Sentences with word «lesser»

Since many of us would have given up under lesser challenges than his, I asked him for advice for others facing adverse conditions.

Jim Cramer inspects lesser - known cybersecurity stocks ForeScout, Okta and Zscaler to see if they can protect investors» portfolios.

As an introvert, at the time I was more focused on building my writing portfolio, and less interested in coaching executives on their communication strategies.

In the case of Netflix, investors cheered the company's international growth on Tuesday, and more or less ignored the fact that it missed its U.S. forecasts.

Giving employees equity in the company can make them feel as if there's less of a divide.

So if a person plus their luggage is less than that, taking into account food consumption and life - support, then we think that the cost of moving to Mars could drop below $ 100,000.

Typical hotels had more than 90 percent rooms and less than 10 percent suites.

The changing market dynamics might also suggest that if you're looking for investment capital to fund your business, or if you're hoping to be acquired, you might get less than top dollar.

I spent less than $ 10,000 in marketing to open.

«The game does obviously require talent, but less in my opinion,» he said.

«Accomplishing a goal is a lot less like taking a train across country,» he writes, «and a lot more like driving a bumper car.»

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway raised its per - share book value 14.4 % in 2012, less than the S&P 500's 16 % total return.

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

It's worth the effort, as less paper allows Kypuros to «work less, smarter and hopefully increase my dollar per hour value.»

Firms in Canada's financial sector are under less pressure than their counterparts in, say, Europe or Japan, where negative interest rates are out in force.

And that's because Otis's invention didn't just whisk people and freight up and down floors with unprecedented speed, it recast the landscape of civilization: It did nothing less than reinvent the city.

Nonetheless, the Canadian market has been one of the best performing globally year - to - date, alongside the less mature and more risky likes of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina.

They're demanding that Uber it take steps, like enhancing background checks, to make incidents less likely.

Self - driving cars especially make sense in locations with less density in population.

For less than $ 2, you can still buy one your childhood favorite snacks — L unchables.

And that's factoring in the fact that they were spending less on commuting, work clothes and other general, career - related expenses.

And even the Federal Reserve's modest rate hikes have had an outsized impact on the bottom line of Bank of America, which pockets the extra interest it collects on loans while paying out much less on consumers» deposits (making money on the so - called spread).

Less celebrated are these innovative companies» contribution of powerful but low - tech productivity hacks to help managers and owners get more done in less time.

«There is much less arrogance out there,» says Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University and an early Qualtrics customer.

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While the shift may be a bit less dramatic than predictions claim, big changes are definitely inevitable.

** From 2017, in accordance with IAS 33, the earnings per share and diluted earnings per share are calculated based on net income (Group share) less the net - of - tax interest paid to bearers of subordinated perpetual notes (hybrid bonds).

Unfortunately, some rising trends seem sure to make the office a less pleasant place to be in the future.

Less confident people often can't be present and their best selves if they're constantly asking themselves questions such as: Did I come across as confident?

The more that people push themselves to think about all the possibilities that could happen, and particularly to visualize and think a little bit on possibilities that might contradict with each other, the more they become attuned to understanding what's really likely and what's less likely.

Contractor OTOC has completed a major restructure by selling its Emerson Stewart Consulting Division less than a year since the two merged.

Though the Harper government has been maligned for paring the CTC's budget to $ 58 million a year — less than that of New York City — it did negotiate Approved Destination Status with China prior to the 2010 Olympics.

Overall, foreign notes are no more appealing, yielding less than 1 % per year, Hallett says.

The enterprise, in turn, bears less risk of holding sensitive information.

Facebook says that «liking» a post is just a passive activity and is therefore a less meaningful signal to use for ranking purposes.

Going forward, the plan to repeal and replace the ACA might be less about sweeping changes and more about incremental tweaks.

It led me to want to change more to pollute less.

The final thing to say is that those «officials» should pay closer attention to what the Bank of Canada actually says, and less to the over-interpretation of those words by the currency traders who have driven the Canadian dollar to 80 U.S. cents in recent days, a 10 - percent increase since May.

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

The motivating force behind this model, Times executives say, is that breaking news has more or less become a commodity because anyone with a website — or even just a smartphone and a Twitter account — can publish news as fast or faster than a newspaper.

April 27 - General Motors Cos top executive, Mary Barra, was paid just under $ 22 million in 2017, slightly less than she received the previous year, according to the automakers proxy statement released on Friday.

Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

Shopping for our groceries, especially staples and commodity products, is basically a chore, and the less of it we have to do, the happier we'll all be.

By way of pay, while the average worker at a startup earns about 6 percent less than a worker at a more established firm, the youngest workers earn about 3 percent more than they do at older firms.

You'll also be freeing yourself to take on new, less familiar challenges.

Generally, however, when combining comprehensive service and technology solutions for on - site HR support, payroll, and retirement benefits, the price can be as low as $ 680 per bi-weekly pay period for 10 employees, far less than hiring a full - time HR person for your small business.»

Times editorial board member Elizabeth Williamson writes that wealthier tech employees seem to support Clinton; meanwhile, those living in «a less glamorous Silicon Valley, inhabited by brainy young people whose long hours power the big companies and whose college debt is so heavy that some of them can't even qualify for a credit card» are «feeling the Bern.»

Running your tank down to zero often results in rash decisions, strained relationships, months of being unproductive, and the physical toll of less - than - healthy coping strategies.

Less than three years after opening an office in Perth, United States grain giant Gavilon Holdings has decided to exit the Western Australian market.

Where we see some progress is in the increasing male usage around fitness and wellness programs, but when the word counselling is brought up, less men come forward.»