Sentences with phrase «little longer this year»

«It is playing a little longer this year,» they report, the same as they have been reporting every spring since 1934.

Not exact matches

Given dwindling CEO tenures — averaging as little as three years in some industries — chief executives can be understandably reluctant to make long - term investments, knowing the benefits won't materialize until their successor's successor's time.

There's a famous anecdote about Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's thrifty ways: apparently, he drove the same 1993 Volvo sedan for 20 years, finally giving it up not to buy something a little more flash with his billions, but simply because it was no longer road - worthy.

«Setting the targets is a little hard to do in a young company, because there is no long - term historical trend you can refer to,» says Jeffrey Wojcik, who was part of the team that designed the goals and who may not receive a bonus this year.

Despite a long sales cycle and little volume driven by repeat purchases, this legendary piano saleswoman sold more than $ 40 million in Steinways before retiring a few years ago.

It was a little over a year ago that AMD's long - depressed stock price rose above $ 12 a share for the first time since 2007.

The International Monetary Fund for years has documented that asking ever healthier taxpayers to wait a little longer for their pension benefits is among the handful of measures that will allow developed economies to save their public retirement systems for bankruptcy.

If you've won multiple awards, sure put them all up, leverage them all, but the latest award is the most important one and if it has been way too long since winning an award, I think you need to get a little creative and call yourself an award winning business, but don't have the award logo and the year you won it plastered all over your website and promotional material.

Investors, however, are focused on quarterly results and often have little patience with clinical trial setbacks and the years - long process of developing drugs.

Worst of all, Luhnow and his execs were openly violating the baseball compact by which rebuilding teams were supposed to obscure their long - term plan by maintaining the illusion that they were genuinely trying to win each and every year, even if it meant losing just a little less.

For example, the U.S. State Department decreased wait times for visa interviews in some countries as long as «a little over a year ago to less than 10 days,» he explained.

The average bear market lasted a little longer than a year, delivering an average loss of 34.7 %.

A majority of pundits have now corralled their one - year forecasts into a narrow, «lower - for - longer» price band, with little disagreement.

So far this year we've seen zero rate hikes, and long term rates have actually declined a little.

The government should let the little guys combine for a real chance to compete and for consumers to benefit over the long run and not just for their next two - year contract.

We're a little more than two years away from retirement and, today, just like any other time, allocating our assets in ways that serve our short and long - term goals is extremely important.

«That one year is not written in stone, it could be a little longer than a year, the reality is we need to take as much time as it's going to take to make it right,» she said.

While The Real Deal's annual ranking of top Long Island brokerages suggests little has changed over the past year in the... [more]

We also have some of the best transportation infrastructure in the world (a little worn because Klein decided it was more important to pay off the debt at the expense of our infrastructure) That occurred during the Lougheed years where we had a Premier with a long term vision.

That is just a little over 4 years, and we can expect a continuation of deleveraging for many years to come - we have a long way to go in order to get back to the levels of household debt relative to GDP or Personal Disposable Income (PDI).

We sold our shares in eBay at close to our target sell price after holding the position for a little more than one year, thereby attaining long - term taxation status.

If we include the sideways action in 2014 that stalled out with very little upside in 2015, then $ IWM is breaking out from a three - year long base.

The longer - term expectations of financial market participants have been little changed over the past year and a half.

We started calculating our personal savings rate two years ago and have come a long way from saving little.

When asked whether their firms allow employees to trade on their own behalf through external accounts, 61 % of respondents said employees and spouses can trade on their own behalf as long as they report their activities to the company, compared to 51 % in last year's survey; 22 % said their firm's no - trading policy is strictly enforced and is a major deterrent to outside trading activities, slightly down from 25 % in January 2016; 14 % said their company has a no trading policy and that it is clear that violation it is a fireable offense, compared to 12 %; and another 3 % said that while their firms have no trading policies, they are loosely enforced and of little concern to employees, down from 12 %.

I have long since lost count of the number of times my father has told me that I am going to hell or have spit in the face of God while my mother sits there sobbing and nodding in agreement, since I came out to them just a little over a year ago.

Reflecting on Kevin Kiley's article «Long Reads» at Inside Higher Ed, Erin O'Connor writes: Teaching high school for a year at a very interesting little Berkshire boarding school got me onto shared class reading projects — the kids I was teaching were very smart, but, like....

What's a little strange is that not long after I began my research and writing, my girlfriend and fiancé of five years had begun having frequent night terrors that she had never had before.

Median family income has risen only about 0.5 percent per year - and as far as we can tell from somewhat unreliable data, just about all of that increase was due to wives working longer hours, with little or no gain in real wages.

I have been married just a little longer than you: 32 years, come about 7:30 this evening (Thuirdsay, May 20).

But the secular welfare states of today, it turns out, discourage large family size, and offer little motivation for the sacrifice entailed in nurturing large families during many long years of married life.

A school year is only a little over a thousand hours long.

