Sentences with phrase «fall in absolute terms»

Both have seen their populations fall in absolute terms in the past 50 years (Philly's by 25 % and Detroit's by 50 %).

Interestingly, despite significant demand growth, even the total amount of coal - generated electricity would fall in absolute terms.

Given that, I doubt that even US employment in renewable energy will fall in absolute terms in 2017, compared with the 2014 number — though you'd have to think that if the ITC does sunset as scheduled that it would restrain jobs growth in renewables generally, and particularly so in residential solar.

In the years immediately following these problems, credit outstanding grew more slowly than nominal GDP and, in a number of countries, fell in absolute terms as businesses and financial institutions sought to correct the excessive debt positions built up during the 1980s.

So there is another reason to believe that while humans certainly ARE adding CO2 to the atmosphere, it isn't the primary component (we already know it isn't the primary component because the atmosphere is accumulating CO2 at a much faster rate than humans add each year) because while human emissions have been rising nearly exponentially, atmospheric CO2 has been rising linearly and that rate of rise did not change when global human CO2 emissions fell in absolute terms (tons of CO2 emitted to atmosphere fell in 2009, rate of increase of atmospheric CO2 unchanged).

Electricity demand fell in absolute terms last year, and coal continued to lose ground to alternative sources of power generation.

Not exact matches

«Hard» fiscal squeezes (coloured grey) are defined as increases in tax revenue or falls in public spending both in absolute (constant price) terms and relative to GDP (above a defined threshold); «soft» squeezes (light yellow) are revenue rises or spending falls in only one of those ways.

But historically waiting for the market to fall has been an abysmal strategy, far worse than buying and holding in both absolute and risk - adjusted terms.

The gains in percentage terms will fall as the absolute numbers increase.

Although the IEO2017 Reference Case expects China's imports of natural gas by pipeline to rise in absolute terms to 7.3 Bcf / d in 2040, their share of China's total supply is projected to fall to 12 % by that year.

Although Russia's energy - related emissions declined in absolute terms over the 1990s, they did not fall as fast as GDP.

The machine had trouble with what I think was called an ablative absolute in my Latin class in school («Having determined... etc,» Back then it was «Caesar having crossed the Rubicon,»), with the idiom «falls to be considered,» and with the noun phrase «long - term offender provisions,» for all of which I don't blame it, but which does limit it's utility, of course.