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"afoot" Definitions
  1. being planned; happening

889 Sentences With "afoot"

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Campaigns to introduce civil marriage are afoot in many countries.
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of virtual reality.
But there are big changes afoot for Hitman in 2016.
"This movement has been afoot for some time," Johnson said.
They have yet to be drilled but plans are afoot.
Some consolidation is afoot in the world of business software.
People can drink coffee and eat pastries with vermin afoot.
But it is also possible that real change is afoot.
Now, nearly 40 years later, something's afoot, Cory told INSIDER.
Fortunately, there's an effort afoot to help solve these problems.
It would seem that something interesting and unexpected is afoot.
Strange things are afoot out in the Texas Hill Country.
Experts, however, say changes are afoot regardless of the semantics.
But the Google walkout suggests something bigger could be afoot.
Meanwhile, plans for further investment in European defense are afoot.
Some consolidation is afoot among the payments behemoths of Europe.
But immigrant rights groups argue there's something more sinister afoot.
Nonetheless, there is substance to the changes afoot at Novartis.
More preliminary moves are afoot at the University of Queensland.
And don't forget to suggest that there's a conspiracy afoot.
We didn't, so as far [as] we concerned, trouble was afoot.
Something else is afoot ... what else were the burglars looking for?
But there's always the chance that something more fundamental is afoot.
Something big appears to be afoot at the Miley Cyrus estate.
As usual, there are experiments afoot, and those experiments are bad.
There are signs that changes are afoot in the cocaine market.
Some more consolidation is afoot in the world of enterprise mobility.
So it suggests to me there is a larger plan afoot.
How are investors to position their portfolios with these indicators afoot?
The second part of this feat is already afoot, I presume.
Modifications to the entry criteria are not the only changes afoot.
Plans are afoot to take the idea to other continents too.
Yet the plethora of targets suggests that there's something larger afoot.
Similar bills are afoot in other states, including Wisconsin and Florida.
Yes, there is change afoot, transforming our industries, lives and world.
That means further changes to collateral eligibility rules could be afoot.
There's an arms race afoot over who can store cryptocurrency safest.
There is no discernible youth movement afoot in the Republican Party.
"That's when I knew that something underhanded was afoot," Abramovitz said.
"The Manafort and Gates indictments show the game's afoot," he writes.
But there was little debate about what seemed to be afoot.
"The game is afoot," said Trink, the CEO of FaZe Clan.
But the meme posted by Stone suggested a conspiracy was afoot.
Residents of the capital do not doubt that changes are afoot.
The spokesman dismissed reports that a broader staff shakeup is afoot.
More consolidation is afoot in the busy world of backend developer tools.
But the plot against Pius is definitely afoot and he knows it.
There's a revolution afoot, and you will know it by the stripes.
Perhaps there's a revenge plot afoot, or an evil empire to defend.
Technological, commercial and social changes were already afoot in the entire region.
Plans are even afoot to renovate Tirana's wacky but dilapidated 1980s pyramid.
By the 22014s it was already becoming clear that something was afoot.
There's a trade war afoot, with a Huawei executive awaiting potential extradition.
Certain telltale signs indicate trouble is afoot in a partnership, Lemonis said.
Sunday, beneath a virtually cloudless sky, something was afoot on Christopher Street.
The current presidential election suggests that such a change may be afoot.
Talev's Sunday night email to members indicated that changes could be afoot.
The holidays are afoot, and retailers are preparing for the shopping mayhem.
More consolidation is afoot in the world of cloud-based voice services.
Plans are afoot to roll out residential links in the near future.
But then he went to Iowa and saw that something was afoot.
The campaign McCain ran reflected the drastic changes afoot in his party.
He added that "changes are afoot" within the White House press office.
Other efforts to study the resurgence of CFC-11 are also afoot.
Daily Crossword Column Sam Donaldson and Tracy Gray set the game afoot.
Are they just odd and miserable, or is something more sinister afoot?
We wrote about this maneuver the last time potential changes were afoot.
Plenty of intrigue is afoot, though, before Silver (Simone Missick) even arrives.
Plans are afoot to reintroduce wild horses, roe deer and Iberian ibex.
But plans are afoot to broaden public transport options across the kingdom.
Beyond the quotidian oddities, there are strange things afoot at the factory.
There are things going on behind her back, plans afoot, she fears.
There are things going on behind her back, plans afoot, she fears.
However, change is afoot and deep connections are sure to be made.
A similar shift has been afoot in Hollywood offscreen in recent years.
There are leadership changes afoot at Highway1, the hardware accelerator arm of PCH.
THERE'S A MOVE AFOOT IN LARGE PARTS OF THE WORLD ON THAT FRONT.
Is the model just a fan of accessorizing, or is an engagement afoot?
But data from a separate source corroborate the notion that something is afoot.
There does seem to be a kind of "shock and awe" campaign afoot.
But something else is afoot on Fortnite that may be far more effectual.
Some consolidation is afoot in the world on health-focused online media properties.
A safe and easy choice — just in case some trickery was actually afoot.
Efforts are afoot to clean it up, for example by designating permitted areas.
Some more consolidation afoot in the cloud services industry, specifically around integration services.
But dangerous forces are afoot that could have alarming consequences for economic stability.
Some chopping and changing is afoot in the world of payments in Europe.
But, due to this new method of communication, another game is now afoot.
Supplying a suitable promo code, "KING," for the challenge, the game was afoot.
There's also a movement afoot promoting edibles for pregnant women to ease nausea.
Are you suddenly wondering about the conspiracies afoot in America's nutritional policy circles?
Eventually, however, the federal authorities suspected that something worse than greed was afoot.
He either had a terrible case of insomnia, or something sinister was afoot.
Yet, somehow, I can't help but suspect that something more sinister is afoot.
Right now, the move afoot is to force complete sharing only between modellers.
Change was afoot: a new quarterback, a more aggressive defense, a lighter schedule.
Fortunately, there are statutory solutions afoot to get closer to a fair count.
And like Gomez, he claimed that a conspiracy was afoot in the Bronx.
Mother regards child quizzically; it's not clear whether rapture or heartbreak is afoot.
However, there's been some speculation recently that something more could be afoot here.
But change is afoot, thanks in part to the efforts of Ms. Rogers.
Some efforts are afoot to adapt to climate change while improving land management.
Can't find actual facts to support your belief that some conspiracy is afoot?
Barclays is betting "change is afoot" at Victoria's Secret's parent company L Brands.
There appears to be change afoot in the area of gun violence research.
But sensing something momentous afoot, they first wandered into the gallery on Thursday.
Mr. Kuczynski has warned of a deeper crisis afoot should he be ousted.
The denial, in fact, is crucial: That's how you know there's a conspiracy afoot.
Inside Duolingo's open-plan, Silicon Valley-style headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, change was afoot.
The townsfolk know something is afoot, but nobody is getting their brains eaten yet.
But underneath their mockery, gentle or not, is the sense of greater things afoot.
There's definitely a food safety problem afoot, and Nutella is a part of it.
There's a weird feeling afoot these days, in the Valley, and in San Francisco.
Plans are afoot to legislate for a review of America's relationship with Hong Kong.
From west London to Chinese villages to Indian slums, three great changes are afoot.
So is it doing something special with pancakes or is there more tomfoolery afoot?
But the company was quick to insist that nothing even remotely sexual was afoot.
As with any measure deliberated over by lawmakers, there's politics afoot in this one.
Plans are afoot for a V.2 which would be larger and involve projections.
Cumberbatch finally utters Holmes's famous line that "the game is afoot" in this episode.
Even before McConnell was able to pitch a new draft, there was mutiny afoot.
But, sure, we all know it's just a trick, that some duplicity is afoot.
A new rule from the IRS and other federal agencies could set this afoot.
The holidays are afoot — and retailers across the board are prepping for gift-giving.
But as the tales unfold, we begin to sense there are bigger wonders afoot.
Your first sign that something different is afoot: the event is immediately sold out.
It's time to do things differently, which means, lovely Taurus, some change is afoot.
A sign advertising the festival is the only clue that something unusual is afoot.
Something strange is afoot in WWE, and a major reshuffling seems to be underway.
Something bigger is afoot this year than the relative deficiencies of Trump and Clinton.
There had already been changes afoot at MetLife in the era of social media.
Oscar season is afoot, and the best actress race looks to be very competitive.
There are some efforts afoot to adapt to climate change while improving land management.
In his speech on Wednesday, Mr. Sessions denied that anything like that was afoot.
"Something else was afoot here," the man's attorney, Deborah Gordon, told CNN affiliate WXYZ.
Such skewed stuff only really works when the target is oblivious to what's afoot.
Silver's recent setup gives us reason to believe there is a seasonal trade afoot.
Exxon Mobil has various projects afoot in Russia that are allowed under American sanctions.
Clearly, a divergence is afoot, implying that the internals watched by Hussman are softening. 
But something deeper may be afoot than just an improvement in the economic data.
Then Arnie disappears back to the VIP section where the meet-and-greet's afoot.
So it's no surprise that more changes are afoot for the world's biggest video game.
But maybe something more profound -- challenging the very essence of the liberal order -- is afoot.
With all of this apocalyptic drama afoot, it's easy to wonder why it's all happening.
That said, digital transformation is afoot and the financial service industry will not be spared.
Yet change has been afoot ever since Fidel Castro's brother Raúl succeeded him in 2006.
Holzman says that the atmosphere will be pretty chill, even with the dogs running afoot.
Significant changes could be afoot for several of the major streaming TV services in 2019.
Change may be afoot in Saudi Arabia's hostile relations with Shias and their champion, Iran.
They suspected a shift was afoot in Washington to more fundamentally address the Chinese challenge.
The latest season of The Sinner is heating up, and that means mysteries are afoot.
Now, a new report suggests that plans are afoot to make it a little easier.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the age spectrum, an even starker change is afoot.
For example, a plan is afoot for Oman to fund an opera house in Beirut.
"The state alleges that there was a big plan afoot," Backus said, according to Reuters.
Bang the gong and microwave the popcorn, for rich music beef is once more afoot.
In response, there is a movement afoot to find tech solutions to combat the crisis.
Though the iPhone franchise is somewhat in limbo, there are other factors afoot for Apple.
But then -- just as supporters of the bill expected a presidential endorsement was afoot -- Sen.
Though dubbed the candidate of change, Trump campaigned as the enemy of changes already afoot.
Technology stocks are dragging the market down, but there may be a buying opportunity afoot.
There is a "major shift" afoot in corporate America on climate change, according to Axios.
But there are other stories afoot in the nominations list beyond simply the raw totals.
The series reminds you of the struggles of sin and propriety afoot before things turned.
Shenanigans are afoot in the town of Hawkins, Indiana, and they look pretty darn entertaining.
But change is, finally, afoot in terms of the industry being mindful of Muslim customers.
Part of solving that problem includes building infrastructure — and plans are afoot in that regard.
Call it want you want, but something is afoot in America's $29 billion chicken industry.
Such a failure would also tip off other regions that there was an attack afoot.
Change may be afoot in the flesh trade, but these arrests reinforce the status quo.
Higgins bets he can, the colonel bets he can't and the elocutionary game is afoot.
Changes are afoot that could make it easier to give sitters paid time off, too.
Changes are afoot that could make it easier to give sitters paid time off, too.
In California's Legislature, there is a movement afoot to loosen some regulations on the scooters.
There is a "brain gain" afoot that suggests a national homecoming to less bustling spaces.
A demographic shift may be afoot, with retirees choosing to remain in their appreciating homes.
Now another one is afoot: the claim that Mueller's appointment as special counsel was unlawful.
But in Davos, there was a sense that change in the economic order was afoot.
But there's also another, more insidious type of bigotry toward minorities afoot in this country.
It's hard to look at the American political landscape and not see something similar afoot.
As Yogesh Joshi hints, a Sino-Indian great game is afoot in the Andaman Sea.
There is a broader anti-aging movement afoot, which seems to be growing every day.
This week, there are already several reports out that suggest major changes could be afoot.
Although plans were afoot to publish a fifth volume of the BPA, it never appeared.
But there are more than feminist and anti-Catholic statements here: there is magic afoot, too.
At least now she has proof that there is some kind of non-ISIS conspiracy afoot.
Mr. Ball Legs is obviously a huge indicator something undead is afoot in the Hammond household.
But a handful of others, like Fathom, a London-based consultancy, are forecasting big changes afoot.
Some more movement and consolidation is afoot in the on-demand transportation industry, specifically in Europe.
Amid Western players eyeing China's middle class, there are also efforts afoot in the country itself.
"The state alleges that there was a big plan afoot," Backus said in rendering her decision.
As will be plain to see in the coming days, no such plotting was ever afoot.
Changes are afoot at Tide, the U.K. fintech startup that offers banking services for small businesses.
And if I know anything at all, I know that a conspiracy is nearly always afoot.
Something sprightly is afoot, however, and it's Oldman's feet, among other things, that make the difference.
Or if there are children afoot, you could make Bobby Flay's recipe for double-chocolate pancakes.
Between his lordly appetites and her queenly prerogatives, you always feel as if there's something afoot.
Whatever the mechanism, the increasing ethnic diversity of the electorate is not the only change afoot.
It's important for IT teams to respond proactively and holistically to the change that is afoot.
Call in a third party to help mediate if you sense that manipulative moves are afoot.
