Sentences with phrase «size of the favor»

This was often unrelated to the size of the favor.

The size of favored runway earrings has steadily been growing over the past few seasons, but for 2017, think sculptural styles and solo danglers rather than the glitzy chandeliers of seasons past.

Not exact matches

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square is much less committed, in terms of size of position at least (but still a sizeable swing at 9 %), and has chosen to purchase the common shares of both Fannie and Freddie (although he has been rumoured to be selling common in favor of the prefs).

When conditions are in our favor, we confidently get aggressive with our share size and exposure with the expectation of maximizing profits while the market is in a steadily trending mode.

Humanity needs to do the world a favor and dig a hole the size of Lake Eerie for a thousand square miles and flood the entire region with the ocean.

A dubious doctrine of election would interpret the speedy metabolism of the congenitally skinny as a mark of divine favor (I confess that sometimes I do wonder about those people) The proof of the pudding of gluttony lies not in the size of the body but in the shape of the embodied soul.

The box of these sample packets came quickly and they are beautiful,... and the perfect size for individual wedding favors.

I was in favor of a certain diminutive American, but I think Brown's substantial size elevated his close - enough skill.

We understand this is a small sample size and shouldn't be blindly followed, but it's reasonable to theorize that since Thanksgiving Day games provide the shortest week of preparation and game planning all season, they force teams to rely more on talent alone, giving the advantage to the better (or favored) team.

One thing working in Michigan's favor is the size of Georgia's class.

There IS a correlation between breast size and ability to breastfeed, and the verdict falls in favor of small breasted women.

Women who have average or small size breasts favor this style because of its comfort and ease.

Another reason Russia might favor quantity over quality is the sheer size of territory they have to protect.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

Who favors not having a Speaker of the House who flies around in a jet twice the size of Rhode Island?

The survey asked registered voters in the state whether they favor creating a «system of public campaign financing» that limits «the size of political contributions to candidates,» and uses «state money to match smaller contributions to candidates.»

Both organizations are in favor of reducing class sizes and raising teacher salaries.

There will certainly be a negotiation next year — and it may be as disruptive as this year's negotiations, spilling well past the start of the fiscal year — but odds would seem to favor Congress limiting the size of the spending drop, if not avoiding it altogether (even if the White House plays hardball).

They determined that if environmental conditions favor either very small or very large body sizes as opposed to intermediate ones, new species may arise in just tens or hundreds of generations as a result of assortative mating.

Given that many legislators favor reducing the size and scope of bread - and - butter surveys like the ACS, the obvious solution was to propose dropping some questions.

«In addition, we found that sexual selection favored males that were bigger and moved over larger areas, though the effect of body size can not be disentangled from last - male precedence.»

A smaller body also suggests a smaller pelvic size in females, so selection would have favored the delivery of smaller - headed babies.

However, whereas the size of the quantum dots is extremely important when making color display screens, it may prove to be less of a concern when creating a material used to improve a pixel's ability to capture light in general, something that could work in InVisage's favor.

Setting a minimum catch size, for instance, applies selection pressure that may unnaturally favor smaller individuals, thereby driving down the size of the species over generations.

But by the 1990s, white - tailed deer populations in parks had swelled to such size that many species of native wildflowers such as trillium and lilies largely disappeared, replaced by wild ginger and exotic species such as garlic mustard and Japanese stiltgrass, plants not favored by deer.

Bp, the shorthand name favored by Duffy and her colleagues, attacks the developing embryos of Daphnia, the sand grain - size freshwater crustaceans also known as water fleas.

This approach unveiled an evolutionary pressure in favor of young animals, which reach their maximum body size earlier.

On the contrary, the findings of this new study suggest that the ancestor of all apes lived in an environment that favored a gibbon - like size, an ape of about five kilograms.

Regardless, these footprints do expand the upper limit of size in (presumably) A. afarensis, and offer strong support for arguments favoring strong sexual size dimorphism in this extinct species.

This cascading effect can result in either favoring an increase in the size and number of additional cusps or constraining their development to produce smaller, fewer cusps.

A separate meta - analysis including studies directing rTMS at other brain regions revealed a mean weighted effect size of 0.33 (95 % CI: 0.17 to 0.50) in favor of real TMS.

The glaciation was favored by an interval when the Earth's orbit favored cool summers but Oxygen isotope ratio cycle marker changes were too large to be explained by Antarctic ice - sheet growth alone indicating an ice age of some size.

Their line of reasoning was that if exercise - induced increases in testosterone production really leads to bigger muscle gains, there should be a discrepancy in the muscle size gained in each arm in favor of the arm that was trained under high testosterone conditions.

One average sized chicken breast will contain anything between 28 and 32 grams of protein, and another reason why people tend to favor chicken breasts is the fact that they're so versatile and that they go with pretty much anything.

And to all of you who worry about the look of their chest by maybe doing less pushing work in favor of pulling: Perceived attractiveness of your upper body is mostly influenced by the size of your shoulders and your posture.

Since it's been super popular this season this works in your favor as you have more chances of finding it in your size and in the color you want!

I at first leaned toward size 13/14 for the length (I was gung - ho about getting a style that was mid-thigh length) but ultimately decided in favor of size 11/12 for the less overwhelming fit.

The dress forgoes numero sizes in favor of alphas.

And when the original movie's pint - size spirit medium (the unforgettable Zelda Rubenstein) is replaced by Jared Harris's smirking Irish psychic, the film takes a turn for the tacky, eschewing Hooper's surreal blowout in favor of pointless overexplanation and a feeble climax.

Personally, we'd like to thank the trio of Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, and Mark Weingarten for doing all they could within their power to drown out the Nolan brothers» pompous dialogue in favor of Hans Zimmer's IMAX - sized music cues, but even we'd draw the line at giving them the actual trophy, and there's little doubt that the Academy's sizeable ear trumpet - hoisting constituency will too.

But crucially, he favors observation over artifice, and it never overshadows the film's heart, which is the size of a camper van.

Vouchers versus class size The statistics reported in Dan Goldhaber's otherwise thoughtful article (see «Significant, but Not Decisive,» Research, Summer 2001) inadvertently tilted the comparison between vouchers and class - size reduction in favor of vouchers.

The size of the gaps in favor of Hispanic students in Texas has been somewhat more variable, and was not statistically significant before 2000 (Figure 7).

EW: Although the trend has been to build bigger schools over the past 70 years to keep costs down, do you think evidence from recent studies strongly favors the construction of smaller schools, including middle schools similar to the size of elementary schools?

According to their estimates, some of their favored programs (such as classroom coaches) are more than 10 times as cost efficient as others, such as class size reduction for K — 3.

4) Members of the public are less inclined to favor using additional funds for class - size reduction if they know its cost relative to the cost of teacher pay and the purchase of new books and technologies.

Rather, we selected them to represent the normal distribution of schools on such variables as size, student SES, and school level, but weighted more heavily in favor of schools serving high - needs students.

The teachers union monopoly and its favored one - size - fits - all education model are running out of gas and desperation is setting in.

The House wants to preserve their jobs (of which there are already far fewer than pre-recession levels), while the Senate initially wanted to do away with more than 8,500 TA jobs over the next two years in favor of reducing classroom sizes.

So the next time somebody with power or influence tells you that class size reduction is a waste of money, ask him what the evidence - base is for the policies he favors instead.