Over recent months the unemployment rate has fallen to 5.6 per cent, after it had moved
in a narrow band of between 6 and 6 1/4 per cent for most of the past year.
Courtney Milan is one of the authors
in the narrow band of «historical romance authors I enjoy reading».
A swing and a miss with trying to discharge student loans
in a narrow band of criteria is the same thing.
It's a place of fine food, wine and cider production among forests, peaks and coastline,
all in a narrow band of country.
CO2 and H2O absorb and emit light
in a narrow band of the spectrum corresponding to the current mean temp of Earth.
This, too, is a function of the relatively rigid or narrow epistemology that law has; when signals can only be received
in a narrow band of frequencies (to switch metaphors as well) an increase in the rate of signals leads ultimately to noise.
Not exact matches
So, the outlook for 2018 is expected to look a lot like the
narrow trading
band seen
in 2017, which means a lack
of upside garners a big yawn from investors.
On top
of this investors can buy and sell Legends Fund intra-day on the exchange
in a
narrow band around this NAV.
Outside
of slight volatility
in early April, the S&P 500 ETF (SPY A-97) has traded
in a
narrow $ 3
band between $ 185 - 188 a share.
It is not just free - floating groups
banded together for
narrow political gain, but an intelligent form
of life requiring the constant engagement
of its members
in discussion and decision - making,
in defining and redefining its goals and purposes.
Up and down its
narrow valleys and across its great plain went the pomp and panoply
of the ancient world, and its more commonplace traffic as well: rich argosies from far Babylon, carrying the wares down to Egypt; royal messengers
of the great kings who ruled
in Persepolis, bearing decrees for the officer
in charge at the frontier station
of Assouan; plenipotentiaries
of Hatti and
of Egypt, seeking a modus vivendi
in the political stresses
of the thirteenth century; conquerors with their chariots and footmen and their tale
of atrocities behind and yet before; wandering
bands of foot - loose adventurers, seeking a good land where they might strike roots into the soil - all these and hosts
of others were led among the Palestinian hills where went the great trunk roads
of the ancient world, camped
in the plains, bartered
in the little cities, or stayed to lay permanent claim to some hit
of the land.
Elsewhere there are people trying to grow pinot noir, sometimes called wine's canary
in the coalmine as it tolerates a
narrower band of temperatures.
The
narrow band of three does at least lend itself well to counter-pressing, the attacking midfielders able to jump on loose balls around the opposition defence when their attack breaks down (they also did this quite well against City
in mid-week).
Continuity Remain turns out to have been a very
narrow band of opinion that gave up on the Lib Dems after their terrible start to the election campaign - and the Brexit - voting southwest had no interest
in backing the party that once dominated the region.
The Home Secretary is sitting next to one
of the world experts on the Official Secrets Act, who will be able to remind her that
in 1989, almost exactly 20 years ago to this day, the then Conservative Government amended the Official Secrets Act to restrict the application
of the criminal law to a very
narrow band of Government information.
Young was trying to point out that experience «on the ground» and developed skills are as valuable as assigning peoples worth and ability through (
in Young's own words) «educations
narrow band of values».
The flip side, according to this view, is that Clinton accentuated too many issues that appeal to a
narrower band of upper - middle - class college - educated voters, women
in particular — things like paid family leave and pay equity.
A Cuomo administration official, speaking anonymously because negotiations are ongoing, said an ethics proposal under consideration would force lawmakers to disclose the source
of any outside income they receive within
narrow bands, including any money «
in substantial conflict with public duties»
of a lawmaker.
The body constantly monitors this
narrow pH
band and quickly restores the ideal pH values
in the event
of any deviations.
This story appears
in the June 24, 2017, issue
of Science News with the headline, «The opportunity zone: Exoplanets found
in a
narrow band around M dwarf stars could host a very different kind
of life.»
But since 2001 there has been less water vapor
in a
narrow, lower
band of the stratosphere thanks to cooler temperatures
in the tropopause, and that may just be holding back global warming at ground level, according to new research published online
in Science on January 28.
But last summer, Witherington went
in search
of the young turtles
in the offshore zone where currents converge and produce «fronts»,
narrow bands of floating sargassum weed and debris.
New work led by Carnegie's Tim Strobel and published
in Physical Review Letters shows that one form
of silicon, called Si - III (or sometimes BC8), which is synthesized using a high - pressure process, is what's called a
narrow band gap semiconductor.
Interspersed
in the red stone were
narrow bands of black shale containing petrified fish, from a time when a deep lake covered the area.
