Sentences with phrase «other than that past»

Perhaps the main reason that determinism has had such a hold over modern thinkers has been that they could not see how anything other than the past could have efficacy in the present.

Is there any basis for trust (e. g. special control procedures) other than past experience in this case?

I do not have evidence that this is the case (other than past posts on this thread which I have read), but if somebody, or some people, are stuffing the ballot boxes with Labour postal votes it is not at all surprising that the Labour majority should be inflated.

Disclaimer: that is only a guess and I have seen nothing to indicate that will happen, other than that past performance is the best indicator of future behavior.

Next, there's «data» that's needed for bottom line evaluation and signal generation (this program does not have any database, so there's NO DATA supplied other than the past returns of our models and a few indices).

To reiterate, I have no basis for this other than past bad scientific behavior, (climategate, Pachaurigate, glaciergate, the hockey - stick, NASA's using CRU data because their own was a mess, etc), and an inquiring mind.

Not exact matches

The slowing economy has hit smaller accounting firms harder than the big players, judging by revenue data released over the past month, with practices in Western Australia affected more than those in other states.

The study found «that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.»

South Korea's new management - minded approach is a dramatic turnaround from its energetic regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges this past year, alarmed at a heated market that saw local prices of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies in South Korea trade for higher than international levels.

Not only is Canada doing well compared to other countries, it is performing better than it ever has in the past.

Their average five - year growth rate of 1,933 % is also higher than that of any other class in the past five years.

«White males are not only more likely than any other sub-group to have consumed alcohol in the past week, but those of them that did are more likely to have consumed a greater number of alcoholic beverages during the week,» the report states.

Over the past decade and a half, McDowell has lost people to prescription opioid overdoses at a higher rate than any other county in America but one (its neighbor, Wyoming County).

Like I mentioned the other day, that system may have worked in the past but since the wide - scale rise of the Internet over the past 20 years, the masses are more aware of what they don't have than ever before.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

Maybe that's why socially responsible investments in the United States actually grew 4 percent faster than any other sector of U.S. stocks in the past few years.

As seen in the chart below from Westpac Bank, China's trade surplus with the US has ballooned over the past decade as exports to the US grew substantially faster than imports heading in the other direction.

But for both men and women, working past age 65 is easier for some workers than others.

To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

That's grown rapidly in the past few years, faster than mortgages or other lending categories.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.»

Other funds pulling in money lately include the Vanguard Intermediate - Term Corporate Bond and SPDR Barclays Short Term Corporate Bond, both of which took in more than $ 300 million over the past week.

In the past year, I've watched Kelsey help build her company from two employees to more than 20 with grace, tenacity, and a genuine desire to help others.

In fact, there are more unicorns now than at any other time in the past four years, thanks in part to free - flowing venture capital, and investors seeking big payoffs for companies they hope will be the next Facebook or Google.

The U.S. economy has been stronger over the past few years than that of most other nations.

Lyft and Uber have both in the past said they'd pull out of Austin and other cities that require driver screenings more rigorous than the ones they've enacted.

«The blunt fact is that, in the past 50 years, firearms in the hands of domestic extremists have killed far more Americans than have bombs, blades, chemical or biological weapons, or any other type of weapon,» the report stated.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

Though productivity apps only make up a small 4 % of time spent, their share doubled over the past year, higher growth than any other category.

Next we scour each market looking for areas where homes are appreciating faster than in other parts of the city over the past one, three and five years.

While 2004 was an exceptional year for mortgage insurance, over the past 10 years CMHC has paid out at an average rate of 45 %, far lower than most other forms of insurance.

Other Wall Street firms have resized their bond trading in the past year, as business has been slower than expected.

Along with other rail companies, it's shipping more crude, frac sand and grain and it's doing more intermodal business — taking goods to another mode of transportation, such as ship or plane — than it has in the past.

Rozovsky basically said that having studied 180 teams at Google over the past several years and trying to determine what made some teams perform better than others (despite every team being filled with over-achievers who work at Google) one factor stood out more than others: Creating «psychologically safe environments.»

Branthover said Boyden has had more CFO search requests in the past two years than any other kind.

Sad people also reference the past and the future more than any others do.

The movie, «The Social Network» might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years.

In the past decade, medical costs have increased 34 %, which is more than any other major spending category and significantly more than income.

[2] These jobs tend to provide higher pay and better benefits, and they have been more resilient to economic downturns than other private sector industries over the past decade.

For example, the prices of secondary education and housing have been increasing much more rapidly than the prices of other goods and services; meanwhile fuel prices have risen, fallen, risen again and fallen again — each time very sharply — in the past ten years.

We WANT to believe we're logical human beings making decisions about others based off of their past actions and other things «more important» than looks.

A significant bounce since the February lows, however, has made many of the other health REITs less attractive than in days and weeks past.

On the similarity side, we have low volatility and a flattening yield curve; on the other side, we seem headed into an elongated hiking cycle and a much lower neutral rate than in past cycles.

In other words, the median asking rent is $ 184 higher today than it would be if rental rates had risen only as fast as inflation over the past two decades.

I just had a question about how paying off debt other than your mortgage factored into your plan over the past 15 years.

As with the other names mentioned a significant bounce in the health REIT space has occurred in the last month making many of the other health REITs less attractive than in days past, however, HCP still remains relatively weak for a variety of reasons and presents the best value (and risk) for potential returns.

Over the past three years, these 250 companies have hired for more jobs with flexible work options than any other companies.

China has loaned more money to other countries in the past 2 years than the IMF since it was founded in the 1930s.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry.