Sentences with phrase «less a factor in»

This is a serviceable story, less a factor in the movie's appeal than the incredible craftsmanship that Pixar brings to bear on its animation and design, its cinematic visuals, the imaginative sound work - all contributed by top Hollywood hands.

While in the States, of course, Amazon's KPD is hardly alone — there also are IngramSpark, Kobo Writing Life, BookBaby, Smashwords, Macmillan's Pronoun, Draft2Digital and many more platforms — the dominance of Amazon seen in the States» indie picture is less a factor in the German market.

The moderator, constitutional scholar Phoebe Haddon, noted that the expense of hiring a lawyer had been shown to be less a factor in self - representation than the sense a lawyer wouldn't be that helpful.

is much less a factor in who goes or stays when push comes to shove, than old - fashioned office politics.

But as trends in the UK and elsewhere have shown us, loyalty will be much less a factor in the future.

Not exact matches

When the company auctions that oilfield drill, for example, the goal is for its pricing model to forecast demand in the near future based on different factors, such as the price of oil, leaving Ritchie Bros. less vulnerable to market surprises.

Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

Knowing how to do more with less was a significant factor in enabling these firms to continue to post record growth as the economy took a turn for the worse.

I checked my cell phone carrier's website, and found that by the end of my planned travel for this winter and spring, the Solis would be less expensive than any useful international roaming plan I could sign up for — that includes the cost of the device and day passes, though factors in my travel companions who can also avoid the pricey roaming plans.

Only now, thanks to changes in government policy among other factors, the cast of contending princelings is shifting, causing one big name VC to publicly bet on an less - often - mentioned possibility — Canada.

Generational factors matter less than the willingness to invest time and energy in understanding and using these tools.

But when it comes to the question of how quickly Intuitive can ramp up sales, particularly in less tech - hungry markets, the machine's nearly $ 2 million price tag is no small factor.

Account holders in the lowest checking account quintile (those with average balances of less than $ 536) increased their post-refund healthcare spending by a twentyfold factor larger than those with accounts in the highest quintile (balances over $ 3,577).

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

Street estimates finally look safe while Y / Y compares on iPhone units and overall AAPL revenue are bottoming in [calendar] Q1 and should turn flat to up as soon as [calendar] Q4 additionally fueled by less severe [currency exchange] headwinds... iPhone 7 will benefit if nothing else from the 6/6 + «echo» effect as these units enter the upgrade base, OLED in ’17 solves growth concerns and builds a bridge to new «dreamy» form factors.

One theory (alluded to in the Clarkson report) has to do with managing for the long run: a company rooted in a family's history, tradition and reputation may well be less susceptible to the short - termism that is so notoriously a factor at most corporations today.

Factor in a generally fresher ecosystem with shorter tenure and quicker job rotations than in more traditional industries — energy, banking or retail — and you find yourself hiring younger or less experienced candidates than you normally would.

If we Google seo ranking factors... it will show search engine land post in # 3 (its a post with less than 300 words) and yours in # 4 (you have much more content though).....

So, corporate taxes are way less of a factor in American competitiveness than — I'm talking about overall business — than medical costs.

A company makes less of a profit margin on contractors, so it's important to factor in their workload.

Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors, in addition to those associated with their relatively small size, lesser liquidity and lack of established legal, political, business, and social frameworks to support securities markets.

As a result, compared to the March 2012 Budget planning assumption, the level of nominal GDP is $ 9 billion lower in 2012 — this consists of a «risk adjustment factor» of $ 7 billion and the difference between the change in the private sector average forecast of $ 22 billion less the March 2012 Budget «risk adjustment factor» of $ 20 billion.

If you're taking out a condo loan with less than 20 % down, you'll have to factor in the cost of mortgage insurance premiums as well.

Traffic also is less a factor than it used to be in choosing between downtown and the suburbs.

Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors, in addition to those associated with these markets» smaller size, lesser liquidity and lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets.

Few investments grow by a factor of 19 in less than a year.

Utilizing the «factor» test laid out in 506 (c), it seems that «reasonable steps to verify» for a member of a legitimate angel group would be less than that of a random person on the street, which is seemingly who the safe harbors appear to be designed for.

Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors, in addition to those associated with their relatively small size and lesser liquidity.

