Sentences with phrase «percentage points against»

In 2015, 29 % of disadvantaged students were resilient, in the sense that they performed above expectations, up by 2 percentage points against 2012.

We reported a shift of 7 percentage points against the unions between our 2012 Education Next annual poll, the full results to be released this summer, as compared to results we reported one year ago.

Not exact matches

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Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

But equity loan rates generally are one to two percentage points higher than rates on cash - out refinances because loans are a second lien — rather than a first — against your home.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

Against this backdrop, the proportion of Canadians who say the government of British Columbia is wrong to oppose the pipeline has risen significantly — by nine percentage points — since the Angus Reid Institute last asked in February:

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

The first argument against refinancing goes that it doesn't make sense to refinance unless you're lowering your mortgage rate by one percentage point or more.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The coaching staff has decided to give personnel looks to the opposing offense to encourage running the ball against them and is willing to play the percentages of them being able to stop enough multiple play march down the field drives and be stingy enough about stopping touchdowns to allow this team to hold others to a low enough score to allow an average offensive showing by our offense to score enough points to win.

Smith also had a 1.81 goals - against average, but was six points better on his save percentage than Rinne.

Even someone like Alexis Sanchez, presently the apple of every Gooner's eye, must be having his seemingly endless optimism tampered by several others pointing out to him the miniscule percentage of points Arsenal has been able to claim against top - flight opposition in last eight years.

Is not the point of all this to look at the completion percentages of the current college prospects measured against their current college counterparts and college QBs of recent years past to get an idea if they have the requisite accuracy to be a viable NFL QB?

That's a nifty.909 point percentage, while no other team has done better against Chicago than Washington's.700 mark (7 -3-0, minimum two games).

Betting on Home Dogs Against the Public (at the 30 % level) resulted in just a 42 % winning percentage at various point spreads in 2008.

While it may seem counterproductive to go against the percentages, you are going to have to make some upset picks at some point, so you might as well do it in games where most people are going chalk.

But he still owns a superb.924 save percentage, pitched a shutout in Game 2 against the Senators and Game 7 of the Capitals series, and arguably carried his limping teammates to this point.

For example, suppose that voters are evenly split between two political parties, but the nine equal population single member districts are drawn so that the favored party wins by just 5 percentage points in eight districts, while the disfavored party wins by 40 percentage points in another district, you've converted a 50 - 50 division of the population vote into 8 seats for the favored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error in its favor in the eight districts it wins and a 0.1 seat rounding error against it in the one district it loses), and 1 seat for the disfavored party (which gets a 0.45 seat rounding error against it in the eight district it loses but only a 0.1 seat rounding error in its favor in the one district it wins).

The change corresponds with Clinton's drop in the national popular - vote lead: from a 5.7 - percentage - point lead in our estimate on Oct. 28 to a 2.9 - point lead now — so a swing of about 3 points against her.

He fares just a few percentage points better against Gillibrand than Long and Maragos in a poll with a 2.5 percent margin of error.

When matched against several potential Republican gubernatorial candidates, Cuomo leads each of them by at least 40 percentage points.

But Republicans featured Obama in their attacks against Democrats in both election cycles, and exit polling found no Democratic Senate candidate was able to outperform Obama's approval rating in their state by more than nine percentage points.

Their still unofficial favorite to challenge Schumer is little - known conservative lawyer Wendy Long, who was crushed by a record 46 percentage points in 2012 when she was the GOP candidate against US Sen Kirsten Gillibrand.

Deacon — who is currently 23 percentage points down against incumbent Rep. Katko (R - N.Y.) in New York state's 24th Congressional District race — was officially endorsed by Hochul during the rally.

In June, Mr. Espaillat won against a crowded field seeking to replace longtime Representative Charles B. Rangel, beating, by about three percentage points, the candidate endorsed by Mr. Rangel.

The 27 - day postelection filings show that Curran, who defeated Martins by three percentage points, spent just under $ 2.8 million on the race — including during her Democratic primary campaign against County Comptroller George Maragos.

The campaign is also going up against the fundraising juggernaut that is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and while the Turner camp took solace in the fact that today's Q - poll put him above the rest of the GOP pack, he's still down by 30 percentage points.

