Sentences with phrase «old figures of»

In January 2011, the Department's Aviation Enforcement Office learned that United had given a number of passengers ticket wallets printed after the increase took effect that continued to list the old figure of 1,000 SDRs as the limit on baggage liability.

In this particular test, at least, all - season tires live up to the old figure of speech our old dad used to trot out on occasion: «jack of all trades, master of none.»

Not exact matches

If Snap can figure out how to create the mobile, ephemeral version of must - watch prestige TV, a la Netflix's many popular ventures, then it could bring new users onto the app, as well as deepening the engagement of old ones.

«We're living in what I like to call the «Thank You Economy,» because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old - fashioned way — and do it authentically — are going to have a prayer of competing,» says social media expert and author of the book The Thank You Economy Gary Vaynerchuk in a recent Entrepreneur.com column.

In the last couple decades, researchers have taken advantage of that predictability to figure out exactly how old individual cells are.

Portrait Mode on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL have been hailed by many tech reviewers as one of the best iterations of the feature — and many have figured out how to port the software on to older Google smartphones, as well as to devices by other manufacturers.

Howard asked MBAs Across America team to help him figure out how to incorporate technology into his business model without disrupting the intimate, old - school feel of his business.

While Rusenko concedes exact figures are difficult to come up, Weebly estimates 19 percent of its user base is 50 or older, which amounts to 1.9 million customers.

to a photo of an older woman with her grandson, figuring that they'd realize the mistake when they saw that his number wasn't in their contacts.

Doctors and healthcare professionals do not know everything and are not perfect, but if millions of them haven't figured out how to reinvent a basic and very unpleasant procedure, the odds that a 19 - year - old college dropout has the solution is remote.

As the Internet continues to disrupt old media business models, publishers of traditional vehicles such as print newspapers are scrambling to figure out how to survive.

Lukashenko's re-election five years ago led to mass protests and the imprisonment of leading opposition figures, but support for his 20 - year - old regime has risen after he cast himself as the guarantor of stability in the face of economic crisis and a pro-Russian separatist conflict in neighboring Ukraine.

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For those that aren't familiar, Spencer is the 27 - year - old niece of the late Princess Diana by way of the late figure's youngest brother, Earl Spencer.

Together, Lane and Comley looked at the Broadway theater demographics, which has remained the same for many years — over 40 years old, Caucasian, largely female, higher average education and much higher disposable income than an average American family (the latest figure places the average annual household income of the Broadway theatergoer at $ 194,940).

This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

Facebook has a special lab stocked with low - end Android phones, old flip phones and weak networking to help the company figure out what computing conditions are like in parts of the world with limited internet connection.

«It's an embarrassment: coffee stains on walls (and countertops and desks), overflowing compost bins, abandoned drafts of stories and layouts (full of highly confidential content), day - old, half - eaten food, and, yes, I'm going to say it, action figures.

In other tweets, Pwn All The Things also pointed to a smoking gun to show a series of hacks targeting U.S. political figures was carried out by the same group, dispelling the suggestion that the DNC hacks could have been carried out by a 14 - year - old or any other single individual.

They are people like Spencer X. Smith, a 39 - year - old father of two in Madison who left a corporate sales job a year ago to start his own agency, where he's already earning 60 % of his former six - figure salary.

Daytner owns a seven - figure - revenue construction company in Baltimore, and she's a mother of six (including 8 - year - old twins).

One day, he's cornered by a dishevelled and eccentric older co-worker named Tommy, who sees that he's lost and becomes his shaman figure, introducing Blake to the «Lead Without a Title» philosophy of personal maximization.

Having knowledge of cars, he figured out how to make money by salvaging old auto parts and using them to fix up broken cars.

According to GAO's analysis of the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, many older households without retirement savings have few other resources, such as a defined benefit (DB) plan or nonretirement savings, to draw on in retirement (see figure below).

As can be seen in Figure 9, there has been an increase in the incomes of the older families compared to families in the prime age range, but the improvement has followed a somewhat erratic path.

