Sentences with phrase «on at least the larger»

Proponents of the bill say it is a strong bill that will for the first time impose regulations on at least the large commercial dog breeders in Ohio.

That said, in the long run you do want budgets on at least larger projects to move toward more detail as you learn more.

Not exact matches

The National Business Group on Health last year surveyed 133 large companies employing 15 million Americans about their benefit practices: An astounding 90 % said they expect to make at least some telemedicine services available to their workers this year.

On the other hand, many of the sites successful in drawing Millennial men are larger and would require a heftier and more complex transaction — at least for now.

On the other hand, self - driving cars from the likes of Google — while still at least a few years away from consumer use — also loom large.

Friday morning Londoners, who voted by and large to remain in the EU, were walking the streets with a stunned look, and what's even odder (for English people, at least) actually talking to strangers in cafes and on trains, discussing how such a thing could happen, what would happen next, and who was to blame.

Why is it that large established corporations, even when they see upstarts bearing down on them, can't react or at least to get out of the way before the new guys roll right over them?

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

He likes the fact that the new owners have a clear vision, and insists the Tropicana has at least two great things going for it — the prime location on the Vegas strip and its large pool area, which is uncommon.?

In large corporations with strict planning routines requiring annual, semiannual and quarterly plans and plan updates, managers spend at least part of their time working on or thinking about a new plan or plan update.

Based on projected balances in 2050, 39 percent of workers would have accounts large enough to delay claiming Social Security by at least one year.

Rourke had to keep at least a six - month supply on hand in case a medical supplier placed a large order.

The world's largest maker of diabetes drugs said on Tuesday it would aim to develop medicines that treat obesity - a major cause of diabetes - at least as effectively as surgery.

On Thursday night at least 80 people were killed in Nice when a large truck ran into a crowd of people that had gathered to watch fireworks celebrating Bastille Day.

Smaller businesses tend to have more flexible bonus structures than their large counterparts and many are planning on holding back bonus money at least until they get a better understanding of where things are going, Alter says.

«State attorneys general told five of the nation's largest banks on Tuesday they face a potential liability of at least $ 17 billion in civil lawsuits if a settlement isn't reached to address improper foreclosure practices» a «figure [that] doesn't cover additional billions of dollars in potential claims from federal agencies,» the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

The company boasts more than 100 screens in China — with at least 150 more on the way soon — and more than 250 in the U.S., its largest market.

Apple Inc shares tumbled shortly after the start of trading on Monday, briefly suffering their largest price drop in at least three months on an unusual spike in volume.

The fact is that many of the largest financial institutions already use AWS at least in test mode, and perhaps more surprisingly, are deploying applications on this shared computing infrastructure running in Amazon data centers.

On Monday, the FDIC approved a draft rule that would require large financial institutions to hold a minimum of half of senior executives» bonuses for at least three years.

To focus on dividend payers that are better positioned to weather a downturn, go with SPDR S&P Dividend (sdy): It's an exchange - traded fund that invests only in large companies healthy enough to have boosted payouts for at least 20 consecutive years, including warhorses like AT&T (t) and Chevron (cvx).

, a rundown on financial obligations to be imposed on some large businesses that don't offer coverage meeting at least minimum standards.

At least that's what CNBC's Jim Cramer thinks based on the stock market's response to some recent, large - scale combinations.

But wind will continue to have at least one powerful backer: Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway Energy division is on track to become the country's largest producer of wind power.

With the Prime Minister having said the government would never go into deficit and with the government having created a structural deficit and with the Finance Minister having wagered on various surplus horses, the Conservatives — they, at least nominally, being conservative — must dearly wish to have these large red numbers out of the way.

When the next debate emerges on whether Canada should accept a large investment from Asia, we will at least be able to start with a better understanding of the underlying data.

Based on loans in the Securitisation Dataset, a large majority of borrowers would be eligible to alter their loans in at least one of these ways.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

This measure is described in a recent article in Caixin, which describes a meeting held by the CSRC involving the heads of China's 21 largest brokers: «The firms announced in a joint statement that to stabilize the stock market they would spend at least 120 billion yuan combined to buy exchange - traded funds linked to blue - chip stocks listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses.

Beyond that, this blog is for you, the reader at large, and I hope that I can challenge and engage you to think about issues in different ways or at least get you to argue about my thinking on them.

Both reports — as well as a third from AmericanInno, are based at least in part on a SEC Form D filing, which suggests that the $ 4.7 million was part of a larger $ 5.8 million fundraising initiative.

If the jury found that Hogan was entitled to $ 100 million in damages and Gawker was required to post a bond of at least that amount, the company would not be able to do so without selling itself to a larger company or bringing on outside investors.

The focus here is on withdrawals from traditional IRAs, since these still comprise the largest part of the IRA market, at least at the older ages.

Probably the best way to summarize this chart is that when the majority of developed economies have negative leading indicators on a year - over-year basis, investors should at least allow for large stock market declines.

However, this is unlikely to match the expansion in production potential or export demand, so transport capacity is likely to remain a constraint on export supply, at least until a number of proposed large infrastructure projects are completed later in the decade.

In today's «derivative» stage of finance capitalism, large Wall Street banks make money off their customers and counterparties by betting which way the economy will go, much like betting on a horse race — except that «fixing» the financial race is not illegal, or at least is not prosecuted.

There are now more than 90 million of them, making this generation at least as large as the millennial population on which retailers seem to be so fixated.

Finally we come to the least valued US large bank, Citigroup (NYSE: C), which currently trades at 0.80 x book on a beta of 1.6.

Companies are on track to buy back the largest number of shares in at least a decade.

Shell is spending at least $ 10 billion on untested technology to build a natural - gas plant on a large boat so the company can tap a remote field, according to people who have worked on the project.

(As an aside, the week ended with a Cabinet nomination collapsing when it was alleged that, among other things, the nominee, a chief White House doctor nicknamed «the Candyman,» had handed out prescription drugs with abandon, including, on at least one occasion, an alarmingly large supply of Percocet.)

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Scholars experience the phenomenon time after time: you approach a new subject with a few large general impressions and inevitably discover, upon investiga tion, that the impressions don't do justice to the complexity of the data, or, at the very least, that they take on shades of ambiguity you had not previously imagined.

It is Polanyi's theory of tacit knowing, therefore, I believe, which can start us on the right path, coalescing as it does with the existential - phenomenological approach of Merleau - Ponty, and it may be, in large part at least, something not unlike the philosophy of Process and Reality that will emerge.2

Granted that we could almost say that «Christianity» doesn't even exist to the degree that there are such numerous competing and contradictory denominations, Christians by and large on at least some level see their job description as involving the spreading of the Gospel and leading people to Christ.

But people seem to want Timberlake to make things right in a more public way, a way that challenges his own privileges as a white male and thus — at least symbolically — contends with those power imbalances in society at large: perhaps by bringing Jackson on stage to perform with him as a special guest at this year's Super Bowl.

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

In neither case does the eulogy take on the character of an elegy: for both men, neoconservatism departs the scene not because it has failed but because it has, in large part at least, succeeded in what it set out to accomplish.

Despairing of any larger religious or social redemption, we can at least rely on murder mysteries to solve individual crimes and bring malefactors to justice.

At least in part to deal with such points, Eigen more recently pointed out that each biological genome is not a single sequence of bases on DNA (a unique «point in sequence space») but rather a fairly large number of variant sequences that have quite similar — even indistinguishable — biological functions.11 b, 11 c Most of these functionally similar sequences differ from the «wild - type» sequence in only one or a few locations, but some have fairly large discrepancies.