Sentences with phrase «small general increase»

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Also, bills have typically traded below other money market rates during tightening cycles, as they do now; periods where bills trade at or above other rates have been the exception and not the rule.36 Thus, the smaller increase in bill yields than in rates on other term instruments is not surprising, and I do not read it as undermining the general conclusion that the policy rate increase was effective in firming money market conditions.37

While we were pleased to learn of the government's September 2017 announcement to cut the small business income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, we note it was accompanied by an increase to the general corporate income tax rate of one percentage point (to 12 per cent).

We also note with concern that the new small business payroll tax comes on top of previously announced minimum wage increase (of 34 % over four years), an increase in the general corporate tax rate of 9.1 %, a 14 % increase to the personal income tax rate of most «skilled professionals», and a previously scheduled increase in the BC carbon tax of 16 %, moving up a further $ 5 to $ 35 per tonne of GHGs emitted.

A small portion of our hedge reflects staggered strikes (which provide a slight increase in defense at the cost of a slight reduction in «implied interest») but the broad behavior of the Fund is unlikely to be affected much by general market direction.

«Because we found a general trend toward smaller cup sizes, we made the choice to reduce the size rather than increase the price,» company spokesman Michael Langdon said.

Any small differences in their divorce rates and divorce rates in the general population can easily be explained by ordinary things such as Christians encouraging behaviors that increase the chances a marriage will be successful.

There was general agreement that the series was too short; the value might have been increased if a part of each session had been spent in smaller interaction groups of not over ten people.

Large companies are increasing organic offerings, as well as snapping up small and medium organic brands, such as General Mills did in 2014, with Annie's Homegrown Inc., for a reported sum of $ 820 million.

From Monday, Justice John Mansfield, the president of the Australian Competition Tribunal, Novartis group general counsel Ray Steinwall and University of South Australia economics professor David Round — who were on Friday named as members of the tribunal reviewing the deal — will begin to digest Mr Helou's great big pitch: that the benefits of increasing scale by allowing the nation's biggest dairy processor to acquire smaller rival Warrnambool Cheese & Butter outweigh any destruction to local competition.

Most health care practitioners have positive views about breastfeeding but report inadequate knowledge and desire additional training about lactation management.15 — 18 Studies have suggested that small, interactive workshops can increase the knowledge of general practitioners about breastfeeding.19 — 21 In this study, resident knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding showed a modest increase following the intervention.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

Solidarity had a conference in Motherwell on Saturday and urged its supporters to «lend» their votes to Nicola Sturgeon's party at the general election — helping, in a small way, to increase the SNP's chances of building a left coalition against Labour.

Its director - general, John Cridland, has previously been critical of Labour, saying the business community had been left «scratching its head» over a perceived swing to the left, towards «wage controls, price controls, land controls, tax increasing, and dividing large and small companies».

While the Liberal Democrats are obviously a long way below the share of the vote they achieved at the General Election, they have recovered from the despairs of Kennedy's ousting and, if anything, the trend now seems to once again be in their favour, with the last three published polls all showing small increases in their support.

The radiation exposure of the general population «is too small to give a statistically significant increase in stochastic effects such as cancer,» argues Ohtsura Niwa, professor emeritus of radiation biology at Kyoto University.

Like cross-town rival Ford, which saw sales of its brawny Mustang and immense Lincoln Navigator models jump 70 percent or more, General Motors Co. and Fiat Chrysler, the smallest by market share of the former U.S. - owned and so - called «Big Three,» reported sharp increases in demand for many of their largest vehicles.

(For the general population of women in the study, the researchers found that long - term exposure to air pollution led to small, but not statistically significant, increases in risk of cardiovascular events.)

General practices prescribing fewer antibiotics may have slightly higher rates of pneumonia and peritonsillar abscess but even a substantial reduction in antibiotic prescribing may be associated with only a small increase in the numbers of cases observed.

Although the General Medical Council is in favour of increased recruitment of graduates into medicine, the number of places available is relatively small, though growing.

In general, the rate of psychotic disorders in refugees relative to migrants became smaller as the crude incidence rate in non-refugees from each region of origin increased (table 3 ⇓).

Although the increase in risk associated with calcium supplements was small, it could represent a large number of additional heart attacks in the general population because of how many people take the supplements, the authors note.

The research showed there was no statistically significant increase in cancer risk for increased rice consumption in general, and a possibly small decrease in risk for increased white rice consumption.

Elaborating, Keighley states that he believes that the new Alan Wake for XBLA will not be a «small» experience, and that downloadable games in general will rapidly be increasing in size in the future.

His views were echoed by Nick Brook, deputy general secretary of the NAHT heads» union, who said: «While it may benefit a small minority, it will not close the gap between rich and poor pupils and if anything will increase the divide.»

General Motors raised the base prices on nearly all of the 1991 cars it carried over from the previous year, reflecting a move to load cars with more standard equipment.GM is limiting base - price increases in the competitive small - car segment, is mitigating slightly higher increases in midsize segments with package discounts and is aggressively raising prices by thousands of dollars at the upper end.Prices announced by GM last week showed base - model increases on 119 of 127 passenger vehicles carried over from the 1990 model year.

