Sentences with phrase «of large falls»

Conservative swings in London in 2005 were larger than in just about any other part of the country — albeit mainly because of large falls in the Labour vote rather than increases in the Conservative vote.

It remains to be seen how much of the large fall in building approvals in June will be reversed following the actual implementation of the GST and the availability of the First Home Owners» Scheme (discussed below).

English and Maths saw some of the largest falls, with the proportion of pupils gaining A * - C in English falling 5.2 per cent to 60.2 per cent and maths dropping 2.3 percentage points.

Not exact matches

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey explained that the Pentagon was unprepared when Iraq's second - largest city, Mosul, fell to the ISIS in June 2014.

At the I.S.O. meetings last fall in Tokyo, the Chinese government sent one of the largest delegations, with at least nine people, including representatives from the finance ministry and the Chinese central bank, according to a delegate from another country who met the Chinese participants.

NEW YORK, May 1 - Pfizer Inc on Tuesday reported lower - than - expected first - quarter revenue as demand for some key drugs and international sales fell short of estimates, sparking a 5.1 percent drop in shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker.

The highlights of 2011 are almost too painful to mention: the PlayBook, RIM's first tablet, was a flop; its latest line of BlackBerry smartphones was delayed; weak sales forced the company to issue a profit warning in the spring; its network was hit by a massive service outage in the fall; and it suffered the largest wave of layoffs in its history.

This is why I think the Galaxy S8 — and likely the Note 8 that's expected to launch this fall — will struggle against Apple's next iPhone, which is said to adopt a lot of features from Samsung, like a larger, curved screen.

In 2015, revenue for the 500 largest global corporations dropped 11.5 % to $ 27.6 trillion, owing to falling oil prices and in part by the surge in value of the U.S. dollar, which has stalled economic growth worldwide.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

Miami fell in the middle on our metrics, with its 4.1 % February 2018 unemployment rate falling just above the average rate of 4.0 % among the 40 largest metro areas, and a Q3 2017 weekly wage of $ 963 just below the average of $ 1,095.

In a falling market, you want the large - cap dividendpaying stock that has low beta (a measure of volatility), he says.

He is one of the progenitors of Brooklyn's hipster scene — a shaggy, tattooed, larger - than - life titan who, last fall, dropped $ 300,000 on a lavish Las Vegas meal for 25 friends after winning $ 1 million at a high - rollers» blackjack table.

U.S. life expectancy has actually fallen for two years in a row — and while the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic has a part to play in that, overall, the diseases that kill Americans have been killing a larger share of them.

Shares of IBM (IBM), one of Berkshire's largest holdings, fell by just over 12 % last year.

The numerical index upon which the survey is based fell 28 points into negative territory — the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2010.

The limits of policy stimulus were all to evident in Japan where core consumer prices fell 0.5 % in August from a year earlier, the largest drop since March 2013.

But of the nearly $ 11 billion in contracts that fell within that range in fiscal 2011, nearly $ 5 billion, or 45 %, went to large companies, Bloomberg reports.

Suncor Energy Inc., the world's second - largest oil - sands producer, said first - quarter profit fell 23 percent on lower output, higher costs and absence of a gain from insurance settlements a year earlier.

Whether your company has too much of a good thing and is falling behind, or it isn't ready for such large changes, premature scaling is something to be aware of.

Home to one of the largest livestock markets in the world, Oklahoma City falls fourth on the list of best places to flip houses.

Apple has fallen 9.4 % in the rout, but because its market cap is so gargantuan, it's also suffered by far the largest loss of value, shedding around $ 90 billion.

Lino Saputo Jr., who serves as CEO of Canada's largest dairy producer, made the offer this fall as part of an international expansion plan.

Of its larger markets, volumes fell in its biggest, the U.S. and Brazil, as well as in Colombia.

One of the state's largest Aboriginal trusts is being forced to further tighten its belt as its royalties from Rio Tinto's Yandi iron ore project continue to fall.

