Sentences with phrase «by dropping from»

Start by standing beside her while she is eating, then gradually add a little food to her bowl by dropping it from your hand.

They crack into sea urchins by dropping them from heights onto the rocks.

However, we must hasten to add that the fullness of time is not merely the quantitative sum of previous times, for this, too, would be no more than the case of an acorn becoming a super-acorn, or a bucket being filled by drops from the faucet.

SquareTrade, a company that offers extended warranties for smartphones, put the S9 through a battery of durability tests and found that while it is more durable than the S8, significant damage was caused by drops from any angle.

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You can also shop from a list of Order Pickup eligible items by browsing any category and selecting «Buy online & pick up» from the availability drop down.

Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

From Q3 2016 to Q3 2017, total expenses dropped by 2.2 % to $ 13.1 billion.

Once dominant in the smartphone industry, the company has lost significant ground to the competition: RIM's chunk of the U.S. market dropped to just 12 % by year - end from 44 % in 2007, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

But part of the enthusiasm for the stock today can be explained by CEO John Chen — BlackBerry has conspicuously dropped the «interim» from his title — who spoke at length publicly for the first time since joining the company.

The report noted that this drop is due in large part to the growing opioid epidemic in the U.S. — mortality from drug overdoses rose by 21 percent in 2016.

The market for Ether cratered on news of the theft, with the price of the digital currency dropping from a peak of over $ 21 yesterday to around $ 12.93 as of this writing, as tracked by CryptoCompare, on surging volume.

Add the incursions by craft breweries, which made national brands seem hopelessly dull to many, and the return of hard liquor — beer dropped from 56 % of alcohol consumed in 1999 to 48 % in 2014 — and it made for a depressing picture for mainstream giants like Miller Lite.

Complaints from customers have dropped by nearly 28 % over the past six months, according to a mid-year report from the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications Services.

The region in recent years has seen investor sentiment rattled by developments such as the drop in oil prices, the war in Syria and a sudden corruption purge from Riyadh.

Video from a closed - circuit security camera revealed that the drop was caused by an employee who began work at that hour and took a long time to get going.

The extent of the contraction is especially apparent when compared to the United States: a study compiled by Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association found that from 2003 to 2008, venture capital investment as a share of GDP dropped 35 % in Canada; meanwhile, south of the border, it increased by 17 %.

«Frozen food is still suffering from an image problem at the moment,» concludes Euromonitor International, which reported in February that Canadian processed frozen foods sales have been flat and are projected to actually drop as the economy improves — from $ 5.2 billion in 2013 to $ 5 billion by 2018.

Ministry of Finance data showed exports fell 2.9 percent in February from a year earlier, more than a 1.9 percent drop expected by economists in a Reuters poll, after a revised 6.3 percent rise in January.

This is illustrated by a Microsoft study that found the average attention span of an internet user has dropped substantially from 12 seconds in 2000, to just eight seconds in 2015.

Oops: The $ 400 juicer which raised $ 118 million in funding from the likes of Kleiner Perkins and GV might not be so impressive, Bloomberg reports: Investors just found out they can make juice by squeezing the company's produce packs with their hands, no $ 400 machine (already a drop from the original $ 700 price tag) required.

Still, there was no shortage of critics, and in addition to being the butt of more late - night jokes, this time by Conan O'Brien, holiday revenue dropped 54 % from the previous year, from $ 185 million to $ 85 million.

The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

What if the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury stopped trying to stimulate the economy by encouraging more borrowing with «quantitative easing» and instead «dropped money from helicopters» into households» accounts?

Oxygen masks dropped from the cabin ceiling during the incident, according to a public Facebook post by Marty Martinez, a passenger on the flight.

The number of Hooters locations in the US has dropped by more than 7 % from 2012 to 2016, and sales have stagnated, according to industry reports.

By Friday, the company's market capitalization had dropped to # 61 million, down from # 2 billion in 2016.

A metaphorical term for how a central bank could stimulate the economy by creating money from thin air, Bernanke wasn't literally suggesting dropping it from a helicopter.

For example, SocialRank for Content allows brands to drop in a post from either Twitter or Instagram and generate a SocialRank report based on each user that has engaged with it (as shown by retweets and replies on Twitter and likes and comments on Instagram).

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

Since then, Wells» shares have dropped by 12 %, from $ 58 to $ 51.

But then, the secretive company's claims it could run a full range of tests from a few drops a blood had yet to be vetted by anyone.

Our planners saved the day by arranging for a friend of theirs pick up our dog from the kennel and drop her off at the venue.

Second are your readers, visitors, regular followers and those who drop by from different sources.

John Ratzenberger, a.k.a. Cliff Claven from Cheers, has already dropped by.

She grew up in Dallas, by way of Jackson, Miss., and dropped out of high school, embarking on an almost comical series of jobs — from data entry to pizza joint manager to concert tour manager.

Bitcoin prices dropped from above $ 11,000 to below $ 9,000 last week following a statement by the SEC that expanded its scrutiny to cryptocurrency exchanges, and news of compromised accounts on a major Hong Kong - based exchange Binance.

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas 5 rocket flights by about one - third in response to mounting competition from rival SpaceX and others, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday.

Despite the 6.2 percent drop in the benchmark S&P 500 from its Jan. 26 high to Feb. 6, investors are still expecting mild to moderate gains by year - end.

Then, the next time you've scheduled your social media monitoring, you can refer to your saved search quickly and easily by clicking into the Twitter search box and locating your saved search sections from the drop - down list.

But in the annual airline ranking done by ThePointsGuy site, United dropped from second place only down to fourth.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

Although much of the recent drop in oil prices has been due to the prospect of higher exports from Iran in the coming months (the International Energy Agency forecasts an extra 300,000 barrels a day by the end of March), the dumping of stored oil is essentially a short - term factor, and its influence on crude prices should logically pass quite quickly.

Germany, by comparison, has much less to complain about: Its goods trade deficit with China remains on a steeply declining trend, falling last year to 14.2 billion euro, a 21.5 percent drop from 2016.

The state has since been bumped from the list by the Dominican Republic and Portugal, but still grapples with double - digit unemployment, the after - effects of the housing bubble and a US$ 1.3 - billion drop in income tax revenue in the first four months of this year.

In Chicago, the Trump International Hotel and Tower saw sales drop from 47 in 2015 to 18 in 2017 while the price per square foot fell by roughly 17 % last year.

In five Florida properties outside of Miami listed on Trump's company website, for example, sales dropped by nearly 25 % from 2016 to 2017.

Apple's market value has dropped by 36 per cent, or about $ 235 billion, from its all - time high reached last September.

Founded in 2001 by three friends from Montreal's rave scene, the firm helped drop 1,200 light - filled beach balls on a crowd of 100,000 unsuspecting fans during Arcade Fire's song «Wake Up» at the Coachella music festival in 2011, a stunt that garnered a skrillion online views.

Tiffany said Tuesday that comparable sales fell 2 % in the Americas, a drop stemming primarily from a pullback by U.S. customers, but mitigated by more spending by Japanese tourists.