Ian Small, the former CEO and now General Manager of Audiobooks.com told Good e-Reader «This year, I've noticed a significant increase in listeners under the age of 25.

And this applies in particular to the Note series, which we have seen on all the other three Samsung Galaxy Note tablets that have been packed with features and applications that have facilitated production and creativity as well as increased control over the general use, from the smallest aspects to the more important ones, such as through Magazine UX, which is a way of setting up and organizing the layout in a «magazine» like fashion, if you want.

Unfortunately, the small number of erotic authors and publishers who pushed the line too far have resulted in a general trend toward increased crackdowns against legal erotic fiction at some retailers.

So, as the more hardware anyone throws at mining, the harder it becomes for him and everyone else extra hardware is used mostly in order to drive out smaller players and keep the general ability to mine, rather than to increase the mining speed.

While General Electric's dividend increase was perhaps smaller than some long - term shareholders desired, it was still meaningful because it marked the company's first payout raise since late 2014.

The conclusion: A portfolio's expected return increases not only as a result of increasing the allocation to stocks in general, but also as a result of increasing the allocation to small - cap stocks and / or value stocks.

He belongs to the Toy Group of dogs, whose numbers in general have also increased in recent times, showing a rising interest in smaller pet dogs.

It may be that the effects of general breeding practices were exacerbated in numerically small breeds (VNBs) in earlier years and that the increased availability of breeding stock from outside the UK from 2000 onwards provided a much needed injection of genetic diversity.

Even less reason for «scientists» to mislead the general public by focussing on a small concentration increase in this irrelevant number to justify their use of the disingenuous term «acidification»

There has been a general increase in small earthquakes worldwide.

Model calculations of the abundances of the primary greenhouse gases by year 2100 vary considerably across the SRES scenarios: in general A1B, A1T, and B1 have the smallest increases of emissions and burdens; and A1FI and A2 the largest.

It's quite feasible that a very small increase in pCO2 could drive the system past a «tipping point» where the general behavior would change.

The shape of the CO2 band is such that, once saturated near the center over sufficiently small distances, increases in CO2 don't have much affect on the net radiative energy transfer from one layer of air to the other so long as CO2 is the only absorbing and emitting agent — but increases in CO2 will reduce the LW cooling of the surface to space, the net LW cooling from the surface to the air, the net LW cooling of the atmosphere to space (except in the stratosphere), and in general, it will tend to reduce the net LW cooling from a warmer to cooler layer when at least one of those layers contains some other absorbing / emitting substance (surface, water vapor, clouds) or is space)

General Mills defends the added expense by pointing out the increased manufacturing and packaging costs; it says the smaller bags are more expensive to produce.

In general, each price difference between products exceeding a small but significant non-transitory increase in price could justify separate market definitions.

General counsel at European - based companies are looking to align with business strategy and increase legal department technological capabilities - but there is a significant innovation gap between small and larger companies.

There are likely to be further considerable changes in the next three years around the right to general damages for minor RTA soft tissue injuries, an increase to the small claims limit, a further widening of fixed fee arrangements and greater regulation of CMCs and CHOs.

There are also positive noises coming from the government, which last year proposed a number of measures to deal with the UK's compensation culture — including an increase in the small claims limit to L5, 000 and an end to general damages for «minor» soft tissue injuries.

(11) the problem is damaging the legal profession by way of: (1) the increasing number of law firms in severe financial distress because of shortages of clients; (2) the reduction of the number of lawyers in private practice, particularly so as sole and general practitioners and small law firms; and, (3) damage to the profession's reputation;

Although the level of awareness about Bitcoin among the general population has increased, only a small proportion of them hold significant amount of Bitcoins.

A number of studies have examined whether parenting and family interventions increase parental knowledge, and there is evidence that this is the case.25, 26,27,28 However, in general these studies have been uncontrolled, with small sample sizes, examining very high risk samples, and with no examination of the mechanism of action between increased knowledge and potential child outcomes.

A large number of individuals with moderately increased risk levels contribute more cases than a small number with extreme risk levels.41 Parenting programmes that target high - risk populations therefore miss a substantial number of families who develop the problem even though they are not currently in the elevated risk group.3, 9,11 The potential impact of such programmes at the population level is therefore minimal as only a small proportion of families in the general population participate in evidence - based programmes.10, 11 As Rose emphasized more than a decade ago, strategies that focus on high - risk individuals will deal only with the margin of the problem and will not have impact on the general population.

«The small increase doesn't surprise me,» says Jean Crosby, vice chair of NAR's Business Issues Committee and general manager of Prudential Crosby Adelman, Rockford, Ill. «Owners are competing for the most productive sales associates, and that puts pressure on broker profitability — and broker income.»

Size While some buyers want to simplify their lives and downsize to a smaller home, home sizes in general have continued to increase over the decades, nearly doubling in size since the 1950s.

If you are currently renting or living in a smaller house, your new home purchase may increase your general household costs.