Sentences with phrase «shorter than most of»

Soldiers who ascended to the officer ranks in that time period tended to be more physically gifted (i.e. taller) than their peers, so at 5» 7 ″ tall, Napoleon was shorter than most of his immediate subordinates.

Because of the big, hi - res screen, we got only 4 hours, 3 minutes of video streaming time at maximum brightness, which is an hour shorter than most of the other 10 - inch tablets we test.

It's also shorter than most of its competitors, which makes the Tiguan easy to maneuver in tight parking lots.

This shift dress I am wearing above is shorter than most of my other dresses but is still a respectable length.

This one is fabulous because it's shorter than most of the ones I see!!

In the days following her breech water birth, I've wondered what made the drastic difference in the length of my labor this time around (over 12 hours shorter than my previous shortest and over 20 hours shorter than most of my labors).

Despite being shorter than most of his competitors, he managed to achieve widespread success and win two Mr. Olympias even after a devastating knee injury.

The board is a little shorter than most of the others we've seen on this list at just 108 inches.

This shift dress I am wearing above is shorter than most of my other dresses but is still a respectable length.

Although Rucker is about a miter's length shorter than most of the players he defends, opponents find posting up against him akin to boxing out a Buick.

Not exact matches

It's just that he got so busy that he didn't realize how much time had gone by where he had not checked in with several of his contacts — an easy mistake for most small business owners who feel like every day is shorter than the last.

Of course, making the most of the teen demographic means a lot more than trapping them in for a few short monthOf course, making the most of the teen demographic means a lot more than trapping them in for a few short monthof the teen demographic means a lot more than trapping them in for a few short months.

But as Romano points out, they account for less than 10 % of all recharging (because most journeys are shorter than a car's range).

(The Times mentions Pets.com, which went from IPO to shutdown in just nine months, shorter than the lifespans of most of the hamsters they sold.)

In short order, the young Canadian emerged as the leading banking adviser in the country, and he didn't mince words: Korea had 34 banks, most of them bankrupt; he recommended no more than four.

Even as shameless and short - sighted as most brokers and underwriters are, they're finding that the numbers just won't stand up and they're having to go back to their investors and talk about «public» valuations that may be less than the last couple of rounds of capital injections.

It's a (mostly) short term, higher risk, higher reward place to invest cash that has a low correlation with the stock market, but is far more passive than buying and managing properties, has more opportunity for diversification than private placements (minimums of 5 - 10K, rather than 100K), and most of the equity offerings (and all of the debt offerings) provide monthly or quarterly incomes.

By and large, most of our clients carry much higher levels of cash and short - term bonds and are much more diversified than they were prior to 2008.

They can't win votes saying they'll bring up the global price of crude any more than they can make the unemotional economist's argument, that anything but the most interventionist government action won't do much to help short - term job prospects.

This means most of my short entries have significantly shorter - term holding periods than long entries.

In the presence of a broad range of reliable valuation metrics uniformly at more than twice their historical norms, coupled with the most severe overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield syndrome we define, it is instructive how shorter - term action has evolved near those points.

Perhaps most importantly, one must remember the basic tenet of technical analysis that states a longer - term trend always holds more weight than a shorter - term trend.

On top of that, it has always been shorter in length than most tandem doubles, allowing for a tighter turning radius than strollers like the Silver Cross Wave or the Baby Jogger City Select.

This year, in fact, Tesla became the most perilous stock to short, costing speculators billions — more than the combined losses of those trading against Apple, Amazon, and Netflix.

The media too has gotten on her case, the most recent — if breathtakingly tasteless — salvo coming from the British magazine New Statesman, which compared Merkel to both the Terminator and Hitler in the span of a few short paragraphs and also said she represented a greater threat to the world than Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

One of the most heavily shorted stocks in the market, RH, reported better - than - expected second - quarter results Wednesday afternoon, sending shares soaring more than 30 percent in Thursday's premarket session.

Most entrepreneurs are opinion that it is better to raise a cash surplus than to be short of cash.

Thanks in part to these efforts, in our most recent GFI staff survey, more than 70 % of GFI employees reported being able to focus on short - term objectives without losing sight of long - term goals all or most of the time.

