Sentences with phrase «early period by»

Traditional publishers helped indie publishers a lot in this very early period by deciding that they didn't like electronic books and priced them up near hardcover levels, as if an ebook was a specialty item.

«In the second half, we should have lost the game in the early period by more than one goal.

The suppression of colour in De Kooning's first one - man show and in paintings of an earlier period by Pollock and Clyfford Still found a favorable response in the commanding black - and - white canvases executed by Robert Motherwell in 1950, beginning with his Granada series, and then in the dramatic first one - man show of Franz Kline (1910 - 62) in 1950.

Not exact matches

In the survey, 38 percent of those polled reported that the mid-morning was their most productive time period, followed by the early morning.

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.

While retail sales and industrial output impressed, the only report to disappoint was urban fixed asset investment which grew by 7.5 % between January to September compared to same period a year earlier.

The company said Friday it earned net income of $ 15 million or six cents per share in the last three months of 2017, compared with $ 840 million or $ 3.43 per share in the year - earlier period, with the latter figures boosted by asset sales.

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.

After the Freedom Act became law in early June, the agency was granted a 180 - day grace period to get its affairs in order before putting an end to the bulk phone metadata collection program authorized by a particular portion — Section 215 — of the Patriot Act.

Earlier this fall, St. Louis differentiated itself from the other midwestern cities jockeying to become the next hot startup hub by forming the Spirit of St. Louis fund, a $ 5 million seed - stage fund designed to help get startups through the valley of death — or the period between very early money and a Series A round.

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

From the late 1960s through the early»70s, the denizens of this tiny Pacific island were the wealthiest people on the planet per capita, due to the dense and valuable guano deposits left on the island by fish - eating seabirds over a period of eons.

Lacking attractive new devices and hampered by manufacturing problems, Fitbit sold only 6.5 million trackers in the key fourth quarter holiday season last year, a 21 % drop from the same period a year earlier, according to International Data Corp..

This early incident in Gandhi's life was followed by a later series of long depressive periods and bouts of severe anxiety, leading Ghaemi to propose a provocative diagnosis: «Mahatma Gandhi was depressed.

In the first quarter, Under Armour reported a 6 percent increase in revenue over the year - earlier period to $ 1.2 billion, led by a 27 percent increase in international sales.

In the early post-war period, the Australian financial system was highly regulated and dominated by banks engaged in traditional intermediation.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

Slowdowns sometimes persist for long periods, such as the retrenchment caused by the oil shocks of the 1970s, which hampered the global economy into the early Eighties.

Over the three years to June 1993, inflation as measured by the CPI averaged around 2 per cent a year; the last three - year period to show such a low inflation rate was in the early 1960s.

«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.»

In the 12 - month period ended Dec. 31, 2017, Canadian ETF assets under management (AUM) held in U.S., international, global and emerging - market equities increased by a healthy 46 % to $ 46.2 billion from $ 31.6 billion a year earlier, according to figures from the Canadian Exchange - Traded Funds Association.

Tesla shares surged up by 71 percent during the period amid optimistic expectations concerning the Model 3 rollout and the company's strong deliveries guidance issued in early...

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.»

Exports to other east Asian countries have fallen by over 10 per cent over the past year, reflecting the economic difficulties in some of those countries in the early part of that period.

Instead, your payment will be the amount necessary to repay your loan in full by the earlier of (a) 10 years from the date you begin repaying under the alternative repayment plan, or (b) the ending date of your 20 - or 25 - year REPAYE Plan repayment period.

Mining investment grew by around 18 per cent per annum in the period from early 1992 to early 1998, and as a share of GDP it doubled from trough to peak (Graph 22).

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.

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.

Trump's decision comes as a second blow to Chinese - backed deals, which fell by 49 % in the first half of 2017 from the same period a year earlier, to $ 64.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.

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...

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt US companies announced $ 336 billion of mergers and acquisitions in the first two months of 2014, up 31 % from the same period a year earlier, and the strongest January and February combined...

Kohl's also beat expectations by reporting second - quarter net income of $ 208 million, a 48.6 % increase over last year, and net sales of $ 4.1 billion, down 1 % from the year - earlier period.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

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.

Furthermore, a Sumerian text from Nippur from the same early period gives clear evidence of domestication of the camel by then, by its allusions to camel's milk... For the early and middle second millennium BC, only limited use is presupposed by either the biblical or external evidence until the twelfth century BC.

Similarly, in the early modern period, most people, including most scientists, saw the cosmos as a very complex machine that was obviously made by a powerful mind of enormous intelligence.

The following description of her condition was given by the therapist at a stage early in the counseling period:

Wolfhart Pannenberg concluded his incisive overview of the period with the observation that one must «spare the Christian doctrine of God from the gap between the incomprehensible essence and the historical action of God, by virtue of which each threatens to make the other impossible,» and went on to state that «in the recasting of the philosophical concept of God by early Christian theology considerable remnants were left out, which have become a burden in the history of Christian thought.»

We can say such things, for example, as that he was born in Palestine during the reign of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he lived the normal life of a Jew of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer of the early coming of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner of contemporary rabbis, groups of his fellow countrymen in various parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility of some of his compatriots and the suspicion of the Roman authorities; that he was put to death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship of Pilate.

e earliest, writings were from 60 - 90 AD (mostly Paul's stuff, who was not a witness), but others were from a later time period, and were not written by eyewitnesses.

To avert such a disaster, the Judeo - Christian heritage must be allowed to shed its outworn forms, and by finding that mode of expression most proper to the context of the new world, demonstrate to men that it possesses the same creative vitality that it has manifested in earlier periods.

For the period from 1914 to the present, Blumhofer switches to the developmental model used by William Menzies in an earlier work, Anointed to Serve: The Story of the Assemblies of God (1971) She illustrates many of the points with fresh anecdotal material and brings into greater focus certain aspects of the history, such as the denomination's response to the New Order of the Latter Rain.

And not only when we compare it with the setting of the life of Stone Age men, but also when we measure it by the framework within which the Church itself lived in those earlier times which constituted the classical periods of the Church's life and teaching.

The discoveries and scientific creations of recent years in the field of nuclear energy, transforming our period into a new power age, are directly traceable to the discoveries of radioactive elements by Becquerel and the Curies, inaugurating the new physics.9 A new depth of relations and energy revealed in both earlier and more recent experiments has routed the world - view of mechanism which Newton and his followers through the nineteenth century had come to take for granted.

On the matter of self and fulfillment, John Boswell, a Yale historian who has written some of the major texts employed by homosexual activists, asserts, «Not only is homosexual eroticism the oldest and most persistent strand in the Christian theology of romantic love, but Christian religious life was the most prominent gay life - style in Western Europe from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation, about two - thirds of the period since Europe became Christian.»

While the entity generated by deleting or disabling early embryonic genes would produce only an unorganized collection of stem cells, it would do so after a period of what appears to be relatively normal development.

(J.W.C. Ward, A History of the early Church, p. 99) In this period the Church not only grew numerically, but also strengthened itself in its organization and power by creating a monarchical bishop who had the sole authority over the Church and who really became the emperor of the Church.

So do those who seek a remedy for present ills by insisting on unchanging adherence to a form of the ministry developed in some earlier cultural period.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

The Christian documents of the second and later centuries which contained information about the Apostolic age handed down by tradition, must also be regarded as providing a very limited help for the reconstruction of the history of the earliest period.