Sentences with phrase «a meaningful percentage»

The medians for profit changes from 2015 to 2016 do not include companies that lost money in 2015 or lost money in both 2015 and 2016, because no meaningful percentage changes can be calculated in such cases.

The medians for profit changes from 2015 do not include companies that lost money in 2015 or lost money in both 2015 and 2016, because no meaningful percentage changes can be calculated in such cases.

«Statistics show if you have a meaningful percentage of ownership and some communication that the employee's job impacts the value of the shares they have in their accounts, these companies outperform their peers by a factor of 10 percent on a compounded annual revenue and [EBITDA] growth basis,» says Josephs.

Often, angel investors don't participate in future rounds (or if they do, they do so at a much less meaningful percentage of the round) meaning that their initial buy - in forms the basis for the majority of the shares they ultimately own in a company.

Because a meaningful percentage of your doula or class fees support or Core Programming, helping provide support, education and more to families that may not otherwise have access to these things.

The more active you want to trade the more you will need to cover commission costs and bid / ask spreads so they are not a meaningful percentage of your trading capital.

Having a meaningful percentage of your companies» earnings come from outside the U.S. is a way to hedge against future devaluation of the dollar.

A) The total mass of living trees changes, or B) A meaningful percentage of dead tree mass is sequestered for geological timescales

(Actually, a meaningful percentage of Big Law lawyers make more money than they could possibly make elsewhere because of the outmoded compensation systems firms maintain.)»

Law firms with 300 or more practicing lawyers in the United States are eligible for Gold Standard Certification if they successfully demonstrate that women represent a meaningful percentage of their equity partners, of their highest leadership positions, of their governance and compensation committees, and of their most highly compensated partners.

The down payment often covers a meaningful percentage of the total purchase price (such as 20 %).

Not exact matches

JR: But this is not about what percentage share I own in their businesses; it's about us having a meaningful relationship such that I know that they will take my advice seriously.

Facebook stock is up a few percentage points after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the recent scandals hadn't made «any meaningful impact» on the business.

Far more meaningful are framing market moves in percentage terms.

«Given the large numbers at play, it is going to take meaningful time to see big numbers in terms of board diversity percentages but the pace of change is accelerating,» said Cassidy, whose Boardlist now has nearly 4,000 members.

If dividends are only paid at the discretion of the board, then this percentage is not very meaningful.

Finally, their last argument for why Lacazette is better in this section is that he scores a higher percentage of the team's goals, which is not terribly meaningful, given that we all remember the years when Henry was scoring 40 % of the team's goals and Arsenal still not winning the league (Andy Johnson for Crystal Palace is also the same).

It is a good day for us but it will be hard to change this into a meaningful vote maybe a couple of percentage points all very important even 2percent really helps us Lib Dems out

Another approach which is used in U.S. state and local taxation by virtue of an interstate compact, is to have entities (or consolidated groups of corporations) prepare one tax return for the entire world and then to allocate pro-rata percentages of that global return to different jurisdictions based upon a handful of factors that are relatively hard to manipulate and bear a meaningful relationship to where income is earned such as sales, employment and the location of physical assets.

Although the difference in patient mortality between male and female physicians was modest, an observed effect size of a 0.43 - percentage point difference or a relative risk reduction of 4 % in mortality is arguably a clinically meaningful difference.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is one of the first successful mainstream games we've seen to tackle a real - world issue and dedicate a percentage of sales to a meaningful cause, which prompts an important question: where are all the other games for change?

I also find large and meaningful reductions in the percentage of students at district schools who are required to repeat a grade as a result of charter school entry.

Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, there has been a significant decline in the percentage of high school students who find school to be meaningful and interesting and in the percentage who view school learning as important to their future lives.

The effects of the reform on the teacher workforce have been particularly meaningful in schools with higher percentages of black students because they were more likely to have teachers extended rather than granted tenure.

Similarly, the development of 21st century skills is measured by percentage of students passing 3 out of 5 core subjects, which, again is only a meaningful goal if we know that core subject classes are rigorous, providing grade level instruction, and leading to high levels of performance on state standardized tests.

Percentage of students making meaningful growth in English language arts and mathematics based on state assessments, for all students and for each subgroup

``... rebalanced only if the targeted percentage of equities or bonds has deviated by a meaningful amount, for example, by more than 5 percentage points...»

You have to convert canned food to dry matter basis (DMB) to really understand the protein, fat, and other percentages; otherwise you will not be able to make meaningful comparisons;

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is one of the first successful mainstream games we've seen to tackle a real - world issue and dedicate a percentage of sales to a meaningful cause, which prompts an important question: where are all the other games for change?

However, a large percentage increase in a small number may not amount to a meaningful increase; sea ice extent currently remains well below the 1981 to 2010 average.

Actual bonus awards percentages may differ, but meaningful rewards get the best results.

Your most meaningful metric is the percentage of ad clicks that leads to a paying client and the resulting lifetime value of that client.

Now, if you believe the private Bar, left to its own devices, will grow that percentage to a meaningful extent over the next several years, such that we can reach even the modest goal of 50 % of all legal issues addressed by 2020, by private - Bar lawyers ALONE, I and others would be delighted to hear your reasoning.

Facebook stock is up a few percentage points after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the recent scandals hadn't made «any meaningful impact» on the business.

«Even a small percentage opting for battery replacement over upgrade could have meaningful impact on iPhone sales,» the Barclays analysts warn.

«Due to the large base, even a small percentage opting for battery replacement over upgrade could have meaningful impact on iPhone sales,» Moskowitz writes.

Both the YPIC study and the adult Partners - in - Care Study52 achieved a roughly 10 percentage - point difference in the percentage of patients falling in the clinically significant range on the CES - D as well as achieving clinically meaningful improvements in mental health - related quality of life.

Pre — post change scores showed significant improvements across all measures for the parents, with the percentage of parents with clinically meaningful impairments due to anxiety going from 20 % to approximately 7 % post-intervention; in depression from approximately 25 — 8 %; and in perceptions of unhealthy family functioning from over 50 % to approximately 30 %.

Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful real - life experience etc., get to go to real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat commissions) often with a minimalist education (maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?

With respect to the comment that the finance charge be disclosed in a more prominent place on the Closing Disclosure, the Bureau believes that consumer understanding is enhanced by disclosing the finance charge with other loan calculations, such as total of payments, amount financed, and total interest percentage, for transactions subject to § 1026.19 (f), and that a more prominent disclosure of the finance charge may not provide a meaningful benefit to consumers.