Sentences with phrase «levels than those around»

A creative person will possess skills such as critical thinking and divergent thinking, will be able to imagine at higher levels than those around them.

Not exact matches

Men tend to universally level - off around five inches taller than women as fully - grown adults.

But the biggest «breakthrough» came for Gates, he says, when he read Rosling's proposal for four levels of wealth around the world, with level one being extreme poverty — those surviving on $ 2 a day or less — and level four being those spending more than $ 32 a day.

And at the most basic level, the fact that the US buys $ 566 billion more from China than China buys from the US would seem to suggest he's right — that China is far more dependent on selling stuff to the US than the other way around.

«Gas prices are currently at the lowest levels in more than a decade, thanks to a glut of supplies around the world,» said Julie Hall, AAA spokeswoman.

Citi's comments come as oil prices have recovered from a plunge in 2014 with the bank seeing the first stop for the rally at about US$ 65 a barrel, around 25 % more than current price levels.

The gameplay proper centers on capturing gyms scattered around the world, but to even try their hand at that, players have to have leveled their monsters quite a bit — most gyms I've checked out are held by monsters of over 1,000 combat power, which I haven't managed to build up over more than a month of casual but fairly consistent play.

Since then the stock is down more than 20 percent, but Khouw expects support to be held around $ 50 and for the stock to «catch a little bounce» off the level out of earnings.

Still, Fitbit has something of a first - mover advantage that's likely to keep its share price floating at its current level of around $ 32, which is more than 40 percent higher than its trading start price.

A California company called Dexcom connected a continuous glucose monitor (a device that had been around for more than a decade) wirelessly to a smartphone (or smart watch), allowing the user to read, plot, and share blood sugar levels with anyone, at five - minute intervals, all day long — and sending an alert when patients were at risk.

Traditional structures are built around levels of people rather than around the work itself, often creating artificial divisions and departments as well as distance from really knowing what's going on.

Entry - level managers earn around $ 65,000 a year, but those with more than a decade on the job can earn up to $ 100,000 annually.

Against this backdrop of delayed rebalancing, we now see oil prices fluctuating around current levels, in a lower range than we had expected earlier this year.

See Graph 1 in this report: Average transaction sizes in U.S. Treasuries are up to around peak pre-crisis levels, and price impacts are not much higher than they were in 2006 - 2007.

But it widens to 6 percent by the time employees reach midcareer status, around level five, with women earning, on average, $ 11,000 less than men.

After three days of interacting with these experts, hours of exploring challenges at a deeper level than you'll find in today's financial media, and debating with fellow attendees from around the world, you'll be more prepared than ever to safeguard the future of your family and your wealth.

Treasury yields stayed around levels they were at all morning Thursday, but the volume was higher than usual.

Around a third of the investors surveyed by the bank were underweight EM stocks, more than during the China debt scare in March of last year and up from levels seen during collapse of Lehman brothers in 2008.

The next major level is around these 1370 - 1400 levels, and that would be my first upside target, but it's possible we could move even higher than that longer term.

What it does have, though, is a little more than the bully pulpit because these reforms [to financial regulations] that are under way are the product of a process where all the major economies are around the table and they're participating in their development, and then they agree ultimately at the leader level in the G20.

The BIST 100, Turkey's equity benchmark, fell more than 4.7 % in the opening minutes of dealing to trade at the lowest levels since early July before paring the decline to around 3.5 % by mid-day.

China has only completed the first part of the rebalancing — interest rates, wages and the currency have all moved sharply closer to healthy levels, levels at which the imbalances are no longer getting worse, in other words, but Beijing has still not got its arms around credit growth because to do so would cause GDP growth to drop much more sharply than Beijing is willing to tolerate.

Fueling the company's stronger - than - expected results was an increase in oil and gas activity levels around the world.

Rather than stressing vigilance about future inflationary risks, Fed policymakers re-iterated their view that core inflation was likely to rise only gradually, eventually stabilizing around their 2 % target level.

As a result of these trends, the external trade deficit has widened to 5.7 per cent of GDP, and imports are now around 60 per cent larger than the level of exports.

