Sentences with phrase «because of a few of»

But I have been tempted to look ahead to next spring and early summer, because of a few of the new holidays offered by one of my favourite travel brands - Adagio.

Not exact matches

But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

Sidenote: Chew is also one of the few biopharma execs I've ever spoken to who voluntarily brought up the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a tough drug pricing critic organization which insists on proven outcomes (and has consequently become a major biopharma gadfly), because the group actually validated the cost - effectiveness of Omada's tech.

It has been on an upward price track for years, in part because the Chinese — compelled by the lack of a social safety net to save rigorously for things like higher education and in case of illness — have few other investing vehicles with which to protect their savings from the ravages of inflation.

U.S. - based asset managers like Federated Investors Inc. and Franklin Resources Inc. pay high effective tax rates because they qualify for fewer deductions, so they will keep more of their income.

Because states would be drawn to maximize the number of the predominant political persuasion and minimize the number of those in the political minority, each state would have overwhelming consensus on political decisions, and relatively few people would have to be governed in a way they find objectionable.

In most cases, companies in this situation experience fewer cases of abuse of sick days off because when employees do not show up for work, then they do not get paid.

Surry explained the reason behind it is «probably because that's when airlines are kicking off these flash sales, and that's one of the few things that still gets done by people.»

And because there is a lack of machinery and an inconsistent power supply, which is necessary for refrigeration, few if any finished products are actually produced in the country.

Because so much of its business is tied up in a few particular styles, a single manufacturing error — like the one that forced executives to recall the near - seethrough women's pants in March — can cause millions of dollars in lost sales.

A good way to do that is to assign a recruiting manager to keep track of the new hire's first few months on the job, Jordan says, because that individual will already have developed a relationship with the employee.

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

On Wednesday's hearing, he said that he made that decision because he was one of the few people in the Obama administration who had access to the leaked classified information.

Because advances in AI allow the ability to rapidly automate many tasks that used to require humans, with fewer errors, there is a tremendous amount of wealth to be made in this industry.

Being on the first few pages of a natural Google search is important because the majority of internet users do not look beyond the first page or two of search engine results.

It's not surprising to me that the SEC has started to look harder at them because using some of these new technologies to raise capital in a less regulated way with fewer consumer protections is not sustainable.

(ICBMs weigh as much as a few school buses, mostly because of the large amounts of rocket fuel they carry.)

In the last few years, ironically, credit bureaus that handle reports on people refinancing mortgages have become big customers of factors because the banks to which they sell the reports are experts at cash management.

Fellow hip - hop act Astronautalis says he makes a few hundred dollars a month via streaming on his back catalog because he owns all of the publishing rights to it and doesn't have to split anything with a label.

Then West began noticing that people remembered her specifically because she was one of the few black females in the field, and she says she started to revel in her unique status.

It could be that because we've brought more cases in the last few years against some well - known names that that's interpreted as a crackdown, but that's simply more a reflection of the fact that time has gone by since we've updated the guides in 2009 to make it clear it applies to social media marketing.

Because a few extra years of work will boost your retirement income more than higher investment returns will, once you take the risk into account.

And in any case, shoppers still have a voracious appetite for deals, meaning they won't go hog wild just because of a few more dollars in their pockets.

We ended up getting quite a few funds and venture capitalist meetings because of the media attention.

A study of insurance claims revealed that Alzheimer's alone is not all that expensive, because there are few medications or tests.

So we need bees because, without them, we wouldn't have all these foods we love; and right now, with fewer of them, the foods we love are going to cost more.

It turned out to be a good deal, because I was able to triple the size of that company in the few months.

But when allowed to set their own pace, taking fewer vacations and working on weekends, they could accept it because it was their choice, Michel explained in the summer issue of The Sociological Quarterly, where her study was published.

That's because Falcon Heavy essentially takes the Falcon 9 system, which SpaceX has now launched and landed quite a few times, and adds two identical first - stage boosters (which provide most of the rocket's thrust) to the sides of the central booster, cranking up the power.

Carefully selecting a new financial institution is probably the most important part of the process because selecting a new bank that's a bad fit could mean you have to start your search all over again in a few months.

Food Lion is a great companion for March Madness because, after all, few things go better with a March Madness game than a plethora of tasty food.

Bringing in a few bad apples because of a lack of due diligence in the hiring process can be very costly (and inexcusable).

The first few stores Headbands of Hope ever got into materialized because I walked in with headbands and asked to speak with the buyer.

A few years ago, Penny Chapman noticed she was receiving letters from parents saying their children couldn't eat ice cream at birthday parties because of a severe nut allergy.

It was a fairly painless promise to make, Moneta says, because the vast majority of customers return goods within the first few days of receipt.

Because of those strict regulations, few business owners use their own retirement funds as a source of capital.

I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

Because of the way frequent flyer programs work, you can usually get a lot more value from a lot fewer miles than credit card points.

A few years on, the firm is considering abandoning the platform: «I can't point to one moment where I feel like we built business because of it.»

In a statement Tuesday, Qantas Head of Fuel and Environment Alan Milne said the airline ranked poorly because «we use larger aircraft, fly very long distances and have premium cabins that naturally have fewer people on board.»

Ironically, the selloff of U.S. stocks began a few weeks ago because of weakness in the Chinese economy, the devaluation of the yuan, and stock market turmoil in the Asian nation, which led to serious concerns about a global economic slowdown.

This comes in handy because, in many cases, it costs fewer points to book a trip if you go through one of those programs, as opposed to using the points as cash.

Let's start with the drawbacks on this one, because they are relatively few in the scheme of things.

«Before the last few days» events, I thought trade tensions would subside because the Chinese are very amenable to a trade deal, because there are lots of ways to make a good deal happen... Now we have a very public game of chicken going on.»

Feltheimer says the drop occurred in part because the company released fewer films than usual into what it believed would be a poor economic climate for movies — not because of the quality of the films.

That's because it will be one of the few remaining data points that Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee will have before they decide whether or not to begin the process of raising interest rates at their upcoming meeting December 15th and 16th.

It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the person who made those shoes is.

Because LIGO was able to detect two of these gravitational wave events within its first few months of running, scientists are confident that these sorts of black hole collisions are actually pretty common in our neighborhood.

Pay - TV subscribers spend an average of $ 231 a year to rent these boxes, because there are few meaningful alternatives.

«Their children are going to receive fewer services because of this, because the money has to come from somewhere.»