Sentences with phrase «point of comparison so»

As always, it's best to have at least two points of comparison so consumers know what a fair market price is.

Not exact matches

«By way of comparison, the typical profitable firm in our sample had a net profit margin of 6.4 percent, so a 1 percentage point increase represents a 15 percent boost to profitability.»

So for the purposes of our comparison, we used the third quarter of 2009 — the recession's low point — and compared it to the latest quarter in which all G7 countries reported.

My point was according to doctrine of the time, resurrections were fairly commonplace (in comparison to modern times, when we know the dead can not come back to life) and therefore not so special.

The secret in interpreting a parable, then, is to find the analogous situation and so come to understand the point of the comparison.

If the comparison is to be a just one we must, at every point of resemblance, take this difference into account, But when all allowance is made the fact remains that the analogies between the two systems arc so numerous, and so compelling, that reason forbids us to regard the parallel as either purely superficial or a mere matter of chance.

«When you look over the past five years there's been such a huge shift in profitability from suppliers to retailers, and it was so far out of kilter with international comparisons, that at some point it had to rebalance,» he said.

If that is your point, then my counterpoint is that they were paid the majority of their contracts, so, in comparison to most NFL teams the Steelers do treat their players like Family.

Was not analyzing the Manchester ss and don't really care much there but from a footballing point of view and from the words of MR wenger I understand the logic I do nt read what the media thinks neither My comment above addresses the issues we face in comparison to the two previous seasons adding in our re enforcements The 22 million question «Are the Arsenal capable of achieving 85 point come next May???» I believed we were strong last year and said it here that the team was strong and together and used the very words that MR wenger used cohesion but as the season unfolded the cracks showed up at the very beginning when we lost to west ham and it got worse as we lost pole position and every thing around us came tumbling down by February last season here comes another important question did they know and understand what happened do they know what to do this term to avoid the very same faith well we wait and see Irregardless of what happens I will support Arsenal and will keep analyzing every match my way until May so Good luck Arsenal with your endeavors and hope you do well against Liverpool keep the fight on keep the heads up and give them a good beating

So, I just take it with a grain of salt and understand why he would make incongruent comparisons like Hamilton if he felt it was conveying his point.

We are now three points away from the top half of the table, with an inferior goal difference in comparison to the other teams in contention for a ninth - placed finish, so it will take a good run of results to achieve that (looking increasingly unlikely) position.

Now we just have to watch the 1982 version so she'll have a point of comparison and see why this version is so special.

My husband doesn't so much agree with my comparison of the two things but he brings up an interesting point from the male side.

As a point of comparison, the average person is only willing to pay a dollar to avoid a one in ten million chance of death, so assuming you value your survival over the outcome of the Presidential election, the von Neumann - Morgenstern rationality axioms state that it's irrational to vote if it costs more than a dollar to do so (for instance in terms of gas costs and the cost of your time).

All but one hit their respective magnitudes to within eight - hundredths of a point; together, they represent the core of the so - called polar sequence and serve as standards for the comparison of star brightness.

«By comparison, in persons whose cardiac arrest was not witnessed, many of whom may not have been discovered until long after their collapse, antiarrhythmic drugs had no significant effect, probably because there was so little chance of survival by that point anyway.

And although the movie spins its wheels in the buildup to its final battle, Spartacus benefits substantially from an absolutely enthralling skirmish that stands as the high point in the proceedings - to the extent that most everything that follows, which comprises an additional 40 minutes or so, is simply unable to avoid an anticlimactic feeling of superfluousness by comparison.

None of the next gen games released so far or for PC since Pikmin 3, completely demolishes those first party games from Nintendo to the point where people would have gone «oh my, look how ugly those games are in comparison to everything else»....

While these particular aspects don't seem to be present in Sonic Mania based on what we've seen so far, the soundtracks of the two games do appear to be apt points of comparison.

While nowhere near as problematic as Classic Sonic, since a lot of 3D Sonic games have rather «loose» controls and physics so there's no recent point of comparison, Modern Sonic's controls were absolutely still an issue in Forces.

Demos saw the most substantial changes, relative to the comparison school, in pupils being able to describe ways to help someone experiencing gambling problems, there was a net 20 percentage point increase in the proportion of pupils at participating schools relative to the comparison school being able to do so.

This comparison point is significant: we know that pupils with low prior attainment find it much harder to make the expected «two levels of progress», and so schools with challenging intakes often suffer in these calculations.

