Sentences with phrase «better than those of the past»

I tend to get sucked into these games for at least a decent amount of time no matter what, and this one is certainly better than some of the past showdowns like Jump Ultimate Stars.

I like it better than the Nokia 6 and it clearly shows that low cost Android phones today and so much better than those of the past.

Not exact matches

Motorola has touted this kind of design with past devices like the Moto Z Force and Droid Turbo 2, and, generally speaking, it has done well to keep those phones more durable than usual.

That's better than not surpassing the high, but many stories failed to mention the drastic increase in the cost of healthcare and education that's occurred over the past 18 years.

Our management team has a good track record of making the right bets, which has led to a greater than 1,000 percent average annual growth over the past three years and enabled us to make the Inc. 500.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

Nearly half of HR professionals claim their organization previously had a policy against rehiring former employees — even if the employee left in good standing — yet 76 % are more accepting of hiring boomerang employees today than in the past.

The company has completed more than 10 acquisitions over the past year, including assets in Mexico, Russia and Brazil, as well as the Edmonton - based maker of Cold - FX, Afexa Life Sciences.

Within days, a team of designers was in the XJ offices, mapping out the next generation in customer - relationship management software with a clear mandate: «Take the best of what we've done in this space over the past 20 years,» says Tatham, «and starting from scratch, build better than ever before.»

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

The New York Times (nytab) has been criticized in the past for remaining family - controlled, and some have argued that the newspaper would be better off if it were run by a regular corporation rather than being operated in the interests of a specific family.

Thus far, The Artist has grossed more than US$ 30 million in theatres, making it the second - lowest grossing best picture winner of the past three decades.

Some of the best - performing stocks in the sector over the past year include Nvidia and Micron, both of which are up more than 100 percent in that period.

Out of more than 600 jobs tracked by Statistics Canada, the following 10 professions had the best combination of high wages and employment growth over the past five years.

«We can get a glimpse of what may be in store for the United States by looking at Japan, where in a somewhat frightening parallel, economic growth has averaged 0.9 % annually over the past two decades, and just 0.7 % in the 2001 to 2010 period,» BlackRock's paper says, though Koesterich adds that U.S. demographics are considerably better than Japan's.

«Today, rather than create results we won't be able to carry out like in the past, we should make good results by talking frankly about current issues, issues of interest,» Kim said.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

Here's hoping it does better than his mining interests, some of which fell almost 50 % over the past year.

Both are fairly small, intimate experiences with the school entering less than 100 students in each of the past two years — and both are filled with a good bit of experiential learning opportunities to offset the younger age of the students here who tend to have a bit less work experience.

Cable sports giant ESPN's struggles in recent years have been well - documented, with the Walt Disney - owned network shedding more than 12 million subscribers in the past six years as the number of cord - cutters has ticked upwards and cable providers have started offering slimmer bundles that don't always include ESPN.

In times of economic instability and deflation (falling prices), bonds have performed better than stocks in the past.

We can all easily build a portfolio of stocks, bonds and speciality ETFs through an online brokerage like Motif Investing for way less than in the past with much better risk parameters.

While we have to say, and we actually believe, that past performance is no guarantee of future returns, we believe that Woodstock represents our clients» best opportunity to capture that equity - like return into their own accounts rather than negotiate it away in purchasing an investment product, because we believe we have done it.

I have been blessed with my own business for the past year and a half as well as a job that I love more than anything (besides Mom, of course.)

And they are, but a new world that Windley thinks will solve some of the incentive problems that have made centralized systems better bets than decentralized systems in the past.

The speech goes on to note that, although the economy performed well overall, the average growth rate of real GDP has been lower in the past decade than the one before.

It is up 6.1 % over the past 12 months, better than 66 % of its competitors.

Best of all, Wells Fargo has grown its interest earning assets by $ 123 billion, or 8 %, over the past year alone, which is significantly greater than its competition.

Over the past decade immigrants have arrived in Canada better educated and at similar stages in their careers as those born in Canada, but evidence suggests that they have been less successful than earlier waves of immigrants.

As with the other names mentioned a significant bounce in the health REIT space has occurred in the last month making many of the other health REITs less attractive than in days past, however, HCP still remains relatively weak for a variety of reasons and presents the best value (and risk) for potential returns.

So far, our greater than usual trading activity of the past week has been working out well.

2016.02.12 Overspenders in overdrive this past holiday season, shifting into savings mode in 2016 — RBC Despite their best intentions, the number of Canadians who are spending more than they expect to each holiday season continues to grow, reaching the highest point in five years this past December...

I guess, I guess, if you could just talk about what is perceived to be somewhat of a share fallback here for the second quarter in a row now or well, it's a little bit more pronounced in this quarter than it's been in quarters past, you're pretty much in line with the category in the last quarter.

Well, bearing in mind that we start our analysis with a projection that Canada's economic potential is likely to grow by only around 1.5 per cent, which is not very inspiring, we need to take every decimal point of potential growth more seriously than we have in the past.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

We've discussed a few different ways to do this in the past, and some of these are better than others.

The 235,626 ounces of gold produced at Lihir during the quarter was better than six of the past nine quarters, and suggests the mine is still capable of becoming the million ounce per year gold mine that it was always supposed to be.

Upstream price pressures have also been boosted by the rise in oil prices, as well as the depreciation of the exchange rate and the increase in world commodity prices; producer input and output prices have increased more sharply over the past six months than they have since the early 1990s.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

This is when people poured thousands of dollars to start their companies, such as Laundromats, store fronts etc; But if you really look at this scenario, maybe about the 5 % who did make it past the first five years, 3 of them were struggling just to pay rent and stay alive, 1 was doing a little bit better than the others, and the other 1 was doing exceptional.

We know from various studies done in the social sciences in the past forty years, as well as from fifteen plus years of my being involved with personas, the trio of users / buyers / customers makes decisions based on much more than just content or information.

So here are some of the things that create confidence that the future will be far better than the most recent past.

Even though the S&P 500 is less than 3 points above its March peak, and the index remains lower than its level of 5 years ago, and has underperformed T - bills for the past 7 years, I realize that the chatter about «4 year highs» can make it seem frustrating that the Strategic Growth Fund is well hedged here.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

In some past monetary arrangements, most notably that of Scotland before 1845, banks came very close to achieving this ideal, thanks to the their freedom to supply their customers with circulating paper banknotes as well as with deposits, and to the fact that between them these two substitutes could serve every purpose coins might serve, and do so more conveniently than coins themselves.

It's well established by past experience that investors who spread their money across a range of investments do better than those who concentrate it in one company, industry or asset class (such as stocks, bonds, or real estate).

Since the rise of bitcoin over the past year, there has been a lot of discussion amongst the anti-government, pro-competing currencies crowd: is gold a better than investment than bitcoin or the other way around?