Sentences with phrase «years of action among»

The Tekken official twitter account has announced that after four years of action among 20 million players from all over the world, the mobile game...

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The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

Among them is why Sarao's actions on this particular day caused so much damage, when the indictments state that he'd done the same thing hundreds of times over a four - year period, concluding in April 2014, without causing similar market earthquakes.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Kenidra Woods, a 17 - year - old junior from St. Louis, was already advocating for more discussion of self - harm and mental health among teens before Parkland, after which she sprang into action to help conduct a walkout at her school in February in solidarity.

After nearly two years of flat market action at the third highest level of valuation in history, next to 1929 and 2000, the Coppock Curve turned positive this month, prompting enthusiasm among some market technicians.

A: You are always going to find many different opinions among economists but there is a general awareness that financial instability is not self - curative and that strong action is necessary in the face of financial panic, that is a more settled idea today than it would [have been] five years ago.

The increasingly strident rhetoric from both sides and absence of consensus among major powers on how to respond to North Korea's actions increased uncertainty, and by early September benchmark Treasury yields had fallen to their lowest level so far this year.

In the dioceses of England Wales the Entrance Chant may be chosen from among the following: the antiphon with its Psalm from the Graduale Romanum or the Graduale Simplex, or another chant that is suited to the sacred action, the day, or the time of year, and whose text has been approved by the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales.»

The Portuguese Archbishop Menzes did his best to create a sense of evangelistic responsibility among the Indian Christians by preaching to the Hindus whenever he could, and the eighteenth - century Carmelites had a number of baptisms from the heathen every year, so much so that they had to defend their actions before the Raja of Travancore, but the Indian Church itself was not (L. W. Brown, op.cit., p. 173.)

The theme of Roots this year is «Taking Action» with a goal of providing tangible solutions, inspiring thought - provoking conversations, exchanging crucial information and developing powerful connections among people from around the globe.

The theme of this year's conference is «Taking Action» with a goal of providing tangible solutions, inspire thought - provoking conversations, exchange crucial information and develop powerful connections among people from around the globe.

The theme of this year's conference is «Taking Action» with a goal of providing tangible solutions, inspiring thought - provoking conversations, exchanging crucial information and developing powerful connections among people from across the globe.

Christian Taylor, Pedro Pablo Pichardo, Allyson Felix, Dafne Schippers and Renaud Lavillenie are among the athletes in action at the last meeting of this year's Diamond League series in Brussels.

After an improvement of his PB this year of nearly five metres, Egyptian javelin thrower Ihab Abdelrahman will be out to prove his 89.21 m from Shanghai was no fluke, while Sandra Perkovic is among those in discus action, current world leader Joe Kovacs goes in the shot and Blanka Vlasic features in the high jump.

Britain's Katarina Johnson - Thompson is among the athletes in Hypo Meeting action in Götzis this weekend (May 27 - 28) as the 24 - year - old returns to the meeting at which she set her PB of 6682 points during her win in 2014.

The latest executive actions have bolstered Cuomo's support among engaged liberal advocacy groups, ranging from LGBT organizations thrilled with his plan to write regulations to protect transgender New Yorkers to labor groups who have pushed him for years to take action on the minimum wage through the previously little - known power of the Department of Labor wage board.

The statement reads in part: «During the General Assembly, Nigeria will participate in high level meetings on «Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Building Momentum for Change,» the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a High Level Event organized by the African Union under its Theme of the Year: «Roadmap on the Demographic Dividend: from Commitment to Action,» among others.

It settled years of legal action among the four parties.

During the General Assembly, Nigeria will participate in high level meetings on «Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Building Momentum for Change,» the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a High Level Event organized by the African Union under its Theme of the Year: «Roadmap on the Demographic Dividend: from Commitment to Action,» among others.

The creation of the regulations was cited among ESPA's main accomplishments as the venerable LGBT rights group moved to wind down its operations this year, though it retains its political action committee.

Among other things in the past year or so, thousands of people have received naloxone training from the county to revive those on the verge of overdose deaths, although the speed of fentanyl's potentially deadly action poses a challenge to responders, she said.

Farrell is among a group of advocates who want to expand New York's current statute of limitations, which is the strictest in the nation and grants victims just five years past their 18th birthdays to take legal action against attackers.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

During the General Assembly, Nigeria will participate in high level meetings on «Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Building Momentum for Change,» the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, a High Level Event organises by the African Union under its theme of the year: «Roadmap on the Demographic Dividend: from Commitment to Action,» among others.

The Gubernatorial election in the state is slated for July 14 of this year and already political parties including the Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN], PDP, Labour Party [LP] and among others are already jeering up for the poll.

The findings, published July 9 in The Lancet, come four years after the same group of researchers issued a call to action, laying out an ambitious plan to curtail HIV epidemics in gay men, setting targets for policy reform, funding and improvement in effective HIV prevention and treatment services, including expanded access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) which has been highly effective in dramatically reducing transmission among this population.

