Sentences with phrase «more precipitous»

The decline was even more precipitous in the New York metro area, where investment sales fell 42 percent.

Women seem to experience a steeper and more precipitous drop in marital quality (Shapiro et al., 2000; Twenge et al., 2003; Bower et al., 2013), especially when they are scarcely satisfied with the division of labor and they manage a greater amount of childcare activities (Belsky, 1986; Gjerdingen and Center, 2005; Dew and Wilcox, 2011; Chong and Mickelson, 2013).

The pattern seems to be that the greater the overshoot, the more precipitous the fall, the more damage the environment sustains, and the longer the recovery period.

For older students, the drop is even more precipitous.

According to Variety's report on the 2016 box office, «Ticket sales are down roughly 10 % this summer, but the slide is more precipitous than those numbers suggest... On a per - capita basis, the moviegoing audience is at its lowest levels in nearly a century.»

The drop was more precipitous than the one Pixar's Cars 2 experienced natively but much less steep than the domestic drop - offs that spring's Hoodwinked Too!

More often, it'll mean a more precipitous drop.

Had history worked out differently, it is possible that the LCMS would have followed the ELCA into a more precipitous decline.

At Deutsche Bank AG, currency strategist Alan Ruskin said the manufacturing figures should «play against fears of a more precipitous global slowdown,» although he noted the readings in many economies were below where they were three months ago.

In Silicon Valley, the drop was even more precipitous — the percentage of immigrant - founded start - ups declined from 52.4 % to 43.9 % — a 16 % change.

Not exact matches

Hanergy Thin Film's shares had soared more than 600 percent in 2015 before their precipitous crash.

But as precipitous market moves in early February and late March suggested a return to more historically normal levels of volatility, the question for investors now is how to adapt their approach to the new environment.»

There's no way to tell for sure, but we hypothesize that running out of money, team breakups, and other factors are the primary reason for the precipitous drop - off between Seed and Series A, whereas acquisitions and reaching financial sustainability are larger drivers of the more steady declines in matriculation after Series A.

More generally, the precipitous decline in vocations has bottomed out, with signs of a reversal underway.

As a result, my nests were more like eagles eyries, just about clinging on to the precipitous crags and the single eggs I managed to attach looked somewhat precarious.

With the recession of 2008 battering Spain, bullfighting, which had never been more popular or reviled in its history, began a precipitous decline in activity.

While the MTA is undertaking a $ 836 million emergency plan to reverse the New York City subway's precipitous slide, an equally consequential crisis has been brewing aboard the city's public buses, which provide more than 725 million rides a year and reach places that are not close to a subway line.

The audit also found that ESDC continued to allocate more and more funding to promote the program, despite a precipitous decline in applications from potential enrollees.

«The precipitous rise of Pegida has shaken Germany's main parties to the core and prompted an acrimonious debate at a time when Europe's biggest economy is straining to deal with a record intake of more than 200,000 asylum seekers in 2014 — mainly from Iraq and Syria — a figure higher than any other country in Europe and which is due to rise considerably this year.»

«If you take precipitous action, then you're likely to cause more problems than you're going to solve.»

Blondes have more fun: Her recently dyed blonde locks glowed underneath the lights and she added a touch off blush to highlight her precipitous cheekbones

After spectacular growth in the last few years, the ebook reader market is on an alarmingly precipitous decline, sent reeling by more nimble tablet devices that have gained the ardent patronage of consumers, according to an IHS iSuppli Consumer Electronics special report from information and analytics provider IHS.

Whenever my rankings climb a certain percentage in relatively short order, they have (usually once or twice per month) a precipitous one - day drop off of more than 10,000 places.

A more serious question now: while the Canadian housing market is too small to precipitate the world wide financial meltdown that the American housing crash did, would it not be prudent to set aside some cash so that should the TSX make a precipitous drop due to our own home grown housing meltdown...

Even more amazingly, these performance results Read more about Was the precipitous drop in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters» stock price a wake - up call for coffee stock investors?

If you're closer to or already in retirement, however, the proper response to a precipitous drop in the odds of retirement success could be to invest more cautiously, perhaps by devoting a portion of your nest egg to an annuity that can generate steady, assured income.

More is needed to stop the precipitous listings decline, argues Grant Thornton.

It seems to me that neither Newman, Rothko nor Pollock was possessed of remarkable natural facility, yet each went on to achieve far more than, say, Adolf Gottlieb, William Baziotes or Robert Motherwell, whose adept and characterful draughtsmanship and feel for their materials made the process of invention a less urgent and precipitous task.

However nations choose to implement a crash program, one thing is clear, a crash approach, which necessitates precipitous changes in emissions and infrastructure, will be much more economically disruptive than a proactive approach which can be phased in over a longer time horizon.

«Perhaps the most interesting finding in this poll, aside from the precipitous drop in the number of Independents who believe global warming is a problem, is that the more Americans learn about cap - and - trade, the more they oppose cap - and - trade,» says Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), a longtime skeptic of climate - change warnings.

While wind's recent cost decline has not been as universally stellar as solar's, mostly because wind is a more mature sector, its price downtrend in 2016 and 2017 has been precipitous, particularly in countries with the most favorable conditions and / / or policies.

But that new, thin, salty ice will also melt all that much more easily, so I would think that, when it comes to measuring minimums, we could continue to see precipitous drops for the next few years, even as extent and area continue to recover fairly well for the maximums for a while.

The Divisional Court determined that as this was a simple practical matter that did not involve any important legal principles, management should have explained to the owner why access was needed and should have made more efforts to resolve this matter before commencing legal proceedings: ``... there was a precipitous and premature resort to legal action (and thus legal fees)».

Some experts say the recent precipitous drop in new - and existing - home sales was caused by something more unstable than this winter weather.

That precipitous dip in LIBOR has made floating - rate loans, typically two to five years in length, far more attractive, says John Scheurer, managing director of commercial real estate at Allied Capital, a Washington, D.C. - based business development company.

Calgary entered the new year with more real estate sales reps than last year, despite its weakening housing market, the precipitous drop in the price of oil and significant job losses in the Alberta oil patch, brokers say.