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Greenlight


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lewis said Hunt had given the pro-Tory News Corp the greenlight in the same week that he had named Lord Patten, a former chairman of the Conservative party, as the next chairman of the BBC Trust.
  • (2) And boy are they hammering home the fact that this is the last time we will ever get to see the Kiwi film-maker's take on Middle Earth (until Warner Bros decides to greenlight a 12-part movie marathon based on Farmer Giles of Ham ).
  • (3) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
  • (4) Einhorn said Mircosoft – in which his Greenlight Capital is a major investor – had missed a string of opportunities under Ballmer's "Charlie Brown management", referring to the hapless star of the Peanuts cartoon strip.
  • (5) She added that at the time of the deal there was a "credible rationale" for allowing the acquisition, but reiterated that such a purchase would not be given the greenlight again.
  • (6) So.” DeGeneres, who is openly gay, told him: “I know you and I know you’re not that guy.” Two weeks ago Damon, who is currently promoting the critically acclaimed Ridley Scott space thriller The Martian , ran into criticism after he appeared to suggest Project Greenlight judges should not take diversity into consideration while carrying out their professional duties.
  • (7) Einhorn's breathtaking public attack comes shortly after his Greenlight Capital fund raised its stake in Microsoft to 9m shares, or about 0.11%.
  • (8) It’s what I have chosen to do with my life and I want every young person watching Project Greenlight to believe that film-making is a viable form of creative expression for them too.
  • (9) •For a weekly email update from the Guardian and Observer's environment team sign up for our Greenlight newsletter .
  • (10) But grassroots activists in West Virginia accuse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of continuing to greenlight new projects – albeit with some additional restrictions on the mining companies.
  • (11) The Planning Decisions Unit of the Greater London Authority, the body responsible for greenlighting these schemes, begs to differ.
  • (12) However, ITV will not give the greenlight to ITV1 +1 until after the results of the Competition Commission's review of the contract rights renewal (CRR) system, due later this month.
  • (13) But the attacks had begun even earlier, starting in earnest in 2011 when the influential investor David Einhorn, of the Greenlight Capital hedge fund, called for him to step down, saying he should "give someone else a chance" and that "his continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock".
  • (14) Not an accolade you’d hand to whoever greenlighted Minions , the inevitable spin-off of Universal’s Despicable Me series, the second of which got within grasping distance of $1bn worldwide in 2013.
  • (15) During his six-year tenure he attempted to drag the company into the digital era, scaling back on packaged goods and spending hundreds of millions on funky companies such as Playfish and Popcap, not to mention greenlighting Origin, EA's rival to the mighty digital distribution channel, Steam.
  • (16) Matt Damon has backed himself into a corner with hypocritical gay comments Read more The Bourne Ultimatum star was thrown into his second major controversy in a matter of weeks – he was recently forced to apologise for appearing to downplay the importance of diversity in film while judging the HBO reality show Project Greenlight – after telling journalist Elizabeth Day: “I think you’re a better actor the less people know about you period.
  • (17) So what we really need is people in positions to greenlight those stories, not a hunk of metal.” Also speaking at Sundance, Oscar-nominated producer and actor Danny DeVito said the current row was a result of America’s basic inherent prejudice.
  • (18) However, investors will be closely scrutinizing Shell’s disclosures, particularly in light of its decision today to greenlight drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, one of the highest cost and highest risk projects in its entire portfolio.” Major funds around the world are becoming increasingly concerned that limits on carbon emissions will harm the finances of fossil fuel companies and lead to investors losing money.
  • (19) Last week Einhorn repeated his view in a letter to Greenlight investors in which he claimed "a decade of mismanagement has put Microsoft at risk of becoming a shrinking company".
  • (20) They allegedly show that Mr Coulson had authorised payments to police officers Guardian report 22 Jun 2011 Ofcom and OFT submit final revised detailed agreements to Hunt The Guardian: News Corp's BSkyB bid: Jeremy Hunt expected to give green light next week 27 Jun 2011 Michel to Adam Smith: Let me know if you have a more detailed idea of the timetable for the next few days reply No more details on timings just yet See the email 30 Jun 2011 Hunt finally greenlights the bid, subject to one final consultation.

Proceed


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
  • (v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
  • (v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
  • (v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
  • (v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
  • (v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
  • (v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.
  • (n.) See Proceeds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (2) This indicated that proteolysis at Lys1313-Glu also proceeded in native alpha 2M.
  • (3) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
  • (4) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (5) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
  • (6) These results indicate that AZT treatment does not completely prevent FeLV infection, even when treatment begins before virus challenge, and that immune sensitization to FeLV proceeds during the prophylactic drug treatment period.
  • (7) Biosynthesis of putrescine in E. gracilis proceeds through decarboxylation of L-ornithine, no arginine decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.19) activity could be detected.
  • (8) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
  • (9) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
  • (10) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (11) Methylenation of the delta6 double bond with dimethyloxosulfonium methylide proceeds steroselectively from the beta side of the molecule.
  • (12) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
  • (13) The formation of complex VSR-BLM proceeds via two stages.
  • (14) The oxidation of oxyhemoglobin by Cu(II) proceeded in two phases: (1) an initial rapid reaction (less than 30 s) followed by (2) a slower reaction that carried it to completion.
  • (15) When the second antibody was a different type from that of the first one, neutralization proceeded further.
  • (16) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
  • (17) These observations provide biochemical support for the hypothesis that the reparative process of injured tissue in the fetal rabbit proceeds in an attempt to reconstitute normality, i.e.
  • (18) Using microelectrodes and various microscopic techniques active Na+ absorption as well as K+ secretion has been localized to the principal cells, while Cl- absorption was found to proceed largely, though not exclusively, through the tight junctions between cells.
  • (19) Since protein synthesis could not proceed in those cells because of the lack of energy and tryptophan, the data indicate that an unknown mechanism exists which imparts some mutations with the resistance to antimutagenic repair in the absence of the inducible mutagenic system.
  • (20) Proceeding from the observation that organic anions bound to albumin have hepatic extraction fractions that are unexpectedly high, we have studied a distributed model that accounts for this phenomenon by invoking sites on the cell surface that catalyze the dissociation of albumin-anion complexes.

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