There's a playful energy in the air today, but shocking (perhaps pleasantly so!) changes are afoot.
But if James Bond himself can see change afoot, perhaps so can the producers (and fans).
There are efforts afoot to bundle them together as grid storage, with potentially extremely low LCOSE.
But don't let the hush of the Beacon galleries mislead you; a profound transformation is afoot.
Green conceded that there was "change afoot," but said he thought it would far more gradual.
And the other thing is that they do have a bigger sense that disaster is afoot.
Mr. Harmon said he suspected something larger was afoot in some states' efforts to restrict voting.
Inside Goldman on Tuesday, there were a few modest signs that a power change was afoot.
You could see another lyricist was afoot here, and Bob totally utilized the resource he had.
Still, neither of the two men nor their investors seemed to have predicted the controversy afoot.
The launch of its new contact lens product isn't the only change afoot at Simple Contacts.
The campaign's subsequently made it clear that while that is unlikely, some change is certainly afoot.
As a result, a movement has been afoot to mount an Electoral College insurrection to stop Trump.
But the tree quickly went missing, and some people started to wonder if a conspiracy was afoot.
Plans are also afoot, as it were, to print skin directly onto the surface of the body.
We're not going to bust out the eyeball emojis, but there may be some catchphrase thievery afoot.
There's a millennial morality crisis afoot, and it appears avocados may be at the root of it.
My literary young heart felt something profound afoot, and it knew the thrill of awe and pity.
But now, there's a desperate attempt afoot to save these incredible organisms from extinction: in vitro fertilization.
Plans are also afoot to make more of the sort of cars that people want to buy.
The age of relentless personal branding hadn't quite kicked into gear, and the Arab Spring was afoot.
But change is afoot, especially in the crowded, sprawling cities where a growing proportion of Indians live.
Trump and his allies view this as vindicating his narrative that there's a Deep State "coup" afoot.
Like they're scared to death because they're pooping and can't run away if there's any danger afoot.
You could say strange things were afoot in the Hunts' yard as the group admired the poster.
So it would seem that with the arrival of this new filing, something is afoot at Sonos.
You never know when the undead will be afoot, all bloody and gruesome and hungry for braaaaains.
Couple that with a historically bad scorecard from judge Adalaide Byrd, and rumors of chicanery were afoot.
There's a $500 million rejuvenation project afoot to give Melbourne more overpriced real estate and less adventure.
"I believe that the movement is afoot – that must not fade away," the Tea Party darling added.
But even though structurally "Strange Little Birds" evokes the band's early work, it's clear there's mellowness afoot.
A certain kind of book would ordinarily follow from this, but Jon has another clandestine activity afoot.
However, it has been operating under a cloud since the LSE merger attempt with multiple investigations afoot.
Even if you do not have a ticket, Lorenzo promised, you will know something big is afoot.
In the meantime, though, further experiments are afoot, and the museum's collaboration with the artist forges on.
Yet every shift has to begin somewhere, and from what we see, there's one afoot in Romania.
And now there is a much larger plan afoot for a scientists' march on Washington next month.
It takes a bureaucrat, after all, to uncover a crime of bureaucracy, if that's what's afoot here.
Around the same time, a movement was afoot to start the first women's soccer team in Zanzibar.
But that final reveal with Lawrence is the sort of thing that suggests a shift is afoot.
The event surprised the country and raised speculation of a broader military uprising afoot against Mr. Maduro.
But by 2016, a change in power was afoot in both the United States and in Ecuador.
There, the Citadel is a vibrant hub of activity, with mysteries swirling around and several conspiracies afoot.
And speaking of emancipations: There is a new movement afoot to lower the voting age to 16.
There are plans afoot to pass out thousands of towels with Goodell's face wearing a clown nose.
In the show, two queen bees clash at a remote summer camp where something supernatural is afoot.
But at least nine are influential committee chairmen who, like Gowdy, are leaving with no scandal afoot.
Now, there's a movement afoot to try and change the way we die ... by making death optional.
Other changes have been afoot at StuyTown, which has 11,246 units, about 1003,000 of them market rate.
But there is an exodus afoot that suggests a national homecoming, across generations, to less bustling spaces.
"I don't want to suggest there's evil afoot" by Maryland General, said the Weismans' lawyer, Robert Schulte.
Disney+ is set to launch next month, which means big changes are afoot in the streaming world.
There is not one mysterious dead body in Trinkets or mind-bending life-or-death supernatural crisis afoot.
Poor Sam, who is terrified of the Targaryens' more bloodthirsty leanings — looks worried about whatever plans are afoot.
But something bigger is afoot here – a seismic shift in international affairs that has been dormant, until now.
Fortunately, Jupiter is still touring peacekeeping Libra until October 10, which will keep a semblance of harmony afoot.
Twenty-seven years after a tribunal of male senators had spectacularly ignored Anita Hill, something new was afoot.
But a fascinating new paper published today in the journal Science Advances suggests that something else is afoot.
You either have to come to the conclusion that these are all coincidences or something else is afoot.
"All it says is something is afoot emotionally, and that's exactly what you're in therapy to deal with."
Wondering if something might be similarly afoot with sugar, Kearns stumbled onto the website for the Sugar Association.
If nothing else, Trump only had to mention Giuliani's name and Zelensky would understand what game was afoot.
Recent arrests of alleged Chinese spies reveal only a small fraction of what is afoot, Mr Rubio says.
Moves are afoot to wall off sensitive technologies behind export controls, tariff barriers and tougher investment-screening rules.
You'd also have to hope the operator didn't notice that something was afoot while this process was underway.
That's because Synaptics makes the technology that helps power mobile phone displays — an industry where change is afoot.
A similar 'off-grid revolution' is afoot across Africa due to fast-dropping costs and plenty of sun.
Shady things are afoot here, and it seems like a silver-haired Matthew Modine is pulling the strings.
Sources suggested there were moves afoot for China's cabinet to take a bigger role in overseeing financial markets.
Moves are afoot to boost Atlante, perhaps with a new bad-debt fund of €3 billion-5 billion.
London remains one of the globe's more grossly unequal cities, and terrific activism was afoot during those Olympics.
There is nothing earth-mothery about Vedge's raffish oak interior, nothing to suggest that excessive wellness is afoot.
The testicles also retract when there's danger afoot—a fight or flight response—and just prior to ejaculation.
Given that, it's important for IT teams to respond proactively and holistically to the change that is afoot.
Tris, too, seems becalmed and unsure, vacillating between David's professed humanitarianism and Four's insistence that evil is afoot.
But other national progressives who support de León insist there isn't a grand scheme afoot to primary incumbents.
But residents have rallied around, and plans are afoot to build 100 Little Free Libraries in its place.
Sometimes being an expert on a topic can be a detriment — at least when large changes are afoot.
But whenever Mr. Jobs became convinced that something new was afoot, he moved forcefully and refocused the company.
On one tape, from 269, he barks at a journalist after being asked about changes afoot in jazz.
The risk increases for men with erectile dysfunction issues, and perhaps even more so when infidelity is afoot.
Big leadership changes are afoot at New York-based Transfix, one of the buzziest digital freight-brokerage startups.
There were alternatives to democratic capitalism afoot in the world: fascism in Germany and Italy, communism in Russia.
Chris, on the other hand, immediately assumes something much bigger than a simple failed catfishing scheme is afoot.
And of course economists weren't responsible for everything; there were big cultural and political changes afoot as well.
With plans afoot to privatize the nonprofit airport, some residents are concerned about increasing flight traffic and noise.
Once the game is afoot in 'Knives Out,' its step is never less than light, swift and sure.
It's that when even a mainstream media outlet opines approvingly on "racial profiling," you know change is afoot.
Amplified on social media and echoing across every TV network, they suggested something larger afoot, something democracy-defining.
Unfortunately (to add more stress for us), there are more threats afoot as they leave their old home.
Moves to secure Chanel's long-term financial future have also been afoot in the boardroom in recent months.
On Sunday, fashion watchdog Diet Prada alerted its followers that more plagiarism was afoot in the Kardashian West household.
Ralph and Vanellope head down into the throngs to find their way to eBay, and the adventure is afoot.
While popular, there are some challenges when it comes to lithium-ion batteries, and change could soon be afoot.
Plans are also afoot for a further lab-on-a-chip venture alongside another GeneU colleague, Dr. Maria Karvela.
Businesses in Europe were not convinced the economic horizon in China is rosy or that reform is afoot, however.
While strange things may be afoot in Russia, nothing can stop a now-annual tradition: the Vladimir Putin calendar.
The team was invited to enter the CTF tournament at the neighboring DEF CON, and the game is afoot.
Plans are afoot to increase annual capacity at Bangkok's airports by tens of millions over the next four years.
Something deeply suspicious is afoot at the Leopold & Loeb Juvenile Detention Center, as evidenced by Mad Dog's bizarre backstory.
Another faction aligned with Ramaphosa said no such plans were afoot, but it was enough to rattle financial markets.
There's a nasty rumor afoot that Donald Trump is headed to ABC's salacious summer reality show Bachelor in Paradise.
Either way, something nasty is afoot at Bly, and the discomfort is doled out precisely and relentlessly by James.
Meanwhile ructions are afoot in Mrs Merkel's own CDU, with some briefing that the chancellor's authority is leaking away.
Natural gas plummeted this year, declining nearly 20 percent, but one strategist says a buying opportunity could be afoot.
Michael Bapis with the Bapis Group at HighTower sees risks afoot, though he sees the price rising higher still.
It's a sticky Friday in late July and something is afoot on 290st Avenue, in New York's East Village.
But according to a new report in The Information, that's far from the only change afoot at the company.
He always thinks that if something bad is happening to him, there must be, by definition, something evil afoot.
Sure, he wasn't *immediately* involved in the specific play that watched LeVert go down, but there's something suspicious afoot.
Jess Rankin, the lead barista at Beauty's Bagel Shop, said there were already plans afoot to stay in touch.
Still, the surprisingly low ratio prompted the analysts who cover Goldman to wonder whether a permanent change was afoot.
People who look out for one another in times of need, when the skies are dark and trouble's afoot.
And in Ecuador, rangers told him they were too scared to confront the armed poachers they knew were afoot.
New York may be a city forever changing, but Mr. Moss argues that this time something nefarious is afoot.
Other developments are afoot from traditional banks and fintechs, which use technology to improve the delivery of financial services.
A visit to the heart of one of Earth's greatest green splodges reinforces a sense of what is afoot.
But the Trump administration saw something more nefarious afoot: a U.N. power grab to usurp control over U.S. borders.
Many will also look for that attribute in our next president, because they sense that deep changes are afoot.
A bearish technical trend is afoot in the dollar index, wrote Miller Tabak managing director and equity strategist last week.
If these puns weren't Ugg-xactly what you had in mind, we'll have something else afoot tomorrow on CNN 10.
But more radical changes are afoot, too, like replacing jet fuel with biofuels, futuristic wing designs, or even fuel cells.
But rebellious pop star Amarna (Eiza González) suspects there's something sinister afoot, and she agrees to help Uma get out.
Calderon, whose contract runs through next season, has never been the fleetest afoot, and his defense has not aged well.
It's been nearly six years since police discovered that a serial killer may be afoot on Long Island, New York.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, discussions are afoot on changing the way trade figures are tallied.
Researchers have been worried about these counting methods for years, and some changes are afoot that could lead to improvements.
Disney shares are down 17 percent over the past year, but according to one trader a turnaround could be afoot.
A "powerful and well co-ordinated plot to thwart the democratic will of the British people" was afoot, she wrote.
Despite CEO Steve Huffman's continued waffling in his resolve to ban Reddit's worst actors, a change seems to be afoot.
Grace agrees because, again, she has no concrete evidence as what kind of drama is afoot in the Parkinson home.
Plans are afoot for new farms in regions around the world… anywhere there is a population center, Barnard tells me.
The DNC called in a cyber-security firm, CrowdStrike, in April after noticing odd things afoot in its computer network.
"I believe a movement is afoot that must not fade away," Sessions said, announcing a surprise endorsement of the billionaire.
The only indications that there's something else afoot here are the two yellow circles on either side of the sunglasses.
But there are questions afoot, too — beginning with the futures of Manager Joe Girardi and Cashman, whose contracts are expiring.
Efforts are also afoot in Congress to propose federal legislation barring the use of nondriving factors to set auto rates.
A plan is afoot to change the look and use of the Gowanus neighborhood, which extends west of Fourth Avenue.
Remember that whenever a non-quoted clue ends with a question mark, some sort of wordplay or trickery is afoot.
In a midweek puzzle, however, tricks are afoot, and today the clue is referring to how much money you've EARNED.
By the turn of the century, signs of change were afoot: A police record in The Washington Post on Nov.
But for all the changes afoot on the ground, the most dramatic shifts seem to be happening in the sky.
If this sounds like the stuff of conspiracy theories, it's because there is a conspiracy afoot, and it isn't theoretical.
While we agree about the seismic changes afoot, we don't believe this is the right way to think about it.
If the price changes during this time, you'll be charged the lower amount, so there's no dodgy price hikes afoot.
Locals know big changes are afoot, but they are unsure what those changes will mean for life in the wetlands.
He found that Hinch knew cheating was afoot and that although Hinch disliked it, he did not stamp it out.
It dawned on John not long after the body of his former lodger was found that something sinister was afoot.
