Sentences with phrase «spreading at an increasing rate»

We have also found that favorites tend to cover the spread at an increased rate in games with a high total.

It was first documented at what is now the wildlife sanctuary in the early 1990s and has been spreading at an increasing rate in recent years.

Not exact matches

Mobile internet consumption increased at an average rate of 44 % a year between 2010 and 2016, driven by the spread of mobile devices, improvements in technology and greater availability of mobile - adapted content.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

At the same time, we are neutral on U.S. credit amid tight spreads and increasing sensitivity to rate rises, and prefer up - in - quality exposures.

the spread of technology and social media we are now able to relay information and arguments faster than ever before causing the polarization of people to increase at never - before - seen rates.»

Teams receiving less than 35 % of spread bets have covered the spread at a 49.0 % rate overall, but that rate increases to 51.5 % when the number of bets placed is at least equal to the daily average.

It simply looks at the five most profitable NFL teams since 2003 and randomly selects point spreads that increase the win rate.

After 18 weeks, this would have increased to around 100 %, and the infection would then spread to other wild populations at a rate of around 2 km per week.

«It is incredibly tempting to assume that antibiotics are promoting the spread of resistance by increasing the rate at which bacteria share resistant genes with each other, but our research shows they often aren't.»

At the same time, increasing depth and duration of drought, along with warmer temperatures enabling the spread of pine beetles has increased the flammability of this forest region — http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v1/n9/full/nclimate1293.html http://www.vancouversun.com/fires+through+tinder+pine+beetle+killed+forests/10047293/story.html Can climate models give different TCR and ECS with different timing / extent of when or how much boreal forest burns, and how the soot generated alters the date of an ice free Arctic Ocean or the rate of Greenland ice melt and its influence on long term dynamics of the AMOC transport of heat?

Spreading your protein intake throughout the day, instead of skewing it to dinner only (like the typical diet detailed at the beginning of this article) will increase daily protein synthesis rates by up to 30 %

Increasing access to Pre-K and full - day kindergarten, the spread of quality rating and improvement systems, and increased attention to the early childhood educator workforce are all signs of important progress at the state and local levels.

However, right before word of mouth spreads and sales increase at an exponential rate, the aforementioned person dies tragically.

In future if the bank reduces the base rate to 9.5 %, i guess they will increase the spread of my loan by 0.2 % so that the effective roi on my loan remains at 9.7 % whereas to attract new customers, bank can offer 9.5 % (bank's current base rate).

In contrast, fixed reset dividends are typically based on spreads over five - year government bonds, then reset after five years based on interest rates that prevail at that time --- making them less sensitive to increasing rates.

That's a 1.7 % swing and if you add in the 0.25 % increase in the spread of Prime over the BoC rate, we are looking at a 2 % increase in the spread of VRMs.

Yes, they have the potential to: i) benefit massively, at least in the short - term, from a spike / step - change in volatility, and / or a large market decline, and ii) possibly benefit longer - term from an accompanying spike or sustained increase in interest rates (and / or credit spreads)-- historically, a primary driver of broker profitability was interest earned on client balances, which has now been almost eliminated.

Hence less than 0.8 W / m ² radiated from the surface do no longer reach the cosmos [26] and are carried away by the evaporation associated with a minuscule temperature increase of the surface: for evaporation at +6 W / m ² / °C, the required temperature increase would be 0.13 °C spread over the 200 years it would take to double the CO2 content of the air at the rate of +2 ppm / year.

Part of the topographic elevation of mid-ocean ridges can be attributed to thermal uplift, and it follows that if the spreading rate increases, the amount of thermally - uplifted crust increases, at the expense of basin «room», causing a direct displacement of seawater.

Rates are no longer spread evenly over the distribution, but rather, skewed toward the lower end, where we see a 22 percent increase in blended rates at the 25th percentile for IP - Patent and a 14 percent increase for IP - TradeRates are no longer spread evenly over the distribution, but rather, skewed toward the lower end, where we see a 22 percent increase in blended rates at the 25th percentile for IP - Patent and a 14 percent increase for IP - Traderates at the 25th percentile for IP - Patent and a 14 percent increase for IP - Trademark.

If you look at Thrivent financial, you will see that they had a 59 % rate increase in 2007 but they spread it out over 5 years and have not taken any since (pretty good when Genworth has policies that have been on the books for only 6 years and have taken 2 rate increases, one being 48 %).