Sentences with phrase «results than the majority»

And yet, over the long - run, I know that index investing will give me better results than the majority of professionals out there.

Quite the opposite result than the majority of datasets concerning MWP.

Not exact matches

«That advice has probably resulted in more failed businesses than all the recessions combined... because that's not how the vast majority of people end up owning successful businesses.

The announcement came less than 24 hours after the B.C. election results were finalized, with the two parties holding a majority of the seats committing to do anything in their power to stop the proposal.

It's true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time.

The disappointing results can be squarely blamed on lower than hoped for sales in North America, which is where Under Armour generates the majority of its revenue.

And in some instances, it has been Scalia and Thomas who have done so more than those who may think of themselves less as originalists (in one recent case in particular Scalia and Thomas dissented from the majority which held that convicted child molesters could be indefinitely imprisoned despite having fully served their sentences based on subtle shifts of language and the over-application of prior case law — no one wants a child molester free and about, but such results focused outcomes are always dangerous).

Among consumers who now purchase breakfast away from home more often than they did a year ago, the majority (60 %) report cutting back on other daypart purchases as a result.

The mid-level to upper - level guys get paid better than most other teams would pay, so whereas other teams have a handful of high - priced players and a lot of low - priced guys (which results in a top - heavy salary cap), Belichick does an excellent job balancing his cap space out to the majority of the roster.

Other than the returning Danny Welbeck, the majority of Arsenal's reliable goalscorers have been lacklustre, resulting in a series of unsatisfactory results, but Arsene Wenger makes it cleat that Theo is still one of his Fluffy Favourites, along with Ramsey, the Ox and others, and is remaining positive about Walcott's input within the team, for now and in the future.

Physicians review this kind of material more often than lay people, and have training in how to interpret results that the majority of people do not have.

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

«If the November 8, 2016, election results in a one - vote majority in the House of Representatives, for example, a December 6 special congressional election in New York would take on far greater importance than the others,» argued Martins» primary challenger, Republican Philip Pidot of Glen Cove, through his filings in a federal appeals court Thursday.

Nevertheless, the YouGov figures would result in an overall majority for the Conservatives and their capture of more than 100 Labour seats.

That's from 600, but it's less than the 6000 majority Labour got in 2010, which was a bad result.

If the result was repeated at a general election Mr Cameron would be returned to Downing Street with a majority of more than 150.

The People's Pledge were quick to point out after the result was announced that the figures of those in favour - more than 12,000 in each case, was greater than the majority of either MP - Mark Hunter (Cheadle) or Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove).

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Even a majority of less than 15 is inherently unstable: of the three elections that returned such a result, just two lasted more than 18 months.

As a result, there are not many new chairs following the elections (Rachel Reeves and Lilian Greenwood for Labour; Rob Halfon, Tom Tugendhat, Nicky Morgan and Andrew Murrison for the Conservatives; and Norman Lamb for the Liberal Democrats), although the vast majority (22 out of 28) have been in post for no more than 2 years.

[86] However, the Labour Party would have had to form a coalition with more than one other smaller party to gain an overall majority; anything less would result in a minority government.

Less than two hours after the results were announced, Senate Democratic conference Leader John Sampson and State Sen. Martin Malavé Dilan released a statement lashing out at Senate Republicans and accusing incoming Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos of breaking a pledge to pursue nonpartisan redistricting.

«That the Parliament looks critically at the results of a new poll on support for nuclear weapons in Scotland commissioned by Lord Ashcroft; believes that the result stating that 51 % of Scots want the Trident nuclear deterrent to be replaced is misguidedly being used to suggest that a majority of Scots support keeping nuclear weapons in Scotland; understands that the results of this poll were intended to challenge the findings of a recent poll commissioned by the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament that showed a decisive 75 % majority of the Scottish public is against both the cost and the reasoning behind the UK Government's intention to keep all of its nuclear weapons stationed in Scotland; understands that, while Lord Ashcroft conducted the poll to supposedly show that «more than half of Scots are in favour of nuclear weapons», the poll showed that only 37 % of Scots believe so in principle, compared with 48 % who do not; questions the integrity of a poll that, it understands, was privately paid for by a wealthy Tory backer; considers that Lord Ashcroft is spinning the results, and believes that he should stop doing so and accept what it considers the fact proven time and again that Scots want rid of nuclear weapons.»

