Sentences with phrase «figures as a comparison»

But reality be damned, let's use the game with the better sales figures as a comparison, not everyone will research the game that thoroughly.

Not exact matches

In comparison cash payments account for only 27 % of all POS purchases and it is predicted this figure will be as low as 23 % by 2017.

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And part of the problem is that there's no «real» or «natural» price for CEO labour (or for anything else), nothing to serve as a comparison point to figure out if such labour is being sold at the «right» price.

As opposed to publicly listed private hospital operators Healthscope and Ramsay, whose margins have steadily grown from 15 per cent in FY11 to 18 and 17 per cent in FY17 collectively (bear in mind their vastly larger fixed - asset bases skew these figures in comparison with the capital - light insurers).

For comparisons sake, the original line that appeared in Figure 1 appears in Figure 3 as the red line.

And your comparisons between the existence of God and any very human historical figure are dishonest as even without a belief in God... you can tell the difference in the mindset.

The paper itself takes the occasion of the publication of a book on each of these two philosophers by Paul O. Kuntz (ANW, BR) as an opportunity for re-examining some of the interesting philosophical and historical comparisons between these two pivotal intellectual figures of our century.

But tomorrow's game against Spurs is not looking as positive as usual, either for our midfielders comparison from FootballFanager, or for the Combined XI figures.

All these figures are from TransferMarkt.co.uk And just for comparison they are showing Arsenal as outgoing # 45.5 m incoming # 11m in terms of transfers — which is easily acceptable given the income from the stadium, TV and commercial deals.

Once the quotient of each successive division is entered on the working sheet, the Electoral Commission must then proceed to ascertain from a comparison of all the figures in the working sheet in form 15 listed under the heading «Quotients of divisions», the highest 120 quotients or such lower number as is required by subsection (8).

«For those who don't know the figures, by the way, more than 700 hours of parliamentary time were devoted to the hunting ban, as against seven hours spent on the decision to invade Iraq, a comparison that sums up the way we are governed.»

The comparison of the three - and - a-half-year-old watchdog panel to an adolescent — still figuring things out, but ready for more responsibility — was made Tuesday as JCOPE's commissioners engaged in an occasionally sharp debate on the best way to conduct the search for its next top administrator.

«We regard a comparison, without qualification, of police recorded statistics between the late 1990s and 2008/09 as likely to mislead the public,» Sir Michael Scholar wrote to Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling earlier this year, after he made similar claims based on recorded violent crime figures.

One - way ANOVA was used for three - group comparisons, followed by post-hoc multiple comparison tests (as specified in figure legend).

Statistical analyses were made using either Student's two - tailed unpaired t test or analysis of variance (ANOVA) as specified in the figure legends, and Newman - Keuls procedure was used for multiple comparison analysis.

As previous population estimates did not take account of 16 of the 46 colonies (see Figure 3), and many previous counts were of poor quality and widely separated in time [11], [12], [23] these historical estimates can not be considered representative of the total breeding population of emperor penguins (previous counts are given for comparison in Table 1).

A comparison of the absorption and corrected excitation spectra of the Amrose proteins suggests the presence of a certain amount of non-emissive dimers or aggregates as shown in Figure 3 exemplarily for Amrose v1, indicated by the mismatch of the signals on their short wavelength side.

As for the second part of this question, you should definitely check out my comparison of White Rice vs Brown Rice to help you figure out which one is truly healthy after all.

its a much more detailed analysis than ratios and success rates, and these figures are around the same time as yours, so interesting to see the comparison between two different types of sites.

It's a nice idea, but as we get to know Angelina Jolie's conflicted detective, Ethan Hawke's charming witness and the mysterious figure of Kiefer Sutherland lurking in the shadows, we can not help but draw comparisons to earlier, better films.

The noir - ish tale of enigmatic father - figure Sydney (Philip Baker Hall), who approaches down - and - out John (John C Reilly) at a Nevada truck - stop and offers him assistance / advice / mentorship in a manner which makes John just as suspicious of ulterior motives as we are, Hard Eight is an interesting comparison to Anderson's next two films.

Fletcher is a brute, a bully and a born leader; comparisons have been made to R. Lee Ermey's Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in «Full Metal Jacket,» but another cinematic predecessor that springs to mind is Robert Duvall's Lt. Col. «Bull» Meechum in «The Great Santini» — a father - figure who cares less about the condition of his charges as they are than he cares about what they could be.

Using the best available unit of comparison, we find that 63 percent of charter students in these central cities attend school in intensely segregated minority schools, as do 53 percent of traditional public school students (see Figure 1).

The problematic figure in this table is the percentage of traditional public school students in hypersegregated schools used as the point of comparison.

However, a comparison with other urban districts in Illinois and the Midwest, such as Cincinnati, Gary, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and St. Louis, none of which created a similar accountability system during this period, shows that Chicago's trend is unique (see Figure 2).

