The companies sign contracts with the VIEs and their individual owners, which the companies say guarantees them control over the VIEs' assets, sales and profits. Abracadabra!
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They go largely unremarked, but VIEs have become incredibly important.
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It is unclear if VIEs are even legal in China.
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The inner workings of the VIEs are often in flux.
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London vies with New York as the world's financial capital.
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In Afghanistan, the group vies with the Taliban for primacy.
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Uber, which vies with protectionist taxi fleets, has done well.
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India vies with Brazil as the world's biggest sugar producer.
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He vies for workers with big brands like Burger King.
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Other countries, with which the US vies for influence, have ambassadors.
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Melco's move comes as it vies for a casino license in Japan.
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Ellison is leaving Congress as he vies to become Minnesota attorney general.
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In polls, she vies for the front-runner spot with Mr Biden.
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IT VIES WITH Sydney Opera House as the most famous symbol of Australia.
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VIEs continue to be popular, despite the power they bestow on their owners.
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There it owns five big subsidiaries which have contracts with five corresponding VIEs.
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For every country that vies for a seat, rivals seek to block it.
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History could repeat itself if McCarthy once again vies for the Speaker's gavel.
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Like scientists appalled by their monstrous creations, even the lawyers who designed VIEs worry.
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A crowded field of at least five Democrats vies to take on GOP Rep.
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China vies with the U.S. for the title of the world's biggest trading nation.
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The alliance vies with Volkswagen and Toyota for the ranking of the world's biggest automaker.
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VW vies with Toyota and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance as the world's biggest carmaker.
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It could become the marketing platform through which the physical world vies for your attention.
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G.M. vies with Volkswagen for the status of the top-selling vehicle brand in China.
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Now on 15% in some polls, the party vies with the far-right for third place.
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All firms still carry warnings in their annual reports that the legality of VIEs is uncertain.
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Walmart – Walmart will begin offering Black Friday deals earlier this year, as it vies with Amazon.
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And we feel it will really resonate with our customer who vies for that special piece.
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Pau Gasol of Spain vies with Dario Saric of Croatia during a Group B match in Rio.
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Few legal experts think that VIEs are about to collapse, but few expect them to endure, either.
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With Torbay, in the south-west, it vies to be Britain's capital for going bust (see map).
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Clinton will speak at Temple University as she vies for support from a key voting group: millennials.
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Then: Andy vies for a position at Runway magazine as its editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly's assistant.
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Ivory Coast is world's top cocoa producer and vies with the Netherlands for the top grinder spot.
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The primary will decide who vies against the Republican candidate for the seat vacated by former Rep.
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France vies with the Netherlands for the title of third-largest cold meats producer after Spain and Germany.
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VIEs are ubiquitous, especially among the country's internet firms, which have a total market capitalisation of over $1trn.
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Instead the VIEs will be owned by two layers of holding companies, which will sign contracts with Alibaba.
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Watching an accused sex predator defend himself as he vies for the most powerful job in the world?
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As well as being spooky, VIEs are another instance of how China's weak property rights hurt its citizens.
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The CDR plan should soothe worries that Beijing could outlaw VIEs, helping boost valuations, Morgan Stanley's analysts reckon.
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Netflix in particular has been increasing ad spend, as it vies to promote movies to critics in Hollywood.
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It vies with the orderly immigration of those who follow the rules for immigrants set down in civil laws.
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Absa, which vies with Standard Bank, Nedbank and FirstRand, will rebrand its operations elsewhere in Africa by mid-2020.
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The President has only escalated his attacks as Obama's vice president, Joe Biden, vies for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Rookie right-hander Ben Lively vies for his second win as he makes his seventh career start for the Phillies.
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China's courts have set few reliable precedents on VIEs and the official position is one of toleration rather than approval.
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His role is also being reduced in Alibaba's "variable interest entities" (VIEs), a legal device beloved of Chinese tech firms.
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The VIEs contain licences and domain names and are owned by Jack Ma and Simon Xie, two of Alibaba's founders.
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INDIA vies with China to be the world's fastest-growing large economy, but its record on basic sanitation is dreadful.
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The IMA has moved to a sprawling new facility, where it vies with shopping malls and sports arenas in popularity.
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So pervasive is fashion's logo fixation that it vies with, and even outpaces, that of previous, more overtly ostentatious eras.
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Japan is one of Myanmar's biggest foreign aid donors, where it vies for influence with China, Myanmar's largest trading partner.
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Aside from Essence du Single malt, Sivo also makes a rye, moonshine, herbal liqueur, and fruit-based eau-de-vies.
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Another big omission is the government's failure to tackle the problem of offshore legal structures known as variable interest entities (VIEs).
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In 2015 a draft reform from the Ministry of Commerce appeared to ban some VIEs, but the initiative has gone nowhere.
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As she vies for the $1 million prize alongside rival and partner Marie Roda, she's blogging about it exclusively on PEOPLE!
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But she has been careful to play by the government's rules as she vies for a seat in the National Assembly.
