Sentences with phrase «shift from year to year»

The title of «world's hottest place» is often bestowed upon El Azizia, Libya, where the highest temperature ever measured on Earth was recorded, but a study of satellite temperature data shows that the crown belongs elsewhere, and that it can shift from year to year.

While the location of the hottest place on Earth might shift from year to year, the conditions that give rise to it remain the same: Dry, rocky and dark - colored lands are good at absorbing heat, while lighter sand will tend to reflect more sunlight.

Moreover, the narratives written around changing emissions shift from year to year.

To take one example: solar activity can shift from year to year, affecting the Earth's climate.

I agree his previous win doesn't count in his favour, but juries are less likely to take such history into account (or even be aware of it), given how they shift from year to year.

Maybe some are better than others, and it shifts from year to year, but I am not critical of biennials in general.

Not exact matches

While they applaud the Harper Conservatives» shift toward engaging China after the chilly relations of their first two years in office, experts including Dobson wonder whether the government is sufficiently prepared to tackle thorny issues ranging from intellectual property protection to government procurement.

Nintendo (ntdoy) on Friday priced its first console in about four years above market expectations, disappointing investors and clouding its prospects of winning back gamers who have shifted from consoles to smartphones.

«During the Trump Administration, we will shift from playing defense at the FCC to going on offense,» Ajit Pai said in December last year, a month before president - elect Donald Trump appointed him as the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

With no plans to accept Apple Pay, and no set launch date for MCX, it appears Walmart could wait no longer without risking missing out on a major shift in customer behavior: Forrester Research has forecast that mobile payments by U.S. consumers will go from $ 52 billion last year to $ 142 billion by the end of 2019.

The State Business Tax Climate Index, now in its 10th edition, can see notable shifts in the rankings from year to year.

Five of the 10 largest megadeals made in the third quarter of this year were signed in the United States as investors shifted away from Europe, according to a report by Mergermarket.

This also explains why our attention has shifted so dramatically over the past few years from blogging and text status updates to picture updates, and why social - media sites such as Pinterest, Instagram and Snapchat have burst on to the scene and become our favorite social sites.

But does anyone think that a party still reeling from its inability to re-capture the White House that has seen a dramatic shift to the right in its core leadership in the past few years (Hint, maybe they can't see the forest for the extremely right - leaning trees) will be the party that wants credit, or the blame, for legalizing pot?

CitySoft, whose revenues have jumped by 300 % a year, is trying to shift from selling Web - development services to individual customers to acting as a subcontractor for larger technology integrators.

The culture also shifted in recent years from super individual competitor to making others successful and teamwork, which reduced the stress level at work to low,» says one employee.

Developers are shifting toward building rental - purpose units to fill the demand from that market, and new construction will likely slow down this year, says Guatieri.

In recent years, the senator has shifted from advocating comprehensive immigration reform to a stance that puts border security first, though with the possibility of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants after 10 to 12 years.

It's the sort of rapid gearshift that few companies ever experience, much less master: over the course of about five years, FouFou Dog (FFD), a Markham, Ont. - based dog apparel firm, has seen its revenue grow by more than 800 % — a steep growth trajectory matched by the company's shift from providing very specialized boutique goods, like jewelry and booties for small dogs, and to a far wider range of products suitable for mass merchandisers and large offshore customers.

«The shift that began 2,500 years ago was a shift from the military dominating power and wealth distribution to the rise in power of merchants and tradespeople.

The demand woes are essentially tied to three main factors: Across the industry, retailers still had to unload food shipments from the fourth quarter, resulting in some delayed ordering at the start of 2017; executives also blamed a delay in tax refunds for hurting consumer demand during the quarter; and then there was a shift in the timing for Easter — the holiday landed in March for 2016 but April this year.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

Speaking at the American Institute of CPAs last week, IRS Small Business / Self - Employed division head Faris Fink said the agency will be shifting its auditing focus from corporations to small - business partnerships, which have grown significantly in number over the last six years.

In the tight three - way race of this year's federal election, the focus has shifted from the reliability of any single research firm to the wisdom of the collective pollster mind, with news outlets arguing over who can aggregate the polls in the most reliable fashion.

The result is an overnight success story that was 23 years in the making — and a company that is less expensive to run and more profitable than it was before it shifted away from hosting.

