Sentences with phrase «at least a point as»

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These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

And as has been pointed out, the oil crash hammered energy companies, but cheap oil and the low dollar (in Canada at least) should have spurred non-energy exporters to take advantage of those ideal conditions.

The bottom line, at least as far as Wall Street is concerned, is that Comcast (cmcsa) and its peers probably don't have much to worry about from Verizon (vz) at this point, says John Hodulik at UBS.

One commenter on one of the Houzz polls described how she'd set up a really nice home office that she described as her «hub,» and made a point to work there for at least part of each day.

Even as they dissented, several readers admitted that having to charge a phone every day is starting to get old and agreed with at least some of my points.

The price point has increased with the new lounge offerings but the goal remains clear: As American Airlines is able to generate significant profits, some of that money will be reinvested in improving travel experience, at least for premium cabin customers.

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

It was a volatile close to the third quarter for the stock market, as evidenced by the fact that the Dow fluctuated by at least 100 points in either direction for five days in a row last week.

CI's stock price had included at least one EBITDA multiple point as a takeover premium, he wrote in a May 15 report, and now that will disappear.

As teased in at least one of the promos for «Avengers: Infinity War,» at one point in the film, Doctor Strange uses the Time Stone to look ahead into the future of the Avengers and their fight against Thanos.

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

At this point, I feel confident that they will continue earning at least $ 1,500 per month as long as we continue running them as we do noAt this point, I feel confident that they will continue earning at least $ 1,500 per month as long as we continue running them as we do noat least $ 1,500 per month as long as we continue running them as we do now.

Similarly, the Facebook chief seemed at one point to favor regulation for Facebook and other internet giants — at least the «right» kind of rules, he said, such as ones that require online political ads to disclose who paid for them.

As far as what that actually means in the short term, Reuters points out that the company plans to cut at least 425 jobs in Finland this yeaAs far as what that actually means in the short term, Reuters points out that the company plans to cut at least 425 jobs in Finland this yeaas what that actually means in the short term, Reuters points out that the company plans to cut at least 425 jobs in Finland this year.

The top influencer spenders last month, as estimated by Points North, include names you've likely heard of, such as Amazon, Walmart and Mercedes Benz, but also the more obscure — at least until that influencer spending kicks in — like Flat Tummy, Waist Gang Society and SugarBearHair vitamins.

Probably not, at least as far as we can tell at this point.

The government requires students to maintain at least a C grade - point average, but some schools have their own standards as well.

One of his views that always stuck with me on that subject, at least as a starting point for thinking about it, was that it was somewhat nonsensical to talk about what «equilibrium exchange rates» should be in a world of fiat currencies and fractional reserve banking.

The least lucrative option, as a rule, is to turn your rewards into cash back at a rate of a penny a point.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

But, Alberta does not have the constitutional authority, at least so far as I can tell, to regulate the point and method by which exports take place, nor does it necessarily have any authority to interrupt specific exports which would otherwise be permissible with respect to aggregate export restrictions.

The quality and appeal of your work is far more important than the length, but the data points toward longer posts as being more popular for link building and SEO — that is, at least several thousand words long.

On the one hand numerous indicators point to solid economic conditions, or at least buoyant economic confidence, and lending conditions are very easy, as are credit spreads and borrowing rates.

White is pointing to certain questions that financial professionals are asking, such as: Does having a net worth of at least $ 1 million or individual income of at least $ 200K necessarily mean you are a «sophisticated» investor, especially if you've never invested before?

As a result of this positive behavior, the number of people who are likely to afford at least their essential expenses in retirement jumped seven percentage points since 2013, from 38 to 45 percent.»

At the very least, they might have noticed that Mr. Trump isn't showing the same level of concern for hurricane damage in their island as he did for earlier damage to Texas and Florida, both of which he had visited by this point.

The Irish polity at this point did not have to surrender its sovereignty as it doesn't have to raise its corporate tax, at least not yet.