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Absa, which vies with Standard Bank, Nedbank and FirstRand, will rebrand its operations elsewhere in Africa over the next 12-18 months.
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It has VIEs, but the company has had a one-share-one-vote structure since it listed in Hong Kong in 2004.
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Take "variable interest entities" (VIEs), a kind of corporate architecture used mainly by China's tech firms, including two superstars, Alibaba and Tencent.
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Meanwhile, VIEs have become more prominent; the total value of companies that use them has soared as China's internet industry has boomed.
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Kickstarter, which vies with GoFundMe as the largest crowdfunding platform, said it also has a policy prohibiting hate speech or encouraging violence.
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You'll hear their voices and see their faces in the corner of the screen as everyone in your squad vies for first place.
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Third, VIEs allow China's leading tech firms to be listed abroad, preventing mainlanders from easily owning their shares and participating in their success.
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They are more preoccupied by whether companies have VIEs, super-voting stock and a joint position for founders as chairman and chief executive.
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The share of firms' sales generated by their VIEs varies but for most of the ten companies has risen since 2012 (see charts).
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First, the VIEs could be ruled illegal, potentially forcing the firms to wind up or sell vital licences and intellectual property in China.
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Georgetown's, which vies for patients with a struggling unit in Baltimore, will soon compete with another in Washington and one in Northern Virginia.
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AWS sells a business intelligence tool called QuickSight that vies with Tableau and Qlik as well as start-ups including GoodData and Birst.
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Today, Cannes vies with the Oscars when it comes to fine jewelry, primarily as a result of Chopard's role as a festival partner.
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Siemens Gamesa, which vies with Denmark's Vestas as the world's biggest wind turbine maker, announced a management reshuffle shortly after the board meeting.
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Lewis could be a kingmaker this cycle as well as the massive field of candidates vies for support from the African-American community.
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The emissions-cheating disclosures undermined the sterling reputation of German engineering and threatened the viability of a company that vies with Toyota Motor Corp.
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Vividly, each piece vies to preside over an emergence of the grotesque that is typical of the both scary and deep private dream register.
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One theory is that managers favour it because it gives them more power—it is hard for outside shareholders to keep track of VIEs.
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An Olympic boxing broadcast vies with American baseball and football on television screens at Barney's Beanery sports bar and restaurant in West Hollywood, California.
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Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) is presenting herself as an independent voice as she vies for the only competitive opening in House Democratic leadership.
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It's a broad coalition, which is its main problem as it vies for power—it has no leader, no single figure to coalesce around.
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VW, which vies with Toyota as the world's biggest seller of automobiles, has pledged to launch eight new electric and hybrid cars in 2020.
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Meanwhile, the first "Made in China" Teslas are set to hit the market early next year at a lower price that vies with Nio.
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The VIEs and these individuals sign contracts with the international holding company, handing over to it control of the VIE as well as its profits.
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OPEC-member Angola vies with Nigeria as Africa's biggest crude oil exporter but has to import its fuel due to a lack of refining capacity.
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Image: ISROThe Chandrayaan-2 mission is officially off to a promising start, as India vies to become the fourth nation to land on the Moon.
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The election will decide the direction of France's 2.2 trillion euro economy, which vies with Britain for the rank of fifth largest in the world.
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In India, which vies with China for the title of the world's biggest gold market, high prices on Monday are putting off some potential buyers.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 50%Synopsis: In World War I, medical student Mikael (Oscar Isaac) moves to Constantinople and vies for Ana's (Charlotte Le Bon) affections.
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Veteran right-hander Scott Feldman will look to keep both in the park on Tuesday as he vies for his first win since April 9.
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Competitor HWK — founded by fluorine chemists and skiers Hannelore and Werner Kube in Austria — vies to be the wax of choice on the pro circuit.
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The source also said Mirziyoyev was close to Russia, the former colonial power which vies with the United States and China for influence in Central Asia.
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Alibaba's attempt to make its VIEs safer is to be welcomed and will be watched closely by China's richest entrepreneurs, many of whom use them, too.
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At the moment four of its five VIEs are nominally owned by Jack Ma, the firm's leader, and Simon Xie, a co-founder and former employee.
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Alibaba, like others, bundled them into VIEs which are owned by individuals in China and that hand control of those assets to its international holding company.
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Rabobank, which vies with ABN Amro as the largest Dutch mortgage lender, has begun selling some of its home loans portfolio to reduce its balance sheet.
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And for B2C companies, pricing will have to be spot on as more competition vies for the budgets of consumers who haven't budgeted for increased spending.
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The warning follows gloomy comments last month from Irish budget airline Ryanair, which vies with Lufthansa for top spot in Europe in terms of passengers carried.
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Often set against a grim image of poverty and violence, Mexico City vies with São Paulo, Brazil, for the title of richest city in Latin America.
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There's a good chance that the Republican-controlled Senate will acquit him in 2020, as Trump simultaneously vies for a second term in the November election.
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Banning Irn-Bru, which vies with whisky as Scotland's national drink, for fear that its bright orange colour posed too great a risk to the ballroom's carpet.
