Sentences with phrase «rather large increase»

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Tyler Law, a spokesman, said in a statement that Ryan «sees what is coming in November and is calling it quits rather than standing behind a House Republican agenda to increase healthcare costs for middle - class families while slashing Social Security and Medicare to pay for his handouts to the richest and largest corporations.»

And rather than lag behind large competitors» price increases, use your research to lead when necessary.

The network still has almost 92 million subscribers, and simple math tells you they could recover the lost three - quarters of a billion dollars by charging a subscriber fee of something like $ 7.09, rather than $ 6.41, per month — a large increase, but, with live sports still king, not out of the realm of possibility.

We questioned the downward profile of this adjustment, arguing that risks / uncertainties increase over time rather than decline and that larger and increasing adjustments for risk should have been made.

The DIVCON tool consists of 1200 mid to large size U.S. listed stocks and does something rather unique, it predicts who is likely to increase their dividend over the next 12 months.

The evidence suggests that some union proposals are intended to influence collective bargaining outcomes rather than maximize shareholder value, and that increasing proposal rights will not necessarily help shareholders at large if some shareholders use those rights to advance their private interests.

Developments in the «new biology,» which deals with wholes of increasing complexity in the organization of interrelated parts rather than with discrete and isolated segments, especially in molecular biology and the growing field of ecology, with its discoveries about the basic interdependence of living organisms with other living organisms and with its larger environmental context, have further undermined these traditions assumptions.

Conservative swings in London in 2005 were larger than in just about any other part of the country — albeit mainly because of large falls in the Labour vote rather than increases in the Conservative vote.

The latest round of state standardized academic test scores showed gains both across New York State and locally.But rather than celebrate the largest bump since New York adopted new tests tied to the Common Core Learning Standards, education officials reported the increases with caution.

The Democratic Assembly Majority is pushing its favorite items in a different form than the governor has included - a minimum wage increase larger than Cuomo's, a DREAM act resolution that isn't tied to an education tax credit, and a seven - rather than three - year extension of mayoral control of schools.

«One of the things that the presence of large - scale science infrastructure does is that it increases the skills pool, and helps Africa to have something we have not seen on the continent in some time, and that is a brain gain rather than a brain drain,» she said.

Professor Jeremy Pearson, Associate Medical Director at the BHF, which part - funded the study, said: «By using the power of very large scale genetic studies, this research is the first to show that the known association between increased height and a lower risk of coronary heart disease is at least in part due to genetics, rather than purely down to nutrition or lifestyle factors.

These trends suggest that large - scale climate changes, rather than local factors, could be driving increases in fire activity, the scientists report.

The study also found that the largest percentage increase in deaths would come not during the traditionally sweltering months of June through August, but rather in May and September — periods that are now generally pleasant, but which will probably increasingly become incorporated into the brutal dog days of summer.

Amidst a national shortage of radiographers in the UK and an increasing requirement for researchers to work with large databases of radiograph images, the software which is being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, is being designed to automatically pick out the shapes of bones in the images, rather than relying on individual researchers.

The NORDP conference was an exceptional way of recognizing that I am not an island, but rather part of a larger community of professionals deeply committed to increasing the diversity, momentum, and traction of interdisciplinary research for the public good.

One cited study, which attributes stroke to excessive salt intake, is a meta - analysis of thirteen studies published between 1966 and 2008 in which most measurements of sodium intake were highly inaccurate estimates based on food frequency questionnaires.22 The second is a review of fifty - two studies, which concluded that strokes are not caused by excess sodium but rather by insufficient potassium, a finding that is consistent with the preponderance of evidence.23 Cordain ignores more recent large clinical and epidemiological studies, which have found that sodium intakes of less than 3 grams per day significantly increase cardiovascular risk.3, 4

The video discusses vitamin C from supplements, which can not only be a waste of money, but can be potentially detrimental to your health, particularly in large doses like vitamin A, see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/herbalife®-supplement-liver-toxicity/ There is also evidence that rather than protecting from disease, multivitamins can actually increase the risk of breast cancer: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/multivitamin-supplements-and-breast-cancer/ Also, I wouldn't put so much emphasis on one particular «superfood», because there are many others that contribute to longevity, like cocoa (but of course without the milk and sugar that many folks tend to add for palatability), see: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/kuna-indian-secret/ and: http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/new-antioxidant-superstars-2/.

For health's sake, rather than taking large quantities of supplements or herbs and spices, gradually increase small amounts into your daily diet and lifestyle.

Rather than just warming up the air around you, far infrared heat penetrates into your body, greatly alleviating joint pain, and increasing blood circulation.5 By increasing blood circulation, you're circulating the immune system around the body, increasing surveillance of infections.5 It's like having police monitoring a larger area.

For example, the study focuses on incremental shifts in sticker prices — in most cases, comparing the effect of larger versus smaller increases — rather than the effect of reducing tuition to zero.

In the 2007 Education Next - Program on Education Policy and Governance survey, my colleagues and I found that just 33 percent of Americans would prefer to offer a larger salary increase to teachers «in subject areas where there are shortages, such as math and science» rather than a smaller salary increase to all teachers.

