Sentences with phrase «d point gap»

If we can reduce d point gap between the league leaders and us to single figure, I feel we have a good chance to win d league... With d returning players, n one or two signings to boost our defense.

Not exact matches

Highlighting scads of studies that have found that a wide confidence gap exists between the sexes, they point out that success is just as dependent on confidence as it is on competence.

The products had a high mark - up, they're non-perishable, and there was a huge gap in the aspirational price points in cosmetics.

The point is I would have never been given the opportunity to save the company if I had anything other than a narrow say - do gap in the two years leading up to that event.

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.

Ramos pointed out that Romney lags behind President Obama in recent polls of the Hispanic community and asked how he would close that gap.

She added that by Congressional Budget Office estimates, cited by Harvard professor and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, a 0.2 percentage point increase in GDP would eliminate any long - term budget gap.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

«Employers who are serious about their future and about addressing the skills gap need to put more money in the game,» he said, pointing to an OECD report that found Canadian companies have an abysmal record on skills training.

When Stephanopoulos pointed out that even if the AHCA didn't take away coverage from those with preexisting conditions, it enabled insurers to charge them more, Ryan countered that such provisions wouldn't apply to people who retained continuous coverage — or coverage without any gaps — to which Stephanopoulos noted that people often lose coverage, and its not their personal choice.

The point is that the smartphone has and continues to close the skill gap between the US and the rest of the world.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

Economists, who had expected a $ 40.00 billion trade gap in September, said the wider deficit could cut as much as a half a percentage point off that growth estimate.

At some point, they just have to close that gap.»

As the gap widens, it creates rising uncertainty about how excess debt servicing costs will ultimately be allocated, and at the point at which this uncertainty is high enough to alter materially the behavior of economic agents, and so lower the net asset value of the economic entity, the borrowing country has «excessive» debt.

A bounce to (or near) that level of moving average convergence, followed by a bearish reversal candlestick or gap down, would provide me with a low - risk short selling entry point.

For instance, as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives points out, Canadian manufacturing productivity still stubbornly trails U.S. levels, despite upbeat predictions at the outset that NAFTA - spurred economic integration would close the gap.

(While Donovan has deployed this advice in helping women to narrow the gender pay gap, she points out that her advice applies to job candidates of both genders; women just tend to be less aware of these issues going into a negotiation.)

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

He pointed to the president's recent decision to impose tariffs on imports of solar panels and washing machines, as well as ongoing renegotiations of trade deals with Canada, Mexico and South Korea, as ways in which the United States would narrow the trade gap.

Nevertheless, I find it untenable that a quarter point cut in January was enough to close the output gap one year earlier than the Bank of Canada's models were otherwise telling them would occur in the absence of a small cut especially since only 15bps of that cut was passed through.

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

As Marc Bain at Quartz points out, the speed of production is what has allowed fast - fashion brands to overtake longtime favorites like Gap.

If the Bank doesn't see the output gap closing in eight quarters (by mid-2017), at which point it would assume that inflation is neatly around 2 %, then that's tantamount to admitting that the current degree of monetary stimulus is not sufficient to accomplish its mandate.

The gap between these two is also a concern, because if equity fundamental sentiment starts to «catch - down'to bonds it would mark a turning point and a shift to a more bearish outlook.

But iOS downloads have come a little bit closer this quarter; it narrowed the downloads gap with Google Play by 10 % points.

Yet given that both are multi-millionaires, the gap is hardly large enough to become a sticking point in what has become an unusually contentious and public campaign for the central bank's leadership.

Critics like University of Victoria professors Rob Gillezeau and Jeffrey Ansloos point, for example, to the Parliamentary Budget Officer's analysis that shows the federal government may not have allocated enough money to fulfill the Liberals» key 2015 election promise to eliminate the gap between federal spending on First Nations students and kids attending provincially funded schools.

In most years, the return gap between the best - and worst - performing sectors of the typical US core option — US Treasuries, agencies, mortgages, corporates and other sectors in the US Aggregate, for example — would be just a couple of percentage points.

Everytime science has new insight the god of the gaps must step aside on that point.

Betz is on safer ground when he suggests that «the ultimate point of the analogia entis, as employed by Przywara, is precisely not by philosophical means to close the gap between God and creatures, grace and nature, reason and revelation (as Barth seems to have feared), but rather to widen it.»

If you, as the pastor, used to do 90 % of the «ministry» functions of the church (however that is defined) during your 60 - 70 hours of work, but you can now only devote 10 - 15 hours per week to «pastoral work» (but see the point above), this means that someone else in the church is going to have to step up to the plate and fill in the gaps.

Pointing to the great and growing gap in our acquisition of data on the one hand and our ability to make constructive use of it on the other, some people say that what we have is not a knowledge explosion but an ignorance explosion.

Not so fast... certainly we can draw lines that may point back to that, but those lines go through large gaps that have yet to be filled in.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

One realm which excelled in knowing what and knowing how could be linked symbiotically, it seemed, with another which instead had pointed energy, if only bridges were to span the gap between them.

This last point brings to mind the so - called gender gap, the disadvantage Republicans have among women, a phenomenon that received much attention during the campaign.

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

In a world where cause and effect have been shown to operate at so many more points than was earlier imagined, we are forced to ask to what extent prayers of petition and intercession which plead with God for the speedy fulfillment of certain clear objectives, really depend upon a belief in the «God of the gaps».

At the moment admittedly there are still many gaps in our knowledge, but the closing of so many gaps in everyday experience has meant that it needs no great stretch of the imagination to see that the gaps could readily close to the point where there is no room left for any faith in that kind of God.

Many in this context have pointed very strongly to the «growing gap between the rich and the poor that has ensued whether this is experienced locally, nationally or internationally, and how the «open and borderless world of economics» that has emerged has destroyed local and national economies and created conditions for the untold new sufferings of people.

These considerations point to the need for developing a way to bridge the hermeneutical gap between the biblical world and the present day, but Childs has not done this.

But from a habitat and environmental point of view, we will still have a long way to go, as there is a very wide gap between the Rainforest Alliance shade and habitat requirements and those of Bird - Friendly certification.

Whether such big - money signings are necessary is up for debate given the level that Ernesto Valverde has his side playing at right now, as they lead the way in La Liga with a four - point gap to their nearest rivals and they sit top of their Champions League group.

Jj pawn has got a point with all this, the oil money is what's bringing the gap between us and the likes of city etc..

The Merseyside club secured their third successive season without Champions League football last term, leading to the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish, and his Northern Irish replacement has been charged with the responsibility of improving his playing staff in the pursuit of closing the 17 point gap between their eight place finish and a top four finish.

Instead of being ambitious we are mediocre and only go for these average players because arsene refuses to see a gap, go for the jugular (last season case in point when we were on top and we should have strengthened instead of buying an injured player ffs) It's simple - teams target our snails, Hence why we always get trounced by the better teams THAT HAVE PACEhave strengthened instead of buying an injured player ffs) It's simple - teams target our snails, Hence why we always get trounced by the better teams THAT HAVE PACEHAVE PACE!!!!

I was hoping for a liv win along with us closing the gap to five points, obv, and then I was thinking a draw away at the bridge would not be a bad result.

I could see us close the gap to 3 or 5 points but to win the PL we would possibly have to gain 9 points on them whilst we have looked inconsistent.