Sentences with phrase «higher by degrees»

Not exact matches

The price of oil has risen to its highest since late 2014 this month, driven by concern over the potential for disruption to Iranian crude flows, but analysts say the degree of uncertainty hanging over the deal means the market is extremely sensitive to any developments.

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

Opportunities for companies like Lunar have been increased by a fertile investment niche opened by a mismatch between the high degree of entrepreneurial innovation in today's economy and the changed demands of venture capital.

On the company's fourth quarter conference call in January, Mayer discussed implementing «rigorous hiring protocols» — a phrase unnamed company employees cited by Reuters say is code for a newfound zeal for high grades and degrees from prestigious universities like Stanford.

That ongoing debate revolves around whether the lack of women in high - growth entrepreneurship is partly attributable to the fact that only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees are earned by women.

By the end of this century, heat waves are forecast to become more commonplace, with high temperatures at airports around the globe predicted to soar anywhere from 7.2 to 14.4 degrees above current levels by 2080, according to the studBy the end of this century, heat waves are forecast to become more commonplace, with high temperatures at airports around the globe predicted to soar anywhere from 7.2 to 14.4 degrees above current levels by 2080, according to the studby 2080, according to the study.

«And so just to be clear on his use of that phrase,» he added, «and I think the way it's being done by all accounts is being done with very much a high degree of precision, and in a flawless manner.»

The misconception of social's utility discussed in the intro aims to capture the high degree of attention garnered by a post in the first few hours of posting, but this is a high - competition space.

StriVR's VR technology, designed by former Stanford kicker Derek Belch of StriVR Labs, uses 360 - degree high definition video capture of each position on the football field and every play on both offense and defense for each team it works with.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates have risen by 13 per cent versus eight per cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate seen among MA and PhD holders.

In fact, new grads are projected to have higher salaries across all 10 degree categories ranging from business to humanities from just last year, when graduates earned an average of $ 51,022, according to a recent survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

By maintaining a high degree of self - awareness and knowing I don't have the answer to everything, I am the kind of mentee who authentically works to apply the lessons passed on to me by the mentors I admirBy maintaining a high degree of self - awareness and knowing I don't have the answer to everything, I am the kind of mentee who authentically works to apply the lessons passed on to me by the mentors I admirby the mentors I admire.

Canada's imports from Bangladesh are dominated to an even higher degree than America's by apparel imports at 98 % for a total of $ 1.1 billion annually.

The appeal is obvious — robot bosses can automatically and with a high degree of accuracy accomplish exponentially more than those of us constrained by fallible old meat brains.

It holds about 100 MSCI USA companies with the highest ESG ratings, determined by the degree to which they reflect socially conscious values with regard to the environment, society, and corporate governance.

SB1694 was announced in a March 13 press release, which relates that if the bill passes, crimes committed «through and with the use of virtual currency, will have a penalty that is one degree higher than what is provided for» by the Revised Penal Code.

Generally, investments offering potential for higher returns are accompanied by a higher degree of risk.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

«Many investors expected a more lengthy FDA review process of the JCAR015 trial (and potentially other CAR - T programs) and feared that a higher - degree regulatory scrutiny could increase the development risk of CAR T cell,» Leerink Research said in a note co-authored by analysts Michael Schmidt, Ph.D., Jonathan Chang, Ph.D., and Varun Kumar, Ph.D. «While it may take several weeks to reopen all clinical sites of the ROCKET trial, we believe the trial shouldn't be delayed by more than ~ 3 months.»

However, when all respondents were asked whether they know, with a high degree of confidence, how much of their current income would be replaced by income from a retirement plan at work, 38 % did not know.

Canadian retirees can receive government support through the Old Age Security (OAS) pensions as well as through the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), yet 48 % of those surveyed did not know with a high degree of confidence how much of their current income will be replaced by their CPP or OAS benefits.

For me, I like companies like Coca - Cola and Johnson & Johnson that grow earnings and dividends by 8 - 12 % annually with a high degree of certainty.

With the tools and features offered through this platform, which operates effectively on all desktop browsers and platforms, traders can experience a higher degree of security and speed in their trade, resulting in success rates that average about 30 % higher than that offered by other platforms on the market.

Verge was likely selected by Pornhub because it allows users a high degree of privacy, which is something that Bitcoin lacks.

In particular, Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. have the highest degree of outward spillovers as measured by the average percentage of capital loss of other banking systems due to banking sector shock in the source country...

