Sentences with phrase «of less activity»

The ever - changing voices stored by the piece play back through a directional speaker, during moments of less activity.

For dogs diagnosed with a joint disorder, some increase in BCS would be expected as a function of less activity due to discomfort from painful joints.

After the incident, Star needed her chipped tooth removed and a few weeks of less activity for her sprained leg to heal, but has now made a full recovery.

This is mainly because of less activity and water weight increase.

Not exact matches

Ask, «If I had 10 less hours of low - value work each week, could I fill this time with higher value activities that would be worth more than the cost of an assistant?»

A noted decrease in job growth is less of a concern if it's accompanied by signs «that manufacturing activity is starting to rebound, that businesses are spending more on investment, and that consumers are continuing to spend,» he said.

It's much easier (and less expensive) to plan teambuilding activities for smaller businesses, so take advantage of this and set up an afternoon out of the office.

«People are spending less time navigating the Internet on their own and are now navigating the Internet based on their friends» recommendations or their friends» activities,» Dave Yovanno, chief executive of social media service company Gigya, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

«While there are many reports of failed contraception while taking antibiotics, Rifampin is really the only one antibiotic that has been shown to increase activity of these liver enzymes, thereby making this method of contraception less effective,» she says.

But if they view us as a social - service activity, not only will they be less likely to hire us and take us seriously, they'll be less likely to take the concept seriously, and they'll be less likely to do that kind of hiring themselves.

It was much easier to find meaning and satisfaction in activities outside of work when we were under a lot less pressure and worked far fewer hours.

Tim Syrianos, president of the Toronto Real Estate Board, said the decline in activity has less to do with foreign buyers and more to do with potential homebuyers waiting to see how the market plays out.

We calculate free cash flow as the sum of net cash provided by operating activities and net cash provided by the sale of revenue earning equipment and operating property and equipment, collections on direct finance leases and other cash inflows from investing activities, less purchases of property and revenue earning equipment.

Free Cash Flow - Net cash provided by operating activities less cash purchases of property and equipment, including proceeds related to beneficial interests in securitization transactions and less cash payments for debt prepayment of debt extinguishment costs.

Merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector dropped to less than $ 1 billion in the first quarter of this year — the lowest since 1994, according to figures recently published in The Globe and Mail.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

Dugan said there weren't any surprises CMHC found when compiling the report, but he did spot «a little bit of a softening» of market activity in Toronto and less of a «spillover» in demand from the city to neighbouring communities, including Hamilton.

Brain scans of obese patients who had lost 10 % of their body weight revealed that less leptin leads to increased activity in regions of the brain that control our desire to eat.

European stocks, which had followed much of Wall St's rout on Monday, had less dramatic falls Tuesday, but failed to stabilize with any conviction after data showing service sector activity across the Eurozone and U.K. was weaker than originally thought in December.

The study also showed that time spent on social media sites is more for personal reasons than for job - related activities, with less than 7 percent of respondents indicating they use social media exclusively for work purposes.

Looking at the healthcare debate, and the broader activities of the Trump administration, through a systems science lens helps us take perhaps a more dispassionate view — to focus less on trying to predict where each moment will lead, and more on observing the interaction of factors that will, ultimately, determine outcomes.

Because equity investors — that tend to get what they ask for — increasingly are saying enough is enough, and a lot of releveraging activity was front loaded, and with an expected more benign rate hiking cycle there is less urgency to pull the trigger on deals, we continue to think that corporate balance sheets (ex-energy, ex-materials) will improve in 4Q and into 2016.

He found that «men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity,» according to NPR.

By age group, however, boomers reported significantly less multitasking, logging only 10.3 hours of activity, while Generation Y clocked 22.9 hours.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

The Company defines free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities less purchases of property, plant and equipment.

What's less clear is whether their recent bold decisions are just a temporary burst of activity, or whether they amount to a long - term, existential threat to the tech behemoths.

