Sentences with phrase «by weak levels»

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Paul Ferley, assistant chief economist at RBC, expects positive results for consumer spending in the quarter overall (up an annualized 2.8 % in Q2 from a weaker Q1), but noted that retailers are still dealing with modest levels of spending by households.

Helped also by higher interest rate levels after three rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, the core lending business more than offset a weaker quarter for its market division.

In a speech at Chatham House this morning, Corbyn will take on the accusation often levelled at him by critics that he is weak on national security and defence.

The weakest aspect of Canada's economy this year was the feeble performance of private investment, projected by the Conference Board of Canada to contract by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2014 levels.

A flawed democracy is a country with free elections but weighed down by weak governance, an underdeveloped political culture and low levels of political participation, according to the EIU.

Recent data suggests weak global demand for Chinese - made goods, declining levels of factory activity and a slip in the amount of freight being carried by the China's rail network.

As I've said that the 10 yr bond crossed over 3.0 % means the US$ will be going to be weaker and weaker further and further by the 1st half of 2020 yr:) Also, the commodity price esp WTI will be going up to the level of 70 - 80 $ no later than 1st half of May (at the earliest), or no later than 2nd week of June, and then it will be in the range to the end of Trump Era:)

An important issue shaping the future is how these cross-cutting themes are resolved: businesses feel better than they have for some time, but consumers feel weighed down by weak income growth and high debt levels.

That probe below two key support levels (which shakes out the «weak hands») was followed by yesterday's heavier than average volume rally above the two - day high.

The intervention sparked concern among Chinese traders that the government was trying to shore up the market at levels unjustified by weaker economic outlook.

Because China begins the process with the highest investment level in history, the extent of the transformation must exceed that of any other case, and it must occur at a time when weak Chinese demand is compounded by weak global demand, thereby reducing productive investment opportunities for the private sector.

A closer look at the decomposition of nominal non-energy exports shows that the sectors that have performed reasonably well are driven by a weaker currency while those tied more to the level of foreign demand have struggled to gain traction.

In addition, economic activity will be constrained by lower levels of government spending than before and a weak banking system.

The U.K. economy expanded by only 0.1 % in the first quarter causing year - over-year growth to slow to 1.2 %, its weakest level in 5 years.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

Brent crude skidded over 5 % on Thursday alone to an almost -12-year-low, with worries over weaker demand from China adding to a persistent price drag caused by a huge oversupply and near - record output levels.

According to Freddie Mac: «A market can fall outside its stable range by being too weak to generate enough demand for a well - balanced housing market or by overheating to an unsustainable level of activity.»

But because all of this is at a rather nebulous level of experience, it seems to many people to be either wishful, romantic thinking or weak by comparison with the tough, pragmatic, hard - nosed realism of action.

This is literally the lowest level of competition & match up possible in the sport... a 0 - 1 guy vs a guy amateur included in 0 - 2 all losses by Flawless victory in the 1st round... Plus to Casuals if CM Punk beats this «Photojournalist» who is doing this fora quick cash grab which i think even he can do that it's gonna make the UFC look very weak to see him walk in & win in they're organisation at this stage.

Insufficient levels of Vitamin D can lead to rickets, a condition which is marked by weak bones, poor bone development, and bowed legs.

Post-war societies usually suffer from weak institutions and are characterized by high levels of corruption and clientelism.

In Dr Nyaho - Tamakloe's view, the failure of the government to effect any arrests suggests either approval by the government or a weak government, both at the level of the presidency and the Interior Ministry.

Efforts to tackle low - level crime by forcing police officers to investigate anti-social behaviour complaints are being criticised as «weak» by the opposition.

«Children who are born with high abilities but who come from poor backgrounds are overtaken in recorded levels of achievement at primary school by children of weaker ability from wealthier socioeconomic backgrounds.

Weak governance, gross insensitivity and unacceptable levels of incompetence have been compounded by battles of attrition in which northerners have sapped each other's» strength.

However, party support levels remained weak in other parts of the state, the party failed to win seats at either of the two by - elections and the European Elections contests proved to be a significant disappointment.

