Sentences with phrase «low hurdle»

The entry of new capital into any buyout sector tends to raise prices and increase pressure for investors to consider lowering their hurdle rate.

Online training lowers this hurdle so more qualified candidates can run for office.

I say in that book that investment mediocrity or competence is not too low a hurdle.

That's just a ridiculously low hurdle, IMO, especially for a fund that employs leverage.

Dogs must be both people and dog - friendly and in good physical condition for running and jumping low hurdles.

Simply lowering the hurdle doesn't necessarily mean that the challenge will be fun.

But he warned that could be changing: «There's a very low hurdle for that surprise because bond market yields are so low in the front end of the curve.

Richard Windsor, an independent financial analyst based in Abu Dhabi, said that, at first appearance, the outlook seemed designed to give the company a very low hurdle it can clear easily in its early days as a public company.

Road to rewards redemption gets easier — Cardholders lose millions of dollars in rewards, but that could be changing after one big issuer lowers hurdles to claiming cash back... (See Rewards redemption)

WHAT YOU DID N'T KNOW: Tubbs won the Sac Joaquin Section Division IV - V championship in the 100 - meter low hurdles as a freshman, and is aiming to qualify for her second state competition this year.

Small wonder that since those subpoenas were issued the session turned lackluster, an unenthusiastic exercise in stepping over low hurdles while repeatedly declaring towering accomplishments.

We have a much lower hurdle,» said McDonald.

A school that enrolls a heavily middle - class population faces a far lower hurdle in getting its children to reach high reading levels than does a counterpart school enrolling a heavily low - income population.

The Elise had to bow out in 2012 because Lotus lost its exemption to sell cars without the dual - stage, weight - sensing air bags required by U.S. law, a seemingly low hurdle to clear when Nissan can package the requisite hardware in a $ 12,000 Versa.

Earnings growth is continuing to benefit from low hurdle (comparables) relative to the year before.

When Bank of America shut down its eBanking checking account, customers lost the opportunity to have the $ 8.95 monthly fee waived by meeting the relatively low hurdles of opting for online statements and avoiding in - person teller visits.

That is an awfully low hurdle to clear.

We wanted to develop a program that addressed both of those, by delivering a training and work experience program that met the needs of the millennial franchisee, and an investment formula that gave them a lower hurdle to overcome in terms of the unencumbered equity that they would need to invest in the business.

When choosing a name, the lowest hurdle is picking something that's unique.

A whopping 35 percent couldn't even manage to clear this low hurdle.

I've just found them to have the lowest hurdle of nearly anything you can challenge yourself with — no extra cost, time, risk of public embarrassment, risk of injury, scheduling conflict, membership, equipment, dependence on weather, etc..

We used a subset of risk - adjusted return measures that, in my mind, were low hurdles to beat.

At that level, the deal would earn Tesla an ROIC equal to its WACC, which is still a low hurdle, but the deal would not destroy value.

It is a low hurdle indeed to come up with a less tyrannical, maniacal, xenophobic, genocidal, slavery endorsing, and soundly unjust morality than that which is encapsulated inside the Holy Bible referred to by many Christians as their guide book for what their mythical god would or would not find moral.

No. 3 West Virginia's vaunted press is no longer part of the East Region, and while No. 7 Wisconsin's grinding style isn't a low hurdle to the Sweet Sixteen, both No. 6 Notre Dame and No. 14 Stephen F. Austin are theoretically lesser challenges at that level.

low hurdles to better U.S. high school record for second straight week, also won 100 in 9.4, and 220 in 20.5 with aid of 15 - mph breeze, Dallas.

As a freshman, Sime (pronounced Sim) split his time between baseball, where he played center field and hit.340, and track, where he went unbeaten in the 100 (9.6), the 220 (21.1), the broad jump (23 feet 3 inches) and the low hurdles (23.2).

She also claimed second in the 300 low hurdles.

As with any successful matchmaking service, its goal is to help introduce people to each other with great chemistry — in this case professional synergy — that can help entrepreneurs «lower the hurdles to company creation.»

The most entertaining guest (a low hurdle), Gottfried (Bruno Ganz), performs in the role of an aromatherapist, lecturing the group about the body's capacity to heal itself without medicine and praising doctors who prescribe placebos to help further the cure.

The Regents exams give students a lofty goal to aspire to, rather than a low hurdle to jump over.

Since most everyone these days has a Paypal account, it is a low hurdle similar to the hurdle Amazon users experience the first time they sign up.

Good news is that they're low hurdles, but there are many more of them.

Selecting the Russell 2000 historically resulted in: 1) less return per unit of risk than could have been achieved with the S&P SmallCap 600, or 2) a lower hurdle for expensive active managers to gain outsized fees — more often than not for underperformance.

Lowering the hurdle can increase the GP's probability of collecting incentive fees and cause the payment of incentive fees to the GP to begin sooner, although it will have no effect on the amount of incentive fees ultimately paid by a fund that would easily have cleared the percentage hurdle rate if it hadn't used a line.

Brokers who score well in this category maintain a low hurdle for clients to qualify for sub - $ 10 stock trades.

We appreciate Chase Freedom ® for its money - savvy features, including a 0 % intro APR offer and cardholders will undoubtedly welcome the low hurdle to qualify for the new cardholder bonus.

But the fact that the lower hurdle, which is still a significant one, was overcome last time shows that a Rule 50 motion on this item won't be a long shot.

In Wilson v HSE [2009] EWCA Civ 1074, the EAT held that the hurdle that it erects is a high one, but the Court of Appeal disagreed and held that it is a lower hurdle, partly as a matter of interpreting Cadman and partly because of the argument that a high hurdle could place a burden of proof on to the claimant, contrary to EC law.

1) «Research» as described in the case is a very low hurdle to overcome and provides an expansive approach to the first part of the fair dealing test laid out in CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada.

The decision of the EAT under Underhill J in YMCA Training v Stewart [2006] UKEAT 332/06, [2006] All ER (D) 69 (Dec) can be seen as continuing the non-technical, «low hurdle» and (frankly) hostile judicial approach to the statutory procedures in the Employment Act 2002, and also as giving first consideration to the relationship between the statutory disciplinary procedure and an employer's own (more comprehensive) procedures.