Sentences with phrase «of a lever in»

The rear seats fold flat with a pull of a lever in the cargo area if you need space for longer items.

The 60:40 split rear bench of the Jaguar can be folded flat by pulling a pair of levers in the boot, and self - levelling rear air suspension is fitted as standard.

Not exact matches

Instead, the crucial levers would be productivity (keeping the cost of shipping each carload in check through smart investments to increase the average speed, length, and reliability of trains) and pricing (ensuring that rates consistently rose far faster than costs).

Changing this rate is a kind of lever that the Federal Reserve can pull to make things happen in the economy.

Because Slack hasn't yet reached the point where it has tens of thousands of workers on its books, «[i] t is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» CEO Stewart Butterfield and HR chief Anne Toth write in a blog post disclosing the numbers.

And in any of these scenarios, Bitcoin's decentralized nature means there are few if any levers regulators (or anyone else) can pull to put a floor under a Bitcoin implosion.

Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots in the traditional music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»

«Entrepreneurs, especially in the tech world, have a lot of levers they can use to attract investors,» he says.

Just in terms of the economics, European nations have given up one of their main levers in responding to crises (monetary policy), without getting any of the transfers that fiscal union would have brought.

Or C) To lever Russian natural gas out of Europe's energy market in order to let U.S. gas in?

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Trump in Florida earlier this month, Trump raised the possibility of using trade as a lever to coax China to do more.

Spoiler alert: much of «The Truth» is Strauss's journey from thinking that monogamy is stifling to discovering that it's nourishing for him, and the lever of the change — along with orgies, sex addiction therapy, and polyamory — is no longer parentalizing the women in his life.

Growth has been fueled by many of the key levers that King called out, including a 60 % increase in sales for «originals» and running footwear for the first half of the year.

But leaders of social - sector organizations have to get things done without the same levers of power available to leaders in the business sector.

In addition to pulling the levers of British monetary policy, Carney will have to remake the Bank of England's ossified culture.

This type of investing takes into consideration that individuals have many levers — investment portfolios, philanthropy and time and skills — at their disposal to effect change in the world.

«It is relatively easy for us to move the lever a small bit right now to make a significant change in our trajectory,» wrote CEO Stewart Butterfield and head of HR Anne Toth in a September blog post.

He sees Wall Street bankers now entrenched as the new American oligarchy, subtle but surprisingly brazen in their manipulation of political actors and the levers of government power.

It perfected the art of doling out taxpayer money to favoured sectors, and used the language of levers and buttons in its own budgets.

With the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, the central bank pulled all levers possible to energize the economy.

There was a baby in the crib with lines running from its arms and legs that ran to a set of levers on the wall, and standing there was an evil - looking clown throwing the switches.»

And now that Donald Trump and a GOP Congress hostile to the law control the levers of power in Washington, some other insurers are feeling free to follow suit.

The EC has a specific lever to press the US on this point — in the form of the Privacy Shield arrangement which simplifies the process of authorizing personal data flows between the EU and the US by allowing companies to self - certify their adherence to a set of privacy principles.

While the Fed's zero interest rate policy has yet to lever much in the way of a domestic spending rebound, no one can doubt its ability to drop the value of its currency.

But in the privacy of the voting booth, those same voters pulled the lever for his opponent.

«At this point, I am very confident that we now clearly understand and have our hands placed securely on the practical levers that we believe will enable us to continue to drive double - digit rates of unit and revenue growth for some time,» said Chip Perry, TrueCar's president and CEO, in a press release on Thursday.

Yet we hear precious little outcry from the public or in the media, and this relative silence only encourages those controlling the levers of power to continue this development.»

In that context, it's far from obvious what economic levers governments have left to pull to fight the next round of recessions that are threatening the global economy.

TNA's liquidity makes it a top choice for traders well versed in the risks and rewards of levered ETPs.

And so the lever for 2018 capital spending will be in the hands of investor sentiment.

Concluded Ryvicker: «Given that CBS has been invited to the decision - making party, we are even more comfortable that whatever decision is reached will be in the best interest of CBS shareholders — whether that is: levering Viacom to purchase CBS at a premium, CBS purchasing Viacom at a discount, or CBS concluding that nothing can be done, therefore it will remain independent.»

Pulling the same legal levers as those involved in its climate change investigation of ExxonMobil, the New York state attorney general's office obtained an agreement from coal giant Peabody Energy to end misleading statements and disclose risks associated with global warming.

Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the B.C. NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.

Someone can walk in and say I own 2 % of the company and another 6 % in derivatives, I'm your owner, cut costs in half and R&D, lever up the balance sheet, sell the stock and let someone worry about the carcass.

Experts anticipate a mix of supply and demand levers in the NDP's new housing policy, including a speculation tax and a widening of Vancouver's foreign buyer tax, introduced by the previous Liberal government in 2016, to include more cities.

From the perspective of the people pulling the monetary levers, it provides carte blanche for more money - conjuring in response to economic weakness.

At 2.7 trillion euros, it's now levered 33 times to its own capital, versus a leverage ratio of 25 back in September.

Corporate defined benefit plan sponsors have pulled many levers in recent years in an effort to reduce the financial risk of pension obligations.

«The recommendations are both broad enough to cover the key levers and barriers to health innovation in Ontario, and bold enough to truly put Ontario onto a new — and much needed — trajectory of excellence.»

In the face of the possible Panda Bear Market we discussed here yesterday, it seems that the guys who pull the levers in China have opted to prop up stocks rather than let nature take it's coursIn the face of the possible Panda Bear Market we discussed here yesterday, it seems that the guys who pull the levers in China have opted to prop up stocks rather than let nature take it's coursin China have opted to prop up stocks rather than let nature take it's course.

You'll most likely take on some debt in the early stages, but monitor how «levered up» your firm is compared to the rest of your industry.

In times of volatility, do they know these levered products can cause as much loss as they did on February 5?»

This is the process by which we put our research to work using the levers of credit risk and duration to make money in the bond market and to stabilize returns over the cycle.

In 2003, the banks were healthy, and there were still areas of the economy that could benefit from lower rates and lever up, thus boosting GDP and markets.

This reality and the conditions that pertain to it mean that you can float on the seas of authority bloat that fuels your vertical, but the efforts that it requires is simply not worth it to build any kind of sustained ranking, as too many levers must float in your favor — such as the website where your link was originally hosted maintaining it's weight before being pillaged by other SEOs capable of basic competitive research — or your competitors being bad enough to not have an SEO who has heard of competitive research — in order for it to be a worthwhile strategy.

Because banks usually lever at least 10 - 1, these $ 2.2 trillion in reserves represent a potentially massive amount of excess liquidity.

That may not sound like much, but in the highly levered world of commercial real estate, such small differences can add up.

Who would have forecasted that «AAA» assets would underperform «BBB» assets, and if you are levered at 50 to one, it doesn't take much of a decline in your asset values to wipe out your equity and that is exactly what happened to many financial institutions.

Browsing the new arrivals shelf at your local theological library, you're now as likely to find titles by the Catholic dogmatician Matthew Levering, the Orthodox historical theologian Paul Gavrilyuk, and the Reformed theologian Kevin Vanhoozer on why we need to continue to speak, with the early Church, of God's inability to suffer — and of God's voluntary assumption of our human nature, in Jesus Christ, in order to share, and thereby overcome, our suffering — as you are to find another volume on God's suffering in the divine nature itself.