Sentences with phrase «in more drag»

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Especially if you work in a building where you can't open a window, the air around you could be a drag on productivity, decreasing your decision - making skills by 50 percent or more.

The 1,900 - kilometre proposed pipeline has been in limbo for more than seven years, awaiting a series of U.S. reviews that have dragged on more than five times longer than average, according to a recent Associated Press analysis.

In 2009, Mexico slapped duties up to 25 percent on more than 90 different U.S. farm goods, from pork to frozen potatoes due to foot - dragging by U.S. lawmakers on allowing Mexican truckers on to U.S. roads, as specified under NAFTA.

In fact, more and more customers will be ordering bulk items and commodities through online subscription or fulfillment services and not trying to drag the same stuff home from the market every week.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

The drag in Q2 was Canadian Tire's gas stations, where lowered gas prices drove down that segment's revenue more than 13 % compared to a year ago.

For now, in valuing stocks, the investment community has tended to ignore the drag on earnings that a more realistic valuing of options would produce.

«The most significant drag is primarily felt by emerging market economies, who tend to be more sensitive to shifts in global risk sentiment, which can also have large adverse effects on capital flows and currency valuations,» the note said.

Over in Asia, Nikkei was closed for Holiday as Goldman Cuts Japan's Growth Outlook this AM - Shanghai saw more profit - taking despite strong trade data - India bounced from the recent selling there, While Aussie closed off 60bp despite a bounce in the miners - dragged lower by continued selling in Tech and Industrials globally.

When I'm finished with a document, I drag it to ~ To File, and every once in a while, I go into the folder to organize folders that make more sense long term.

IBM has been a heavyweight in the tech world for more than a century, but the computing hardware and software businesses that made it a giant are now dragging it down.

For more than a decade, the threat of terrorism has contributed to rising oil prices, global instability and insecurity in major financial centres — in other words, it's been a major drag on business.

Redstone's battle with the IRS would drag on for more than two and a half years, culminating in days of sworn testimony in Boston and Los Angeles.

Shares in Sprott are down more than 40 % this year, which has dragged down his personal net worth.

While the trade data had little impact on U.S. financial markets, concerns about weakening global demand pushed Brent crude oil prices to the lowest level in more than four years, dragging down U.S. stocks.

«Most of (the March) drop is seasonal — Chinese New Year was later than usual this year, meaning more of the holiday disruptions will have dragged into March than in 2017,» Capital Economics Senior China Economist Julian Evans - Pritchard wrote in a note.

Together, those drags on the economy of the 19 - country eurozone are a reason the bloc's unemployment rate is more than double that of the United States, and why eurozone growth has lagged the American rebound in recent years.

In the case, which dragged on for more than a decade, the Trump Organization won sole rights to use the president's name on products in the country, which would help prevent a bevy of unrelated entrepreneurs from applying it to a wide range of products, from toilets to clothing to condoms to explosiveIn the case, which dragged on for more than a decade, the Trump Organization won sole rights to use the president's name on products in the country, which would help prevent a bevy of unrelated entrepreneurs from applying it to a wide range of products, from toilets to clothing to condoms to explosivein the country, which would help prevent a bevy of unrelated entrepreneurs from applying it to a wide range of products, from toilets to clothing to condoms to explosives.

But the risk for the island is that while the immediate devastation of Hurricane Maria is leading to a brief surge in attention, the subject of maritime regulation will likely soon slip back into its customary obscurity — dragging down Puerto Rico's economy more out of indifference than malice.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

I don't see the scope for inventories to be more of a drag than they were in Q2.

Trends Credit Ratings More than six years after the housing market crashed — dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it — Standard & Poor's settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown.

More than six years after the housing market crashed — dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it — Standard & Poor's settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown.

Portuguese government debt led declines in securities from Europe's most indebted nations, while banks dragged stocks in the region down more than 1 percent.

The B.C. Liberals forced the mayors to put this needed investment to a referendum, and now the premier won't even do her part to ensure her government's referendum passes — risking more gridlock, pass - ups, packed busses major gaps in service and a drag on the economy.

Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said stronger growth in the second quarter «should give Fed officials more confidence that the recovery is gathering steam as the fiscal drag begins to fade.»

'' The government sector has been a drag, there is still one more budget fight coming in the next few weeks and that's going to be a challenge, but if we get through that we are into the part of the election cycle where government drag turns into a small boost, we are already seeing some rehiring at the state and local level and that is significant as well.»

