Sentences with phrase «couple of other factors»

I'm gonna catch up to him, though; I'm going to redouble my efforts, and, through energy efficiency — even though I have more people, and a couple of other factors — I'm gonna keep up with this Nye character.

You will pay at your top marginal rate in general, but there are a couple of other factors that may add to the tax:

Here are a couple of other factors that affect fire.

A couple of other factors are important in thinking about Apple: Its cash position and its buyback program.

My band came of age in a very small - scale indie scene that then, because of Nirvana and a couple of other factors, turned into a massively different, scaled activity.

Our body decides that based on the hormones and a couple of other factors.

This is due to technical limitations of the architecture of the internet, legal limitations when it comes to logging private data, a general hesitation in the German mentality to accept investigative tools that tap computers, and a couple of other factors.

There are a couple of other factors which I will want to mention at the end of this comment.

Not exact matches

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

Investment flows out of Japan have been an important factor shaping world financial markets over the past couple of years, not only because of overseas investment by Japanese residents, but also because non-residents have taken advantage of cheap Japanese money to fund positions in other markets.

None of them are perfect, some may even be deeply flawed... but if they are coupled with a number of other factors, such as sociology, human history, biology, and more... a picture begins to emerge.

I'm speculating that a couple of factors are coming into play to make this attempt successful when the others have been disastrous.

For example, he says, although the new study found no overall change in the rate of melting at Totten Glacier over the last couple of decades, the large variability in melting rate within those decades warrants a much closer look at the region's complex topography, among other factors, in order to anticipate how the system could actually change in the future.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

I think what this leaves us wondering is what are some of the other factors that matter for couples» relationships and how these factors predict how couples do over time.»

Although communication practices could predict satisfaction to some extent for some couples, the lack of a definitive causal relationship calls for additional attention to other factors that influence marital satisfaction, such as environmental stressors, what activities and interactions a couple has, and the personality traits of the individual partners.

The report in Human Reproduction shows that while ICSI use has levelled off in some regions, its use is approaching 100 % of assisted reproduction cycles in the Middle East and a few countries in other regions, despite the fact that ICSI was developed for the treatment of male infertility, which is a factor in around 40 % of couples seeking fertility treatment [2].

There is no question that a reduction of calorie intake coupled with high - level energy expenditure results in weight loss (all other factors being equal).

In the interests of full disclosure, I had food poisoning twice (where I didn't eat a single thing for four days total) and there were a couple of other personal factors at play.

In addition, a 2010 study of more than 23,000 married couples showed that similarity on the major dimensions of personality (e.g., neuroticism, impulsivity, extroversion) accounted for a mere 0.5 percent of how satisfied spouses were with their marriages — leaving the other 99.5 percent to other factors.

It is true that many marriages came from online dating, some were truly successful and others were not, and well, an important factor of this has something to do also at the very start of how the couple had met online.

«One result of the increasing importance of the Internet in meeting partners,» says an article published on the «How Couples Meet and Stay Together» survey, «is that adults with Internet access at home are substantially more likely to have partners, even after controlling for other factors.»

That confusion, coupled with parents» high expectations for success in school and careers, the frustration of having white peers constantly question their «American - ness,» as well as body image and other concerns that are common to all teens are among the factors that put Korean American students at risk for a growing list of emotional and psychological issues.

Despite years of fully funding its share of the teacher - pension plan, the proportion of the St. Louis district's budget tied up in paying benefits for its teachers now makes up about 10 percent — a factor that, coupled with other rising costs, is fueling ongoing cuts in this beleaguered district.

It does not mean eliminating measurement of academic attainment and growth; it means coupling those with rigorous, reliable and valid indicators of school organization and other nonacademic factors.

Hang on a moment - if you really want the answer, there's a couple more factors that need to taken into account: Crank - case scavenging (that's the clever term for sucking the nasty fumes back out of the crank - case)- or lack of it - is a crucial multiplying factor affecting all the other items listed above.

We would suggest it may be a mixture of both, along with a couple other factors.

The low volatility factor has been shown to be a driver of returns when coupled with other factors.

I am not advocating one way or the other, but another factor to consider when buying is that you pay no taxes on capital gains of up to $ 500k (married couple) from a home sale.

