Sentences with phrase «slight cracking.260»

Chinese cities, for example, saw slight declines in their livability scores due to the ongoing territorial disputes taking place in the South China Sea, which has seen military escalation from several countries.

The slight miss was largely attributed to a difficult sales landscape for some older medications.

«That way, when you see slight variations in things, you gain a more comprehensive understanding of what you're dealing with.»

The Bank of Canada's newest forecast, released January 18, predicts Canada's gross domestic product will expand 2.1 % in 2017, a slight increase from the the central bank's previous outlook of 2 %.

This group of traders isn't concerned about the absolute price of the bonds, because they didn't own them before, and won't own them again in a few minutes (slight exaggeration).

Which is not a slight to the Terminal!

Just 6 % of the top paid CEOs in the US last year were women, according to the analysis, a slight increase from about 5 % in 2015 and 2014.

This came after slight decreases in the December numbers.

So adding even a slight gain to muscle mass helps you burn calories even faster.

Both houses noted a slight fall in shipments for Lenovo, but a small rise in market share.

There is a slight «risk - off» feeling.

LAS VEGAS / COLUMBIA, S.C., Feb 20 (Reuters)-- Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were locked in a tight race in Nevada on Saturday, with early results showing Clinton with a slight edge over Sanders with 27 percent of precincts reporting.

Meanwhile Samsung posted a slight drop in profits this week for the first time in more than two years.

Diabetes was a huge market, but a saturated one — requiring prodigious sales resources while delivering often - slight margins.

And so, it's very similar to that and we're also at the point where 1937 was when the fed said we could tighten monetary policy and they put a slight tightness in monetary policy.

«The bright line on a map is an illusion,» he said, particularly in flat places like Houston, where a slight change in flood waters can result in far more widespread inundation.

There's an ever - so - slight learning curve in figuring out what Amazon's Alexa can and can't do, but once that's passed, the Echo Dot can forecast the weather, read an audiobook, order a pizza, tell Dad jokes, or any number of things they should find charming.

Since Help Scout is a help desk, it would be foolish to claim that I'm approaching this without a slight brush of bias, but I promise you my stance comes from experience; specifically, seeing new founders suggest to other new founders why they think a convoluted system of Gmail filters is «okay for now.»

Some incentives are virtual and slight at best (like digital badges and certain utterly inconsequential «achievements»), but many others have clear financial benefits.

It's no slight against Sandberg to say that the superwoman narrative can be as intimidating as it is inspiring.

Whereas flat design includes simple illustrations to create recognizable but minimalist two - dimensional content, material design uses gradients, slight animation and shadowing to add depth to the image.

Featuring the same technology as the Segway, this self - balancing electric scooter ($ 599) senses slight movements in the rider's feet and ankles to determine direction.

«A slight increase in demand for turkey is responsible for the moderate price increase our shoppers reported for the bird.»

Although intimate apparel didn't see its typical post-recession jump start, it is now experiencing slight growth again after regaining momentum in the second half of 2012, he added.

Meanwhile, most economists take the current trends as indicative of a «soft landing» for the sector, with just a slight moderation in prices afoot.

Budweiser, perhaps sensing the tempest in a beer mug it created with the ad, took a slight step back from its mocking messaging in replies on its own Twitter feed:

«If you design the right additive, you can dramatically improve the properties of a material for only a slight increase in cost,» says CEO Max Biberger.

There was little to tell them apart, other than slight differences in how sales staff dealt with customers.

And drop shipping had other benefits: Through a program called ePacket, an arrangement between the United States Postal Service and foreign postal operators designed to encourage e-commerce, it was actually cheaper for LDSman to ship from China, albeit with a slight lag time.

In the first quarter of 2016, global VC funding hit $ 25.5 billion, a slight dip from the $ 27.7 billion recorded in the fourth quarter of 2015 and a significant decline from the $ 39 billion invested in the third quarter, according to data from KPMG.

The major differences in this year's immersive programming content is the slight increase in narrative works.

The number who believe that life in the U.S. is better than life in Mexico has fluctuated over the years, but as of last year was measured at 48 %, a slight decrease from 51 % seven years earlier.

This is the second report of the day suggesting No has a slight lead in the voting.

During the economic downturn everyone in the company took a slight pay cut.

Better China data and a weaker dollar has a slight bid under Industrial metals as well as Ore - but weakness persists in Oil - Brent is off 2.2 % and WTI 1.6 % as Saudi signals they r fine with South of $ 90 - even as low as $ 80.

The Washington Post reported that dozens of witnesses painted «a detailed portrait of Malvo's conversion from slight, obedient student to angry sniper,» as well as to his «subservient, eager - to - please nature.»

That slight alteration was a small part of a big plan to turn the company from a cheque - processing business into a global financial technology operation.

From the observational studies, which consisted of around 406,000 participants in total, the researchers found a link between artificial sweeteners and a small increase in BMI (plus a slight increase in the likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes).

Whatever the approach, meaning gets diluted or even lost — all to avoid the slight momentary discomfort of telling the truth.

The study also reported a slight drop in absenteeism as a result of the lifestyle program.

Speaking of Kickstarter, it's where you can currently preorder Apollo 7 at a slight discount — at least for the next week and a half.

The recent drop in Swiss francs has brought a slight relief to watch - maker Swatch, the company's CEO told CNBC Tuesday.

It's amazing how many proposals I see that are «me too» with only slight or abstract differentiation from other social media sites, ride sharing, or collaboration tools.

In a lot of ways, it works like the SmartCane, with some slight differences.

The Stealth is a slight upgrade over the Glide 2.0, which Ping introduced in early 2017.

Though many older patients won't reach for their cell phones when they have a mysterious ache or a slight fever, notes physician and mHealth expert Good, younger patients will readily flock to services like HealthTap.

They come with 12.2 - megapixel rear cameras, a slight edge over the 12 - megapixel rear cameras in Apple's new iPhones.

4K makes possible far crisper visuals, especially when scrutinizing slight details in a scene, say the trees or rocks on a mountainside backgrounding a panoramic sweep, or simply viewing images standing at a distance from a physically gigantic screen.

Frankenberg said the researchers might have missed some plumes that were too slight to be detected by the sensors.

«Slight composition changes in the bitumen and / or the dilbit can change the viscosity and or the gravity,» said Kuprewicz, leading to «severe» pressure fluctuations that can quickly lead to a rupture in pipelines with cracking risks.