"Clearly we have something afoot in this country that leads right to the top," said Representative Earl Perlmutter, a Democrat.
Ambrose is suspicious of the possibility of a witch hunter afoot, but Blackwood waves away those concerns as breezily as Sabrina's.
"In fact, I would imagine that plans are afoot as we speak to trigger the same process with the same baker."
Video Pelosi was asked Wednesday about the Republican notion that socialism was afoot in her party and she denied the theory.
This suggests that real change is afoot within the party, even if it is not quite yet a new New Deal.
Dancers disappear with no explanation; their friends sense something strange afoot, but are neither shocked nor curious as to its cause.
Images from earlier in the summer make it appear that something demonic is very much afoot in the small Indiana town.
Though you could sense a shift afoot if you were following his work closely, the first major changes came in 2015.
The shipping industry, long plagued by overcapacity, will benefit from the consolidation and government-led financing solutions currently afoot in Asia.
It wasn't until almost all of the guests had left that Gawker Media's Victor Jeffreys II realized some shenanigans were afoot.
In Albania plans are afoot to open the house of Enver Hoxha, the communist who ruled the country for 41 years.
Yet, in flashback, we see Grace alert Nancy to the scheme afoot, which Nancy brushes off as McDermott bragging one again.
However, there's no guarantee that Apple company will eventually adopt black-and-white, but there's definitely evidence that change is afoot.
Maybe Sanders got caught up on all the shady machinations afoot in the world's fifth-largest country in his newfound downtime.
The exact circumstances of their deaths remain unknown, but trace evidence seems to suggest that something foul—or alien—was afoot.
"There is a global slowdown afoot ... and that is going to require the Fed to rethink its normalization path," Schlossberg said.
Finally, plans are afoot from private companies and governments to bring manned missions to the surface of the moon and Mars.
Rather he was reassuring himself that nothing disastrous was afoot, which in turn allowed him to relax and enjoy his holiday.
There are other forms of magic afoot, as Mr. Versweyveld's single set seamlessly becomes everything the script says it must be.
But for most of the fashion world change is afoot – and it's not looking like that will stop any time soon.
For Hollywood stars, naming a baby is a major consideration, what with all the Blue Ivies and Apple Martins running afoot.
For most laymen looking at the Mississippi voting rolls, that some organized chicanery had been afoot would have been beyond question.
Venus will also connect with Saturn on this day, establishing a grounding energy during all the changes that will be afoot.
With Slack's direct listing afoot, the Troops team is counting on the imminent and long-term growth of the company's platform.
The first episode is a big get-the-band-back-together piece, with lots of moving parts and political schemes afoot.
"The people on the inside who believe that transformation is afoot — those are the people we want to reach," he said.
There was plenty of psychoacoustic mystery afoot: The music could sound static, until you realized that a microtonal shift had occurred.
The U.S. government already regulates a number of addictive substances, and plans are afoot to monitor social-media companies more aggressively.
In sick bay, Maddox tells Picard that he thinks there's a giant conspiracy afoot involving the Romulans and even the Federation.
A few days later, a local newspaper tracked down Mr. Sow, and moves are now afoot to reward him with residency.
Politically, too, changes were afoot: The Cold War drew to an end, Europe integrated and politicians trimmed back the welfare state.
Cain figured something evil was afoot, school spokesman Jay Blanton told the Leader, and shouted that he was calling the cops.
Sources outside Google but familiar with it say that a major reshuffle of these units is afoot, including potential leadership changes.
They are nagged by the thought that they may not have found truly representative ones, or that they are missing changes afoot.
HBO's series poking fun at Silicon Valley will be back with a fourth season on April 23, and some changes are afoot.
There's an unfortunate narrative afoot that suggests that everything your mother might want has to do with taking care of the home.
While past attempts to ramp up FDI have met with resistance due to constitutional restrictions, Sicat is confident that change is afoot.
There's a conspiracy afoot in the hallowed halls of the National Broadcasting Company, and Rob Morrow is determined to figure it out.
There's a conspiracy afoot in the hallowed halls of the National Broadcasting Company, and Rob Morrow is determined to figure it out.
A reckoning is afoot, centuries after the city became a co-owner of what was then the South American colony of Suriname.
However, change is afoot, with a number of new brands offering plastic-free solutions and existing brands switching up their packaging methods.
From overindulgent music videos to obnoxious Snapchats, when it comes to the world of Top 40 EDM, there's plenty of assholes afoot.
But pro wrestling is a business built on buzz, and the slow chipping away of WWE's monopoly on cool is clearly afoot.
IN 21985, "American Women in Transition", a study by the Russell Sage Foundation, described the vast changes then afoot in American society.
Whether Apple can turn Siri around in the coming years remains to be seen, but it certainly seems that changes are afoot.
In fact, there is a movement afoot to amend the laws in Tennessee, which may provide Brown a chance at early release.
Plans are afoot for a vote of no confidence in Mr Abadi, when parliament next convenes, possibly within the next few days.
Then I remind myself of what day it is (Thursday), and remember that it's not unusual for there to be trickery afoot.
It's possible that some master plan is afoot in the inner sanctum of Penguin Random House to bend Amazon to its will.
"You could tell that big things were afoot, even if it was a nightmare to work out what they were," she recalled.
If the picture appears all across the web, it's probably recycled from somewhere else and suggests there may be some bullshit afoot.
The proposed boson has become lunch-table talk in physics departments far and wide, and plans are afoot for testing the idea.
He's clutching a wooden stake, sensing that danger might be afoot, and is accompanied by his appropriately-named talking pet hamster, Buffy.
Where doctors and scientists see a public health crisis, President Trump and his right-wing media allies see a political coup afoot.
"So I think something is afoot both on the financial front and frankly on the tone and tenor front," he told CNN.
On Wednesday, Mr. Assange hinted that something was afoot when he tweeted a picture of himself wearing a yellow Ecuadorean soccer jersey.
But around the world, and in the United States, investors in the bond market are behaving as if something strange is afoot.
Mr. López had apparently been freed by security forces, leading many to speculate that a rebellion against Mr. Maduro might be afoot.
Moves to ban mass gatherings are afoot, and many organizations, including the country's football authorities, have taken matters into their own hands.
Top officials in the Pentagon, and even in his own White House were unaware something was afoot until Trump appeared before reporters.
But lower-profile protest movements are also afoot among prominent artists and writers who occupy a less flashy space in American culture.
Changes for incoming recruits are afoot, as well, including increasing the number of permissible campus visits for recruits to 15 from five.
A look at van Linden Tol's work reveals all manner of explosives-driven art, which suggests something interesting afoot with Star Storm.
There is one that's afoot called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and it's an idea that several states have already endorsed.
With the Paris climate talks behind us, the world appears serious about mitigating the environmental impacts already afoot and preparing for those ahead.
As Game of Thrones' history tells us, a hairstyle change on the show means a major emotional evolution is afoot for a character.
Because of the flood of interest, plans are afoot for several satellite workshops, to be held across the country over the coming year.
According to sources close to the company, there are major changes afoot at the chipmaker's New Devices Group, including some major job loss.
A movement was afoot to rethink peatlands—not as fuel, but as wildlife havens and secret weapons in the fight against climate change.
But a psychosexual game is afoot in Brendan Gall's "Wide Awake Hearts," at 59E59 Theaters, and A (Ben Cole) has orchestrated this reunion.
Their relationship to the tunics, materially and conceptually, is obscure at first — though one senses that, between the two, something evidentiary is afoot.
Besides all the political intrigue afoot, the other main drive of Cathy's funeral is figuring out how she died in the first place.
Against that backdrop, The Register published an article yesterday suggesting there could be massive changes afoot for the company's Global Technology Services group.
Changes are afoot at BGF Ventures, the London-based early-stage venture fund of BGF, as three partners are departing, TechCrunch has learned.
Soon enough, Cheryl, Veronica and a very loyal Reggie Mantle (Charles Melton) team up to figure out what new deadly scheme is afoot.
We still have three full-length episodes left with the Baker Street detective, and come January, the game will be afoot once more.
Aside from your upcoming West Coast mini-tour, what other plans are afoot for the band once the album is out and about?
But he sees a reversal afoot, which gives him confidence in investing abroad even as U.S. firms' first-quarter earnings have been strong.
In the city of Pyongyang, the sanctum sanctorum of the Workers' Party of Korea, there are changes afoot that would have vexed Stalin.
There were reports that Oracle vigorously lobbied the president for assistance in their fight, claiming, among other things, that a conspiracy was afoot.
With the game afoot, it is not long before Jones and Li focus on an epidemic of teenagers' abandonment by parents and society.
What's making Hussman especially nervous is the increasing amount of market divergences he's seeing that confirm his suspicion that a crash is afoot.
"Today's news suggests that more substantial changes are afoot, as the ties with the past are broken," analysts at RBC Capital Markets said.
But that has only spread slowly to the world of writing (though changes are afoot: Gawker voted to unionize last year, for instance).
I told you last week that strange happenings were afoot in the universe, what with the Cubs winning the World Series and all.
The order to stop is not a "lawful order" under those circumstances because the officer lacks reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot.
In the so-called "Sheraton Move", members of Mahathir's Bersatu party and UMNO joined in a very public show of the changes afoot.
Plans are afoot to send fleets of spaceships the size of iPhone chips toward Alpha Centauri, like clouds of butterflies across interstellar space.
Nesting can certainly foreground teaching those skills, but I would caution viewing it as a way to hide the changes that are afoot.
Together they can make you feel the very high highs and very low lows of teendom — particularly if an overblown prank is afoot.
It seems that some belt tightening is afoot, something that we'll need to keep an eye on as the 2020 IPO cycle begins.
Back down in Husafell, other changes are afoot, namely Hotel Husafell, a luxe two-year-old hotel that is all glass and light.
At the Moss Landing facility, where factory workers crank out the wheat-gluten-based Benevolent Bacon responsible for the scent, changes are afoot.
Still, there was an inclusive spirit afoot in this bold, young country that would, in principle, make a Muslim feel safe and welcomed.
Their fates are harbingers of broader shifts in the environment and they are often the first to show signs that changes are afoot.
In two tweets, he blamed the Obama administration, not Russia, for the hacking and again suggested that a Democratic "deep state" was afoot.
Cops tell us they're worried protesters on floats and afoot will try to stop the parade in its tracks with a flash demonstration.
But if you were, having an audit and Chelsea Clinton share your fears will fuel the sense that something suspicious was afoot here.
But Carter Worth of Cornerstone Macro notes that an interesting pattern on the Facebook chart leads him to believe a bigger breakout is afoot.
Kroll's Whalen said a movement afoot on Capitol Hill to break off from the global Basel banking standards could draw some questions as well.
When the receptionists, caught off guard, say they can't answer his questions, Andersen huffs in frustration, apparently hoping to imply there's a conspiracy afoot.
Those cameras only go on when the House is in session and Republicans called a recess quickly after they realized a protest was afoot.
The preface to a chunky government green paper suggested that ominous changes were afoot: Mrs May wrote of a "new, active role" for government.
This year's defense bill has no new visas, though there is scant bipartisan movement afoot that could add them to other government spending bills.
While productivity and speed are Sri Lanka's hallmarks in the current fast fashion landscape, its garment makers are acutely aware that changes are afoot.
"Last Night A DJ Saved My Life" plays when Cunanan meets Versace in a club in San Francisco, letting us know something is afoot.
It certainly appears both Moretz and Beckham's rings are matching and worn on their traditional ring fingers, which typically means an engagement is afoot.
Almost immediately, Macmillan offers his resignation, but the Queen rejects his offer, saying she needs him to hold the fort, because changes are afoot.
Copper prices tumbled as worries about demand in China resurfaced after the country's housing minister suggested moves were afoot to stabilise the property market.
Changes are afoot at European VC Atomico, with news breaking that long-time partner Mattias Ljungman is leaving to raise his own seed fund.
Puberty is afoot, and Eleven (Natalie Portman) meets other mutants like her, but all their abilities come with a side effect like those nosebleeds.
Republicans have targeted Kind before, but they've never done it this early in a cycle — a sign that Republicans think change could be afoot.
The overall landscape of diversity in advertising isn't necessarily reassuring, but there's certainly change afoot — at least as far as struggling labels are concerned.
The athletic coach immediately assumes a nefarious plot is afoot and demands answers from Ali, who's just trying to wear cool PJs in peace.
About a year ago, a few of us here at Refinery29 started to notice an interesting trend afoot (pun not entirely intended): Grandma shoes.
Some believe that something nefarious is afoot as branches of the military begin a contemporary campaign to become more friendly with the UFO topic.
Meanwhile, the robotic telescope Chang'e-3 placed on the Moon continues to work beautifully, and plans for a future Chinese Moon landing are afoot.
CBS and Viacom's merger has caused some speculation about sales and marketing layoffs and changes, while big changes are afoot at Disney and WarnerMedia.
There is movement afoot among Democrats to regain middle-of-the-road, Main Street voters who are the prized powerhouse of either state party.
Street protests against Trump's announcement may be fizzling out, but much broader moves are afoot by opponents quick to capitalize on the negative fallout.
Officials are warning that it could be months before they see the lights flicker back on as repair efforts just begin to get afoot.
Both are hoping to convince voters that they can be trusted with running the eighth most populous state, where rapid demographic change is afoot.
