Sentences with phrase «it any less so»

The company has worked to create a premium brand — a practice that's commonplace in the retail world, but less so at the wholesale stage.

While WeChat is well - known in America, China's innovations in retail and artificial intelligence (AI) are less so.

Still surreptitious, but less so.

Polls have found that the bill is the least popular piece of tax legislation in at least 30 years, even less so than two in the 1990s that increased taxes.

Good national stats, less so.

There's no question that content is important (although getting less so, due to information saturation), so if you're going to provide content, you must ensure that it's strategic and has the right effect on your current and potential customer base.

Hugely popular with passengers but less so with airlines, after just 10 years in the sky, the Airbus A380 superjumbo is struggling to find buyers.

The problem is I have no idea what it CBS content versus ABC content, and even less so for movies.

Everyone, rich or less so, should draft a will and estate plan and designate financial and health - care powers of attorney, say advisors.

The hazards are many; some of them commonplace (the car door recklessly flung open, the rogue and oblivious pedestrian darting into the sidewalk, potholes), others, well, less so.

The disruption of its filing had a huge impact on Mattel and slightly less so on Hasbro.

These dire predictions are troubling for the American worker but perhaps less so for sales professionals who have become accustomed to hearing warnings about their job security for over a century.

VMware is so green that it has been forced to become less so in the wake of severe drought in California.

The road to a spotlessly pristine, uncluttered office is often littered with passive - aggressive memos, some formal («Note to all staff: cleaning crews will be coming through your workspace this evening; please remove all items from the floor), some less so («To whoever keeps leaving their disgusting wet teabags in the sink: your mother doesn't work here!

According to FiveThirtyEight, the dismal approval rating makes this plan the least popular tax bill in at least 30 years — even less so than two in the 1990s that increased some taxes.

Some people will not immediately feel comfortable receiving certain items via mail, even less so when it's on their doorstep within 48 hours.

The decline over that time has been substantial in countries such as Hungary and Portugal and less so in Denmark and Sweden, where it was already low.

Lahore and Karachi share a tattered public transport network (slightly less so in Lahore thanks to the Metro), weak rule of law, and high costs of vehicle ownership.

The company has made progress when it comes to making unhealthy products less so, removing some 400,000 tons of sugar from its drinks since 2006, and reducing the salt and saturated fat in Lay's and Ruffles chips.

(Closeness with mothers mattered too, though less so.

In fact, he said technology can be fundamentally good for consumers, but less so for some businesses.

«Wearing Lululemon is largely a fashion statement — one likely to become less so when everyone and her aunt wears it.

That's no longer the case, or less so, in Alberta.

Following these steps can make the process less so.

Both have suffered negative three year EPS growth, and negative three year sales growth, KSS less so than Macy's....

You're right that it's a little bit odd that people seem very hot and bothered by having highly paid CEOs but less so highly paid hockey players.

«In a fentanyl overdose, you may not be able to totally revive the person with the Narcan dose you have,» said Scott Lukas, director of the Behavioral Psychopharmacology Research Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. «Naloxone easily knocks morphine off of the receptor, but does that less so to fentanyl.»

Some firms are more collegiate, some less so.

I've noticed we're always more bullish when we are younger, and then after years of experiencing up and down cycles, we become less so.

«These transactions are driven primarily by strategic imperative and less so by financial drivers,» said Anu Singh, managing director of Kaufman Hall.

And their kids even less so.

Others, like Amazon's and Apple's, are less so.

After devouring 96,208 meals at 65 chains, our readers told us that quality of the food has become more important in their dining decisions, and convenience of location is less so than in our 2011 report.

A $ 4.2 bln charge to better account for service contracts was expected; less so are revelations GE Capital inflated its earnings.

Apple, less so:

Further, although PC says I'm way too conservative, I'm less so b / c public equities is a minority of my net worth, and it doesn't properly take into account my leverage and other investments.

So far, it looks like global investors are taking their cue from broadly rising markets and less so than on individual economic outlooks.

Convertible bonds also fell, but less so, returning -20.4 percent.

Eliminating the driver would improve Uber's business model, but significantly less so if that self - driving technology had to be purchased from a competitor.

Bogle: They are, although a bit less so this year.

But the movie doesn't shy away from portraying Mr. Buffett, now 86, as something of a remarkable human computer, gifted with numbers and less so with interpersonal relationships.

A small set of institutional investors — BlackRock, Fidelity, Vanguard — holds stock in a vast percentage of public companies, so even sectors that look somewhat competitive are less so than they appear.

Some less so than others maybe, but even there, a longer term perspective of the lasting damage is sobering.

Obviously Trump speaks from the cuff, knows the Mid-West had been hurt by NAFTA, but less so of the manipulative practices of those who obviously use Mexico instrumentally, to support the descent of unsustainable models at home (this would apply to all of the Structural Surplus takers Michael notes).

Levels of price - earning ratios that would have looked bubbly with a 2 percent neutral real rate are much less so with a zero neutral real rate.

as this book documents so well, a foolish attempt to beat the market and get rich quickly will make one s broker rich and oneself much less so.»

Many boomers have introduced a digital element into their shopping process, though less so than younger consumers.

The energy use of Bitcoin, the biggest blockchain to date, is close to that of Portugal, and while other blockchain networks are more efficient, they are still an order of magnitude less so than a payment system such as Visa.

Less so is its reliance on TV towers rather than the cell ones that are tomorrow's money spinners.

Combined with a rapidly - developing understanding of the tax legislation, increases in deregulation, and other factors both obvious and less so, this is a time to be optimistic, but also to be cautious.