Sentences with phrase «not precipitous»

and when applications to law school experience a steady — if not precipitous — decline.

Is not the precipitous loss of groundwater levels, the fact that deep, rich agricultural soils that took thousands of years to be generated but are now exhausted in less than a decade, the collapse of marine fisheries, the loss of biodiversity (thousands of times higher than background rates), the number of species becoming endangered etc. etc. etc. not enough to say that we are headed in the wrong direction?

Not precipitous I'm not calling for, you know, euthanasia or you know, God forbid a plague or anything like that, but let's start dialing back the number of human beings on this planet.

Both AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) have room for improvement, but the drop off in satisfaction wasn't precipitous, he said.

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For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

And since the ranking draws on 2014 data, it doesn't account for last year's precipitous drop in oil prices, which may in future drag down compensation for energy sector bosses, who are well - represented on this list.

While that might not seem too precipitous, consider the Anthem breach: 78.8 million members were affected.

But its fall was equally precipitous, once the company revealed that some staff who sold insurance did not have the proper licenses to do so.

The end of the decades long bull market in bonds has been anticipated for years, but that doesn't mean the bond market is headed for a precipitous decline.

It can lead to a «double bottom,» but not one that would be of last duration due to the precipitous decline leading up to the low of Thursday.

He gave Reinhold Niebuhr the reason for his precipitous departure: «I will have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.»

The model is not one of gentle, placid growing but of crisis — leaps and falls, perhaps of struggling up a precipitous mountain face.

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.

I don't buy this precipitous decline narrative that just so happened to coincide with Dak taking over.

But contractions one on top of the other, excess vaginal bleeding and precipitous labor are not normal.

Because of your precipitous change of emotions and your all of a sudden love for chocolate covered bacon, you might not notice that many of your cravings are actually you «emotionally» eating.

If I had been alone with a four year old, experiencing a precipitous labor, it really would not have turned out as well as it did.

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.

Yes, there will be a collision, but the fall will not be as precipitous as first thought.

«I continue to urge him to refrain from testing and I told them that I had done everything I could do to get other world leaders involved and both supporting him if he would refrain from testing and encouraging Indians not to further aggravate the situation with precipitous comments or action in Kashmir or elsewhere.»

Scientists have long wondered what accounts for that precipitous dive, and why the massive earthquakes that generate long - ranging tsunamis at other subduction zones have not been recorded in the trench.

Scientists do not believe Antarctica is in a precipitous state of warming right now.

It is not uncommon for the decline to be precipitous because the body, in particular the liver and bones, have the capacity to store enough vitamins and minerals for years (In the case of Vitamin B12 the liver can store B12 for 3 - 5 years!).

We have not seen such a precipitous drop since the Oscar polls started last Spring.

While Detroit Public Schools» enrollment has been in precipitous decline since 2009, the district's special education enrollment is climbing quickly because charter schools simply don't offer the services those students need.

The reasons behind this are not fully understood, and the big rise comes after a precipitous 86 - percent drop between the previous two iterations of the CRDC, which covered the 2011 - 12 and the 2013 - 14 school years.

Accuracy through the precipitous stages of the Monte Carlo Rally would not have been a problem; finding the confidence and bravado to exploit this thing would have been another matter entirely.

But it isn't just the precipitous decline in sales that is

Sales figures from the end of last year show that while they don't dominate the marketplace as they once did, print books are showing a good amount of resiliency during the precipitous rise of eBooks... Continue Reading →

But it isn't just the precipitous decline in sales that is driving publishing back to the arms of print.

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...

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.

Although a precipitous drop like that isn't particularly telling by itself, because a stock that is overvalued by 20 % dropping by 6 % is still overvalued, this particular company wasn't overtly expensive before the drop and actually fell into what could be deemed a fair price to pay for an otherwise high quality company.

A) The precipitous drop in U.S. consumer confidence from May to June isn't as bad as it looks, since consumer confidence is «a volatile data series» at the best of times.

Volatility has returned to financial markets in 2018, yet precipitous price declines have not.

I've been wondering whether there isn't a viable investing strategy that targets being 100 % invested only after a precipitous market decline, then gradually moving to 100 % cash as the market stabilizes.

The immediate result is that it fools the pancreas into releasing a huge spike of insulin, which is quickly followed by a precipitous drop in blood sugar (acute hypoglycemia) since there isn't really any surplus sugar for the insulin to work on.

Mileage Plan is old - school and, although it has devalued recently, is hasn't gone down the precipitous route that Delta, United, British Airways, Air France / KLM and, of course, American Airlines have gone.

A cavil to conclude: What a precipitous falling - off is offered in the last two (chronologically) works in the show, one of which foregrounds Superman, pensive as Rodin's Dante on a rock wall in a planetary debris field, the other a cardboard - stiff version of Ironman gauchely embraced by a Teutonic blonde (he can't even get his metallic arms up) before a boring sunset amid comatose palm trees.

Norbert was sober - minded and skeptical about the prospects of skillful short - term sea ice predictions, but even he couldn't help but be drawn into the dubious excitement around the precipitous decline of arctic sea ice and regularly added his own guestimate to the sea ice outlook.

The important news is that in five summers the sea ice concentration over the Arctic has not recovered from its precipitous decline in 2007.

And, quite disturbingly, with a manifest warming of only 0.8 ºC, we are already seeing effects − such as the precipitous receding of the Arctic sea ice − that are not only dangerous in themselves but also producing positive feedbacks that accelerate the warming.

Yet I don't recall Mann ever including that precipitous red decline line at the extreme right....

When I subsequently had an opportunity to comment (after Mann's precipitous exit), I criticized the panel for not following up, but to no avail.

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.

Q. Back when you were quoted in SuperFreakonomics, you seemed skeptical, if not contemptuous, toward the «immediate and precipitous anti-carbon initiatives» pushed by climate activists.

In the last few months in particular, RSS shows a precipitous drop in temperatures not seen in the other two records.

Upon this tableau, the Global Climate Science Communications Team (GCSCT) developed an action plan to inform the American public that science does not support the precipitous actions Kyoto would dictate.

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)».

The slope is not only slippery — the way down is precipitous.