Sentences with phrase «years upon years which»

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After a few years of constant searching, she stumbled upon the cauliflower craze which swept over Instagram.

Upon hearing of Goodyear's plan to sell the plant, which would put more than 1,000 people out of a job at a time when France is suffering a 10.9 percent unemployment rate, Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg himself attempted to find a buyer for the plant last year.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.

Current retirees can collect as early as age 62, but their benefit will be permanently reduced by a percentage based on the number of months before they reach full retirement age, which ranges from age 65 to 67, depending upon birth year.

«The room, board, books and laundry figures are based upon the rates which prevailed during the past academic year, and can be accepted as applicable for the year 1950 - 1951 unless national economic changes require their alteration,» according to the bulletin.

«Our success is primarily dependent on audience acceptance of our films, which is extremely difficult to predict and, therefore, inherently risky... Our business is currently substantially dependent upon the success of a limited number of film releases each year and the unexpected delay or commercial failure of any one of them could have a material adverse effect on our financial results and cash flows.»

When they first stumbled upon the plan, which allows approved employees to set aside part of their salaries to fund an extended leave of absence from their jobs, the Wheelers planned to take a year - long round - the - world - trip.

Jonathan Pollock, who had practiced closed - end fund arbitrage in Europe and Asia, had returned to New York a few years earlier, and now fused the principles upon which Singer had built the firm into an equity strategy that could travel across Elliott and the globe.

Dauman was also removed earlier this year as a director of the Redstone family trust, which will take control of the billionaire's holdings in Viacom and CBS upon his death.

On assignment in Iran for Fortune two years before, I had stumbled upon Halliburton (HAL), yet another Texas oil - services company, which was operating from a high - rise building in central Tehran, despite decades of U.S. sanctions and intense hostilities between the two nations.

If such a sale or disposition takes place in the year in which the participant exercises the option, the income recognized upon the sale or disposition of the shares will not be considered income for alternative minimum tax purposes.

stock ownership policy under which all executive officers are required to retain 50 % of their after - tax profit shares acquired upon exercise of options or vesting of stock awards for a period of one year following retirement, and all other employees are expected to retain that number of shares while employed by the Company.

Before the end of the first quarter of the relevant fiscal year, the Committee establishes financial and performance targets and opportunities for such year, which are based upon the Company's goals for Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) and are linked to our budget and plan for long - term success.

The example, which illustrates a long - term average return on a balanced investment of stocks and bonds, assumes a single, after - tax investment of $ 75,000 with a gross annual return of 6 %, taxed at 28 % a year for taxable account assets and upon withdrawal for tax - deferred annuity assets.

«Five years ago, MaRS set out to build a platform upon which the next generation of technology companies could scale,» said Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District.

There are other aspects of the NGP Report that merit further discussion, including its approach to adaptive management (we now have three different JRP reports in as many years that take different views on the extent to which AM can be relied upon in making a determination as to the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects under CEAA), the precautionary principle, species at risk and Aboriginal consultation.

This forced upon its European trading partners the resulting unemployment pressure, although they were able to stave off unemployment with soaring debt for several years until 2009, after which debt levels reached their limits and unemployment in Europe duly soared.

the Company's stock ownership guidelines, which require all executive officers to retain 50 % of their after - tax profit shares upon exercise of options and 50 % of after - tax shares upon vesting of Performance Share Awards or RSRs for a period of one year following retirement.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

In November last year, Lukashenko also touched upon the cooperation with the Belarusian High - Tech Park (HTP), which will create an economic zone, based in Silicon Valley, providing the development of new technologies, including crypto currency and Pre-orders Coins (ICO).

And although fiscal stimulus package «leaked» in the Nikkei Wednesday (JPY20trn, with JPY6trn of «real water») appears to have had a supportive impact upon stocks by weakening the yen, even at its most generous, the supplementary budget for this fiscal year is likely to total only JPY2trn, with additional stimulus spaced out over the coming years, and most of this dedicated to public works (which, many fear, runs the risk of turning into wasteful spending rather than a monetary - plus - fiscal stimulus powerhouse).

Over the past years, large companies have outperformed small, which is captured by both the broad large - cap funds and the growth - focused ETFs that are based upon them.

Based upon the Fed's guidance, it looks like we are in line for two more rate bumps this year, which would bring the federal funds target rate up to 1.75 % -2 %.

Therefore, they're most likely to hold beaten down dividend payers and high yielding REITs, neither of which necessarily present the opportunity for years upon years of dividend growth.