To "Outmarch?" someone is to march farther or perhaps faster, but with that "?" at the end of the clue, there is some Wordplay afoot.
The fact that your anger can even be expressed in the terms that you've expressed it is evidence, to me, that change is afoot.
Moves are also afoot to make certain components of mobile networks interchangeable with each other, to let carriers mix and match suppliers more easily.
And after the Des Moines Register's Iowa poll was pulled from being released over the weekend, suspicions and conspiracy theories had already been afoot.
In most cases, suspicious targets balked after checking in with the Defense Ministry, which first alerted investigators in July 2015 that something was afoot.
Swedish Lapland is dazzling and mysterious, a wonderful place to visit, perhaps now as much as ever because of a Sami cultural revival afoot.
Miles' Hillston pitch at work is given life-or-death stakes, which is a hard thing to keep in perspective with illegal cloning afoot.
Then the game is afoot: In their waning days, as males battle for dominance, females excavate a redd, a depression in the gravel riverbed.
While efforts are afoot to change that, a cross-industry coalition of lobbyists is working hard to ensure this dysfunctional status quo never changes.
Despite this promise of harmony, the most observant of the co-workers, a twenty-five-year-old novelist, senses that something malicious is afoot.
We have developed, during our tormented history, a collective early warning system that detects danger when the "grand game" among great powers is afoot.
" Before long, however, "strange and horrific happenings are afoot in the architecturally triumphant house that has recently gone up on the lot next door.
Even though the entry was four letters, I thought there could be something afoot (and was right about that, just wrong about this clue).
But Demon Deacons head coach Dave Clawson thinks something else was afoot: a very vague "security breach" where some Wake Forest "documents" went missing.
The team suspected that, due to the wide range of dates given for the Hatepe eruption, some carbon-14 fiddling had been afoot around Taupo.
There's also a spooky old house, antique weapons everywhere, funky accents, and murderous rage hiding behind every character's eyes, so the game is definitely afoot.
And while these incentives were eliminated as part of 1990s budget cuts, there's been a new movement afoot to accelerate the expansion of worker ownership.
Other residents told CNBC they were generally aware of something afoot at Germany's biggest bank, but few expressed even a casual interest in the news.
When you pile up all the evidence, even before this week's revelations about Trump Jr., it seems impossible to deny that something is afoot here.
Image: Hazel Juco/TwitterWhen teens get in trouble for posting things online, there's often something nefarious afoot, like drunken antics, offensive behavior, or criminal activity.
But Elizabeth, without an heir and manipulated by her councillors, comes to fear that there is a larger plot afoot to make England Catholic again.
"It is very difficult to make a bet on [IBM]… without really feeling confident that a turnaround is afoot," Sacconaghi said on CNBC's "Halftime Report".
Trump's desire to make America great again reflected a sense that changes already afoot in our country were deleterious and needed to be rolled back.
The Xinhua article was circulated in both Chinese and English with supportive comments from regulators, exciting speculation that changes to the law could be afoot.
But as the stock finds itself in its fourth straight year of declines, Carter Worth, technician at Cornerstone Macro, said a rebound might be afoot.
After building a case for a problem afoot in the US health system, this slide quickly sets up Sempre and its platform as a solution.
"The Baby-Friendly model, while well-intentioned, just didn't turn out the way they thought it would," said Bass, who's optimistic that change is afoot.
And then, if the pieces don't add up or lend to a reasonable suspicion that skullduggery was afoot, let's have that special prosecutor appointed forthwith.
Yet at the headwaters of the Santa River, in the mountain city of Huaraz, César Portocarrero, a Peruvian climatologist, sees problems afoot for those downstream.
Another effort afoot, "+ POOL," would bring a floating pool to New York City that would sit in the river, filtering the harbor water for swimmers.
Even in the hit-driven sectors examined by "Digital Renaissance," important digitally inspired changes are still afoot that require further examination before declaring cultural victory.
The big picture: The Group Nine/POPSUGAR deal was the third major media deal that happened in the last month, signaling that consolidation is afoot.
H. The game is truly afoot in this modern adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved detective series created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
There are moves afoot in Europe to build streaming joint ventures modelled on America's Hulu and, here, RTL has joined a French partnership called Salto.
Speculation that something sinister was afoot was fuelled by the fact that Homi Bhabha, head of India's atomic programme, was on board the second plane.
And, if Jack has any questions about whether something otherworldly is really afoot at Belgrave, the premiere-closing appearance of a massive werewolf banishes all doubts.
According to editing, Colton spends the minutes ahead of the rose ceremony hiding out in a production tent while spinning out over the "conflicting stories" afoot.
Judging from the intense music and detective-movie-style graphics, foul play is afoot — but that doesn't exactly track with the rest of the promotional material.
Users can post footage of prowlers afoot (the stock "suspicious man" on Ring's website is a guy in a hoodie), and alert people to their whereabouts.
When we visited, that's often where we'd find her, raising her one mobile eyebrow to indicate that some drama was afoot and she knew the dirt!
Change is now afoot at IAG, with British Airways' veteran boss Keith Williams set to retire and be replaced by Vueling head Alex Cruz in April.
And moves are afoot in the Pennsylvania legislature to gerrymander judicial elections in response to the state Supreme Court's crackdown on a Republican-favouring congressional map.
Uber (as well as Middle East ride-hailing rival Careem) is launching programs aimed at leveraging the sweeping cultural and economic changes afoot in the country.
There's a jazz movement afoot on this side of the world and British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae is happy to be a part of it.
Conway, who served as Trump's campaign manager and a frequent cable TV surrogate, didn't deny these plans were afoot when The Hill approached her for comment.
The Creators Project emailed some questions to the photographer to find out about the series, his time spent in the country, and the changes afoot there.
But there's no denying that major changes are afoot, especially in light of what's unfolded so far this year and during the last week in particular.
At the same time, there's a perfect storm afoot that could result in some significant growing pains for the emerging sector over the next five years.
I'd expected to encounter the usual ambient drone stuff, but as soon as I got inside, I could tell that something much more interesting was afoot.
There is no time to waste in pushing this project forward but thankfully, there's a public movement afoot to continue building public support for the project.
Finance ministry officials were frustrated by his reluctance to cut interest rates to stimulate growth, and moves were afoot to ease him out of the job.
It feels as though a real and lasting transformation may be afoot — until you remember that this isn't the first time women have sounded the alarm.
There are insurgencies against party leadership afoot everywhere, but progressives should note that only some of them have anything to do with moving the party left.
But as Nate Berg writes, that's incredibly wasteful — and there's an intriguing new movement afoot to carefully "deconstruct" old buildings and recycle the materials from them.
All in all and taken together these books — and the movement that they suggest is already afoot — refute Chabon's "swift, straight-shooting, silent" Indians of childhood.
Dropbox is set to report its second earnings report as a public company on Thursday after the closing bell, and some see a buying opportunity afoot.
The premise is that evil is afoot; that money, the media and government authority — and even "politically correct" moral authority — have been usurped by undeserving interlopers.
Technically that payment experiment doesn't require Congress's assent — but Congress could block it or scale it back, and there are moves afoot to do precisely that.
In the United Arab Emirates, plans are afoot to create a $163 million mock settlement in the desert outside Dubai to prepare for future Mars habitation.
Big changes are afoot for Wire, an enterprise-focused end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service that advertises itself as "the most secure collaboration platform".
But many can sense a change in the economic order is afoot as they face questions about the systems and the world in which they operate.
Other changes were afoot: The few years before McGee's report saw passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 103.
Some interesting M&A is afoot in the world of hardware and software that's aiming to improve the quality of audio and video communications over digital networks.
A movement afoot in Congress seeks to tie the Fed to policymaking that adheres to rules, or to explain itself when choosing to deviate from selected yardsticks.
" The prosecutors' withdrawing from the case is a sign that that didn't happen, Baker said, and is "a very strong statement that something seriously wrong was afoot.
And while there may be fresh moves afoot in the US to introduce a decrypt bill in the US — such legislation has not yet come to pass.
But this story claims they do have at least some information suggesting there was shady communication and coordination afoot (though the story cautions this information isn't "conclusive").
Olson has long suspected that some bullshit was afoot involving some CIA goons and some LSD, which led to something that was less suicidal and more murderish.
As Mr Trump's main foreign-policy adviser during the campaign, with pro-Russia views, he might additionally be expected to have known about whatever collusion was afoot.
When there's nothing worth signaling, coaches often go through similar motions to prevent their opponents from detecting too easily that anything out of the ordinary is afoot.
"But there is already movement afoot amongst Republicans to amend the judgment fund, saying 'We don't want companies getting this money that was never appropriated,'" explained Blackman.
To deflect attention from the wrecking-job afoot onstage, Mr Trump entered the arena and stood waving generally, with a waxen half-smile, like a senile dictator.
This infrastructure failure was exacerbated by failures to adequately communicate the risk afoot to the public and among the multiple agencies that coordinate disaster preparation and response.
There have even been reports that Ryan is conservatism's new Secret Santa and informal plans are afoot to put Ryan against Trump, possibly at a brokered convention.
Mr. Erdogan, who had frequently talked of conspiracies afoot to undermine his power, was back in control, seemingly as powerful as ever, and perhaps even more paranoid.
But then his second feature centered on a woman, and then his third, and his fourth, around which time Mr. Villeneuve realized a definite pattern was afoot.
If a profile has no verifications and isn't brand new, something is likely afoot—especially when photos of a beautiful woman or impossibly large dick are involved.
Don't be alarmed, I think; the message is just an indication of some wordplay afoot in six otherwise-unmarked, straightforward entries, four phrases and two song titles.
Impeachment Donald Trump's legal team will finish up their closing arguments today in the Senate impeachment trial, but there are bigger issues afoot for the President's defenders.
It is encouraging to see that, since this shooting, there is a movement afoot to raise the age to 21 for the purchase of such a weapon.
A number of Americans hold libertarian-leaning viewpoints, leading to many arguing (granted, not for the first time) that a watershed moment for the ideology was afoot.
You don't come across an experimental, improvised ambient supergroup every day, but that's exactly what's afoot with Gilead Media's latest release, The Startling Testimony of Plumb Lines.
Some M&A is afoot in the world of market research and analysis, underscoring just how much of our media consumption and consumer habits revolve around digital platforms.
On the labour market, plans are afoot to consolidate over 26.2 central laws into four codes but not to repeal rules that have made companies reluctant to expand.
But the testimony of both the accused abuser John Gray (David Dencik) and the victim, his daughter, Angela (Emma Watson), lead him to believe there's something else afoot.
But that wasn't enough for some Republicans, who are convinced there is some deeper conspiracy afoot involving McCabe and are determined to get to the bottom of it.
Feuds, schemes, and general treachery are constantly afoot, and people happen to say, "To the empire," far more in one episode than I've said in my entire life.
Similar trends are afoot in Japan, the home of karaoke, where desperate owners have reportedly resorted to renting out their unused parlours as temporary offices during the daytime.
Alright, to be fair, I'm sure there's some sort of explanation for whatever's afoot here, some important thematic reason they're all gazing off into the distance, arms outstretched.
Before last night's game in LA, the fine people at SportsNet New York decided to comb through the game tape and revealed that maybe some trickery was afoot.
Speculation that a deal might be afoot increased with the sentencing of two Russian soldiers, Alexander Alexandrov and his commander, Captain Yevgeny Yerofeyev, to 14 years in jail.
He'll need to see certain things in order to really understand what's afoot on Darkwater and will therefore have to sacrifice some of himself to further the investigation.
Overall, the picture of steady seaborne volumes and prices stuck in a range may continue for the rest of 2018, but within the market significant changes are afoot.
But how does a parent differentiate between what might be considered normal irritability and moodiness, especially during those teenage years, and signs that something more serious is afoot?
On the last front, and a little to our surprise, the VCs seemed to agree that a shift is afoot, if we aren't already past a tipping point.
The game is afoot this weekend for the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society devoted to Sherlock Holmes that is holding its annual dinner in New York City.
Both veterans of the theater company Bedlam, these are actors whose names on a cast list are a tipoff: If they're in it, exciting performances are likely afoot.
On numerous occasions, Trump and his team have evoked the specter of terrorists sneaking through the southern border to support their concerns that a national crisis is afoot.
He was in the short-lived "Something's Afoot" in 1976 and was a replacement player in "Annie" after it opened in 1977, taking the role of Rooster Hannigan.
Bird has overcome a number of unique hurdles with many more afoot, including pushback from local governments that were aggravated by the sudden appearance of hundreds of scooters.
But when you think about the "blueprint," as Yang says, Awkwafina took to finally get major recognition, you realize something a little more insidious is afoot in Hollywood.
"There seems to be an effort afoot to try and make this a legal issue," said Caleb Burns, a partner at Wiley Rein, who specializes in political law.
But it seems that there are some time-space shenanigans afoot that make him old enough to have starred as KUNTA KINTE in the original "Roots," from 1977.
But the timing of their departures, as well as the speed at which they occurred, has led other Hungarian judges to wonder whether something more sinister was afoot.
However, when it was reported that Markle did not in fact call in from Canada, where she is currently staying with baby Archie, rumors of exclusion were afoot.
" Blanc spends a fair amount of time appraising the familial quirks, while saying Holmes-ian lines like "The game is afoot" and referring to a sidekick as "Watson.
