Sentences with phrase «smaller than expectations»

«The amount of the settlement was much smaller than expectations,» said Tomoichiro Kubota, an analyst at Matsui Securities Co. in Tokyo.

Good location Pros: Friendly staff; good location Cons: Mini full room is smaller than my expectation; the bathroom and restroom are separated.

Not exact matches

The small business owner who clearly communicates personal expectations and company goals, provides adequate compensation, offers meaningful opportunities for career advancement, anticipates work force training and developmental needs, and provides meaningful feedback to his or her employees is far more likely to be successful than the owner who is neglectful in any of these areas.

That easily breezed past expectations for a smaller gain of 6.2 %, and was a noticeably stronger than the 6 % level of August.

More than half of small businesses polled by SurePayroll say they expect to surpass expectations in the third quarter of this year.

Small business owners have adjusted their expectations based on the economic situation: a slowly - recovering economy that's less than thriving.

The image publishing service's loss per share was smaller than expected and its revenues exceeded expectations.

Small - cap stocks, generally considered to be the best marker of tax cut expectations because usually they pay higher effective tax rates than larger companies, rallied into mid-February.

Core inflation has been lower than expected in recent months... Core inflation is expected to increase gradually over coming quarters, reaching 2 per cent by the middle of 2013 as the economy gradually absorbs the current small degree of slack, the growth of labour compensation remains moderate and inflation expectations stay well anchored.

The consensus forecast calls for EPS at Urban Outfitters to be the same as in the year - ago period, while EPS at Deere, Dick's Sporting Goods, Gap, Staples and Wal - Mart will be smaller than a year ago, if analysts» expectations are on target.

In line with this moderation in expectations, the NAB survey reports that firms expect near - term price rises for both retail and all final products to be smaller than the rises they expected over the past few years.

The bottler has been working for more than eight months with The Coca Cola Co, big supermarket chains, fast food and convenience store chains and small retailers to ensure that sales of Coke Life meet or beat ambitious expectations.

The expectation was that the larger candidate (president is larger than Senator than Representative than state senator than state representative; other positions like governor, mayor, county commissioner, school director, and municipal commissioner fit differently depending on circumstances) would appear in support of the smaller candidate.

This finding runs counter to astronomers» expectations, which hold that stronger radiation from larger stars should strip away gas from their debris disks faster than the comparatively mild radiation from smaller stars.

In line with the expectations of the researchers, participants dished up less than the target portion size of soup in to the smaller dishes, and they dished up more in to the larger dishes.

Much more than just a cop movie spoof, Hot Fuzz does excellent things in toying with audience expectations while scoring points as a murder mystery, a detective drama, a slasher film, a small - town sitcom, and a fish out of water story.

In a brief mention of the work in a recent piece on the World Bank's new behavioral approaches to global development, The Economist took note of how such small policy tweaks — rooted in observation of how people actually behave, rather than in an expectation that they'll behave rationally — may change the way development policy is implemented and assessed.

One was to show rather than tell, and to take maximum advantage of the Internet's capacity to make available primary materials (for example, the written expectations and forms that guide students and teachers at each school) to close readers (in this case, both veterans of and newcomers to small schools).

The trunk space too is not quite up to expectations, a narrow load space, rear seats that do not fold down and smaller than average cargo area make it less practical for load lugging duties.

Although many elements - from her grandma's letters, to her mother's hopes, to her friends» expectations - help shape Rory's understanding of what it means to be a girl in her small community, one institution does more than any other to shape Rory's perception of American girlhood: the Girl Scouts of the USA.

Apple may not like it, but Google and Amazon have set the expectation that small tablets ought to cost about $ 200, not more than $ 300.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

The reality is that international small - cap stocks have better quality statistics and forward growth expectations than domestic small - cap stocks.

Additionally our expectations have risen - according to this NPR article that «small» house PD is living in would have been considered normal size for a family with a few kids in the 60es as the average home size has more than doubled since the 1950s.

In this case the median realized returns line up very well with expectations, and the dispersion is smaller than that observed in Figure 4 for the individual asset classes.

For forecasted returns higher than 2 %, the median return for each bucket is in line with expectations, with the gap between the minimum and maximum returns becoming smaller as the expected return gets larger.

We want your accommodation and vacation to be even better than you imagined: great memories where all expectations are surpassed and you meet the welcoming spirit of small town Ucluelet, BC.

So the expectation is, is that a country like the United States is going to do more than a small, underdeveloped country that doesn't have the same scale of emissions.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

«It will take away people's legitimate expectation of cover for work they have already done, and the cost of buying back the extra cover if they wish to do so is likely to be more than it would have been, particularly for smaller firms, so it is likely to increase rather than reduce the cost for smaller firms.

While most of the excitement and expectation for this year's new iPhones is for the flagship iPhone X, rather than the iPhone 8 and larger - scale iPhone 8 Plus, that's not to say that the smallest of the three models should be overlooked.

Rumors claim that the display manages to rise up to expectations by supplying the same 1080p quality (Full HD), a bigger pixel density of 480 ppi and a screen slightly smaller than 5 - inch.

With the iPhone 8 Plus turning out to be more popular than the smaller iPhone 8 and the iPhone X demand far exceeding Apple's expectations, the Cupertino company is looking to lower the iPhone 8 production by 50 - 60 percent QoQ sequentially in Q4 2017.

This is a type of game that hasn't been attempted before, by a smaller team than anyone would expect, under an intense amount of expectation.»

Apple may not like it, but Google and Amazon have set the expectation that small tablets ought to cost about $ 200, not more than $ 300.