Sentences with phrase «driving big increases»

Higher standards of living in emerging markets, urbanization and the rapid expansion of the world's middle class are driving big increases in demand for a wide variety of agri - food products, including dairy.

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And that doesn't address the bigger price pressures on the less elite Uber driving services, even as costs of doing business have increased.

«The growth is driven by consumer trends rather than the classic push from big brewers,» says Jonnie Cahill, Heineken's senior director of low and no alcohol, citing an increasing interest on wellness and balance.

The February job growth was driven by big jumps in hiring in construction, which added a net 61,000 jobs, and retail, which increased its payrolls by 50,300.

And while GWNFA has complained that head office is not allowing franchisees to raise their price points in response to the minimum wage increase in Ontario, their biggest operating region, head office might fear that «if customer counts are down and franchisees raise their prices to cover the labour cost increase, that will drive more customers away,» Fisher said.

In the case of offshore driller Noble Corp. and oil tanker operator Teekay Tankers, supply and demand played a big role, driving down prices for their services while increasing competition for the available work.

It said the big improvement was driven by a US$ 64mln increase in California Provider Fee revenue, as well as a favorable adjustment to malpractice and workers» compensation expenses and «strong cost management within the company's hospital operations and corporate overhead functions.»

Mr. Lennox «is a business leader and marketer who believes in the power of big ideas, the strength of teamwork and the ability to drive increased sales thorugh innovation and customer loyalty,» said Jeff Gennette, current Macy's president who will become chief executive next year.

Ahead of Japan and South Korea, the Chinese are by far the biggest consumers of non-grape wine and will drive almost the whole of packaging's unit volume increase to 2018 in this category.

Increasing demand for food, the use of big data and more sophisticated e-commerce platforms are driving the creation of leaner, faster, more agile and low waste value chains.

«Looking forward, machine learning, big data and self - driving vehicles will further increase the potential for automation in both agriculture and manufacturing, reducing the need for human labour.»

We just never had as big an increase driven by such a large market loss in»08 and» 09,» DiNapoli said.

Rather, they begin by estimating the dollars needed to continue existing programs and meet existing commitments, including new expenditures driven by employees» contractual wage increases and inflation in big programs, such as health care.

The increase has been driven by a big growth in the number of European Union citizens coming to Britain.

«Car crash survival rates increase with being younger, male and driving a big vehicle.»

The gulls that are now killing whale calves off Argentina weren't a big problem until an increase in fishing and urban waste drove an increase in the gull population.

• Health care and child care were the biggest factors driving up costs for four - person families in Washington, increasing 68 and 70 percent, respectively, between 2001 and 2014.

I wanted to mention that progesterone is just as important as estrogen and it protects against fibocystic breasts, helps use fat for energy, facilitates thyroid hormone function, restores sex drive and causes a big increase in bone density.

Velocity - specificity probably happens for many reasons, including greater increases in single fiber contractile velocity (including fiber type shifts), greater increases in early phase neural drive, more suppressed co-activation, and bigger improvements in co-ordination, compared to low - velocity (heavy load) training.

There are any number of possible explanations for this trend, most probable simply being the increasing split between blockbuster «entertainment» films that dominate the technical categories while low - budget (in) dependent films, driven by strong acting, directing and writing, dominate the more prestigious awards, making a 7 Oscar win relatively rare (in order to reach that number, a film has to do well in either the effects or design categories, areas which favor big - budget spectacle).

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

The Leaf's EPA - estimated driving range has steadily improved since then, with the biggest year - over-year increase coming with the 2018 Leaf and its higher - capacity 40 - kilowatt - hour battery pack.

With its new 2.0 - liter turbo - four engine, the 2016 Lexus IS200t sees ratings of 22/33/26 mpg (city / highway / combined), big increases over the departing IS250's 21/30/24 mpg, when equipped with rear - wheel drive.

With the smaller battery pack, the pure electric SUV offers a driving range of 240 km, while with the bigger battery pack, the same number increases to 390 km.

The benefits of driving a 4 wheel drive vehicle, such as this Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD High Country, include superior acceleration, improved steering, and increased traction and stability.More information about the 2017 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD: The Silverado range is always one of GMs biggest sellers.