By contrast, high - quality bonds such as those found in investment - grade corporate funds like the iShares 1 - 3 Year Credit Bond ETF (CSJ A-89) and the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD A-66), etc.), or in Treasury portfolios such as the iShares 1 - 3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY A-97) or the iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLH B - 65), etc.) tend to buffer portfolio volatility to a much greater degree.

If we assume that hysteresis is in fact present to some degree after deep recessions, the natural next question is to ask whether it might be possible to reverse these adverse supply - side effects by temporarily running a «high - pressure economy,» with robust aggregate demand and a tight labor market.

They also offer a high degree of transparency: on a daily basis investors can see the securities held by an ETF, its performance and the costs incurred.

His desire to break up the most successful company of all time as measured by percentage gain in value per year is a passion born of the passing of a social mood peak of even higher degree than that of 1929.

Having a college degree doesn't help you with those kind of jobs, and the kind of professional work that rewards higher education typically can't be obtained by someone without legal permission to work.

Meaning an organization should explore conducting buyer persona research — the real thing backed by skilled ethnographic research — with a budget in mind of five figures — sometimes six figures if it involves many multiple markets and the degree of complexity is high.

Presented by HIMSS, the Venture + Forum half - day program and semi-final pitch competition provides a high - energy, 360 - degree view on health tech investing and features exciting 3 - minute pitch presentations from early and growth - stage companies, investor panels and a networking reception.Casper de Clercq will be a judge.

Although this will be much easier if you have one of the highest paying college degrees as opposed to one of the worst paying college degrees, it is absolutely, mathematically, irrefutably possible for you to amass millions of dollars by the time you retire if you, like most college graduates, are in your early to mid-twenties and live a normal life expectancy.

After a long stretch characterized by ultra-low interest rates, slow growth, minimal inflation, cheap oil, and little policy progress due to a conflicted Congress, we are now doing a dramatic 180 degree turn to a lower tax, less regulation, pro-growth environment, with higher rates and higher inflation — a normalization of sorts.

High - quality debates can be fostered by methods such as challenging the key assumptions behind management's proposals, exploring various biases that board members bring to the table, and conducting annual evaluations of individual directors to assess the degree to which they contribute.

Having a degree is, statistically, the greatest corollary to becoming a self - made millionaire as roughly 90 out of 100 rich households in the United States are headed by someone with a four year degree or higher according to research done by the late Dr. Thomas Stanley at the University of Georgia.

The indictment, handed up by a grand jury in Fort Lauderdale, charges Cruz with 17 counts of premeditated first - degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first - degree murder in the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses... was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not worthy of comparison, but not even of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food of truth.

try reading further:» «To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.

This finding is most clearly illustrated by the high degree of dissatisfaction expressed by United Methodist clergy in relation to their denomination's deployment systems and the level of support they received from judicatory officials.

They were also filled with a high degree of spiritual abuse simply by virtue of having to accept Calvinism or you can not be a member.

«Therefore that joining together of head and members, that indwelling of Christ in our hearts — in short that mystical union — are accorded by us the highest degree of importance.»

is power to the highest degree possible and over all that exists, it is «all» the power that could be exercised by any one individual over «all» that is; but it remains to be shown how much power could be exercised in this fashion.

A survey by «ComRes» on behalf of the Theos» think - tank, whose results were released in February to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, has discovered that there is a high degree of confusion in Britain concerning the relationship of science and religion.

However improbable in a mechanistic sense the elaborate organic structure created by life may appear, it seems increasingly evident that the cosmic substance is drawn toward these states of extreme arrangement by a particular kind of attraction which compels it, by the play of large numbers in which it is involved, to miss no opportunity of becoming more complex and thus achieving a higher degree of freedom.

The «strand» which theologians, on the whole, still propose to retain, and which is alone self - consistent, as judged by its relations to the other strand, is the popularly familiar definition of God as everlasting, all - controlling, all - knowing, and ethically good or «holy» to the highest possible degree.

God's aim for some human events, on the other hand, will be such that, if his will is actualized to a high degree by the person, the event will effectively express God's being.

Rather it is to be found in a high quality version of the same processes of feeling and decision exhibited in some degree by all occasions.

Like most Latin American nations, Colombia is plagued by the socioeconomic and political conditions which make revolutionary change a real possibility: vast unemployment, runaway inflation, a high degree of infant mortality, large - scale malnutrition.