Sentences with phrase «less a figure of»

Finally, it is intriguing to note that, biographically speaking, both philosophers exhibit a profound personal paradox that, to my mind, is not emulated in the other, considerably lesser figures of 20th - century British thought.

But throughout, he is less a figure of derision than a poignantly high - minded, if blinkered, human being.

Hawn began her acting career playing the ditz on TV comedies like Good Morning World and Laugh - In, but by the end of the»60s, her bubble - headed persona became less a figure of fun and more a love - generation ideal.

No less a figure of statist orthodoxy than Robert Manne pronounced the «denialists» totally victorious in August.

One of the defense lawyers recommended a lesser figure of 2.5 million.

Not exact matches

For Candace, it's less about going out and getting joy than it is about figuring out where moments of joy already exist in our daily lives.

The Conservatives are in a full identity crisis now, and will have to figure out if they want to play tough with the U.S. and go back to the Sir John A. MacDonald days of a National Policy — essentially copying Trump's Buy American stance with a Buy Canadian — or if they want to follow the pro-free trade Mulroney - Harper path, which is more likely but offers less differentiation from the Liberals.

While the year isn't over yet, 2016 is shy of last year's figure at less than $ 500 million.

For those not bold (or crazy) enough to ink the image of Jobs on their skin, Legend Toy's 12 - inch plastic action figure made in his likeness was, for a time, a less painful and non-permanent way to keep his memory alive.

The CEO of Boeing said Wednesday that he told Donald Trump the company would build a new Air Force One fleet for less than $ 4 billion, referencing the figure the president - elect previously claimed the «out of control» contract would cost.

Whatever the cause, most of us have had to sit down and figure out how to feed our families for less money at one point or another.

The figures suggest that the imposition of capital controls in an attempt to stop the country's banks from collapsing had less of an impact than first thought.

That year Winnebago Industries tallied $ 211 million in sales, less than a fifth of the 2004 figure.

They are less about the kind of person I want to be and more specific to figures and numbers.

UnionsWA has said that the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that women in Western Australia continue to be paid a far less amount on average than men.

Merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector dropped to less than $ 1 billion in the first quarter of this year — the lowest since 1994, according to figures recently published in The Globe and Mail.

(According to the official population figures, Beijing and Shanghai, often portrayed as the norm for the new China, house less than 4 % of the country's residents.)

A great thing to do is to actually calculate the cost of your time, which will help you figure out if you can pay someone to do something for less than your hourly rate.

But while the raw economic benefits are clear — 74 % of Indian households earn less than US$ 2,000 per year, while the average outsourcing worker makes double that figure — Nadeem questions the deeper impact of the «emotional labour» that service work involves.

The habits and tastes of millionaires are fascinating to those of us with less - than - seven figure bank accounts.

While FedEx and UPS are still trying to figure out how to use unmanned drones to deliver packages, the consumer drone market has morphed quickly from DIY kits to machines like this that are ready for flight straight out of the box and cost less than $ 1,000.

Investment in Guanajuato, which peaked at $ 2.9 billion in 2015, is now falling steadily, reaching less than half that amount for most of 2017, according to state figures.

The reality is that all but a very select group of cities are struggling to figure out how to create jobs in a time when companies are less dependent on human beings and traditional industries face technology - and trade - driven disruption.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

In fact, figures no less respected that Albert Einstein, his fellow physics Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, and super entrepreneur Elon Musk have all offered practical advice anyone can use to accelerate their learning of the subject of their choice.

The figure is likely to be significantly lower — perhaps closer to $ 15 million or less — assuming he gave more of his fortune away to Harris and other family members.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

AI seems to have figured out other, less difficult versions of poker — AI technology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, beat humans at Head's Up Limited Hold «Em, for example.

They needed less money, since they were only offering one kind of shirt, but they also figured they might raise that amount quickly, and have a shot at going far beyond — a correct guess, as things turned out.

Given the figures in the table, it's easy to see why United's productivity gains have been recognized by investors since it does more with less and it has seen its stock price rise 45 % in one year as of April 26, 2017.

Depending on how it's reported, a significantly smaller income figure on Trump's Form 1040 than on his financial disclosure could be a fresh sign that his personal fortune, too, is less than the «more than $ 10 billion by any stretch of the imagination» that he's claimed.

with legacy products that have become less relevant in an age of consolidating compute and storage power in public clouds running commodity hardware, so they have to figure out how to move into this new world while lugging all that baggage.

While the first two pieces of sales advice from George Vitko at Reply sound pretty intuitive, figuring out how to provide value first — in the way your prospects want to receive it — is a unique challenge for those less experienced in inside sales.

Brent Lightner, founder of the digital agency Taoti Creative, has a simple rule: «If you have less than $ 10,000 to invest in your website, figure out how to make Squarespace or Wix work.

This 139,025 figure should not be used directly as an estimate of people making less than $ 15 hour, as it does not cover all federally regulated workers and many of the part - time workers in this category made more than $ 15 an hour.

If you're a tech firm in San Francisco hiring a content strategist onsite, you can expect to pay a professional with 5 - 10 years of experience right around six figures each year whereas hiring a less experienced content marketer in a smaller market could come in around the lower end of these ranges.

While Canada Goose is spending six figures trying to combat this growing problem, here are some much less expensive steps you can take to make sure you're getting the real thing when you slip on one of these fine coats.

I resisted reading it for a long time because I figured it would be full of self - affirmational claptrap, and there is some of that, but it's mainly about a simple financial truism: no matter how much money you make, the only way to get rich is to spend much less than you earn.

«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful of fairly alarming studies.

While the privately - held family business declined to reveal actual figures for its overseas markets, Russell said that sales in international markets such as Singapore, Japan, United Arab Emirates and parts of Europe currently account for less than 10 percent of the company's total revenue.

It seems like a lot of the profitable web goliaths figured out what became their current money - making capacity only after their initial endeavors floundered (or eventually became less desirable — thanks to others offering similar / better services, etc.).

Bad loans as a share of their total portfolio remains low, at less than 2.5 percent, but economists believe the figure understates the problem because banks often extend the payment dates for problem debt.

Once Ruth figured out that she could «live well spending less,» her methods of keeping house and saving money reached the masses with great impact.

Yet even if companies were to suddenly boost dividends back to their historical norm of 52 % of earnings, and even if current earnings figures were reliable, the dividend yield on the S&P 500 would still be under 1.9 %, less than half the historical norm.

Glaucus claims that Blue Sky inflates the value of its investments, and that its published fee - earning assets under management figure is not the $ 4 billion the company presents, but less than $ 1.5 billion.

I crossed figure of $ 1500 in passive income, though, it was less than last month.

This measure, which is less widely used, adds up all of the incomes of the people surveyed and divides that figure by the number of people counted.

For a lesser partisan machine, the loss of a figure as dominant as the Scottish - born Finley would have been a marked setback.

I crossed a figure of $ 1500 in passive income, though it was less than last month due to many sells made.

The r - squared value of 0.0006 in Figure 1 shows that EPS growth over the past five years explains less than one tenth of one percent of the difference in price between stocks in the S&P 500.