Sentences with phrase «point of the year occurred»

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Nevertheless, I find it untenable that a quarter point cut in January was enough to close the output gap one year earlier than the Bank of Canada's models were otherwise telling them would occur in the absence of a small cut especially since only 15bps of that cut was passed through.

PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are rising.

Back in July of last year I pointed out that in a world where official short - term interest rates are close to zero, some short - term market interest rates are also going to be very close to zero, and that, in such cases, interest - rate dips below zero could occur as a result of insignificant price fluctuations.

Even if you've kept records of all of the links that you've built through the years, there are probably plenty of links pointing to your site that occurred naturally over time that you don't have any record of.

Not only is the stock market not even remotely discounting the underlying economic reality, but the S&P 500 spent the last four weeks clawing back 78 % of the 249 point (12 %) drop that occurred just after New Year's despite the continued plethora of increasingly negative economic reports.

Falls in mortgage interest rates detracted 0.5 of a percentage point from the quarterly headline rate and, on a year - ended basis, interest rate reductions that have already occurred will keep the headline inflation rate below the underlying rate for some time.

Bible prophecy buffs point out that the eclipses happening this year are particularly significant because they all fall exactly on Jewish festivals: the ones in April 2014 and 2015 occur on the first day of Passover and the two in September are both on the first day of The Feast of Tabernacles.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

As Richard Grunberger points out in Twelve - Year Reich: A Social History of Nazi Germany [Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971], «the incessant official demonization of the Jew gradually modified the consciousness even of naturally humane people,» so that the populace became indifferent to Jewish suffering, «not because it occurred in wartime and under conditions of secrecy, but because Jews were astronomically remote and not real people.»

Since the mass at that point will be insufficient for carbon ignition to occur, it will slowly cool down over tens of billions of years until all that's left is a relatively tiny black dwarf.

«Much of the change in opinion has occurred over the past few years — support has risen 13 points since 2010,» Pew Research Center says.

Throughout the past several years, Shore Point Distributing has enjoyed steady growth, but its most recent expansion occurred as a result of moving into a new facility.

Michigan State did hit a short rough patch this year, but of its five regular - season losses, three came by a point, and another occurred at powerful Iowa when Valentine had not yet returned to full strength after having left knee surgery on Dec. 21.

(As anyone who has been visiting MomsTEAM's Concussion Safety Center for the past twelve years knows, science and technology have yet to come up with a way to prevent concussions; the most we can realistically hope to do at this point is a better job of identifying concussions when they occur and managing them in such a way as to keep the recovery time to a minimum and to keep kids from returning before their brains have fully healed so as to minimize the risk of serious, long - term effects, or even, in rare cases, death).

«A consultant at the Kaduna Business School concludes that the first point to note is that states are in dire financial straits today because of poor management of fiscal and other resources that occurred in the years preceding the report.

When asked about the senator's attendance this year, his campaign spokesman, Richie Fife, had a three - point response: Perkins attendance record before this year is laudable; the votes so far this year have taken place outside the budget negotiations, when a bulk of the chambers» real action occurs; and frankly, legislators in the minority don't have much power, thanks to the way the Republican - IDC coalition runs the chamber.

Mr Brown is also expected to call for greater stability in the global price of oil in order to prevent another period of rising prices as occurred last year with oil trading at $ 150 a barrel at one point.

Let me point to 10 things that I sketched out this morning: too much money spent on administration and bureaucracy and not enough on front - line patient care; too little patient - centric information to inform decision making; too little innovation; too little clinical input into decision making; too much inertia and hostility to reform, as we have seen today; too much process - driven target culture distorting clinical decision making; falling productivity; poor outcomes across a range of clinical indicators; too often, weak commissioning of servicing; and widening health inequalities in the past 10 years, in addition to the scandals that occurred in Staffordshire and Kent.

Sunday, October 30 — A technological breakthrough that has led to remarkable changes in American and global society occurred 47 years ago today... or yesterday, depending on your point of reference.

They found they were able to detect those signals in data from California before the 2014 - 15 Disneyland, California measles outbreak, which showed early warning signs of a tipping point two years before the outbreak occurred.

If scientists can identify enough of these human - derived layers within the last 10,000 to 12,000 years and zero in on when the most significant ones occurred, that point in time would be a good candidate for the Anthropocene boundary, Stinchcomb says.

The Cambrian Period, which occurred between 541 million and 485 million years ago, is an important point in evolutionary history where most of the major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record.

«If there were a link, it would be more likely to occur in fall [when the Arctic sea ice is at a low and the region is warm] than it would in January [when the Arctic is ice - covered and cold], so from that point of view, it's not a compelling candidate at this time of year,» Hoerling said.

Geological evidence pointed to the springs being active during the driest periods of climate fluctuations that occurred around 1.8 million years ago, a critical period for hominin evolution.

