Sentences with phrase «for at least the majority of»

Find a place that makes you feel enthusiastic for at least the majority of your time.

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The majority of Canadians fall into at least one of the groups with slow employment growth (women, people under age 55, those living outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan, etc.), so it has been a rough 12 months for most of us.

Writing in the majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia explained, «California has singled out the purveyors of video games for disfavored treatment — at least when compared to booksellers, cartoonists and movie producers — and has given no persuasive reason why.»

Of the dozens of CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedulOf the dozens of CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedulof CEOs Inc. contacted for this story, the majority said they were either «all done» with necessary Y2K upgrades or at least on schedule.

According to a new study from the National Foundation for American Policy, the majority of private companies valued at $ 1 billion or more had at least one immigrant founder.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

The simple reality is that Twitter has contained the majority of brand mentions in most categories for at least a couple of years, because, in most categories, mentions on Twitter usually involve brief link shares, that are easy for people to amplify — not in - depth conversations.

Borrowers applying for a personal loan with SoFi will need a credit score of 660 or above to be considered, but the majority of approved borrowers have scores of at least 700.

Access to the Proxy: Companies should provide access to management proxy materials for a long - term investor or group of long - term investors owning in aggregate at least three percent of a company's voting stock, to nominate less than a majority of the directors.

For example, some companies are yet to budge on Trump's requests to bring production back into the U.S. Apple CEO, Tim Cook said that there is a lack of workers with the required skills in the U.S. Not only that, but if the majority of production comes back into the U.S., the cost of its products will rise by at least 100 %.

Conversion of preferred stock occurs automatically and immediately upon the earlier to occur of the closing of a firm commitment underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement filed covering the offer and sale of common stock in which (i) the aggregate public offering price equals or exceeds $ 25 million, (ii) with respect to the Series F convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series F convertible preferred stock, (iii) with respect to the Series E convertible preferred stock only, the public offer price per share of which is not less than one times the original issue price of the Series E convertible preferred stock and (iv) with respect to the Series D convertible preferred stock only, the initial public offering price per share of which is not less than two times the original price of preferred stock, or the date specified by holders of at least 60 % of the then outstanding Series B convertible preferred stock, Series C convertible preferred stock, Series D convertible preferred stock, Series E convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock and Series G convertible preferred stock, provided however, that in the event that the holders of at least 65 % of the then outstanding shares of holders Series G convertible preferred stock, at least a majority of the then outstanding shares of Series F convertible preferred stock or at least of 65 % of the then outstanding share of Series E convertible preferred stock do not consent or agree to the conversion, conversion shall not be effective to any shares of the relevant series of Series G convertible preferred stock, Series F convertible preferred stock or Series E convertible preferred stock for which the approval threshold was not achieved.

The PQ government holds just a slim majority of seats in the legislature, so it would need support from at least one opposition party for the budget to pass.

Probably the best way to summarize this chart is that when the majority of developed economies have negative leading indicators on a year - over-year basis, investors should at least allow for large stock market declines.

And when you're looking at equities or bonds, these obviously make up for most people the vast majority of their investment portfolio or at least the core of the investment portfolio.

However, U.S. - based module manufacturers will still not be able to supply more than a fraction of domestic demand, and even under the forecasts of contraction within the U.S. market published by analysts including GTM Research and IHS Markit, imports will still account for the large majority of modules installed, at least for the next few years.

For the majority of us, at least in this country, the only agenda is to keep religion out of our deliberately secular government.

Since Southern Baptists abandoned native son Jimmy Carter and joined the Reagan revolution in 1980, they have become an increasingly important part of those values - voters who have made the Republicans, at least for now, the majority party in American political life.

At least they practice some self control in their religion which is more that can be said for the majority of Americans.

In the meantime, the overwhelming majority of Joes like me will serve this country because it is worth working for, fighting for and dying for as many have done, at least for now.

You said, «In the meantime, the overwhelming majority of Joes like me will serve this country because it is worth working for, fighting for and dying for as many have done, at least for now.»

For a variety of reasons, some based on fact and some on fantasy, many non-Christian majorities regard Christian presence as a threat, or at least as the sign of a particular geopolitical agenda (linked with the U.S. or the West in general)-- despite the long history of Christian minorities in many such contexts.

