Sentences with phrase «lower than the ability»

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Reports indicate that the new investors will have control over some salary and hiring decisions, as well as the ability to block any eventual sale of Gawker Media if a price tag comes in lower than $ 100 million.

To a certain extent, the ability to prove a product without significant outside investment is industry - specific — thanks to cloud computing and lower development costs, it has become cheaper than ever to launch a software firm — but it's also a privilege most often afforded to those with deep pockets.

However, the low altitude flight profile of an attacking Tomahawk, its ability to use terrain masking for cover and concealment and its relatively small size, significantly smaller than a manned combat aircraft, make it a difficult target for even the most advanced air defense systems.

With the advantages of youth on your side — a fresh perspective on business ideas, possibly low overhead (if you're living at home rent - free), and the ability to make mistakes early in the game and have plenty of time to correct them — starting a business is a very attractive option for young people who would rather answer to themselves than earn minimum wage.

Chit Chats is able to offer rates close to 70 % lower than Canada Post's because of its partnership with USPS, and because of its ability to negotiate deals with Canada - based couriers.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

This is why the deal makes so much sense: AOL provides the technology to target individuals instead of content, and Verizon the ability to track those individuals — at least the over 100 million customers they already have — at arguably a deeper level than anyone else in digital advertising (for non-Verizon customers, AOL's ad platform is still useful, albeit not as targeted; rates would be commensurately lower).

Our funds may be affected by reduced opportunities to exit and realize value from their investments, by lower than expected returns on investments made prior to the deterioration of the credit markets and by the fact that we may not be able to find suitable investments for the funds to effectively deploy capital, all of which could adversely affect the timing of new funds and our ability to raise new

It, however, did include the requirement for companies to use boilerplate consumer protection and transaction receipt clauses as well as the ability for low or no risk companies operating with less than $ 1,000,000 in outstanding obligations to pay a $ 500 application fee for a two - year provisional license that can then be renewed.

There is some flexibility in terms of your ability to pay on time if your total debt is indeed lower than $ 10,000 dollars.

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

Still, the income - tax break on any earnings used to pay legitimate college expenses, coupled with the ability to avoid borrowing costs for tuition later, could make even lower returns in a 529 plan equivalent to higher returns outside of one — and better than not saving at all.

In a press release, the company explained that the technology supported by Citi and Mastercard will improve the organization's ability to promote digital financial access and inclusion for the more than 86,000 low - income minority women entrepreneurs across the United States.

However, consumers» ability to interpret this system was significantly lower than for the TL system.

Due to screening, commercial baby foods may contain a lower level of nitrates than homemade as parents do not have the ability to screen veggies for nitrates.

Anaerobic treatment of suitable wastewater streams offers a host of powerful advantages, including low sludge production, a smaller footprint, and the ability to become a net producer of energy — rather than a larger consumer.

TEAM RUN - SCORING ABILITY The first - place Braves» low percentage of base runners scoring and the seventh - place Dodgers» high percentage prove it takes more than run production to win a pennant.

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I'd rather take him in round 1 than a lower - graded DT drafted more out of need than ability.

Also, will we still negotiate lower fees than the selling club require, even though we will be theoretically more clued up on the incumbents ability to adjust to our requirements.

In the 11th minute, Leerdam showed his ability to attack centrally with a dribble and short pass, rather than resorting to lumping in low percentage crosses.

This will be a good opportunity to nurture a footballer of his ability to test him against lower league opponents than to give him the grand stage in the first place.

I have to question his ability to take a lower table team and turn them around when he has never (since before Porto) taken over a club that has finished lower than 3rd the year before.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

In addition, there are a number of benefits for Mom as well, including a lowered risk of breast cancer and the ability to lose your pregnancy weight faster than moms who don't breastfeed.

It's tricky because if they get it before giving birth, receiving the formula sample is not helping at all, it plays the same role (undermining the confidence a mother has in her ability to breastfeed) as with anybody else, in fact a little bit worse because lower income mothers are even more likely to formula - feed than others.