We don't know at which point during the fifty years of culturing the mix - up occurred but we have been able to show that the ATCC U87MG line is most likely from a human glioma tumor», says Bengt Westermark.

On average, it takes five years for interference to occur, at which point wells produce gas at a far lower rate because the amount of gas coming out over time is proportional to the amount of gas remaining.

Taken together, this evidence suggests the development of fire technology occurred at some point between 800,000 and 1.2 million years ago, revealing a new timeline for when the earliest humans started to cook food.

The new method has already been used to examine climatic records of sea surface temperature at 65,000 points around the world over a period of 28 years and provided scientists with a clear understanding of when and where temperature fluctuations occur.

The Sept. 22 encounter occurred between the orbital paths of Earth and Mars, just days after Borrelly reached the point in its 6.9 - year orbit closest to the sun.

«We don't know at which point during the fifty years of culturing the mix - up occurred but we have been able to show that the U87MG line is most likely from a human glioma tumor», says Bengt Westermark.

I certainly applaud the desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful studies show that school desegregation has had positive impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between desegregation and southern gains.

But as the National Academy of Sciences pointed out last year, successfully doing so requires exhaustive data on each teacher and the contexts in which instruction occurs.

These scores represent the average number of NCE points by which a school exceeds or falls short of the student achievement growth that occurred statewide in 1998 - the benchmark year, a.k.a., the Growth Standard.

It occurred to me the other day that right now, at my age, there are more work years left in me than the total number of years I've lived up to this point.

For some borrowers, the break - even point occurs in a couple of years.

The last major Santa Claus rally occurred in 2011, when the S&P gained over 50 points in the last 10 days of the year:

ROE of 16.1 % and an equity tier 1 ratio of 10.8 % (for comparison, a bank has to have a 6 % ratio to be considered «well capitalized» in the U.S) and total capital ratio of 13.9 % pointing to the fact the bank is well prepared for any sort of financial crisis like what occurred just a few years ago.

Once the auction occurs, the rates are calculated by adding several percentage points to the 10 - year treasury note yield, to cover the «administrative costs» of issuing the loans, according to the 2013 legislation that enacted this system.

In general, an ownership change occurs when, as of any testing date, the aggregate of the increase in percentage points is more than 50 percentage points of the total amount of a corporation's stock owned by «5 - percent stockholders,» within the meaning of the NOLs limitations, whose percentage ownership of the stock has increased as of such date over the lowest percentage of the stock owned by each such «5 - percent stockholder» at any time during the three - year period preceding such date.

Interesting too that the report notes an inflection point that occurred in 2012: that year total annual TFSA contributions hit $ 33.5 billion, exceeding RRSP «deductions» of $ 32.4 billion that year.

The high yield market (as measured by the BofA Merrill Lynch HY Master II Index) has rallied significantly since February 2016 and notched 20 consecutive months without posting a loss of 50 basis points (bps) or more, something that hasn't occurred in over 20 years.

* has spent a number of years studying and learning about their breed * is active in one or more breed clubs or similar groups and thus is in regular contact with other people in the breed * knows their breeding stock inside and out for several generations back * has an «eye for a dog» and has developed a detailed picture of the type of dog they're breeding toward * almost always compete in some in some sort of activity with their dogs (conformation, working activities, obedience etc.) so as to have a realistic idea of how their dogs compare to others of the same the breed * is knowledgable about the hereditary problems that occur in their breed and has the appropriate tests done prior to breeding in order to decrease the likelihood of their occurance in their pups * considers temperament important * is knowledgable about the mating and whelping of dogs in general, so as to minimize the chances of injury or death to the breeding dogs * is extremely concerned with the quality of the homes that their puppies are destinied for, to the point of not performing a breeding if they don't feel good homes will be available for the pups * never has more dogs of their own than they are properly able to care for * is willing and able to educate and build a relationship with their puppy buyers * is honest * uses spay / neuter contracts and / or limited registration to prevent the casual breeding of their puppies * is ALWAYS willing to take back a dog of their breeding if a puppy buyer can not keep it for any reason.

I would imagine that even still these changes were occurring for many, many years before the reached the point of being classified as new breeds.

