Sentences with phrase «accelerating the decline of»

However, the Plaza Accord certainly accelerated the decline of the Dollar.

«Tree damage is likely to accelerate the decline of the coconut production in the Philippines,» said Jason Wong, a research analyst at Euromonitor, in an email.

However, Major General Manuel Quevedo has only accelerated the decline of PDVSA, which once held a reputation as one of the better managed state - owned oil companies in the world.

You are accelerating the decline of the American empire...

If anything is accelerating the decline of the US, it's intolerance that hides behind the Bible.

Cuomo has proposed a slew of business tax code changes that include reducing the rate and raising the exemption threshold for the estate tax, merging a dedicated bank tax into a corporate tax and reducing the overall rate, creating a new rebate for upstate manufacturers and the accelerated decline of an energy surcharge that the state extended in 2013.

At the same time as the surface is cooling, the deeper ocean is warming, which has already accelerated the decline of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment.»

For decades, the development of COPD has been ascribed to accelerated decline of lung function from a normal level achieved in young adulthood.

«At the same time as the surface is cooling, the deeper ocean is warming, which has already accelerated the decline of glaciers on Pine Island and Totten.

Change in muscle strength explains accelerated decline of physical function in older women with high interleukin - 6 serum levels

All district departments must properly plan for the continued and possibly accelerated decline of student enrollment, and the board must act accordingly.»

This is about the same time that the rumors starting about the accelerated decline of the entire Nook division.

Accelerating decline of global mass balance — looks something like if you threw your keys straight out.

Accelerating decline of glaciers throughout the world 13.

This marked a shift in the auto industry that helped accelerate the decline of American car companies.17 What if the stakes are far higher with clean tech than they were with the auto sector?

Provided that the excess carbon emissions came from activities that accelerated the decline of global poverty (e.g., by enabling more of the global poor to electrify their homes and businesses more quickly), such overshooting could help reduce the injustices associated with global poverty without unjustly burdening future generations.

The Jackson reforms have accelerated the decline of the conditional fee agreement (CFA) market, research shows.

Not exact matches

Sure, there are many other factors affecting this trend besides on - line merchandising — most notably real estate firms which have accelerated neighborhood declines by escalating rents — but those factors combined have decimated downtown and suburban shopping areas and have had a major impact on our way of life.

The controversial May 20 presidential elections could prove to be a catalyst for additional U.S. sanctions, which could accelerate the pace and magnitude of the production declines.

Since 2000, wages have been stagnant or in decline for a majority of workers, a trend now accelerated since 2007.

According to Acadata and LSL property services and reported by Bloomberg, the average price of a house in London was down 2.7 % on the year in September, the decline accelerating from a rate of 0.7 % in August.

«After two quarters of slight improvements, pay TV subscriber declines appear to have accelerated markedly in 1Q17,» UBS analysts led by Doug Mitchelson wrote in a note Wednesday.

But the sales declines are only accelerating: in the first three months of 2014, North American revenue fell 21 % and Wall Street analysts are not expecting any better when Avon reports second - quarter results in late July.

Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin company would put the stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.

Emsi's article STEM Majors Are Accelerating in Every State, Just as Humanities Degrees Are Declining covers the rapid increase in the number of college student graduating with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) majors.

In short, bad policy could mildly slow coal's decline, good policy could radically accelerate it, but no policy could stop or reverse it, short of nationalizing the energy sector.

Obviously, assorted crash analogs have by now gone out of the window — we already noted that the market was late if it was to continue to mimic them, as the decline would have had to accelerate in the last week of March to remain in compliance with the «official time table».

If Venezuela defaults, the decline of its oil production could accelerate.

The pace of change in our economy and our culture is accelerating — fueled by global adoption of social, mobile, and other new technologies — and our visibility about the future is declining.

Further, the state sees its production decline accelerating though May and into the summer, given the drilling plans of Bakken producers like SM Energy, which planned to reduce its rig count in the play starting in May.

The annual rate of decline accelerated for the third month running to a severe pace, with the respective index at its fourth - lowest level in eight - and - a-half years of data collection.

While the above reflected a misplaced assessment by the lender of the borrower's ability to service the loan, the decline in underwriting standards which appeared to accelerate around 2006 reflected a conscious decision on the part of mortgage originators to lend to those who previously had been judged to be unable to service the loan.

it is easy to see a scenario in which the dollar would continue or accelerate its decline, a scenario in which the fed has to abandon its hopes of tightening and return to qe - infinity.

The rate of decline remained modest but accelerated slightly, reflecting a sharper contraction in France and slower growth in Germany.

If you follow global financial trends, you would have noted the continual (and recently accelerating) decline in the slope of the US yield curve.

The U.S. Treasury Department's floating - rate notes may generate strong investor demand given a scarcity of money - market securities and a looming debt limit that's accelerating a decline in bill supply.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The two most common methods of accelerating depreciation are «sum of the years» digits» and «double declining balance.»

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

A better reading of the stats is found when you move beyond the headlines and see a long, slow (but accelerating) decline of (mostly) nominal Christianity.

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.

Similarly the decline of Christianity which began with the early Caliphate in Persia was greatly accelerated with the ruthless persecution of Christians by Tamerlane.

CCA is understood to have done internal modelling on the impact of the price rises, which could accelerate a multi-year decline in volumes for carbonated soft drinks, but has not released its forecasts.

Anheuser - Busch InBev's Bud Light bore the brunt of accelerating volume declines in US mainstream lager last year, new analysis has shown.

Studies to date have examined familial clustering of risk behaviors linked with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual factors that explain declines in adolescent girls» physical activity.

The Blair / Brown economic legacy was one of under - investment in key infrastructure, notably transport and energy; a continuing decline in manufacturing contributing to a structural balance of payments deficit; an accelerating regional economic divide; and a speculative property and construction boom financing public and private consumption through highly leveraged government and household debt.

Another suggestion is that the decline in domestic waste going to landfill has accelerated the closure of a number of less profitable landfill sites and inert material, such as soils and stones, is required to fill the voids and restore these sites.

That represents a fall of 10 % over 2 years & a fall of 2 - 3 % since December, an accelerating decline.

However, the introduction of modern farming practices during the Neolithic period sparked a gradual decline which accelerated towards the end of the Bronze Age and has largely continued until the present day.

An accelerating rate of decline The nation's largest aquifer is the Ogallala, underlying more than 170,000 square miles of the High Plains region and stretching across eight states, from Nebraska to Texas.