Or perhaps it's a false result, a product of activists and lefties being more vocal than the majority of users.

The election night results mean that Noble will enter office with three reliable Gallo partisans (Mills, Dawson and Brown) remaining on the council rather than a solid One Kingston majority.

According to a summary of the indictment, provided to reporters, «the majority of sales took place in broad daylight in residential neighborhoods in Harlem and East Harlem... the defendants received more than $ 52,000 as a result of the firearms purchases during the investigation.»

As a result, the Democrats» House majority is three seats larger today than it was after the 2006 election.

The 2015 result brought the incumbent MP a conservative majority of more than 41 %, up from 14 % in 2010.

Ken Livingstone has overwhelmingly won the Labour nomination for Mayor of London by a majority of more than 2 to 1 overall, with a slightly better result in the trade unions than amongst Labour party individual members.

Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine (Va.) said that Murphy «embraced President Obama's message of change and his plans to fix our economy and create jobs, and as a result he stormed from more than 20 points down to winning a majority of votes cast tonight.»

Does anyone think that in many safe Tory seats at the next general election (Many of which have the Lib Dems in second place) that the Conservatives will be down by less than the Lib Dems, and so there will perhaps be increased majorities in these seats as a direct result, a la 1992?

Given the fact that the Tories are doing better in Sutton (at the expense of the LD's) there is a good chance that Labour have increased their majority in Croydon but this was more than compensated by a better Conservative result in Sutton.

Overall, the results indicate that seedling quality for the majority of the species tested under supplemental light LEDs providing both red and blue light was similar or higher than those grown under high - pressure sodium lamps.

The study revealed that less than one in 14 bystanders performed CPR in the majority of the lowest - performing group, which had a median household income of $ 43,611 (± $ 5,038), resulting in a ROSC rate of 1.5 percent.

Despite these rosy overall numbers, the majority of respondents were working on temporary rather than permanent contracts, with the resulting lack of job security.

Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in the deployment of more than 2.5 million service members since 2001, with the majority of those service members experiencing one or more deployments.

For the majority of people, training more than two days in a row will result in training, sooner or later.

The majority of vitamin C therapies involve administering it orally, Scientists have however proven that administering vitamin C intravenously, which bypasses normal gut metabolism, results in blood levels which are 100 to 500 times more than oral ingestion levels.

No, but it is a damn sight better than the majority of «food» that is eaten in the western diet and is frequently recommended by nutritionists as a result.

Also, in a recent article called «Defining Bulky Once And For All» written by American trainer Leigh Peele, the results of her online survey of 2,000 women showed the majority of surveyors feel that actress Jessica Biel is bulky (and deem actress Jessica Alba not bulky), and more women would rather be fat than bulky.

The majority of toxic responses to food is a result of food intolerance rather than food allergy.

More than the past handful of years, the news has spread rather quickly in regards for the fantastic amount of good results that a majority of Christians registering on these websites have been in a position to benefit from.

The majority of cancers are the result of bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles or inherited genetic faults, scientists have discovered.

The result is a film with very little talking; the majority of the story is told though the lyrics of the music and it works much better than I could have anticipated.

When the movie is in its plot - spinning mode (which is the majority of the time), these characters act in its service, and even their actions are more motivated by Gaghan making a statement than the result of what they are like as people.

The former may be the result of lower than anticipated students, although for academies the majority of grant income is based on lagged pupil numbers and doesn't vary in year.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

In other words, as a result of political opposition, the vast majority of school districts, even in conservative Texas, turned down extra money from the state rather than adopt merit pay.

The newly released data tracking entrants for 12 years allow the tracking of BA graduates for an even longer follow - up (for the vast majority who take less than 8 years to complete their BA), and produce even more alarming results.