Matthieu Kassovitz, «Babylon A.D.» (2008) One of the more recent director - studio feuds, «La Haine» director Matthieu Kassovitz's frustrations with 20th Century Fox over «Babylon A.D.,» a sci - fi action film he'd been developing for six years before going through tremendous professional pains to shoot and cut it, is among the most notorious.

A film that failed to impress critics 30 years ago but which now seems eerily prescient in its depiction of a futuristic police state beset by economic instability and the increasing toxicity of TV culture (Stephen King's source novel is set in 2025, with screenwriter Steven E de Souza backdating the action to 2017), The Running Man is among the most thematically rich sci - fi offerings in the Arnie canon.

Among action blockbusters such as CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER and GODZILLA, it seems strange to think that this film is one of the most entertaining films I have seen this year (which is definitely no small achievement).

I've had my doubts about Machete, but with the stellar supporting cast of Cheech Marin, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba and Michelle Rodriguez among others, paired with Seagal's bad - ass moves with the swords and Trejo's good one - liners, I think Sylvester Stallone might just have a rival here for the best over the top action movie of the year.

A Legendary Pictures production acquired by Netflix after the film parted ways with Universal earlier this year, Spectral is a big action movie with a tinge of sci - fi to it, anchored by an appealing collection of character actor or perennial supporting players at its centre (James Badge Dale, Emily Mortimer, Stephen Root and Bruce Greenwood among them).

While a critical misfire at the time of its release, there is a following among action fans that pushed Point Break up to cult camp status, and no less than three films in recent years have paid major homage to it (Hot Fuzz, Brice de Nice, and Fulltime Killer).

Liam Neeson cut his teeth performing in searing dramas, but pivoted to Death Wish - style action in his twilight years, having mowed through a variety of gangsters, thugs, and deadbeats in films like Taken, A Walk Among The Tombstones, Taken 2, Non-Stop, and Taken 3.

Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson, stars of the New Line buddy action comedy «Central Intelligence,» are among a precious few in Hollywood who have emerged as box office draws in the past five years.

It is among this latter bunch, for instance, where my most anticipated film of the year, Sylvain Chomet's live action debut Attila Marcel, showed up in the announcement this morning, greeted by a shriek that had my poor co-workers jumping in their seats.

Though «The Purge: Election Year» inherits many of the same problems from 2014's «The Purge: Anarchy,» chief among them the absurdity of the Purge itself, it also builds on its strengths to produce another John Carpenter - styled action thriller that's equal parts cheesy B - movie and pulpy fun.

It lacks the subversive politics of Brian DePalma's film (which corrupts the source TV franchise as much as it reboots the thing), but Bird's deft action filmmaking make it among the more visually appetizing American blockbusters released in years.

He's been acting for twenty years, racking up credits in the likes of daytime soap «Guiding Light» and action drama «Prison Break,» among others, alongside tiny roles in «Minority Report» and «The Sweetest Thing.»

Among the best of the best live - action shorts is DeKalb Elementary, featured at last year's Windrider Film Festival.

by Walter Chaw Yoshiaki Kawajiri's name is probably not as familiar to anime's United States fanbase as Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Mamoru Oshii, Isao Takahata, or Shinichirô Watanabe, but amid those in the «know,» his Ninja Scroll is among the best pure action / fantasy films of the last fifty years in any medium.

Among the scientists is Natalie Portman's Lena, the wife of Oscar Isaacs, who spent the last year believing he was killed in action, on his covert mission.

That was also the case in 2011's brother vs. brother MMA brawler Warrior, the Thai Ong Bak movies, and Takashi Miike's 2010 samurai epic, 13 Assassins — all of which rank among the most interesting action films to hit theaters in recent years.

Band of Misfits (PG for action, mild epithets and crude humor) Animated kiddie adventure about a competition among three buccaneer swashbucklers (Hugh Grant, Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek) to capture the coveted Pirate of the Year Award by wreaking the most havoc on the high seas.

It is virtually guaranteed that this finally dethrones Grease as the box office king among live - action musicals after a reign of nearly forty inflation - ignoring years.

-- Encourage the development of specific action plans among each of the stakeholders for the forthcoming three years.

The report calls for urgent government action to raise levels of awareness and understanding among businesses about the system — which is being phased in over the next three years.

The Puerto Rico department of education and the U.S. Education Department have signed a consent decree in a class action that requires the commonwealth, by December of this year, to equalize spending among all schools serving disadvantaged children.

The government has set out a series of actions to increase participation among 16 - 18 year olds, following a government - commissioned review by Professor Sir Adrian Smith.

Insight in action At the onset of a district effort to identify teachers leaders in each school, one middle school principal dedicated half of the school year to increasing understanding of teacher leadership and its importance among the school's entire instructional staff.