Sentences with phrase «seen as a bellwether»

Travelers, which is seen as a bellwether for the insurance sector, said catastrophe losses, net of reinsurance, widened 2 percent to $ 354 million in the first quarter.

Pao lost the suit, but her case was seen as a bellwether that could make it easier for women in tech and finance to come forward about discrimination in tech and finance.

«It is seen as a bellwether for potential future development in similar areas at similar depths.»

He is seen as a bellwether on the policy - setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).

Plus, the bill is actually law now, and New York was the largest and most prominent state to legalize gay marriage, and so is seen as a bellwether.

Nuneaton has been seen as a bellwether in recent General Elections, with the Parliamentary seat won by the Tories from Labour in 2010.

Nuneaton, a central English town seen as a bellwether of middle England delivered a 66 % vote for leave.

Elsewhere the party lost Nuneaton and Bedworth - often seen as bellwether seats - while it fell short of gaining control in areas like Swindon, Dudley and Walsall, where they hoped to establish middle England strongholds.

Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam has bested former Rep. Tom Perriello to win the Democratic Party's nomination for governor of Virginia, a closely watched race that many observers have seen as a bellwether for the future of the party.

For these reasons, the County Executive race — like this year's election for Governor of Virginia — is seen as a bellwether in regard to whether the impact of the 2016 election and the «Trump effect» will reverberate down to state and local levels.

Nor should trade deals be seen as the bellwether for trade flows.

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Democrats are declaring victory, both nationally and in New York, after seeing the results of yesterday's elections, which they cast as a rejection of President Donald Trump's agenda and a bellwether of what's to come in the 2018 contests.

Some saw the moment as a bellwether signaling a new dawn for the group, that they were developing a growing acceptance for the films that would start coming at them around this time of creative invigoration in the cinema.

It's always tempting to see the first week of critics» awards as a bellwether of what's to come in awards season, to draw lessons from each new round of kudos.

by Walter Chaw As abortion dramedies go, this year's already seen Todd Solondz's far superior Palindromes and will soon see the abhorrent right - wing stem cell flick The Island, and for bellwethers of such things, there's still Hal Hartley's timeless Trust from fifteen years back.

But what if schools saw everyday dilemmas as bellwethers that reveal underlying school pressure points, where schools are falling short of successfully serving students?

Ever since the Turner Prize became a televised event, it has (usually wrongly) been seen as a public bellwether for the state of contemporary art in Britain.

The public tends to see the Turner Prize as a bellwether of British art.

Greentech Media has forecast that California, Texas, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina will see the biggest drop in potential solar installations, showing that red states will be hit just as hard as blue states and electoral - bellwether Florida.