Sentences with phrase «by precipitous»

And that corporations are voting with their feet, judging by the precipitous rise in in - house counsel and growing demands for alternative billing structures (a quick glance through the last 12 months of ABA magazine articles provides a rich data source for this debate)?

The view from the Eagles Crest is breathtaking... only exceeded by the precipitous 4WD descent to the valley below.

The valley was formed by an ancient glacier, and is now home to rivers, lakes, tussock flats and beech forests, all surrounded by precipitous mountains.

«For example,» the authors wrote, «after the release of the 1985 version of the Disney movie 101 Dalmatians, new Dalmatian registrations increased 6.2-fold, from 6,880 registrations in 1985 to 42,816 registrations in 1993, followed by a precipitous fall to 4,652 registrations 6 years later.»

The immediate result is that it fools the pancreas into releasing a huge spike of insulin, which is quickly followed by a precipitous drop in blood sugar (acute hypoglycemia) since there isn't really any surplus sugar for the insulin to work on.

But steroid withdrawal, which is marked by a precipitous drop in testosterone levels, can lead to severe depression.

That was followed by a precipitous decline that culminated Sept. 15, when the total market cap briefly fell below $ 100 billion.

Not exact matches

Reliable housing market statistics are hard to come by, but a number of private surveys of home prices in various cities now suggest at least a halt to the 20 % annual increases, and in some cases precipitous drops.

By the way, Match.com's stock took a precipitous drop of about 20 percent May 1 ($ 47.03 to about $ 35) due to the Facebook announcement.

Despite a precipitous decline in the U.S. rig count, greater efficiency has allowed U.S. domestic production to rise by roughly 500k barrels since the end of 2014, according to Bloomberg data.

For Reid and those of his persuasion, George Bush's suggestion that a precipitous American withdrawal from Iraq would lead to bloodbaths similar to those in postwar Vietnam and Cambodia is blasphemy by a political heretic and usurper against the canonical account of America's Vietnam and its revelation of the perils of American hubris.

Despite a precipitous drop in scores — a drop experienced by pretty much every school in the state officials in the Kingston City School District remain optimistic about the future as the adoption of new tougher Common Core standards are implemented this September.

The precipitous decline of the vaquita has been primarily driven by accidental deaths of the porpoises in fishing gillnets.

Just over 1 % of our planet's glaciers — some 2300 in all — are known to undergo these precipitous movements, though the number is likely to rise as glaciers come under closer surveillance by remote sensing.

Realizing how precipitous the Whos» situation is, considering their small size, Horton decides to be their protector, which makes him a target of ridicule in the Jungle of Nool, led by a mean kangaroo, as none of the other animals can hear the minuscule Who's.

It's so difficult that, at least prior to this documentary's footage, it had never been scaled successfully, even by several of the world's best mountain climbers who've tried repeatedly, ultimately failing once they get to the precipitous «Shark's Fin» of the mountain's central of three peaks, where climbing is slow, the harsh climate is freezing, and the places to rest nearly nonexistent.

Cooper plays rockstar chef Adam Jones who has a meteoric rise and an equally precipitous falling star drop after being consumed by drugs and bad boy behavior.

The public supported charters by a narrow 39 - 36 margin, a precipitous drop in support from 2016's hefty 51 - 28 margin (with double - digit declines in support among both Democrats and Republicans).

Via EdSource By Louis Freedberg Enrollments in teacher preparation programs in California are continuing to decline at a precipitous rate, according to new figures from the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

The Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, Mitchell Chester, unlike Connecticut's Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor, believes «that fully adopting the new testing deadline by the 2014 - 2015 school year is «too precipitous» for his state's schools.»

Mr. Bruni was struck over the weekend by Times education reporter Motoko Rich's story on the nationwide scramble to find credentialed teachers and the precipitous drop in college students seeking teaching degrees:

Ben Winters imagines a different history for the United States in Underground Airlines by changing the time of a single precipitous event: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

After spectacular growth in the last few years, the ebook reader market is on an alarmingly precipitous decline, sent reeling by more nimble tablet devices that have gained the ardent patronage of consumers, according to an IHS iSuppli Consumer Electronics special report from information and analytics provider IHS.

An insider's assessment of the precipitous decline of large city papers in the United States, and the newspapers» response to their problems, by an experienced newspaper executive.

If you're closer to or already in retirement, however, the proper response to a precipitous drop in the odds of retirement success could be to invest more cautiously, perhaps by devoting a portion of your nest egg to an annuity that can generate steady, assured income.

Although a precipitous drop like that isn't particularly telling by itself, because a stock that is overvalued by 20 % dropping by 6 % is still overvalued, this particular company wasn't overtly expensive before the drop and actually fell into what could be deemed a fair price to pay for an otherwise high quality company.

During bear markets, each time there is a precipitous drop, it is followed by a modest recovery, masking as the beginning of a new bull market.

If self driving, especially by motorbike, watch - out — there are many blind corners, no shoulder, precipitous cliffs with poor railings (if any), and with all due respect to them, Floresian drivers do seem to be a little mad.

Edinburgh's superb architecture ranges from ancient churches to monumental Victorian masterpieces - all dominated by a castle on a precipitous crag in the city's heart.

Of course, judging a new device by its launch games is, at the very least, precipitous and perhaps even foolish.

Gestural or minimal; isolated or grouped, written, painted, filmed or constructed, the components marking this alien culture's individual extremes now flow together, like Chen Zhen's (Precipitous Parturition, 1999), a 50 - foot - long inner - tube dragon that connects the rotunda, into a polymath aesthetic unified by one longing, one need.

A cavil to conclude: What a precipitous falling - off is offered in the last two (chronologically) works in the show, one of which foregrounds Superman, pensive as Rodin's Dante on a rock wall in a planetary debris field, the other a cardboard - stiff version of Ironman gauchely embraced by a Teutonic blonde (he can't even get his metallic arms up) before a boring sunset amid comatose palm trees.

Red - hot Chinese artist Ai Weiwei claimed the top spot left vacant by Tsang Kin - wah's precipitous drop to number 14.

This lecture - performance takes as its starting point the 1991 staging of La Bayadère by Rudolf Nureyev, at which point the dancer's health was in precipitous decline.

Everything collapsed in shock by wilting, etc., including me, from the precipitous change.

«The preliminary power generation data shows the precipitous fall in thermal power generation, by 2.7 %.

The next shocker will of course be a precipitous drop in Global temps as predicted by R Spencer.

Q. Back when you were quoted in SuperFreakonomics, you seemed skeptical, if not contemptuous, toward the «immediate and precipitous anti-carbon initiatives» pushed by climate activists.

The precipitous decline in Arctic Ice volume that has been described by PIOMAS 2.

The inference can be drawn that removal of gaseous CO2 from the atmosphere (absolutely guaranteed at temperatures below the freezing point of the gas) should result in a precipitous lowering of temperature by another 33C, if I comprehend the Warmist nonsense accurately — GHE and all that!

Buoyed by the policies established and extended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest federal investment in clean tech in American history, the clean energy industry has experienced precipitous growth, as documented by Mark Muro and colleagues at the Brookings Metro program in their recent «Sizing the Clean Economy» report.

The firm has seen a precipitous decline in both the quantity and quality of business generated by phone book ads.

The precipitous drop comes after a series of warnings by analysts and governments about a bubble that could burst at any...

He addressed the precipitous fall in Facebook's share price after being prompted by Peter Jukes, who was interviewing Wylie in front of an audience at the Frontline Club, a talking shop for journalists.

Some experts say the recent precipitous drop in new - and existing - home sales was caused by something more unstable than this winter weather.