Sentences with phrase «less than the material»

According to the IRS, passive income is defined as income received from less than material participation.

If less than a material portion (30 %), then yes.

Not exact matches

Financial data is always at the back of the business plan, but that doesn't mean it's any less important than up - front material such as the business concept and the management team.

Meanwhile, «transportation in the U.S. costs the equivalent of less than one yuan ($) per kilometer, while road tolls [in China] are higher,» he added, pointing out that some mid - and small - sized Chinese enterprises have already started moving to Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and Cambodia for cheaper wages and materials.

The biggest losers were energy (XLE), consumer staples (XLP) and materials (XLB), all down more than 7 percent amid riding bond yields — which makes dividend stock yields less attractive and overrode other factors, like stronger oil prices and a weak dollar.

For example, if a team is working on coming up with new product ideas, they could be given a variety of constraints to work with like «only items made from recycled materials» or «only things that weigh less than a pillow.»

But it's anybody's guess as to which current materials may work out to have the safest, coolest, and most lightweight mix, while still selling for less than today's offerings.

For less than $ 100, the new process allows scientists to make some of the key materials needed to modify an organism's entire genome, or it's complete set of DNA, the researchers said.

-- for nickels, it costs 11.2 cents to MAKE a nickel, but the actual materials used is less than the marked coin of 5cents.

Of course, over time, a significant global supply response is likely to lead to less pressure on raw materials prices than is currently the case.

Utilities are less volatile than energy, materials and even the Index as a whole.

Access to the Proxy: Companies should provide access to management proxy materials for a long - term investor or group of long - term investors owning in aggregate at least three percent of a company's voting stock, to nominate less than a majority of the directors.

The lawsuit alleges that HP (along with Intel) misled the public by suppressing and concealing the alleged material fact that systems that use the Intel Pentium 4 processor are less powerful and slower than systems using the Intel Pentium III processor and processors made by a competitor of Intel.

... although I confess I feel extra pride from choosing to do the cold showers on less inspirational material than this video, since it means I took more responsibility.

What takes less material or outside effort than taking a cold shower yet still challenges you?

Restricted / Closed Defense sector (except weapons production) Traffic information systems (air, maritime, land) Alcoholic beverage production Marijuana cultivation Casinos Historical and sacred sites Chemical material industry that can damage the environment Pre-design and consulting services Architectural design services and architectural services Utilisation of natural coral for aquariums, souvenirs and accessories Small and medium enterprises Any business with investment value of less than 10 billion rupiahs

The modest change to our hedge is intended to maintain our downside protection while hopefully producing a little bit less day - to - day discomfort on days when Wall Street suddenly goes «risk on» and chases banks, financials, materials, and high - debt cyclicals, all of which we hold with smaller weight than the major indices reflect.

I time the market in the sense that when I find a commodity where the selling price is less than the cost of production, in other words, an industry that's in liquidation, I know that either the material becomes unavailable or the price goes up and the longer the situation lasts, the more dramatic the response will be.

Although you can get started in online retail for less than $ 1, you will likely want to invest in boxes and packaging materials as your business grows.

Hemp phytoremediates contaminated soils, uses much less water to grow than corn, soybean, and cotton, and it doesn't need herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides to grow successfully; hemp does all of this while producing more material in it's twelve or so feet of sun stretching life.

Unwilling to officially launch with materials that were anything less than revolutionary, she took on some consultants, including former Social Security employees, and had them examine her work and give her their approval or suggestions for improvement.

I enjoyed the resources industry because it really epitomizes the concepts of practical design: you end up engineering things on the run to be «fit for purpose», making do with potentially less equipment and materials than you'd prefer in some fairly remote and challenging environments.

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals» Dhahran Techno Valley also incubates startups and provides seed investment; they include Telaa, which developed anti-corrosion material for pipelines that is supposed to be more effective and environmentally friendly than existing technology, and ConCure which uses less water in making concrete.

Taking this key metric into account, I ran a screen for dividend payers in the energy and materials sector, trading on a major U.S. exchange with yields better than the 10 - year Treasury and an even more sustainable payout ratio of less than 25 % — lower than the S&P 500 average.

