Sentences with phrase «of overall confidence»

Not exact matches

Although most success is ultimately rewarded with a larger paycheck or promotion, the small patterns you create on a daily basis become part of your character and not only increase your overall happiness but showcase skill and establish confidence.

According to research by leading positive psychologist Barbara Fredrickson with the University of North Carolina, a positive outlook generates creative thinking, builds self - confidence and promotes overall resilience — all qualities necessary for lasting lifestyle changes.

Overall, the bank's small business confidence index stood at 70 this fall, compared with 63 in the fall of 2012 and 59 last spring.

If customers have a sense of being baited and switched, their overall confidence in the merchant gets undermined.

Overall market confidence that the U.S. can somehow navigate through a European financial crisis without significant ill - effects continues to strike me as an almost delusional strain of optimism.

This is important given the impact housing has on the overall Canadian economy whereas a robust housing market increases consumer confidence which is a significant component of the nation's GDP.

(The Oracle of Omaha traded his 52 million P&G shares for the battery business, a seeming vote of no confidence in P&G's overall prospects.)

Although it's good for the overall economy to have more people working, it's not necessarily a sign of confidence when people are hanging on to jobs longer than they normally would.

It's common for people to associate a weak handshake with a lack of confidence and an overall lackadaisical attitude.

Further, investor confidence overall has got to be shaken by the unexpected 20 % dilution of current shareholders, the result of the private - placement sale to Ferro.

While overall consumer confidence increased in August, the number of consumers anticipating higher incomes fell to 15.5 % in August versus 17.7 % in the month prior.

If reading as a pathway to success isn't enough to get you motivated, consider these health benefits of reading: Reading has been shown to help prevent stress, depression, and dementia, while enhancing confidence, empathy, decision - making, and overall life satisfaction.

Consumer staples industries can be significantly affected by competitive pricing particularly with respect to the growth of low - cost emerging market production, government regulation, the performance of overall economy, interest rates, and consumer confidence.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

The rebound in overall workloads should boost business confidence within the manufacturing sector during the second half of the year.»

Second, the expectations of individual firms are often influenced by the behaviour of other firms and perceptions of overall business confidence.

«The strong return of banks in small business lending indicates three things: overall improving economy, entrepreneur confidence that they will be able to borrow for expansion and repay the loans, and the increasing ease and popularity of SBA lending,» explained Biz2Credit CEO Rohit Arora, who oversaw the research.

«The latest overall Index score tells us that business owners are feeling positive about the future and have a renewed sense of confidence as they look to the year ahead,» said Mark Vitner, Managing Director and Senior Economist for Wells Fargo Securities.

Conference Board economist Lynn Franco said that the improvements in consumers» confidence and expectations about the future indicate that the recent strengthening in overall economic growth should continue in the second half of the year.

In particular, indicators of business confidence remain above long - run levels, overall profitability remains strong, and business investment is expected to continue to grow, albeit more slowly than in the past two years.

But despite the damage to markets and confidence, the overall tone of most of my conversations has been cautiously positive.

Extended uncertainty regarding the timing of Brexit and its overall impact on Europe could reduce corporate hiring, investments, and consumer confidence in the U.S..

The consumer discretionary industries can be significantly affected by the performance of the overall economy, interest rates, competition, consumer confidence and spending, and changes in demographics and consumer tastes.

First, the facility itself is part of the overall structure of the RTGS system designed to provide banks with confidence that adequate liquidity will be available at reasonable cost.

Overall, however, we are encouraged by positive signs of growth and consumer confidence.

In the third quarter, there were fewer foreclosures, increased credit - card and auto lending (indicators of rising consumer confidence), and an overall drop in our collective debt load, led by decreasing mortgage debt.

Despite the reinforcement of optimism about overcoming poverty that many seem to derive from casual views of China, overall confidence in present policy is declining.

Alt placed little confidence in the overall storyline of the Bible from Genesis through Joshua, including Abraham and family's emigration from Mesopotamia to Canaan, the sojourn in Egypt, the exodus from Egypt and the conquest of Canaan.