At the very least, it does suggest that Republicans» longstanding strategy of building majorities for their anti-tax platform by appealing to working - class voters» Christian morals has lost a lot of its power.

I am convinced that the state of Israel's only hope for long - term survival is to achieve reconciliation with at least the majority of the Palestinian people in the further hope that this will defuse Muslim extremism.

I think for the majority of believers who sub.scribe to any particular faith, an ecu.minical service can be a dis.app.ointing thing... Not to say it isn't right for those who believe that all religions point the same way or something similar, but at least as a Christian I can say an ecu.min.ical service is not a place to go for a sermon.

In fact, the majority have been attending their groups over an extended period of time, often for as long as five years, and nearly all attend faithfully, usually at least once a week.

For he was elected triumphantly a year ago at least partly, and maybe even mainly, because he was seen by a vast majority of the people as a defender of law and principle and established institutions and the moral order, and he is condemned now precisely because his Administration is now seen to have been unfaithful to the moral order he was elected to defend.

As Robert Haynes, president of the 16th International Congress of Genetics, told his organization, «for at least 3,000 years, the majority of people have considered that human beings were special... What the ability to manipulate genes should indicate to people is the very deep extent to which we are biological machines....

You are assuming that that is the reason people don't have kids or have few, when the majority of people I know who limit their number of children or adopt or foster do so at least in part for society and the environment.

I believe a majority of at least those who identify as some form of Christian only do so out of obligation, for the sake of appearances.

grain - producer members who represent at least a two - thirds majority of grain - producers within the grain catchment area for the port concerned

At least 20 % of the total farm area for farms where the majority of the production plots are occupied by shade - tolerant crops.

Benitez on the other hand has a very hard job with an extremely poor side but at least he was on the edge of technical area for the majority of the game trying to help he's team

We all (at least majority of us in this site) know it's time for the old man to walk the plank.

If we're relatively healthy and Case Keenum starts the majority of the season, my guess is that the Broncos will have to get to.500, or at least 7 - 9ish for Vance to have a good chance to be retained.

Loan players are becoming increasingly prominent in the modern game, with the vast majority of squads in the Premier League for the 2014/15 season including at least one player who has been temporarily borrowed from another club.

Real Madrid and Portugal centre back Pepe and Brazilian left back Marcelo have also added to the growing number of players that want Ancelotti to stay and the majority of fans seem to want the Italian coach to stay for at least one more year as well.

But think of this way: retirement isn't exactly around the corner — at least not for the vast majority of us — but that doesn't stop us from diligently contributing to our RRSP each year.

Because the average newborn will spend a majority of his day sleeping — at least 16 hours a day, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics — it is important to have a safe place for him to do so and to put him in the correct position.

Though getting a tricycle with all the above features is not easy, but a combination of at least a majority of the aforementioned will make a tricycle to pass for the best tricycles for toddlers.

Most infants take at least two naps during the day at this age (length of naps are highly variable between different children, but naps are usually 1 1/2 - 2 hours each) and are able to sleep for the majority of the night (at least 10 - 11 hours).

Most toddlers are able to sleep for the majority of the night (at least 11 hours).

More than 80 % of these babies» mothers start out wanting to breastfeed for at least six months, but the majority fail, perhaps partly because there are only 3.5 certified lactation consultants per 1000 live births.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

A study of more than 500 women found that extending the minimum period of oxytocin augmentation for active phase arrest from 2 hours to at least 4 hours allowed the majority of women who had not progressed at the 2 - hour mark to give birth vaginally without adversely affecting neonatal outcome (22).

The majority of women had had at least one live birth, and of these, over 95 % had breastfed their children for at least one month.

Perhaps we should start talking about what makes for a healthy marriage in high school; at least that's what the majority of responders in an informal survey Susan Pease Gadoua and I offered as part of our research for our book, «The New I Do,» indicated.

And because democracy relies on majorities for at least some of its operation, you can never completely prevent a demagogue - you can just make it more difficult.

«I think one of the things, at least in my experience in my seven years in the Senate with the majority or the co-majority for two of the years, where we've been successful is that we've always put government first,» Gallican said.

They hoped for public support, but polling showed the vast majority of the public believe it is fair to increase benefits at least in line with growing prices, as has always been the case in both good times and bad in the past.

Would, for example, the existing Scottish government pay full heed to the majority that, after all, rejected secession, at least some of whom, for all we know, may be querulous about further devolution?