Sentences with phrase «interest than any other this year»

It is only one city school — one effort to graduate more Buffalo students — but it arguably has attracted more attention and interest than any other this year.

Not exact matches

But an interesting trend is growing: Americans are spending less on wedding planners than they did five years ago, instead opting to customize their events and choose caterers, bartenders, DJs, and other vendors themselves.

Dale Carnegie once said, «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

Think of customers as friends you hope to influence by remembering the following wisdom from Dale Carnegie: «You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.»

Earnings before costs like tax, interest, and other deductibles were $ 237.3 million — 90 % of the total earned last year and 418 % more than the previous quarter.

Over the last several years, private equity and other investment managers have been compensated with «carried interest,» which allow them to claim long - term gains rather than salaries.

For the 2017 - 2018 school year, the interest rate on PLUS Loans — 7.00 % — is much higher than on other types.

My wife, Cynthia, and I moved to Cuenca, Ecuador, almost five years ago with no plans other than to have fun and look for interesting opportunities.

NAHB and Houzz developed a strategic partnership more than two years ago, enabling NAHB members to use Houzz's technology and marketing capabilities to connect with a community of more than 40 million home owners and others interested in building or renovating homes.

0 % down is good for people with a lot of cash that don't expect to make more than the 4 % mortgage interest over the next 30 years with other investments.

The surge in Ripple's price over the two years is largely attributable to the adoption of the Ripple blockchain by Japanese banks and increased interest by other global finance institutions as it provides suitable settlements platform that is far more reliable than the current solutions such as SWIFT.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

More than 30 years ago, Cardinal Cooke of New York saw the need to provide a setting where Catholics, their families and friends, plus any interested others, could gather in confidence and safely address questions on human sexuality in a setting of prayer and celebration of the Sacraments while remaining wholly rooted in the mainstream Church.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

Jimmy John's noncompete clause reportedly states: «Employee covenants and agrees that, during his or her employment with the Employer and for a period of two (2) years after... he or she will not have any direct or indirect interest in or perform services for... any business which derives more than ten percent (10 %) of its revenue from selling submarine, hero - type, deli - style, pita and / or wrapped or rolled sandwiches and which is located with three (3) miles of either [the Jimmy John's location in question] or any such other Jimmy John's Sandwich Shop.»

I was flicking through my news feeds on Flipboard the other day (Flipboard for iOS is where I find the news I'm interested in rather than that which some newspaper editor of radio or TV producer thinks I should read, see or hear — I haven't bought a newspaper for at least ten years and am all the better and more diversely informed for that).

WVU is coming off a solid season and inked a lot of interesting transfers but has to replace more of last year's production than any other power conference team.

On the other hand Arsenal now have their full team back and available as well as some very interesting new additions, and we are looking stronger depth-wise than we have for many a year, as even Arsene Wenger admitted.

«Other than the Army - Navy football game, no event generates as much interest and support at the academy as brigade boxing,» says Andy Haffele, who won the 195 - pound title this year and will soon join the SEALs, the Navy's elite covert fighting unit.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

I'm generally not a full round mock kind of guy (I don't know enough about all the other 31 teams), but I've taken more interest in this draft than ones from years past for some reason.

Kroenke was the worst thing that happened to a club that was already being run by silver spooned ex merchant bankers and assorted lords and ladies who have NO interest in anything other than share prices rising and a profit margin that guarantee's a profit each year, Wenger is the ideal front man for this soulless bunch and while I honestly belive that he does care about the club, his ethos and methods suit the board right down to a tee.

It is a fact that our net spend is less than the interest the owners receive on loans to the club The money spent on players only makes up part of what we didn't spend last year Other clubs spending about # 60 million outside top 6 We should try for Barkley for # 30m pay Lanzini # 100 k a week which we pay to less good players and plan to play Rice with Reid at CB as he's better than all the other CB's we have Buying Kone for more than # 6 mill would be a waste of money Sunderland supporters think he's the worst CB in premiership last seOther clubs spending about # 60 million outside top 6 We should try for Barkley for # 30m pay Lanzini # 100 k a week which we pay to less good players and plan to play Rice with Reid at CB as he's better than all the other CB's we have Buying Kone for more than # 6 mill would be a waste of money Sunderland supporters think he's the worst CB in premiership last seother CB's we have Buying Kone for more than # 6 mill would be a waste of money Sunderland supporters think he's the worst CB in premiership last season!

Perhaps if the Portuguese had shown more of an interest and put the necessary effort into moulding these youngsters and others rather than ignoring any youngster in need of refinement, the burn out his teams tend to suffer after a couple of years of glory may not have been so inevitable.

We should have shouted louder about there be nothing progressive about spending more paying debt interest to City investors and others every year than we invest in our housing or transport.

Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

... This external pressure makes this year different than all others,» said Blair Horner, executive director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

As a (poor) analogy, arguing whether or not it's human - caused feels a bit like planning to develop real estate on a seaside clifftop which some specialists have said might suffer dangerous erosion in the next 70 years unless you put up some seawalls to prevent water action at the base of the cliff - and basing your view whether to build seawalls and other erosion defences upon whether or not there's proof that human activity would be the cause of any future erosion, rather than whether or not erosion is likely and if so how harmful it might be to your interests if nothing is done to reduce it.

During a year of vicious, divisive presidential politics, few other than the candidates seemed passionately interested in congressional campaigns.

While each and every Republican candidate for Mayor this year would be far superior to the current administration — I can think of no other candidate to better represent the interests of Staten Islanders than a Staten Islander — and that is why as a proud and devoted Staten Islander, I support Nicole for Mayor.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Chris Collins dramatically increased his campaign fundraising in the first half of the year, and he took more money from health care and pharmaceutical companies than any other special interest at a time when he's under investigation for his ties to an Australian biotech firm.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

Research on graphene in recent years has raised huge interest among scientists about the potential of synthesising other 2D crystals by introducing elements other than carbon into graphene's carbon lattice.

Any Affiliated Society deciding that its interest will be best served in any given year by holding its annual meeting at some other time or place than that selected for the general meeting of the Division may have this privilege without loss of affiliation, provided its presiding officer notifies the Executive Committee promptly in writing of the reasons governing this action, and the Division shall not establish a temporary Section to represent the subject in question.

Within the next one to two years, researchers are interested in exploring the applicability of their newest technique in a wider variety of environments: for example, video games other than Atari Bowling and additional simulation environments to better represent the types of agents and environments found when fielding robots in the real world.

Some other interesting facts about Lane I just have to mention: she slept on a wooden pillow for a while, she's given birth at home like I have, and she's been in long - term recovery for more than 20 years.

Ten or twelve years ago, if you told someone «I googled my date before we went out» most people would likely think you were referring to something other than doing a background check on your new love interest.

The Yard Work Simulator may not be everybody's cup of tea to listen through from beginning to end, but as a piece of work it is more unique, exploratory and interesting than many others that will be released this year.

Dial M for Murder premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London in 1952, only for it to be made into an expert crime mystery thriller by Alfred Hitchcock two years later, while Wait Until Dark, another complex and dark play in the vein of Hitchcock's interests directed by Arthur Penn (who would helm Bonnie and Clyde the very next year), saw the light of day in early 1966 on Broadway, where it instantly attracted the attention of both the audience and Warner Brothers, determined to turn it into a feature film starring none other than Hollywood's sweetheart Audrey Hepburn in a much darker, insidious story than her filmography had ever witnessed.

I've been interested in acting since I was 12 years old, and back then, everything other than the theater» that box of light» was cast in shadow.

A maestro of this rare art, Hong Sang - soo was back at the festival this year — with two films, no less — to prove that some forms of déjà vu are more interesting than others.

Nothing would make this more interesting of an Oscar year if something other than The Artist wins, but after it took the London Film Critics it's really hard to imagine any other film winning.

This is the second film I remember in recent years starring Sarah Jessica Parker (Failure to Launch being the other) where the supporting characters prove more interesting than the main players, to the point that the audience, as well as the filmmakers, would rather follow them to the detriment of the overall narrative.

Some interesting quick observations: Dwayne Johnson's name keeps popping up, there are six hotly anticipated movies in March, before the traditional summer blockbuster season even begins, and there are more DC branded and Marvel Studios movies in theaters than any other year.

-» (1) IN GENERAL. - Not later than December 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate a report that includes a list of all of the letters of interest and applications received from project sponsors for assistance under this chapter (other than section 610) during the preceding fiscal year.»

-- As one of the few enthusiasts lucky enough to own an example of the Pegaso Z102, Douglas Blain reveals what this Spanish rarity is really like to live with / Auto - biography: Alain de Cadenet — Matthew Bell meets the racing driver, pilot, journalist and television presenter to learn about his cars and competition career as well as other, lower - octane interests / Rétromobile 2015 — Bigger, bolder, busier and better than ever, the popular Paris show celebrated its 40th anniversary this year / Turner: Made in Wolverhampton — This long - lived Black Country firm's output included bicycles, cars and commercial and agricultural vehicles.

Here are some interesting figures on the children's books market in China we'd like to draw your attention to: according to the 2017 Chinese Retail Book Market Report the Chinese retail book market is worth more than 80 billion CNY, with over 40,000 children's titles published every year in China — more than any other nation in the world, targeting 367 million children and young adults, with more than 800 million books printed every year and nearly 300,000 titles on the market currently.

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