Sentences with phrase «drive numbers up»

Ultimately, advertisers with a long - term marketing plan should avoid the use of misleading ads just to drive numbers up.

Steam hit the market Monday afternoon, helping drive the number up to 60 at most sportsbooks.

Back in April, The Wrap reported that the national average was $ 8.12 a ticket — and that was before the summer movie season, when IMAX and 3 - D prices surely drove that number up.

Being a self - published authors, and putting in the work of effective marketing, thereby being able to secure potential buyers through the use of social media and the internet is what is driving their numbers up.

With the recent news that a decent but modest 66,000 copies of the game had sold in the game's first month we're also hoping to drive that number up a bit.

Not exact matches

«A trade war on steel and aluminum is going to help a small number of people and it's going to hurt a lot more and drive up prices, said Mary Ann Hurley, vice president, fixed income trading at D.A. Davidson in Seattle.

Take - Two also reported a nuanced quarter on Monday, which proved its ability to put up good numbers from its catalog and digital areas with creative ways to drive sales and revenue through its use of its virtual currency system.

That shutdown is likely to drive up the number of cancellations significantly, according to Flight Aware, which tracks airline flights.

One lost hour doesn't seem enough to cause drowsy driving, but if that were really the case, why then does the number of traffic accidents shoot up the day after daylight saving time begins in both the northern and southern hemispheres?

The cross-party recruitment drive comes as Clinton wraps up an unexpectedly grueling primary battle against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders that saw her veer left on a number of domestic policy issues.

A number of segments drove this performance, with third - party seller services racking up $ 9.3 billion, up 39 % YoY, AWS drawing $ 5.4 billion, jumping 49 % YoY, and its physical stores, which include Whole Foods locations, bringing in $ 4.3 billion.

But that may prove to be a mere trickle compared with the number of health apps that end up on consumers» phones in the coming years, as Obamacare continues to drive the health care industry to reach new levels of efficiency.

Record passenger numbers and several major property leasing deals have driven Perth Airport's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation up by 18.5 per cent in the first half 2005 - 2006.

Morton County, in a release, said it had set up shelters at several locations, where a number of protesters attempting to leave the camp had ended up due to difficult driving conditions.

According to numbers from the National Safety Council, 2.2 % of drivers admitted to texting and driving or similar activities as of 2014, up from just 1 % in 2010.

For Netflix, increasing its exclusive content can help further drive up its subscription numbers, in the U.S. as well as overseas, where the company has faced widening losses as part of its launches in Europe and, later this month, in Australia and New Zealand.

And it's hard to tell exactly what is driving up Americans» medical costs at any given time because of the sheer number of players involved and a lack of easily available pricing information.

Recently we have witnessed the birth of Pop - Up Stores 2.0, led primarily by a number of high flying e-commerce pure plays hoping to drive market awareness.

As a result, we see signs of a number of shifts in the investment landscape that, on balance, could prove to be positive in 2018 for bottom - up, fundamentals - driven value investors such as ourselves.

For me the main information coming out of CPI inflation data is that consumer demand relative to total production continues to be too weak to drive up prices, something confirmed earlier this week by the August trade numbers, which failed to suggest strong growth in domestic demand.

Washbrook, who dug up the StatsCan numbers and pointed them out to The Tyee, says that, based on the census data, he would expect that overall driving distances for northerners are lower than for people in the Lower Mainland.

His 11th book, «The Clash of Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation,» is a highly critical, numbers - driven look at how Wall Street went wrong, how it's screwing up both the economy and our retirement prospects, and what we can do to fix things.

Program sales were up in the quarter driven by the sale of a number of shows, including Grey's Anatomy, America's Funniest Home Videos and Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Ad revenue at the ABC Network was down low single - digits, as lower news and daytime ratings were partially offset by higher rates.

They might choose to sacrifice their long term profit to drive up the numbers in the short term.

A number of factors appear to have contributed to the selloff in equity markets that commenced last week and picked up steam in a volatility - driven decline on Monday, 5 February.

That is still too high for many promotions, but suggests recognition by Apple that lower price points will be critical to driving up user numbers even among brand loyalists.

Separate data from the Department of Transportation helps explain why: The number of miles Americans drove in August rose at the slowest pace this year, up 2.3 percent from a year ago.

The response drove up the country's number of forceful incidents.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

I've been appalled by the number of gay people who have been driven away from Christianity, who have given up on God because of the way in which the Church has related to them.

He said: «Along that two and a half hour drive there were people lined up the whole way except for about 10 kilometres - otherwise it was people sitting on the side of the road, sometimes with large, vast numbers of people sitting there.

According to JD.com, a growing number of consumers born in 1980s and 1990s are driving up online Baijiu sales, accounting for 64 % of all revenues generated from the sale of alcoholic beverage online in the past year on the e-commerce platform.

Growing number of women in workforce and increasing influence of social media trends, especially on the country's younger population, are driving the Norwegian Make - Up sector.

The technology is being trialled in an express lane service at Caltex's Concord station in Sydney's inner west, where drivers can fill up and drive off with automatic payment as long as their plate number is entered on the app.

Also, is anyone else concerned that the QB commit plays on a team that doesn't put up many numbers and could only muster up one touchdown drive last week?

But the number of teams interested would drive up the prospect cost for the Yanks.

The Ivorian is being watched by a number of other clubs however, and it would likely drive his price up.

When the Las Palmas number 6 was not breaking up play, he was either turning away in the middle of the park and driving his team forward or hitting a long range canon.

Meanwhile, in a stunt that was obviously intended to drive a wedge between the player and the Arsenal fans, Wilshere was grabbed from behind by a number of Stevenage Borough footballers during a live charity radio broadcast and was forced to dress up like a chav — the official Stevenage uniform.

Another glut of tackles and other defensive interventions, plus some line - breaking passes and drives forward beyond his wrong - footed opposite numbers saw the Foxes come away from White Hart Lane 1 - 0 up and with all three points in their back pockets.

The best hospitals would suffer under this plan, because their greater number of high risk patients would drive up the c - section rate.

If the amount of roads in the same city then went up by 11 percent between 1990 and 2000, the total number of miles driven also went up by 11 percent.

For example, if we did away with the individual mandate to buy health insurance, but continued to ensure that insurance companies did not discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, then young, healthy people may forego health insurance, leaving the industry with a disproportionately high number of sick people, driving up the cost of health care.

Significantly, it is white enrollees who are driving the increases in Medicaid usage, as the number of whites age 18 - 64 enrolled in Medicaid has gone up from 62,758 in 2012 to 69,995 in 2014 YTD.

Because the state tax code is tied to the federal one, a number of actions taken by the feds will automatically drive up some state taxes paid by New Yorkers unless the state takes specific action to stop it.

Back in the summer, David Cameron announced that a Tory Government would reduce the number of chauffeur - driven cars available to ministers — not a move that went down especially well with those eyeing up jobs after the election.

The report's author, CBC research associate Riley Edwards, said having regional IDAs would reduce competition, which drives up the cost of tax breaks and the number of incentive packages offered to companies.

After collecting 27,000 hours of recordings, the team analysed how dynamite blasts and other human activity, such as driving and setting up equipment, affected the number of elephant calls.

After collecting 27,000 hours of recordings, the team analysed how dynamite blasts and other human activity, such as driving and setting up equipment, affected the number...

A study in The American Journal of Medicine finds that in 2007 more than 62 percent of all bankruptcies were driven by medical costs, a number that has likely gone up since the recession began.