Sentences with phrase «of robust activity»

«This tax only exacerbated a market slowdown that had just begun after six months of robust activity,» explains Adil Dinani, real estate agent with Royal LePage.

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Growth in consumer spending, representing two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, slid to 1.1 percent rate in the first quarter, the slowest pace since the second quarter of 2013 and following the fourth quarter's robust 4.0 percent growth rate.

While Canada's National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy stirred up some activity here, the outlook for the field is not robust; projections are for an oversupply of engineers versus jobs in the next decade.

Hybrid Air Vehicles runs a robust set of procedures for flight test activities and investigation of issues.

VIENNA, May 3 - The landmark 2015 nuclear deal Iran made with major world powers slashed the scope of Tehran's atomic activities and created what the United Nations nuclear watchdog calls «the world's most robust verification regime.»

«M&A dialogue remains robust despite concerns about the potential impact of changes in America's trade and national security policies on deal activity,» said Stephen Arcano, head of M&A at Skadden.

Global stocks kicked - off the week in a bullish mood Monday, with merger activity and a robust U.S. corporate earnings season helping boost markets in Europe and Asia and set up Wall Street for a positive start to the final trading day of the month.

Koenig said his new bullish outlook was based on improved software - as - a-service visibility, as Oracle's applications business «gets over the «hump» of its transition to cloud,» as well as to robust bookings activity and solid database licensing activity.

Cameron Belsher, leader of the mergers and acquisitions group at McCarthy Tétrault in Toronto, says this is the «most robust it's been since 2006 and 2007,» noting that much of the M&A activity is «not necessarily in the public domain,» but has been dominated by private equity firms.

If the proposal goes through, FinTech companies applying for a special purpose national bank charter will have to have a robust, well - developed business plan, and a governance structure, capital levels, and liquidity that take into account the risks and complexity of its activities and services.

Having more resilient banks with sufficient capital and liquidity reduces the probability of widespread liquidity crises.9 That would help make market - making more robust, though probably at lower levels of activity in normal times.

A sustained market rally and robust client activity in 2017 translated into a year of gains for Asia's private banks, whose combined assets under management (AUM)-- excluding China onshore — surged past US$ 2 trillion for the first time.

In Canada, the principles of civil society supported by our regulatory systems are equally essential to supporting robust policy and regulatory consultation and decision - making on PRC investments and activities.

The US economy continued to expand in September of this year, with some of the key economic data in October pointing to robust economic activity that could well extend into the last three months of 2017.

The effect of this weakness in the consumer sector on overall activity was, to some extent, offset by robust growth in business investment.

«Since opening our Limerick office six years ago, we have prioritized building a robust European operation dedicated to serving clients in the region, as well as supporting the stewardship activities of institutional investors globally,» said Glass Lewis CEO Katherine Rabin.

The warnings come not from the heavily traded futures market, but from less transparent trading activity in crude oil and products markets, where key U.S., European and Russian crude prices have fallen of late, suggesting less robust demand.

Hearty, robust and rustic were CT's adjectives — just the kind of provender required after a session of chopping logs (not that he's up to this sort of activity yet).

From Tuscan - inspired wine country courtyards and farm elegant patios with views of vineyards and mountains, to authentic winery cellars and barrel rooms, a unique variety of midweek group venue and menu ideas, and robust range of activities beckon,» announced Kimberly Adams, Temecula Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau president and CEO.

By Elizabeth Hans McCrone Wine industry financiers are predicting robust activity for winery and vineyard mergers and acquisitions throughout the remainder of 2014 and heading into the New Year.

We are in a robust position across all key areas of our activity.»

The ICA offers a robust variety of exhibitions, music, dance, film, talks, tours, family activities, and teen programming throughout the year.

The scale and seriousness of Rees» activities have worrying implications for Operation Weeting, the Scotland Yard inquiry which finally — unlike its two predecessors — is making a robust attempt to get to the truth of the scandal.

Liu Jiangsu assured the state of fruitful partnership that would bring change to the economic activities of the state and as well create a robust bilateral economic relation between the state and Chinese firm.

The scale and seriousness of Rees's activities have worrying implications for Operation Weeting, the Scotland Yard inquiry which finally — unlike its two predecessors — is making a robust attempt to get to the truth of the scandal.

Although citizenship - stripping is morally repugnant and ethically suspect, the Home Office will no doubt hide behind the little - noticed 2002 law that permit such activities in the name of national security — at least until a robust legal challenge is launched.

But Cuomo said Wednesday, «I believe the reporting on the state's economic development activity is more robust than less robust... The reporting on the Empire State Development programs now includes all of them rather than just part of them.»

