Sentences with phrase «from higher barriers»

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FinTech has set itself apart from traditional brick and mortar by breaking down high barriers and giving access to the masses.

Our strong, high - value services foundation, combined with significant demand, means Canada has much to gain from more transparency and fewer barriers to selling services globally.

Sure, more commitment will pay even higher dividends, but if you're just looking to break through whatever emotional barrier is keeping you from tackling your to - do list, something this simple really can work.

The industry in North America has high fragmentation and has low barriers to entry, but ACT enjoys one of the strongest positions, enhanced by the brand equity of its banners, the quality of its real estate, and efficiencies stemming from the breadth of its operations.

The trend toward vertical integration — control from the raw material to the shop shelf — gives luxury brands a competitive advantage, raises barriers to entry and helps them defend the high - quality image they want associated with their products.

The latest figures on the coral death from recent bleaching events are also higher than predicted, with further coral decline expected in 2017, according to Russell Reichelt, Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

That requirement, he said, «proved a barrier to virtually all deals we reviewed in 2017, as prices for decent, but far from spectacular, businesses hit an all - time high.

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While it is encouraging to see the high level of support from Chinese companies, for whatever reason, the unfortunate truth is that not all leading domestic Chinese companies are able to serve the one belt, one road as they are constrained by traditions, culture, and language barriers.

The industry benefits from several factors: lenders require title insurance in order to make mortgages, customer sensitivity to the price of title insurance is low and the industry has high barriers to entry.

That last requirement proved a barrier to virtually all deals we reviewed in 2017, as prices for decent, but far from spectacular, businesses hit an all - time high.

The RCEP, which includes ASEAN plus China, India, Japan and Korea and others, will lead to gains of $ 500 billion — the larger gains coming from reduction or elimination of higher existing barriers.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

It is the result of massive migration in the post-World War II period, which in turn has had a variety of causes: economic and political pressures in the countries from which the migrants came, labor shortages and an easing of immigration barriers in the countries to which they moved, and in the latter countries probably also an easing of the prejudices that had in the past resulted in high barriers (though arguably this new tolerance could turn out to be a temporary phenomenon).

He quoted the words of historian Robert Mackenzie, writing in 1880: «Human history is a record of progress — a record of accumulating knowledge and increasing wisdom, of continual advancement from a lower to a higher platform of intelligence and well - being... The nineteenth - century has witnessed progress rapid beyond all precedent, for it has witnessed the overthrow of the barriers which prevented progress.»

All grades combine high, adjustable shrinkage from zero up to 60 percent and a very high barrier against oxygen and moisture with outstanding transparency, high gloss and — despite the comparatively low thickness — very high tear strength and puncture resistance.

The ACIL Allen analysis showed a fall in exports from 48,466 tonnes to 34,430 tonnes in the 10 years to 2015 - 16 related to trade barriers and high costs of production in Australia.

Also commanding attention from the conference podium were Kuraray, which has combined its proprietary starch - derived biopolymer with a bio-PBS sealant layer to develop the multi-layer Plantic CF compostable high - barrier solution that can be laminated to virtually any flexible packaging application.

But once TL is at Clemson, transferring (and sitting out a year) is a much bigger barrier than simply accepting a schollie from another college out of high school.

LAST YEAR»S IMPACT 89 students with high barriers to employment graduated from our Culinary Job Training program, with an 88 % job placement rate.

One emotion is usually more «tolerable» for the child to experience, and this emotion serves as a barrier to feeling the others; i.e. high levels of anger or fear will prevent the child from feeling grief and shame.

Naturpedic takes safety to a new level with this crib mattress: the waterproof cover features an impenetrable barrier to dust mites; it contains no latex, wool or other high allergy materials; it has non-toxic fire protection without using fire retardant chemicals (e.g. boric acid, antimony, PBDEs, etc), and it contains organic cotton filling from the US (as opposed to polyurethane foam).

Let me quote directly from my first article, «In 2015 and 2016 for instance, Nigeria «erected» two structural barriers against foreign investment - one, the structure of multiple exchange rates reaching as many as 13 according to some reports and the huge variance between the rates at a point rising to a difference of over N200 between the lowest and the highest rates; and the absence of clarity over economic policy.

«The EMA and maintenance grants were introduced to ensure young people from disadvantaged socio - economic households were able to overcome the financial barriers to staying in further and higher education.

«Property Tracker», which reports the views of over 2,000 UK adults about the housing market every three months, also highlights a sharp jump in the number of people who see raising a deposit as a barrier to home ownership, up from 62 % in June to 69 % in September, the highest percentage reported for this factor since the survey began in June 2008.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

Representatives from Long Island spoke of creating off shore sand barriers, while a Madison County leader told how they decided to move the county highway garage to higher ground.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

«The barriers to entry are low, the visibility is high, and you learn the business from the ground up.

In open road conditions, thick, dense and tall vegetation barriers restrict the freshly emitted vehicle emissions from reaching roadsides in high concentrations where people walk, cycle or live nearby.