Plans are afoot to build a "model farm" in northern China inspired by one in Iowa that Xi Jinping visited in early 0003, before he became China's president.
A historic shift is afoot in the Middle East, not one as attention-grabbing as ISIS' brief, bloody reign, but one that is reshaping alliances in the region.
"So we instituted these little ticking clocks that essentially denotes that change is afoot and these executives likely won't be in the role that they are right now."
Within and amid all the engineering, there's a story afoot: The premise is that a gang of cartoonish villains is on the loose in the city of Criminopolis.
By the time the movie concludes, you may know who's responsible for Harlan Thrombey's death, but the real "whodunnit" remains afoot: Who is responsible for this film's wardrobe?
Wherever this insidious delusion takes hold, however, it requires a gargantuan ignorance of history to maintain, and there's a lot of ignorance afoot in the land right now.
Another Hillary Clinton scandal is afoot in conservative media: Her campaign supposedly violated the US Flag Code in New Hampshire Tuesday, as shown by a Washington Post photo.
"There's a little movement afoot here in the middle of flyover country," Chuck Caisley, KCP&L's vice president for marketing and public affairs told NPR a few months ago.
But, depending on how fast the New York Attorney General moves when there may be a pizza-related crime afoot, it might be too late to 'pologize ... too late.
The trader sees a similar rally afoot, which would place the stock back around it October highs of about $118 per share—about 4 percent above its Friday close.
The target audience is easily distracted, upper and lower case don't follow any logic you'd call consistent, and honestly who has the time when there are tickle monsters afoot?
Police began suspecting something was afoot after two interviews with the teenage son produced conflicting details about what had happened, such as how the pair got to the area.
Taylor raised concerns that a quid pro quo was afoot: withholding a White House visit for the Ukrainian president and security aid until Ukraine committed to carrying out investigations.
But rather than sampling the wares of these warhorses, I'd arrived to try the second culinary wave, a quiet in-house revolution that is afoot all over the country.
There's trouble afoot in teenage social media paradise, Mandelup has come to warn us, and there are no adults in attendance—and if they are, they're not exactly supervising.
Some big changes are afoot for Mobike, the Chinese bike-sharing company that was acquired by IPO-bound on-demand service startup Meituan-Dianping for $2.7 billion last year.
He also notes that unlike in recent years, where money around the world was looking for opportunities in Silicon Valley, a bit of a sea change is currently afoot.
On top of all this, there is a general commoditization afoot in payments, and white label solutions — such as this one from WePay announced today — are becoming more widespread.
Because Congress was not technically in session — Republicans called a recess when they realized what was afoot — the C-Span cameras that usually record proceedings were not allowed on.
Earlier this summer, supply chain checks by Deutsche Bank indicated that "professional class" waterproofing, stereo sound and a darker color option could also be afoot in the iPhone 7.
At the very least it is good to know that there is action afoot in an area that has frustrated and certainly lightened the wallets of millions of gamers.
We've reached out to Louis Vuitton for more details on what, exactly, is afoot at the brand's HQ. One thing's for certain, though: They all look chic as hell.
On smaller scales—across patches of surface about the distance between New York and Los Angeles or less—energy dissipated instead, indicating that other processes must also be afoot.
From the moment Jimmy Kimmel set afoot the 2018 Oscars stage as host for the second year in a row, there has been no shortage of laughter — or zingers.
That "suggests that a long-term character change could be afoot, which makes me suspicious of anything more than a bounce for now," he added in comments to CNBC.
Lynk & Co. cars will initially have petrol-powered engines, with plans afoot for petrol-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and all-electric versions of the 01 and future models.
But even if Zuckerberg's testimony didn't necessarily usher in an immediate, drastic change in Big Tech's relationship with Washington, there were ample signs that a subtler development is afoot.
Yet more changes afoot for LendingClub — a peer-to-peer loans marketplace whose stock tanked May after its founder, CEO and chairman Renauld Laplanche resigned amid an accounting scandal.
"In Manaf's case, the agents were able to prove that there was a goal afoot to deliver multi-kilogram quantities of Afghan heroin to New York City," Patterson said.
There was an extremely large amount of different races, creeds, ethnicities, political philosophies, and social movements afoot—including an all women's group of "Muslims for science," which I appreciated.
Jeff Friedman, president of the local Chamber of Commerce and a Greene County resident since the mid-1980s, can't recall a time when so much was afoot in Catskill.
There are moves afoot to settle the case before the court hears arguments, but that will only postpone the inevitable reckoning since similar cases are working their way up.
Lynk & Co cars will initially have petrol-powered engines, with plans afoot for petrol-electric hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and all-electric versions of the 01 and future models.
In the film "Bill Nye: Science Guy," Mr. Nye, the 1990s children's-television personality with the signature bow tie, warns of "an anti-science movement" afoot in this country.
" With that in mind, here's his game plan for the week ahead: Hotel colossus Marriott International will report earnings after Monday's closing bell, and Cramer sees "something strange afoot here.
Now an international financial chess match is afoot, between the US and more than 21.5 countries backing Guaido as the country's legitimate interim president, and those nations aligned with Maduro.
Markets have cheered the new market friendly administration amid hopes that changes are afoot as it looks sweep aside policies of the prior administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
A forensic pathologist conducting the autopsy on Powell detected the smell of bitter almonds, which matched with cyanide, and "knew that foul play was afoot," according to the research report.
Serious efforts are afoot to record process as code — or simply put, to use software to automate repetitive but time-consuming tasks while increasing the productivity of individual security experts.
Or, in the context of decades of falling faith in government, frequent government shutdowns and near-debt crises, and a fracturing Republican Party, is something deeper and more dangerous afoot?
Kim believes the Kardashian-Disick household won't realize what kind of canine treachery is afoot, but little Reign Disick, at just 2 years old, immediately figures out they've been bamboozled.
There is a battle afoot, one you might not have heard about yet, but it involves a high-stakes winner-take-all contract for the Department of Defense's cloud contract.
But Trudeau wasn't alone in his costumed festivities, with his whole family joining in: We’re dressed and ready to go... or should I say, the game is afoot!
When the Senate released its CHIP bill in September, it made no mention of offsets or other programs to be shoehorned in, suggesting negotiations like those Park mentions were afoot.
The car industry is confident that 2016 will be another record year, though with so many changes afoot in the business some wonder if sales will now hit a plateau.
"They may be doing the right things, but the jury is still out on whether the transformation is afoot," said A. M. Sacconaghi, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.
JAMESTOWN, St. Helena (Reuters) - On St. Helena, the remote volcanic outcrop in the South Atlantic where Napoleon breathed his last, big changes are afoot - well, big by St. Helena standards.
About 100,000 remain in the Thai camps, but with democratic changes afoot in Myanmar and a ceasefire inked last October, the possibility of going home is now on the horizon.
"With a case this high profile, there has got to be either a major malfunction of the system or a criminal enterprise afoot to allow this to happen," Graham said.
If we dig deeper, however, and try to understand the interpersonal and relational dynamic between Trump and his most vocal supporters, there seems to be a deeper, darker force afoot.
There is something more afoot in people's relationship with Warren, something that they may not be willing to admit to themselves, something that they may not even be conscious of.
Make something to let those around you understand that a new season's afoot, and with it not just a change in the weather but in the culture of your kitchen.
There may even be some family engineering afoot: Maybe you and your family don't have a relationship with your dad's girlfriend because you rarely see her without your mom around.
But the Illinois National Guard said it had only sent a small number of medical personnel to Chicago, and the mayor dismissed the notion there were any grave plans afoot.
I knew that something was afoot as Caleb approached a mossy hut in the woods, but I didn't expect an actual foot, bare and tempting, to appear on the threshold.
That night, Yovanovitch got a call from a State Department official in Washington telling her that something suspicious was afoot and that there were ill-defined concerns about her security.
And after she discovered there were plans afoot for a homeowners association, she convinced residents to start a block association instead, which would serve renters, townhouse and condo owners alike.
" Not unless a righteous sense of persecution is afoot — in which case you get upswells like the Moral Majority and the Silent Majority, blurring the line between "majority" and "supremacy.
So in essence, either Grindelwald is lying, or Rowling is completely voiding the canonical timeline — or else there's some other plot twist afoot that has to explain this plot twist.
There's change afoot both on a universal level and a human level, and I like the way that The Good Place could be making one a microcosm of the other.
One wrong move by the US, for example, could lead Iran to think war is afoot, thereby compelling Tehran to make aggressive countermoves or even launch assaults of its own.
The basic model of a compelling political story is: There is some sort of corruption afoot, it is discovered and exposed to the public, and the perpetrator is shamed or punished.
There's a reason she has bought Betty from Edgar's organ-stealing clutches, kidnapped the rest of the Core Four, and told them her evil plan: She has one last torture afoot.
But really, the deeper changes afoot in the American evangelical world have almost nothing to do with Donald Trump's outsized personality or his alleged family resemblance to the author of Creation.
These accounts, as well as a few others, suggest that some sort of a crackdown is afoot, though it's not clear if that's actually happening right now on a broad scale.
While the seized screens represent just a small portion of the $3.3 million worth of products stopped by CBP agents every day, Jones thinks there may be some foul play afoot.
Indeed, despite the governor's carefully staged kumbaya moment, there are many logistical, political and practical questions about what the future holds for the reunited Democrats and what changes might be afoot.
And here's the crazy part: If they'd just admit that something significant is going on with the balls — instead of gingerly suggesting that maybe something is afoot — would anybody be mad?
I was in the hall when I heard the game was afoot -- so jumped up to head to the Never Trump headquarters to ask them what the state of play was.
By definition, they say that it's a prickling response when danger is afoot—a brain-induced threatened state that affects organic and metabolic functions—you want to hide, flee, or freeze.
"There's a movement afoot right now to deny facts and presume that one's own belief is every bit as worthy as scientifically proven fact," Nye told Mashable in a recent interview.
"We have a conspiracy remaining afoot in the Department of Justice that is out to destroy this president and they've got to be fired, if not worse," Gohmert told Fox News.
Anyone under 30 is voting for the first time, bringing 800,000 new voters to a country of 4 million, according to Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk, who predicts change is afoot.
He contended that prosecutors had cherry-picked emails to make it seem as though he knew trouble was afoot when, in fact, he was duped by the field investigators he'd hired.
"Placement," is also a euphemism, as nearly 1,500 children have been shunted into a converted Walmart, while plans are afoot to construct a tent city for hundreds more in West Texas.
According to Arendt, even the ideologically hidebound Marx and Lenin realized, if only dimly and fleetingly, that something truly revolutionary in human history was afoot in the creation of these organizations.
Tenants got a hint that change was afoot in late October when doormen told residents that they were being measured for new uniforms that would no longer bear the Trump name.
Pressed on those issues by reporters at a news briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, insisted there was no crisis afoot in the West Wing.
"The state alleges there was a big plan afoot but the state has not shown to my satisfaction by clear and convincing evidence what in fact that plan was," Backus said.
"The state alleges there was a big plan afoot, but the state has not shown to my satisfaction by clear and convincing evidence what in fact that plan was," Backus said.
There's no great national public works effort afoot to widen our sidewalks or strengthen our curbs or build more structures, such as parklets, that put some space between walkers and drivers.
It is time for the Congressional Black Caucus to assume its role as the "conscience of Congress" and once again pose the question of whether high crimes and misdemeanors are afoot.
Currently there is a movement afoot in Congress for a new Joint Committee on Congressional Reform, which would create a process for Congress to address some of the current institutional pathologies.
But some kind of revolution is afoot, and the best examples of this — alongside this weekend's record-busting Wonder Woman debut — are two other recent films: Hidden Figures and Get Out.
It looked at everything from voting technology, whether the timing of results coming into battleground states like New Hampshire suggested that something was afoot, or whether non-citizens were casting votes.
When an email server at University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit was breached, as part of a climate change denier campaign, emails were dishonestly misrepresented to suggest a conspiracy was afoot.
There's even a big movement afoot among thought leaders to get people to cancel their Amazon Prime accounts — with criticisms mostly focused on the well-documented bleak working conditions in Amazon warehouses.
Marin said those five would not have fallen under the enforcement priority list under Obama, but did so now under Trump's executive order, an indication of changes afoot under the new directive.
The market is nearing a "trading peak" of sorts, according to one equity strategist whose short- and intermediate-term models are pointing to a dip afoot in the next couple of weeks.
With many developers running out of time before the charges kick in, more discounts may be afoot in the near term, but projects further out will face less competition for potential buyers.
Trends bigger than the city were afoot — crime rates plummeting nationwide, millennials flocking to cities in record numbers, the election of Barack Obama — that suddenly made DC an attractive place to live.
Yet, with all the Falice sexual tension afoot, Betty and Jughead always give off the faint whiff of either doom, or a mere Gen-Z reboot of their own parents' love story.
The two On The Basis Of Sex actors met the subject of the biopic, Ginsburg herself, and each snapped photos for their 'Grams, and it looks like a rivalry may be afoot.
Photo: APThe oil-loving climate change critic President Trump picked to lead the Environmental Protection Agency still hasn't been confirmed by the Senate, but troubling changes are already afoot at the EPA.
"It hurts that despite of our hard work, attempts are afoot once again to push the country back," Sharif told a meeting of his ruling PML-N parliamentary party over the weekend.
