Sentences with phrase «less utility in»

(Indeed, for service dogs, sits have much less utility in general as compared to a relaxed «down,» which is a crucial skill for service dogs.)

Not exact matches

Telephone companies, for example, are considered common carriers and public utilities which, generally speaking, must operate in the public interest, and less from a profit motive.

Advocates counter that the higher the concentration of rooftop solar systems in a neighborhood, the less a utility has to spend on distribution to shore up grid reliability.

As of mid-2015, the measure (see blue line in chart) shows that less than a third of disposable income is required by a representative Canadian household for mortgage payments and utility fees — below the long term average (brown line).

«But as 2018 unfolds and signs of the cycle stalling start to build, watch for relative outperformance from defensives as the multiples in Health Care, Staples, Utilities, and REITs fall by less than the market.»

Ken Doctor, a media analyst for consulting company Outsell, said Verizon is becoming less of a utility that merely provides access to online services and more of a player in the digital arena as it sees growth in the likes of Apple, Google and Facebook.

Kolko said consumers in those regions won't face energy - related job losses, but will pay way less for gasoline and utilities, leaving lots left over for home purchases.

It's less volatile, provides utility, more controllable, and puts management in your own hands.

In some of the locations they have identified, total cost of living can be less than winter utility bills alone back home.

Right now, they live in Ecuador and their utility bills... water, gas, electricity, everything... amounts to less than $ 40 per month.

Although every category is cheaper across the board, the biggest drop is in utilities, which cost 13.3 percent less than in the rest of the country.

Some may argue this comparison is too simplistic and «apples to oranges» but the annual terawatt hour consumption figures persist none the less, and Bitcoin costs roughly 10x more energy than CERN Meanwhile, most, if not all of us will probably find it very difficult to demonstrate a cost / utility argument in support of Bitcoin having 10x more benefit than CERN.

Graham recommended [in 1970] that an industrial company should have at least $ 100 million of annual sales, and a public utility company should have no less than $ 50 million in total assets.

I think what could happen is that you could see more procurement from the utility in wanting to own the assets and then less trying to enter into the PPA off - take agreements, because those are the contracts that are going to require tax equity dependency.

Total solar capacity in California (including both distributed and utility - scale systems) has grown from less than 1 GW in 2007 to nearly 14 GW by the end of 2016.

From our perspective, stocks in less cyclical sectors, such as utilities and consumer staples, generally offered much less value and appeared to be trading at steep valuations.

To a lesser degree, companies in the Materials, Consumer Staples, Telco and Utilities sectors have talked about using their savings to pay down debt.

And I «m afraid the laggards are your more defensive sectors, utility and consumers people are likely to produce less stellar growth in this first quarter.

Also, you can assemble your DGI portfolio to have less volatility (beta) than the index by a higher allocation to stocks in consumer staples and utilities sectors.

Payout ratios of less than 60 % is certainly more stringent, and for the most part, most of my holdings are in that range but every now and then you screen out some great utilities like SO, ED or D for example.

Also, being part of the regulated oligopoly of consumer utilities delivering a core need for people in the United States, they aren't likely to be disrupted by a technology change (in fact, they may benefit from it if it costs them less).

In that instance, the earliest warnings were from weakness in utilities and corporate bonds, but the percentage of stocks above their own 200 - day averages didn't fall below 60 % until the market itself was already down nearly 10 % from its high; less than two weeks before the crasIn that instance, the earliest warnings were from weakness in utilities and corporate bonds, but the percentage of stocks above their own 200 - day averages didn't fall below 60 % until the market itself was already down nearly 10 % from its high; less than two weeks before the crasin utilities and corporate bonds, but the percentage of stocks above their own 200 - day averages didn't fall below 60 % until the market itself was already down nearly 10 % from its high; less than two weeks before the crash.

This is because investors are worried about rising interest rates, something that makes investment in utilities less attractive compared to bonds and other high yield stocks.

Interest increase should harm their earning as yes they are quite leveraged, but what I found in comparison that AEP is a bit less into debts then other Utilities so they should do better

In general, I like consumer staples, utilities, pharma companies like JNJ, PG, KO, PM, SO, GSK, GILD as they are more predictable over a decent period of time and carry less volatility.

