Sentences with phrase «small gains relative»

Even if the Democrats make small gains relative to the Republicans, they could still end up losing overall.

Not exact matches

William Dudley, president of the Fed's New York regional bank, on Thursday called the stock market's decline so far «small potatoes» relative to the outsize gains of the past few years.

High beta stocks showed the most relative strength as the small - cap Russell 2000, S&P MidCap 400 and Nasdaq managed gains of 0.7 %, 0.5 % and 0.4 % respectively.

Sanders would need only small relative gains in these boroughs (or counties) to obtain a majority.

«The relative magnitude of these gains, however, is smaller this month compared to the previous several months.»

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

The patterns were similar in reading, though the relative gains made by schools facing voucher competition were smaller and sometimes statistically insignificant.

A gain is realized only when the fund sells some of the underlying securities for a profit, and if the fund is holding some unused capital losses, the gains will be offset against the losses, resulting in a smaller loss carried forward to future years or a smaller gain to be be distributed to shareholders, depending on the relative sizes of the gain and the loss.

On the other hand, it wouldn't seem entirely unreasonable to suspect that there's at least a little advantage to be gained from mid-caps» relative unpopularity (due to people picking up large and small and ignoring what's in the middle).

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

Also the spatial structure of changes in precipitation linked to altered surface temperature by convection can be improved by using higher resolution model experiments, although the relative gain here is generally small (Di Luca et al, 2012).

Large numbers (and all numbers > 1) indicate a greater degree of tree cover loss, relative to gain, whereas small numbers (all numbers < 1) indicate a greater degree of tree cover gain, relative to loss.

Tides follow an inverse cube law (to a first approximation for systems experiencing tides due to masses relatively far away compared to the system's size; for systems that are not small relative to the distance to the object producing the tidal acceleration, I think it's more complicated), and so the inner planets gain in importance relative to the outer planets, although mass is still important (and nonetheless, tides raised on the Sun by the planets are so tiny it's hard to imagine they could be of any such significance).

It did not surprise the Campaign Steering Committee that the new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life expectancy estimate indicated only small absolute and relative gains over 2005 - 07 and 2010 - 12.

However, there have been only small relative gains when compared to the rates of smoking among non-Indigenous people over the past 15 years.

Indeed, such small relative gains are within the margin for error and could in fact be non-existent.

[9] The small relative gain was a result of the gains in life expectancy made by non-Indigenous people.