Education secretary Morgan said the comparison was unfair as many of the schools included in the figures were forced to become academies because of poor performance, the suggestion being that their poor Ofsted ratings may relate to historical issues.

By comparison the past May only registered a more modest; 27,800 units sold but, as always, there are some figures that make for interesting reading.

Local to UK price comparisons are never ideal as the specs, taxes and many other factors skew the figures substantially.

I put together comparison reviews for each one against the Kindle Paperwhite a long time ago, so I figured the high - end model and entry - level model needed to get their own turn as well.

As such, I figured I might as well do a small comparison on the relative virtues of Amazon's two newest KindleAs such, I figured I might as well do a small comparison on the relative virtues of Amazon's two newest Kindleas well do a small comparison on the relative virtues of Amazon's two newest Kindles.

They concluded that investor performance lags fund performance by about 1 to 2.5 percentage points depending on the particular comparison, as shown in this figure from Vanguard.

For easy comparison we selected roughly the same start date as the Canadian graph, but extended the figures to the end of 2009 to see how dividend stocks fared in the downturn.

They haven't figured out a better way to do all of this so well as to encourage people to use their cards for gas and groceries - everything else seems like a losing proposition in comparison.

As a financial coach I often told my clients that playing with debt is like playing with fire but I never took the comparison any farther than the figure of speech.

Sony's figures now confirm that God of War had a strong launch: as a comparison, last year's big PS4 exclusive, Horizon Zero Dawn, sold 2.6 m units in two weeks.

As a point of comparison, the most recent sales figures from Sony from March claim 63 million Playstation 3 consoles sold, while Nintendo had sold over 96 million Wii consoles in June this year.

Seemingly embracing the all too common comparisons with the Indiana Jones series (right down to the chapter played as a youthful Drake), Uncharted 3 is more about Nathan Drake's relationship with father figure Victor Sullivan than it is about the antagonist's motivations.

On the other hand, both parts of Black in the Abstract make it perfectly clear that, on the whole, the quality of the work being produced by black artists whose practices include abstraction — as the inclusion of Hammons, McMillian and Donnett indicate, not everyone here is an «abstract painter» — does not suffer in comparison with that of their colleagues of other backgrounds, including major figures like Amy Sillman and Charline von Heyl, both of whom have work in Arning's Painting: A Love Story.

One of the youngest of the second - generation abstract expressionists, he invites comparison with such figures as Alfred Leslie and Grace Hartigan, whose vigorous brushwork brought them attention in the 1950s but whose changing styles have made their oeuvres tricky to summarize.

Conventional by comparison, two portrait prints — Linde Sons (1902) and Munch and Director Ludvig Didrichsen (1916)-- involve important figures in Munch's life as an artist.

A comparison with other temperature analyses, such as the NASA / GISS (pink in the figure on the left), reveals differences.

Figure 5 Comparison of the three measured data sets shown at the outset with earlier IPCC projections from the first (FAR), 2nd (SAR) 3rd (TAR) and 4th (AR4) IPCC report, as well as with the CMIP3 model ensemble.

One last comparison graph, as a reference for discussion: Figure 10 compares the trends from 1997 to 2012 of GISS LOTI, HADCRUT4 and UAH Lower Troposphere Temperature anomalies.

Figure 1 shows recent emissions (the 1990 — 2009 gray area), our representative 350 emissions pathway (the 2010 — 2050 red area) and, for comparison, a business - as - usual pathway (the dotted black line) that's consistent with the International Energy Agency's standard «reference case» (no new climate policy) projections.

And since MRES as shown in Figure 10 is essentially flat by comparison with SAW and AGW, it would appear that those multidecadal variations not accounted for here are either too small to matter or have been inadvertently lumped in with (i.e. are inseparable from) one of SAW, AGW, or HALE.

Perhaps we should compare over the full period shown in the figures as that happens to agree rather well with the leaked comparison of AR5.

A comparison of government and company figures was not possible for the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company's block as no company figures were available.

AR4 Figure 10.26 Richard Betts recognized that there was no location error in connection with AR4 projections, but argued (see here) that the comparison in AR5 Figure 1.4 was «scientifically better» than the comparison in the SOD figure which, as Betts acknowledged, was «based on» an actual AR4 graphic (AR4 Figure 1Figure 10.26 Richard Betts recognized that there was no location error in connection with AR4 projections, but argued (see here) that the comparison in AR5 Figure 1.4 was «scientifically better» than the comparison in the SOD figure which, as Betts acknowledged, was «based on» an actual AR4 graphic (AR4 Figure 1Figure 1.4 was «scientifically better» than the comparison in the SOD figure which, as Betts acknowledged, was «based on» an actual AR4 graphic (AR4 Figure 1figure which, as Betts acknowledged, was «based on» an actual AR4 graphic (AR4 Figure 1Figure 10.26).

As for what you think would be interesting, your A) is somewhat covered by Figure 20, but I agree those could be interesting comparisons.