Sentences with phrase «by the percentage by»

The plaintiff's damage award will be reduced, however, by the percentage by which the jury decides she was responsible.

Not exact matches

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

Company restaurant margin percentage is defined as Restaurant profit divided by Company sales.

Think of what would happen if we could grow that by even a few percentage points.»

The borrower repays the advance and loan fee by allowing the lender to take a fixed percentage of business credit card sales each day until the entire amount is repaid.

Uber's case is that the driver enters into a binding agreement with a person whose identity he does not know (and will never know) and who does not know and will never know his identity, to undertake a journey to a destination not told to him until the journey begins, by a route prescribed by a stranger to the contract [Uber] from which he is not free to depart (at least not without risk), for a fee which (a) is set by the stranger, and (b) is not known by the passenger (who only is told the total to be paid), (c) is calculated by the stranger (as a percentage of the total sum) and (d) is paid to the stranger.

The results should not have been entirely surprising: NPD Group has said that its data showed that sales at athletic and sporting goods retailers were down by a low - double digit percentage in the quarter.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

Gross margins have grown by three to four percentage points.

To bolster their claim, they presented novel statistics: the percentage of the team's total yardage that Thomas contributed by way of his running, pass - catching, and blocking, and what the team's overall stats and win - loss record would likely be if Thomas were replaced with an average player.

Goldman Sachs economists predict his fiscal policy will boost U.S. growth by 0.6 percentage point in 2018.

By contrast, 40 percent of those who would like to export said they don't have goods or services that are exportable; a slightly smaller percentage said they didn't know much about exporting, and about a quarter said they would worry too much about getting paid.

What's more, Dick's is reducing its exposure to a business that is shrinking anyway: its overall hunting business, which encompasses firearms, has been declining with sales down by a double - digit percentage for a few quarters now.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

For example, the bank found a 1 % increase in «comfortable banking» metrics — a.k.a. the percentage of customers who said the teller made them feel appreciated — led to a 1.7 % increase in overall customer satisfaction, which increased branch profitability by 0.4 %.

The gap between the percentage of men and the percentage of women who work or are looking for work is the narrowest in the G20, according to a 2014 report by four international institutions, including the World Bank.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

Basically - on a given page, what percentage of all the text is used by a specific keyword phrase?

By increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third WaBy increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Waby an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Way.

The strategy caused heart - stopping sales declines; Coach's North American revenue fell by double - digit percentages in its fiscal 2014 and 2015, and shares still trade at barely half what they did in 2012.

By this time next year, short - term rates might be a full percentage point higher than today.

A recent study published in Nature looked at thousands of different mammal species and worked out the percentage of cases in which animal fatalities were caused by their own kind.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

The divide in Canada was in the high single digits; by comparison, the spread in Italy and Japan was more than 20 percentage points.

As Poloz indicated in Toronto, if something went terribly wrong tomorrow, he could cut the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point before trying something else, such as creating money to purchase bonds.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

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.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

The Baltimore - based athletic gear maker said that while it still expects to hit $ 7.5 billion in revenue by 2018, sales growth over the next two years would be within the range of the «low 20s» on a percentage basis.

A seasoned professional can tell how well the meeting is going by the percentage of time the prospect is talking.

The goal is to raise that percentage to at least 40 % by the end of 2016.

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

By 2019 that percentage will rise to just over 13 %.

Kallum Pickering, senior U.K. economist at Berenberg, told CNBC in an email that Brexit could reduce growth in the U.K. by 0.4 percentage points.

Under the Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act, cardholders actually have the right to refuse to pay a higher annual percentage rate set by the credit card company if they meet certain requirements.

President Donal Trump carried the district by 21 percentage points in 2016, and Republican candidate Mitt Romney carried it by 25 percentage points in the 2012 presidential election.

While Square started out by offering merchants cash advances through its Square Capital subsidiary starting in 2014, the company announced in March it planned to discontinue those, and was entering the online lending world, offering its customers loans which they pay back as a percentage of sales.

«A one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in real GDP growth» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 4.1 billion.

«A decrease in nominal GDP growth resulting solely from a one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in the rate of GDP inflation» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 1.9 billion.

The second conclusion is this: my guess is that, outside the sales field (which attracts people who are motivated by incentive pay), the percentage of people who find bonuses an incentive to change their day - to - day behavior is less than 10 %.

Who's in: The mass (Forever 21, Target) and the deeply niche (Culinary Teas, Glitzy Pet Jewelry) How it pays off: Merchants compensate the East Lansing, Mich., company by paying a percentage of sales, or paying to have traffic driven their way or their logo placed next to a big company like Target.

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.

The math is simple: More firms leaving than arriving means a shrinking percentage of business is being controlled by entrepreneurs.

And on anybody's forecast it's gonna be a long time before we're gonna be in a position to reduce rates by three percentage points.

Percentage of this year's companies started by two or more people: 62 % Percentage of those companies with a written partnership agreement: 56 %

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

By analyzing data and employing A / B testing to decipher, for example, how its opening in Miami differed from its opening in Atlanta, the company quickly identified key indicators that a market was a good fit, namely cities with «significant population density, restaurant density... and a high percentage of independent restaurants,» says Zabusky.

In Africa, for example, smartphones account for only 3 % of all mobile devices, but the percentage is expected to jump to 15 % by 2015, according to Informa Telecoms & Media.