Sentences with phrase «less than at the beginning»

The cash position at the end of the 3rd quarter was some $ 46 million less than at the beginning of the year due to repayment of $ 56 million in notes, $ 6 + million in land purchases and operating losses, offset by receipt of $ 33 million in income tax refunds.

Not exact matches

The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.

Before you look down at your less than rock hard abs or peek at your gray hairs in the mirror and dismiss this post as only for the younger and fitter, know that Satyanand was far from a health nut when we began his running habit.

You're less likely to make a good decision at the end of the day than you are at the beginning.

If you look at the actual money raised, less money by far than Joe Khan [who placed second and was the frontrunner at the beginning of the race], less institutional support than Joe Khan, who in many ways was the mainstream liberal candidate.

Bitcoin began 2017 at less than $ 1,000 per token, but it has been on an absolute tear in recent months: It crossed $ 5,000 in October and touched above $ 11,000 for the first time less than two months later, according to CoinDesk data.

In Richard's case that began with the founding or co-founding 12 different businesses in less than a decade at Microsoft, including notable successes like Expedia and Carpoint.

Popular interest in digital currencies has taken off in the last several months, helping send bitcoin from less than $ 1,000 at the beginning of 2017 to a high above $ 19,000 in mid-December.

It was the opinion of 95 per cent of those questioned in October, 1935, by the National Conference of Jews and Christians that there was less anti-Semitism in their communities at that time than there had been at the beginning of the depression.

«An hour into doing your work, you've got a lot less capacity than (at the beginning),» Rock says.

For example, in 2017 the phaseout of personal exemptions begins at $ 313,800 for married couples filing jointly, less than twice the $ 261, 500 threshold for single filers.

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Under these plans, your monthly payment amount will be based on your income and family size when you first begin making payments, and at any time when your income is low enough that your calculated monthly payment amount would be less than the amount you would have to pay under the 10 - year Standard Repayment Plan.

Medium - term inflation expectations of financial market participants, as implied by the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have risen to around 3 per cent in October, from less than 2 per cent at the beginning of the year.

Two more easing cycles began in 1980 and 1981, when stocks were trading at less than 9 times earnings.

Carriers have spent billions of dollars acquiring spectrum and are beginning to develop and test 5G networks, which are expected to be at least 100 times faster than current 4G networks and cut latency, or delays, to less than one - thousandth of a second from one - hundredth of a second in 4G, the FCC has said.

Mike Brown began his journey at Saint Mary's as a less - than - keen student.

We are informed at the beginning that the signal was never decoded, and so the novel is less a story of scientific triumph than a series of ruminations on hermeneutics, the hubris of scientists, and the sociology of academic cohorts.

The musical year that began with Ashlee Simpson getting booed off the stage at the Orange Bowl and climaxed with Mariah Carey's less - than - earth - shattering performance...

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Almost immediately after his arrival, Abdulrahman began a certification class as a CNA and less than two months later had enrolled full time as a Medical Assistant student at Everest College in Renton.

It also confirms more than any other evidence that the universe had a beginning and expanded at a rate faster than the speed of light within less than a trillion of a trillion of a trillion of a second — less than 10 ^ -35 of a second — of the Big Bang by detecting the miniscule «light polarizations» called B - Modes caused by the Gravitational Waves — which were theorized in 1916 by Albert Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity but never detected before — of the Inflation of the Big Bang which are embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation — CMB or CMBR that was discovered by American scientists back in 1964.

A month later, the church pleaded with me to begin taking a salary (much less than what I was making at my job) to be able to pastor as I should.

With this experience of what we humans are capable of doing to one another, and with the decline of belief in a providential God, there is far less confidence about the human future among informed people today than there was at the beginning of the twentieth century.

In John 14:12 more or less at the beginning of his long Farewell Speech, Jesus issues a startling pledge to his disciples: «Amen, amen, I say to you, the one who believes into me will do the works that I do, and greater than these she or he will do because I am going to...

Where, at the beginning of the novel, marriage has already occurred, love may well be sought outside marriage; the rendering of a love that both issues in marriage and develops and matures within it is much less usual... The more recent convention that «love» is the precondition not of marriage but of» sex» is a natural development of tradition rather than a reaction against it.»