«This is a real convergence of activity that will ensure we're on a robust path to make sure we get to ’40 by» 30,»» said John Williams, director of policy and regulatory affairs for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, referring to the state's goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030.

However, associations with fetal motor activity measures were more consistent and robust: higher concentrations of 7 of 10 organochlorine compounds were positively associated with one of more measures of more frequent and more vigorous fetal motor activity.

Going beyond this specific demonstration, if this approach, known as acoustic seafloor geodesy, proves to be robust in the long term (in this case, three to five years are planned, within the limits of the autonomy of the batteries), it could be included within a permanent underwater observatory as an addition to other observations (seismology, gas bubble emission, etc) for in situ real - time monitoring of the activity of this particular fault, or of other active submarine faults elsewhere in the world.

The TOD (transit - oriented development) Standard is based on eight elements: walkability; bicycle - friendliness; a connected network of streets and paths; a robust transit system; a balanced mix of activities; dense, vertical building; compact development; and a shift away from personal motorized transport.

Goetzel explained that employers need to invest in robust, comprehensive health promotion programs for their employees that include physical activity, healthy eating, stress and depression management, and control of blood pressure and diabetes.

«They could be distressed by the election, but did not show psychological symptoms of depression if they have either strong family support or robust activity in these brain regions,» Tashjian said.

The improved mass diffusion properties of such hierarchical frameworks, together with their robust single - crystalline nature, endow them with superior catalytic activity and recyclability for bulky - molecule reactions, as compared with conventional, polycrystalline hollow, and disordered macroporous ZIF - 8.

In a paper published today in Nature titled «Two distinct RNase activities of CRISPR - C2c2 enable guide - RNA processing and RNA detection,» the researchers were able to show that C2c2 has not one, as previously thought, but two distinct RNA cutting activities that in concert can be harnessed for robust RNA detection and degradation.

«Providing the authorities with a conservative estimation method of transuranic activity allows them to make informed decisions, based on robust data and analysis, as soon as possible,» Cope says.

«We hypothesized that for a given pair of targets that differ by a single point mutation, a set of mismatches could be identified in the guide RNA that would eliminate Cas9's activity on the normal sequence while maintaining robust activity on the one with a deleterious point mutation.

From 16 diverse Cpf1 candidates, Zetsche et al. found two that display robust cleavage activity similar to that of Cas9.

Many of the most robust variations seem related to activity on the surface of cells.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

It enables robust tuning of the composition of catalytic materials to optimize the activity, selectivity, and stability, and the application will be very broad in energy conversions and chemical transformations,» says Chao Wang, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University and one of the study's authors.

Authors will benefit from the robust journal activities including very rapid review (average time to decision is less than 23 days, 14 days to online publication), high visibility and impact (papers publicized on journal website, monthly newsletters, Facebook, Twitter, 2011 impact factor 3.368,), and author services (connection to nomenclature services, pre-publication annotation of data for submission to data resources and repositories, as well as video and other alternative content as part of the embedded content).

The very large ensemble of solar - like stars included in this study enables detailed and robust estimates of the relation between chromospheric activity and the occurrence of superflares.

Using this treatment scheme, we observed a robust difference on day 9 in the disease activity indices of wild - type and Rassf1a knockout mice that was significantly inhibited with the use of the RIPK2 inhibitors, especially RIPK2 inhibitor 1 (Fig. 6B; Table 2).

Here we report the development and preclinical characterization of a novel CD123 - targeting ADC, IMGN632, which utilizes a highly potent DNA - alkylating payload, resulting in an ADC with robust preclinical activity in multiple models of AML.

However, ADCs that use derivatives of calicheamicin, which promotes double - stranded DNA breaks, such as GO and inotuzumab ozogamicin, 40,41 have limited activity in cells with high multidrug resistance protein activity, a phenotype found in a significant fraction of AML patients.42 Another ADC, SGN - CD123A, comprising an engineered form of the CD123 - targeting 7G3 antibody conjugated to a synthetic pyrrolobenzodiazepine dimer, which acts via DNA crosslinking, has entered clinical trials after showing robust activity in preclinical models of AML, including those with multidrug resistance.33

The onset of physical activity should involve preparing the body for what is to follow — a more robust workout.This means first increasing the lung's capacity to take in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, increasing flexibility in the joints, elevating blood fats to make more muscle energy available, and improving blood and lymph circulation in the muscles.

Our focus has been continually refined to support the creation of entirely effective packaging solutions underpinned by a robust supply chain and outstanding client services activity.

Research demonstrates that when people have some degree of personal agency — some range of choice about the shape and direction of their own learning activities — learning tends to be more meaningful and robust.

to provide consistent and robust information about the cost of activities to assist institutional planning and management 2.