Sentences with phrase «declining numbers»

But in the fall of 2009, a few of her sales associates were looking at their fourth - quarter projections and weren't happy with the declining numbers.

Lingering delays in banks» foreclosure process may be the culprit for the declining numbers, they say, and not an overall improving picture of the number of home owners facing foreclosure.

It's hard to ignore Snapchat's declining numbers, especially when Instagram has all but run rampant with its own story - making features.

The Rainy River court district also includes Fort Frances and Atikokan, Ont., all of which have seen declining numbers of court days with the decreasing availability of judicial resources in recent years, says Morgan.

I think the fact of the declining numbers indicates that the litigation hasn't necessarily been that successful.

Claims of declining numbers work because we're emotionally vulnerable to charges that we're negatively impacting animal populations.

«This is an increase of over 30,000 elephants in Botswana since 1995 against a backdrop of declining numbers across the continent.»

Then when you look at the declining numbers every month and SE giving out more free months of play to entice people to play, it is just sad.

I have no idea, because I have totally, basically, cut myself out of the console realm,» he told the site when asked about the declining numbers seen in the Japanese console market.

In the month of June software sales fell 15 %, making it the fourth month this year of declining numbers.

There are only 115 piping plovers in New Jersey and their declining numbers are being blamed on roaming feral cats in the area.

Though he would like more information to determine for sure whether the ban was responsible for the decrease, Councilman Pete Groetken said the declining numbers show something positive is happening.

The declining numbers do indicate that some people are embracing the trend that it's hip to be frugal and are paying off debt.

On the face of it, the declining numbers of Bowker's ISBN output for Author Solutions between 2010 and 2015 — while self - publishing sectors generally show substantive gains — might appear to indicate a shift toward self - publishing and away from vanity publishing, as digital self - publishing platforms have grown in number and scale.

Both have replaced their chief executives in the past 24 hours (see here for the story on Ronald D. Boire ouster as CEO of Barnes & Noble), and both have declining numbers.

Stop being delusional, I'm not making this up, and before you say this is just my opinion, understand that my opinion has been repeated many times, and is proven again, by RIM's declining numbers.

Conference Proposal Form.doc Conference Proposal Form.pdf A primary reason our conference stays strong and healthy despite the industry's declining numbers is the consistently high quality of our presentations and programming.

A pair of new market share reports show declining numbers of tablets shipped in 2015.

The best television is happening outside the traditional three and they seem dull - witted into understanding their declining numbers.

According to the National Education Association, «The declining numbers of Black and Hispanic students majoring in education is steeper than the overall decline in education majors» and «Minority teachers leave teaching at higher rates than white teachers do.»

The declining enrollments are echoed by similarly declining numbers of teaching credentials.

They include about 26 staff from elementary schools, 10 from middle schools and 14 from high schools, as well as fewer special education staff as a result of declining numbers of students in need of services, according to a list supplied to the board.

There's no doubt that the Stemettes are challenging a real societal problem — the declining numbers of women working in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) fields.

It has grown to include Indonesian and Spanish, but has lost Modern Greek due to declining numbers.

The 1980's are «developing into a period of stable or declining numbers and proportions of black students in colleges and universities,» said Joseph L. Marks, a research associate at sreb and author of the report, «The Enrollment of Black Students in Higher Education: Can Declines Be Prevented?»

We know that every year we've got declining numbers of students participating in NAPLAN, and the other thing is that that's not consistent across schools or sectors.

Times have been tough for the show and with steadily declining numbers at the 3:00 AM timeslot, they're told they'll be off the air in two weeks if they can't bring in something incredible.

One reason for these declining numbers is the increasingly sophisticated use of zebrafish, fruit flies, snails, worms and other simple invertebrates.

In response to declining numbers of certain whale species, IWC imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986.

Tighter immigration restrictions, declining American prestige abroad, the rapidly growing strength of the scientific establishments in China and India, as well as the limited supply of H - 1B visas granted to foreign professionals (just 65,000 each year), contribute to the declining numbers of new foreign scientists entering the United States.

But the declining numbers of smokers show that prevention strategies are working.

The eel's complex life cycle makes it all the more difficult to determine the reasons for the declining numbers.

However the declining numbers of certain species of frogs are increasingly giving cause for concern.

The research documented a connection between various human activities and declining numbers of fish, including Moi, a species (Polydactylus sexfilis) of threadfin.

The Civilian Complaint Review Board received 4,487 complaints in 2017 — up 202 from the year before — an uptick in allegations following seven years of declining numbers, according to the police watchdog agency's 64 - page report.

Aid based on enrollment may not be helpful for rural schools with declining numbers, Little said.

Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said Bloomberg's declining numbers could be attributed to an increasingly aggressive campaign from Thompson.

Buses were the focus of questions on transport, due to declining numbers on local services and the high number of people in the city region using private vehicles.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that with declining numbers and only a handful of confirmed cases reported in recent weeks, the critical phase...

Declining numbers around a particular resource may trigger aggressive defense by the remaining hens (Estevez et al., 2002).

I suspect that the liberal / conservative divide itself is a factor in these declining numbers, and yet the divide grows with every new disconcerting study as liberals and conservatives point at one another and yell, «It's your fault!»

As you may have noticed, a flurry of articles and blog posts have materialized in the wake of the Episcopal Church USA General Convention, many asserting that the Episcopal Church's declining numbers, and those of other Mainline Protestant churches, are direct result of their progressive policies.

For three decades, B.C. has been growing its share of a static pie, as declining numbers of participants put in more days on the slopes.

He took a hard look at the company and its declining numbers.

In its annual national poll, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada found that a declining number of Canadians believe that China is highly important to Canada's prosperity.

Because the amount of bad debt in each period is almost certainly a growing number, it must follow logically that the GDP growth number observers really want, rather than the one they have — that is, GDP growth as a systems output that can serve as a proxy for debt - servicing capacity — is a declining number, and perhaps even a quickly declining number.

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

I've detailed the reasons for this gap in prior comments - essentially, we've observed an increasingly selective «garbage - stock» rally, where a declining number of individual stocks are outperforming the S&P 500, and those outperformers have increasingly featured poor financial quality (on the basis of S&P's quality ratings).

• Excellent on certain dividend categories, including 43 straight years of increases, low payout ratio, and highest yield ever available • Declining number of shares over the past 10 years makes each remaining share worth a higher percentage of the company.

Get a load of the Advance / Decline numbers at the 3 o'clock look... wall - to - wall...