Sentences with phrase «last point while»

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Furthermore, while The Guardian says that vodka sales showed an uptick of 1.6 percent last year, the Wall Street Journal points out that sales of Smirnoff brand vodka were down eight percent between June and December.

Private - sector economists are pointing to a surfeit of positive data, while Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz remains wary (or, as Poloz himself put it at press conference last week, «decidedly neutral»).

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

Similar articles appear every year (indeed, we at Fortune published one just last month) and while technically accurate, they strike me as missing the point.

That last point touches upon another observation made by BAML — that while stocks certainly look pricey, certain areas of the market are actually attractively priced, at least compared with recent months.

While several very good notebooks launched in the last year, there wasn't One True Laptop you could point to and say «this is the best machine for most people» the way you could about the MacBook Air years ago.

Case in point: While in San Francisco last week, I met up with Heidi Allstop, who is there to grow her social life - advice enterprise, Spill.

He points out that North American box office receipts have increased 6.8 % over last year at this time, while attendance should grow by 9.6 % to 17.7 million people.

In his first public speech since becoming central bank chief last week, Yi Gang told the China Development Forum in Beijing that opening up leads to progress while closure points to backwardness.

As a person who, at various points in the last five years, has held paid accounts with Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box, all while also paying for additional iCloud storage, I personally rely on AirDrop to move photos, videos and whatever else between my phone and computer all the time.

Additionally, Love's percentage of shots from two - point range fell from 64.5 % to 58.8 % last year, while his three - point attempts rose 35.5 % to 41 %.

While Facebook is still rated as the most effective platform overall, confidence in the platform slightly dropped (4 percentage points from last year.)

While some segments of the KMT pointed to the event as a last - minute external factor that swung many voters in DPP's direction in many competitive races, analysts and DPP supporters argue that the video probably only had marginal impact on the electoral outcome.

Last year, while shareholders were generally supportive of the 180 issuers in Canada who held say - on - pay votes, rejecting just two proposals — Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX: CP) and Crescent Point Energy Corp. (TSX: CPG)-- the numbers are shifting.

While other data on Thursday showed a modest increase in new applications for jobless benefits last week, the number of Americans receiving unemployment aid fell to its lowest level since 1973, pointing to tightening labor market conditions.

Usage of our proprietary cards increased 10 basis points over the last year in the quarter reaching 48.7 % and while on the subject of credit I want to point out that we signed over new loan expansions of our partnership with Citi that now goes until 2025 instead of 2016 expiration of our original contract.

While exterior revisions last year fell under the category of mid-cycle refresh — new headlights with four - point daytime running lights, door handles without recess covers,

Forget the specifics, for a paragraph, because this is a notable development: while these hearings usually devolve into partisan cliches with the same talking points — Democrats want regulations, and Republicans don't — yesterday Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed unease with Facebook's handling of private data; obviously Democrats tried to tie the issue to the last election, but that made the Republicans» shared concern all - the - more striking.

Cocoa futures in the May contract settled last Friday in New York at 2556 while currently trading at 2467 down about 90 points for the trading week as we are right near a four week low as prices may have topped out in the short term.

While variable lending rates have remained unchanged since the end of last year, fixed housing and fixed small business lending rates have both fallen from their peaks late last year, by around 20 and 15 basis points respectively.

In the last quarter of 2000, basic material stocks rose 22 percent while tech stocks slid 33 percent, parting ways by 55 percentage points.

In Europe, while the rise in yields was a little slower to occur, it has picked up pace in the last three months as signs of economic recovery in Europe have strengthened, and the net rise in yields from the early 1999 lows is now about 140 points.

According to data from SNL, rates on most money market accounts have inched up by just two - hundredths of a point in the last 12 months, while rates on regular savings accounts haven't budged at all from an average of 0.13 %.

While most of the market seemed not to notice, seeing as it was fixated on corporate earnings and what's going on in the tech sector, the yield on the T - note surged by 14 basis points last week to close Friday at 2.96 %.

Geopolitical tensions in Ukraine hurt many European - focused ETFs last week, while a spike in volatility helped VIX - linked strategies in a week when the S&P 500 fell 21 points, or 1.1 percent.

For example, consumers» propensity to make a purchase increased by two points to a score of two, while perceptions of their personal financial situation and the general economic situation over the last 12 months were up three points month over month.