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Martha McSally (R-AZ) — who never even endorsed Trump in 2016 — has now been forced to cozy up to him as she vies for a Senate seat.
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Calgary vies for its eighth straight victory at Rexall Place on Saturday when it meets the Edmonton Oilers in the latest chapter of the Battle of Alberta.
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Walmart is preparing to launch a massive push into healthcare, as the giant US retailer vies for a bigger slice of the $229 trillion US healthcare industry.
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Democrat Abby Finkenauer has been hitting the trade issue hard as she vies to oust Trump ally and U.S. Representative Rod Blum in one of the districts.
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Walmart is preparing to launch a massive push into healthcare, as the giant US retailer vies for a bigger slice of the $3.5 trillion US healthcare industry.
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Singapore, which vies with Hong Kong as Asia's pre-eminent financial center, tightly restricts public demonstrations and does not allow protests over political situations in other countries.
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The intense heat on Buttigieg from some corners of his party comes as he rises in both early state and national polls and vies with Massachusetts Sen.
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Burnt follows Jones' journey for redemption on the restaurant scene as he vies to earn a third Michelin stars and find redemption for his former bad boy ways.
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"TERMS AND conditions apply" vies for being the most morale-sapping four-word phrase of modern times, along with "The plane is delayed" and "You're trending on Twitter".
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Kurian previously said Google Cloud would be "competing much more aggressively" under his leadership as it vies for a bigger piece of the fast-growing cloud computing market.
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Indonesia, which vies with Australia for the title of world's biggest coal exporter, also saw shipments drop in April, to 219 million tonnes from 282.8 million in March.
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Miami vies for its 13th win in 16 outings overall and fourth in five contests versus Milwaukee this season on Tuesday when the set continues at Marlins Park.
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The film, which premieres in theaters and online today (July 1), follows the Emmy-winning actress as she vies for the Green Party nomination opposite party favorite Jill Stein.
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Chris Christie of New Jersey has been softening his past record on gun controls with each visit to gun friendly states as he vies for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Nigeria vies with South Africa's to be the largest economy on the continent, but has performed below par since 2016, when it suffered its first recession in 25 years.
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The narrator goes on to say that they'll not only have to face their enemies, but themselves as well, as everyone in the system vies for control the protomolecule.
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Australia vies with Indonesia for the title of the world's largest coal exporter, and is dominant in the global market for high-quality coking coal used to make steel.
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HSBC vies for a top 3 spot in competing for that pot with U.S. rivals Citigroup and JP Morgan, while StanChart ranks between seventh and tenth, Coalition data reveals.
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Travelers, which vies with American International Group Inc for the title of biggest U.S. commercial property and casualty insurer, increased its quarterly dividend to 67 cents from 61 cents.
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A merger, even a partial one, would effectively bring Suzuki into the orbit of the much larger Toyota, which regularly vies with Volkswagen to be the world's biggest automaker.
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Bradley Beal scored 26 points on 9-of-28 shooting for Washington, which had won five of its previous seven as it vies for an Eastern Conference playoff spot.
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Bradley Beal scored 103 points on 9-of-28 shooting for Washington, which had won five of its previous seven as it vies for an Eastern Conference playoff spot.
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New York alone has pitched Brooklyn, the Bronx, Long Island, Albany, Buffalo, and Syracuse; California happily vies to host Bezos in Concord, San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Long Beach, or Irvine.
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Nigeria's oil-dependent economy, which vies with South Africa's to be the largest in Africa, has performed below par since 2016, when it suffered its first recession in 25 years.
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As he vies for leadership of that party, he needs a new foil, one with enough power to energize his supporters, but not so much popularity that it alienates voters.
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After belting five solo homers in the opener, New York vies its fourth win in five contests on Tuesday as it continues a four-game series versus visiting Kansas City.
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Siemens Gamesa, which vies with Denmark's Vestas to lead the global wind turbine sector, said revenue for the period rose to 2.26 billion euros from 2.13 billion a year earlier.
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Philadelphia vies for its sixth straight victory at Wells Fargo Center and fourth in a row overall on Wednesday when it continues its three-game homestand against the Boston Bruins.
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Panama, which vies with Miami for Latin American money, looks set to back out of its tentative commitment to the CRS, using America's double standards as an excuse (see article).
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Washington (CNN)Planned Parenthood is mounting an advertising campaign in Nevada Wednesday on behalf of Hillary Clinton, as the former secretary of state vies for support ahead of Saturday's caucuses.
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After several fits and starts in the U.S., the Japanese clothing brand has once again tweaked its strategy as it vies to become a mainstay in the American shopping scene.
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Beijing's leaders feel that as China vies to surpass the United States as the world's largest economy, their country has the right to be the main power in the neighborhood.
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Given that China now vies with the United States as the largest crude oil importer, especially on a net basis, any sign of slowing SPR builds would no doubt concern exporters.
