Sentences with phrase «on a downward trend with»

Many U.S. scientists had hoped to ride out the steady decline in federal funding for biomedical research, but it's continuing on a downward trend with no end in sight.

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However, ever since 2001, the mortgage cost of residential properties has been on an upward trend, with the exception of the 2009 downward blip.

With revenue trending downward for several years running, General Mills is focused on stabilizing the top line, and management hopes that buying into a whole new industry will do the trick.

Annual credit growth continues its downward trend, with tighter credit conditions weighing on investor housing credit, while business credit picked up, supporting the rise in March.

In that trade we used a vertical put spread on GDX to take advantage of gold's current downward trend and were rewarded with near maximum profits much sooner than anticipated, allowing us to enter more trades and that could further increase our portfolio.

With Scottish football continuing on a downward trend both on and off the park, Whyte has said he is duty - bound to consider all cash - raising options.

With 2.4 goals average per game this season to date, then goals scored are more than 10 % down on last season's average of 2.7, but once again it is perhaps too early to predict a continuation of the downward goal scoring trend.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Adelson, the world's 29th richest person with $ 23.3 billion lost $ 1.1 billion on Monday, as reports says the revenue was trending downward.

Consistent with the national trend, the number of women in the Kaiser plan taking hormone replacement therapy plummeted in 2002; from 2003 to 2004, breast cancer incidence slid 18 percent then continued on a downward trajectory.

Particularly worrisome is the accelerated downward trend in the last few years, signaling that some populations just may not be able to cope with fast - changing climatic conditions heaped on top of other existing pressures.

The use of these animals has been on a downward trend since 1993, with a 6 % decrease from 2013 to 2014.

Despite receiving near - universal acclaim from critics, with some going so far as to proclaim it as the best Star Wars film ever, the audience score on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes continues its downward trend and currently sits at 55 percent.

It is therefore notable that we find a clear downward trend from about 2010 on, when pension costs began to rise sharply, with newer charter schools much less likely to participate in the state plan.

Issues with school funding and student achievement dropped North Carolina to 40th in the country in a new report card on public education, continuing a downward trend in the rankings for the Tar Heel state.

«Every district is the same; it's an upside - down bell curve, with preschool and kindergarten having the highest percentage of absences on one side, a trend downward into fourth and fifth grade, and then absences pick up again as students go through middle school and high school.»

McCabe said the best - case scenario is for current levels of production to stay where they are; the APMA's Steve Rodgers told the Windsor Star Canada's downward production trend could be reversed if unions work with automakers on lowering cost, improving productivity and building in innovation.

The downward trend was confirmed earlier this month when B&N announced its quarterly revenue declined — yet again — 6.6 % with a decline on the Nook side of 28.1 %.

«However, with only one - third of schools subscribing to the service and an on - going downward trend it was agreed this month by the Schools Forum — which represents the county's schools and advises on the distribution of funding within their local authority - that the service was not sustainable on a «fully traded» basis.

As with dividend growth itself, a couple of these metrics have downward trends: Return on equity (ROE) and EPS (Earnings per share) growth rates have been declining since 2012, and both are worrisome.

It seems as if federal student loans are on a downward trend now, with students only taking out $ 96 billion in federal loans for the preliminary estimate of the 2013 - 2014 school year.

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For starters, some would argue that Resident Evil has been on a bit of a downward trend since the beloved fourth installation in the main series, with side projects like the recently released, yet basically forgotten, Umbrella Corps doing little to build up the series» image.

After over a year of sideways and downward movement from late 2015 through early 2017, the most recent NASA report shows that over the past year an acceleration in sea level rise has become visible on the NASA graph, even with just a quick glance (then again, while the long term trend is consistently upward, the annual trend is so variable, that it's likely foolish on my part to suggest a change in trend based on the most recent periods of increase which have only been occurring for less than 12 months).

The sea ice grows and recedes with the seasons every year and has been on the decline since spring... and the overall trend over time is definitely downward.

The posts are definitely twisted, enough to give you the Bends With a lot of pretty, pretty graphs... showing downward trends How the data are contorted, on that you can bet No graphs to remember, just a lot to forget.

Overall, based on 13 yr of data, a relatively contrasting pattern in trends appears to have emerged in the tropics / subtropics largely modulated by dust emissions and transport processes encompassing the Saharan arid lands and the Arabian Peninsula and their downwind oceanic regions, with downward and upward tendencies, respectively.

Depending where you look and in which decade they advance and retreat, but now with sea level rising twice as fast as in the last century, you may be able to figure out that glaciers are melting more quickly, and that with several more degrees of warming they would be on a downward trend.

Population growth of 0.7 % — slightly lower than the 2005 — 15 annual average of 0.8 % — put downward pressure on CO2 emissions growth, resulting in a 6 MMmt decline in CO2 emissions compared with the 2005 — 15 trend.

The intensity of final energy consumption in industry, agriculture, services, and transport are on a long - term downward trend with energy savings seen across the board.

If you look at the last 11,500 years, the current warming is approximately «on time» (with no CO2 effect whatsoever), and the warming peaks display a downward trend since the «Holocene Optimum».

Either stick to trend lines with some semblence of an above 50 % confidence interval on a timespan that itself covers at least a 95 % CI (this isn't so hard; it's only 17 years), or compare enough trend lines of the length you choose to establish a 95 % CI for the whole (for 5 years, you'll need about 60 years) and then apply Bayesian analysis to determine how likely it is you've found the pause you claim given the downward trends you see.

What it shows is random fluctuations that don't correlate well with radiation exposures, on top of an overall downward trend in mortality after the nuclear accident.

It is a confirmation of the results also found by other studies before, with varying methodology, that the recent alleged «pause» is very likely, to a large degree, nothing more than just a temporary downward deviation from the median trend by chance, mostly due to the chaotic ENSO variability imprinting itself on the global temperature trends, like the «acceleration» between 1992 and 2007 (with a trend of about 0.25 - 0.3 deg.

This trend should help with seeing some downward pressure on overall auto insurance premium rates across the state.

With 32,885 traffic related deaths last year, the NHTSA said the number is on a definite downward trend.

The price continued to hover around $ 3150 on Saturday with no signs of downward trend.

In Scotland, for example, within two years of reform the divorce rate reverted to the pre-reform level and then continued on a downward trend, and with a reduction in the number of divorces based on fault.