From 5 to 8 billion years, the sun's nuclear furnace will undergo a dramatic shift, causing it to expand to enormous size and engulf Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth.

The company has reportedly shifted its TV - to - movie ratio from «20/80 to 60/40» over the last few years, and has inked exclusive deals for hot shows with networks such as AMC (home of Breaking Bad and Mad Men).

Over the next few years, though overall P2P spend will remain constant, a shift to mobile payments across the board and increased spending power from the digital - savvy younger generation will cause the mobile P2P industry to skyrocket.

Earnings before interest, taxes and one - time items rose 20 % to 4.13 billion kroner ($ 652 million), beating estimates of 3.82 billion kroner Sales rose 2 % on a basis that excludes currency and acquisition effects, compared with analysts projections for growth of 3.2 % Debt reduced by 14 % to 21.9 billion kroner Carlsberg reduced its full - year forecast for gains from currency shifts to 50 million kroner from 300 million kroner.

It has long been one of the biggest shopping days of the year, and in recent years, the crowds have gradually begun to shift from storefronts to the internet.

While the stock price is at this time currently down about 13 % from last year, Adobe appears to have generated at least one key win with its shift in model — new customers.

The gradual shift to a strong culture of individualism and self - betterment, the role of technology in driving the transition from boardrooms to basements, the more global and interconnected markets that require greater specialization, flexibility and speed, as well as small - business friendly demographic trends are among those forces that are likely to support a net creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada in the coming ten years.

Barkindo's comments followed news at the start of the week in which Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, told Reuters: «We are working to shift from a year - to - year agreement to a 10 - 20 year agreement.»

Over the last year, analyst questions have shifted away from concern and risk and to softballs about Facebook's glorious plans for the future.

The accord, which seeks to phase out greenhouse gas emissions this century with a shift from fossil fuels, says in its Article 28 that any country wanting to pull out after joining up has to wait four years.

Earlier this year, Sony shifted the release date for «The Equalizer» from April 11 — one week after the debut of «Captain America: The Winter Soldier» - to this weekend.

While Las Vegas, New York and Los Angeles remain travelers» three most - searched - for destinations for the second year in a row, according to new data from Kayak.com, if your aim is to instill FOMO (fear of missing out), it's time to shift your attention to other spots on the map.

As we've previously reported, investors» interest this year has shifted away from consumer devices to niche and enterprise hardware, such as aerospace technologies, tech to power self - driving vehicles, and industrial robotics.

It's a major change for Facebook, which over the years has shifted from being a social networking service connecting friends and family to one of the world's biggest distributors of news and online ads.

However, a BIA / Kelsey representative told the paper that more businesses are shifting from using free online applications to paid services in the year ahead because of the amount of work required to monitor online reviews and comments.

Major brands already are shifting their online ad dollars from Google to Facebook — the latter of which is expected to rake in $ 2 billion in global advertising next year, said Ciaran Norris, Mindshare's global head of social media.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

It's not exactly clear what caused the shift, but it's worth noting that in the end of June this year, Facebook updated its News Feed algorithm to prioritize the updates your friends share over posts from other sources.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

«That's a key change from the past seven years, when weakness in at least one major region offset strength elsewhere and created fragility that made the global economy more sensitive to shifts in growth at the margins.»

Entrepreneurs from Chinese companies at the forefront of this dynamic shift — all finalists in the Fortune China Innovation Award Competition — will join us to share insights into what this country's entrepreneurship could bring the world in the next few years.

«More than two years after the financial crisis, we believe the U.S. financial services sector is poised to shift toward capital deployment from capital accumulation in 2011,» wrote Keefe Bruyette & Wood's North America Equity Research team of analysts in a 2011 finance - sector outlook published in December.

Well, it will certainly lift the rate of return investors expect from stocks, but bulls insists that with earnings growing 20 percent this year, the expected return may be sufficiently high, so that there will not be any shift out of equities, that corporations are going to make enough money to more than compensate for higher rates.

As well, Flaherty cut in half an Employment Insurance premium hike scheduled for Jan. 1, a move that will cost Ottawa $ 600 million a year, but will leave that cash in the pockets of workers and companies — a shift from deficit - shrinking austerity to stimulus.

In the past 15 years, SHIFT Communications has experienced substantial company growth — going from a small, boutique agency to a well - respected, prominent player in public relations (including being awarded 2017 Stevie Awards» Most Honored Public Relations Agency).