The year and the long retreat are then reviewed in a five - day period at the beginning of second year.There is little doubt that seminarians grow considerably in their knowledge of themselves and Christ during this time.

Is it possible and after reading about it i kept on thinking «i will sell to my soul for 20 carats get out shut up i will never ever sell my soul to you oh god please help me and this is continuing for a few days i am afraid that i have sold my sold to the devil have i please help and still i think god's way of allowing others to hate him us much worse even you know and can easily think think about much better punishments like rebirth after being punished for all the sins in life and i am feeling put on the sin of those who committed the unforgiviable sin (the early 0th century priests) imagine them burning in hell fire till now for 2000 years hopelessly screaming to god for help i can't belive the mercy of god are they forgiven even though commiting this sin keans going to hell for entinity thank you and congralutions i think the 7 year tribulation periodvis over in 18th century the great commect shooting and in 19th century the sun became dark for a day and moon was not visible on the earth but now satun has the domination over me those who don't belive in jesus crist i used to belive in him but now after knowing a lot in science it is getting harharder to belive in him even though i know that he exsists and i only belived in him not that he died for me in the cross and also not for eternal life and i still sin as much as i used to before but only a little reduced and i didn't accept satan as my master but what can i do because those who knowingly sin a lot and don't belive in jesus christ has to accept satan as their master because he only teaches us that even though he is evil he gives us complete freedom but thr followers of jesus and god only have freedom because they can sin only with in a limit and no more but recive their reward after their life in heaven but the followers of satun have to go to hell butbi don't want to go to hell and be ruled by the cruel tryant but still why didn't god destroy satun long way before and i think it was also Adam and eve's fault also they could have blamed satan and could have also get their punishment reduced but they didn't and today we are seeing the result

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial subjects: Gandhi was arriving in South Africa after completing his studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years in the future.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

• It went on for too long and achieved too little: after nine years and seven agreements, 82 percent of the West Bank is still under Israeli occupation, while 1.4 million Palestinians are denied access to nearly 40 percent of the Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops protect the luxurious lifestyle of 6,000 settlers.

They are maybe five years old, these three moppets, and I hear Their bus groaning a ways behind me, but they are totally into sculpting Little hills and ridges of leaves, and I can hear them giggling, and in one Minute the bus will hold out its arms and absorb them, and the parade is Starting to move in front of me, but for another perfect instant I can hear And see them skiffling and giggling, and smell the sharp savory death of The brilliant leaves, and see the shoulder of the mom or aunt or neighbor In the lee of the apartment building, where she is just lighting a cigarette, And we get these moments all day long, don't we, we get them all month And week and year all our lives, such a flood and flow of them, too many To count, too many to endure, they are too generous and savory and holy, We could not bear to see and savor and sing them all; we would go blind.

I know in my earlier years when I would «align» myself with «white» values, I felt I was different and doing something special, and then I realized what Whoopi Goldberg said in her comedy routine years ago about the little girl who wanted to be white with the long flowing hair, «you still gon be black.»

Capital and community, we thought, could keep two separate sets of books and still be all right so long as each set looked a little more affluent year after year.

If throughout the years we keep saying, «Let's think this over a little longer before doing something rash,» some day we will waken to realize that the Master has kept moving, while the unconscious decisions of everyday life were moving us in the opposite direction.

For years it was held at a lovely little conference center on a rocky neck projecting into Long Island Sound.

Bottomline, there are thousands and thousands of Ethiopian Jews and they've been in Ethiopia for as long as anyone can remember and, in fact, many of them grow up not knowing about the existence of very very light skinned Jews, (such as myself, of the Jews who fled to Northern Europe at the great dispersion after the destruction of the temple, and after thousands of years living in the frigid north, with low levels of sun, and exposure to the sun, our skin slowly became lighter and lighter, hence I am considered «White», but it simply means my ancestors gravitated northward to the land of little sun, and Ethiopian Jews, and of course South African and West African Jews (identified positively by DNA) have much darker skin, even to that of very very deep velvet Black...) Black is beautiful!

A little over a year ago I had had a long run with seeing people I loved deal with illness, so appreciating health and looking after my mind and body became very important to me.

Adding a little common sense to the Food and Drug Administration's menu labeling regulations that were expanded last year will go a long way for restaurants, supermarkets and convenience stores.

I never knew how to tell and I only use about a teaspoon every year, so a little jar goes a long way.

One little food fact I learned this year about rhubarb — this long pinkish - red stalk of goodness is actually a vegetable and not a fruit.

Even better, these things bake up in a little over 10 minutes, and you don't have to wait in a long line only to find out the parent in front of you took the last chocolate donut that would have belonged to your 4 year old.

It's been a year of cold meals due to taking photos for too long; A year of cooking up a storm in our little kitchen; A year of fails, triumphs, late nights and early mornings; A year of batter splattered clothes and flour in my hair; And most importantly, a year of doing something that I love and look forward to every day.

It has been a little like leaving the Christmas tree up too long after New Years, (and we all know that is just tacky, looks awful and brings bad luck) so, I'm really sorry!