Sentences with phrase «rather than the suppliers»

Interestingly, the pink gap often seemed to result from the price set by retailers, rather than the suppliers of the items.

«Rather than supply - driven it's becoming more market - or demand - driven,» says Ray.

The main constraint on the industrial world's economy today is on the demand, rather than the supply, side.

Although the Shadow Striker is positioned in the No. 10 role typically reserved for a team's main creator, their primary duty is to score goals rather than supply them.

Quite apart from the potential loss of income when a parent is home full - time, any textbooks, art supplies, writing materials, musical instruments, and so on must be paid for, rather than supplied by the school.

Otherwise, the U.S. risks falling further behind in the race to dominate the clean energy technology markets of the future — becoming a customer, rather than a supplier.

Based on these findings, any shortage in America's scientific labor market is «most likely a demand - side problem of STEM [science, technology, engineering, and mathematics] career opportunities that are less attractive than career opportunities in other fields» rather than a supply - side problem of too few Americans with scientific training, asserted Salzman in congressional testimony presented on 6 November before the House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.

He added that «the decrease of coal use is decided by demand, rather than supply.

The authors propose that the water detected in the RSL is sucked from the thin Martian atmosphere, rather than supplied by underground reserves.

It's like changing the demand rather than the supply of food.

Rather than supply motivations for his characters, Altman provides them — and us — with a climate of reference comprised largely of the stops and starts of behavior and modulated by visual and aural structures at his beck and call.

Though Creep doesn't exactly reinvent the found - footage form, Brice knows the genre well enough to do a little tweaking: Rather than supplying the requisite jump scares, Brice's solution is to turn Josef into a human jump scare, given to popping up out of nowhere because he has a sick sense of humor.

Rather than supplying the ensemble with a full musical blueprint, Frisell leaves many choices up to the players so that movements unfold differently each night.

Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg confirmed that the weekend power outages were the result of distribution rather than supply issues, but said the state government needed to do more to boost reliability.

If we don't create demand pull rather than supply push, we will continue to struggle.

I'm not arguing that supply - side campaigns are always best for climate activism, simply that «focus on demand rather than supply,» or even «focus on maximum carbon reduction,» is too simple a prescription.

The World Bank Group's ESMAP (Energy Sector Management Assistance Program) team argue that this is best achieved through subsidies targeting demand rather than supply.

To date all operating nuclear power plants were developed by state - owned or regulated utility monopolies [2] where many of the risks associated with construction costs, operating performance, fuel price, and other factors were borne by consumers rather than suppliers.

Rather than supplying valuable information to the public, it seems the company is using this process to extract information from us.

One way to keep the price down is to choose stock fabric from the sofa company rather than supply your own.

Not exact matches

«To a very large extent, 3D printers are additive — pun intended — to existing supply chains rather than substitutive,» says Stewart.

The response of governments in Ottawa, Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto to the threat of a housing bubble has been almost entirely focused on gently squeezing demand rather than encouraging more supply.

The retailer devotes so much of its space to toys — rather than the few aisles at Walmart and Target Corp. — it can take chances on new items and smaller suppliers.

Rather than the Fed pursuing a policy resulting in some steady rate of growth in the money supply, I would suggest that the Fed attempt to produce a steady rate of growth in the sum of the credit it creates and the credit created by depository institutions, i.e., commercial banks, savings associations and credit unions.

Overall, when you make an effort to recognize major clients and suppliers as people rather than accounts or checkbooks, you'll be giving the right gift.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition down a company's supply chain rather than «horizontal» — an acquisition of a direct competitor.

Arment says to look at suppliers that sell to both Boeing and Airbus, rather than just one or the other.

So, you know, if I produce a molecule of gas in Louisiana, it might be actually more efficient for a molecule of gas to be supplied in Washington state to come from Canada rather than come from Louisiana.

A CVS deal would be a so - called vertical integration — an acquisition along a company's supply chain — rather than a horizontal acquisition of a direct competitor.

A lot of electric clocks, such as those on many radios and ovens, still keep time by synchronizing themselves to the frequency of the mains electricity supply, rather than an inbuilt quartz crystal (which is more expensive) or by connected to a «time server» on the Internet (more expensive still).

Besides, as some savvy environmentalists are arguing, trying to reduce GHG emissions by chocking fossil fuel supplies — rather than reducing demand for them — is tilting at windmills.)

Rather than assuming suppliers are telling the truth or being ambivalent over the difficulty of verifying claims, product producers and suppliers would do well to acknowledge just how limited their quality - control reach really is.

Utilities in Ontario are buying gas from newly prolific suppliers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia rather than Alberta.

States like Alabama have built a presence in the global supply chain in direct competition with the country's Midwestern industrial heartland, and even if Trump coaxes jobs back to the United States they may well head south rather than north.

However, he draws an analogy to the California gold rush, where those who made the most money were often those who supplied the miners rather than dug for gold — such as clothes - maker Levi Strauss.

Shaken by what he sees, Mycoskie wants to supply shoes himself, and to fund those donations through commerce rather than charity.

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

Underneath the claim was a genuine problem with the message, that people truly wishing to assist the protesters could do so simply by checking in rather than sending funds or supplies to support their efforts.

Rather than increase the supply of road per driver, public transit affects the demand for road space.

In the case of Uber, by expanding the supply of drivers and offering a far better experience, many more customers decided to use taxi services rather than other modes of transportation, expanding the marketplace and eventually spurring on both innovation and competition.

The initial enthusiasm over OPEC's production cut deal died out rather unceremoniously, and oil prices only enjoyed a brief rally, hammered down continually by rising U.S. supply and slower - than - expected drawdowns on inventory.

However, rather than rely on a central monetary authority to monitor, verify and approve transactions, and manage the money supply, Bitcoin is underwritten by a peer - to - peer network akin to file - sharing services like BitTorrent.

Indeed in the presence of chronic excess supply structural reform has the risk of spurring disinflation rather than the contributing to a necessary increase in inflation.

Rather than sitting back and leaving it to chance that qualified diverse companies would find their way into the company's supply chain, the automaker vowed to create a centralized summit — one where diverse suppliers could connect with real opportunities for business development.

Potential supply in some areas of the economy falls, but aggregate demand will probably rise rather than fall, due to the terms of trade gain, and it is more likely that there will be a problem of inflation in the non-traded sector.

Persistently low interest rates, weak inflation and a lack of supply relative to demand for bonds leaves Rieder advocating for equities rather than the fixed income market.

Private mortgage insurance, which applies to conventional loans, might be more or less expensive than the FHA's mortgage insurance and is supplied by a financial institution rather than the government.

Products that solve problems beyond the crypto community, like supply chain management or real estate applications, sound exciting, but we believe that the products that are most ripe for adoption in the next 2 — 4 years are infrastructure and middleware that serve the existing community rather than end - user applications that appeal to the masses.

The rally in oil prices over the past year likely had more to do with higher demand rather than merely the supply taken off of the market by the OPEC / non-OPEC Continue Reading

But rather than penalizing vacationers, snowbirds or temporary residents (a consequence that the recent exemptions will ease but not erase), provincial and especially municipal governments should help correct the balance between demand and supply by encouraging more supply.