Assuming that Dawkins has equal confidence in all parts of his book, I shall simply challenge him at representative points, and let readers draw their own conclusions about the overall reliability of his evidence and judgement» (p. xii).

Seppeltsfield tell me that the purchase price for Ryecroft and Quelltaler is commercial in confidence — as is the total value of the overall business.

We have confidence in John as a key leader in the overall integration and growth of the company,» said Hendrik J. Hartong III, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brynwood Partners.

We included prospective studies that provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for at least three categories (including the reference group) of milk consumption in relation to mortality from all causes, overall cardiovascular disease, or overall cancer, We omitted studies that only reported results for total milk products or combined non-fermented and fermented milk because non-fermented and fermented milk may have different associations with mortality.

overall am impressed by the boys except flamini who was completely out of the game and ramsey whose been a shadow of himself, what happened to his confidence???? he would have controlled the ball and boooom kill off the game.

We always had players out of confidence (or just short on quality overall) to sustain our push.

He had a great season for me and he has moved forward and overall he has gained a lot of confidence.

Over the course of the camp week, your self - confidence will grow along with your skills and overall appreciation of sports.

Villa gained a fantastic win at Stoke last weekend and did so while keeping a clean sheet, of huge importance to the team's overall confidence.

Fast forward 8 months and our family moved from NJ to CA and the responsibility I instilled in them last spring has allowed them (and me) to be comfortable walking to school, playing in the school yard after school and having an overall sense of confidence in a very new environment.

Of 36 residents who attended at least 1 session and completed the postintervention questionnaire, 14 reported «a little increase» in overall confidence in talking to breastfeeding mothers, and 20 reported that their «confidence increased a lot.»

In fact working out postpartum and while breastfeeding has several benefits including: decrease in postpartum depression, increased strength and healing from effects of pregnancy and giving birth, improved insulin response, and an overall increase in confidence for the mother.

The overall goal is to increase your sense of confidence and competence as a father and help you meet the challenges of parenting through a difficult time.

The difference in the average treatment effect in overall fetal loss and neonatal death across included trials between women allocated to midwife - led continuity models of care and women allocated to other models has an average risk ratio (RR) of 0.84, with 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.71 to 0.99 (participants = 17561; studies = 13).

Compared with intermittent auscultation, continuous cardiotocography showed no significant improvement in overall perinatal death rate (risk ratio (RR) 0.86, 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.59 to 1.23, n = 33,513, 11 trials), but was associated with a halving of neonatal seizures (RR 0.50, 95 % CI 0.31 to 0.80, n = 32,386, nine trials).

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.14 For some disadvantaged youth, boxing is a preferential alternative to gang - related activity, providing supervision, structure, and goals.14 The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing seems to be lower than15 in some other collision sports such as football, ice hockey, wrestling, and soccer.4, 16 However, unlike these other collision sports, boxing encourages and rewards direct blows to the head and face.

We offer you access to a compassionate team of teaching artists; a bright community of families to form lifelong friendships with, and overall piece of mind that the experiences enjoyed with us invaluably contribute to your child's growth, happiness and confidence.

The difference in the average treatment effect in overall fetal loss and neonatal death across included trials between women allocated to midwife - led continuity models of care and women allocated to other models has an average risk ratio (RR) of 0.84 and a 95 % confidence interval (CI) of 0.71 to 1.00 (12 trials, n = 15,869, RR 0.84, 95 % CI 0.71 to 1.00, random - effects).

The Index of Business Leader Confidence, computed based on interviews with 462 business leaders of companies from Buffalo, the Capital Region, Rochester and Syracuse stands at 97.1, down from 103.8 last year, below the breakeven point of 100 at which overall optimism and pessimism towards the current and future economic conditions are balanced.

«The people of Kogi are aware that the man being paraded by the APC is not the person they exercised confidence in at the election as he scored a paltry 6,885 votes in the so - called supplementary election, as against the 204,877 votes polled by the PDP candidate, Alhaji Idris Wada, in the overall election.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

He asked the leadership of the party to retrace its steps and restore confidence among the conflicting parties in the state for the overall benefit of the ruling party.