Sentences with phrase «by lesser figures»

The mighty sluggers of history are all portrayed here, alongside accounts of memorable swats by lesser figures.

When he was informed by a friend that one of his paintings had been bought by no less a figure than Sir Elton John, Aitchison had to ask who this person might be.

He was enthusiastically championed by no less a figure than Augustus John who arranged a solo exhibition for him in London, which received wide press coverage.35 John also wrote a flattering article on Walters for American Vogue in 1927 and may have helped him to secure prestigious portrait commissions.36

Not exact matches

If he is above average weight, that figure is slightly less, but not by much at approximately $ 7,775.

UnionsWA has said that the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that women in Western Australia continue to be paid a far less amount on average than men.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

Given the figures in the table, it's easy to see why United's productivity gains have been recognized by investors since it does more with less and it has seen its stock price rise 45 % in one year as of April 26, 2017.

Depending on how it's reported, a significantly smaller income figure on Trump's Form 1040 than on his financial disclosure could be a fresh sign that his personal fortune, too, is less than the «more than $ 10 billion by any stretch of the imagination» that he's claimed.

If we take our 123,033 under $ 15 estimate from 2008 and reduce that figure by a compounded 8.94 % per year over 11 years, that leaves us with 43,916 workers making less than $ 15 an hour in 2019.

This measure, which is less widely used, adds up all of the incomes of the people surveyed and divides that figure by the number of people counted.

Germany's organ donor rate is less than half of what it is in Spain, the leading donor country, according to 2010 figures provided by the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO).

The deficit figures of 2009 were a source of great controversy in the past, as the then outgoing government under conservative Kostas Karamanlis was accused of fraud by claiming the deficit to be much less than it actually was.

The big takeaway from Figure 2 is that even if SolarCity grows revenue by 63 % compounded annually and achieves 11 % NOPAT margins for the next five years, the most Tesla should pay to ensure an ROIC equal to WACC is $ 3 / share, or 88 % less than the current market value.

Below the 20 % ownership figure, however, only our share of dividends paid by the underlying business units is included in our accounting numbers; undistributed earnings of such less - than - 20 % - owned businesses are totally ignored.

I could care less to read any further what the figures behind that EACH but the amount by itself is significant should been given to charity to help the poor and the needy than spending it to advertise stupidity.

One cause of this decline in awareness of Buckley's Catholicism may be the fact that he wrote less about his faith than any other major Catholic figure of the twentieth century — at least, if we calculate by sheer percentage of the prose he turned out in his hugely productive lifetime.

By a 44 percent to 27 percent margin, Catholics report more rather than less sexual activity over the last three years, similar to the Protestant margin of 41 percent to 29 percent, whereas Jews turned in a more ambivalent figure of 39 percent to 35 percent.

Musk is a fascinating figure, driven less by money and more by a fierce determination to use technology to help save humanity.

This insularity has been penetrated by far less significant continental and Scandinavian figures, and admirable translations of Scandinavian literature have been available for several decades.

Plus I note that the Times still retains a critical edge: just after chief commentator David Brooks writes a column ranking Mr. Obama among the greatest presidents, he surprises (and disappoints) you by writing another suggesting that he could be ranked among the lesser figures.

For instance, the figure below shows that teenagers from highly educated homes are much more likely to report that they would be embarrassed by a teenage pregnancy than their peers from less - educated homes.

Citing figures by the Financial Conduct Authority which show 40 per cent of UK adults have less than # 100 in savings, Just Finance says problems with managing finance are becoming «a mainstream issue».

In particular no evidence supports the notion, cited in some newspapers and some pulpits, that there are more Muslims than Presbyterians in the U.S. Yes, the number of members claimed by the relatively rigorous counts of all the Presbyterian bodies in the country — around 3.5 million — is less than the 6 or 7 million figure claimed by some Muslim spokespersons.

Because that's exactly what happened after I descended that platform and walked into a world inhabited not by the straw figures I'd been taught to defeat and convert, but by flesh - and - blood human beings who didn't stick to the atheist / Muslim / feminist / gay / liberal / poor / skeptic / foreigner script, a world less characterized by black and white certainties than by mile after mile and year after year of thick, impenetrable gray.

Since the probability for any one of these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance averages less than one in ten (figured very conservatively) and since the prophecies are for the most part independent of one another, the odds for all these prophecies having been fulfilled by chance without error is less than one in 102000 (that is 1 with 2000 zeros written after it)!

