Sentences with phrase «by most accounts not»

Revenue from the various methods of selling games online, like a $ 3 version of Angry Birds for the iPad or the $ 1 required to buy extra lives in the otherwise free game Candy Crush Saga, is by most accounts not yet big enough to reverse the slide in overall sales.

Not exact matches

Chief executive from 1993 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 till early last year, Piëch, now 78, infused VW with an ambition and drive that made the most of its political heft, presiding over a culture that was, if not above the law, then not above stretching it, by many accounts.

By most accounts, it's not a great time to be an American car company.

It wouldn't require a new bureaucracy to run it, and the CPP is by most accounts solvent, well - managed and well - governed.

Some of these commenters and petitioners also asserted that individual retirement investors — those most impacted by the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs — have not themselves focused on how investment products, related services, and costs may change and need more time to understand, process, and make decisions regarding their accounts and services.

One of the things that appeals to me the most about this Cash Reserve method is that the amount of stock assets I have in my portfolio is determined not by some arbitrary percentage, but, instead, by how much I income I spend each month after taking Social Security benefits and pension income into account.

An annualized yield that is calculated by dividing the net investment income earned by the fund over the most recent 30 - day period by the current maximum offering price that does not account for expense ratio waivers.

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

Perhaps not surprising, the group most affect by borrowing from their 401 (k) accounts are the younger generations.

However, since the currency only exists as ones and zeroes in a computer program — not unlike most of the money we use via credit cards, etc. — it can also be stolen by hackers, as one user has claimed that his Bitcoin bank account was.

According to data from SNL, rates on most money market accounts have inched up by just two - hundredths of a point in the last 12 months, while rates on regular savings accounts haven't budged at all from an average of 0.13 %.

At least now these options are counted as compensation (although most companies try to avoid this by using magical terms like «adjusted EBITDA» which essentially does what GAAP accounting allowed in the 90's — not counting this form of compensation expense as an expense).

«A study in the United States, published in the Social Forces journal and conducted by Sociology researcher Lisa A. Keister while she was at the Ohio State University, found that adherents of Judaism attained the most wealth, believers of Catholicism and mainline Protestants were in the middle, while conservative Protestants accu - mulated the least wealth, while in general people who attend religious services achieved more wealth than those who do not (taking into account variations of education and other factors).

Perhaps most extraordinary is Plutarch's account of the great mathematician Archimedes, so taken up in a mathematical proof that he did not notice his city being taken by the Romans, and killed by a soldier when he insisted on finishing his proof before being taken to the Roman authorities.

Some most flagrant and wicked desires are allowed free play at present by the secret judgment of God... Moreover, it is possible that those Christian women, who are unconscious of any undue pride on account of their virtuous chastity, whereby they sinlessly suffered the violence of their captors, had yet some lurking infirmity which might have betrayed them into a proud and contemptuous bearing, had they not been subjected to the humiliation that befell them in the taking of the city [Whitney J. Oates, editor, Basic Writings of Saint Augustine, vol.

But do not forget, that the most terrible thing of all is to «live on, deceived, not by what one might expect to be deceived (alas, and on that account horribly deceived) but deceived by too much knowledge.»

Instead, too many atheists simply regurgitate the «official» atheist position (ironic, given that this is what they accuse believers of doing vis - a-vis the Bible...), not only without having read the book recently enough to cite it accurately, but also not taking into account the most recent arguments supporting or undermining — not only by believers, but by atheist scientists as well.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

I don't have to go into all the characteristics of the failure of that particular account; it can most aptly be summed up by the fact that in the late sixties and especially the early seventies there was a marked and sudden increase in the adolescent suicide rate.

The theology connected with most process thought asserts that God is finite and does not create in a radical sense; because God is said to be bound by the categoreal obligations, he can not account for why they are normative.

We accept the role of the media in calling us to account concerning our protection and care of innocent children and their families, not least those who have been deeply wounded by those who they naturally would expect to trust the most.

Given that St. Thomas» theological project is both materially and intentionally open ended, and given that the Magisterium recognises that philosophy must take adequate account of the advances of modern science, if one could demonstrate that the perspective proposed by Holloway and now by Faith movement and magazine fulfilled all of the criteria mentioned above - i.e. it is a unified vision of the Catholic faith that gives due place to the role of human reason without blurring the distinction between nature and grace and one that presents our revealed faith uncompromisingly and in its entirety - one could justifiably claim that the Faith vision is totally coherent with, if not the total content of St. Thomas» theology, then most certainly the aims and intentionsset out in Aeterni Patris.