Dave should use the Leaders» Debate on Thursday to step up the attack, leveling with the public and pointing out that the painful decisions necessary to restore the nation's finances to health will not be taken by a weak coalition government.

«Even mostly surrounded by weak tethers, cells still can sense the mechanical property of their environment at the level of one or two single molecules.»

«Plumes of smoke are occasionally accompanied by explosive eruptions and the sound of weak blasts that can be heard up to 12 km (7 miles) from the peak,» the Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said in a statement after raising the alert from three to its highest level of four.

The work by Wang and co-workers that Simopoulos and DiNicolantonio place at the heart of their argument in fact showed only relatively weak associations between red cell polyunsaturated fatty acid levels and weight gain in humans, and the findings were described by the study's authors as only «suggestive».

In cases of androstenedione over-production, testosterone gets blocked by its weaker cousin and the end result are low T levels.

Note that if the adrenals are too weak to handle the desiccated thyroid (Rx) then we often see an initial response of better energy and fewer symptoms followed by a later «crash» in which energy can drop to even lower levels than before the desiccated thyroid support.

This is caused by lower levels of estrogen which lead to dry and weaker vaginal tissues that are prone to infection.

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For example, if I'm looking at someone from the back and they're running and I'm seeing that the hip is excessively tilting from side to side meaning at mid-stance your hip just kinda collapses and drops toward one side when you're running and that's accompanied by something like a heel whip, that's a pretty good sign that it's an external rotator or that it's an abductor weakness issue vs. it being genetic because it actually shows that you have weak hips whereas if I see that foot kinda rotating out a little bit but the hips are staying relatively level while you're running, then usually it's just the case where you have that genetic kinda femoral anteversion and it's not really an issue.

Silvia is visited by a stalker whose weak motivation of merely scaring her is strained for the level of espionage at play.

Silvia is visited by a stalker whose weak motivation of merely scaring her seems strained for the level of espionage at play.

The cast, which is led by Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, and an amusingly foul - mouthed Betty White, is game enough, but they can not elevate the weak material beyond the watchable junk level.

Too many curricula have deprived weak readers of rich content and shared learning by limiting them to texts «at their level.»

A closing thought on the moral imperative: as a society, if we only help the weakest teachers improve, we're not going to improve the average levels of achievement by enough to ensure our students can find work and thrive in the 21st Century.

Knowing that my students are weakest in Literary Response and Analysis (one of 5 clusters «assessed» by multiple - choice on our state's HS exit exam) is not particularly helpful in light of the fact that there are 12 theoretically distinct standards at that level, and each one can be broken down into several * more * interdependent concepts.

Low blood lead levels associated with clinically diagnosed attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder and mediated by weak cognitive control.

These methods are optimized by also judging the students» confidence levels about the subject matter and targeting instruction to the areas that the learners feel they are weakest.

The use of the metadata.xml file by the Multiple - Rendition Publications specification is another headache, although we realized that trying to standardize metadata at that level is futile because of EPUB's legacy, so it's pretty weak in terms of using metadata.

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

It is difficult to stay engaged, even with the simplistic story, when you are focused more on clearing needlessly difficult levels highlighted by weak gameplay mechanics.

Visually near - perfect, but the ample action is bottlenecked by narrower level design and a weaker Nanosuit.

However, some areas will always have weaker / stronger enemies, and by not levelling them up, you miss out on the more powerful loot they drop.

When I was a kid, for reasons I will never be able to explain, I was a total pansy when it came to risking my virtual life in games, and so I leveled up by fighting the absolute weakest enemies that gave experience, two points each, for days» worth of play time.

Both games feature a «Commander» unit, a giant mecha, which uses atomic - level manufacturing to build an entire economy on far - off planets literally from the ground up, which is an interesting inversion on how mecha usually are used in games: the «Commander» is more or less the player character, and while their large mecha is by no means weak, it's a central unit because of its production capabilities, and not because of its arsenal, which as a mecha fan I always thought was a nice way to work the idea of a «hero mecha» into an RTS, because you can relate to the Commander mecha's role as, well, a Commander on the battlefield rather than as simply a powerful named «hero» unit as exist in most other RTSes.