In Minnesota, Democrats are close to landing a prized recruit to run against Representative Erik Paulsen in an affluent Minneapolis suburban district that Mrs. Clinton carried by nearly 10 percentage points.

(CNN)- Freshman Republican Congressman Joseph Cao is facing a very tough reelection bid against Democratic candidate and Louisiana state representative Cedric Richmond, in a district Cao won by two percentage points in 2008.

He ran against Rangel in 1994 and lost by 25 percentage points.

Ashford, a former Blue Dog who lost his seat in 2016, wants a rematch against Rep. Don Bacon (R) after losing to him by just 1 percentage point.

She leads Mr. Sanders by 12 percentage points in New York, but among upstate voters he fares significantly better than Mrs. Clinton in a matchup against the leading Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump, according to a Quinnipiac University poll in late March.

In the 1st District, Republican incumbent Lee Zeldin holds a 15 - percentage point lead against Democratic challenger Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton supervisor.

When up against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor Paterson loses to Giuliani among New York State registered voters by more than 20 percentage points — 32 % to 56 %, respectively.

So we had Tuck, a no - name candidate, without a ground game, whose messaging failed to reach a low - information populace and who suffered a poor voter turnout, fighting against a man backed by the most powerful state teachers union in the country — and Tuck still lost by only four percentage points.

Bringing an MQB - based small unibody pickup to the U.S. — where it would square off most naturally against the Honda Ridgeline rather than the Ford Ranger or Chevrolet Colorado — would never be enough on its own for Volkswagen to gain 3 whole percentage points of market share in the U.S..

But the point that I think your piece is missing is the fact that, although there is always a small percentage of passionate, informed, vocal and tech - savvy people who will rail against DRM and closed technology look for any way to circumvent such things, the majority of consumers out there don't understand most of the technology behind * any * of this, and more to the point, don't honestly care.

If a loans meets the following tests, it is covered under the law: 1) For a first - lien loan otherwise referred to as the original mortgage on the property - the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) exceeds by more than 8 percentage points compared against the rates on Treasury securities of comparable maturity; 2) For a second - lien loan otherwise referred to as a 2nd mortgage - the APR (Annual Percentage Rate) exceeds by more than 10 percentage points compared to the rates in Treasury securities of comparable maturity; or the total points and fees payable by the borrower at or before closing exceed the larger of $ 561 or 8 % of the total loPercentage Rate (APR) exceeds by more than 8 percentage points compared against the rates on Treasury securities of comparable maturity; 2) For a second - lien loan otherwise referred to as a 2nd mortgage - the APR (Annual Percentage Rate) exceeds by more than 10 percentage points compared to the rates in Treasury securities of comparable maturity; or the total points and fees payable by the borrower at or before closing exceed the larger of $ 561 or 8 % of the total lopercentage points compared against the rates on Treasury securities of comparable maturity; 2) For a second - lien loan otherwise referred to as a 2nd mortgage - the APR (Annual Percentage Rate) exceeds by more than 10 percentage points compared to the rates in Treasury securities of comparable maturity; or the total points and fees payable by the borrower at or before closing exceed the larger of $ 561 or 8 % of the total loPercentage Rate) exceeds by more than 10 percentage points compared to the rates in Treasury securities of comparable maturity; or the total points and fees payable by the borrower at or before closing exceed the larger of $ 561 or 8 % of the total lopercentage points compared to the rates in Treasury securities of comparable maturity; or the total points and fees payable by the borrower at or before closing exceed the larger of $ 561 or 8 % of the total loan amount.

The itemized deduction for state income tax can be used against ordinary income that's taxed at 39.6 %, which means the effective rate of tax on the capital gain under the regular income tax could be about 16 % versus 27 % in the AMT calculation, producing a difference of eleven percentage points.

In the past many financial experts advised against refinancing unless you could shave at least two percentage points off your interest rate.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

The resulting proportions are then plotted against the percentage points they relate to.

Positive number two from this opinion: focusing on the percentage of the fund is still appropriate (courts claiming otherwise are misrepresenting the authority out there, though it probably doesn't matter, since what this really points out is that any rational method for evaluating the fee against the benefit conferred).