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Nornickel, which vies with Brazil's Vale SA to be the world's biggest nickel producer, said it expects the nickel deficit on global markets to widen from 15,000 tonnes to 124,000 tonnes.
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SANTIAGO, May 25 (Reuters) - Italian infrastructure company Astaldi is looking to expand into Argentina, the company's chairman said on Thursday, as it vies for contracts in a massive government infrastructure push.
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Establishing such a "Shi'ite crescent" would give Tehran immense political clout in the region as it vies with arch-rival Riyadh and allow it to protect Shi'ite communities in these countries.
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Keeping users' trust as they increasingly share their personal details with Amazon's intelligent assistant will be key, particularly as Amazon vies with its rivals for share of consumers' time and attention.
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The shift is significant given Australia is the world's largest exporter of iron ore and LNG, and vies with Indonesia as the world's biggest supplier of coal to the seaborne market.
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The launch of Queqiao caps off a big few months for the Chinese space exploration as the nation vies to become the "space flight superpower" envisioned by its president Xi Jinping.
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Still, Hawley vies for accuracy in rendering Boone's tumultuous Quaker youth, his forays into the wilderness, the death of his son and his daughter's kidnapping during clashes with the Shawnee Indians.
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The goal: bring down costs, boost affordability and ultimately make the second-largest U.S. defense contractor more competitive as it vies for a number of high-profile multibillion-dollar defense contracts.
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The deal is the latest sign of China expanding its footprint in the frontier market as the United States vies for influence in the region, where China is Cambodia's closest ally.
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Samsung Electronics' mobile business, which vies with Apple Inc for global dominance, needed more time to recover in China following a reorganization of its sales network there last year, he said.
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"Everybody eats out," said Gerri Mason Hall, the head of human resources at Sodexo in North America, the giant food service company and cafeteria operator, which also vies for restaurant workers.
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The company, which vies for market share with Foxtons , has been trying to recover from a botched 2015 restructuring that led to four profit warnings and a deeply discounted share issue.
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While the Afghan Taliban vies for influence with the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) in Afghanistan, the Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) remains the most dangerous radical Islamist group operating in Pakistan.
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In Race Olympian Jesse Owens' (James) vies to become the greatest track and field athlete in history during the 1936 games in Berlin, facing off against Adolf Hitler's vision of white supremacy.
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Democrats grappling with the shock of Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump are also beginning to turn their attention to 2020, and pondering who could defeat Trump as he vies for reelection.
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The massive movie hit A Star Is Born has guaranteed that Bradley Cooper will be walking many a red carpet this award season as he vies for best actor and best director.
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The shift is significant given Australia is the world's largest exporter of iron ore and LNG, and vies with Indonesia as the world's biggest supplier of coal to the sea-borne market.
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The miner, which vies with Brazil's Vale to be the world's biggest nickel producer, also said it has started negotiations with banks over a possible initial public offering of its Bystrinsky project.
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After running as an outsider, Trump is now focusing his message on the strong economy, while continuing the anti-immigration rhetoric that characterized his first campaign as he vies for re-election.
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Other malts worth noting were the gentle, inviting Amrut from India, the clean and balanced Kavalan from Taiwan, and the Reisetbauer from the Austrian distiller better known for beautiful eau de vies.
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London vies with New York as the world's financial capital and potentially has lot to lose from the end of unfettered access to the EU's post-Brexit market of 440 million people.
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Warren has made the wealth tax one of her signature policy proposals as she vies for the 2020 Democratic nomination and tries to distinguish herself in what is still a crowded field.
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Now the pressure will be on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to set up and fast-track the auction in 2020 as the U.S. vies with China and other nations for 5G supremacy.
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This is the context in which the Forum Vies Mobiles — a think tank sponsored by SNCF, the French national railway — is presenting MOBILE/IMMOBILE at the Museum of National Archives in Paris.
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WeChat's mobile pay function vies with Alibaba-affiliate Alipay as one of the primary means of payment in mainland China today, and parent company Tencent is behind the country's first digital bank, WeBank.
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Foreign investment is banned in Chinese internet companies, but by getting foreigners to put money into VIEs to which the Chinese firm promises to pay dividends, many firms have got around this ban.
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But ARM's move will have a much bigger impact on Huawei's ability to do business, particularly in the smartphone sector where the Chinese firm vies with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for global leadership.
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Powell appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday as the Fed vies to defend a steady economy from a global slump, a lethal virus and a potential recurrence of damaging trade tensions.
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The lawyers' quick fix, first used in 2000, was to shift these sensitive assets, such as operating licences, into special legal entities—VIEs—that are owned by Chinese individuals, usually the firms' bosses.
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Australia has just overtaken Qatar as the world's largest shipper or LNG, it vies with Indonesia for the title of world's biggest coal exporter and it is the top exporter or iron ore.
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Mendoza was a big sports fan, and a longtime supporter of the Newell&aposs Old Boys soccer club, which vies with Rosario Central to be the most popular team in the central Argentine city.