- the team has been adding weapons one by one because they want the same amount of attention for each weapon - the team learned that when they added two new weapons at once, one would end up getting overshadowed by the other - there were more new stages than returning stages because bringing back old stages would have little surprise - since they want to satisfy both new and returning players, they changed the order of stage additions - there weren't any major direction changes in balancing from Splatoon 1 - there have been more pattern combinations between weapons and stages, so there was more involved to balance them all - matchmaking is handled by getting 8 players with similar rank points, and then they're split by weapons - the rank point gap between S + players is bigger than ordinary players - only about one in 1,000 active players are in the S +40 to S +50 region in Ranked Battles - there's even less than one in 10 players that reach S +, while 80 % of the overall player base are in A or less - about 90 % of S + ranked players are within a + / -150 hidden ranked power range - rock was the popular genre in Splatoon, so they tried changing it for the sequel - they prioritized making good background music first before forming the band to play that music - the design team would make the CD jacket - like artwork afterwards - due to this, the band members would often change; some getting added while some others removed - Off the Hook is an exception, as they first decided they would be a DJ and rapper along with their visuals first - Off the Hook's song came afterwards - In Splatoon street fashion was the trend, but in Splatoon 2 they tried adding more uniqueness - the aim was to add Flow with ethnic clothing and Jelfonzo with high fashion - all Jellyfish in this world are born by splitting, which means Jelfonzo was born by splitting from Jelonzo - Jellyfish are like a hive mind - when they hold a wedding ceremony, they're just simply holding the ceremony - Jelonzo and Jelfonzo start gaining their own consciences so they can speak - Flow used her working holiday to go on a trip before reaching Inkopolis Square - during the trip, she met the owner of Headspace - the owner liked her, so she got hired to work there - Bisk has a unique way of speaking: anastrophe - the team tried to express him as an adult man - they made him into a giant spider crab because they wanted someone with high posture - he came from a cold country and broke up with his girlfriend to join a band - just like Flow, he became attracted to squids - Crusty Sean finally has his own shop, but he opened it because he's someone who follows the current trends - one of the trends happens to be people opening their own shops - drink tickets aren't stacked, but the probability is higher than a single brand - the music in Inkopolis Square changes depending on the player's location - sounds contribute to creating atmosphere in the location - the song at front of Grizzco Industries had an atmosphere that feels like some smell can radiate from the game screen - as for Salmon Run, they imagined it as a Japanese restaurant outside Japan that is not run by a Japanese person - each time the player moves between the shops, the game uses an arrange shift that shows the personality of each inhabitant - the arrangement in Shella Fresh is related to Bisk's guitar and mystery files that describe his past - with the Squid Sisters moved to Hero Mode, Off the Hook was put in charge in guiding battles and festivals - Bomb Rush Blush has an orchestra «because it would sound like the final boss» - the team wanted to express the feel of the story's real culprit with this music - the probability of each event occurring in Salmon Run is different - there are no specific requirements, meaning they're picked randomly - this means it's possible for fog to appear three times in a row - the Salmon have different appearances based on the environment they're raised in - if the environment is harsher, they would become large salmon - Steelheads and Maws have big bodies, while Scrappers and Steel Eels have high intelligence - Salmons basically wield kitchenware, but everybody else has a virtue in fighting to actually cook the Salmons - Grill is the ultimate form of this - when Salmons are fighting to the death, they can feel the same sense of unity - they would be one with the world if they were eaten by other creatures, and they also fight for the pride of their race - MakoMart is based on a large supermarket in America - the update also took place on Black Friday in America, which was why Squids are buying a lot of things in the trailer - Arowana Mall looks like it has more passages because there are changes in tenants and also renovation work - Walleye Warehouse has no changes at all, because the team wanted to have at least one map that stayed intact - the only thing different in this map is the graffiti, which is based on the winner of Famitsu's Squid Fashion Contest - all members in the band Ink Theory graduated from music university - they are well - educated girls who also do aggressive things - the band members wearing neckties are respecting the Hightide Era from the prequel - the team will continue adding weapons and stages for a year, and Splatfests for two years - the team will also continue to make more updates including balancing

Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen takes public initiatives that have occurred in Benin in recent years such as Meschac Gaba's Musée de l'Art et de la Vie Active (MAVA) and Zinkpè's Boulev» art as a starting point to interrogate the notion of the artist as citizen both as an aesthetic idea and an ethical project.

But the evidence shows this can't be true; temperature changes before CO2 in every record of any duration for any time period; CO2 variability does not correlate with temperature at any point in the last 600 million years; atmospheric CO2 levels are currently at the lowest level in that period; in the 20th century most warming occurred before 1940 when human production of CO2 was very small; human production of CO2 increased the most after 1940 but global temperatures declined to 1985; from 2000 global temperatures declined while CO2 levels increased; and any reduction in CO2 threatens plant life, oxygen production, and therefore all life on the planet.

The previous high point of annual CO2 growth occurred in 1998, also a strong El Niño year.

-------- 1314 - 1316 Several famines occurred during these years (weather assumed to have been responsible, with all three years noted by various historians as «very wet»... it's a moot point though as to whether all three were really wet, or just the effects of one or two carrying over).

The only patterns I think we can draw on are the rebounds which occurred after last two significant minima which would lead to an expectation of a similar rebound in the next two years and the 5.4 y cycle which I identified in the doing trend analysis which hits it's sharp low point next year.

This tactic works (so far as the contrarians are concerned), of course, until the next record warm year occurs, at which point they have to start out again.