Sentences with phrase «less marked in»

Slow music is better for this purpose in general; studies noted that music played at fast tempos raises blood pressure, though for some reason the effect is less marked in musicians compared with non-musicians.

However, the decrease was far less marked in the intervention group.

Not exact matches

It involves a powerful company, a cocksure entrepreneur in CEO Mark Zuckerberg, gadfly critics who seemed less wacky as time went by, and even the occasional counter-villain, notably media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

But this approach is less practical in videos, where sections tend to be less well marked and skipping around is more cumbersome.

The charity auction for a meal with the legendary investor already passed the $ 1 million mark, hitting $ 1,000,100 in less than 24 hours.

Sterling has fallen on weaker - than - expected inflation and retail sales data and comments from BOE Governor Mark Carney on Thursday, which traders interpreted as the BOE's being less committed to raising rates in May due to recent «mixed» data.

The telecom company also marked record low churn, or customer turnover, which COO Mike Sievert on a call with investors attributed in part to the fact that «there are less switchers in the market.»

Very often a business is marked as sold with the original asking price still being displayed when in reality the business has sold for significantly less.

I asked Mark to share with me in two sentences or less about how he went from having $ 0 in the bank and living on a couch at a friend's house to becoming a self - made entrepreneur with a net worth of $ 3.2 billion (at latest count).

«Although we are pleased with these annual results, this relatively short - term performance is far less meaningful than our long - term results as financial markets can move sharply in either direction over shorter time horizons,» CPPIB chief executive Mark Wiseman said Friday as the fund manager released its annual report for the year ended March 31.

Bitcoin was seen trading below a psychologically key mark of $ 13,000 Friday, shaving $ 3,000 from its value in less than 12 hours.

Even though he's making less than he did in construction, Lewis is not tempted to go back into a field that is marked by job insecurity, he said.

T. Rowe Price for example recently marked its holdings of Uber down by 5 % — implying that the company, in its eyes, is worth about 3.4 billion less at $ 64.6 billion.

NVCA president Mark Heesen is also concerned that the total value of merger and acquisition deals, another key outlet for VC - backed companies, was 40 percent less in the second quarter than in the same period in 2007.

Mark and I are cofounders: Mark you would hold no less than a 50 % share in the business.

Mark has helped numerous organizations enable their employees to help those less fortunate through volunteering programs and community involvement, served on the Gap Foundation Board of Directors, and is currently on the Board of First Graduate, a non-profit which helps those who are the first in their family to attend and graduate college.

That critique misses the mark because the objective of low volatility strategies is not to capture all of the upside in a bull market, but rather to perform less...

Pretty awesome how this little portfolio has now crossed the $ 200 mark in forward 12 - month dividends in less than a year while representing some solid companies providing strong dividend growth.

U.S. health regulators on Tuesday granted accelerated approval for Pfizer Inc's immuno - oncology drug Bavencio to treat advanced bladder cancer, marking the second approval in less than two months for the treatment developed along with Germany's Merck KGaA.

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, estimates that five years after a repeal of DACA, the nation's gross domestic product would be $ 105 billion less than it would be if the program stays in place.

Likewise, the more people hide a post or mark it as spam, the less it will show up in the News Feed.

While the outflows account for less than 1 % of assets in U.S. equity funds, the flood of cash leaving stock funds marks a shift from the buy - the - dip mentality that characterized much of last year.

Deutsche Bank analyst Mark Finnla, in a January 2003 report, described the hotels as «chronically underperforming... [and] making less than a third of what they should be.»

If Canadians become more focused on economic risks, the thinking goes, they will pay less attention to the Duffy scandal, and they will be more cautious when casting their ballot. In this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at allIn this world - view, it actually helps the Conservatives to talk up bad economic news. This marks a U-turn from earlier messaging, when Conservatives first tried (futilely) to deny the economy was in any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at allin any trouble at all. With the negative numbers piling up around them, the Tory spin machine has decided to throw in the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at allin the towel, and try to make a silk purse from this sow's ear. They now want to emphasize the gloomy economic outlook (while simultaneously, of course, evading blame for contributing to it at all).

While it was more volatile in the 1980s than the major currencies such as the US dollar, yen and Deutsche Mark, in the nineties it has generally been less volatile than they have.

Once it is widely realised that cash flows are going to be a lot less than previously expected there is a marked increase in the general desire to hold cash.

Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10 weeks of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start of a 50 % bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10 weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 % market plunge within 10 weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10 weeks, a recovery into September of that year, and then a 50 % market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the market peak and the beginning of a 55 % market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half - cycle, one in July - early Oct of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways market consolidations, and the present extreme.

First off the mark is Tesla [TSLA - NASDAQ], a fledgling California - based company that has grown from a niche manufacturer of an electric sports car to the largest North American auto manu - facturer, by market capitalization, in less than 10 years.

The appreciation of the Australian dollar has been less marked against the euro, and the currencies of a number of countries that Australia competes with in international markets.

