Sentences with phrase «over lesser margins»

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The margin of victory for Clinton over Trump there was about 20,000 less than Obama's over 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Although it is less than 2 per cent of total household debt, growth in margin lending has accounted for over a fifth of the rise in banks» personal lending (excluding credit cards) since 1996.

Within a given company, looking at how gross margins change over time gives you a sense of the trend toward greater or less efficiency in production activity.

So, does the same gross margin percentage convert into more or less operating margin over time?

By a 44 percent to 27 percent margin, Catholics report more rather than less sexual activity over the last three years, similar to the Protestant margin of 41 percent to 29 percent, whereas Jews turned in a more ambivalent figure of 39 percent to 35 percent.

But just as religiously committed Evangelical and Mainline Protestants were much more likely to vote Republican than their nominally religious brethren, regularly attending white Catholics gave Bush a narrow plurality over Clinton (41 percent to 39 percent), while less - observant Catholics gave Clinton a bigger margin (44 percent to 33 percent).

DiNapoli's final margin over Wilson was less than 3 % I think.

In that race, Democratic challenger Tom Perriello was certified the winner over incumbent Republican Rep. Virgil Goode, but the margin - less than 800 votes - was close enough for Goode to request a recount under state law.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

The picture from the BESIP changed very little in May following the European Parliament Elections which saw the SNP emerge as the largest party but by a narrow margin over Labour of 29 % to 25 %, and less than in the corresponding elections of 2009.

In that election Republicans held a slight enrollment edge over Democrats, about 8,000 active voters, and the margin is now less than 3,000 active voters.

On this basis it can be argued that the BNP cost Labour at least 9 seats in 2010: the seats where Labour lost the seat, and the winning margin was less than the margin of the BNP (votes taken from Labour) over UKiP (votes taken from Con / LD): Amber Valley, Bradford East, Burnley, Corby, Dewsbury, Nuneaton, Sherwood, Thurrock, Warwickshire North (7 Conservative gains, 2 Lib Dem).

The technique, known as gyrochronology, can be used to determine the age of such older, cooler stars with a less than 10 percent margin of error, a substantial improvement over previous techniques where the margin of error could reportedly be as high as 100 percent.

Recounting his upbringing by an abusive father and his anger over losing construction job opportunities to illegal immigrants, Foley seems to have taken up arms less out of necessity (à la Autodefensas) than out of a frustration with both the American government's lack of immigration control and with his own tough, on - the - margins life.

However, the margin over smaller cars (Fiesta, Polo, Yaris etc) is less, and this part of the market is more price sensitive.

Clearly it won't have the full 500bhp - plus provided to the new GT3, but expect an output of at least 430bhp, a clear 50bhp rise over the Cayman GT4 and more than enough to establish a clear performance margin to lesser, non-GT Cayman models.

Marketplace can give you a higher margin but it looks less professional and you have little control over your book's listing information (you can pay for a month's worth of Professional so you can edit it but there are no guarantees).

Fund managers aim to do this by a significant margin over the long - term and aim to deliver returns with less volatility (risk) than the broader UK equity market.

And here is the second try: Gross margins as a ratio of Assets over 13 %, free cash flow yield over 5 %, Long - term debt as a ratio of free cash flow greater than five, less than 20 % above the 52 - week low.

If your business begins to turn over its assets more slowly (i.e. it begins to generate less revenue per $ 1 of assets), then you'll need to make up for that by earning a higher profit margin on each $ 1 of revenue if you are to maintain the same ROA.

Again, though the value decile outperformed by a wide margin over the full period, it only beat the Russell 2000 index in 3 out of 7 years, less than half the time.

I'll certainly run with that — employees may no longer literally carve out a day each week to mess around with stuff, but Google obviously remains committed to huge investment in its core business, continually ranking & allocating more (or less) resources to products / services which are often still pre-revenue, margin - free, or even plain old loss - making... [YouTube is a prime example — it is, by far, the largest streaming business globally (over 1 billion users per month), but appears to be only in the early innings now of generating revenue, let alone margins.

Increased the cost of premium awards on partner airlines by significant margins (some awards increased in price by over 50 %) making them a lot less attractive than in the past.

We have an average ROI of over 500 %, we've never made a game that earned less than the previous one by a margin of at least 150 %, we've been stable, we're visible and we're a respected, award - winning company.

Also, if permafrost becomes less widespread over time and glacier margins melt, it is less likely that pressure will build up in that way that it did in this case.

Google would trail by a large margin and Microsoft, Apple and others would be fighting over less than 6 % share.