Cadillac makes a big promise in touting a more than twofold increase in fuel economy, but right now that's a hazy claim: Fuel economy estimates aren't yet available for the conventional CT6, and the eventual rating for the plug - in variant will be in MPGe, a testing method which takes maximum advantage of electric - only driving range before switching over to petrol power.

The Limited trim Sedona I drove took a big fuel economy hit due to increased weight, coming in at 17 mpg city and only 22 mpg highway.

A bigger mix of diesels is also a by - product of JLR's successful push to increase sales with fleet customers, whose buying decisions are driven strongly by CO2 figures.

At low speed, they steer counter to the front wheels to further increase the agility of the big coupe when parking or driving in urban traffic, for example.

If you choose the rear drive V6 mileage increases to 18 city and 29 highway, a big move up for those who don't need or desire AWD.

The bigger tyres and increased height will also negatively affect the driving dynamics of this Polo, which is powered by a 1.6 - litre petrol engine, producing 105 BHP of power.

Mercedes B 250 e combines the spacious van body of the B - Class with the powerful drive train of Tesla's electric car Model S. Meanwhile, BMW has updated its own i3 electric small MPV with a bigger battery which increases its range by a whopping 110 km.

The sale of puppies is a big market in countries like the US, and that has driven some people to establish intensive puppy breeding operations (puppy mills) to quickly supply the increasing demand in specific dog breeds.

Sabre's solutions optimize day - to - day airline operations and ultimately help airlines solve their biggest challenges — driving increased revenues, reducing costs and delivering better travel experiences.

As it stands my biggest concern with the new handling is that the increased responsiveness may make the cars a little to easy to drive, but this shouldn't be too much of a problem as the improved feedback should encourage players to attack those curbs and race on the limit.

Nintendo do plan to revitalise 3DS this year through big first party titles such as Pokemon Sun / Moon, but I would expect this to increase software sales on already installed 3DS's rather than drive new hardware sales.

We know that the sun and its increased / prolonged radiation over the past years is a very big driving force of global wamring right now.

Here's a clue — a tendency toward a more frequent La Nina state, driven specifically by increasing GH gas concentrations (and similar to conditions in the mid-Pliocene), may provide some modulation of tropospheric temperature spikes, but that energy will be advected somewhere (the idea of homogenous dispersion throughout the ocean is absurd), and that somewhere is exactly where we are seeing the biggest changes in the climate right now — the Arctic.

Sea - surface temperatures, which drive the big tropical storms, have been high, and during the past few years have seemed to correlate with increased coldness aloft.

Apart from driving temperatures up, global warming is likely to cause bigger, more destructive storms, leading to an overall increase in precipitation.

So we can go this way with comfort, increasing standard of living or be slaves to big fossil energy companies / countries, have energy wars and drive pollution / GW through the roof

The increase in distracted driving may not just be the phones; in - car entertainment systems and displays get bigger, distracting billboards get digital, Ford builds fridges into their cars and cellphone controls get built into steering wheels so that drivers can talk hands - free.

But what could cause such a dramatic decline in rural driving and the even bigger increase in urban?

The sad and crazy thing, when you read this report together with UMTRI's earlier ones, is that a) miles driven are increasing, b) it's mainly in suburbs and cities, and c) it is in bigger, less fuel efficient vehicles.

This has contributed to driving the cost of corn way up over the last year or two (there are other factors for the increase as well such as drought in Australia and booming demand among new middle classes in China and elsewhere but ethanol production is a big culprit).

Bigger, faster hardware can be driven by the need to increase spatial and temporal resolution, for example.

Big rigs are driving faster with the new increase in speed limits.

You may think one traffic offense is no big deal, however multiple traffic offenses can result in large fines, loss of driving privileges, and / or substantial increase in insurance costs.

As pressures from clients to drive down legal costs increase and competition stiffens with new entrants, Bacal's book is a reminder that no law firm is too big to fail or immune from shifting winds.

Murphy also added the rise of predictive coding, the impact of big data, visualization, and data clustering as other key issues being driven by increased in - house control of e-discovery to improve efficiency and reduce cost.