Sentence examples for Clippers from inspiring English sources
From £1,895pp for six nights' full-board, including most shore excursions (020-7752 0000, noble-caledonia.co.uk) Star Clippers is offering two one-week yoga cruises in Greece and Turkey this summer on one of its tall sailing ships.
In a letter announcing his decision published on Microsoft's website, he explained that his other commitments, including the Clippers, which he recently bought for $2 billion, would not leave him enough time for board duties.Mr Nadella wrote a short note thanking Mr Ballmer warmly for his service.
But both public and private backing for the firm have been crucial.Thames Clippers gets a small subsidy from Transport for London (TfL), part of the Greater London Authority.
A big step towards integration came in November, when passengers were first allowed to use their TfL Oyster fare cards on Thames Clippers too.
Yet on a tape leaked to the media on April 25th, Mr Sterling can be heard asking Ms Stiviano (pictured) to stop bringing black guests to Clippers games and posting photos of herself with black people online.The tape unleashed an uproar.
Rising TV revenues have in turn driven up team sale prices: in May Steve Ballmer, the former head of Microsoft, agreed to pay $2 billion for the Los Angeles Clippers basketball club.But the advent of digital video recorders and online streaming is more likely to yield a one-time bump in rights fees than sustained compounding growth.
To have more control of its schedule, Thames Clippers took over the lease of the privately-owned London Bridge City Pier in November.Another impediment is the unnecessarily rigid restriction on speed.
A plurality of respondents would like to see the Golden State Warriors win this year's NBA title (19%), ahead of Chicago (17%), Cleveland (15%) and the LA Clippers (12%).
And when the night reaches America again, the landing lights once more appear in the sky over Louisville and Memphis.21st-century clippersFrederick Smith, FedEx's chief executive, compares his company's jets to clippers, the sailing ships that once carried cargoes on the trade winds.
Once pressure started mounting this April to expel Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, from the National Basketball Association NBAafterter he was recorded making racist comments, Mr Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, warned of the "slippery slope" that could result from "taking something somebody said in their home" and using it to force them "to divest property".
In a string of recent social controversies in major-league sports, including the scandals over racist language that this year forced Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers and Bruce Levenson to sell the Atlanta Hawks, the key has been the public availability of electronic documentation.
