Sentences with phrase «earlier figures as»

A judge later reduced the amount to a mere $ 2 million, citing the earlier figure as «excessive,» after which Trouble, presumably, fainted dramatically in his twelve - room, marbled dog fortress.

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So entrenched is this marketing gimmick that Trade Minister François - Philippe Champagne now talks about Canada as a gateway to more than 1 billion people, a figure he derives from adding the populations of North America and the European Union, another big, rich economy with which Canada enjoys preferential access as of earlier this month.

The streaming service still has plenty of time to figure it out, and Jones» appearance in «The Defenders» next year could offer up some early clues as to where the show heads next.

In the early 1980s, Hasbro shrank Joe to 3 3/4 inches, the same size as figures made popular by «Star Wars.»

Airbnb, for its part, figured out early on that «really bad» photos of its listings in New York City were keeping guests away, as co-founder Joe Gebbia recalled to Fast Company in 2012: «People were using camera phones and taking Craigslist - quality pictures.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.

Van Susteren and Rivera, along with other high - profile figures at Fox News such as Bill O'Reilly and Neil Cavuto, publicly threw their support behind Ailes soon after Carlson filed her sexual harassment lawsuit in early - July.

Other reasons the company could be faltering in China include the government's «official bias toward bolstering homegrown competition,» according to the Times, as well as scalpers, who tend to buy new cars early on and resell them, thus deflating actual sales figures.

Investors have been looking at some key data releases after strong PMI figures across Europe were released earlier this week as well as the most recent jobs data from the U.S.

Bannon's departure a week earlier was seen as a significant blow to other nationalist, far - right figures in the White House, and Gorka implied as much in his letter, saying it was clear to him that «forces that do not support the MAGA promise are — for now — ascendant within the White House.»

Early on in my career as an entrepreneur, I couldn't figure out why everything stalled.

Using figures from official European and Catalonian organizations, Business Insider claimed earlier this year that the region would quickly gain about 16 billion euros yearly in the case of a split, as they would no longer have to pay taxes to Spain.

Killing Fields follows that man, Rodie Sanchez, as he sifts through new evidence and tries to figure out what may have slipped through the cracks nearly two decades earlier.

As you see in the next figure, excepting a few months in early 2012, it's undershot the Fed's 2 percent target for eight years!

News of his support came during a time when very few figures in Silicon Valley were publicly showing support for candidate Trump, the most notable being Peter Thiel, an early investor in Facebook who started the VC firm Founders Fund, which backed Oculus, as well.

Three centuries later, in 1850 — 9, energy consumption had risen to 1,833 petajoules, a total more than 28 times as large as the earlier figure.

Just as we have a mission in early retirement to figure out what we want to do when we grow up, and to adventure more, we also have a mission to be more charitable, both by volunteering and by giving money directly to important causes.

Figures such as Bill Gates and Larry Summers are stepping forward to warn us that digital systems will become a greater disruption to jobs earlier than most people realize.

We then calculate what the ratio would be if Amazon added 50,000 Amazon workers and 62,500 supplementary workers over a ten year period, as Amazon's RFP projects, and if the city's housing supply grew 20 percent faster than it did in the earlier period.1 We adjusted the 20 percent figure up or down to reflect differences in metros» level of difficulty in producing new housing, and we assumed that vacancy rates would drop to between 3 and 5 percent of the city's housing stock.

Five year figures can be very misleading — particularly as at early 2014, where the adage «a rising tide lifts all boats» applies — yet they remain the industry standard.

As for coworking, there are now over 780 coworking spaces in the US alone (2013 figures), which increased by 83 % from 2012 - 2013, according to a report released early this year by NAIOP.

According to Autodata, total vehicle sales slipped 2 percent in August from a year earlier, as inventories continued to pile up and prices of used vehicles declined, driving the industry's sales figures to their lowest in three years.

The less - volatile core CPI index was up 1.9 % from one year ago and increased at a 2.5 % annual rate over the last three months, which is more in line with the Fed's preference than the headline figures, suggesting deflation hasn't gripped the U.S. economy as it did Japan's earlier this decade.

Given this path for underlying inflation, CPI inflation is expected to dip temporarily below 2 per cent in early 2004 as the large March 2003 CPI figure drops out of the year - ended calculation.

Monthly employment figures up to April, and other indicators such as industrial production, confirm the solid pace of growth in the early months of this year.

