Sentences with phrase «lower than a majority»

Its unemployment rate is lower than the majority of cities on our list, and the median home price also beats most places.

Organic producers within Australia generally rank lower than the majority of their international counterparts.

Except the risk of pit bulls attacking is much lower than a majority of other dogs, including some «family friendly» ones.

Not exact matches

The majority of employers typically offer candidates lower salaries than they're willing to pay so there's room to negotiate, according to CareerBuilder.

«For the vast majority of people, regularly getting less than about seven hours of sleep leads to concentration problems, lower energy levels, accidents, and, in the long - term, raises the risk of depression,» PsyBlog stresses.

Federal income taxes paid also are lower in Michigan than in a majority of states because of the low median household income here.

The majority think the price is now fair, and almost as many subscribers think it is too high than think it is too low.

Although it has one of the lowest amounts of sales tax paid, Wisconsin has higher state and property taxes paid than in a majority of states.

In a majority of cases, companies are able to offer robo advisor services with significantly lower fees than traditional human advisors while still maintaining approximately the same return on investment.

The company has since fired more than 5,000 employees, the vast majority of them lower - level workers.

Even though the median household income is low in Louisiana, residents are less likely to live paycheck to paycheck than residents in a majority of the states.

But skeptics may be surprised to learn that the majority of hedge fund managers focus on providing capital appreciation with lower volatility than the broad markets.

The disappointing results can be squarely blamed on lower than hoped for sales in North America, which is where Under Armour generates the majority of its revenue.

I also love whole eggs, but just thought I'd point out that using 2 egg whites versus 1 whole egg will actually give you more protein (since the majority of the protein is in the white, not the yolk), as well as the lower calories, than a whole egg would.

The higher ranked team has received the majority of bets over 60 % of the time, which is actually a little lower than I expected.

The mid-level to upper - level guys get paid better than most other teams would pay, so whereas other teams have a handful of high - priced players and a lot of low - priced guys (which results in a top - heavy salary cap), Belichick does an excellent job balancing his cap space out to the majority of the roster.

Both schools pull in more athletic revenue than the majority of front - line Big 12 candidates, but they have way worse men's basketball programs, smaller fanbases, less academic funding, and lower university rankings than the league's averages.

why was Sanchez truly playing... no one believes he was too injured to play to start the season, and some like myself would go as far to suggest he wasn't injured at all... so why play him... they can't say it was to appease the fans because when was that ever a factor at this club except when «panic buys» were in the offing... I believe that this was to give Arsenal a little leverage when it comes to negotiating his transfer... just imagine their horrible bargaining position if Sanchez never saw the field before the deadline then heading back to South America and played for Chile... regardless of the facts, this was sadly again another example of a team putting business ahead of fielding a team with the greatest chance to secure 3 points... of course, some will say that Sanchez is, or was, our best player, so obviously he's a no - brainer to start, but those who really watch the game know that his heart hasn't been truly in it for quite some time... even at the end of last season you could see a definitive difference between the Sanchez who played for Chile and the one that played for Arsenal... that being said, 70 % of Sanchez is still better than a 100 % of the vast majority of our remaining roster... shame on you Arsene and shame on you too Sanchez for that telling smirk... I've supported your attempt to push this squad to the next level but don't pretend for a second that you didn't know you were being watched... don't lower your standards or you'll end up like this club, on the outside looking in

Im extremely pleased by Fabianskis performance... I think the majority of saves made were pretty much bread and butter saves (apart from the first minute low stop — an awesome save for any keeper) however this match will have developed his confidence no end and I really hope AW sticks with him rather than bring Almunia back into the line up.

Astra themselves have spent the majority of their existence in the lower leagues, and are considered to be a much smaller club than the two big Bucharest teams.

Outplayed was one way to describe Blackburn's match - up with Liverpool on Merseyside last Sunday, with the Reds dominant for the majority of the game despite starting the match lower down the table than relegation candidates Blackburn.

Some sides have a smaller budget or slightly lower ambitions than the majority of their rivals and surely it is better to leave it at that rather than sticking the boot in?

