Sentences with phrase «better than it had»

By December he could see the outcome was far better than he had expected.

«It's not obvious having lots of small satellites is better than having a big satellite,» he said.

Not only do credit cards have fraud protections in place in the event of theft, but they also offer some of the best currency exchange rates around — much better than you'd get changing bills at a bank or exchange kiosk.

There's no question that the music business is doing better than it has for some time, as streaming continues to grow as a revenue source.

«It's better than having to go through 50 to 100 sheets of paper in a binder.

The Blu R1 HD is the Amazon Fire of smartphones: Nothing about it is great, but it's way better than it has any right to be.

Non-bank lenders are more willing to accept risk, so the odds of getting funded are better than they would be at a bank.

A recent winner — a fund whose performance put it in the top quartile in 2013 among portfolios with the same investment objective — had only a 56 percent chance of doing better than average in 2014, barely better than you would expect by random chance.

If they only have to create software once and then it works on all of Apple's devices, that's obviously much better than having to do it twice.

He continued: «I was surprised... I would describe this as having gone better than we would have expected.»

Make them understand your brand better than they'd ever be able to do online.

Some of the REITs are definitely looking better than they have in some time.

After all, buying something tangible is generally better than having your stocks disappear like vapor.

It's much better than having cash on the sideline.

An important issue shaping the future is how these cross-cutting themes are resolved: businesses feel better than they have for some time, but consumers feel weighed down by weak income growth and high debt levels.

To achieve an Abundance Mentality, nothing works better than having a physical expression of abundance around you.

Fox's guest stint didn't just reinforce how much the show has evolved past its initial premise — if anything, losing Jess made the show better than it had been in years.

And as it turns out, the only thing better than having Donald Trump on your network is having him attack it.

An index or stock with a current price above its moving average is performing better than it has during the period used to calculate the moving average.

To make up with rank and file, airline management will have to give workers something better than they had before — or risk all those unhappy employees taking it out on passengers.

You won't get top dollar for it, but it's better than having something around that you'll never watch, listen to, or play.

There's nothing better than having a broad range of input from a diverse group of experts.

The United States is doing better than it has in years.

«We as brokers think it's better than having this disconnect where nobody's executing on anything.

OptionsXpress offers a complete range of training webinars and tutorials that are considerably better than I have seen from any other discount broker.

We should say, however, that as strategies go, bargain hunting may still be better than having no strategy at all.

I encourage you to do even better than I have.

«There's kind of a general feeling that things are better than they have been, and that's being reflected in the earnings season,» he said.

Perhaps the thing that impressed Wall Street today was that Freeport's balance sheet looks much, much better than it has in recent years.

The exception being Portable, which performed better than I had expected due to the launch of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Pokémon Ultra Moon and the performance of the $ 79.99 Nintendo 2DS hardware.

Usually the song pops into my head as well... which I guess is better than having Jesus» voice pop into my head.

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

Pensioners deserve to be treated much better than they have been in the past and to have security in retirement.»

Poles have, in human and electoral terms, handled these matters better than they have in «theory» and rhetoric.

Rave on Atheists, better than you have tried to bring down the Church over the millennia, and look, 22 new Cardinals.

A man in his middle years described his hopes for a weekend couples retreat: «I hope we can achieve that good, close feeling and learn to help others do better than we've done — we've wasted so much time in our marriage!»

For one thing, they have integrated ecological thinking into their social thought much better than have most Christians.

Lord Zealous, they tell us, has caught that spirit better than have the namby - pamby compromisers in mainline religion.

Often I'll be working on a post in my mind only to turn on the computer and see that Alise has already written it on her AMAZING blog... and better than I would have.

Doesn't sound like anything better than we have now.

This blog is much better than some I've been reading.

There was an uncomfortable silence as she continued, «I wonder if more people aren't motivated by power rightly used and influence for the good than we've let on, only it's been socialized out of us?»

Obviously these dubious characters must have liked his company a good deal better than they would have liked that of his critics, even if these had not held them at arm's length.

And if it doesn't come to that, well, I think you will also find something much different and far better than you've previously known.

I suspect that he would have integrated scholarship better than we have done up until now.

So far, everything seems in place — the Greeks can admire, praise, and even musically feel the greatness of a hero better than they would have without Homer» poem, and what is more, they might learn wisdom from it about that hero's limitations.

He said it all better than I would.

Sure this promotional video sickens my heart... but the general outcry among Christians that we can do better than this has actually lifted it a little.

The speech was better than those he had given on the nights of the Iowa Caucuses or the Wisconsin primary.

The Cross, in itself an «evil» thing, was used by God; and Christians believe it was used by him to bring about greater good than would have been possible without it.