The income generated from bonds is still historically low, and with bond prices falling as rates slowly rise, the mark - to - market in bond portfolios is likely to be less than stellar.

they simply took a little of the blood leaking from the bullet hole, labeled it with his name, took a swab of his mouth, marked it as an unknown donor, then sent it all to las vegas, where it was tested in tv time on the set of CSI, BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY PLACE I HAVE EVER HEARD OF A TEST LIKE THAT TAKING LESS THAN TWO WEEKS.

Some activists pointed to the less public role in same - sex marriage ballot initiatives in 2012, a marked departure from earlier fights - such as California's Proposition 8 in which the church vocally supported the move to have same - sex marriage banned.

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

Maine's language in Fallen is even less bound to the illusion of historical verisimilitude than it was in The Preservationist: Eve likens the memory of the Garden to «the remembered scent of a lover,» a changed object is said to «morph,» and the narrator likens Cain's mark to a «Tower of Babel reflected mirrorwise» that everyone sees differently.

In Whitehead, the sense of structured meaning in the creative flow or living situation is more marked, and thus less suspect of being a detour into mysticisIn Whitehead, the sense of structured meaning in the creative flow or living situation is more marked, and thus less suspect of being a detour into mysticisin the creative flow or living situation is more marked, and thus less suspect of being a detour into mysticism.

This shift was marked, however, not so much by clearly defined phases as by the less frequent occurrence of controversial stands (in favor of socialism, for example) and by a more consistent focus on spirituality.

«While there are a lot of risks out there, it feels less risky than in the past 25 to 30 years,» Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics, told The New York Times.

We can now see that the main framework of the ministry of Jesus in Matthew and, to a lesser extent, in Luke is dependent on information supplied by Mark, and that in Mark we have an earlier and clearer picture of the course of Jesus» ministry, even if it has to be supplemented from the other gospels, especially John.

He examines the speeches in Acts and also the editorial skeleton in Mark, and he finds that they follow a more or less common pattern: the ministry began with the «baptism» of John, that is, his message of repentance and work as a baptizer; following John's arrest, Jesus began his own ministry in Galilee, and there «went about doing good,» and «healing all that were possessed by the devil»; then he came up to Jerusalem, where the rulers put him to death by crucifixion; on the third day he rose again, and appeared to his disciples, who were now «witnesses» to the truth of these reported events, namely to his resurrection from the dead.

For example, «the fresh and vivid style of Mark» has been explained as the result of Peter's vivid personal recollections — forgetting that people did not usually write that way in ancient times, but far more prosaically, far less romantically; the exploitation of literary personality is a very modern innovation.

My full passage which Mr. Golijov characterizes as anti «Semitic is «Golijov diminishes Jewish culpability in Jesus» death by editing out of Mark's text most passages that present Jewish officialdom in a less than benign light.»

The references to eunuchs in Isa 56:3 - 5 and Acts 8:27 - 39 refer to persons who were physically castrated against their will, not to persons who willingly removed their marks of masculinity, much less actively engaged in sexual relations forbidden by Scripture.

The only other thing we know about James is that in Mark 15:40, he is called James the Less, which could also be translated as «Little James.»

We turn again to the Bible and in chapter after chapter, find scarcely less notable marks of Israel's intimate converse with all her neighbors.

The affirmation in Mark 14:61 in answer to Pilate's question is less likely to have been spoken by Jesus than the replies given in Matthew 27:11 and Luke 22:70, for if he had said that he was the Son of God, the Jews could have put him to death for blasphemy.

@jf I'll go you two better and name all three authors of the gospels that ministered with Jesus for three years more or less they were Matthew, Mark and John beyond them if you want to include the entire New Testament i would include James, Jude and Peter beyond that All the authors in the New Testament knew Jesus.

In speaking of «parts» of the Galilean ministry we refer not to successive phases of Jesus» work but merely to more or less distinct portions of the narrative, sometimes marked by the insertion of collections of sayings and sometimes arbitrarily divided for convenience in presentatioIn speaking of «parts» of the Galilean ministry we refer not to successive phases of Jesus» work but merely to more or less distinct portions of the narrative, sometimes marked by the insertion of collections of sayings and sometimes arbitrarily divided for convenience in presentatioin presentation.

Borderland insanity, crankiness, insane temperament, loss of mental balance, psychopathic degeneration (to use a few of the many synonyms by which it has been called), has certain peculiarities and liabilities which, when combined with a superior quality of intellect in an individual, make it more probable that he will make his mark and affect his age, than if his temperament were less neurotic.

It has less to do with what you, Mark or I see in the storms back East or some military advantage from weather than it does with who is the center of our focus.

This feeling for the deep significance of the suffering and death of Christ is constantly present in Mark, as the quotations just above will have indicated (as well as the familiar «to give his life a ransom for many» [See F. C. Grant, The Earliest Gospel (New York and Nashville: Abingdon - Cokesbury Press, 1943), pp. 78ff], and is only less important in Matthew and Luke - Acts.