After hitting record highs at the end of last year, these cryptocurrencies suffered large falls in the first quarter of 2018, but have slowly started to recover.

In its largest market, the United States, cost savings pushed up profits but volumes fell as the growth of higher - end beers failed to compensate did not make up for falling sales of Budweiser and Bud Light.

Between Slide's rise and fall, he helped start Yelp in 2004 (and is the company's largest shareholder), was appointed to the board of directors of Evernote and and co-founded financial services company Affirm.

The GPT group is by far the largest, with nearly half of the countries and territories recognized by the Customs Tariff falling into this group:

Australia «s two largest non-casino gambling firms are struggling to cope with mounting competition from online betting agencies which have taken off since the deregulation of gambling licenses in 2012, and both reported profit falls in August.

MEXICO CITY, April 24 (Reuters)- America Movil said on Tuesday its net profit fell nearly 50 percent in the first quarter due to currency swings, but there were signs Latin America's largest wireless carrier was already reaping the rewards of an important Supreme Court decision in Mexico.

The types of tasks that are best outsourced fall into three general categories, according to Gregg Landers, director of growth management at CBIZ MHM, the nation's eighth largest accounting and business services provider.

This time, the nation's fourth largest retailer, Home Depot, possibly fell victim to malicious and vengeful acts of sophisticated hackers who exposed customer information that could affect all of the chain's 2,200 stores.

As growing legions of lovesick people around the globe search for their perfect mates and advertisers fall over one another to write him ever larger checks, he just kicks back and smiles.

The third - largest U.S. carrier's seat count will fall an estimated 1.5 percent in the current quarter because of the storm, with little opportunity to recoup lost sales, Helane Becker of Cowen & Co. said in a report Tuesday.

Making up the largest proportion, with 38 - percent of Asian travelers falling into this category, the Explorer placed a high value on self - actualization and self - discovery, the study said.

LONDON, Oct 24 - The euro fell to a one - week low against the dollar on Wednesday after worse - than - expected German business activity and sentiment data fuelled concerns of weakness in the euro zone's largest economy.

When iOS 11 becomes available on tens of millions of Apple devices this fall, Apple will immediately have the largest AR platform.

Meanwhile, last month marked the largest show of dissent since the fall of the Soviet Union, when tens of thousands took to the streets over alleged tampering by Putin's United Russia party with parliamentary elections.

In Brunswick, Georgia, large chunks of ice fell on commuters» cars from the old oak trees that frame the streets.

«This is the only chance we will have to make history right,» says Charlie Okeese, a counsellor and former chief of the Fort Hope First Nation, a community larger than Marten Falls but farther away from the prime mining targets.

Shares in the nation's largest homebuilder, D.R. Horton (dhi), fell 0.2 % and shares of Lennar (len) slipped 0.4 %.

Holdings of the world's largest gold - backed exchange - traded fund, SPDR Gold Shares, fell 5.3 tonnes on Wednesday to 816.1 tonnes, their lowest since early February.

This is mostly due to last year's Dailymotion breach — one of the largest data breaches the country fell victim to.

RIM fell behind when it came to the features that mattered to the much larger consumer market, such as an elegant operating system and web - browsing capabilities, and ensuring BlackBerry users had a wide variety of applications to download.

While the number of solar jobs in the Golden State fell by about 14 percent in 2017, it was still comfortably home to the largest number of roles in the sector.

Match fell 22 percent its largest one - day drop ever and IAC, which owns more than a fifth of Match, fell nearly 18 percent in its biggest daily loss in about 13 years.

BY AND large, then, the case for Jewish control of American industry falls pretty flat.

«The 2017 stress test shows the UK banking system is resilient to deep simultaneous recessions in the UK and global economies, large falls in asset prices and a separate stress of misconduct costs,» the BoE said.

What it's about: A governess of a large Austrian family struggles whether to become a nun, falls in love with the family's widowed father, and flees the Nazis.