2017 was a record sales year for 3M, but a one - time tax hit its profits and drove its FCF to a lower - than - expected level of around $ 4.9 billion.

That lends support to the stock's average 12 - month price target of $ 47, some 17 % higher than its current levels around $ 40.

Since we knew there was major resistance in $ AMD around the $ 11 level (see a monthly chart), we decided to lock in the solid gain, rather than trying to squeeze every penny out of the advance.

After touching a low of 2.7 per cent in June, yields on 10 - year indexed bonds now stand at around 3.3 per cent, 15 basis points higher than their level in early May.

China's economic growth target for 2017 was announced by the country's leadership as around 6.5 %, a move widely seen as a further focus on stability and risk management, rather than on the creation of additional debt in order to sustain previous levels of growth.

While spot prices in April were at levels comparable to those seen in October 2004, long - dated futures prices were close to US$ 10 per barrel higher than in October last year, at around US$ 48.

Initial jobless claims are around 320,000, a level usually associated with monthly employment gains of more than 200,000, and the employment components of the ISM surveys report healthy labour demand.

Farm GDP in 2003/04 is likely to be around 7 per cent below the pre-drought level recorded in 2001/02, with winter crop production likely to be 5 1/2 per cent lower than the pre-drought level.

Finally, rather than falling, if the value of loan approvals was to grow by 2 per cent per month from the November 2003 level until the end of 2004, housing credit growth would be expected to remain at around its current rate of close to 25 per cent.

Ripple and Monero are also performing better than average, while the rest of the majors are down by around 5 % compared to yesterday's price levels.

Prior to that, the central bank was comfortable with an inflation level slightly lower than 2 % and looked past the small variations around its previously preferred target range.

-LRB-...) According to Thomson Reuters data, companies around the world held almost $ 7 trillion of cash and equivalents on their balance sheets at the end of 2013 — more than twice the level of 10 years ago.

Hopefully, we have all come around or are slowly coming around to leaving people alone to lead their own lives in the manner they choose rather than sitting in a pulpit judging people, often with a level of morality that we / you yourselves can't live up to.

This belief can only be popularized when entire populations are taught to «feel» rather than to «think,» and when this happens, a desire to search the minds of intelligent forbearers fizzles out, and comprehension levels center only around what pleases them and their own unique worldview.

In my own journey, I have been led from supernatural theism to seeing God as the encompassing Spirit, from seeing God as another being out there, to seeing God, or the Sacred, or the Spirit (terms which I use synonymously and interchangeably) as a nonmaterial layer or level of reality all around us, more real than the world of our ordinary, visible experience.

«The word is awash in «low - level» conflicts, today there are some forty wars on around the globe, involving more than one quarter of the world's nations.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published very robust research involving more than 140 countries around the world which demonstrates that countries with extreme levels of inequality (1) tend to experience much slower rates of economic growth; and (2) are far more susceptible to the kind of severe financial / banking / credit crisis that America just went through five years ago.

And more than anything, I hope that when you put this book down, you'll gather the people you love around your table to eat and drink, to tell stories, to be heard and fed and nourished on every level.»

i wouldn't allow anyone who thinks like this to drive my car across town anymore than I would my 8 year old niece... thier level of reality is about the same... although i think I'd give it to the 8 year old because she doesn't believe in magic beings like I Dream of Genie popping around the universe controlling everything that goes on...

With the better than expected New Zealand summer and autumn production now largely priced in, WMP prices were expected to» tread water» around the current levels.

Globalization is occurring at every level of the hospitality space — from food to technology, equipment and design — making industry partnerships more important than ever, in the U.S. and around the world.

That means that he has already played more games than most professionals manage at any level, and is starting to get on for the numbers that we associate with the true freaks; Ryan Giggs, Roberto Carlos, and Ronaldo's compatriot Luis Figo all played around 1,000 top - level games.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

Well he has too there's no way around it... when you mesmerize about the opposition ability to finish it means you understand that a certain level of quality & consistency is needed to finish up plays & bury occasions (that we do create in numbers better than anybody in the kingdom).

BUT it doesn't appear that his cardio is on the same level as RDA's and it seems more likely that Dos Anjos will wear down Covington than the other way around.