Sentences with phrase «in measures like»

That is likely to fuel attacks by critics in the oil industry and elsewhere who argue against investing in measures like clean energy until more is known about climate change.

But an additional 10 to 15 percent weight loss continues to cause even more improvements in measures like blood lipids and blood pressure,» says study co-author Samuel Klein, MD, director at the Center for Human Nutrition at Washington University School of Medicine.

As well as providing protection from the increasingly unpredictable weather, the premiums could also be a powerful way to get poor people to adapt to climate change by encouraging them to invest in measures like drought - resistant crops.

Practices like this can not only teach children the importance of gratitude but can show that gratitude impels people to «pay it forward» — to give to others in some measure like they themselves have received.

Not exact matches

With an abundance of nine - digit megaprojects, these large players have become less interested in tricky, mid-sized jobs that require finesse and a measure of creativity, like the WeWork conversion.

In Canada, BBM and Nielsen ratings are the norm, but the latter recently paired with Twitter to measure social ratings and newer firms like Bluefin Labs and Seevibes are doing the same.

He reiterated plans to allow more foreign participation in sectors like automobile manufacturing and banking, and said China would strengthen measures to protect intellectual property rights.

In addition, Air Canada has an Altman Z - Score, a common measure of a company's financial health, that assess variables like working capital, sales and earnings as a proportion of total assets, of 0.62, which suggests the possibility of bankruptcy.

Ultimately, deep cuts to Medicaid — still preserved in the new bill — could be its undoing among moderates like Nevada's Dean Heller (who now says he's undecided but has previously trashed the GOP's proposals), Ohio's Rob Portman (who expressed some skepticism about the legislation Thursday), and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski (who was able to wrangle a very Alaska - centric measure into the BCRA, though it's not clear if that will be enough to win her vote).

«Multiple politicians have told us that in order for them to support measures like increased foreign aid budgets, they need to see the constituency first.»

So if we look at a range of market valuation measures, whether it's Shiller CAPE, whether its price - to - book, whether it's price - to - trailing earnings, price - to - peak earnings, when we look at these measures, they look like they're in the, what we would call, the 10th decile, meaning generally, valuations are cheaper 90 % of the time.

A new generation of service companies, like Lunar Design, have figured out that it's all in the multiple By most outward measures, Lunar Design would be considered a success.

RelSci may have the full measure of a man like Ken Langone, but luminaries in Hollywood or Manhattan media circles may have skeletal profiles, if they exist at all.

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Coaches are a lot like entrepreneurs: both are in the business of talent acquisition, performance is measured on a scoreboard every quarter and job security is contingent on the ability to deliver great results.

None of us have qualities like courage, vision, charisma, adaptability, and decisiveness in equal measure.

The new measures are designed to penalize China for doing things like requiring U.S. companies to hand over technological know - how if they want to do business in China.

Accelerometers, like those in the Nintendo Wii, measure the up - and - down, side - to - side movements.

For a company that measures its output in «billions served,» this may not seem like real competition.

But even if he's right — like any of these predictions, it's debatable — that figure would be a minor blip in one of the world's biggest economies, which measured US$ 2.26 trillion in 2010, according to the World Bank.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, policy makers were unsure whether measures like these would work.

But a subscriber - based «broadcaster» like Netflix doesn't need to measure its hits in the same way, since revenues come directly from viewers, not from Chevy or Coke or Taco Bell.

You measure a country's ability to innovate using myriad factors, including registered trademarks, articles published in scientific journals and the size of its export market in fields like electronics or pharmaceuticals.

The demonstration Thursday evening in Madrid was one of 80 held in cities across Spain to protest the austerity measures the government says are necessary if Spain wants to avoid a bailout like Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

And given Germany's unwillingness to take the most basic measures, like boosting government spending or encouraging domestic wage increases, that would help iron out some of the imbalances in the European economy, the situation in Greece will likely only force Italians to wonder why it is tethering itself to such an uncooperative partner.