Yet more consolidation afoot in the satellite industry — a sign of how satellite providers are hoping to build a more cost-effective model to deploy and operate satellite services in the future.
Once they realized comets and asteroids were still afoot in the neighborhood, astronomers began putting together planetary protection studies, and now we have whole fields dedicated to watching for near-Earth objects.
In Kalobeyei, a settlement outside Kakuma, another refugee camp, in the remote north-west, a plan is afoot to grant refugees small plots of land and allow them to sell their produce.
America has long been a country of hate and prejudice, of war and belligerence, but the last week was the latest evidence that there is something new and disorienting and dangerous afoot.
The successful response to look for and emulate is not merely acknowledging changes afoot but also putting forth policy courage and innovation to retool municipal government in order to adapt and mitigate.
The White House has denied any such moves are afoot, a point reiterated by principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah when he spoke to reporters on board Air Force One on Monday.
But wild things are afoot back there — thanks to Chris Gonzalez, a self-taught culinary whiz who hails from Manila but takes inspiration from seemingly every country that touches the Pacific Ocean.
It's clear there's a legitimate effort afoot to find a pathway to a deal -- and negotiators in both parties said Tuesday they'd moved off their initial positions on the border barrier funding.
"There's definitely movement afoot," said Colin Bell, the chief executive of an affiliate of the I.S.C., the Council of British International Schools, which plans to start training teachers in cities like Brussels.
All the same, the data we do have paints a picture of a change in esports venture investment, one sufficient in size to indicate that an esports VC slowdown could be afoot.
Some Indonesians, skeptical of China's aggressive expansion of its territory and flexing its muscles in the South China Sea, are fired up about the whole thing and see a malicious conspiracy afoot.
Of course, despite the focus on Russia's FaceApp, the real game afoot, as most here at the forum agreed, is the race between the United States and China for global tech dominance.
Insiders at the bank in September told Business Insider that a de facto hiring freeze was afoot — roles were staying unfilled, bonuses got cut, and senior staff were running out the door.
"Changes are afoot, so I would expect a higher emphasis on services and education, including high skilled migration and two-way investment, energy diversification, and a deepening of security ties," said Jaishankar.
In short, little is afoot to upset the bull-market mood: "They've still got your back", is the message that investors are taking from central banks, says David Riley, of BlueBay Asset Management.
Commander Joseph Lawrence (newly-minted creep specialist Bradley Whitford) is somehow connected to that Railroad since he helped brand new murderer Emily, his recently obtained handmaid, join in on the escape plan afoot.
And Los Angeliños were completely convinced that there must be some extraterrestrial trickery afoot because if there's one thing we've learned from the X-Files, it's that the government always denies these things.
But even with plans afoot to give extra force to Frontex, the EU's external border force, one Austrian official reckons that their assessment is not likely to change much in the medium term.
"While the timing may raise concerns that big currency policy changes are afoot, so far, we have not seen any evidence that the overall policy framework has changed," economists at S&P noted.
He noted that yet another breakout is afoot when measuring the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Sector Index relative to the technology sector, and sees further strength for semiconductors as a group within tech.
There's a movement afoot in international financial circles to do away with them, as well as 500 euro bills and other such lofty denominations, on the grounds that terrorists and criminals use them.
While much of the attention on Russia lately has been over its backing of airstrikes in Syria, particularly in the city of Aleppo, there are several other strange things afoot in Putin's empire.
There's trouble afoot ... Jessica Simpson is beggin' for help after suffering an extreme case of edema during her pregnancy ... one that's caused her left leg to take on more water than the Titanic.
Anyway, you'd be excited to think that this was just some kind of Mickelson-incentivized decision to join the rest of the festering internet universe, but it seems that some PR was afoot.
On the other, elegantly dressed Americans and Israelis heaped praise on one another, called it a historic occasion, with barely a nod to the madness afoot an hour and a half's drive away.
Amidst the cable news hysterics about the daily Trump administration drama, real or imagined, major policy changes are afoot, the scope of which is being undermined or ignored by those covering our politics.
Clues that something unusual was afoot emerged in the border city of Dandong, just across the Yalu River from North Korea and linked to the isolated country by the Sino-Korea Friendship Bridge.
So what's your prognosis for the next five to ten years, given the populist insurgencies afoot in much of the West, the turn toward xenophobia in some corners, growing inequality, and the like?
Change was afoot — a new quarterback, a more aggressive defense, a lighter schedule — as the team tried to take advantage of an opportunity to change the trajectory of a season sinking into oblivion.
This Spanish series (in Spanish, with English subtitles or dubbing) has a sort of Agatha Christie vibe, with mischief — and murder — afoot on a ship sailing from Spain to Brazil in the 1940s.
But make no mistake: Things are in flux as never before in the Fox News era, and big movements are afoot that could change the cable news dynamic of the past two decades.
Unfortunately for Skip, the company did not receive a permit to continue operating in the city, which means layoffs at the local level are afoot, Skip CEO Sanjay Dastoor said earlier this week.
The global geopolitics afoot in campaigns to succeed FIFA President Sepp Blatter warrant greater attention of the entire American foreign policy and national security apparatus, as well as national media and business communities.
As I pointed out last month, however, there is another enormous difference afoot: While interest rates have been falling for nearly 40 years, we are now in uncharted territory throughout the advanced world.
I wanted more of Samantha Morton to balance the sweetness; she plays the boss of an orphanage, a pale-eyed human bully who suspects that wizards are afoot and yearns to crush them.
Even when a company is doing fine financially, changes may still be afoot if the board or shareholder activists want to bring on a new CEO to reposition the business for the future.
Levy's boss John Martin, CEO of Turner, stepped down when the AT&T deal took effect last June, and he was not replaced — an early sign of the changes that are now afoot.
Recognizing that a high school diploma is no longer sufficient for success, the Star Scholarship program is part of a broader initiative afoot in Chicago to create a seamless "K to 14" system.
Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist WASHINGTON — It's a truism in Washington that when politicians say they're not running so they can spend more time with their families, something else, possibly something salacious, is afoot.
Significant political changes were afoot in the mid-2400th century, too, including the rise of an independence movement, led by the charismatic Pedro Albizu Campos, leader of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico.
Problems were already afoot at the Eurovision party in Ukraine, which had hoped to host an "austerity" show (costing only $16m, compared with Denmark's $61m extravaganza in 2014 and Azerbaijan's $76m bash in 2012).
Local guides say there is an effort afoot to put this region on the UNESCO list of heritage sites, a complex and unlikely prospect given the havelis' private ownership and their vast geographical span.
Has she simply decided to move to the Westside, where so many former residents of the pseudo-hipster enclave have disappeared to before her, or is something else afoot in this quirky neo-noir?
And there will be plenty of magical opportunity afoot this year as heavy-hitter VCs from Merus Capital, August Capital, Battery Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Data Collective, General Catalyst and Uncork Capital join the party.
" She links "Burn the Witch" to how "[o]ur present cultural climate discourages empathy—a stay-in-your-lane policing has been afoot for a while now—and demands the performance of absolute authority.
"All of a sudden the game was afoot with the Ganz sale in a way that hadn't happened before," says Todd Levin, director of Levin Art Group, a New York-based art advisory firm.
But now I think there's something more ominous afoot:  It's part of our country's recent pattern of decline and retreat, of settling for lower standards in the name of a toxic brand of equality.
My favorite moments involved the characters being let off their leashes, like when Kristen Wiig is running around New York trying to tell the mayor and whoever else won't listen that terror is afoot.
While many in Silicon Valley focus on futuristic technology — ranging from cryptocurrency to drone delivery — a quiet movement is afoot among young entrepreneurs that have audacious ideas to change the world and help society.
Big changes are afoot at WeWork, including in IT. After Neumann was ousted in September, co-CEOs Artie Minson and Sebastian Gunningham have been taking a hard look at all parts of the business.
"It's a wake-up call, a warning that something is afoot and there is a negative force there," said Elissa Moses, chief executive of neuroscience and behavioral science for Ipsos, a market research company.
There is a familiar dynamic in New York when the well-heeled put their money behind a new idea: an assumption that something untoward is afoot, including a creeping privatization that must be resisted.
As models in head-to-toe white rolled out on a conveyor belt in a show space best described as airport terminal meets surgical room, it became clear that change is afoot at Gucci.
Now, however, a movement is afoot to preserve—and in some cases restore—wildlife migration corridors without sacrificing development, and to do so in ways that make travel safer for people and animals alike.
Sax sets many of his scenes in Toronto (his board-game-besotted hometown), in Britain and in Italy, where he makes a convincing case that a vigorous and amorous fight for analog is afoot.
Plans are afoot to increase China's retirement age, which is normally 60 for men, 55 for women in white-collar jobs and 50 for female blue-collar workers, though the rules vary by region.
In this modest proposal by Mishan, she asks how that came to be and explores what changes are afoot in the fields of technology, travel and other industries to introduce insects into our diet.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's competition regulator says it has five investigations afoot as a result of its examination of the market power and public influence of tech giants such as Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google.
Indeed, with sales and marketing so thoroughly optimized at this point — and companies wondering how else to trounce the competition — there's now a race afoot for numerous startups looking to become the Salesforce of design.
Even more change is afoot: This September, you'll be able to catch the new Yeezy collection as well as other previously closed-off NYFW events on the small screen, according to the Hollywood Reporter. E!
Bryan: With Cersei seemingly going off the rails on an hourly basis, it's hard to blame Jaime for suspecting something strange is afoot when he enters his chambers to find Qyburn giving her some advice.
Treasurer Scott Morrison all but confirmed that steps were afoot in a news conference on Friday, saying he and the regulators were "concerned" about the resurgence in investment borrowing seen in the last few months.
Hopeful yet darkly romantic, sensual yet pure, a love story is afoot in animator Joseph Blanc's piece—but don't let that distract you from some dark, ominous plot development featuring a sly and dangerous fox.
" He added, "Either she's a really shy person who decided to ask the first question in a town-hall meeting, and just overcame her shyness for that period of time, or something else was afoot.
As the battle over the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called ObamaCare, shifts to the states, there are movements afoot at both the federal and state levels that skeptical conservatives are keeping their eyes on.
The surprise primary win in June of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the incumbent Joe Crowley in New York's 14th Congressional District was the first sign from within the party that big changes could be afoot.
Given Mr. Crowley's powerful role as the head of the Queens Democratic Party, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez sees political machinations afoot, and she accused the congressman on Twitter of mounting a third-party challenge against her.
In South Carolina, a different kind of planning is afoot: The state isn't holding a Republican primary this year, and under state law, GOP voters are allowed to cast ballots in the Democratic primary instead.
But events since then have been so fast-paced and chaotic by the standards of Mr. Putin's deliberate, no-drama style of domestic leadership that many observers now wonder whether something else might be afoot.
Yet, he has also alluded to the idea that there is a domestic conspiracy afoot, playing into the kind of theories Moscow is eager to promulgate to undermine the news media and our political system.
Prints by leading artists from a memorial book that the museum issued in 1967, "In Memory of My Feelings," emanate the deep charm of a moment when a fully fleshed, buoyant, democratic sophistication seemed afoot.
The high-octane curator Sheena Wagstaff left the Tate to helm the Met's first modern and contemporary department, and plans are afoot to raze and rebuild its modern-art wing, slated to reopen in 2020.
The four other bodies were wrapped in burlap and placed about 500 feet from one another in Gilgo Beach, leading police to believe that a serial killer, later dubbed the Long Island Serial Killer, was afoot.
Now, with the company once again speaking to a second-half inflection, it will need to do a better job articulating the changes afoot at its namesake brand — and hope that customers like what they see.
It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.
A few of the actors have already revealed that this season won't end with a catastrophic event (no plane crashes, sorry), but we do know that there is major drama afoot, especially with Riggs and Maggie.
Brazilian oil unions, some of the biggest opponents of Rousseff's impeachment, are also convinced changes are afoot if Temer takes over, said Deyvid Bacelar, an oilworkers' union leader and employee representative on Petrobras' board of directors.
But here's one piece of evidence that the pattern of the 1990s is not what is afoot today: Business investment spending on equipment, intellectual property and structures is low relative to the size of the economy.
Read: This Georgia Bro Was Detained After Spraying a Woman in the Face with 'Liquid Ass' Bad news, rubber-less shaggers: There's a new strain of super gonorrhea afoot in Britain, and it's heading your way.
"There is much research afoot, but the science of neuroprediction is not ready for prime time," says Francis X. Shen, a senior fellow in law and neuroscience at the Harvard Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior.
"I think the game is afoot," said Michael J. Mumma, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He led ground-based observations that identified methane plumes in the Martian atmosphere in 2003.
In fact, not only was there no larger conspiracy afoot, but the Pueblo attack actually drove a wedge between the North and its Communist allies, who resented Pyongyang's risky behavior and its reluctance to provide information.
Plans were afoot to build housing and expand a community college at the Astoria studios site before a complete restoration of it became the cause of two union officials, Sam Robert and Larry Barr, representing stagehands.
They're helped by Jaime Cruz, a budding artist who lives in the building with his grandmother, and when the children discover a letter from Theresa Morningstarr which promises a clue in the Cipher, the game's afoot.
So Celeste Ng knew something was afoot when she started visiting bookstores to talk about her second novel, "Little Fires Everywhere," and found rows of folding chairs filled with enthusiasts who had already read the book.