Some may point out that Mitsubishi once produced Lancer Evolutions with greater specific outputs, but realistically the cars are beyond comparison - the AMG not only produces impressive power, but does so with a three - year warranty, 12,500 - mile service intervals, and combined economy of 40.9 mpg - figures in the 30s are entirely realistic.

At the $ 30,000 price point (give or take a grand), the choice seems to be power or luxury, rather than both, so here we're going to look at different approaches for different kinds of drivers rather than going for a straight apples - to - apples comparison.

Unfortunately, we didn't have a Mini Cooper S to compare, so our main point of comparison was whether the turbo on the Cooper S Clubman would make up for the 300 extra pounds it carried over the Mini Cooper.

The Sport model did not exist in 2017, so there's no point of comparison there.

Your comparisons are flimsy and nondescript, you have absolutely no data to back up your arguments, qualitative or quantitative, your logic is flawed, and you spend so much time b» awwing instead of actually discussing the point, that your article is virtually devoid of depth.

We point out who is leading, who is behind, who is improving, and sometimes (unfortunately) who is back pedaling... all based solely on the extensive objective measurements that we also publish, so that everyone can judge the data for themselves as well... See the main Display Shoot - Out Comparison Table for all of the measurements and details.

Our watchdog team have done the hard work of research and comparison, so we can point a clear pathway through the rapidly changing, and often confusing, landscape of author services.»

Historically RIM's profit margins (%'s, not absolute $'s) have been equal to or greater than Apple's even though RIM's device ASP's are roughly 50 % of Apple's, so your point regarding NOK doesn't really stand up as a credible comparison.

At that point in my career I had extensive experience in a wide variety of complex design projects so designing a book cover seemed relatively simple by comparison.

So at a variety of price points — $ 5, $ 10, $ 25 — there are direct comparisons available between books, movies and computer games, and there's a growing number of consumers who span all three markets (or more).

The most fruitful analysis adopts a common view across an entire database, so that visual comparison of trend intensity has a point of reference.

The point is to set up a proper baseline point of reference, that can't be altered by extraneous events, so you can make precise and measureable comparisons; when you manually alter other factors that go into achieving the end result.

They can not be invested in like all of the other Model Portfolios, and so they just serve as a point of reference for comparison purposes (so model performance can be compared apples - to - apples after linking returns).

So that when you do have a problem, if you have a problem, the vet will know what was normal for your bunny have a good point of comparison.

My point is, no one was saying «Off road vehicle drivers must be caught and euthanised and all off road vehicles within 3 miles of the beach should be destroyed...» It might sound like a ridiculous comparison, but then again, so is comparing a cat to a boa constrictor....

In fact, the exact itinerary we booked would have cost $ 651, but there's no way we would have paid that much, so the lowest available fare for those dates is a better point of comparison.

We recently wrote a comparison of Chase Ultimate Rewards program and American Express Membership Rewards, so I wont spend too much time here explaining the value of transfer point programs.

I'm being pretty harsh and the comparisons to JW and the prequels are probably inadvertently amplifying the tone of my posts, so I should clarify certain points:

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

GDC didn't ask about loot boxes in 2017, so we have no point of comparison, but it certainly felt like more than 1 in 10 games had loot boxes this past year.

GB: From the writer and consumer perspective, it comes out of this being a new world, so the first thing you do is try to find a point of comparison.

Normally I would try to avoid a point - for - point comparison of two titles, but All - Stars pulls so much from the Smash Bros. games — without even a hint of subtlety — that I think it's only fair to compare the two, mercilessly.

For many, the definition and understanding of «sculpture,» and even more so the term «sculptural,» has been expanded to the point of collapse within contemporary artistic practice while contracting within popular culture to the point of obsolescence (think no further than every bad public sculpture and memorial controversy or the trendiness of using «sculptural,» or as a comparison «architectural,» to describe everything from clothing design to cuisine).

I would also point out that there are multiple versions of those data products as well, and so any comparison should be with all of them (RSS, UAH, UMD (not up to date unfortunately), not just one that you might prefer for some reason.

The point of any comparison is to compare the modelled expectation with reality — right now, the modelled expectation is for trends in the range of 0.2 to 0.3 deg / decade and so that's the target.

Chart # 1: For ease of comparison, the earlier 20th century monthly anomaly sub-dataset was offset so as to start at exactly the same anomaly point as the modern sub-dataset.

* S: (n) analogy (an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others) * S: (n) analogy (drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect) «the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain»; «the models show by analogy how matter is built up» * S: (n) doctrine of analogy, analogy (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)»

To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and larger cities temperature trends actually show an increase in UHI effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI effect (still remembering that it has a small global effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).