Today the cacao tree still grows only
in a
narrow band within about 18 degrees north and south
of the equator.
«We want a complete sample so that we can conduct our standard SETI analysis
in search
of modulation patterns or
narrow -
band signals — any kind
of information - bearing signal emitted from their direction that we don't expect from nature,» he said.
Using high - speed cameras to analyze a
narrow wavelength
band in the near - infrared region, the sensors search for changes
in the tops
of clouds, which indicate lightning strikes.
Gallium arsenide is a technologically important
narrow -
band - gap semiconductor,
in which the excitation
of electrons from the valence into the conduction
band produces charge carriers that can transport electrical current through electronics components.
In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight
of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers
of Saturn's inner C ring (regular,
narrow bright
bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.
As the sheet
narrows in the middle, the middle is deformed by a
band of parallel wrinkles running lengthwise.
In «Mega Mask» mode, DEIMOS can take spectra
of more than 1,200 objects at once, using a special
narrow -
band filter.
Approximately the same number
of galaxies are seen
in every direction you look except for a
narrow 5 to 10 degree
band along the Milky Way's mid-plane.
That
narrow band, called the «zone
of avoidance», is created by the dust
in the disk.
MESSENGER's Wide Angle Camera (WAC), part
of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), is equipped with 11
narrow -
band color filters,
in contrast to the two visible - light filters and one ultraviolet filter that were on Mariner 10's vidicon camera.
A
narrow band of them
in the high - energy spectrum would be a «smoking gun» for the presence
of dark matter, says Michelson, but he thinks it's more likely that the dark matter emission would be mixed
in with gamma rays from other energy sources
in the universe and that scientists such as GLAST pioneer Elliott Bloom will have to work very hard to untangle the GLAST data to find it.
Tonight I tried your exercise and at first nothing happened, but when I turned my head back from my hands to my laptop to more closely follow your instructions, out
of the corner
of my eye, just for an instant I saw a pink color
in a
narrow band glowing around my palms It was barely a flash, but it looked just like the glowing colors I used to see as a child.
Narrow bands of grape and subtle sage green create exuberant stripes
in a scarf
of beautiful color.
On balance, therefore, with the
narrowing of gender bias
bands, the question simply is: why can't mature, cougar dating women
in the UK have what they really want — after all, many such women are professionals with good careers and extensive life and other valuable experiences to offer a younger, handsome virile man?
She and others
in the French fishing industry worry that, after Brexit, they will be left fighting to catch fewer fish, crowded into a
narrower band of sea.
Most
of these programs focus only on a
narrow band of objectives
in the formal curriculum; they have unknown levels
of reliability at the school level; they are cross-sectional
in nature; and the results they yield become available to schools only after lengthy time delays.
Even though our test scores were rising
in all academic areas these tests measure only a
narrow band of knowledge, a
band far too
narrow to prepare students for the real future.
Second, most standardized tests
in use today measure only a
narrow band of low - level skills, such as recalling or restating facts, rather than such high - level skills as the ability to analyze information.
There's still wood, just not as much
of it,
in arcing
narrow bands, not big planks.
The Jaguar is comparatively down on power as well, with its supercharged 5.0 - liter V - 8 making «just» 550 hp and «a mere» 502 lb - ft
of torque, the entirety
of the latter available only
in a
narrow band between 3,500 and 4,000 rpm.
Had Land Rover managed to make the car lighter — and therefore less thirsty and more fun to drive — not to mention cheaper, it might have succeeded
in making it more appealing beyond a
narrow band of diehard Range Rover exhibitionists.
The LED daytime running lights form a
narrow, optically homogeneous
band that remains open
in the vicinity
of the xenon lens.
Celebrate the
bands of gold on your fingers with the
narrow band of sand known as Silver Strand State Beach, a one - side - ocean, one - side - bay area
of sand at the south end
of Coronado Island,
in San Diego Bay.
«I think it's difficult because the raw morality you're presented with
in a game is a very
narrow slice
of life, a
narrow experience
band,» explained Laidlaw.
When one looks at Yellow Jacket, 1969, one notices yellow used
in a variety
of ways: On the right,
narrow vertical lines
of yellow are tightly interspersed with orange lines; on the left, blue and pink stripes are sandwiched between relatively wide
bands of lemon; and
in roughly the center, medium - size gold stripes emerge from within a broad swath
of lime green.
In Ember, 1960, Noland retained the uneven edge
of the outer
band, but left
narrow, unpainted canvas strips between the intense rust and black
bands and the red center.