Teamsters President Jim Hoffa sounded resigned to the right - to - work measure's passage, in a statement released shortly after the vote, but promised a voter backlash like those seen in other Midwest states.

In addition, much like their product packaging — pink bubble wrap adorned with emoji - like stickers — Glossier stores are perfect fodder for Instagram and Snapchat (which the startup routinely mines, so its data analytics tools can measure how popular each product is on social media.

The new service, Coinbase Custody, will offer a raft of extra security measures and hand - holding in order to persuade big investors to put their money into assets like bitcoin.

(To gauge if a hire is successful, academics use measures like the dollar value of an employee's contribution to the company, his or her relative share in overall output, and later performance reviews, promotions, and raises.)

The findings should also probably serve as a warning to the growing number of adults who behave like high school sophomores and attempt to measure their self worth in likes, followers, and the empty admiration of near strangers.

But with services like Google AdWords, now you can apply a tiny budget — measured in dollars, not thousands of dollars — for online ads you create yourself, buy on a pay - as - you - go basis and continually tweak based on response rates.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

Bose says you'll be able to check your measured heart rate in real time through its Bose Connect app (iOS, Android), and that you'll be free to send the data to third - party fitness apps like Endomondo and Runkeeper.

His four years at the white - shoe law firm Latham & Watkins had crushed the notion that his career would ever measure up to his childhood dreams of strutting across a courtroom like the lead attorney in a John Grisham novel.

In a time when some big banks and payment processors like MasterCard are getting involved with bitcoin — but cautiously, and typically citing the uses of the blockchain as the appeal — that's a smart, measured reminder.

The study's authors had 161 participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.

Historian Timothy Snyder, author of «The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America,» explains that Russia is not a powerful nation when measured in terms of traditional indicators like technological innovation or gross national product.

Style guides like Noah are a key part of how Indochino, which began as an online retailer selling made - to - measure suits, plans to expand into the bricks - and - mortar world in a big way.

The absence of an Ultra HD Blu - Ray player in the PlayStation 4 Pro — an upgrade Microsoft's said it's hoping to include in Project Scorpio — doesn't sound like a merely cost - saving measure.

It unlocks the phone so quickly that I rarely ever see the lock screen, and it feels like I don't have any security measures in place.

How Microsoft's Brad Smith Navigates the Trump Era as the Tech Industry's «De Facto Ambassador» (GeekWire) Microsoft has a history of working with (and financially supporting) Republicans and Democrats in roughly equal measure, like many blue chip companies.

The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian - born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators like the stock market and railcar loadings.

«Measure your impact on humanity not in likes but in the lives you touch, not in popularity but the people you serve,» Cook said during his commencement speech.

Investors in the PFC will now prepare to negotiate a restructuring plan — they will likely push for the government to take on austerity measures like cutting costs and raising taxes.

And if the corporation failed to measure up — because of problems like unfair labor practices, environmental damage, unsavory tax practices — and rehabilitation failed, the government would place the company in «moral bankruptcy.»

The Band comes with built - in GPS and 10 sensors that can track things like heart rate, but it also has a unique UV sensor to measure sun exposure, and a «galvanic skin response measurement» to purportedly help identify stress.

Even so, the researchers aren't making broad pronouncements that remote work always trumps office work in terms of productivity, but rather suggest certain kinds of workers might be better suited for it, such as solitary, hourly folks whose output can be measured — call - center reps, proofreaders, developers, and the like.

If you use something like Clickmeeting, for example, you can brand the presentation to match your personal brand's aesthetic, track and measure engagement throughout the webinar, and then once you're done, download the video and then upload to your social platforms as a recap — in case you missed it.

And you can help to avoid hypothermia with some safety measures, like wearing appropriate clothing, avoiding overexertion in cold conditions, and letting people know what time you expect to arrive.

«It should be as easy for women to look professional as it is for men, but without having to look like a man,» says Maja Svensson, who started her made - to - measure dress company in 2012.