Kendall Jenner was spotted on Wednesday shopping at an adult sex store in Los Angeles, according to People, and that night Bieber posted a photo on her Instagram story that made clear bachelorette celebrations were afoot.
But just when you thought the Cooper family drama was over, there's more afoot: According to TVLine, Betty's brother Chic is coming to Riverdale, and he could be more villainous than his folksy name makes him sound.
It does feel like there's a movement afoot, and women are speaking up, and taking center stage and demanding that their voices be heard, and it was an honor to be a part of this larger movement.
New York City also bans the sale of tobacco and e-cigs to those under 21, Hawaii passed a similar law last year, and there's a big movement afoot to raise the smoking age nationally to 21.
While it already felt like some subliminal control from above was afoot during the first cocktail party — "It was one thing after another" Bibiana complains in voiceover — tensions are pushed to their extreme before the rose ceremony.
She had a strong feeling, in the way a Soria does sometimes, that there were miracles afoot, and she had been told, in the way all Sorias are told, that there were consequences for interfering with miracles.
It looked like familiar things were afoot last night, with the San Francisco Giants posting a 5-2 lead over the Chicago Cubs heading into the ninth inning thanks to a strong effort from Matt Freaking Moore.
Robert Sluymer, technical analyst at Fundstrat said there are broader moves afoot that are signaling the U.S. stock market has put in a bottom and is likely to keep moving higher, even with choppiness along the way.
There are certain telltale signs that a sunnier, seasonal shift is afoot: warm light flooding your apartment from the moment you wake up until well into the evening; Friday productivity promptly taking a nosedive at 3 p.m.
In other words, I have enough respect for the justices' basic intelligence, which includes the ability to read the same briefs and opinions that I read, to conclude that they know full well what game is afoot.
Unless there is a Watergate-level conspiracy afoot, I can confirm that at dinner one night, at the Bileses' expansive Tuscan-style home, Simone and her sister split a very large pork chop stuffed with dirty rice.
With all that alleged geopolitical hacking afoot, it's a good thing that Google this week announced that it would give away security keys to campaigns for free, as well as tutorials on how to actually use them.
A movement is afoot among the states, for example, to require presidential candidates to release their tax returns before they're permitted to appear on the ballot, turning a formerly unbroken 40-year tradition into a legal necessity.
"The state alleges that there was a big plan afoot, but the state hasn't shown to my satisfaction, by clear and convincing evidence, what that plan was," Backus said, echoing the legal standard dictated by the amendment.
In a sign that the quest is afoot for comparable grades further afield, cargoes of Argentinian Escalante and Brazilian Ostra grades were also bound for Fujairah this month for the first time ever, according to Refinitiv Eikon data.
There's also a massive and complex government mismanagement (or corruption, depending who you ask) scandal afoot involving the Murray-Darling river system, which is crucial to farmers in both NSW and the state of Victoria to its south.
Before the game, General Manager Brian Cashman tried to direct some of the heat away from his players, coaches and Girardi by accepting blame for the poor start and reiterating that no changes were afoot — for the moment.
The new CEO of Volkswagen said Tuesday that the company has no plans yet to go it alone in China, but he sees investment opportunities afoot as Asia's largest economy prepares to open up its market to automakers.
Some interesting consolidation afoot in the travel industry: Concur, the travel and expense platform that was acquired by SAP in 2014 for $8.3 billion, is today making its own acquisition: it is buying Hipmunk, the travel search startup.
And after the wave of self-examination that swept across New Zealand in the wake of the attacks, it looks like there might now be nominative change afoot for the nine-times rugby champions of the southern hemisphere.
Our ethical conundrum was relatively minor (kangaroos have survived far worse than white bread), but there are bigger issues afoot that are testing Australia's sense of when to hold the line and when to live and let live.
Entering them was logically impossible without learning and following this grid's rule, so I knew very early on that there was a game afoot, which revealed itself when good old Ginger Spice showed up at 27D — GERI Halliwell.
"There is absolutely a movement afoot to add LIDAR to mainstream automotive vehicles, which is something that you would buy off of a dealership," said Anand Gopalan, who earlier today was named as the new CEO of Velodyne.
For weeks now, plans have been afoot for a North Korean government delegation to meet in New York in early March with a group of former United States officials who have long been involved in North Korea policy.
Available on: Mubi Jacques Rivette's nearly 13-hour epic (helpfully broken into eight parts for easier viewing) brings together an acting troupe, a con artist, and a busker who becomes increasingly convinced that a bizarre conspiracy is afoot.
Change might be afoot though, according to American great John McEnroe, with a queue of young guns led by Germany's Alexander Zverev being tipped to make a long-overdue mark at the Australian Open in Melbourne starting on Monday.
The key difference is that Hereditary is more of a "call is coming from inside the house" situation, hinting at dark forces afoot while keeping you guessing at what the movie is ultimately about for an impressively long time.
Wall Street estimates for this year's earnings growth have been coming down precipitously since January, raising the question about whether there's more of a broad-based slowdown afoot, the director of global macro research at Fidelity Investments said Monday.
Sensing moves were afoot to formalize a new competition without their approval, groups representing clubs and leagues sent letters to Infantino and to Aleksander Ceferin, the president of UEFA, who also has called for more discussions to take place.
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But veteran Hilll watcher Carl Hulse of The New York Times reports there is a move afoot to do away with the so-called "blue slip" -- the form and process a senator can use to veto a judicial pick.
"If - and for now it still is a an if - there is change afoot with regards the EU's stance on telco consolidation, it couldn't come at a better time, ahead of 5G spectrum spend and roll out," he said.
Everywhere our hero Chris turns, there is a reassuring white face telling him everything's going to be OK, that nothing odd is afoot, that he's overreacting to the increasingly strange and terrible things that are coalescing directly around him.
The days of staying at home waiting for a delivery could be numbered with plans afoot for a subterranean network of tunnels in the U.K. that could transport as many as 600 million parcels a year to London alone.
But something is afoot in the mountains of Guerrero where growers are beginning to protest against the conditions they say force them to rely on the illegal crop, with some even pinning their hopes on a complete shift — legalization.
But there is a resurrection afoot—evident both on Instagram and in the sheer number of new bars, restaurants, and club openings over the last few years on North St. Mary's Street between Mistletoe Avenue and West Grayson Street.
BRIGHTER PROSPECTS The deal pipeline is looking stronger with more client inquiries and discussions afoot as borrowers get used to the new normal of higher base rates and grow more confident about the economic environment compared to last year.
During Pennywise's previous visit to Derry in 1989, he ran into the Losers Club, a misfit ensemble of six teens who seemed to be the only people in town awake and attuned enough to realize something evil was afoot.
They also embody everything that unsettles a certain segment of the Republican base, voters anxious about all the change afoot in the nation and looking to Mr. Trump to Make America Great Again by taking it back in time.
They also embody everything that unsettles a certain segment of the Republican base, voters anxious about all the change afoot in the nation and looking to Mr. Trump to Make America Great Again by taking it back in time.
The country is even ready to put the queen within grabbing distance of America's helmsman: plans are afoot for a summer state visit, in which Mr Trump reportedly wants the monarch to watch him golf at Balmoral, her Scottish estate.
The moon connects with Saturn at 3:58 PM, reminding us of our boundaries, but the sun meets Neptune at 8:01 PM, which will find us tapping into a different realm than the one we usually navigate—magic is afoot!
It's difficult to watch a plus-size woman complain about her body for episodes straight when there is a far more creative, explosive conspiracy afoot — and it's one that a gorgeous plus-size woman could easily be a part of.
Given that the Wests will also be in town for the Saint Pablo tour (and rumblings of Yeezy Season 4 are already afoot), we'll clearly be seeing quite a bit of the couple during New York Fashion Week, yet again.
The big picture: One of the eeriest features of this apparent future will be new virtual and legal "borders," a formalization of attempts already afoot by the U.S. and China to bar the other from the sphere they themselves control.
Despite its attempt to deglamourise the genre, there is nothing particularly new afoot in "Hostiles", which makes only marginal thematic gains over previous westerns that examined the American-Native American dynamic such as "The Searchers" (1956) and "Fort Apache" (1948).
Why it matters: Although both ride-hailing companies and automakers are investing in self-driving technology, some automakers have also been exploring alternatives to traditional car ownership as services like Uber and Lyft have made it clear that changes are afoot.
Kylie also plans to pick up a notebook from Smythson, which given Kendall also picked out a notebook from the same brand, it appears Kris either has a serious addiction to luxe planners, or there might be some branded content afoot.
The link between fossil fuels and a warming Arctic is the key reason Thompson opposes oil drilling in a 1.5 million acre coastal plain of the ANWR known as the 1002 area - but change is afoot with Washington rolling back protections.
Thus, if the Russia investigation were a criminal investigation, and if there were a basis to believe Trump was interfering with, say, a grand-jury or trial proceeding, it might be claimed that an obstruction-of-justice offense was afoot.
In a week when all eyes are on Facebook and the subject of how data about us on social media platforms gets used without us knowing, there's been some consolidation afoot in the world of media-based big data services.
As rumors swirled that the military was maneuvering to thwart a terror plot, or that a hijacked airliner was in the sky, many Turks, given their nation's history of military meddling in politics, began to wonder if a coup was afoot.
But what proved to be a more pernicious threat was also afoot, destroying amphibian populations throughout the forests of Central America: an infectious skin disease called amphibian chytridiomycosis that had been unleashed among wild amphibians almost certainly by human activity.
There's drama afoot in the X-Men world, and this time, it's about Sex Men: Wolverine—Marvel's thicc-clawed, perpetually pissed off superhero—who might be a gay man (or more accurately, a gay mutant), and fans are big mad.
It's a little disorienting to watch the show give the "yadda yadda yadda" treatment to the previous five years, because so much dramatic change was afoot in 1972 and some of the players here have only inched forward by degrees.
The former private investigator quickly establishes that the dead man on the beach might not have been Donald Zinn, but some poor patsy with Zinn's ID. The game is afoot, with just the right amount of reversals and double-crosses.
A community effort — backed by Adriano Espaillat, the Democrat who represents the 22015th Congressional District — is afoot to thwart the real estate industry's effort to rebrand the area between West 21th and West 21961th Streets as SoHa (short for South Harlem).
Bipin Rawat, chief of India's defense staff, meant when he made the public comments on Thursday or whether a plan was afoot to set up large-scale re-education camps in the part of the disputed Kashmir region that India controls.
As to whether there are hints of dark matter afoot, "I don't think dark matter should be at these high energies," or at least, that's the popular belief, said De Boer—and for now, he doesn't know how to interpret the break.
And if you've got strong nostalgia feelings tied to the simple snack (for example, if you were dismayed to find out there's no "of" or even an "o'" in the product's name), you may be concerned to hear of the changes afoot.
It was obvious change was afoot from the show's start: Ruth Bell (of former buzzcut fame) opened the show in her shaggy, grown-out cut — a style that felt like a distinct change from the overt femininity we're used to seeing at Dior.
But such experiments, limited in space and duration and subject to what is known as the "Hawthorne effect"—change that comes about simply because people know there is an intervention afoot—may not be good guides to the effects of a universal system.
"It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect," Justice Byron White wrote for the court.
Radiohead fans who were paying close attention noticed that something was afoot in January, when news surfaced that the band had filed papers months earlier to create an independent company, an action it had also taken before the release its past two albums.
There's a teen vaping epidemic afoot and it's become pretty clear over the last year or so that vaping companies are targeting young people with their marketing and product design — e-cigarette giant Juul has recently agreed to restrict its youth advertising practice.
Directed with verve and humor by Adam Bernstein and written by the series creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien — always a sign that the game is well and truly afoot — "New Year's Day" has the feel of a turning point for the season.
" Meanwhile, similar challenges were afoot over in Portland, Oregon, where Powell's was preparing to announce the closure of its five locations through March 31, writing in a statement it felt it could no longer "honor the social distancing guidelines presented by the CDC.
But the recent consolidation of firepower in the British capital, coupled with Condé Nast International's increasingly ambitious investment effort to expand into new regions, has spurred fresh speculation around the internal struggles afoot within the publisher's boardrooms and editorial offices across the globe.
LONDON (Reuters) - Change is afoot at BP. Incoming Chief Executive Bernard Looney plans to expand the company's climate targets and is considering overhauling the structure of the oil and gas major in one of the biggest shake-ups in its 111-year history.
"We at Celestial Buddies had no advance information about Earth's participation in the launch, although a sudden flurry of orders for Earth in the 48 hours prior to lift off had made us wonder if something was afoot," according to the company's website.
However, a nascent threat to the idea of constrained executive authority looms from another, less visible quarter: There is a movement afoot to eliminate the ability of federal courts to issue "nationwide" injunctions to block potentially unlawful actions by the federal government.
Strong gravitational lensing exampleImage: ESA/Hubble & NASA derivative work: (Wikimedia Commons)We know that the universe is expanding, but a strange discrepancy in just how fast that expansion is occurring continues to confound physicists—and make them wonder whether there's some new, unexplained physics afoot.
As Ventimiglia pointed out, change is definitely afoot in the Pearson home: The stars spoke about the cliffhanger at the end of the first season, which was bittersweet for a number of reasons, particularly because we know Jack and Rebecca aren't in the best place.
