Sentences with phrase «of average men»

Whether through humor or pathos, he excelled at illuminating the struggles of average men against a callous world; as director Billy Wilder once noted, «There was a little bit of genius in everything he did.»

As famed historian, Will Duran said, «I think the ability of the average man could be doubled if it were demanded, if the situation demanded.»

This lack of agreement, even along the most general lines, is a characteristic feature of the situation today and accounts in a large measure for the low educational status of the ministry The work of the lawyer, the physician, the teacher, the artist, the writer and the engineer, is clear - cut and rather sharply defined (at least in the mind of the average man), so that when a young man chooses one of these professions he has some idea of what he is getting into.

A man in the top one per cent of genetic risk had a five per cent lifetime risk of developing testicular cancer, more than 10 times higher than that of the average man.

In females, only 1 / 10th of the testosterone of the average man is produced, but you can still experience high testosterone levels — levels that are above normal for your sex and your body.

Testosterone is the primary hormone responsible for muscle mass gain, and the average woman has about 1 / 10th the amount of the average man.

He may not be susceptible to the frequent fits of discomfort and disrespect offered in the company of an average man.

Known for trumpeting the plight of the average man, Frank Capra's films include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as well as his Christmas classic It's A Wonderful Life.

Where Starsky is on the side of the law, Hutch is on the side of the average man and sometimes that means working with criminals.

Like Myers, the Somnambulist is a mute, emotionless killing machine that can not be reasoned with — while still retaining certain terrifying hints of an average man.

Most of the six - figure guessers look as if they also might consider toothpaste to be a luxury commodity wildly out the reach of the average man, but it's still safe to say that the Elise exudes an air of exoticism far beyond its price.

Olly's idea of a Spa treat is undoubtedly different to that of the average man or woman in the street.

Yet I wanted to finish because the idea of average man being thrust into an alternate universe and having to win a civil war was interesting.

It's pretty common in the winter months to see swells that are well above the height of an average man, surfers call those size ways «over head.»

And shouldn't we want the artist formerly known as Cliffy B, who gave us Marcus Fenix and a whole army of men with arms the size of an average man's legs, to build a world that's a little crazy and over-the-top in its machismo?

Even with double the strength of your average man, we're still several orders of magnitude off what he'd need to produce the power and strength he displays in Super Mario World.

This was at a time when the difference between the income of the average man and the average woman was much greater than it is today.

Not exact matches

«All else equal, a man who is 25 pounds below average weight is predicted to earn $ 210,925 less across a 25 - year career than a man who is of average weight,» Judge and Cable point out.

Closing the education gap faced by working - age men of color, for example, would boost their aggregate annual earnings by $ 170 billion; average weekly earnings among U.S. workers would rise 3.6 percent; and total U.S. GDP would increase by 1.8 percent, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

Neither of these proved to be true, and in fact, the changes suggested by women, on average, involved significantly more lines of code than those of men.

Women earn an average of 79 cents for every dollar a man makes in the US, according to a 2016 report published by the Joint Economic Committee Democratic Staff.

«Very thin men, conversely, are punished relative to their average - weight peers, and men are rewarded for gaining weight until the point of obesity,» explain Judge and Cable of their findings.

According to a Yale study conducted by U.S. economist Daniel Hamermesh, attractive men can earn 9 percent more than their average - looking colleagues, while attractive women could see a bump of up to 4 percent.

But among women in the top 2 %, the average salary is $ 145,000, compared to $ 371,000 for men, according to an analysis of the 2015 American Community Survey by labor economics research firm Job Search Intelligence (JSI).

Nearly two - thirds of 2011's incidents involved female perpetrators, although men embezzle, on average, 25 percent more.

There was a time when the Fed was so «neutral» in its effect on the business cycle that the average informed woman or man on the street did not know the name of the Fed chairman.

Today marks the additional number of days the average woman in the U.S. has to work this year to catch up to what men earned in 2017 alone.

According to a press release by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), new U.S. Census Bureau data revealed that women working full time on average «still make 80 cents compared to every dollar men make.»

They also drink more alcohol on average than women of all races, as well as more than men who are not white.

This was by far the most exciting thing to ever happen in the lives of millions of average working men, nearly all of whom in all the armies felt their cause was just.

For the average healthy adult who lives in a temperate climate, the Institute of Medicine recommends around 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total water intake a day for men and 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total water intake a day for women,» she says.

In 2014, working women earned, on average, 78 percent as much as men, a figure that was much smaller for women of color.

Despite lower pay, women handle credit more responsibly than men, on average, according to Experian, which reports that men have a 7 percent higher incidence of late mortgage payments and 4.3 percent more debt than women.

Today is this year's Equal Pay Day, which represents the amount of extra time the average woman would have to work full time — 100 days — to make the same amount of money the average man made in the previous calendar year.

Because the average salary for a woman still lags behind men's (the American Association of University Women says women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man makes one year after graduation) and lenders favor two - income households over single earners, Lautz says women are «making the most sacrifices to get into a home, but they're still placing a high value on owning a home of their own.»

UnionsWA has said that the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown that women in Western Australia continue to be paid a far less amount on average than men.

The average height of men in the study was 5 feet 8 inches; the average height of women was 5 feet 3 inches.

Even controlling for grade - point average, men earned more than women who graduated with identical levels of academic achievement.

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In one experiment, a group of men were shown male models from Abercrombie & Fitch advertisements, another group was shown images of female Victoria's Secret models, and a third group was shown photos of «average» looking people.

The study's author found that the men who saw male models were more likely to choose the risky bet compared to the men who were shown images of female models and average individuals.

While men had an average balance of $ 108,200, women averaged nearly a third less with only $ 73,700 in their accounts.

Twenty weeks after freedom the men had gained an average of 50 % more body fat than when they began the study.

A short - term study of 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high - fat, high - carb foods.

Men and women reportedly consume an average of 2,800 and 2,300 calories per day respectively and exercise for half an hour — but for the world's top athletes, this is nowhere near enough.

According to an evaluation by Hired, female candidates in the field are offered an average of four percent less than their male counterparts, and «63 percent of the time women receive lower salary offers than men for the same job at the same company.»

The average salary for a college football head coach in the conference was $ 2.27 million and men's basketball coaches made $ 1.9 million on average, compared with $ 365,000 for the head coaches of BIG 10 women's basketball teams.

In 2014, men's commutes were longer than those of women by an average of about 3 minutes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

Men entrepreneurs were granted on average 52 % of the amount they applied for.

Here's how the estimated average cost of a year broke down for men, according to a copy of the 1950 - 1951 Business School bulletin of information, shared by Columbia's Rare Book and Manuscript Library: