Sentences with phrase «relatively weak year»

2016 was a relatively weak year for the wind industry with new installations down 14 % to 55 GW from 64 GW in 2015, which brought the global total capacity to 488 GW.

Mohamed Ali Beyhum, executive general manager of BankMed, a leading bank in Lebanon, says: «Despite a relatively weak year for global economic conditions and another discouraging performance for the global investment banking industry, which saw revenues fall to a three - year low, 2012 proved to be a relatively healthy year for the Middle East investment banking industry.»

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«Despite the relatively weak job report for March, job growth is averaging almost 180,000 [a month] so far this year, providing a strong support for the home purchase market.»

Over the past couple of years, Apple's Greater China has been relatively weak, with a string of quarterly declines.

Data from sources such as the Metals Economics Group (MEG) in Canada and Price Water house Coopers suggest that global spending on exploration has been relatively weak in recent years, following a sharp fall in the late 1990s.

There was also a noticeable acceleration in disposable income in the second half of 2003, following a year of relatively weak growth (Graph 29).

The relatively weak state of overall labour demand over the past couple of years has been evident in measures of employment intentions, job vacancies and advertisements.

For the first several years» worth of recovery, that took the form of relatively rapid job creation paired with very weak wage growth due to the large stock of unemployed workers.

As we have noted all year, the currency correction has been relatively weak, and weak corrections auger for higher prices.

I think the Fed will raise rates next year, but will remain relatively loose because their preferred index remains weak, which ought to allow the dollar to continue to fall and inflation to rise significantly.

But over the years some sides have had relatively weak fullbacks and still won the league.

Babies younger than 1 year have relatively weak neck structure.

Despite a rapid expansion of state - sanctioned gambling in recent years, revenue has been relatively weak, a report from the Rockefeller Institute of Government found.

Analysis of a relatively young rock collected by Apollo astronauts reveals the moon had a weak magnetic field until 1 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, at least a billion years later than previous data showed.

In the last few years, Sweeney, a professor of physiology and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and a small cadre of other researchers have learned how to create genes that repair weak, deteriorating, or damaged muscles, bones, tendons, and cartilage in a relatively short period of time.

It rotates more slowly than Sol with a period at 34 days (Baliunas et al, 1996) and appears to be further along in core hydrogen - fusion, with a relatively weak 11 - year cycle of star spots and related chromospheric activity.

The rest of the cast does mostly fine work with Ewan McGregor a relatively weak point and Abigail Breslin, younger than nearly everyone in the cast by about twenty years (or much more in many cases), simply unable to hold her own against such towering thespians.

A relatively weak category this year, especially in contrast to its sibling award.

A couple of years ago I claimed that teaching methods typically considered «student - centered» together represent a «pedagogy of privilege `; such methods might be good — or at least good enough — for relatively strong students, but they often do not meet the needs of students with weaker skills.

Last year I didn't like HTC phones because they had a relatively weak GPU.

After months of relatively weak performance and decline, the November over-the-counter (OTC) forex trading volume of GMO Click Securities — one of the Japanese GMO Click Holdings» (TYO: 7177) forex, CFD and binary options brokerages has posted a spectacular recovery to become the second highest this year so far and the best since February.

just keep listening to those indie devs that tell you how beast the ps4 is... lol, while the games keep coming out looking worse than things I was playing 6 years ago I just mentioned sheer power draw there smart guy its one thing that can easily be looked at, and it is quite telling it lets you know that the ps4 is relatively weak, hence a game like bf4 is sub-1080p, still has tons of aliasing as ps4 is NOT powerful enough to utilize proper AA techniques, the draw distance is reduced, performance is less than ideal, shaders are weaker, textures are muddied and blurred

This year, the college has stepped up its alumni fund - raising, an area where it had been relatively weak, and contributions have increased by almost one - third.

When one uses the new data to estimate the level of CO2 released for all of Indonesia in 2006 — a year with a weak El Nino, in which rainfall was relatively low — one comes up with a figure of up to 900 million tons.

New Dutch research has shown for instance the overturning has been relatively weak in recent years [which means cold water has accumulated close to the surface instead of sinking to deeper waters, one of two reasons why there has been a lull in upper ocean warming].

The fracturing progressed through relatively weak, thin, year - old pack ice during February, as seen in a series of images from the NSIDC.

Major brands such as Samsung, LG and Huawei have begun to ship their flagship devices for the year, but the market demand going into the second quarter is expected to remain relatively weak as consumers are holding off their purchases in anticipation of the 10th anniversary iPhone devices that will arrive in the third quarter.

Accordingly, relatively weak associations between relationship satisfaction and divorce were found in a study following married parents over 10 years, from child age 4 to 14 (Hirschberger et al. [2009]-RRB-.

Even with Britain's exit from the EU progressing, the relatively weak Pound has attracted additional applications from non-EU students, with their numbers rising 5 % over the last year.

It recovered slightly from the five - year low occupancy rate of 82.3 % in July, but still remained relatively weak.

The relatively weak absorption rates were a surprise, especially juxtaposed to generally favorable economic trends in the past year.