There had been ideas afoot for some time to expand the event to the whole of the Americas and, in light of last year's revelations of fraud and bribery within FIFA, the U.S. was arguably the only clean venue available with the necessary infrastructure.
In January, a Republican PAC sent a series of FOIA requests "to understand better what partisan politics are afoot at OGE," and then incoming White House chief-of-staff Reince Priebus warned Shaub to "be careful" about politicizing his office during a TV appearance.
If it seems strange that a communist country like China has a more open market in this area than the United States, at least there are efforts afoot to change U.S. practice in ways that would bring it more in line with global norms.
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As evidence of an entertainment that succeeds largely on its own terms, consider "The Game's Afoot" — evidence being the salient word for a 70-minute event from a young company, Les Enfants Terribles, that functions less as a play than as an interactive detective story.
And it should not only give women hope that change is afoot but also put men who enter companies expecting the warm embrace of "bro-culture" and the "perks" that entails on notice: There's increasingly a price to be paid for the mistreatment of women.
Other changes are afoot in America too — the civil rights movement, for one — but Katherine Goble (Taraji P. Henson), a widow and a "computer" at NASA who's also a bit of a savant with numbers, is focused is on her job and her three daughters.
A different effort to thwart a successful gun law is afoot in Congress: The House of Representatives was poised to pass a bill to remove the 1934 N.F.A. background check, registration and fee requirements one must satisfy to own a gun silencer (also called "suppressors").
In the three episodes made available to critics, "Million" dabbles in "This Is Us"–style schmaltz; in "thirtysomething"–style "let's all talk about how being married is boring sometimes but also good"; and in "Damages"–style ominous computer clacking indicating business scandals might be afoot.
Mr. Yameen may feel confident that he can ride out the trouble, having drawn close to China and Saudi Arabia, both of which have invested heavily in the Maldives; there was even a plan afoot last year to sell an atoll to the Saudis.
The announcement betokens the generational turnover afoot in jazz: Ms. Reeves and Mr. Metheny, both in their early 60s and just stepping into their role as elders, hit the national spotlight in the late 1970s and early '80s as part of jazz's fusion generation.
Add to this the fact that Mr. Flynn was already offering testimony about the Russia connection in exchange for immunity from prosecution, and Mr. Trump's clumsy attempt to dissemble the cause of the firing, and it is clear that a cover-up was afoot.
More changes afoot: The 2020 induction will be the first in over a decade not overseen by Jann Wenner, the co-founder and longtime editor of Rolling Stone, who stepped down as chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation on Jan. 1.
The abruptness of the offer, and the two-hour window Kaepernick was given to respond, suggested to many observers that something extra-strange was afoot, weird even by the standards of the N.F.L. Was the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, making the overture in good faith?
At least that's what appears to be afoot with this hour's biggest plot development: the freeing of Mr. C. by Warden Murphy, who apparently harbors secrets that the crime lord is willing to spill, involving men named Strawberry (previously mentioned in Episode 5) and McCluskey.
By the early 1960s, some underground films — including John Cassavetes's "Shadows," Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's "Pull My Daisy" and Shirley Clarke's "The Connection" — had gained enough notoriety that Mr. Mekas felt it time to declare that a movement, the New American Cinema, was afoot.
But despite support for a two-state solution in the past several iterations of the GOP platform, a fresh batch of convention delegates means there could be a new dynamic afoot that allows for change, according to platform committee member and Idaho GOP Chairman Stephen Yates.
From the British-Scottish tensions between citizens of the colonies to the Native Americans clinging onto their lands amidst all the settlements to Claire's discovery of what looks to be evidence of more time-travelers afoot, the series' momentum doesn't seem to be slowing one bit.
The gear mounted onto the walls (VR headsets, PC backpacks and tracked toy assault rifles) gives more than a little indication that there's more afoot, but nothing really clicks until your team is strapped in and the headsets shove you into a fast-paced wave shooter.
Despite the confusion, everyone seemed to agree that something big was afoot, an international something that perhaps might even result in a Nobel Peace Prize for the U.S. president; after the first inter-Korean meeting in 2000, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung took one home.
Change is also afoot at Fish & Game, where Mr. Pelaccio and Mr. Pomplun recently introduced a rustic à la carte menu that might feature (depending on the day) spit-roasted duck, beans cooked in a fireplace and a dry-aged rib-eye steak with béarnaise sauce.
Theater Review LONDON — At some point during the mind-bending splendor of the new revival of "Travesties," which opened Tuesday night at the Menier Chocolate Factory here, you may find yourself pausing amid the verbal japery and structural daring to note that something else is afoot.
Think of this as the counterattack to efforts to put obstacles in front of voters like requiring ID. There's a movement afoot, particularly after the Supreme Court gutted parts of the civil rights era Voting Rights Act, to enshrine a "right to vote" as an amendment.
"There is real change afoot with the most recent generations," she wrote, citing a Pew study released in January: Young Republicans are especially different from older Republicans and the Democratic Party is likely to regard such findings as an invitation to poach more liberal young Republicans.
Sure, 28-year-old Garoppolo is one year removed from that statistic, but the sight of Tom Brady's one-time backup in Miami while the six-time Super Bowl champion sits at home is enough to make any long-time NFL fan wonder if change is afoot.
LONDON (Reuters) - A court case over the leadership claims of two rival heads of Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund was adjourned in London's High Court on Monday, the judge declaring it would be premature to rule while moves were afoot to form a government of national accord.
There is the ghost of the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter (the menaced but curious traveller, afoot in a strange, forbidding landscape); of Walter Benjamin (the elaborate analogies and formal diction); of Thomas Bernhard (the tendency toward insistent, comic exaggeration); of Peter Handke; and, above all, of Kafka.
There is a move afoot to give the White House a formal role in the promulgation of tax regulations which for decades have been written and issued by the IRS and the Department of the Treasury without coordination with or review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The Game Is Afoot Mark Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," a book written for adults that features a 15-year-old narrator with Asperger's syndrome, could work for all three of you, as long as you can roll with a smattering of swears.
If you can get people to doubt the sources, convince them there's a conspiracy theory afoot, and suggest that the "fans" are obviously more correct than the critics, then you may just succeed in getting more people in the door at the movie theater — and that's the whole idea.
The newest complete edition is not finished — the authors have reached the letter R. So it was perhaps not surprising that tempers flared this week after a news report from the broadcaster TF1 that changes were afoot to cut back the circumflex accent, known as "the hat," from French-language textbooks.
While the two projects couldn't seem more different at the surface — Cunanan was a desperate, down-on-his luck any-man who turned to mass murder, and the Getty oil family is, well, the peerless Getty oil family — there is one very large similarity afoot: the soul-crushing grind of loneliness.
For now, Abe and the Finance Ministry insist that the tax will rise in 260 months to 22011 percent from 8 percent, backed by many economists worried by Japan's enormous national debt, especially as moves are afoot to raise government spending ahead of summer elections for the Upper House of parliament.
While it took perhaps half a day for Scalia's death to dramatically reshape the ongoing presidential election — Republicans want to block any Obama nominee so the next president can make the pick — it took mere hours for the conspiracy theorists to raise the alarm that something more nefarious was afoot.
There's a renewed sense of excitement afoot in Hollywood, and much of it has to do with the singular and sweeping success of director Ryan Coogler's Black Panther, which has ruled the box office for five consecutive weeks, grossing an astronomical $1.2 billion internationally in that very small window of time.
There is now a proposal afoot to fix this: According to the plan, which has many bureaucratic, academic and political hoops to leap through, the National Science Foundation would contribute a quarter of the cost of each of the two telescopes in return for access to observation time for outside astronomers.
The signs that something supernatural is afoot again in Hawkins emerge slowly: magnets lose power, rats act strangely, unexplained blackouts occur, and extremely plucky nerd Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) intercepts a coded message with the high-power radio he created to communicate with a science camp girlfriend who may or may not exist.
But change is afoot among a small but motivated group of fathers, like Joseph, who she says are really stepping up to ask for what they believe will be best for them, for their families, and — as Levs explains at length in his book — great for American companies and our economy, too.
Still, there's a change afoot: even when Connecticut lost in the Final Four each of the past two years, the loss came as a surprise—it was a shock, really, in 2017 when the Huskies fell to Mississippi State, and last season's loss to Notre Dame was, at the very least, unexpected.
We can't help wanting him to make friends, to get the posh young woman (of course he falls for Charlotte — of course he does), to win the big boxing match against Oxford, to be asked to join the exclusive club (never mind that we know something sinister is afoot in its ranks).
Though there were likely other killers afoot in the Great Dying — like ozone-destroying halocarbons, acid rain and a heavy dose of toxic heavy metals raining from the volcanic smog — it was the chemistry-warping pulse of carbon dioxide that has attracted the most suspicion for its role in nearly ending the world.
While the report does detail "significant inaccuracies and omissions" in the FISA warrant application the FBI used to surveil onetime Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page, he was no longer associated with the campaign at the time the surveillance began, and Horowitz makes clear there's no indication political motivations were afoot.
Even there, however, sources concede that gaining accurate insights into Trump's plans amounts to a game of educated guesswork: While Trump may vent frustrations to some friends in late-night phone calls, he is just as likely to arrive in the Oval Office the next morning without any hints that a shakeup may be afoot.
The police don't know whether the stories are coming from the imaginations of children or something sinister is afoot, but panicked residents seemed to be taking the law into their own hands: The Greenville sheriff's office investigated reports that residents of the apartment complex may have fired shots in the direction of the wooded area.
These European governments are effectively using national digital taxes as a way to press their case at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where plans are afoot to rewrite global tax rules so that digital companies pay more tax in countries where users are based, rather than in low-tax countries like Ireland.
When your outfit is abandoned by a Beltway maven who failed to predict the Soviet Union's fall as an intel analyst, palled around with Iran-Contra conspirators as a CIA deputy director, and oversaw America's post-9/11 wars of choice as the secretary of defense—twice—you know there's some sinister shit afoot.
Indeed, though these limited partners (LPs) have largely remained mum, not sharing much about their selection process, not blogging, and not talking publicly with reporters, a few signals suggest a change may be afoot, including recent feedback from one investor from a mid-size university endowment, who recently shared on background that he's been asked to raise his profile.
And yet there does appear to be a conspiracy afoot, as Lord Royce, Lord Glover, and Maester Wolkan—who, interestingly, seems to come with the castle, as he was master to the Boltons before their usurpation—make their allegiance to Sansa clear and are later caught in the hallways, exchanging rumors and letters with Lord Baelish.
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Even though we wondered last time whether something was afoot with Rogue One after the last-minute cancellation of Marvel's comic book spin-off, we didn't really think the big Star Wars story of the last couple of weeks was going to be news that the Gareth Edwards-directed movie was actually in a tough spot.
On the morning of Friday, June 24, Britain woke up to the cold wet fish of a Major Change smashing into their collective mush––but not, I warrant, in the Valley of Eavis, for here there were more important matters afoot than the destinies of millions; namely, the kicks of a couple of hundred thousand revelers.
While this particular round of scurrying was set afoot in large part by news one of Trump's top aides, staff secretary Rob Porter, was allowed to remain in his sensitive role at the White House for months after the FBI discovered domestic abuse allegations against him, the first year of the Trump administration was rife with other breaches of security and technical gaffes.
In Poland, a more acute crisis is afoot as the right-wing government's efforts to politicize the judiciary have raised the prospect of an unprecedented but risky move by Brussels to suspend Warsaw's voting rights within the EU. But Orban has pledged to veto any such measure on behalf of the Poles, making it unlikely that Brussels ultimately delivers on this threat.
Barclays insiders say a hiring freeze is afoot as roles stay unfilled, bonuses get slashed, and senior staff fleeBarclays has raised the bar for hiring outsiders and is leaving vacant roles unfilled — resulting in what some insiders say amounts to an informal hiring freeze for investment banking, FICC trading, and certain back-office roles — according to five sources familiar with the situation.
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Some consolidation afoot in the world of mobile payments: today Groupon- and BBVA-backed SumUp and Rocket Internet's Payleven — two of the several European startups that cropped up in the wake of Square with their own smartphone accessories to make debit and credit card transactions — have announced that they are merging, creating a business with 1 million customers in 15 countries.
There's plenty of -core afoot here, too, lest ye imagine for an instant that Backslider's gone soft; the ignorant grooves on "Sex in Prison" and noise rock noodling on "Swollen and Sore" alone make the purchase price worth it, to say nothing of the five other tracks that whip by in a flash on this short, salty beauty of a debut.
The news from the beach is the snowy owl is still hanging in the dunes at Breezy Point at the western end of Queens, still knocking down rats and rabbits for dinner, still letting us know that winter's afoot, that even if spring arrives tomorrow, it's not quite time to head north to the Arctic tundra, the back of beyond.
The acquisition speaks to the consolidation that is afoot in the world of DevOps, where developers and organizations are looking for more end-to-end toolkits, not just to help develop, update and run their apps and microservices, but to provide security and more — or at least, makers of DevOps tools hope they will be, as they themselves look to grow their margins and business.
In the week to follow, I found out that changes are also afoot on Gili Gede, a previously undeveloped island where a luxury resort, Ko-Ko-Mo, opened in January 2016, and on sleepy Gili Meno, where the actor David Hasselhoff is an investor in Bask, a luxury villa development that is being built on what I had heard was a "Baywatch-quality" beach.

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