In regards to your comment «the fact that you even know about Euhemerus is a product of Christian learning and appreciation of alternate views», we should, indeed, be thankful for early Christian monks who helped preserve the knowledge of prior centuries, but perhaps you are unaware of the contribution of Greek civilization to Western culture and the «Age of Enlightenment» in late 17th century Europe with figures such as Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Voltaire, Baruch Spinoza, etc..

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

Early man, unaware of such mystical things as provability and objectivity, figured that somebody just like him, but a little smarter, must be responsible for how and why the world worked like it did.

The early deists did use an uncaring god figure as a creator model.

In later chansons de geste, however» such as Les Quatre Filz Aymon, Enfances Roland, and Entrée en Espagne» the details of Roland's earlier life were filled in, with a variety of fanciful elements becoming ever more prominent features of the narrative, and it was not long before the real Roland (such as he was) had all but disappeared behind the more resplendent figure of the hero of legend.

There was a time when, in the early days of New Testament study, it was assumed that by the use of critical method «the quest for the historical Jesus» would be rewarded by a portrayal of that historical figure exactly as he was.

The overall style of Sleeping Beauty is also more modern than that of the older Disney fairy tales; both figures and backgrounds are somewhat sharp edged and angular, in the manner of 1950s commercial art, rather than softly rounded as in the earlier films.

He erroneously tries to dismiss the reference in Philippians 2:6 to Jesus being in «the form of God» as a mistranslation of «the image of God,» ignoring both many parallels with the figure of Wisdom in early Judaism and many other New Testament texts that speak to Jesus's pre-existent divine state.

The reader has to wait for the main subject of the title until the last two chapters as the middle part focusses comprehensively on the earlier life of the two figures.

But afterward, by what have been called «many infallible signs,» the members of the early Christian community were convinced that he was not a figure in the dead past but was somehow wonderfully alive as their present, living, and active Lord.

Conceived as we now conceive them, as so many fortunate escapes from almost limitless processes of destruction, the benevolent adaptations which we find in Nature suggest a deity very different from the one who figured in the earlier versions of the argument.

This is a fact of great theological significance, and this significance will concern us in our last chapter, but it is also the reason for our major problem in reconstructing the teaching of Jesus: we do distinguish between those two figures and when we say «the teaching of Jesus» we mean the teaching of the earthly Jesus, as the early Church did not.

When we inquire further as to the concrete meaning of Jesus, after his death, within the life of the early Christian community, we find ourselves at once forced to deal with two theological issues of fundamental importance: the nature of the church and the nature of revelation; for the essential and permanent significance of Jesus lies in the fact that he was the center and head of the church and that he was the central figure in that revelation of God which we have received and by which we are saved.

Early on, Graham figured out that revivals had to be worked up as well as prayed down.

Recognizing that our religious ideas and feelings are deeply influenced by early experiences with need - satisfying adults, he saw accurately that we tend unconsciously to project our need for a perfect parent figure onto the universe as we create our perception of deity.

In sum, while we probably have as much information about Jesus as any other historical figure of his time, the information is sketchy and, above all, filtered through the minds and the culture of the early Christian community.

As you stated earlier, the same goes for religious figures, or any other persons of stature (Physicians, CEOs, etc...).

Each interpretation presupposed a particular pattern of eschatological outlook; and it is clear that the earliest Christology was really, as the term suggests, an eschatology, in which the central figure was the same — the risen, glorified Christ who had lived and talked and done mighty works in Galilee but had died on a cross outside Jerusalem, who was now at the right hand of God, and was soon to come in glory to inaugurate the New Age.

Jesus has already appeared in Galilee, as the hidden or secret Son of Man; his divine deeds and words are related in the traditions which the earliest preachers of the gospel used, and yet he remained unrecognized save by two or three intimate disciples; but he will come again in glory, fully revealed as the transcendent figure of the Danielic - Enochic hope, as «the Son of Man from heaven.»

He holds that early Christians believed in Jesus as a purely spiritual Messiah - figure who was located in a heavenly realm.

Imagine not being able to figure it out as a child, when it could be said you are still innocent and intellectual reasoning is in its early stages.

Our Parent ego state consists of the intemalized attitudes, feelings, and behavior patterns of our parents (and other authority figures — e.g., teachers) as we experienced them in the early years of our lives.

(Besides Moses, two other dominant figures of relatively early times, Samuel and Elijah, combine in themselves marked qualities of priest as well as prophet.)

As in his earlier book, A History of Christian Thought: An Introduction, and its two supplementary volumes of selections from primary sources, Placher shows himself to be an insightful, judicious and reliable interpreter of the tradition and of significant figures and issues in contemporary debates.