Sentences with phrase «expanding than contracting»

Readings over 50 % indicate that more firms are expanding than contracting.

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China is the best place for expanding manufacturing and investment, the country's premier told Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, less than two weeks after its chief executive Terry Gou went to the White House to discuss increasing investment in the United States.

Have you figured out how the volume of the earths water was expanded and then contracted to the level required (about 23 feet taller than the highest mountain), Where all the water came from and what pushed much of it from the earth, what replaced the water when it was forced from the earth?

Frost Giants are cold and cold causes things to contract rather than expand... so no frost giants equals universal warmth and expansion so praise Odin.

The significant ethical questions have to do not only with moral boundaries, but with how these are formed, who forms them, why a particular individual or group draws the lines here rather than there, how tightly or loosely lines are drawn, and how easily they contract or expand or erode.

Launched in the capital in March 2016, Bellfield has enjoyed several big contract wins as the free - from food and drink sector continues to expand with Mintel predicting the market to grow to # 673 million by 2020 (Mintel 2016) and the «Global Gluten - Free Beer Market — Growth, Trends and Forecasts (2017 — 2022)» report suggesting that the global gluten - free beer market will grow at a CAGR of more than 13.5 % over the period 2017 to 2022.

«Houston is the natural next step for Pie Five's expansion, now that we have a solid and rapidly expanding base of restaurants in the Dallas - Fort Worth area and more than 100 franchise units under contract in 11 states,» said Chris Smith, vice president of operations for Pie Five Pizza Co., a subsidiary of Pizza Inn Holdings, Inc. «It's not an exaggeration to say that we're changing the way people experience pizza, and I have no doubt our friends in the Bayou City will love what we're bringing to their area.»

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

The bill passed by the Senate includes anti-nepotism provisions, today: · Prohibits gifts from lobbyists and their clients of more than nominal value, including travel, lodging and other expenses, and broaden the types of lobbying activities that lobbyists must disclose; · Prohibits elected government officials and candidates for elected local, state or federal office from appearing in taxpayer - funded advertisements; · Closes the «revolving door» loophole by prohibiting former legislative employees from directly lobbying the Legislature for two years, and expands the revolving door restrictions for Executive Chamber employees to preclude appearances before any state agency; · Prohibits non-legislative employees from using their authority or influence to «compel or induce» any other employee to make political contributions; · Prohibits state employees from participating in any personnel decision or contracting matter concerning a relative.

It shows bizarrely unique behavior in all wavelengths and appears to expand and contract at speeds greater than the speed of light.

Our intestines contract rather than relax and expand for incoming food.

Without this shock value, the film is still an infernal machine — designed, like LaBute's In the Company of Men, to goad us into dark reflection — but its meanings tend to contract rather than expand.

And the district plans to expand the program into «original credit» courses — a replacement for regular classes, rather than just a make - up opportunity — under a contract with online curriculum provider APEX Learning that will cost the district about $ 1.2 million for the 18 months ending in June 2011.

In addition to the activities described above, the FAST Act expanded eligible purposes to include financing economic development, including commercial and residential development, and related infrastructure and activities, that (i) incorporate private investment, (ii) is physically or functionally related to a passenger rail station or multimodal station that includes rail service, (iii) has a high probability of the applicant commencing the contracting process for construction not later than 90 days after the date on which the RRIF loan or loan guarantee is obligated, and (iv) has a high probability of reducing the need for financial assistance under any other Federal program for the relevant passenger rail station or service by increasing ridership, tenant lease payments, or other activities that generate revenue exceeding costs (Transit - Oriented Development Projects or TOD Projects).

However, the number of people who think the job market is going to contract, rather than expand, is still notably higher than the number of people who think the labor market is bound to improve.

Curiously, as much as Reinhardt argued for a morphological history of objects, his writing expands (rather than contracts) his paintings into a nexus of activities, inquiries, and philosophies.

For many, the definition and understanding of «sculpture,» and even more so the term «sculptural,» has been expanded to the point of collapse within contemporary artistic practice while contracting within popular culture to the point of obsolescence (think no further than every bad public sculpture and memorial controversy or the trendiness of using «sculptural,» or as a comparison «architectural,» to describe everything from clothing design to cuisine).

Anybody who knows anything about thermal properties will understand that frozen water (i.e., ice and snow) takes up a LOT more space than liquid water, because water is one of the few compounds that expands when it freezes and contracts when its heated.

You do realize that Carbon Dioxide is more dense than Nitrogen and Oxygen (hence also explaining Carbon Dioxide's cooler physical quality than either Nitrogen and Oxygen; greater heat expands a gas, while less heat contracts a gas), and greater density creates greater pressure, thus greater the temperature observed!

In my view, a meaningful presumption resulting in a form of «creeping monism» is only slightly less troubling than a de jure monist system in the Canadian context, and for the same reasons: it would effectively permit the federal executive, in executing its power to adhere Canada to international legal obligations, to unilaterally modify, expand or contract the meaning of Charter guarantees.

Pinsent Masons has appointed a new head and expanded its contract lawyer arm Vario, saying that the venture has been an even greater success than anticipated.

; (4) taxpayers would not have to pay for a justice system that provides lawyers a good place to earn a living but doesn't provide affordable legal services for those taxpayers; (5) the problem wouldn't be causing more damage in one day than all of the incompetent and unethical lawyers have caused in the whole of Canada's history (6) the legal profession would be expanding instead of contracting; because, (7) if legal services were affordable, lawyers would have more work than they could handle because people have never needed lawyers more; (8) law schools would be expanding their enrolments instead of being urged to contract them; (9) the problem would not be causing serious & increasing damage to the population, the courts, the legal profession, and to legal aid organizations because their funding varies inversely with the cost of legal services for taxpayers who finance legal aid's free legal services; (10) there would be a published LSUC text that declares the problem to be its problem and duty to solve it, and accurately defines the problem; (11) Canada would not have a seriously «legally crippled» population and constitution - the Canadian Charter of Rights an Freedoms is a «paper tiger» without the help of a lawyer; (12) Canada's justice system might again be «the envy of the world»; (13) the public statements of benchers would not show that they don't understand the cause of the problem and haven't tried to understand it; (14) LSUC's webpage, «Your Legal Bill - To High?»

The Lightning Network expands on the Bitcoin Blockchain's basic transaction functionality by providing a means for users to execute smart contracts on the blockchain itself, providing for a mechanism for users to establish near - instant micropayments without the need to offload transactions to a custodian, which makes small payments impractical because the fees might be more expensive than the transaction itself.

Expanded company revenues by $ 3.2 million in less than 3 years by expanding and offering contract labor to large prime and government customers.

Cons: It expands and contracts more than wood.

Comprising several layers of timber that are joined together, engineered wood is more durable in a kitchen than solid wood and is less likely to expand and contract as humidity fluctuates.