Who could not but be grasped by the descriptions which the Acts of John — the most beautiful and profound of those mysterious writings — gives to us of the last gathering of the Lord with his disciples, culminating in the account of the magnificent hymn which those intone who are united in the ecstatic cult dance.

Juventus just drained their bank account by making Higuain as the second most expensive footballer in the world ever (not worth it by any means).

Rashid Ghazi of Paragon Marketing Group, which is in final negotiations with ESPN to televise Lawrence North's Dec. 9 game against Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High and its North Carolina — bound power forward, Tyler Hansbrough, says, «Greg Oden is, by most accounts, the Number 1 player in the country who is not in the NBA.

Mariano Rivera is by most accounts the greatest reliever of the modern era, if not all - time.

By all accounts I was very lucky that my baby was then allowed to spend the night in our room as most hospitals don't allow it!

TN: And not something banal and meaningless like reporting that a meeting was «productive», which is by - and - large most of what's broadcast from diplomatic and political Twitter accounts.

Led by Roy Stone, Private Secretary to the Chief Whip and Mike Winter, Head of the Leader of the House's office, they operate in the dark, agents of the secret state of the most over-centralised political system in the Western world without so much as a Parliamentary Business Committee (promised but not delivered by the last government) to hold them to account.

By most accounts, the task will not be easy, even for the highly popular Democratic governor, whose wide margin of electoral victory and long history in Albany has given him unusual influence within the slow - moving culture of the capital.

«They do not enable the other place to take into account the very careful and deliberate thoughts that have been given in this House, not least by the Right Reverend Lord Harries of Pentregarth and his very impressive Commission, which most people in here agree went in great detail into this bill, produced some excellent amendments.»

Most of the money that flows into the MECC account is the result of a voluntary decision by individual taxpayers to make a gift to children, not to state bureaucrats.

While appreciating the visit, the widows lamented that some of their children have not been going to schools since the introduction of Bank Verification Number (BVN) by Central Bank of Nigeria which prevented most of them from accessing the bank accounts of their husbands.

Mizel, by most accounts, has performed admirably at one of the toughest jobs in the judiciary, but a six - figure job with a 10 - year guarantee doesn't come along that often.

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The study notes its most important limitation is that although researchers accounted for parental socioeconomic status, they could not adjust for other mitigating factors such as parental criminal histories or experiences of abuse by those in the study group.

Pugh added that the implications of this research could represent one step towards solving the problem of «missing heritability» — a concept that describes how most traits, including many diseases, can not be accounted for by individual genes and seem to have their origins in regions of the genome that do not code for proteins.

By most accounts, the money doesn't come close to addressing all the sites that could be redeveloped.

(By most accounts, chlorella doesn't taste good on its own, so be prepared to mask it with fruit, other powders, or some kind of mixer.)

I am all about blazers and adorable fall outerwear (though my bank account is not thrilled by the fact that Anthropologie seems to have the most perfect fall clothes ever).

A recent survey conducted by SimpleTexting suggests dating apps are helpful in setting up long - term relationships but do not account for the most effective way to meet a life partner.

Most of these scammers would make you feel guilty by making up a story of them not being able to check their accounts all the time so they prefer to stay in contact by email or other messaging apps.

While interracial relationships in the middle of whites and blacks, humorously alluded to as salt and pepper dating, are a standout amongst the most widely recognized types of interracial dating and relational unions it by all account not the only frame that it takes, the converging of any two ethnic gatherings including Hispanics, Mexicans, and Europeans are additionally in this characterization.

By that, we certainly don't mean to blow your bank account on the most expensive restaurant in town.

It's a means of sustaining a certain mood, and exorcising demons that Bava, who by most accounts was a good - humored, reserved man, could not otherwise express.

In fact, even by a lengthier account of its premise, this 1991 live action Disney film would not sound very appealing to most people, including myself.

By most accounts, it has not only met expectations, but surpassed them.

The job, a room in a boarding house with other Irish immigrants, and night classes in accounting at Brooklyn College are all provided by Father Flood (Jim Broadbent, «Filth»), a reminder of the contribution that caring priests with integrity can provide, one that most immigrants do not have.

The few of you who do follow my Twitter account will have gathered by now that, compared to some, I'm not the most active correspondent in that medium — limiting my thoughts to 140 characters is a trial more often that not.

In fact Just Cause 2 debatably only really came alive when not taking part in formal missions, which are by most accounts rinse and repeat, «fetch this case filled with guns», «shoot this nasty person», «blow up this base», pro-forma mayhem which doesn't always satisfy.