While gold ramped up toward $ 1300, the S&P 500 plunged 11 points in the last 28 minutes of trading.

The Bank of America report on indexing last month pointed out that while the market overall seems smooth at the moment, there has been a recent spike in the volatility of stocks that are owned largely by ETFs and index funds, probably because of liquidity.

According to an article in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the U.S. economy has been expanding at a rate greater than 3.5 percent for four of the last five quarters, creating enough freight demand to significantly boost trucking revenue while tightening supply to the point where carriers can gain considerable rate increases.

While a bearish continuation has yet to be confirmed, the most recent price hike this morning seems to fit the last test of the Wyckoff schematic LPSY (Last Point of Supplast test of the Wyckoff schematic LPSY (Last Point of SuppLast Point of Supply).

So while countries such as Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) fell significantly in rank on this year's watch list (Sri Lanka dropped 15 spots to No. 44, and the UAE dropped 14 spots to No. 49), their level of persecution dropped only slightly from last year's list (by four points and two points, respectively, on a 100 - point scale).

That last point is frequently the crux of the criticism, as women are so frequently stripped down to props while fully dressed men handle the serious business of moving the plot forward.

The thing is, Black Six, that while your overall point is good, the last sentence implies an incorrect assumption, which is what the other posters are critiquing, In other words, you have a point, but so do they, and it's not idiotic.

But what chiefly I wish to suggest is that while I for one welcome the disappearance or «muting» of the traditional teaching about the last things, I also think that they did point to important truths about human life as well as about Christian faith.

While I typically don't make new year resolutions, I do try to take some time out during the last week of the year to brainstorm things I'm interested in exploring at some point in the next 365 days.

S'been a while since you last posted granola Had to come at some point, this looks and sounds fantastic!

Top of the league table was the Eden Project in Cornwall, which scored 99 points out of a possible 150 for its freshly prepared and locally sourced food, while in last place were Brighton Pier and the Natural History Museum in London, the most popular visitor attraction in Britain, which both scored a paltry 22 points.

And while we're on the topic of holiday cookies, I thought I should point two favorites from last year.

In other news, I realized this morning while running that it was at this exact point in my training for Philly last year, that my knee started hurting.

Last week, while announcing the permanent appointment of Brian Walsh as Chair of Wine Australia, the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce, said the organisation had identified key objectives, priorities and strategies for the next five years at a critical point for the wine sector.

Eddystone Point also collected a trophy for its 2016 Riesling, while House of Arras, which was last year named one of Australia's top sparkling producers by winning «best in class» trophies at every capital city wine show, also secured trophies for «Best Non-Vintage Sparkling» and «Best Late Disgorged Older Vintage Sparkling.»

As my friend Chef Schneller (who I met while touring the Culinary Institute of America last year) points out, the term «spring lamb» refers to a lamb born in the spring and eaten in the summer.

Kansas State, with 11 first - place votes, also earns more points per ballot than Florida did last week while getting 16, suggesting that there's no one underrating the «Cats, and their vote distribution, with just one vote for lower than No. 4, backs that up.

They sit in eighth place in the Serie A table after 11 games, 12 points adrift of the top four, while they've been held to back - to - back goalless draws by AEK Athens in the Europa League over the last fortnight to really ramp up the pressure on Montella.

The Mountaineers, struggling through a rare losing season while a fine freshman team simmered, started shooting like Daniel Boone in their last regular game, embarrassing a good Virginia Tech team by a 54 - point margin at Morgantown.

And as for why Arsenal are not challenging for the title this year I would point out that, just like last season, we have had a crippling and ongoing injury crisis, while he has had a fully fit squad almost every week.

Arsenal could not have picked a worse time to face Antonio Conte's side, who easily beat Swansea 5 - 0 two days ago while resting Eden Hazard, and who have only conceded one goal in their last 5 League games as they moved up to be Man City's closest challengers, albeit 14 points behind Pep Guardiola's side.

Three of last year's top seven tacklers up front are gone, so while Davis, end Brian Reinke, and tackle Brock Boxen form a pretty good starting point, youngsters like sophomore end Justin Sampson or redshirt freshman tackle DeAndre Brimage might have to contribute sooner than later.

Last season their offense ranked 16th in points scored while their defense ranked 5th in points allowed.

While the Wings are scorching - hot at home, the Ducks are on a surge of their own, earning 24 points over the last 16 games in trying to get out of the Western Conference gutter.