Sentences with phrase «by a few points in»

For women with high blood pressure (hypertension), the DASH diet, or Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension, has been proven to lower blood pressure by a few points in just two weeks.

Studies have shown that inflation is often beat by a few points in the housing market.

Not exact matches

A few days ago I was listening to a caller on an AM radio show promote the government's economic record by stating that there are more Canadians with a job today than at any point in Canada's history.

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

I have overcome it by being lucky enough to find a few good people who believe in me to the point where they will do anything to ensure the company's success.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

Next Monday, Blue Point Brewing, which is owned by AB InBev, is unveiling a new Pilsner called Delayed, a Penn Station - exclusive beer named in honor of the train you thought you were going to take home right after work, but will now be spending the next few hours waiting on instead.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

If I needed just a few more points, I could have also opened a SKYPASS Visa card issued by US Bank — it only offers a 15,000 point sign - up bonus, but almost as soon as I created a Korean Air Skypass frequent flyer account online, I started getting targeted offers in the mail for a 50,000 point bonus.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

By spending more time in the discovery phase, Perkins points out, far fewer deals get stalled later on.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

According to separate analysis by DynamicAction, retailers ahead of Black Friday were already selling about 21 percent fewer items at full price than they did at the same point in 2014.

Devaluation risks are much less of a concern to investors now compared with the near panic in 2015 when the currency fell by a few percentage points.

By identifying low - risk entry points in leading individual stocks, we are able to use high volatility to our advantage because we look for stocks engaged in a volatility contraction, which are due for an inevitable range expansion within a few days.

It could have chosen to lower spending by $ 277 million, to increase income taxes for middle earners by a few points, or to let the deficit come in $ 277 million higher.

By converting your Marriott Rewards to Starpoints, you're getting to stay in great hotels for fewer points.

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

At the end of the 1970s, Canadian municipalities managed to save a few tenths of a percentage point of interest by borrowing in d - marks and Swiss francs.

While the S&P 500 peaked a few points higher in October of that year, the overall top - formation was followed by a 55 % market collapse.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the bull market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the bull market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that bull final market peak.

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

By refinancing your existing student loans you may see a dramatic reduction in your interest rate — even a few points.

I understand that startups normally need capital froman an IPO or need to issue more stocks in order to finance R&D (well, as just about all companies pursue immediate profits not at the cost of the future, the second option is becoming forgettable), but what's the point when the whole world is now run by a few corporate cartels?

By that point in his career, he was fully implementing the punch card approach, probably in large part because of his review of his partnership where he realized only a few big ideas were responsible for the entire performance record.

Even if your net worth is low, when the market goes up and down by a few percentage points in a day, there can be sizable dollar amounts at stake.

Though there are a few pointed items that will likely make negotiations challenging, MacNaughton said he saw no real surprises in the «laundry list» of negotiation objectives released by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

Even a half point rise in rates, which have been edging up incrementally the last few weeks, could translate into a 9 per cent slump in sales and a 2.6 per cent drop in prices by 2015, compared to where the market stood in 2012, notes economist Will Dunning in a rates - impact assessment released Wednesday.

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that final market peak.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

The woman wasn't satisfied with her $ 300,000 house crawling up a few percentage points in value when stocks had risen by double digits annually since 2009.

Finally a mention Of IPAB by Romney - I thought Romney did very well on Medicare, but he left a few points on the field in regard to Obama's centralized rationing board.

To illustrate my point I'll give you an example: While serving as a Missionary in Italy, one day I prayed for a miracle; a few hours later my companion and I were stopped by some business guy standing behind his car.

And to that point, since 1950 there have been over 10,000 children in the USA that have been raped by Catholics (and a few thousand other religious leaders) and it's just very recently that any of them have faced the law the way any non-priest would.

At certain points in the tune, they begin to play, completing their piece with a few dramatic strikes, after which the chant settles back into a gentler, more solemn tone, unaccompanied by the instruments» metallic voices.

- > IM guessing that jb thinks that CSI and the FBI existed at the time this was written... to beat someone with a ROD to the point that death occurs immediately shows murderous intent... if the person clings to life a few days... one can not prove murderous intent... sorry jb... CSI and FBI did not exist back in Moses» day... they had to go by with what they had...

It is in this relatively propitious setting that the present work is presented, as a contribution to the new quest both by a clarification of its nature, and by an initial participation in the work of the new quest at a few significant points.

page 285 ^ Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies existence) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price «Jesus at the Vanishing Point» in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X page 61 [10] Michael Grant (a cla ssicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.&raquin The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN 028106329X page 61 [10] Michael Grant (a cla ssicist) states that «In recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.&raquIn recent years, «no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus» or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.&raquin disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary.»

Various procedures would have been used by him in order to revise his text, the most important being the insertion, at various places in the original manuscript, of passages expressing his new vision, at times a few lines, at times even whole sections, with the intention of leading his eventual readers to interpret the whole context in the light of the point of view of the inserted materials.3 Ford proposes that Whitehead did modify his original manuscript accordingly a number of times before its publication in 1929, with the result that the final version of Process and Reality is actually the outcome of the superposition of texts from successive redactional strata over the original stratum made by the manuscript of the summer of l927.4

Drawing on the large numbers of studies undertaken by people in the aid world and by independent researchers (few of these studies are cited in Lancaster's volume), he points out that the structural reforms have largely failed and the situation continues to deteriorate.

Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

A few years ago, when the seventh largest corporation in America, Penn Central, was on the verge of forfeiting on hundreds of millions of dollars in short - term loans, the Federal Reserve saved hundreds of banks from bankruptcy — and the economy from catastrophe — by offering to cover all the loans required at that point to maintain stability.

By the way Joel there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and unrigtheous here on earth, the earth will be brought back to its orginal state, you are not going to heaven, a mere young boy will touch the head of a cobra, this good news of the kingdom will be preached throughout the entire inhabited earth, seek first the kingdom (God's earthly government) try to put a few of these points together in its proper context Joel.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

I just posted this on another topic... change a few words, youll get the point: In an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and morIn an ideal situation, «World Religions» would be part of a «World History» class, unfortunately, in the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and morin the USA, there are far too many conservative Christians with power to rewrite history, make whole groups of people second class citizens by making laws against them, and travel the world trying to convert non-Christians through our Military, Politicians, humanitarian efforts and more.

There is too much in these three chapters to cover in a verse by verse fashion, so I will just be pointing out a few highlights as we go through.

It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth!

I can only try to conclude these remarks by trying to carve out a few narrow footpaths in the thicket, which may perhaps point out where the main road lies and how it is to be found.

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