Sentences with phrase «large global number»

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The number of global cruise passengers is set to rise again in 2017 after several years of consecutive growth, according to the largest industry trade group.

The number of global cruise passengers is set to rise again in 2017, according to the largest industry trade group.

The South Asian country, home to 1.25 billion people, is the number one or number two largest consumer of the precious metal, depending on who you ask, and is one of the most reliable drivers of global demand.

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

This shift to high - level, high - value engagements in large part explains why the industry revenues in North America were up 8.5 % last year despite the number of searches dropping, reports the global Association of Executive Search Consultants.

These described a world with a few global corporations on one end and a large number of small businesses on the other.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Here are the five largest wholesale data center providers and their global 2016 market share (market share numbers courtesy of Structure Research).

Here are the five largest retail colocation providers and their global 2016 market share (market share numbers courtesy of Structure Research):

This constituted 43 percent of global electric car production and made China the country with the largest number of electric cars on the road, surpassing the United States.

Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

Franklin Templeton is one of a select number of global asset managers to have wholly - owned operations in Malaysia, the largest market in Southeast Asia.

Like all mutual funds, international and global stock funds can potentially invest in a large number of securities, giving you a cost - effective way to own shares in many different companies.

London's FTSE with its large number of global miners and oil firms, was down for its 10th straight day, its worst run since 2003.

According to the Global Financial Stability Report released by the IMF (International Monetary Fund), a large number of US companies servicing their debt could be in trouble if the Fed continues to raise rates.

The first one that comes to mind for most people is Exxon Mobil (XOM), a multi-national corporation that is number # 3 on the Fortune Global 500 list (as of 2011) and the largest company in the world (by revenue).

These reforms are a hangover from the 2008 global financial crisis, which highlighted some vulnerabilities in MMFs — particularly if there were a large number of redemptions.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

This global hub, also known as «Gateway of the Americas», has everything that EB - 5 investor might want besides a growing number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.&number of EB - 5 approved projects; largest concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations, rated Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.&Number 2 in Business Friendliness and Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.&Number 3 in Foreign Direct Investment Strategy by FDI Intelligence (a division of Financial Times), and is undoubtedly one of fastest growing urban centers of the world in commerce, finance, culture, media, arts, entertainment and international trade.»

Although this can increase a company's bottom line, it can also require putting large numbers of domestic workers out of work, which can be hazardous to the company's global brand management.

The tourism / leisure and manufacturing / food industries saw the largest increases in the number of warnings, reflecting the outbreak of SARS in Asia, the Iraq war and weak global economy.

Unify Earth delivers a number of measurable enhancements on its Blockchain 3.0 that will increasingly allow this expanding global revolution to fulfill its promise as the world's largest decentralized database for the good of all humanity in a system that is now more highly secure and streamlined for both large scale commercial applications and meaningful startups.

In my humble opinion, global financial conditions in the light of European instability will play a larger role in the Fed's decision to raise rates, which is why I maintain it will take a large number to give voice to those Fed voters wishing to raise rates.

But as a number of large global banks have recently exited the region, Duraiswamy says this has accelerated the growth in market share of local banks and large regional banks in trade and cash management.

Of course, China has a much larger pool of consumers to attract to its global shopping festival, but that doesn't mean its numbers aren't worth noting.

Telecom mergers represented the largest sector in terms of deal value in the UK last year, although Liberty Global's takeover of Virgin Media, heavily skewed the numbers, according to Mergermarket.

Although Lu - PSMA - 617 put up good numbers in its small single - arm study, it still needs to outperform a physician's choice of approved treatments in a much larger global trial.

If the number of Bitcoins acquired by the Trust is large enough relative to global Bitcoin supply and demand, further in - kind creations and redemptions of Shares could have an impact on the supply and demand of Bitcoins in a manner unrelated to other factors affecting the global market for Bitcoins.

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

The sandwich chain surpassed the world's largest hamburger chain in terms of number of stores in the US in 2002 and now it has taken the global lead.

By contrast, higher global demand for whole dry milk had risen from the export levels of 2007, with a large number of supplies going into cheese production.

We already have a strong presence in a number of key global wine markets including the UK, North America and China, but in order for us to become a large player in those markets, particularly China, we need to continue to increase our sales footprint and build other brands around our already strong McGuigan base created by COFCO.

This has largely been the case for IKEA, though they have made minor adjustments in various programs to improve usability (e.g., limiting the number of «clicks» in the tablet to a minimum, making the icons on the tablet larger, making reports more user - friendly, moving certain data input from store co-workers to the global administration).

«The numbers for processors aren't pretty — there are two big customers, Coles and Woolworths, and there are eight reasonably large processors,» Mr Helou told the Global Food Forum in Sydney on Wednesday.

Marius Berlemann, Global Head Wine & Spirits and Director of ProWein, commented: «ProWine China 2017 saw significant growth in the number of local and international wine producers and suppliers, reflecting the country's continued evolution towards one of the largest markets for wines and spirits globally.

«The team has a good variety of games over the summer, playing in great stadiums and allowing a large number of our global family of fans to see live games across the world,» said United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward in a press release.

«Our fans played a major part, by supporting the team towards lifting the Premier League trophy, coming to our matches in large numbers, and our ever - increasing global fanbase has helped important commercial partnerships to be formed.

At the time, however, there were large numbers of books coming out on China, and so we decided not to add to that per se, but instead to think comparatively about the two most important states in the global system.

Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own large chunks of the world's economy, but they included only a limited number of companies and omitted indirect ownerships, so could not say how this affected the global economy — whether it made it more or less stable, for instance.

He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.

«In view of the large number of people who consume processed meat, the global impact on cancer incidence is of public health importance.»

If America is to compete successfully in a global innovation economy, it must find ways for larger number of American students to excel in science.»

In 2015, the planet saw a number of such records set, from the hottest global temperature measured to the largest annual increase in carbon dioxide.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

This deceleration in the global trend was in part due to increases in the number of smokers since 2006 in several large countries including Bangladesh, China, Indonesia and Russia.

Global patterns of adoption spreading are induced by local adoption cascades initiated by multiple spontaneous adopters arriving at a constant rate, amplified by a large number of adoptions induced by social influence, and controlled by individuals who are immune to the actual adoption.

Moreover, innovator and vulnerable adopters convince a large number of stable adopters, which in turn connect the local adoption cascades and lead to the emergence of global phenomena.

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

In addition to trying to make research accessible to large numbers of students, students are able to observe evolution in action to better understand a global health crisis, antibiotic resistance.

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