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While the EpiPen in Britain vies with Jext and at least one other product called Emerade from Valeant, the Mylan shots have faced a lack of rivals across the Atlantic as competitors suffered setbacks.
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For Singapore this is not a small thing - wholesale and retail trade vies with manufacturing to be the biggest contributor to the city-state's gross domestic product and it is the biggest employer here.
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Until then VIEs are the financial equivalent of the "One China" principle that governs China's relations with Taiwan, which the mainland considers a renegade province—a polite legal fiction that papers over serious problems.
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Lyft, which beat bigger rival Uber Technologies Inc to go public first, has partnered with several companies to offer its services as it vies for a bigger share in a market dominated by Uber.
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The movie earned five British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards, including for cinematography and sound, at a ceremony in London, two weeks before it vies for Hollywood's top honours, the Oscars.
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Girardi touted Biden's strong polling numbers, but the former senator and vice president said he has "a long way to go" as he vies for the Democratic nomination alongside more than 85033 other contenders.
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De Bresson noted that Paris was up against international competition if some in Britain decided to move because it vies with Frankfurt, Dublin and Luxembourg for the role of the EU's key financial center.
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Apple's new video streaming service will put it in direct competition with Netflix, Amazon and HBO as each company vies to produce award-winning content and draw in as many loyal customers as possible.
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The police in Uganda are preparing for the upcoming national elections by stocking up on anti-riot gear, boosting security in the country as President Yoweri Museveni vies for a fifth term in office.
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The drive is part of a push to strengthen Moscow's hand in the High North as it vies for dominance with traditional rivals Canada, the United States and Norway, as well as newcomer China.
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The frisson evaporates, and the game becomes more like church: a profoundly alienating activity where the suspicion that everyone is faking it vies with the fear that everyone is more into it than you.
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A very different sort of Broadway musical set in Europe is "The Sound of Music," from 1959, the world-famous blockbuster that vies with Mozart for being the most famous export of Salzburg, Austria.
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Pittsburgh will be without a key player on both sides of the ball — injured linebacker Ryan Shazier and suspended wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster — as it vies for a season sweep of the Ravens.
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Japan's economic expansion under the stimulus policies of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sputtering just as it vies to become the country's longest postwar boom, with export demand slumping in major markets, especially China.
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Five years after the uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi Libya is struggling with political chaos and conflict, as an internationally recognized government based in the east vies for power with a rival administration in Tripoli.
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San Jose outscored Toronto and Calgary by a combined 12-4 in back-to-back triumphs and vies for its first three-game winning streak since capturing six in a row from Nov. 13-22.
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London, which vies with New York as top global financial center, is already a base for U.S. banks like JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Citi and U.K. banks like HSBC have operations in the United States.
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But the process could damage the president's image as he vies for re-election, with only about 45% of Americans approving of his performance as president, especially if damaging information comes out during public hearings.
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"Competition over placement is clearly heating up as everyone vies for a spot in the meat case," said Phil Lempert, an expert on retail food trends who advises companies on food branding and consumer behavior.
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That's more than double the sales of the company's midsize Altima sedan and enough volume that the Rogue frequently vies for the "best-selling SUV in America crown" with the Toyota Rav4 and Honda CR-V.
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The company, which vies for market share with Direct Line Insurance Group Plc and Admiral Group Plc, said gross written premiums rose to 753.1 million pounds ($967.66 million) in the nine months ended Sept. 30. (reut.
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European nations face a combination of security threats and budget constraints that have spurred competing alliances as Europe's fragmented defence industry vies for leadership and a slice of future spending on any new pan-European fighter.
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Adecco, which vies with Dutch-based Randstad as the world's largest staffing provider, reported a 3% fall in revenue for its second quarter, a worsening trend from the start of the year when its revenue shrank 2%.
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European nations face a combination of security threats and budget constraints that have spurred competing alliances as the region's fragmented defence industry vies for leadership and a slice of future spending on any new pan-European fighter.
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Coach Bruce Boudreau's current team looks to even that bar in its 56th contest of the season on Tuesday when it vies for a season sweep of his former club, the Anaheim Ducks, at Xcel Energy Center.
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Loudspeakers have been blaring on streets festooned with propaganda billboards, which feature the hammers and sickles and peasants and soldiers synonymous with the socialist ideology that vies for influence in a country with an insatiable appetite for capitalism.
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Next, which vies with rivals including Marks & Spencer for the position of Britain's top clothing retailer, had predicted a 0.5% fall in full-price sales, reflecting a tough comparison with last year when the weather was exceptionally hot.
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Edcon, which vies for market share with TFG, Truworths and international chains such as Zara and H&M, is one the biggest names in South African retail, employing more than 14,13 full-time staff in over 1,100 stores.
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It is an uninhabited rock in the South Atlantic ocean that belongs to Tristan da Cunha, a British dependency which itself vies with Easter Island for the honour of being the most remote inhabited place on the planet.
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While the company, which vies with HP as the world's largest PC maker, returned to profit in the year to March, losses in its smartphone business worsened as marketing expenses for new products and key component costs increased.
