Sentences with phrase «helped drive up»

Critics say the frequent rollout of updated editions for textbooks, often with little new content, has helped drive up prices.

Multibillion dollar private - equity firms such as Blackstone Group LP — which helped drive up prices by buying thousands of single - family homes to rent in Arizona, California and Florida are already are looking elsewhere.

The financial crisis helped drive up the number of households that are renting to 50 - year highs.

Strong gains in funding by life insurance companies were partly responsible for the surge in originations, while CMBS conduits also helped the drive them up.

The introduction of templates by Amazon in its Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) helped drive up the number of voice applications to over 25,000.

That discounting almost certainly helped drive up unit volume as did the $ 50 discount on Amazon Echo Show and the $ 20 savings on Echo 2nd Generation.

That has helped drive up auto insurance rates for some consumers.

Wall Street Journal — Low oil prices and economic growth have helped drive up consumer demand for energy across the world in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerships.

The massive diversion of grain to fuel cars has helped drive up food prices, leaving low - income consumers everywhere to suffer some of the most severe food price inflation in history.

Clinton also criticized the heavy U.S. reliance on a food crop, corn, to produce ethanol for fuel, which helped drive up grain prices worldwide.

Rising confidence in the economy — and in the Federal Reserve's resolve to press ahead on its normalization path — has helped drive up yields in the U.S. fixed income market, especially on the front end.

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But in this case, the country's migration west followed a rise in oil prices, fuelling a construction boom that helped drive up median incomes and drive down poverty rates.

In just one quarter, the iPad helped drive up sales of media tablets by 45 % and took nearly 90 % of the market.

«We are in competition (with other schools), but we also talk to each other and support each other through the local authority, and I really think it's helped drive up standards in the whole of Hackney whether maintained schools or academies.»

Party officials were placing the blame squarely on Saccone's campaign but also on Trump's Saturday rally, which some Republicans believe helped drive up Democratic turnout.

He added that the scheme was «offering excellent value for money for taxpayers» and had helped drive up house building to its highest level since 2007.

Rising confidence in the economy — and in the Federal Reserve's resolve to press ahead on its normalization path — has helped drive up yields in the U.S. fixed income market, especially on the front end.

Demand for this service, which clients know as «prime broker lite,» helped drive up revenue from securities lending by 37 % during the first three months of this year from the first quarter of 2015, and up by 5.5 % from the October - December quarter.

Some fear foreign investment money in these housing markets has helped drive up prices.

Buffett believed the world could get better, that belief became infectious, and it helped drive up his net worth.

Each helps you drive up revenue and offer a better value for your customer.

Along with Egypt and Jordan, Pakistan was a newcomer to the LNG import market in 2015, helping drive up demand and absorb growing world supplies from a wave of new projects.

While combining its loyalty programs could potentially help drive up customer retention and bookings revenue, the newly - merged companies should focus on new technology that engages travelers beyond the actual booking.

The first is dopamine, which helps control the brain's reward and pleasure centers and could help drive up a person's interest in sex.

Banks have periodically tightened lending to developers; the last time was in 2010 - 2012 when the government worried that easy credit was helping drive up prices.

«This really helps us drive up the detection rate for abuse and most particularly drive down the false positive rate,» he said.

But those who want to see the Scaffold Law reformed say that bill is a «red herring» and counter there is plenty of information already divulged on the cost of the measure, which they contend helps drive up the cost of business.

(I've written before about Cuomo's sensitivity to appearing anti-union and his attempt to make a clear distinction between the public and private sectors at a time when the former is being widely blamed for helping drive up the unsustainable spending in government).

That in turn can help drive up temperatures.

February 26, 2010 • Pizza's popularity is helping drive up cheese consumption.

Making sure trainees learn essential skills such as classroom management and have a good grounding in subject knowledge are vital to this, and will help drive up improvements in the ITT system further.

This Whole School Literacy Improvement Pack contains a mix of tools, quizzes, activities, lessons and CPD which can be implemented throughout the curriculum to help drive up your school's literacy outcomes.

This cachet can help drive up enrollment, which in turn stabilizes finances.

«Our proposals will ensure that any new and existing selective schools will prioritise the admission of disadvantaged pupils and that they support other local pupils in non-selective schools to help drive up educational outcomes.

Supporters argue that the tables help drive up standards by increasing the accountability of schools and providing valuable information for parents.

The government says free schools will meet parental demand in areas where there is a shortage of places and help drive up standards by providing competition.

New teachers in Wales have been urged to take a new postgraduate course which the education minister claims will help drive up standards in schools.

Ministers had argued that the new landscape would provide a high level of autonomy to schools and help drive up standards through greater innovation and competition in the system.

Graduates of a program designed to inculcate school principals with unconventional thinking have gone on to help drive up English test scores even though the graduates were often placed at schools with histories of academic failure, according to a study released on Monday.

Ministers argue this will provide a high level of autonomy to schools, and help drive up standards through greater innovation and competition in the system.

He said Perry Beeches V would help drive up standards up across the board.

While the V90's Inscription trim comes quite well - equipped, with features including active cruise control as part of the standard kit, there were also plenty of options on this particular Maple Brown wagon, helping drive it up to its $ 69,340 as - tested price.

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In order to help drive up sales the company has just released fancy new plastic bags.

First, it helps drive up credit utilization which we discussed above.

U.S. Dollar Losing Ground Ahead of ADP and ISM Services Report The U.S. Dollar is trading lower against most currencies with the exception of the Japanese Yen as stronger equity markets in Europe and Asia helped drove up demand for higher yielding assets.

Cardholders are collecting their rewards more often, helping drive up satisfaction, Power found.

Banking experts speculate that the new U.S. Bank card could help drive up adoption of mobile payments, especially if cardholders change their payment method in order to reap bigger rewards.

Once you find combos that help drive up your points the freedom of doing your own thing tends to fade if you want to maximize your score