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

Due to screening, commercial baby foods may contain a lower level of nitrates than homemade as parents do not have the ability to screen veggies for nitrates.

While Graham and others questioned the PSC's ability to arbitrate environmental rather than utility issues, the commission's lawyers questioned whether the plaintiffs had legal standing since the organizations fighting the subsidy were mostly from the lower Hudson Valley, which is some four hours away from the nuclear plants.

«To set the figure significantly higher than even the # 13,400 gross annual wage effectively denies young people and many thousands of low - wage earners in full time employment the ability to be joined by their non-EEA spouses from abroad unless they happen to have wealthy relatives or to have won the lottery.

Tim Woodcock The co-founder of HomeEdison noted the Renewable Energy (RE) sector's ability to deliver alternative energy at substantially lower costs than standard utility rates; the importance of building a two - way energy supply infrastructure in order to allow homeowners and business to sell the excess energy their alternative installations generate back to the utility company; and the applicability of geothermal systems in much of our region.

Excellent low light ability makes them great to use in less than ideal lighting situations thanks to a large lens diameter.

Although house cats have only a limited ability to metabolize carbohydrates, including starch, they possess a longer intestine than their wild counterparts, presumably to help digest the lower - quality sustenance they get from trash heaps compared with the all - meat diet they would be living on in the wild, according to geneticist Carlos Driscoll of the National Institutes of Health.

Once a runner on blades accelerates to top speed, one potential advantage lies in the ability to move the prostheses faster and with less effort — because the blades weigh less than a competitor's lower legs and feet.

The ability of the inorganic component of sea spray particles to take up water has been the focus of this international study where a large suite of well - controlled laboratory experiments have shown, for the first time, that the hygroscopicity of the inorganic component of sea spray is significantly lower than pure sodium chloride, a substance routinely used to describe their hygroscopicity in climate models.

Lower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehenLower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehenlower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehension.

However, when tests include cognitively challenging questions that require elevated critical thinking, females and lower socioeconomic students score lower than their male or high - status peers, even though the students have equal academic ability.

«Blue crabs more tolerant of low oxygen than previously thought: But ability to withstand hypoxia threatened by climate warming.»

Nearly half of the teachers surveyed say it is the low - performing students who generally benefit from the use of games, and more than half believe games have the ability to motivate struggling and special education students.

«We should not be satisfied with language levels that are lower than a child's cognitive ability.»

The results add new evidence that lower cognitive ability may be a contributor to depression, rather than a consequence of it.

When it finally becomes dark at dusk, a person or animal's ability to see small details is much lower than during the middle of the day.

«The ability to show the seizure behavior visually, [showing] exactly how the recording is done, made the journal a much more attractive option than print only journals,» said Dr. Kuebler, «This low cost system is simple enough to set up in an undergraduate teaching lab and can allow for students to do some inquiry based learning labs on a budget.»

The study found that the forelimbs, compared to the hind limbs, had lower yield stresses, higher mechanical hardness, and a greater ability to withstand loads higher than normal.

When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to Florida State University researchers.

The boys with the lowest ratios also were the ones whose abilities were most skewed in the direction of math rather than literacy.

In a study of structural brain connectivity led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and UCLA, those participants with anorexia nervosa who scored lowest on a test measuring their ability to form insight had more connective abnormalities than other patients in brain regions linked to error detection and conflict monitoring as well as self - reflection.

«If some individuals are better at coping than others in a low - pH environment, we need to know how efficiently that ability can be passed on to that individual's offspring and how quickly this trait will spread in the population», explains Dr. Jennifer Sunday, Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

When combined, these measures will ensure that even though the TMT will be much larger than the Keck, its vibration environment will be lower and its ability to alleviate the effects of vibrations will be higher.

This exercise has a powerful ability to strengthen more than a dozen of muscles, including the latissimus dorsi muscles of the back, posterior deltoids, triceps, biceps and lower and middle traps.