae involved in the current budget battle and debt - ceiling talks in Congress.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

Whether you agree with her often polarizing, brutally honest opinions or not, it's hard to argue with the 67 - year - old Shark's assertion that women still have a long way to go in the battle to succeed in the male - dominated world of entrepreneurship, and they have to be resourceful to get ahead.

This year, the innovation battle will be won and lost in the K - 12 classroom.

However, Kaepernick has also battled injuries in recent years (including some that caused him to lose a surprising amount of weight), can be overly reliant on the run, and inaccurate in tight windows.

In his new strategy for the 16 - year Afghan war, Trump singled out Pakistan for harboring Taliban leaders and other militants that are battling American troops in AfghanistaIn his new strategy for the 16 - year Afghan war, Trump singled out Pakistan for harboring Taliban leaders and other militants that are battling American troops in Afghanistain Afghanistan.

The discount retailer, locked in a fierce battle with Amazon.com (amzn) to shorten the time it takes to get customers» packages to their homes, last week acquired Parcel for an undisclosed amount «smaller than previous acquisitions» Walmart has made this year (which include Bonobos, Moosejaw, and Modcloth), the company said in a blog.

One of the most trying times of my life happened six years ago when my mother lost her courageous battle with Stage IV colon and liver cancer six years ago in November.

Sanders came from semi-obscurity in the Senate to give Clinton a serious run for her money in the battle for the Democratic nomination this year.

Dotcom spent most of the year battling extradition efforts to the United States, where he could serve 20 years in prison for running his Megaupload service, but so far, he's managed to beat — or least stave off — the rap.

The sudden proliferation of wireless computing technology in recent years has opened a new front in the struggle for work - life balance, a battle many managers and employees feel they are losing.

Culiacán (Mexico)(AFP)- Amid a bloody dispute between rival drug gangs battling for control, the Mexican state of Sinaloa has just seen its deadliest weekend in years with at least 30 people killed.

Exclusive: For the first time, the woman who famously shined a light on gender discrimination nearly 25 years ago weighs in on the Pao - Kleiner Perkins court battle.

They also have recent real - world examples to make their case: Tax cuts in Kansas made by Gov. Sam Brownback failed to deliver the expected boost, forcing the state into years of grueling budget battles and harsh spending cuts to make up the gap.

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

However, 2017 looks to be a defining year in the battle between green initiatives and big business.

Over the past year, technology companies Uber and Waymo (the self - driving business spun out of Google) have been engaged in a battle of wills, culminating in a high - profile court case that commenced last week.

Depardieu, a former heartthrob who has puffed up like a profiterole in recent years, plays an aging mayor in the election battle of his life in the eight - episode series.

The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

I've been battling in the trenches of the NYC startup world for years.

«The current legislation is just the latest battle in what has been a long series of events for the past 150 years,» says Leslie Lenkowsky, professor of practice in public affairs and philanthropy, at Indiana University, in Bloomington.

They knew they would likely face an acrimonious battle of the kind they had seen over the last two years in the neighboring state of Wisconsin between Republican Governor Scott Walker and unions.

Earlier this month, the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) claimed a worthless victory in its three - year battle with the Competition Bureau.

He graduated from West Point in 2003, deployed to Iraq the following year, and was wounded in Fallujah on the eve of one of the biggest battles of the post-invasion campaign.

Example: Army veteran Jose Rodela received the Medal of Honor earlier this year for his valor during an 18 - hour battle in Vietnam in September 1969.

Dancap might have made $ 10 million during its five - year battle against the Mirvish musical theatre empire — but it lost $ 40 million in the process, leading to Dan's exit, both stage left and stage right this fall.

Since early in the six - year - old Syria war, Hezbollah's energies have been focused on propping up President Bashar al - Assad in alliance with Iran and Russia, throwing thousands of its fighters into battle against Syrian rebels.

Motor Trend didn't name it Car of the Year for 2017 for nothing, and it's certainly a front - runner for Business Insider's Car of the Year award for this year (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tunYear for 2017 for nothing, and it's certainly a front - runner for Business Insider's Car of the Year award for this year (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tunYear award for this year (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tunyear (we'll be making our pick in December, so the battle is already set, possibly, between the Model 3 and the Bolt — stay tuned).

Despite Marsh's sanctimoniousness, Ars Technica points out that earlier this year a Tennessee senator described AT&T as «the most powerful lobbying organization in this state by far» as it battled to stop Google from using utility poles in Nashville.