Sentences with phrase «at slowing the decline»

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The result is Canada is at «some risk» of a balance sheet recession — a period of slow growth or decline caused by consumers saving and paying down debt rather than spending.

Despite offering more money to fliers who decide to stay, the Air Force has seen the number of pilots taking their retention bonuses decline, though at a slower rate.

I also think there was a direct correlation between the time when I stopped doodling at university and the slow and steady decline of my creativity.

But improving paper's image may — at best — slow the decline in demand, not reverse it, leaving the industry grappling for ways to compensate for a dwindling customer base.

Tsur Somerville, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, said he didn't think prices would decline but the rate of increases would slow down.

The rate at which Americans start businesses has been falling for more than three decades, and while the decline has slowed in recent years, it has shown no sign of reversing.

A slow recovery reached $ 2.03 in November 2014 before giving way to a decline that posted a higher low at 65 cents in December 2016.

Job growth has slowed over the past few months and GDP is growing at only 1.2 %, but there aren't the declines we usually see in recessions.

The WTI contract is back at the crucial $ 50 level, with the help of the strong decline in the Dollar, the prospects of slower tightening by the Federal Reserve, the positive news regarding the OPEC production cut deal, and the slower growth of the US output.

The CEO has been at the company for only a short while and is making some changes that have been effective in slowing Blackberry's decline.

The opposite is true: they are trying to keep it from falling or are at least trying to slow down its descent with every trick in the book (every intermittent phase of yuan strength since the beginning of the decline was triggered by intervention).

If, however, it deteriorates at a slow rate, the home ownership rate would most likely follow the average decline rate of the last five years (2012 - 2016), decreasing on a year - over-year basis by 0.5 percent of the prior year's rate.

Mert was exposed at the World Cup as being too slow and on the decline.

When it comes to men, their fertility also declines with age — it just does so at a slower rate.

Since then, the C - section rate has continued to rise ever faster, but neonatal mortality, although continuing, has declined at ever slower rates.

The index declined at a slower rate when compared with its level in November, 2015.

CBN Manufacturing PMI Index for the month of December 2015 shows production level and new orders are growing at a slower rate, raw material inventories (unused raw materials) increasing at a faster rate, supplier delivery time declining at a faster rate, and employment level decreasing at a slower rate.

In the non-manufacturing sector, «Business activity and employment level declined at slower rate; while new orders and raw materials inventories declining at faster rate».

In the manufacturing sector, «Production level, new orders, employment level and raw material inventories declined at a slower rate; supplier delivery time however improved at a slower rate.»

With so many races going on, the biggest problem facing candidates for the state house generally is getting noticed at all — national media certainly aren't covering them, and the slow decline of local news outlets doesn't leave much room in traditional public spaces.

At the same time, two major drivers of local government spending that officials on that level can't control, pension rates and Medicaid costs, are expected to decline and seen slower growth respectively.

In Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005 - 2010 (Profile, # 20.00) Mullin documents the slow wind down to leaving the Commons and while perceptive, and at times funny, it has a sad endgame feel to it.

Baucus declined to specify the «concerns» presented at the meeting, although the legislation has been slowed by Democratic differences over policy and financing.

SNP membership, now at over 100,000, has surged while Labour's has been in slow decline, with estimates ranging from 20,000 to as low as 10,000.

Describing Ghana's agriculture as stagnant or at best sluggish, Dr Akoto said growth in the sector declined from 7.4 per cent in 2008 to 7.2 per cent in 2009, slowing down to 5.2 per cent in 2010 and hitting a bottom of 0.8 per cent in 2011.

«Now that we have more evidence that serotonin is a chemical that appears affected early in cognitive decline, we suspect that increasing serotonin function in the brain could prevent memory loss from getting worse and slow disease progression,» says Gwenn Smith, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of geriatric psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Auriel Willette, a researcher in food science and human nutrition at Iowa State University, found evidence that an elevated presence of a protein called neuronal pentraxin - 2 may slow cognitive decline and reduce brain atrophy in people with Alzheimer's disease.

While some research suggests that a diet high in omega - 3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega - 3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons.