Some folks have no pensions; some have a defined contribution plan, which depends on the market; others, including most public employees and more than half of the private - sector ones have a defined benefits plan — you get a guaranteed pension based upon years of service.

A. Upon his retirement (which he defines as 5 years after his death) Mr. Buffett's job will be split into three parts; Non-Executive Chairman of the Board (most likely his son Howard), CEO in charge of operations (Vice Chair Charlie Munger has suggested Ajit Jain or Greg Abel), and CIO (Ted Weschler and Todd Combs).

«Over the past five years, MaRS has built a unique platform to support high - growth new economy firms, upon which major funding opportunities like these can now develop,» said Dr. Ilse Treurnicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District.

Shell Oil has more excess profit at its disposal to fund future dividend growth than AT&T does (although AT&T is a non-cyclical stock that can rely upon steady cash flow from which to pay shareholders each year, whereas Royal Dutch Shell is an oil company that experiences low profits for 2 - 3 out of every ten due to the cyclical nature of oil and natural gas prices).

Upon taking office, one of the president's first acts was to slash the previous administration's energy subsidies, which cost the government more than $ 51 billion over the past 13 years.

So for years and years, we live a life that is based on faith, not detailed informations which never line - up to be fully agreed upon even by the most brilliant minds.

In Liao Yiwu's God is Red, which recounts the struggles of the Chinese Christians in the Maoist and post-Maoist years, the pastor's son recalls how, because of their faith, his family was beaten, bound, and spit upon during public condemnation meetings.

WHEREAS, this year marks the 1,400 th anniversary of the Charter of Medina, a constitutional contract between the Prophet Muhammad, God's peace and blessings be upon him, and the people of Medina, which guaranteed the religious liberty of all, regardless of faith;

Were the Founding Fathers proper Christians and modern «liberal» Christians who do not own slaves or marry 14 year old girls are not, or the other way around in which case America could have been founded upon heretical, flawed Christian beliefs?

(references used — the studies of historians and theologians of the past 200 years which are available upon request)

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

The Resurrection made it possible to look back upon that human life with fresh insight, so that in later years St. John could write a Gospel in which, though the subject is still the events which took place in Galilee and Jerusalem, the deeds and words of Jesus are reinterpreted in the full light of his risen glory.

In one sense it is that quite literally, the death of that self - interpretation which he has lived upon and cherished through the years.

Pope Benedict, in his audience of 7 July this year, commented upon Scotus» «great Christocentric vision» in which «the Incarnate Word appears as the centre of history and the cosmos».

It is at once intellectually satisfying and spiritually enriching - a worthy meditation upon the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; a meditation which should bear much fruit in the lives of the faithful for many years to come.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

We need to know about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, which was also a federally run and endowed study, where African American men — mostly illiterate and impoverished — were experimented upon like laboratory animals for 40 years.

The melancholy shade of his father's closely held sin, the breaking of his engagement with Regina Olsen, the public ridicule to which his sensitive nature was exposed by the public attack of the modish Copenhagen journal Corsair, the disillusionment with Bishop Mynster and the church in his closing years, all bore in upon him.

At the laying of the cornerstone for the institution on September 24, 1858, Bellows made a statement upon which those who object to the treatment of alcoholism as a sickness could well ponder today, over one hundred years later:

Its molten surface began to cool, and several billion years ago it acquired a solid crust upon which very primitive forms of life began to appear.

In the A cycle, which we are using this liturgical year, the Old Testament reading is from one of the Servant Songs in Isaiah, establishing the link between the baptism of Jesus and the mission of the Servant of the Lord: «Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...»

This would place the eruption at 45 years prior to the destruction of Jericho, at a time which coincidentally corresponds to the time of the plagues the Lord unleashed upon Egypt.

The sun is not perfectly positioned upon the earth by accident it was placed there for a reason and purpose to support life which is God attended... We are not on this planet on accident we did not evolve from a single cell that theory has been debunked for many years...

For millions of years a tide of knowledge has risen ceaselessly about him through the stuff of the cosmos; and that in him which he calls his «I» is nothing other than this tide atomically turning inward upon itself.

Looking back upon his ministry in later years, he confessed, «About midway in my ministry, which extends roughly from the peace of Versailles to the peace of Munich, measured in terms of Western history, I underwent a fairly complete conversion of thought which involved rejection of almost all the liberal theological ideals with which I ventured forth in 1915.»

I recall a wedding I attended many years ago, in which the ceremony, dictated by centuries of careful thought and adjustment — a «form» — was going very nicely; but then, alas, the presiding member of the clergy took it upon himself to step outside of the rules and add something of his own.