In practice, the microeconomic cost of regulation is determined by two factors: the size of the regulatory burden and the degree to which less - regulated alternatives are accessible.

If one lender will offer you a 5 % interest rate and another lender offers a 15 % interest rate, there would have to be some extremely compelling additional factors in order to forego the rate that is three times less expensive.

The second cyclical factor that has had a major impact on our exports and business investment is the protracted recovery of the US economy — the slowest in the postwar period.10 When oil and other commodity prices rose in the years before the 2014 oil price shock, so did our dollar, making our non-commodity exports to the United States less competitive and reinforcing the ongoing shift from manufacturing to services.

The second factor [in the slow recovery] is less obvious, but possibly also of great importance....

The GNC reviews the individual components and total amount of director compensation at least annually and may recommend changes in director compensation to the Board for its approval more or less frequently based on, among other factors, competitive pay data for non-employee directors of the financial services companies in the Company's Labor Market Peer Group.

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.

Valuentum's Economic Castle ™ rating assumes that «economic profit» (as measured by ROIC less WACC) is the primary factor in assessing the value that a company generates for shareholders.

At the same time, several factors have indicated that growth in the US economy remains less than stellar, especially on the corporate side.

Second, concerns about China's political culture / values (especially human rights) and security issues seem to be less of a factor in shaping public hesitancy around a free trade agreement when compared to certain economic considerations.

Additionally, the U.S. economy has dramatically changed over the past several years, with structural factors (largely the result of technological innovation and shifting demographic trends) influencing it in a manner that makes comparisons to past rate hiking cycles less relevant.

Specifically, a recent analysis by Graham Secker, MS & Co.'s European equity strategist, found that recent disappointments in European corporate profits are a function of at least three important factors that may be reversing: idiosyncratic issues related to heavily skewed index exposure to financials and commodity - linked industries; weak operating profit leverage linked to declining emerging market sales; and less aggressive use of buybacks, tax optimization and non-operating cost reductions versus U.S. peers.

However, a simple mortgage calculator doesn't factor in property taxes, homeowner's insurance or private mortgage insurance (PMI), which is typically required when you make a down payment of less than 20 percent.

With these key factors in mind, here is a list of 7 Canadian cannabis companies with market values of less than $ 1 billion that will make excellent buyout targets in 2018.

The sell decision a little less so — probably due in part to emotional factors.

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Investments in developing markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors, in addition to risks associated with these markets» smaller size, lesser liquidity and the potential lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets.

Though the ECB has acknowledged that one of the main factors underlying the eurozone's stagnation is a lack of credit growth, any potential use of QE seems unlikely to make much of an impact in this regard, even if an announcement of QE could drive yields down further, making it even less attractive for banks to hold government bonds.

While we delivered strong sales growth and CCI cost savings, these gains were offset in part by factors that included a less favorable mix of sales and higher benefit costs.

Phoebe Thompson, editor of Premier Youthwork Magazaine thinks a number of factors are behind the changes in teenage behavior, on Premier's «News Hour» programme, she said: «the government has taken to make smoking less appealing by covering packets and also putting the long term effects on there, and also the rise of contraception and better sex education probably has contributed to the lowering of teenage pregnancies».

Hence there are Church members today who continue to summon and teach at every level of Church education the racial discourse that black people are descendants of Cain, that they merited lesser earthly privilege because they were «fence - sitters» in the War in Heaven, and that, science and climatic factors aside, there is a link between skin color and righteousness» Mormon scripture specifically referencing race includes (from the Book of Mormon): 1 Nephi 11:8 1 Nephi 11:13 1 Nephi 12:23 1 Nephi 13:15 2 Nephi 5:21 2 Nephi 30:6 (1830 edition) Jacob 3:8 Alma 3:6 3 Nephi 2:15 Mormon 5:15

Then and now, although much less now, sociologists and political scientists tended to ignore or downplay «the religious factor» in social attitudes and behavior, including politics.

Even less did it take account of the till longer predisposing factors for which the U.S. is more to blame than Saddam Hussein: the decade spent competing with the U.S.S.R. in building up Hussein's forces, and the explicit statements made in July to the effect that what Hussein might choose to do with border problems was not our concern.