Sentences with phrase «earlier than the period»

In short, there is good reason to suppose that the speeches attributed to Peter in the Acts are based upon material which proceeded from the Aramaic - speaking Church at Jerusalem, and was substantially earlier than the period at which the book was written.

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Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

That compares with $ 712 million in profit on $ 4.2 billion in revenue for the same period a year earlier, an increase of more than 300 percent for profits and 55 percent for revenue.

I am sometimes horrified by things people my age tend to say in social and business situations, especially when they express a disdain of modern technology or recall an earlier era as a golden age — usually everyone within hearing knows that the previous period was merely different, rather than glorious.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.

That compares to $ 712 million in profit on $ 4.2 billion in revenue for the same period a year earlier and an increase of more than 300 percent for profits and 55 percent for revenue.

The company's highest shipping volumes since late 2008 helped push adjusted net income to $ 46 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, reversing a net loss of $ 47 million in the same period a year earlier and higher than the $ 31 million forecast average from Thomson Reuters analysts.

Inventories decreased more than 6 percent during the period, while selling, general and administrative expenses also dropped from a year earlier.

Now, it's true that when we examine pre-crash extremes, like 2000 and 2007, we'll typically find that actual returns over the preceding 12 - year period were higher than the returns that one would have expected on the basis of valuations 12 years earlier.

A few months after the Boardlist launched, following a beta period, it touted more than five dozen active searches and one early success: The site facilitated Martin's appointment to the board of Challenged, an app that promotes social media challenges along the lines of the ALS ice - bucket phenomenon.

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.

«Financial sponsors continued to pursue liquidity in their investments, with more than three times the proceeds raised by financial - sponsor - backed US IPOs in the fourth quarter of 2013 than the same period a year earlier.»

These conditions comprise the following: S&P 500 overvalued with the Shiller P / E (the ratio of the S&P 500 to the 10 - year average of inflation - adjusted earnings) greater than 18; overbought with the S&P 500 within 3 % of its upper Bollinger band (2 standard deviations above the 20 - period average) at daily, weekly, and monthly resolutions, more than 7 % above its 52 - week smoothing, and more than 50 % above its 4 - year low; overbullish with the 2 - week average of advisory bullishness (Investors Intelligence) greater than 52 % and bearishness below 28 %; and yields rising with the 10 - year Treasury bond yield higher than 6 - months earlier.

-LRB-...) Eurostat said wages were 2.0 % higher in the three months through June than a year earlier, the fastest rise since the first quarter of 2015 and up from 1.3 % in the previous three - month period.

The retailer reported better - than - expected earnings for the fourth quarter of last year, bringing in revenue of $ 8.7 billion, a 1.8 percent rise over the year - earlier period, and positive same - store sales.

Since 2004, employees have logged more than 650,000 volunteer hours and donated more than $ 5.2 million in Grants for Great Hours, which allows PNC employees volunteering at least 40 hours over a 12 - month period at a qualified, early education nonprofit, to donate a $ 1,000 grant to that nonprofit.

This was called the «conundrum 2.0 ″ as it referred to an earlier period (2004) where Fed tightening was met with huge global demand for Treasury debt that led to smaller increases in longer maturity yields than expected.

With Premier Jim Prentice increasingly warning of Alberta's tough economic times, it is not far fetched to believe the PCs could seek a new mandate earlier than the 2016 fixed - election period.

That's because alternative lenders are providing capital for a much shorter time period (months) rather than your local bank (years), and are likely to work with businesses in earlier stages of development (1 year + vs. 5 years +).

On Wednesday the Labor Department reported that the consumer price index rose a higher than expected 0.5 % in January, 2.1 % compared to the year - earlier period.

After falling quite sharply in May — owing largely to weaker - than - expected US economic data and comments by US administration officials which were perceived by the market as a softening of the «strong dollar» stance of the US — the US dollar stabilised in early June before appreciating towards the end of the period.

US economy shows signs of strength After a run of strong economic data from the United States, hopes intensified this week that the reflationary period underway since late 2016 would prove more durable than the four prior upturns during the current business cycle, which began in early 2009.

According to the research of York University scholar Qiang Zha, the Canadian International Development Agency has invested more than $ 250 million in higher education since the early - 1980s, an amount surpassed only by investments made by the World Bank during the same period.

In the July employment report, released earlier this month, the 3 - month, 6 - month, and 12 - month moving average payroll gains all came in considerably stronger than the 200,000 average level of jobs growth that has been typical of past periods of economic expansion, according to Bloomberg data.

EMERGING MARKETS M&A; RISES SHARPLY By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions involving companies in emerging markets more than doubled in the first quarter of 2010 compared to the same period a year earlier, reaching $ 183 billion, according to...