It also tells lesser - known stories about Alinsky's parents, his lifelong ambivalence toward the university, his prison work, his acceptance by mob figures, and his marriages.

Right now, we're reading and discussing Aristophanes» Clouds, which (for those who haven't read it) is a comedic presentation of a «pre-Socratic» Socrates who is much less responsible than the figure we see portrayed by Plato and Xenophon.

This narrative says not that a tiny number of clergy, shamefully, have had their share in the paedophile guilt of society at large (though if anything, judging by the figures for the general male population, a somewhat lesser share) but that there is some essential connection between paedophilia and the Catholic priesthood.

He doesn't pursue dark magic; he isn't contemptuous of authority figures, even if he feels misunderstood by or is impatient with them; he is not consumed with the lust for power, far less with the ultimate goal of that path — rendering oneself immortal without reference to God.

G. E. Lessing (1729 - 81), a leading figure in the German Enlightenment, found the manuscript in the library at Wolfenbüttel, on his appointment there as librarian in 1770, and published parts of it as «Wolfenbüttel Fragments by an Unnamed Author» between 1774 and 1778.

In Chile in 1960, 90 per cent of women were breast feeding their children after the first year: by 1968, that figure had dropped to less than 10 per cent.

There is nothing particularly unusual in that until you realise the wine that has been picked up by TV stations, national newspapers, websites and blogs around the world was not some four figure beauty from Bordeaux, but a rather less glamorous Chilean Malbec on sale in Asda in the UK for # 4.37.

Charles White's rushing plus some fast figuring under fire by a USC accounting whiz added up to Alabama being less than No. 1

According to RMC Sport, as translated by the Liverpool Echo, Monaco may now accept considerably less than that — a figure in the region of # 61m.

The Cowboys recorded 36 sacks last season, a so - so figure made decidedly less relevant by the fact that opposing quarterbacks attempted 633 passes against them.

Memphis showed no hope of ever getting things figured out on offense — the same offense that torched Ole Miss got destroyed by a much less successful Auburn D — and the AAC's bad bowl season continued.

I still cant still figure out how the kid manages to play so well despite his small size.He has a tendency to go forward but his ability to recover quickly into a defensive position makes it less worrying.He tackles, He defends, He dribbles, He runs, By jove the kid can fly!!

Using the league average figure they should've scored 6.6, and only five of the other nineteen teams in the division scored more than twelve goals from all types of set pieces last season, and four of those clubs only beat that tally by three or less.

By the time the cup final rolls around, it has everyone's attention, and too many times in recent years we've been watching two sides we despise and trying to figure out which one we want to lose less.

This is important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we mean the full diversity of men with a significant caring role in children's lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more important as parents (and by extension, less important in other contexts, eg the workplace).

You'll be able to figure out which ones have the features you're looking for, and you'll even be able to narrow down your list by removing the ones you're less interested in.

Luxury for Less combines flights and hotels powered by global travel search engine Skyscanner, together with Travelex exchange rate figures and the average spend of past holiday goers to create a luxury holiday.

I went to the shelf & we figured out what went together & how she could work with the less costly editions by using a few Cost Cutting Tips.

And remember Dr. Steve Edison from the Wedding Planner (played by Matthew McConaughey) who only eats the brown m & ms because he figures there's less artificial coloring in them since chocolate is already brown!

Like all parallel medical services, it falls to the patient to figure out who is legitimately skilled and who is not: EXCEPT, most women having babies are in their twenties and early thirties and I personally didn't have the kind of life - experience necessary to question whether or not my government would provide me with sub par care and just assumed that if the government was paying, it must be safe, and the midwifery community capitalizes on this by running advertisements (which OB / GYN are not permitted to do) advertising themselves as being less interventionist, less c - section (no shit, Sherlock, but you'd have to read between the lines to understand why), and better outcomes.

Most people aren't used to cloth diapers so by leaving a few diapers that are easy to use, lika the AIO or the one - size diaper, it makes it easier and less daunting than simply leaving a pack of muslins for them to figure out.

None the less, many of the figures are comparable to the study by Taylor, although the frequency of violations is rather lower in this research.

The only thing Miliband will be able to tinker with is how much rents increase, but the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that rents have gone up by less than inflation in the last year, rising by just one per cent in England.

Other lesser - known figures also emerged to report that Corbyn's close ally Ken Livingstone had been savaged by several Labour figures over his comments about 7/7 and Tony Blair.