Unlike certain «bond market proxies» — companies like consumer staples, utilities and REITs — they may be less affected by the gradual rate hikes the Fed seems to have in mind.

The bonus is that the cost of construction and the cost of ongoing operation is materially less than traditional wastewater treatment facilities, creating an exciting investment opportunities for the private sector in partnership with public utilities.

The money goes to pay for the buiding, the utilities, the maintenance, salaries for the staff (2 people including the pastor who makes less than the average member), supplies and office equipment, donations that our church sends to other churches around the world, money we send to a native American school in New Mexico, and about a dozen other groupls that we help to support.

Thanks to its compact size — less than 1 m in height — and with a connection size of 80 mm, the Alfa Laval T8 is the ideal gasketed plate heat exchanger for HVAC applications in buildings, as well as numerous other industries such as fluid power, metalworking, marine, power generation, general manufacturing, general utility cooling, engine cooling, and the semi-conductor industry.

From then on I was the consumate utility player (which I didn't like very much) I never started a game and finish it in less than 2 positions, and it was killing my groove.

The LED flashes in smartphone cameras are less powerful than traditional flash bulbs, and so their range and utility can be limited.

Cost drivers such as housing, utilities, transportation and health care are far less in Buffalo than in Brooklyn,» Biryla writes in the letter.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

In December, NYPA trustees approved financing that will be offered as part of the Power Authority's Municipal Electric - Drive Vehicle Program, which provides financial assistance to New York municipal utilities to facilitate the replacement of less fuel - efficient vehicles in order to advance Cuomo's clean energy goalIn December, NYPA trustees approved financing that will be offered as part of the Power Authority's Municipal Electric - Drive Vehicle Program, which provides financial assistance to New York municipal utilities to facilitate the replacement of less fuel - efficient vehicles in order to advance Cuomo's clean energy goalin order to advance Cuomo's clean energy goals.

Between 1995 and 2000, U.S. electrical utilities invested less than 0.3 percent of sales in R&D, and from 2003 to 2006 that number dropped to 0.17 percent.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

She pushed Los Angeles and San Diego's utilities to learn to get by with less, which they did in part by paying California farmers to fallow some of their fields.

Utility - scale solar power plants and second - generation biofuels such as algae have led the field in recent financing rounds, but funding is now branching into less developed technologies such as bioplastics, green building materials and water desalination.

The crossover utility vehicle can be refueled in less time than it takes to buy a gas station hot dog and supersize soda — not even 10 minutes — and has a 300 - mile range.

In response APS and other utility companies across the country have launched a propaganda war against an energy source that still accounts for less than one quarter of 1 percent of U.S. electricity.

For example, a study by Vasilis Fthenakis and Hung Chul Kim of Columbia University (2009) found that, on a life - cycle electricity - output basis — including direct and indirect land transformation — utility - scale PV in the U.S. Southwest requires less land than the average U.S. power plant using surface - mined coal.

Cord blood provides several benefits over bone marrow, including the need for less stringent HLA - matching, though its utility can be limited by the availability of fewer HSCs in each sample.

In contrast, much less is known about the potential utility of astrocyte - based therapies.

Given that I've been sewing for less than three months and how well it turned out (it involved my first time making pants, doing appliqué, and I drafted the utility belt and cape myself) and that I made it in essentially less than 24 hours, I am ridiculously proud of myself.

However, these pages are mainly descriptive in nature and less used by the user until unless he is interested in information or utility that page carries.

However, these pages are mainly descriptive in nature and less used by the user until unless he is interested in details or utility that page carries and provides him.

As for the costumes, much as in the first «X-Men,» they're built for utility, with the spacesuit motif offering enough similarities to satisfy all but those who won't settle for anything less than spandex and a big «4» insignia.

More frequently, studies were designed to examine the effect of a comprehensive preparation program, yielding findings of value to those interested in replicating the entire program, but with less utility to those interested in understanding which knowledge and skills mattered for which teacher leader roles.

In economic theory there's a notion called deadweight loss, or market inefficiency, which impacts a consumer when the value of an item's utility is less than the price paid for it.

The 27J district expects to save money in part by needing fewer substitute teachers and spending less on utilities.