Meanwhile, examining the sectors in which institutions hold their largest «overweight» relative to the S&P 500, institutions are more concentrated in high - beta sectors than at any time since the start of Morgan Stanley's data, and long - short funds are also near their most leveraged long positions in history.

On forecast horizons shorter than a few decades, the first component of returns — change in valuation — tends to be the most impactful.

In this situation, where the shorter - term chart of SLV is showing more strength than GLD, but the longer - term chart is showing the opposite, the longer - term chart interval bears the most weight, and therefore holds the most significance in ultimately determining the direction of the trend.

Looking at the short term volatility rather than the long time development of stock is according to Warren Buffet one of the most common mistakes among investors on all levels.

In the academic sphere, we have not always managed parents» expectations perfectly, and because we are young plant, any falling short makes us vulnerable; but some batches of results, especially in English and in languages, have been better than most schools back home.

In short, I am claiming that Hartshorne is a more thoroughgoing personalist than Brightman, and that any version of personalism which does not treat Hartshorne's thought as personalistic is missing out on the most important corrective to and up - dating of personalist metaphysics and epistemology in the second half of the 20th century.

In short, I do not see how Archbishop Roach's use of the prudential criteria here can be read in any other way than as to seek to prevent the use of force in the face of the most obvious case of international aggression since World War II.

Somehow, a belief system that teaches people that they are the center of all the universe, created in the image of the most perfect being imaginable, strikes me as a bit more of an ego trip than accepting that we aren't destined to live forever because of our «specialness», but that we live our short lifetimes and die like every other living thing on the planet, our bodies decomposing and ultimately entering the food chain once again, on a tiny speck of a planet in an ordinary, remote backwater of the universe.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history... As atheists... we face up to the fact that... we must make the most of our short time on this planet and... make this planet as good as we possibly can and try to leave it a better place than we found it».

With respect to blood sugar and insulin regulation, we have seen smaller scale studies showing reduced insulin secretion after a meal and improved regulation of blood sugar levels, but most of these studies have focused on the short - term situation following a meal rather than extended blood sugar regulation over weeks or months.

Most of the fats in coconut oil are saturated but they are in the form of MCTs (Medium Chain Triglycerides, also called MCFAs), which affect the body differently than short and long chain fats.

Its share price has fallen dramatically since it became embroiled in the underpayment scandal and it is the third most shorted stock on the ASX with more than 16 per cent of the shares in the company short sold.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

I was always younger than my peers, and I was short to begin with, so I was extra extra extra short for most of my schooling.

Arsene is never short of excuses, but when he want something he surely how know to get though he prefer what he WANTs than what he NEED most of the time!

This is Pelé's most cherished ideal: the simple life — life in a fairly modest apartment that is no better and no worse than the 35 other units in a pastel blue building one block from the beach at Santos; a life of fishing and hunting in the backwoods, away from the crowds, or listening to records at home; a life of cautious investing, of moderate spending and quiet dignity; a life, in short, that should be almost impossible for the most famous athlete in the world.

Any long clearances will more often than not come straight back, goal kicks will have to go short, even most of our throw ins go to Giroud to knock down.

Standing inthe middle of them all, a head shorter than most, was a freshman receiver fromOklahoma City named Wesley Welker.

When Ozil arrived Khedira missed him more so than anyone and at time it was said he would follow a year later which i believed to some extent... im sure he must of thought it through, but then the cl medal and his team being most feared came into thinking if he hadnt of already had those train of thoughts in first place that is... And now with a serious injury and his age risen moving to a league which has a reputation for shorter careers and higher physicality must come into his thinking no matter how tough he thinks he is.

I know that most fans can't stand Tony Ferguson and I totally get it but in my opinion, he came across as more likable than Khabib during his run starting with the RDA fight where instead of giving Conor the time of day that everyone wanted him to, he kept his post fight speech short and told everyone to have a good night then proceeded to get flak from the media about it.

Woods» short iron to the green on which he made his legendary «better than most» shot was surely better than very few, as it drifted to the lower right side of the green, some 55 feet from the cup.

Of the four players with odds shorter than 10/1, I like LeBron's chances the most.