As the secular bear market drags on, investors become more and more discouraged with their buy and hold positions and they begin to lose faith in the system, their strategy and stocks in general.

Although interest rates have hovered near historic lows recently, the LIBOR benchmark rate, on which most variable interest rate loans are based, more than doubled in the year through July 2017, dragging payments for variable interest rate student loans up with them.

The lighter, more aerodynamic Tesla Model S P90D was only beating the Model X P90D by just a hair in speed, so the benchmarkers over at Drag Times got to the bottom of it and found that the bulkier electric vehicle is more powerful of the pair.

I was concerned in several conversations, with me undertaking most of the listening, about the prospect of a sharp oil price tag spike, if the Opec exporters» cartel, getting broken US shale producers by dragging prices down, starts off limiting source as soon as much more.

«If they simply pause their spending or become more prudent in their spending because of market volatility, it drags down consumer spending in the aggregate.»

If you spend more than $ 19,000, the benefit of the Venture ® Rewards higher earnings rate kicks in and overtakes the drag of the annual fee compared to the Quicksilver ®'s earnings rate.

Investment, which accounts for about half of China's economic output, was a major drag on growth in the fourth quarter, a result of monetary authorities making credit more expensive.

On top of the obvious human suffering caused by crushing debt, the fact that more than a fifth of the mortgages in this country are underwater is a huge drag on the economy.

I think it is so much more difficult for people in the ministry / preisthood to deal with institutional drag than it is for lay people.

I am ashamed of the abuse, the shaming, the cover - ups, the secrets, the millstones being forged in Sunday school classrooms and pastors» offices where people are supposed to be safe, and the way I want to watch those millstones drag a few more bodies down to the bottom of the sea.

Umme, if we need to drag Muslim into this light of understanding that they are no different and in no ways more special than any other group, then this... with extreme amounts of dialogue... is what you and other Muslims will begin to see.

When they have a choice, however, most will opt, alas, for hamburgers or pizza; and when Pineapple drags her little sister with her to the corner store to buy a treat between meals (which she does more often than she should), she usually reaches for the same big Hershey bars or packages of Twizzlers — reddish licorice sticks that kids buy at the local store in my hometown in Massachusetts.

In order that the end of Mankind may be deferred sine die we are asked to believe in a species that will drag on and spread itself indefinitely; which means, in effect, that it would run down more and morIn order that the end of Mankind may be deferred sine die we are asked to believe in a species that will drag on and spread itself indefinitely; which means, in effect, that it would run down more and morin a species that will drag on and spread itself indefinitely; which means, in effect, that it would run down more and morin effect, that it would run down more and more.

A more literal translation would read, «To no one anything they said; afraid they were for...» It is almost as if the author of Mark had suddenly been dragged from his writing desk in midsentence.

When would have been a more convenient day for your fingernails to catch on the pavement and slightly delay the progress of the civilized world dragging you kicking and screaming in to the light of modern day?

If you knew who Jesus was you would stop dragging him in to such issues... Go back to some more Trayvon stories.

A thoughtful public may eventually decide that they are not merely unwilling but unable to make a theological case for their position, Since there are so many more people who support reproductive choice, they may succeed in foot - dragging the nation away from a prohibition - era scenario, and may thus win respect for law.

even mourinho, who always needd a joke,controversy,issue,derisory,illogical - logic to augment his team performance and drags like of you in his trail, couldnt ve done more.

That CMU went 4 - 0 in one - possession games was even more impressive considering how much special teams dragged the Chips down.

In an hour the tests were substantially over; and, scaling the results from model size to boat size, allowing 28 % power loss for propeller inefficiency, 20 % more for drag from things like rudders and rough paint and 2 % more to make up for the slight downward slant of the propeller shaft, everyone agreed that Mr. Metcalf would indeed have to buy two diesels of 275 hp if he wanted to cruise at 12 knots.

Some fans seem to view «hold - up» play as a dirty word, but buying an extra few seconds for supporting runners (which in Sanchez, it's hard to ask for much more) and dragging a CB out of position Giroud does very, very well.

Never has this been captured more graphically than in the extraordinary sequence in which Seabiscuit's jockey, Red Pollard (Tobey Maguire), is thrown off a bolting horse and dragged through the stable area, one foot caught in a stirrup, his broken body bouncing off posts and barns.