Sentence examples for as the slate from inspiring English sources

Hedge funds are betting on the risky investments as the slate of moneymaking strategies shrinks and profits vanish.

Unless crowd-sourcing such as the Slate project continues to grow, media outlets will continue to ignore this incessant chain of gun violence death.

Specifically, he argued against giving money covertly to favored parties, such as the slate controlled by Iyad Allawi, the acting Prime Minister, a secular Shiite, who was a staunch American ally.

As the Slate columnist Mickey Kaus wrote, "It was this suddenly transparent internal opposition" -- reaching the outside world with a velocity unimaginable before the Internet -- that put the resolution of The Times's drama on the fast track.

Until last month, anyway, when the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed that shareholders who own at least 1percentt of the stock be able to nominate candidates to run in opposition to — and on the same ballot as — the slate offered by management.

Matilda, as the Slate's critic Chelsey Philpot put it, "made being a nerd cool before being a nerd was cool".

Murals of majestic mountains evoke J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as do the slate wall tiles, stonelike table tops and sly ring shapes created by much of the food presentation.

And they find a special beauty as they gaze at the slate-gray sky on a winter morning.

PS4 is lining up Infamous: second Son, The Order: 1866 and Deep Down, with a new Gran Turismo on the slate as well.

The modelling was based on data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare that showed a stillbirth rate of 7.4 for every thousand births, as well as the slated increase in the Australian population and the number of births to 2020.

Wherever they are from it is still a significant find as the slates are "one of the first examples of Welsh slates being used as roofing", he added.