Sentences with phrase «lower against a background»

However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest rates.

Net pricing was 2.1 % lower against a background of approximately 4 % lower raw material costs.

Not exact matches

I should also add, of course, that this economic growth was achieved against a background of very low inflation.

Against this background, the Bank expects underlying inflation during 1997 to remain low, probably declining slightly below 2 per cent for a while.

Against this background of wide payments imbalances, why have the margins for risk in corporate and emerging market debt been so exceptionally low?

The survey came against the background of a number of controversies touching the American Muslim community, ranging from King's hearings to the debate over plans to build an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan.

The video is a low - budget affair, featuring white or red lettering against a stark black - and - white background and a faintly ominous soundtrack.

For the first time ever, the three main parties (center - right UMP, centrist MoDem, and center - left PS) put on top of a 50 - odd lists candidates with a non-European ethnic background («candidats de la diversité»), most either from North Africa, a few from the French Caribbean departments or sub-Saharan Africa, most against incumbent mayors from the opposite party, thus with lower chances to succeed.

Another section of the resolution links New York's strict gun laws to the state's low rates of gun crime, while criticizing some state senators who have voted against «common sense» gun laws like a ban on bump stocks, improved background checks and state funding for research on gun violence.

Against that background, if the government does decide to stigmatise those on the lowest incomes by turning child benefit into a purse only for the poor, it may be surprised at the scale and the anger of the opposition.

All this would be testing enough against a background of falling inflation, lower interest rates, and economic recovery.

Against a background of nematode worms, this graphic depicts the stressed mitochondria (lower right, blue and red) accumulating lipid droplets (red balls) in the interior or cytosol of the cell.

The ferret sounds and speech were presented alone, against a background of white noise, against pink noise (noise with equal energy at all octaves that sounds lower in pitch than white noise) and against reverberation.

This sequence of low - resolution telescope images (the best that are available) shows an asteroid discovered in 2008 as a tiny dot (with an arrow pointing toward it) as it moves across the sky against a background of stars.

The TCGA analysis showed tumors with PTEN loss in the background of BRCA1 / 2 deficiency had lower levels of cytolytic immune molecules and immune - activating pathways that would normally drive immune responses against tumors.

By far the worst thing about Movie Review is the small white font against a black background that is likely to cause serious eyeball fatigue and low - grade migraines.

Against a background of high unemployment, a low proportion of voters with children in public schools, and a desegregation order unpopular with many residents, the Columbus, Ohio, schools last week won their first tax increase in 13 years.

A suit may be brought against a school for not adhering to the public interest (such as not admitting a proper portion of students from low income backgrounds) or to its claim of how it plans to meet the public interest.

Labour's Angela Rayner said the plans were «rhetoric» against a background of funding cuts and lower real - terms pay.

There is little evidence that pupils from low socio - economic backgrounds are more likely to succeed against the odds when academic selection is used to sort pupils into different secondary schools.

And, of course, given that these are comparative measures, even a charter sector that isn't doing a great job can look good against the background of a low - performing traditional school system.

These additional indicators often skew against schools that have kids from lower socio - economic backgrounds.

Tolcarne Beach nestles in a beautiful crescent shaped bay set against a background of cliffs that joins up with its neighbouring beaches Great Western and Lusty Glaze at low tide.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

Problem is, those characters are rendered against some fairly plain, low - detail backgrounds.

In Hiroshi and Marsha, 1981, the artist's friends are depicted against the background of Lower Manhattan, with the subjects» place and the stylish beauty of New York deftly distilled into a single painting.

Both information coming through my radio and the distant chatter of enemy soldiers were clear and easy to follow even against the steady sound of rain and the game's low, sweeping background music.

At the far end of the low quality spectrum is the US Department of Justice accusation against a large background screening firm and that they may have conducted some 665,000 «fake background checks between 2008 and 2012.»

Second, I think your strategy sounds like «toss it against the wall and see what sticks», and for someone without a solid W2 background and very little money to work with, I would rate your odds of success as very low.