Sentences with phrase «period of activity in»

«I've done a lot of things in my life over a 20 - year period of activity in government and politics,» Lasher told POLITICO New York.

A brief period of activity in the civil service did not prove satisfactory to Humboldt.

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It also suggested that consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, was accelerating in the fourth quarter after slowing in the July - September period.

Segment operating income excludes unrealized gains and losses on hedging activities (which are a component of cost of sales), general corporate expenses (which are a component of selling, general and administrative expenses), amortization of intangibles, gains and losses on divestitures and acquisition - related costs, in all periods presented.

Of all the activities in a business, hiring is likely one of the least frequently performed, unless a company is going through a period of rapid growth or has high turnoveOf all the activities in a business, hiring is likely one of the least frequently performed, unless a company is going through a period of rapid growth or has high turnoveof the least frequently performed, unless a company is going through a period of rapid growth or has high turnoveof rapid growth or has high turnover.

According to the Anti-Phishing Working Group's (APWG) Q1 2016 Phishing Activity Trends Report, there were more phishing attacks in the first quarter of 2016 than in any other three - month period since the organization began tracking data in 2004.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the January - March period, the slowest in nearly five years, after surging at a 4.0 percent pace in the fourth quarter.

Pursuant to rules of the Ontario Securities Commission, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers and the Universal Market Integrity Rules for Canadian Marketplaces, the underwriters may not, throughout the period of distribution, bid for or purchase shares of our common stock except in accordance with certain permitted transactions, including market stabilization and passive market making activities.

While the literature suggests that mini flash crashes occur most frequently at the beginning and end of trading hours [21], we investigate all three - minute windows in the control period to check that the activity seen in the test window is truly anomalous from normal trading activity.

These decades happened to coincide with The Great Depression and The Great Recession so you can see that in periods of very poor economic activity, bonds can act as stabilizer for your portfolio.

As a result, we believe it is useful to exclude Starbucks activity to clearly show the impact Starbucks has had on our financial results historically, to provide insight into the impact of the expected termination of the Starbucks agreement on our revenues in the future, to facilitate period - to - period comparisons of our business, and to facilitate comparisons of our performance to that of other payment processors.

Recent work at the Bank of Canada and elsewhere shows that about half of the slowdown in trade growth among advanced economies in the post-crisis period can be explained by weak economic activity, especially sluggish business investment.

Attaching a time limit to competing activity - for example the buyer may request that the seller not engage in direct competition for a period of five years

And third, assume that China continues to have as much debt capacity as needed in the current period to fund the amount of activity required to meet the GDP growth target.

After a long period of being a drag on the economy, the housing market is now providing lift to economic activity, with upward trends evident in housing starts, home sales, and home prices.

According to the dictionary, a recession is defined as, «a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for two successive quarters.»

Activity in the leveraged loan markets even surpassed the levels recorded before the crisis: average quarterly announcements during the year to end - September 2014 were $ 250 billion, well above the average of $ 190 billion during the pre-crisis period from 2005 to mid-2007.

In fact, though, boomers are heading into a period of great disruption in their lives, and it's putting a good deal of their consumer activity in play, according to a new eMarketer report, «How Boomers Still Matter: A Disruptive Life Stage Puts Their Consumer Behavior in Play.&raquIn fact, though, boomers are heading into a period of great disruption in their lives, and it's putting a good deal of their consumer activity in play, according to a new eMarketer report, «How Boomers Still Matter: A Disruptive Life Stage Puts Their Consumer Behavior in Play.&raquin their lives, and it's putting a good deal of their consumer activity in play, according to a new eMarketer report, «How Boomers Still Matter: A Disruptive Life Stage Puts Their Consumer Behavior in Play.&raquin play, according to a new eMarketer report, «How Boomers Still Matter: A Disruptive Life Stage Puts Their Consumer Behavior in Play.&raquin Play.»

«Establishing a chronology of recessions necessarily implies discarding periods of slow or even negative growth in aggregate economic activity.

the sections of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their stock ownership and trading activities and liability for insiders who profit from trades made in a short period of time; and

During that time period, the company brought in another $ 650 million in cash from its net acquisition activity (with the cash coming from the divestiture of their auto care segment).