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The banks were notified last month that they had been awarded one of most coveted and potentially lucrative IPO mandates in recent years, as the Venice, California-based company vies for a $25 billion valuation in the stock market.
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Nadella, who led Microsoft's cloud division before taking the helm, has aggressively invested in the company's cloud infrastructure to compete with Amazon Web Services, as well as investing in Microsoft's Office 365 suite, which vies with Google's business apps.
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The house-price-to-earnings ratio in London has risen from seven times average earnings in the early 21980s to 222 times today, so that London vies with New York and Tokyo as the most expensive place to live.
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Sanders previously gained a strong voter turnout from America's youth who supported his proposals for free tuition at public colleges, a $15 minimum wage and universal healthcare, ideas he plans to reprise as he vies for the 2020 nomination.
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Ahead of President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign kickoff event in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday night, the city's primary newspaper made it clear the commander in chief would not be getting its endorsement as he vies for a second term.
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The Moscow Patriarchate vies for influence in Ukraine with the Kiev Patriarchate - a branch of the Orthodox Church that broke away from Moscow in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet Union - and with other Orthodox and Catholic denominations.
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They've stuck it out through the rumors and lime light's extra attention, so keep your eye out for the pair on the Grammys' red carpet, where Carew will mostly likely continue being a doting partner as she vies for Grammy gold.
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Shoprite, which also vies in South Africa with Pick n Pay and Wal-Mart's Massmart unit, reported diluted headline earnings per share (HEPS) of 525.2 cents for the six months to end-December, compared with 460 cents a year earlier.
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To get around this, tech firms opted to avoid owning these mainland assets outright, and instead to bundle them into legal entities called VIEs, in turn owned by individuals in China (usually the bosses of the firms and their associates).
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Four of its five VIEs were indirectly owned by Mr Ma and one of his co-founders; next year all will be owned by two layers of holding companies, in turn owned by a broader set of Alibaba's senior Chinese staff.
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In the event of a trade war, a quick way to hurt Americans' economic interests (along with banning Apple, which makes a fifth of its sales in China) would be to void VIEs, although China's reputation with all investors would suffer.
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Edcon, which vies for market share with Foschni Group, Truworths and international chains such as Zara and H&M, asked holders of two euro and-dollar denominated bonds in April to defer an interest payment to December to boost liquidity.
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The International Olympic Committee would be unhappy to see the Games go ahead without Russia, which vies with the United States to be the sport's number one nation but it is looking increasingly likely that that will be the case.
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The banks were notified earlier this week that they had been awarded one of most coveted and potentially lucrative IPO mandates in recent years, as the Venice, California-based company vies for a $25 billion valuation in the stock market.
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They are looking into assertions that Trump withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to pressure Kiev to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a leading rival as Trump vies for re-election in 2020.
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After Marcell Ozuna's RBI single in the ninth inning capped an 33-7 win, Miami vies for its 15th victory in 22 outings and a series victory to boot on Tuesday when the National League East rivals reconvene at Marlins Park.
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Alongside MultiChoice and its stake in Tencent, Naspers runs an e-commerce unit, which houses assets such as OLX, the biggest classified ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classifieds platform Letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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The soprano Latonia Moore takes on the lead role in Verdi's "Aida"; in Puccini's "La Bohème," the ardent tenor Piotr Beczala as Rodolfo vies for the affections of the tender Mimì, sung alternatively by Kristine Opolais and Hei-Kyung Hong.
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His ethnicity does not define him, he said, but he is acutely aware that his presence in the courtroom — suit and tie, turban and beard — is freighted with meaning in a world where emerging acceptance still vies with underlying racism.
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Australia, which vies with Indonesia for the title of world's biggest coal exporter, shipped 9503 million tonnes of fuel in May, according to vessel-tracking and port data compiled by Refinitiv, up slightly from 31.53 million tonnes in May 2018.
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For every country that vies for a seat, rivals seek to block it Any member of the permanent five — or the P5, for short — can veto any measure, and each has regularly used this power to protect either itself or allies.
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Nebraska often vies with the same schools — among them Arkansas State, McKendree, Sam Houston State and Vanderbilt, the only other school from a so-called Power 5 football conference that has a women's varsity team — for the best junior bowlers.
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Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy, a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and vies with Angola for the position of top oil producer, but that also means it is very exposed to fluctuations in the oil market.
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Lenovo, which vies with HP as the world's largest PC maker, saw a return to profit in the year to March, but has seen losses in its smartphone business mount amid rising component costs and swelling marketing spend for new products.
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Lion Air, which vies with state-run airline Garuda Indonesia for dominance in its home market, has been seeking to win over investors for more than a year since the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 MAX jets.
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In India's $12 billion taxi market where Ola vies with ride-hailing giant Uber, the push into electric vehicles is also a way for the Indian start-up to lower the cost of car ownership, once battery costs start to come down.
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At the same time, the horizontally striated ground, bordered by a blue band running along the painting's physical edge, vies for attention, causing the viewer to continually refocus, undoing the relationship of its various parts as well as making connections between them.
