Sentences with phrase «make lowering it my number»

No defender under the age of 23 created more chances and he completed more duels (175)-- tackles, headers and dribbles — than any other player in his position within that age bracket and made 127 defensive actions in his 37 league appearances, making his low number of fouls even more impressive.

After that day in the doctor's office when my saliva test results came back with high cortisol, I knew I had to make lowering it my number one priority.

Children's animation films always make a bundle, and should battle it out for first as Insidious either barely makes the lower numbers or is ignored altogether.

Not exact matches

Says Brannon, «The total number of subscribers leaving pay TV is going to be so low that increases in ARPU are going to make the transition of these folks away from pay TV virtually a small blip on the radar.»

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

(The health system uses a number of surrogate measures along the way to make sure that their members are on the right track — for example, lowering their blood sugar if they are at risk of diabetes.)

The report said Qantas recorded poor fuel efficiency because it used older, fuel - intensive aircraft, carried a low amount of freight (therefore making it less efficient) and also had relatively low numbers of passengers on each plane.

Valeant's 2H16 guidance implies approximately 155 % incremental growth in adjusted EPS from 1H16, and, in part, relies on lower SG&A and R&D spending to support making its numbers.

Aside from CDMA, Apple must also concern itself with the emerging long term evolution (LTE) standard that a number of large carriers are experimenting with, thereby making AWS a low priority.

As the total number creeps toward the 21 million mark, many suspect the profits miners once made creating new blocks will become so low they'll become negligible.

Transparency makes clear that the unacceptably low numbers of women in tech are a systemic issue.

The number of stocks making 52 - week lows on the NYSE has soared, reflecting substantial technical damage.

We have saw that, some low quality content sites make huge number of backlinks and then they may rank for short period of time.

The Democratic - aligned economist Austan Goolsbee says there's a wrinkle in the new tax package that might make those numbers even worse: the individual tax cuts are set to expire after several years, and along with other tax changes, could mean higher taxes down the road for many lower - and middle - income people.

It's also reeling from drastic changes that Johnson has made to its business, including slashing the number of sales in favor of everyday low prices, bringing in hipper designer brands such as Betsy Johnson and remaking outdated stores.

While it's still early to make a call, we'll begin testing shorter cadence cycles to reduce the number of calls a rep has to make to a somewhat unreachable audience (much lower connect rates), freeing up time and capacity to spend on higher value metrics.

And a dark art according to a large number of startups which failed and who attributed product pricing that was too high or too low to make money.

If that is the case, investment will not rise, except temporarily in the form of unwanted investment as inventory rises (lower consumption leaves goods unsold, which makes it seem at first as if point number 4 above is occurring).

While the Fed certainly considers much more than the superficial headline number in its analysis of inflation, some of those who interpret the Fed's actions make this overly simplistic assertion: Inflation is too low today and therefore justifies the maintenance of low policy rates.

In other words, over the next five years, this government is planning to spend more money on income splitting for a small number of well off families, a promise made during the 2011 election, than on supporting economic growth and job creation through new spending on research and infrastructure and lowering taxes on investment.

After that, the budgets make similar changes to discretionary spending (higher defense and lower non-defense), though with different numbers.

Another tool we use to monitor breadth is a simple chart showing the number of stocks making new 52 - week highs minus the number of stocks making new 52 - week lows.

True, this has led to an explosion in new companies far beyond the levels seen previously, which is entirely expected — lower barriers to entry to any market means more total entries — but this has actually made it even more difficult for venture capitalists to invest in seed rounds: most aren't capable of writing massive numbers of seed checks; the amounts are just too small to justify the effort.

If every trade is $ 10 (which is quite a low number), the potential difference in profit the robot will make is $ 2,940.

In 2016, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, headed by Oil Major Saudi Arabia, made an agreement between its members and a number of non-member countries to cut their oil production and reduce the global glut that had pushed prices so low.

To make digital currency useful to «cash consumers» digital currency should: be transferable to any phone number in the world, not represent exchange rate risk, be as private as real cash, have no costs for money transfer, and be fungible to real paper - cash at very low cost 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

So, it actually makes complete sense that that number is too low when you're talking about a developed market economy versus an emerging economy because, in theory, a developed economy can borrow at lower rates than an emerging economy can.

• Excellent on certain dividend categories, including 43 straight years of increases, low payout ratio, and highest yield ever available • Declining number of shares over the past 10 years makes each remaining share worth a higher percentage of the company.