Results from Lake Ryuuoo, a small lake on an island in the Bungo Channel, show a surprising sand layer washed into Lake Ryuuoo by seawater rushing over a 13 - foot - high barrier beach.

African - Americans» lower rates of eye care are believed to stem from less access and more barriers to care, fewer eye care providers with practices situated in their communities, and a lack of awareness of their high - risk status for vision loss and how routine preventive care could reduce that risk.

We are next to a 12 - foot - high pedestrian barrier, its mesh so heavy that the light from America passes through with difficulty.

These keratinocytes were then used to manufacture 3D epidermal equivalents in a high - to - low humidity environment to build a functional permeability barrier, which is essential in protecting the body from losing moisture, and preventing the entry of chemicals, toxins and microbes.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

First - principles calculations determined that the electron barrier, established at the interface of the PEI / hexagonal boron - nitride structure and the metal electrodes applied to the structure to deliver, current is significantly higher than typical metal electrode - dielectric polymer contacts, making it more difficult for charges from the electrode to be injected into the film.

Evidence from the Great Barrier Reef suggests corals that are tolerant of high temperatures can pass the trait to the next generation through their genes

The first dinosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago, but for the next 30 million years, all but the very smallest were restricted to the world's high latitudes, far from the equator — even though the continents were connected, with no barriers to prevent large dinosaurs from moving around.

An ancestor of the present - day rabbit The Paratethys Sea - which was located to the south of Europe and spanned from the northern Alps to the Aral Sea in western Asia - had disappeared, and a lack of high mountains here meant that there were no barriers to hinder this animal's expansion.

[BOX 3: Grants and Contracts] Financial Statements, 1957 - 1959 Financial Reports, 1957 - 1959 Financial Statements, 1958 Financial Reports 1960-1961 1962 1963 1964-1965 1966-1967 Report on Review of Source Data Preparation for Accounting Purposes, Oct. 1961 AAAS Budgets, 1968 - 1969 Financial Reports, 1968 - 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1969 Financial Statements and Accountant's Opinion, 1970 Financial Reports, 1970 - 1971 Financial Reports, 1972 Financial Reports from Operations, 1979 Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 1974 and Projections to 1963 Report for Examination of Financial Statements and Additional Information, 1983 - 1984 Closed out Funds and Stocks AAAS Grants Committee, 1955 AID Audit - Mexico City, 1974 Asia Foundation, 1955 - 1975 Boston Concerts Carnegie Corp. - Grant to AAAS for Science Teaching Improvement Program Graham Chedd - Contract [3 folders], 1973 - 1977 DOS - AID Irene Tinker, 1973 - 1977 RISM Research for the Study of Man, 1973 - 1977 Smithsonian, 1971 - 1977 Audit, 1973 - 1977 Close Out, 1976 - 1978 GE Grant - Regional Consultants on Science Teaching, 1956 Gordon Marshall, Exhibits Contract, 1952 National Endowment of the Arts, 1973 NSF Grant - Soviet Science, 1952 Training Talented Students, 1955 Travelling High School Library, 1956 Gordon Conference on Teacher Education, 1956 Junior Academies Workshop, 1957 Proposal to NSF for Development of Science Teaching Materials for Elementary and Junior High Schools, 1961 Progress Report to the NSF on the Holiday Science Lecture Program, 1963 Proposal to the NSF for 1964 Visiting Foreign Staff Project, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Comparative Science Program, 1963 NSF - US - Japan Cooperative Science Program, 1964 WGBH, 1972 Willis Shapley, Contract Agreement, Oct. 1978 DHEW - Barrier Free Meetings, Oct. 1977 CBS News - Conquest Program Series, 1959 MISCO Contract - original, 1972 Basic Books Publishing - New Roads to Yesterday, 1963 - 1966

Reefs in this area of the Great Barrier Reef suffered high mortality from coral bleaching, researchers have determined.

Some of the barriers have already been taken down to observe how ants move to and from areas with a high concentration of ants to areas with a lesser number of ants.

Van Allen belts surrounding the Earth are hiding an invisible barrier, saving the planet from high - energy electrons.

Prevents chromosomes from collapsing into a single chromatin mass by forming a steric and electrostatic charge barrier: the protein has a high net electrical charge and acts as a surfactant, dispersing chromosomes and enabling independent chromosome motility (PubMed: 27362226).

High levels of student loan debt — amassed during long periods of education and clinical training — are an often - cited barrier discouraging many newly - trained scientists from entering productive careers in health - related research.

If the barrier function of the gut is diminished (which can result from a high - fat, high - sugar diet, stress, or other causes), these LPS can enter the bloodstream, where they incite an inflammatory response.

High tris actually physically prevent leptin from passing through the blood - brain barrier, and the leptin that does get through elicits a poor response from leptin receptors.

The website strives to eliminate the barrier existing between wealthy men and gorgeous women from across the globe, by creating a revolutionary platform that is packed with high - end communication features and precise search options.