Sentences with phrase «of anything less»

Realistically, you're looking at spending well over # 1,000 for the two years if you want an upfront spend of anything less than # 200.

This does not mean that the current ice melt pattern is an example of anything less then excessive heat content in the region.

Over a period of anything less than a few years, underlying business performance — which is what we're focused on — is drowned out by market «noise».

As someone who favors efforts to expand educational choice, I can't think of anything less helpful than making this broad - based, decentralized effort feel more like a creature of Washington.

As someone who favors choice, I can't think of anything less helpful than making this broad - based effort feel more like a creature of Washington.

«Henderson later described consulting as «the most improbable business on earth»: «Can you think of anything less improbable [sic] than taking the world's most successful firms, leaders in their businesses, and hiring people just fresh out of school and telling them how to run their businesses and they are willing to pay millions of dollars for this advice?»

The meanings of anything less — of selected aspects of the world — can be identified by the contexts or frameworks in which those aspects are located.

As most professors will tell you, today's student culture is fixated on identity politics and is terrified of anything less than an «A.» In sum: diversity and academic achievement, with «merit» defined as the maximization of both.

Not exact matches

Anything less than this is considered to be inadequate, which can limit your motivation, increase the release of cortisol (a stress hormone), as well as decrease your body's ability to recover from exercise — all of which are damaging to your health and fitness routine.

Anything less than that and the cost of updating your building and hiring an auditing agency usually outweighs what you get back in taxes.

While it is somewhat arbitrary, I use a rule of thumb that anything that involves a timeline of less than a year should be considered a tactic; anything longer than a year becomes a strategy.

But the older I get, the less inclined I am to kill myself doing HIIT (high - intensity interval training), spinning or anything else which involves copious amounts of effort and sweat.

to further validate his or her integrity) because anything else indicates a lesser degree of integrity from the high bar you should be setting for selecting future leaders.

Less quality sleep, dehydration, restricted movement, and an inability to do anything constructive about the situation are part of the problem.

Anything less and I won't be able to focus the remainder of the day.

Over time, it became less of a joke and more of a reason why I moved (more so to live my values than to «solve» anything, though).»

«And one of them was that I wasn't going to do anything less than my full potential.

Chances are, the more melanin you have, the less likely you would show up as anything more attractive than a smudge, a muddy smirk — or worse, a lurking presence — as you hovered in the back row of the chess club photo.

If your team is anything less than an equal balance of men and women, then it is probably not the best it can be.»

Do you see any evidence of the advanced economies doing anything to prepare for a society where less work is available due to automation?

Anything less only requires the old minimum down payment of five per cent.

«Providing anything less than the best educational experience for your interns doesn't just damage your future hiring potential, but also that of other companies within your industry,» says Parcells.

On a call with reporters Monday, it repeatedly reiterated that regardless of the quality of the background check it had completed on Dalton, the company would not have found anything more or anything less: Dalton had no criminal record.

Entrepreneurs love babies as much as anyone (and are just as understanding of the stresses of new parenthood), but they're also more likely that corporate bosses to lack the money and manpower that makes losing a key employee for weeks or months anything less than terrifying.

Her entire life has been a string of hard - won, improbable triumphs, and she is loath to lower her standards to anything less than spectacular.

Still, critics panned the proposed changes, arguing that anything less than a full repeal of the law falls short.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

«I think anything less than that is just marginal improvement but a lot of people confuse marginal improvement with disruption,» he says.

That formidable sum was assumed to have made it impossible for new software companies to even think of beginning with anything less.

If you have anything less than exceptional customer service in your business, you're wasting the time of, creating extra work for and frustrating your frontline people, other staff, managers and yourself — and that's poor management.

It's less clear to a lot of Americans who have not benefited from Nafta or other trade deals or from anything that the U.S. has done globally that they want the United States to continue to be the indispensable power.

Because of their age and industry, they often face unique challenges as they prepare to build their respective brands and businesses, and it would be wrong to discount what they have collectively created as anything less than smaller sized enterprises.

Since the rights only arise once the full work or a substantial part of it are used, anything less than that — ie.

«To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift» - Steve PrefontaineThis week's episode of LCL is insane motivation.

Because neither of these allegations resulted in criminal charges, much less convictions, they're not proof of anything.

Without a massive transfer of wealth from the state sector to the household sector it will be impossible, I would argue, for GDP growth rates of anything above 3 - 4 % — and perhaps even less — to occur without a further unsustainable increase in debt, whether that increase occurs inside or outside the formal banking system and whether or not discipline has been imposed on borrowers.

They either don't have a long enough credit history (banks typically want two or more years of extensive history), or their scores aren't high enough (anything less than «excellent» is considered risky).

Of course, these companies use targeted email campaigns to promote their content and reel in leads (would you expect anything less?)

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

However, the same way investors are growing leery of Washington's political rhetoric, they are also putting less weight on the endless parade of speeches by voting members of the Fed — specifically, Janet Yellen, Stan Fischer, Bill Dudley, and Lael Brainard — in an effort to manipulate markets without doing anything.

For about six years, Facebook does a surprisingly adept job of sidestepping major controversies, giving Zuckerberg less reason to tell anyone he's sorry about anything.

By now, child and foreign labor has become such a key part of the fabric of Walmart, and of the product they sell, it's hard to imagine anything less than a complete overhaul of Walmart's business methods will change that.

The idea that the minimal asset listing hints more at a «de-cluttering» of less popular assets as against anything else is just meant to encourage you to join.

«Anything less than the complete implementation of the fiduciary rule would be akin to sending individual investors into those rough seas without a life jacket.»

Anything less would amount to the renunciation of American exceptionalism.

We, on the other hand, view it with hope: because more than anything, the events of the past few days show that the truth is getting out — the truth that capital markets simply can not exist under the authoritarian rule of central planners, the truth that the stock market is a casino in which the best one can hope for a quick flip, and finally the truth that our entire socio - economic regime, whose existence has been predicated by borrowing from the uncreated wealth of the future, and where accumulated debt could be wiped out at the flip of a switch if things go wrong in the process obliterating the welfare of billions (of less than 1 % ers), is one big lie.

«A truck driver has to be 100 % engaged in the act of driving, scanning the horizon for that SUV that's changing a tire on the shoulder or some idiot doing something dumb, and anything less isn't something I want to deal with, ever,» says Scott Grenerth, regulatory affairs director for the Owner - Operator Independent Drivers Association.

Payback periods of less than 6 or 7 years sounds pretty good, and I can't imagine that you'll get anything better on traditional passive investments likes stocks.

Because he knows his base doesn't read much, would never go through dozens of pages of a transcript, and can be made to believe anything in 140 characters or less.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.