But somehow many take typing on a screen as less material than whispering in a lover's ear.

Repressive moralism is a product of the dualistic Greek mind, which tended to denigrate the physical and material as less worthy than the nonphysical or spiritual.

Working - class people in the 1960s, an era of less material comfort than today, when surveyed largely expressed satisfaction with their lives and their communities.

But though he gave up his claim to conscience, he by no means gave up his claim to material wealth; Homo Sovieticus was on average much poorer than Western man, but certainly no less consumption - oriented.

And educational resources can be obtained from dozens of major publishers that may offer materials far slicker and less expensive than denominational lines.

... [Americans] have become a nation that may defy every foe but that most dangerous of foes, herself, destined to a majestic future if she will shun the excess and perversion of the principles that made her great, prate less about the enemies of the past and strive more against the enemies of the future, resist the mob and the demagogue as she resisted Parliament and King, rally her powers from the race for gold and the delirium of prosperity to make firm the foundations on which that prosperity rests, and turn some fair proportion of her vast mental forces to other objects than material progress and the game of party politics.

Such authentic sayings, whose exact wording can not well be reconstructed, whose translation is uncertain, whose out - of - date thought patterns are obvious, are none the less more important historical sources for encountering Jesus» history and person than would be the chronological and psychological material the original quest sought in vain.

The materials that we possess for reconstructing the life and teaching of even the greatest of them — Hillel, for example, or Gamaliel II — fill less than a dozen pages, and must be collected from the most varied sources.

One is tempted to call them blind, since they fail to perceive that all these material instruments, ineluctably linked in their birth and development, are finally nothing less than the manifestation of a particular kind of super-Brain, capable of attaining mastery over some super-sphere in the universe and in the realm of thought.

One trusts that the absence of Guiney and other Catholics from these pages is not because Woodworth numbers them among the «almost «Christians» or «non «Christians,» but simply because of considerations of length; in the preface he notes, for example, that he used far less than half his source material.

Having been exposed to the newest and best material things, those cute children begin to morph into something less than cute.

The promotional materials for the Festival of Hope state that «Canadians today know less about Jesus than at any other time in Canadian history.»

Bergson uses the term «image» to indicate an immediate, direct «finding» which is more «mental» than raw sensation, but less than an «act» of cognitive apprehension.2 Roughly, «images» are the «raw material» of «intellectual effort.»

Our conclusion about Q, then, is that it is no less and no more than a convenient symbol to designate non-Marcan materials common to Matthew and Luke.

I've read material on one site (the site has 5K + pages, of which I read less than 100) that uses Velikosky as part of the starting point for a theory of the origin of the universe, and subsequently humans, that is congruent with Genesis, but also both explains and predicts things not found in that account.

They are also made with less packaging material than virtually any other comparable container, so there is less waste from the outset.

The coconut, as a container, uses less packaging and manufacturing materials than traditional boxing, bottling and canning processes, making it a more sustainable consumer choice for the planet.

Barton added the Delpenta Stand - Up Pouch costs less than standard gusset pouches because the flat bottom creates a greater volumetric capacity in the same size pouch, meaning less material can be used for the same fill.

This ultrathin (less than 100nm) material is transparent and resists cracking, abrasion and delamination.

The suits are made of synthetic materials — the Adidas models are Teflon - coated — and purportedly have less drag in the water than even the most smoothly shaved human skin.

Chelsea go behind, come back and win 3 - 1 against the relegation favourites and a whole team costing less than most of Mourinho's purchases and they are Champions material.

I realize that money, cars, and material things such as careers are far less important than I previously thought.

Nothing less than the highest quality materials are acceptable and each product must meet exacting medical industry standards.

Bamboo fibers can be spun into the softest of cloth, yet as a flooring material, it is harder, more scratch resistant and less prone to warping than hardwood - In other words, it can take anything your toddler can dish out.

Organic materials may be considered by some to be healthier, but naturally decay faster, and are less resistant to the elements than other types of mattresses.

When my daughter brings home anything less than an «A», I simply assume that she has a slight learning disability or was placed on the wrong side of the classroom or simply failed to properly learn the material because of faulty teaching.