Before you pay points to get a lower mortgage rate, run the numbers to see if it makes sense for you.

«While yesterday's inflation numbers make a Fed rate rise in March more or less a done deal the prospect of additional rate rises later on in the year don't appear to be causing the same consternation in equity markets that they were a week ago, as US markets closed higher for the fourth day in succession, despite initially opening lower in the wake of the release of the data,» said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.

They failed to take credit or make the case for the economic upturn, and how their policies have much to do with lower unemployment (5.8 %), significant debt reduction, healthy corporate balance sheets, greater financial stability (Dodds - Frank), record stock market numbers, as well as reducing the gap between high earners and the middle class through Obamacare and reducing the Bush tax cuts.

The two main reasons to consolidate debt are to get a lower interest rate and save money, and to lower the number of monthly payments you're making so there's fewer to manage.

You can't make sense of the numbers if the higher multiples are giving lower valuations.

These numbers will likely be different for each franchisee, as you may decide to make more of a down payment (which would lower your payments), you may decide to finance your equipment over a longer period of time (which will also lower your payments), and you may have to pay a higher interest rate (which would increase your payments).

This lack of direction has caused the number of low - risk trade setups to dwindle, which is why I said in my most recent blog post that SOH mode (sitting on hands) is the best plan of action until the stock market eventually makes a clear move in one direction or the other.

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

Phoebe Thompson, editor of Premier Youthwork Magazaine thinks a number of factors are behind the changes in teenage behavior, on Premier's «News Hour» programme, she said: «the government has taken to make smoking less appealing by covering packets and also putting the long term effects on there, and also the rise of contraception and better sex education probably has contributed to the lowering of teenage pregnancies».

The five intertemporal choice variables were standardized and transformed into a singular continuous scale that measured the number of low - discount or high - discount choices made by the respondents.

They say further that even if one does not equate a fetus with a child, as long as one attributes some value to the fetus» and they demonstrate how economists routinely make such outrageous calculations in insurance claims for loss of body parts» and put the value as low as one hundredth of a human being, the lowered crime rate would not come near justifying the number of abortions.

Regular church attenders made up more of the religious electorate overall (49 percent, compared to 42 percent in 2012), likely mitigating his lower numbers among this group.

James Surowiecki, writing in the New Yorker, observes that the crisis arose because a number of players misused our trust and made loans to individuals who were not qualified and then pawned off those loans on other buyers, who mistakenly believed them to be low risk.

Although this is a much lower figure than the number who fled in Syria, most estimates suggest there are only around a quarter of a million Christians left in Iraq, making the impact of the recent displacement there so much greater.

Oh btw NP, I read yesterday that in the Greek, the verse about how Jesus made himself the lowest of the low and a slave etc. «not considering equality with God something to be grasped at» (sorry no good at remembering verse numbers, but you'll know the one) actually says that he stripped himself naked.

Only 22 % think the Bush administration's policies make sense, the lowest number on this question since October 1992, when George H. W. Bush was running for a second term — and lost.

In addition, I can't count the number of rent deposits, moving expenses, car payments, etc we've made over the years for other members of our family who have trouble creating an emergency fund due to low wages.

this is just my own personal theory, but I suspect the reason Jesus cursed the fig tree that He did, was because he was probably tired, and hungry to the point of low blood sugar or hypoglycemia, and it made Him irritable... naturally, He was walking around in a body like ours, as it is said, like us in every way but sin... everybody tries to read something woowoo theological into it but maybe He was just tired and hungry, and irritability is a symptom for a number of conditions, but especially blood glucose or migraine issues... maybe He had migraines... I get those myself... just my theory, so the two Bible scholars that keep coming on here shouldn't shoot bible verses at me... just sayin... Good «toon, David

Despite determined efforts to recruit Lutheran students, the Lutheran composition of the student body remains low — about 8 or 9 percent — mainly because our region is sparsely populated with Lutherans (but Lutheran students seem to make an impact beyond their numbers).

Gundry's No - Bake Desserts cookbook includes a number of low - stress and easy dessert recipes that can be made without using the oven.

Accompanying the spice mixes we have a number of cookbooks with easy, delicious recipes, all to make the low FODMAP diet less challenging to follow.

As part of ongoing partnerships, Commonwealth environmental water was made available to the Nature Foundation South Australia and the South Australian Murray - Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board to deliver to a number of wetlands along the Lower Murray floodplain and adjoining the Lower Lakes in 2016 - 17.