«The luxury market is targeting a much
narrower portion of the buyer pool, and those buyers aren't panicking or overpaying for these properties, so they tend to sit,» said Jonathan Miller, founder and CEO of Miller Samuel.
Continuing the pseudostatistical arguments, a god that can exist only within
a narrow portion of the spectrum of possible gods is less likely than a god that can exist over a larger portion of the spectrum.
And even in the imaginary world in which VAM is used, learning growth on math and reading tests only captures
a narrow portion of school quality, which is why those measures are not consistent predictors of later life outcomes, like graduation, college attendance, and earnings.
What happens when all of these variants, with a now small gene pool, are bred together to «perfect»
this narrow portion of the standard?
This surgery works best in male cats that have a very
narrow portion of urethra near the tip of their penis but in which the remainder of the urethra is adequately wide.
This involves shortening and widening the urethra to allow urethral plugs and other potentially obstructing materials to be eliminated without travelling through
the narrowed portion of the urethra in the penis.
Not exact matches
The woman's profile is invisible during the Q&A
portion and
narrows down a field
of four to the one guy they want to chat with.
It is the
narrowing of the arteries
of the heart due to the buildup
of plaques causing less oxygen to reach
portions of the heart.
The common image
of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion
of John Calvin is a mean - spirited,
narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast
portion of the human race to eternal suffering.
Last month, the final three site possibilities were
narrowed to the northern
portion of Knoch Park west
of the tennis courts, the southern half
of Knoch Park near the baseball fields and the Garden Plots.
The organizers
of the 43North business plan competition said they have
narrowed their pool
of 502 applicants down to 134 semifinalists that have cleared the first hurdle for a shot at winning a
portion of the $ 5 million in prizes that will be handed out to eight winning companies in early October.
Last fall, the New York state Department
of Transportation appeared to
narrow down its options for renovations to a
portion of I - 81 in Syracuse to two: removing the elevated
portion of the highway and making it a community grid, or simply widening that
portion of the highway.
This group
of small countries constitute roughly five percent
of the global population.The member - states share the same challenges in terms
of scarce resources, vulnerability to natural disasters, dependency on international trade, and small but growing populations in
narrow and sometimes submerging
portions of land.
The new sensor consists
of a 1 - millimeter long
portion of the end
of an optical fiber that
narrows and is bent into a configuration called an S taper.
Physically she belongs to what one observer has called «the fair - skinned, fair - haired, gray - to - blue - eyed, long - limbed, relatively
narrow - faced individuals that constitute a substantial
portion of the population
of Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, western Finland.»
«A
narrower range suggests that socioeconomic factors could explain a substantial
portion of the observed differences in hospital readmission rates,» said Nagasako, an instructor
of medicine.
Certainly, one possible reason there is so little variance among those in the full sample and those in different,
narrower groupings
of scientists is that those in the
narrower groups make up a significant
portion of the full sample.
(Copyright Ted Stryk) MESSENGER Views Mercury's Horizon As the MESSENGER spacecraft drew closer to Mercury for its historic first flyby, the spacecraft's
Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) acquired an image mosaic
of the sunlit
portion of the planet.
For example: A
narrow grip will build the outside
portion of the biceps making them appear thicker from the front and a wide grip will stress the inside
of the biceps making the front double biceps pose that much more impressive.
The bodice is supported by two,
narrow spaghetti straps that cross over the shoulders, then crisscross over the upper
portion of the wearer's back.
The menu shows clips in a
narrow opening left by the repositioned, resized version
of the cover art's actor shots while a
portion of the opening rap «Life in the City» and police sirens are looped.
In many states, one not only has to resign, but also must ask for a rebate
of the political
portion of their dues every year during a specified — and frequently very
narrow — window
of time.
Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement
of teachers with computers for a significant
portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest
of the day;
narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»
The next day, Kaczorek was able to
narrow the repetitive
portion of his lesson down to the two questions he knew would deliver the most bang.
Chris Svensson, British - born design leader for the new GT (and all North American Ford products), attributes the impression
of it being much smaller to the body's very
narrow central
portion, which includes the nearly vertical exterior cabin walls.
A good
portion of the route was twisting and
narrow mountain roads, with a steady rain falling.
since I swear the woman looked exactly like her, with woolly braids, blue - black skin,
narrow eyes, and most
of her concentrated in her lower
portion, like an eggplant.
After a night
of fierce competition, the contestants were
narrowed down to the Top 5 for the interview
portion of the pageant.
The Pichi Richi Railway is
narrow gauge and is the last remaining operating
portion of the famous Ghan railway.
They run on the last remaining operating
portion of the historic
narrow - gauge Ghan railway line.
There's an odd
narrow lump
of plastic just beneath the headband cushion (likely where the wiring runs from ear to ear) that creates a very focused pressure point wherever the headband
portion is sitting.
«In our study, we predicted that about half
of the species on the Barva Transect have such
narrow ranges that, with the 3 °C
of warming predicted by the IPPC over the current century, their predicted range will no longer include any
portion of their current range.»
First visible is a very
narrow band so its
portion of the solar spectrum is rather small.
All or
portions of the reports
of the financial expert also can be used if both parties agree, which can help to
narrow the future issues.
From afar, many agents are not aware
of the
narrow margins that exist in the ownership
of a real estate company, a reason for the constant pressure to pay higher and higher
portions of the company dollar out to agents.
Traditionally used in hallways, dado height wall panelling adds the illusion
of width to a
narrow hallway as well as protecting the lower
portion of the wall from the wear and tear
of normal family life.
Now the next step is picking the paint color for the upper
portion of the wall above it... I'm really drawn to a mushroom gray color so I've
narrowed it down to these.
Narrow - plank beaded board is used on the lower
portion of these walls.