With further in - depth analysis after considering other factors, a result of 93 — point increase in a couple's initial average credit score was obtained.

Those extra couple of hours of research could really pay off, as you may find schools that waive the out - of - state costs for students due to geographic location, GPA or other factors.

Besides diamond characteristics factors, there are a couple of other things that affect how retailers price their diamonds:

Other factors like nationalities also need to be taken into consideration as some ethnic groups have a tradition of either pinning money on the bride or placing monies in an envelope as a wedding gift so the couple may spend it on building a new home or on the honeymoon.

Most of the other games have some fun factor to them, and I would only consider a couple of them throwaways.

This was done by subtracting the anomalous pattern of growth that emerges over the past couple centuries in these chronologies relative to other tree - ring chronologies that otherwise exhibit very similar patterns of growth back in time, but which are unlikely to be influenced by the same non-climatic factors.

I conjecture that three changes in the way in which the climate problem is presented by the experts to the general public would make the conversation go better: acknowledge that climate constraints are unwelcome (thereby establishing empathy with general audiences, as a doctor does when conveying bad news), present the science as unfinished (thereby taking away the surprise factor that accompanies every new wrinkle — cf. the cosmic ray stories of a couple of weeks ago), and admit that no solution is wonderful (something hard for much of our community, which loves some strategy and hates at least one of the others).

Thus while CO2 and temperature are thightly coupled and CO2 levels in the atmosphere follow the seasonal cooling within a month, the other factor, the emissions independently increases the amounts, pushing the setpoint of the equilibrium to higher levels.

Of course, that would be dependent on a couple other factors, too: whether the media does a consistently decent job of reporting such weather events» links to climate change, and whether the denial noise machine can continue to make itself appear credible in conservative circleOf course, that would be dependent on a couple other factors, too: whether the media does a consistently decent job of reporting such weather events» links to climate change, and whether the denial noise machine can continue to make itself appear credible in conservative circleof reporting such weather events» links to climate change, and whether the denial noise machine can continue to make itself appear credible in conservative circles.

Such statements appear to ignore other factors listed in the main post (population, deforestation, water management issues and etc.) Yet, when we find that the tropical cyclone frequency in the North Pacific is less than climatological average values during the last couple of years there is a silence.

(non-technical language) In other words, if you know the value of the radiative contribution from one of the factors, you can immediately determine the radiative contribution from all the other factors, since they are all coupled.

Other than a few exterior design changes (which some say doesn't fix the fugly factor of the Kindle) there are only a couple changes to the device, the most important being on the inside:

However, that precedent also established a list of other factors, all of which could be considered in this case, including: how regular the gifts are (or whether there were circumstances that made them exceptional); how many years they had been given by the parents to the husband; whether they were part of the family's income and lifestyle while the couple was together; the income generated by the gifts relative to the husband's entire income; their true purpose and nature; and whether they are likely to continue.

On the other hand, lawyers in Europe, who may have established themselves successfully in the directories, have a couple of children later in their career, and take an extended period away, may find it helpful to inform Legal 500 of their circumstances so that can be factored in to the research.

Canadian patent lawyers are inexpensive The currently high U.S. dollar - Canadian dollar exchange rate, coupled with other economic factors in Canadian legal practice, can mean a discount of 50 per cent or more on Canadian patent filings and enforcement.

While there are thousands of other factors that a couple considers at the time they conceive to ensure a healthy pregnancy, you can't deny the cost involved with the entire process.

Unfortunately, the increase in prevalence of mass production tools for apps, one - click templates and other enabling factors means that cheap junk apps have gone off the rails in the App Store over the past couple of years.

According to SB 1188, the Department of Economic Security and private adoption agencies must place a child with a married couple if all other factors (regarding single or same sex parents) are equal.

Building on preliminary models of parent - adolescent communication, 7,8,10 future theoretical and empirical work should examine how parent communication affects individual - level factors (eg, attitudes and self - efficacy) 88 as well as couple - level factors (eg, partner communication and negotiation processes) 37,89 and how these and other factors may mediate the association between parent - child communication and safer sex.

Similarity in physical appearance is an important factor in initial attraction, and it is part of the reason couple members often look like each other right from the start.