In other words, even if we succeed in having good economic growth and sustaining it for a longer period than in earlier expansions, it will not solve all our unemployment problems.

To be clear, you explained why this happens (although I dispute your comments about females becoming «ripe» — «But understand that females at hotter areas become ripe at earlier age and if body was built well enough and had her monthly period coming early age than she is ready minimum 9 years old...»), but I'm more interested in whether or not it is accepted legally, morally or according to islam.

Don't know how old she was that Musa married to at... But understand that females at hotter areas become ripe at earlier age and if body was built well enough and had her monthly period coming early age than she is ready minimum 9 years old... There are still in some small cities, villages and remote areas families are having their daughters marrying at such age to men that could reach upto 80 years old...!

period end of all discussions, in addition to being the first monotheistic religion 1000 years earlier than Christianity and 1500 years earlier than islam hence the word new testimit because it came after the old testimit by 1000 years.

The conviction that this something must be both subject to empirical scientific examination, and workable in the sense of allowing and demanding human effort, was stronger in the last period than in the earlier years, very certainly because of the awesome advances in science, and especially in the arts of war.

Many people have speculated about why this period of time is 30 days longer than the 3 1/2 years mentioned earlier in the chapter, but the reason will be obvious in a moment.

Both in private and in public, religion seems more vigorous today than at earlier periods in American history.

Paine is THE reason there is a United States of America, while Jesus is nothing more than a mythical amalgamation of earlier man - gods from man's ignorant Bronze Age period and before.

More than most denominations, the Roman Catholic Church preserves not only a long historical memory but also institutions such as celibacy deriving from earlier periods...

In the face of capitalistic globalization, disciples of Jesus may find a better inspiration in Jesus himself and in the early Church rather than in subsequent period of Church history, when the Church was compromised with political and socioeconomic power.

In the first place, Merton shared, from an early period in his life, a marked interest in cultures other than those of western Europe.

One thing, however, we can say with reasonable certainty is that the large body of sayings which he gives in common with Luke must have conic down to both, whether in writing or by word of mouth, from a period much earlier than the date at which the two authors wrote.2 It brings us that much nearer to the fountainhead.

Election does not have individual emphasis in Paul, any more than it did for Israel in the Old Testament or the Early Jewish period.

It seems to me that the current general statements made by historians, literary historians, and sociologists about American civilization often do not do justice to the fact that a considerable part of the American ethos is still, though less than in earlier periods of American history, expressed in religious commitment and its sociological expression.

What I said earlier about Maritain is true to a lesser extent of Pacelli: Some of these speeches read like period pieces, more so than the work of earlier and later popes.

Her work also indicated that rape rates are rising: in every age group the rape rates are significantly higher than for the same age group in any earlier period (e.g., for women under 20, the rape rate increased from 11 per cent in 1931 to 36 per cent in 1976).

It is no more than the faith that the major obstacles to justice and freedom and peace among men can be overcome and that when they are overcome, there will be no danger of falling back into the darkness of earlier periods.

It was customary at that time to count the period before the next New Year, in Syria until October 1, as the first year of a reign; and the question is only whether the date is to be reckoned from the death of Augustus (August 19 in the year 14) or from the moment when Tiberius actually took office, perhaps not earlier than the month of October in that year.

The animal, known to science as Anchiornis huxleyi (named in honour of Thomas Huxley, an early advocate of Darwin's ideas) is an older species than Archaeopteryx by some 10 million years, being dated to the lateJurassic period, c. 151 - 161 millions years ago.

Sadly, most of the debate is anchored in an analysis that freights these bronze statues with the racial politics of our own time — rather than considering the motives of those who raised Confederate monuments in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the great period of Civil War memorialization.

For if the theological task can be defined in terms of facing the tension between the old and the new, then it is only to be expected that both the speed and the extent of the change, in which we are at present all caught up, will inevitably bring changes in theological expression greater than at any earlier period in Christian history.

But viewed in terms of human relationships and the quality of life, there are many indications that peasants in the Middle Ages and the early modern period had more dignity and enjoyment than the industrial workers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Much more than in earlier periods, many of the organizations through which the influence of Jesus made its way into society had only a tenuous connection with the churches or were entirely independent of them.

Recently a cult of denigration has replaced the celebration of America, and various fashionable fanaticisms (all of them political rather than religious) have reduced the easygoing tolerance of that earlier period.

For Catholics during this period, the church had seemed a more formidable adversary to intellectual prowess than local clergy of the Protestant churches — congregational, presbyterial, or episcopal — had seemed to their coreligionists a century earlier.