Ford Motor Company, for example, will continue giving new mothers a full year's leave on full pay, while fathers — by far the majority of their workforce — will receive the bare minimum (around # 137 per week — lower than the national minimum wage!)

Thousands of reviews have been posted for this white noise machine with the majority being positive and few being lower than 3 stars on Amazon.com.

The vast majority of births in Ireland take place in hospital, either in a dedicated maternity hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach in which they are cared for primarily by midwives rather than obstetricians.

The vast majority of births in Ireland take place in hospital, either in a dedicated maternity hospital or in the maternity unit of an acute hospital, but some women choose to have their baby at home and others choose a more low - tech approach such as a birth centre or a midwifery led unit in which they are cared for primarily by midwives rather than obstetricians.

They noted, however, that the majority of low - fat milk consumed — 60 percent of all milk purchases — was chocolate milk, a concern because sweetened milk has more calories than reduced - fat white milk and contains twice as much sugar.

Silver, who represents a lower Manhattan Assembly district, has a cash on hand total that is larger than Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who reported $ 2.1 million.

DeFrancisco, a Republican candidate for governor, pointed to a push by GOP lawmakers, including Majority Leader John Flanagan, to end the START - UP New York program, which was created by Cuomo and has been criticized for its spending on advertising, but producing a lower number of jobs than initially projected.

[1] She took the seat with 24,460 votes — a 50.4 % share and a majority of 8,126 on a marginally lower turnout than in 1992.

To eliminate the Tories working majority, Labour has to get the CON - LAB lead down to 3.5 % which is 3 % lower than 2015.

Moreover, the overwhelming majority of recent opinion polls show the Tories falling below even this low level of support: for example three - quarters of the polls taken since the Conservative Party conference in October give them less than 42 %.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

As Democrats continue to control the majority in Albany's lower house, basic logic says a local Democrat might be able to accomplish more than a Republican.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Wednesday that they are negotiating possible compromises on the minimum wage issue, which could include a lower minimum wage in Upstate New York than in New York City, excluding farms from the hike, and providing a tax credit to small businesses to help them adjust.

Lower fuel costs (hedging rates of 80 - 90 % for the majority of large airlines has delayed much of the benefit from low fuel prices into 2016), a faster than expected recovery of the European economy and strong performance on business travel on North Atlantic routes is benefitting the region.

Yet, while dissatisfaction with the present government expressed in the survey was high, it was lower than it had been in CROP polls at the corresponding points in the terms of either of Charest's majority governments.

«The city's Mitchell - Lama portfolio provides stable, affordable apartments to more than 100,000 New Yorkers, the vast majority of whom are low - income,» Been said.

The bad news is that the swing is lower than in previous polls in this series — and would probably leave the Tories just short of an overall majority in the new House of Commons.

There are 107 Tory seats where the majority is lower than this, he says.

A majority of New Yorkers — including majorities of both parties, and both genders - say Caroline Kennedy has been treated fairly by the media, although that number is lower among women than men.

In more than a dozen interviews with The Daily Orange, public housing tenants living by I - 81 in the low - income, majority black East Adams Street neighborhood expressed increasing frustration and anxiety with what several called an unnecessary delay of the interstate's replacement project.

However, once in office, Spitzer found the office to be more constricting than the A.G., leading to frequent clashes with state legislators such as then Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, and his approval ratings were already low before he resigned in disgrace due to a prostitution scandal.

The Conservative majority there is now a bit lower than 2010 so it's still likely to be competitive.

The vast majority of those deaths — more than 80 percent — occur in low - and middle - income countries.

Moreover, the research shows, trauma patients of all races are 40 percent less likely to die — regardless of the severity of their injuries — if they are treated at hospitals with lower - than - expected mortality rates, the vast majority of which serve predominantly white patients.

The truth is that lifestyle is far more important than cholesterol levels in determining the risk of heart disease for the vast majority of people, but this is getting drowned out by the commercially fueled cholesterol - lowering frenzy.