«You don't have the be the life of the party, but this study supports the theory that maintaining strong social networks seems to be linked to slower cognitive decline,» said senior author Emily Rogalski, associate professor at Northwestern's CNADC.

To determine whether an increase in certain barriers to successful cessation and sustained abstinence may be contributing to this slowed decline, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed changes in the prevalence of depression among current, former and never smokers in the U.S..

«This recent decline at the Ph.D. level could likely mean that women's progress at the assistant professor level might also slow down or reverse in future years, so these trends will need to be watched closely,» Wai said.

In contrast, the level of tyrosine - phosphorylated STAT1 increased rapidly, peaking at 10 minutes to 1 hour after IFNα treatment and then returning to the levels characteristic of untreated cells, whereas the level of tyrosine - phosphorylated STAT2 followed a similar time course but with a much slower decline (Fig. 1A).

Although the patients that underwent DBS showed a decline in their cognitive skills, the decline was at a slower rate compared to 96 other patients in the comparison group.

About the twitch speed of those fibres: in age - related muscle decline, fast - twitch muscle fibres diminish at twice the rate of slow - twitch fibres.

Testosterone production begins its slow and steady decline as early as one's late twenties and continues to decrease at a rate of 1 to 2 percent each year.

However, note that many of these studies looked at fruit and vegetable consumption, one study noted that higher vegetanle consumption (but not fruit) was linked to a slowed cognitive decline on older age.

From understanding how growing older impacts various bodily systems to the biological differences in the way aging effects men and women; the latest science on telomeres and slowing the rate of cognitive decline to how meditation heals us and why love, friendship, and laughter matter for health, The Longevity Book offers an all - encompassing, holistic look at how the female body ages — and what we can all do to age better.

It's pretty clear that this group of midpackers does decline at a slower rate:

At this time, estrogen begins a slow decline and progesterone begins a faster decline, although ratios may increase and / or decrease before they decline permanently.

The film declines to invite the viewer into its world; events unfold at a painfully slow pace, while some of the plot developments seem bewilderingly random.

I felt as though I was watching the slow decline of Kate's character — Her bike is stolen, relationships didn't work out for her, she was downsizing to a smaller apartment, she was messy and sloppy in her living conditions and relationships (she didn't rush her friend to the hospital when he hurt himself helping her move), she was about to lose her best friend to marriage (where she would have no place), she was starting to sleep around with the guys at work, her job was going nowhere, she was shallow, and if she continued to drink at the same rate she'd most likely incur health problems, lose her job and wind up living under a freeway overpass.

A.O. Scott at The New York Times slammed the film's «pretense that this fantasia of misogyny is really a feminist fable of empowerment,» while Sady Doyle at The Atlantic declared that director «Zack Snyder's gooey mix of fetish gear, rape fantasies, and girls - with - guns action sequences represents the nadir of a long, slow, steady decline in action films starring women.»

And it continued to decline — albeit at a slower pace — after 1980, falling to 66 percent by 2012.

While at the beginning of the year many dealer were hopeful that sales would rebound at a pace similar to the declined experienced at the end of 2008 (a V shaped recovery), the overwhelming consensus now is the recovery will be a slow climb out where we don't anticipate annual sales to exceed 14 million units for another three to five years.

Though now in a slow decline, the large installed base of dedicated e-readers (estimated at roughly 50 million in the U.S., and perhaps double that number worldwide) remains a top source for ebook purchases and reading.

Last year the market continued to decline, though at a far slower rate, with 181 million books bought (an annual decline of 1.7 per cent).

The number of bookstores at physical locations fell almost every year from 1992 to 2014 (from 13,136 establishments to 6,888), but the decline has slowed in the most recent years for which data are available.

It tends to grow at rates slower than the overall economy, or the growth rate actually begins to decline.

The Committee now expects a somewhat slower pace of recovery over coming quarters than it did at the time of the previous meeting and anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually toward levels that the Committee judges to be consistent with its dual mandate.

I collected more data with the higher dividend yield version of Investment B. I looked at the effect of slower dividend declines.