Sentences with phrase «at least a high level»

Or, at least a high level of curiosity.

Not exact matches

To be considered at the highest level of proficiency, students must score at least 625.

The company's board put a special provision in Papa's employment agreement that turbocharges his pay the way a videogame might when a player levels up into bonus points mode: If Valeant's stock price reaches a new high of at least $ 270 a share in the next three years, Papa gets double the allotment of performance - based stock.

Research funding, he argues, should be at least two to four times higher than the existing levels.

And if I go to a high - level entrepreneurship conference in the U.S., I'm bound to recognize many of the speakers and at least a handful of the entrepreneurs.

Given the concentration in Canada's banking sector, it's likely that at least some of the banks will be designated as such, requiring higher capital levels and putting even more pressure on their return on equity.

Public sector banks are likely to be more hesitant to lend money to these borrowers because chances of a turnaround for companies with high levels of debt seem unlikely, at least in the near term, according to Awtani.

At least one high - level staffer, Kurt DelBene, the former head of Microsoft Office, is leaving the company.

The agency classified a version of fentanyl called furanyl fentanyl as a Schedule 1 narcotic, its highest level of restriction, in November 2016, and in February the agency added any compound chemically similar to fentanyl to Schedule 1 for at least two years.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

Nobody with this kind of exposure to blackmail or manipulation by special interests or foreign intelligence agencies would be able to get a high - end security clearance, and, traditionally, at least, that would have made someone ineligible for a high - level White House position.

Prices rose in response, with Australia's terms of trade reaching the highest level in at least 150 years (Graph 1).

They're buying toward the bottom end of the range of the past 4 months ($ 1303 - $ 1366), looking for at least a pullback to at least $ 1337 — the 50 % retracement level from the 4/11 $ 1365 high to today's $ 1310 low.

But then, without any warning, at least I didn't get the memo, it stopped falling and started reverse falling and it's now at the highest levels since May 2016.

He's been accused of spending at least $ 3 million on a round - the - clock security fleet, far more than his predecessors and higher - level cabinet officials.

When an index, ETF, or stock approaches the level of its 52 - week high (or multi-year high), the price action often becomes a volatile tug - of - war for at least a few days.

Millions of people can see at least some of the major signs, such as the collapse of interest rates, record high number of people not counted in the workforce, and debt rising from already - unpayable levels at an accelerating rate.

And at least on departing high - level executive, Nikki Neuburger, formerly a vice president in global brand marketing, wrote Parker a detailed letter describing the problem and explaining that it had driven her to leave.

In addition to Vasquez's appointment, Ferro has raised eyebrows with at least four other recent higher - level hires of those who have worked for him in his previous enterprises.

Price is approaching major resistance at 1.3044 (Fibonacci extension, horizontal swing high resistance) and we expect a major reaction off this level for a drop to at least 1.2935 (Fibonacci retracement, Elliott wave theory) which needs to be broken to...

That was the fastest year - to - year jump in at least a decade, and the highest median income level since 2009.

The metal is trading around the level of $ 1,115.00 / 16.00 now looking for a way to push higher towards $ 1,136.00 at least.

Nonetheless it is encouraging that housing finance has at least begun the process of correcting from the exceptionally high levels reached last year.

It was the highest such level since at least 1913, the first year for which the I.R.S. has data.

Oil prices pushed lower for most of last week on the news that U.S. commercial crude inventories rose to the highest level for this time of the year in at least 80 years, though prices reversed sharply on Friday.

Although the market is not falling apart, the more «distribution days» (sessions of higher volume selling) that accumulate, the more likely it becomes that we will at least test the recent swing low support levels.

These portfolios primarily invest in U.S. high - income debt securities where at least 65 % or more of bond assets are not rated or are rated by a major agency such as Standard & Poor's or Moody's at the level of BB (considered speculative for taxable bonds) and below.

The S&P 500 is trading in a narrow range since the strong Tuesday bounce, and we still expect the short - term momentum to carry the benchmark to at least its prior high, with a likely breach of the 2500 level.

Bulls are looking for a quick rebound to at least $ 1333 - the 50 % retracement level of the down move from the $ 1365 high on 4/11 to the $ 1302 low from 5/1.

Even if one is able to attain this best case return target, most retirees will have to learn to live on much lower income than they are expecting, and / or continue working at least part time well into their 70's, and / or start saving a much higher percentage of their income asap so as to increase their savings to the target level of capital needed.

Banks posted $ 40.24 billion in net income in the second quarter, the second - highest level in at least 23 years and just below the record $ 40.36 billion in the first quarter of 2013, according to the newspaper, which cited data from the research firm SNL Financial.

As such, yesterday's high should now serve as a significant near - term resistance level for QQQ, which could lead to at least several days of sideways consolidation or price retracement.

The strong growth in household borrowing looks likely to continue at least into the early months of 2004, with housing loan approvals remaining at a very high level, despite falling in November for the first time in more than a year.

* Finally, if implied volatility perks up from its current slumber and spikes to higher levels, that can inflate the profit potential (at least prior to expiration) of this trade.

Of the non-financial members of the S&P Global 1200 index, just 32 per cent of companies held 82 per cent of the aggregate cash pile, the highest level since at least 2000.

According to the Capgemini and RBC Wealth Management's latest wealth report, the number of high net worth individuals who have at least USD 1 million to invest rose 15 % globally in 2013 to a record level.

Unless I see some kind of, at least high - school level assertion or argument from you, that we can go after....

We know that the surface temperature worldwide is rapidly increasing, that the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest levels in at least 200,000 years.

Healthy people, he says, are healthy at least in part because they enjoy high levels of self - esteem, commitment to goals beyond their own personal welfare and a sense of community.

Of course even the potentiality of a fetus has some value, but this value (even plants have some value) is nothing absolute and should be weighed against the values of those — especially the mother — actually functioning at a much higher level (i.e., at the level of sentiency, at the very least, if not at the level of rationality).

This holds true not just for the Democrats» standing today at the national level, but at the state level as well, where Republicans gained control of at least seven new governorships and fourteen state legislative chambers, giving them their highest total of state legislative chambers since the 1920s.

This is, at least, in part due to the fact that show attempts to engage in different higher level themes throughout the narrative arc of each season.

This at least is surely possible, given Griffin's view that beings could enjoy high - level values even while existing in a world of solipsistic illusion!

Nussbaum is right to say that the «level of debate and reporting in the major newspapers and at least some of the television networks is impressively high.»

So it may seem, at least to that future student who concentrates his attention upon what our intellectuals were saying, our charientes, our periti: their intrusive and domineering voices audible even at the highest level.

However effective such approaches turn out to be as instruments of inquiry and change (and I will explain my doubts about them later), their current vogue is a sign that the crisis in higher education is at least being joined at the level of meaning and purpose rather than merely at the level of methodology.

Indeed, even the worldwide demand for movies, tapes, and videos suggests at least the high permeability and at most the pervasive character of some levels of human sensibilities in what some want to see as radically (distinct and encapsulated.

That's at least in part because the fish has high levels of omega - 3 fatty acids.

I think that the high level of compliance with the shade and other biodiversity and environmental criteria as well as the positive economic impacts outlined in the report (which, despite my criticisms, I believe are both considerable and meaningful) demonstrate that RA certification is both achievable, profitable, and beneficial to the environment... at least for the currently certified farms.

There are three more performance levels in the AAA program, reached by complying with increasing percentages of criteria on top of the critical ones: Emerging (at least 33 % of non-critical), High Performing (66 %) and Certified (80 % or greater and at least 50 % per principal).