Rather, their deep - seated incentive structures focus them on either increasing their prestige by doing more academic research or on serving as cash cows for their parent institutions by enrolling large numbers of teachers and then serving them at a very low cost.

States disproportionately relied on spending cuts to close their large budget shortfalls after the recession hit, rather than a more balanced mix of spending cuts and revenue increases.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

But rather than use substantial salary increases to drive groundbreaking reform, the de Blasio administration tinkered around the edges, by and large preserving the status quo.

But what I think people didn't realize is the increase in administrators and all other staff was about seven times as large as the increase in students, which is rather dramatic.

Similarly, in a fall 2017 survey administered by the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, faculty of teacher preparation programs were most likely to identify a lack of financial aid for teaching candidates as the largest obstacle to increasing enrollment in their programs, rather than a lack of program capacity.

It shows that state - level school finance reforms markedly increased the progressivity of school spending, and that this increase was not accomplished by redistributing money from rich to poor districts, but rather by increasing state funding across the board, with larger increases in low - income districts.

As sweetly - balanced as a standard Cayman, but response and grip are increased by a rather large notch over even a Cayman GTS.

Sure, there's the addition of the Outlander Sport (which is now handily outselling the regular Outlander), but there were also suspiciously large jumps for the Galant (+166 %) and a rather absurd 9-fold increase in sales of the Eclipse Spyder.

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

Rather than engine power and absolute speed, the most important consequence of the larger displacement was a marked increase in torque, available at lower engine speeds; the Dino 2400 had much better pickup, and it was found more usable, even in city traffic.

Now the boring utility stuff — storage space in the rear of the BMW X6 is rather large at 724 litres, and this can be increased by folding down the rear seat backrests to 1690 litres.

Jordan Lee, Chevrolet's global chief engineer for small block engines, said «Rather than adding turbochargers or multi-valve cylinder heads to increase the power of smaller engines, we chose to keep the proven capability of our larger V - 8 truck engines, and save fuel by switching off half of the cylinders when they aren't needed.»

MB: I don't know if it's harder per se to place with larger publishers, but the increase in mid-sized and small publishers, especially digital - only presses, means that advances from larger publishers are lower, and often publishers will acquire to their digital imprint before or rather than print imprints because there's less cost and risk involved.

Rather than analyze the principles under which the models were built, Langley decided that the problem was insufficient power and set to increasing the size of his models to accommodate a larger motor.

As denoted by the slight change in name, the Optimus M + is all about subtle and slight updates rather than a full upgrade, with a slightly larger 3.5 inch HVGA resolution display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, upgraded 5.0 megapixel camera with LED flash and HD video capture, increased user accessible internal memory with microSD slot and Wi - Fi N radio to round out the spec sheet.

This increase in average size, however, was brought about primarily by reductions in childlessness and «only child» families rather than a rise in large - size families.

This can have a large impact on your investment if the value of the neighbourhood stays the same or drops rather than increasing.

Usually it's a combination of the two ** We will likely see a bucking of the trend of increased delinquencies in subprime auto ABS pools; tightening of underwriting standards will help auto lenders keep their funding costs lower * If there's a large macro event or shock, such as unemployment rates rising, there will actually be a much bigger impact to prime auto bonds rather than subprime.

I was far more impressed with that rather large dividend increase that came not long after the monster increase late last year.

Our findings are consistent with those of Holderness and Sheehan (1985), who document significant price increases for firms targeted by «notorious» corporate raiders of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and also with those of Bethel, Liebeskind, and Opler (1998), who show similar results for firms targeted by individuals, rather than corporate or institutional large shareholders.

Studies showing correlative links between Toxoplasma gondii infection and potential increases in schizophrenia, suicide attempts and poor impulse control have often been conducted on small clinical or convenience samples, rather than large populations.

They provide Queen beds rather than Full (except one unit), larger showers with bench, larger vanities with granite counter tops, increased luggage and clothes hanging area, in room refreshment center, upholstered bamboo chairs with table and updated finishes throughout the room.

Since both Placencia and Ambergris Caye were singled out for top prizes, tourism is likely to increase by leaps and bounds, reason enough to prompt the Belize Tourism Board to invest in a very large trophy case sooner, rather than later!

They describe research showing that the quantity of ragweed pollen produced in doubled CO2 environments is increased significantly (61 percent), not because of large increases in size (~ 10 percent) but rather (apparently) due to a changing internal allocation of resources.

For instance, increasing cloud cover due to global warming may change the albedo, but this would be a feedback to a larger warming effect, rather than a cooling.

If sulfate aerosols nucleate cloud drops, resulting in a greater number of smaller droplets rather than a few large ones, this will further increase scattering and cooling.

If climate senstivity to CO2 is eventually shown (rather than just assumed) to be close to the sensitivity to solar, I think a case can then be made that the GHG attribution should be equal or higher than the solar attribution, despite the large uncertainty in our knowledge of the increase in solar forcing.