After all, for most of us the winter months are ideal reading season - outdoor activities are less appealing, the urge to cocoon at home is upon us, and often we're blessed with some good long breaks from work to unwind and feed our minds.

It's true, people spend more time indoors, they tend to know their neighbors less, some of those traditional activities have been supplanted by talking to people on Facebook or email, playing video games and watching movies on our big screen TVs.

«The second, less understood but far more sinister effect of these classified programs, is that they effectively create «permanent records» of our daily activities, even in the absence of any wrongdoing on our part,» Snowden wrote.

«If workers spend time discussing the outcome of last night's game rather than devoting this time to job - related activities, then these workers will be less productive in terms of output produced per unit of time,» write Coates and Humphreys.

Three defense officials with knowledge of the deliberations said the move would be a response to Russian activities in the region and aligns with the new National Defense Strategy that calls on the military to be less operationally predictable.

Wasted time in meetings, Rogelberg and colleagues wrote, costs companies in many ways: the direct costs of salaries and benefits associated with participants» time, the time lost that could be used for more productive activities, employee stress and fatigue, and job dissatisfaction and less organizational commitment.

In the right client situation, BMO SmartFolio allows brokers to spend less time on administration and reviewing client accounts, and more time on value - added activities like financial planning and estate planning, says Silvio Stroescu, head of digital investing at BMO Financial Group.

The New York Fed also reported that the regional housing sector had a less consequential effect on regional economic conditions than in other parts of the nation where housing played a more significant role in dampening economic activity.

Some of the Bank of Canada's financial system activities are also designed, in part, to make the system less prone to crisis.

Adjusted Revenue is a non-GAAP financial measure that we define as our total net revenue less transaction costs, adjusted to eliminate the effect of activity under our payment processing agreement with Starbucks.

The U.S. housing boom and subsequent bust might have been less severe had a set of macroprudential measures been in place at the time to limit the degree of leverage and speculative activity in the housing sector.

Mortgage volume is expected to fall 17 % to $ 1.56 trillion this year because of less refinancing activity, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

I'd have no problem doing this since I live on less than 50 % of my income each month and would gladly suspend my investing activities for a while to help out my family.

Deal activity was down slightly in 2017 in this sector of the market (funds less than $ 500M), as were purchase price multiples.

Discontinue some less successful activities to concentrate on those that yield the best results (55 % of the total U.K. respondents agree their organizations are doing this, which is fantastic news).

But no matter how you construct it, keeping an accurate account of your editorial assets and activities will make you a more effective marketer — and a less stressed one, too.

Specifically, lower oil prices have resulted in marginally less activity at some of the domestic shale oil fields.

If the authorities are willing to engage in loss - making activities to achieve the GDP growth target, there are two relevant characteristics of an economy like China's that change the nature of the GDP measure: first, economic activity is much less affected by hard - budget constraints than it is in most other economies; and second, bad debt is much less likely to be written down.

Female entrepreneurs are less likely to take advantage of online resources compared to their male counterparts and typically engage in business activities out of necessity.

The portfolio turnover measures the trading activity of the fund, which is computed by dividing the lesser of purchases or sales for the year by the monthly average value of the securities owned by the fund during the year.

You'd think that corporate debt would grow in proportion to total sales, as this additional debt is used to fund investments in productive activities that create more sales and contribute to the economy, and that higher sales, and presumably higher earnings would create a proportionate increase in the value of the company, and thus in its stock price, and that they all go up together, not in lockstep but over time more or less at the same rate.

Add - ons have only become more and more popular in recent years, with our most recent US PE Breakdown revealing that they comprised no less than 70 % of all US buyout activity during 1Q 2018.

It reminded me of the feeling that inspiration gives, as I wrote in «How inspiration feels, in depth ``, that inspired people look back fondly at the crazy amount of work they did after the project is done and inspired people value missing less rewarding activities, no matter how fun they would have been.