Nigeria's economy, despite its substantial oil production (it is the fourth - leading supplier of oil to the U.S.), declined precipitously in the 1980s: at the beginning of that decade a naira was worth more than a dollar, while today's going rate values the naira at less than a dime.

It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less «globular») than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots («sub-phyla»?)

Labor earned less per hour in real dollars at the end of his term than at the beginning.

I did make the point that life begins at conception, and that there is no ground of principle on which the embryo or fetus could be regarded as anything less than human at any stage of its existence.

In John 14:12 more or less at the beginning of his long Farewell Speech, Jesus issues a startling pledge to his disciples: «Amen, amen, I say to you, the one who believes into me will do the works that I do, and greater than these she or he will do because I am going to the Father.»

Although the presenters indicated that they had received a less - than - enthusiastic reception in some of the places where they had spoken recently, the many positive comments I heard from my brother priests following the workshop are another encouraging sign about where liturgical practice is going in the United States at the beginning of the 2010s.

It's better to add too little flour than too much at the beginning (sometimes the temperature of the butter can require more or less flour to create the right consistency for rolling).

Rather than being wasteful, some grocery stores have begun to put out baskets of their cosmetically less - than - perfect produce at heavily discounted prices to avoid throwing it away.

Although the food business suffered less from the recession than other industries, many specialty food producers — including Ramar Foods — had to tighten their belts at the beginning of 2009.

In the smoke point values presented above at the beginning of this section, we suspect that the coconut oil and EVOO were less refined than the safflower oil and canola oil, such that the much higher smoke points of the safflower oil and canola oil were not due to the plants from which these oils were obtained, but to the way that they were processed.

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

Staal grewup on his family's sod farm in Thunder Bay, Ont., and like the three brothersdestined to follow him into the NHL - defenseman Marc, 19, may play for the NewYork Rangers next season; center Jordan, 17, should be drafted in the top fivethis Saturday; and 15 - year - old Jared is on track to develop into a pro-caliberwinger-he began driving the tractor at around age six, rolling sod (the pay: $ 5an hour, with yearly increases of a buck, only slightly less than a Stanley Cupshare).

With less than a month until March Madness begins, we'll take a look at the best and worst college basketball teams against the spread for the 2011 - 2012 season.

Out of context, that may not seem like such an impressive statistic, but when taking into account that the Egyptian has been at Anfield for less than ten months, it begins to take on new meaning.

For me, that is a big reason why Arsenal are conceding possession at the moment - they had less of the ball than Villa did on Sunday, despite winning 5 - 0, and against City their possession rate of 35 % was their lowest since Opta's records began in 2003.

Less than a week ago we began the league season with a 2 - 1 defeat at Chelsea.

It will begin with the Super Cup against Real Madrid, less than three weeks after Messi finishes the Copa America, and end with the European Championship — at which Barcelona are likely to supply at least seven players to the Spain team.

The blistering pace at which the Baggies began the season caught everyone off - guard, the majority expecting nothing less than another typical West Brom - like season of strife and trouble down near the foot of the table.

Rumours began to build following strange betting patterns on Friday night, less than 24 hours before the FA Cup final, that Pellegrini would succeed Mancini at Eastlands, with odds going from 4/1 to 1/6 for the Chilean to be named the next City boss.

Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called «ordered probit estimates» do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: «Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.»

«We have seen the rates of NEC decline from 8 - 10 percent to less than one percent since 2009, when we began requiring pasteurized donor breast milk when mothers» own milk is not available for our infants,» says Nancy Hurst, PhD, RN, IBCLC, and director of Women's Support Services at Texas Children's Hospital.

If you have worked with fewer than 10 families of infants / toddlers for less than six months, you may be advised to begin at Level II.

For example, the heart begins to beat at approximately 20 days after conception and the neural tube closes at less than 30 days post conception.

The thing is, those boxes are hecka easy to make at home and if you make a big batch of eggs at the beginning of the week you can pack them in less than five minutes in the morning.