As we discussed above, you must have at least 1 premium Ultimate Rewards card to convert the cash - back you earn from cards with no annual fee to points that can be transferred to airline and hotel partners.

Zappos — a customer service pioneer we would be remiss not to address — takes a less mathematical point of view (at least as far as the public eye can discern) to its social customer service dedication.

The FOMC is expected to do everything it can to both push growth higher and to keep interest rates as low as they can, at least to a point, in order to keep inflation under control.

All Ethereum addresses must hold a balance over at least 0.1 ETH as of block 5099720 and rank among the top community members as measured by «Points» (signups + telegram growth) of DAX.

The breakeven price for Arctic drilling is unknowable at this point because of the lack of drilling, but it is likely at least as high as $ 80 per barrel, and quite possible north of $ 100 per barrel.

As Vox's Dylan Matthews pointed out, it's about abuse of power — according to Daniels's account, Trump's wealth gave him the ability to quash a damaging story about himself, at least until after the presidential election.

CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad defined flash events as occasions on which prices moved by at least 200 basis points within an hour but returned to within 75 basis points of the starting -LSB-...]

As for the BOJ, I suspect that at least internally, they are targeting specific levels of the Yen and will stabilize its value at some point to ensure capital outflows don't derail the recovery.

The present ruling does raise a novel (at least to the extent not already covered by Châteauguay) point of law, which is the circumstances under which delay can serve as a trigger to render a municipal or provincial regulatory requirement inoperative or inapplicable.

At least people of faith like Rick Santorum point to the Natural Law as their basis to justify the relationship their faith has with moral public policy.

You cut through the modern politics and hand waving and what you have is that for at LEAST 200 years and probably more (longer than we've been around as a country) Christians were «held in contempt» to the point that for about 10 of those years several emperors pursued active policies of extermination (that's what the «actually persecuting» statement refers to - think holocaust type policies) that included some of the worst type of tortures known to humanity.

What makes the message of Mystic River doubly powerful is that the audience knows Dave is innocent (of this particular crime at least) and can only watch as his former friend first stabs him and then shoots him at point blank range.

At least Christians at the very least can point to the life of Christ as evidence to what they believAt least Christians at the very least can point to the life of Christ as evidence to what they believat the very least can point to the life of Christ as evidence to what they believe.

And while it probably never works to overconfidently inform atheist friends that the serenity they feel in nature or the rapture they experience listening to music is the specific product of a specific God, we can at least embrace such experiences as points of connection.

I say this only to again point out that, just like atheists can not be described as a homogeneous group, neither can Christians, at least philosophically or theologically.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

Yet, as Mark points out, we all agree that love, etc. exist — primarily because we have a «shared experience» of them; i.e., we can «explain,» at least in basic terms that others can understand, what those things are.

I think at some point the defensiveness becomes just as bad or even worse than the initial injury, and we have to admit that there is at the very least a callous disregard and contempt for the injured by the leaders of the organization.

As for American leaders, on this point, at least, George W. Bush has it right.

Julie, as you correctly point out, has offered support for her claims, and the principle figures in this mess have answered with nothing more than outright dismissal and disdain for her, and that — at least to my mind — gives the lie to their protestations of innocence, whether before the fact or after.

There is considerable diversity in the theological outlook, conceptions, and terminology of the New Testament writers; as Canon Streeter pointed out, there are at least seven distinct theologies or patterns of theological thinking in the New Testament.

One after another the state constitutions had declared that, as North Carolina's put it, «all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences» (V: 71) The state constitutions indicated that the right of «free exercise» was meant to be absolute, at least to the point of not «disturb [ing] the public peace or obstruct [ing] others in their religious worship» (Massachusetts, 1780, V: 77) Equally straightforward was the opposition to «an establishment of religion.»

The presence of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that as a movement it will (at least in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like feminist, liberation and nonrealist theologies, and have its main influence as a point of reference and interrogation.