I've spent probably 10 hours this year updating a lot of older posts with new figures and content.

And when I speak on this topic in public I like to remind people that, «when I raised capital there were no easy ways to figure out who were the friends of the VC's (let alone who the VC's were in the first place) but in 2009 you have alll the social networking tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or even just plain old Google Search.

A 13 - year - old Sampson County, North Carolina, student received a two - day suspension for a drawing of a stick figure holding a gun.

You can still calculate the home - office deduction the old way, figuring related expenses and how they may apply over the course of the year to a home office, but the new way is a lot simpler.

... Liars figure, as the last part of the old saying goes.

By focusing on the oldest share classes and screening out sector funds and volatility / beta - themed funds, we find the S&P 500 outperformed 68 % of the 321 active large core funds with a YTD return of 14.32 % through 9/30/2017 (Figure 1).

Performance quotations for this class reflect the following methods of calculation: a) For periods prior to the fund's Advisor Class inception date, a restated figure is used based on the fund's oldest share class, Class A performance, excluding the effect of Class A's maximum initial sales charge but reflecting the effect of the Class A Rule 12b - 1 fees; and b) for periods after the fund's Advisor Class inception date, actual Advisor Class performance is used, reflecting all charges and fees applicable to that class.

Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has shown that in 2015, the amount of student debt held by those older than 60 totaled $ 66.7 billion, a figure more than eight times the 2005 number.

People who can't figure out which end of a paint brush to hold are acting as general contractors when rehabbing older places.

Figures at top of stele «fingernail» above Hammurabi's code of laws.The Code of Hammurabi is the longest surviving text from the Old Babylonian period.»

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

The life of each of the Old Testament figures, on the other hand, has a cumulative trajectory.

The figures may be influenced by the fact Christians on average older than the rest of the country.

South African ministers arrived in the Zimbabwean capital on Thursday for talks involving military figures and Mr Mugabe who, at 93 years old, is the world's oldest head of state.

• Gyula Krúdy, The Adventures of Sindbad: Not the Sinbad of the Arabian Nights, but a seducer and lover and aesthete of love, three centuries old at least, but indefatigable, a ghostly figure haunting the fading world of the Austro - Hungarian Empire.

The old gang of ours seems to have suffered some attrition, but I figured we'd stumble on each other again at some point.

The Catechism again says that the Church is «already present in figure [in the community of our first parents] at the beginning of the world, this Church was prepared in marvellous fashion in the history of the people of Israel and the old Covenant.

Here specific moments in Christ's suffering and death are seen foreshadowed in the lives of great figures in the Old Testament.

So since it's a hot topic, and I've been getting a bunch of tweets about it, I figured I'd just link to some old posts and share some of my favorite book recommendations before we find time to talk about it sometime next week:

For instance, they conclude from increasing «Never use» figures for increasing age groups that «More of the older respondents say that using various means of contraception, including condoms, would be wrong.»

Dorothy Day is a rather old - fashioned pre-Vatican II kind of Catholic mass - goer who could never quite figure out back in the 60s why her guests — among them, Father Daniel Berrigan — were interested in «mod» masses.

If the young Blake delighted in greeting Satan as a redemptive figure, and an older Blake was overwhelmed and almost crushed by a realization of the deeper consequences of the divine identity of Satan, the regenerate Blake was finally able to name Satan as Jesus, thereby unveiling the redemptive goal of the fallen world of experience.

The figure was arrived at by adding up the ages and length of events as related throughout the Old Testament.

That «sheol» or sprit world afterlife was in fact an Old Testament and even Torah - based belief and within that spiritual realm of sheol those spirits (all the spirits who were once living) were in either a state of happiness or in a state of limited ability to obtain happiness, or in other words a state of damnation or being in like a spiritual prison, which would later be further described in the New Testament (which the earliest figured written versions of the New Testament were written in Greek for newly gentile converts) as hell.

So when scientists try to figure this out and come up with the earth and the universe being billions of years old, it's not contradicting the Bible.