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BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) - Ariane 6, Europe's next-generation space rocket, is expected to win its first two commercial launch orders in coming weeks, company officials said, a key milestone as the European launcher vies for orders against Elon Musk's U.S. competitor SpaceX.
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As Harris vies to become the first woman of color to be president, she says she recognizes the value of the support of African American women across the US and how they made the difference in the upset victory won by Sen.
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Choosing not to delve too deeply into the mind of either man — or to question Mr. Talese's journalistic ethics and less-than-scrupulous fact-checking — the directors are content to mostly watch as each vies for control of the movie, and his legacy.
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The census figure discrepancy is likely to be a setback for Facebook with advertisers and a boon for outside measurement companies like Nielsen and ComScore, particularly as Facebook vies to make video advertising a bigger part of its business, Mr. Wieser said.
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Worth around €206bn ($227bn), LVMH now vies with Royal Dutch Shell as the most valuable firm based in the EU. Mr Arnault, whose family owns nearly half of LVMH (and a solid majority of voting rights), is said to be Europe's richest man.
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The carrier, which vies with state-run airline PT Garuda Indonesia for dominance in its home market, has been seeking to win over investors for more than a year since the fatal crash of one of its Boeing 737 MAX jets in 2018.
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One source close to Boeing, which vies with Europe's Airbus for industry supremacy, said the company needed to turn the corner and regain its stride as it faces what is widely seen as the worst crisis in its more than 100-year history.
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BREMEN, Germany, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Ariane 6, Europe's next-generation space rocket, is expected to win its first two commercial launch orders in coming weeks, company officials said, a key milestone as the European launcher vies for orders against Elon Musk's U.S. competitor SpaceX.
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The Tencent stake is worth around $122 billion, or 17 percent more than Naspers despite the company owning other assets such as OLX, the biggest classifieds ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classified platform letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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While Blue Origin has been seen as the front-runner for the contract for months, the win is a significant milestone for the Seattle-area aerospace company as it vies to become a player in the market for lucrative U.S. military satellite launch contracts.
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India, which vies with China as the world's top gold consumer, raised import taxes on the metal to 10% in a series of hikes to August 2013 as policymakers attempted to narrow a gaping current account deficit and arrest a decline in the rupee.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Whether U.S. President Donald Trump will travel to Peru in September to promote Los Angeles' 2024 Olympics bid is an open question but many believe the controversial leader would do more harm than good as the city vies with Paris for the Games.
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LONDON (Reuters) - An Azeri company opening a 13 billion euro superyacht marina in Montenegro this month expects the project to pave the way for at least two more luxury resorts as it vies with Dubai and China for a slice of the tiny Balkan country's growing economy.
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Shoprite, which also vies in South Africa with Pick n Pay and Wal-Mart's Massmart unit, reported a 14.2 percent increase in diluted headline earnings per share (HEPS) of 525.2 cents for the six months to the end of December, compared with 460 cents a year earlier.
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The Johannesburg-based company reported a slight fall in the number of users in the third quarter due to a weaker showing in a fiercely competitive home market, where it vies for market share with Vodacom and Cell C. Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Susan Fenton
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All told, WeChat and its local version Weixin reached nearly 1.1 billion monthly active users; 750 million of them checked their friends' WeChat feeds, and Tencent recently introduced a Snap Story-like feature to lock users in as it vies for eyeball time with challenger TikTok.
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Ils ont compris que derrière le cours de la livre sterling et derrière les débats d'experts financiers, une seule vraie question était posée, à la fois simple et fondamentale : voulons-nous laisser un pouvoir non démocratique régenter nos vies ou préférons-nous reprendre notre destin en main ?
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While a part of the fintech world remains abuzz with crypo-talk, a startup that's built a business around the more traditional world of payments has raised a significant round of funding as it vies to take on the likes of PayPal, Stripe, Adyen and Dwolla.
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And Saturday offers one last chance to catch the fired-up tenor Marcelo Álvarez as Des Grieux in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" as he vies for the affections of the capricious title character, sung by Kristine Opolais, in Richard Eyre's staging, which transports the action to occupied France.
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The attack on the Champs-Elysees boulevard in the very heart of the capital added a new source of unpredictability to an election that will decide the management of France's 2.2 trillion euro economy, which vies with Britain for the rank of fifth largest in the world.
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As well as a one third stake in China's Tencent, which is worth around $134 billion, Naspers - via its e-commerce business - also owns stakes in OLX, the biggest classifieds ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classified platform letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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The 25-year-old looks to follow up a career-best four-hit performance in the opener and give manager John Gibbons added incentive to keep him atop the lineup on Tuesday, when host Toronto vies for a series victory over the American League East-rival Tampa Bay Rays.
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But a series of narrower fights might have mattered even more, as everyone in the field vies to emerge as the lone challenger to Sanders with time running out: South Carolina's primary is Saturday and Super Tuesday, when 14 states and American Samoa vote, is three days later.