The company has also included this information because changes in operating assets and liabilities relate to the timing of cash receipts and disbursements which the company may not control and may not relate to the period in which the operating activities occurred.

Engineering construction activity has nearly doubled over the past two years and this upswing is likely to be sustained in the period ahead, with a number of significant road and mining - related projects scheduled for commencement in 2004 (Graph 41).

Pre-GST activity boosted output in the construction industry and, given the large amount of work yet to be done in the residential sector, this should support activity in the industry in the period ahead.

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

Experts in the industry have also noted that revenue growth was hindered in the early part of the period as the industry was reluctant to bounce back from the financial crisis and subsequent recession of the prior period that made stock markets and business activities to dramatically contract.

Gaps that appear during periods of high trading activity but where the price is not generally moving very much can be an indication of a new breakout, i.e. that the asset's price will start moving in that direction.

As Bill Hester recently observed, the current level of economic activity has had a much higher probability of being recessionary in periods when the S&P 500 was also weak — for example, below its level of 6 months earlier, or below its 12 - month moving average.

Most sales took place in the city of Toronto, with areas such as Rosedale and the Kingsway seeing steady activity through the period.

As we are approaching the end of the low - volume Christmas period, cryptocurrencies might be ready for a jump in trading activity, but today, choppy conditions are...

Through November, more than $ 4.5 trillion worth of mergers have been announced year - to - date, and the activity in the third quarter was the strongest on record for that period, according to Citi.

If we look across history for periods of extended range - bound activity in overvalued markets where: a) the DJIA had gone more than a month without setting a 20 - day high or low; b) the DJIA was confined to a range of less than 6 %; c) the DJIA was within 10 % of a 2 - year high; and d) the Shiller P / E was 18 or higher, there are only 7 clusters that fit the bill (1929, 1937, 1965, 1973, 1999 - 2000, 2007 - 2008, and today).

We all live in the exceptional, but temporary period of thermodynamic activity.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

[3] The Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen (NSRBL), the umbrella organization promoting and coordinating sport activities in Germany during the Nazi period, had the responsibility of overseeing the physical fitness development programs provided to the German youth.

«Every week is unique, and pastors are faced with the need to get insight from the Spirit of God to understand the mood and emotional state of the congregants,» said Ríos, citing a rise in depression and marital issues among hurricane victims, as well as concerns over suicide rates and violent criminal activity in the long recovery period.

The Sabbath is meant as a time of rest from the world — a period of non-work and delight in which one's «useless» activity both fosters a recognition of the divine and sanctifies and refreshes ongoing life.

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

That Patterson recognizes this in his second chapter, where he reflects on how the difficulties of the South during the «transitional period» led to the activities of lynch mobs, makes even more striking his disinclination to extend this objectivity to African - American men.

Nevertheless, although unconsciously controlled love is of great power in all human life, the love that emerged into importance in the axial period was an activity of consciousness.

This reviewer should point out that Berger acknowledges that the book was written over a period of two years «in moments snatched from other busy activities as a social scientist.»

As others have noted, Leviticus 18 - 20 also condemns shaving, wearing mixed fabrics, getting tattoos, sowing different crops in the same field, and sexual activity during a woman's period (back to A Year of Biblical Womanhood!)

If W. H. Auden is correct in his assertion that the day's events in the life of an average person could fill a novel, an account of the activity of a congregation in the same period might occupy several shelves.

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

No one questions that the period between 1936 and 1939 was crucial for an understanding of Borges» s development as a writer; however, little attention has been paid to Borges's other literary activities during these years — especially the various essays, reviews, biographical sketches and literary gossip that appeared in El Hogar.

It was the beginning of a racist period which led to the extermination of 6 million Jews and to activities and crimes committed in many other nations.

The share of the US in paleo launch activity fell from over 80 % of the tracked launch total in the 12 months to the end of September 2014 to less than two - thirds in the same period in 2015, despite strong growth in total introductions.

Although this remains very small in terms of global launch activity totals, it is nearly three times the number recorded in the previous 12 - month period.

Last year, LITA celebrated 50 years of activity and this important anniversary is evidence of the company's efficiency and ability in satisfying the changing requirements of its customers during this period.