Sentences with phrase «as big a driver»

As the biggest driver of the gold price is real rates, this is a huge plus for the metal.

A.M.: I don't really see that as that big a driver, no.

The same report also published data showing that in - school variation — between subject departments and between individual teachers — is as big a driver of the opportunity gap as school - to - school variation.

As a natural consequence, iOS users also emerged as the biggest drivers of online traffic, which at 32.6 percent is twice that of 14.8 percent from Android.

Over the past 15 - 30 years, depending on the country, large - scale commodity production for urban and international markets has replaced subsistence agriculture as the biggest driver of tropical deforestation worldwide.

«It's the first official confirmation we've had that CO2 is not as big a driver of climate change as the computer models have claimed; and it's the first official admission that the planet is not warming dangerously,» Peiser said.

We also see collaboration as a big driver.

Not exact matches

The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.

If your board does not have a solid understanding of IT - drivers, such as cloud computing, big data, consumerization, mobile computing, cyber-crime, e-corruption and social media, it will suffer.

The use of Big Data has also become a key driver of innovation these days, as it involves aggregating large amounts of information and helps companies better understand their customers on a macro level.

As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near - term driver for sales ---- than competitors.

That said, Netflix has recently been offered in Canada but YouTube is still a huge resource, as well as people posting videos on Facebook, which could be one of the big drivers for the Canadian traffic growth.

The big money sees China, India and other Asian markets as drivers of real estate growth — and investment opportunities.

The big question is whether Uber's drivers as a whole are similar enough to each other to merit being lumped together into a class - action lawsuit.

PERTH»S commercial office market and the state's building industry are both looking to big gas developments such as Chevron's Gorgon project to be a key driver of activity.

Working as a zamboni driver (those big machines on ice rinks) is a thankless job.

Imagine Uber or AirBnb, instead of going to big institutions for capital, now offering their stock directly to their drivers, riders, renters and tenants as well as the general public.

Jones appeared to have big plans for Uber as recently as last month, when he posted a note on Facebook promising to give drivers better support, clearer communication and an improved driver app.

TV is a big brand driver for Old Navy and we're back on that as we look into Q2, and then certainly into Q3, and line up for back - to - school.

Risk managers in the financial services industry are skittish about what they perceive as a heightened chance for high - impact event hitting the global financial system hard and they're naming potential cyber attacks as one of the biggest drivers for that increased risk.

Just as a car's GPS system triggers a recalculation when a driver deviates from a current route, we believe investors are recalculating the probability that a potentially significant route shift in the big picture is underway.

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

A similar strategy was pursued in the creation of the Big Bertha golf driver (Callaway Golf), which was larger than previous golf clubs and positioned as a club that would significantly improve the performance of even indifferent golfers.

The 20 - year - old NASCAR driver was racing in just his second Sprint Cup competition and is now etched in the record books as the youngest driver to win the sports» biggest race.

Over the past generation «supply side economics» has become an epithet used to cast scorn and derision upon any policy that doesn't look to Big Government as a driver of economic growth.

Operators are facing four big areas of challenge that Technomic sees as transformative, bound to drive changes in how operators approach business: 1) coping with supply chain challenges, including driver shortages; 2) meeting consumer demand for «food with integrity»; 3) dealing with «regulation nation» where industry - disrupting changes may include a higher minimum wage; and 4) incorporating innovations into operations, including new delivery models, variable pricing, self - ordering systems, and robotics.

Three drivers from three different countries having a hilarious bit of back - and - forth on Twitter as they prepare for one of the biggest races of the year?

In a switch on the beloved hick flick story line, wonder trotter and kindly underdog owners show up at big Kentucky race with hearts high — and have them broken as a crafty rival driver blind - sides our hero

This year's silly season is set to be a particularly silly one as several top drivers are out of contract at the end of the season, so Alonso's decision is likely play a big part in any discussions.

They're big kids in there, wrestling and inhabiting the role of the villain as fully as you did when you were a kid doing pile - drivers off the living room couch.

As a big man that he is, If he hadn't done so at ST Mary's, I think Le prof should be escorted to Stanford Bridge with his staff details of: 1 Personal Assistant, 2 Drivers, 2 Imformation Technology Men, 4 Security Stewards and 1 Medical Doctor.

Sergio Perez caused the first big incident of the day when he crashed in FP1, but it was FP2 where everything really started to kick off as seemingly every driver had an incident of some kind.

It's a bit annoying the shark fins are going in the bin for the 2018 season as they're the perfect spot for driver names and numbers, and it'd be nicer if the designs we've seen so far were a bit bigger too.

The biggest crisis of his film career came when he was cast as a cab driver; he was behind the wheel before the director discovered Abe didn't know how to drive.

Tiger Woods appeared to fix some of the big misses off the tee with his driver but his putter stayed as frigid on the back nine of his opening (and, likely, penultimate) round of the season as it was on the front at Whistling Straits.

What happens when you put 30 + young racing drivers on a track who are all desperate to prove themselves as the next big thing?

Usually it's no big deal, as the field simply does another warm - up lap and the driver that messes up gets a penalty.

Unfortunately the combination of high - powered single - seaters and a grid of drivers whose talent level could be best described as «mixed» can lead to some fairly big accidents.

«It needs a culture change for them to look at IndyCar drivers as a possibility, and I hope there is because there are world - class drivers that are being wasted and could be doing even bigger things in the public eye in Formula One and doing better than some of the people already there.»

Formula 1 drivers could pay a bigger price this season for any mistakes as the new era of cars are «much harder» to catch, that's according to Esteban Ocon.

As NASCAR began the 2014 season with the sport's biggest race, the Daytona 500, one of the questions to ask is how many of these drivers will suffer a concussion during the course of the year, how many of them will have it properly diagnosed and fully recover before they get behind the wheel, and what will be the long - term effects of these brain injuries?

Car & Driver Magazine continually rates the Odyssey, especially, as one of the top ones each year because it outperforms the competition and is fun to drive, which is a big bonus for dads.

The statement asked the drivers of big trucks to, as a matter of urgency, observe the height restrictions when using the Interchange, and also tasked traders to transact businesses at authorised locations.

Labour candidate Sadiq Khan is the son of a bus driver who describes the housing crisis as «the single biggest barrier to prosperity».

Drivers to face biggest rise in car insurance for five years as bills rise by a fifth in just a year

Tourism dollars and jobs, along with events at the Erie County Fair & Exposition grounds — including the fair — and Burgerfest were cited as big economic drivers.

The statement asked the drivers of big trucks to, as a matter of urgency, observe the height restrictions when using the Interchange, and also tasked traders to transact business at authorised locations.

As such we felt it was important to look at potential savings that could occur in the area that is the biggest cost driver of property taxes — school districts.»

The plan would impose a $ 5.54 E-ZPass toll in each direction on the Koch / Queensboro, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges, which, as a bizarre consequence of Big Apple politics, have always been free for drivers to cross, despite the fact that these spans connect some of the most traffic - choked places on the planet.

They are in New York City, which is Uber's biggest U.S. market and is the rare municipality that has the requisite financial and regulatory muscle to force Uber and Lyft to operate as a traditional for - hire car service, complete with the Taxi & Limousine Commission - mandated driver fingerprinting.