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Trafigura, which vies with Glencore for the position of the world's second largest oil trader, said traded volumes grew to a daily average of 4.3 million barrels, up 42 percent on 2015 on the back of growing Russian business, larger sales via mid-stream subsidiary Puma and rising structured finance operations.
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From all appearances, the "deal of the century," as it was touted, seemed nothing more than a cynical attempt at a diversion by two politicians in trouble, a sop to their right-wing bases as each leader vies for re-election — Mr. Netanyahu in early March, Mr. Trump in November.
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Washington (CNN)As on so many other occasions during his presidency, Donald Trump on Tuesday night demonstrated that he's ever the showman, having used part of his third official State of the Union address to ostensibly pander to black voters as he vies for another term in the White House.
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His finely crafted wooden "Disagreeable Object" (1931)—suggesting a tapered dildo with eyes at one end and spikes at the other—vies for the honor of being the single ugliest thing ever made, and his "Woman with Her Throat Cut" (1932)—while a tour de force of sculptural mastery—the most disturbing.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Australia, which vies with Indonesia for the title of the world's largest coal exporter, is planning for an electricity future where use of the polluting fuel dwindles and is rapidly replaced by renewable energy sources.
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And further, as Odell explains in her book, enjoying our leisure time also requires reclaiming it from the "attention economy," the capitalist apparatus that vies for our attention in quite literal ways, as when social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram seek to keep users on their sites for as long as possible.
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It also aims to double Asia-based client assets by 20173, in-line with consultant Capgemini's overall wealth growth forecast in the region over the same period, as it expands its presence in the banking hubs of Hong Kong and Singapore and also vies for a bigger share of offshore Chinese wealth, Tan said.
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Mann, who won a Fulbright to Taiwan and learned paper-making in India, guides these elements through accident and design into a precarious balance of harmony and clangor, an empire of the senses (to repurpose the title of Nagisa Ōshima's transgressive '70s exercise in erotic cinema) where seduction vies with firepower as the weapon of choice.
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"There seems to still be a trend towards the fried food freak show, whatever you can put on a stick and batter and fry it to get some novelty or media appeal," says Dennis Larson, license administration manager at the Minnesota State Fair, which vies with Texas for the claim of the largest food fair in the country.
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The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Clyde Russell LAUNCESTON, Australia, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Australia, which vies with Indonesia for the title of the world's largest coal exporter, is planning for an electricity future where use of the polluting fuel dwindles and is rapidly replaced by renewable energy sources.
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The plan, Inslee's first major policy rollout of his presidential campaign, would implement 100% clean energy standards in three key sectors of the American economy -- electricity, vehicles and new buildings -- and represents the major bet Inslee is placing on the importance of climate change to Democratic primary voters as he vies for a chance to take on President Donald Trump in 1003.
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In addition to the Coen brothers these included Mike Leigh (whose "Peterloo" dramatized the suffrage protests of 1819 in Manchester, England); Mr. Cuarón; Laszlo Nemes (director of "Sunset" and past winner of the Academy Award for best foreign language film); Paul Greengrass ("22 July"); Olivier Assayas ("Doubles Vies"); Luca Guadagnino ("Suspiria"); Frederick Wiseman ("Monrovia, Indiana"); and Mary Harron (whose "Charlie Says" depicts three women who followed Charles Manson).
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Alan GraysonAlan Mark GraysonFlorida's Darren Soto fends off Dem challenge from Alan Grayson Live results: Arizona and Florida hold primaries The Hill's Morning Report: Frustration mounts as Republicans blow up tax message MORE (D-Fla.) confronted Senate Minority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) over the ethics charges dogging Grayson as he vies for the Senate.
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Alan GraysonAlan Mark GraysonFlorida's Darren Soto fends off Dem challenge from Alan Grayson Live results: Arizona and Florida hold primaries The Hill's Morning Report: Frustration mounts as Republicans blow up tax message MORE (D-Fla.) went after Senate Minority Leader Harry ReidHarry Mason Reid28500 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care Reid says he wishes Franken would run for Senate again Panel: How Biden's gaffes could cost him against Trump MORE (D-Nev.) over ethics charges dogging Grayson as he vies for the Senate.
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Del. Stacey PlaskettStacey PlaskettUS Virgin Islands delegate vies for impeachment manager position Omar says US should reconsider aid to Israel Schumer to donate Epstein campaign contributions to groups fighting sexual violence MORE (D-Virgin Islands) is vying for a House manager position in President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE's impeachment trial in the Senate.
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Joe Biden Tipton, Iowa -- With just weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Biden is making a renewed push in Iowa, covering more than a dozen counties as he vies for the top spot against his younger rival Buttigieg, while Sanders, who lost Iowa by the closest margin in the history of the caucuses in 2016, But if the former vice president is feeling the pressure, he isn't showing it as he draws voters to his events who want something more stable, steady and familiar after three years of White House tumult.
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Democrats grappling with the shock of Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's loss to Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE are also beginning to turn their attention to 2023, and pondering who could defeat Trump as he vies for reelection.
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