Sentences with phrase «stable from year to year»

Most foraging and other maintenance activities occur inside territory boundaries, with territory boundaries being stable from year to year.

Around 20 - 25 % of the portfolio has been in convertible bonds since inception, and that percentage is been pretty stable from year to year.

(While the OECD numbers tend to be fairly stable from year to year, the latest figures are from 2014 and are a little stale.)

It would be like saying that the teacher's weights are stable from year to year but the average weight of the staff fluctuates wildly from year to year.

If teacher scores are stable from year to year and the teachers make up the school then the school's ratings would have to, mathematically, also be stable from year to year — which they, by Kane's admission, are not.

We used a statistical method that separated our estimate of overall effectiveness into a fixed component, which is stable from year to year, and an idiosyncratic component that changes across classrooms and across years.

In any case, the rankings are fairly stable from year to year, so the choice of year doesn't make much difference.

Residents also enjoy the laws» added benefit that property tax rates stay fairly stable from year to year.

Not exact matches

Although the country dealt with a series of financial crises and rampant inflation from 1993 to 2002, she says «the last ten years were more stable.»

And while wages fell slightly for the second month in a row (down a tenth of a percent from April), pay is still up 0.2 percent year - to - date, giving us confidence that it is, for the most part, stable.

At the American College of Cardiology's meeting in Chicago on Saturday, Novartis told doctors that clinically stable heart patients, as well as those considered least stable, both appear to benefit from taking Entresto compared to enalapril, a generic introduced 35 years ago that remains a standard heart failure treatment.

Through the magic of Pixar animation we enter the «Inside Out» world of 11 - year - old Riley as she learns to navigate the changes and uncertainty that come with being uprooted from her happy and stable life in Minnesota and transplanted to a new life in San Francisco.

To receive the full benefit of a bond ladder, one needs not only to stay the course for a number of years (so that lower yield and higher yield purchases benefit from cost averaging), but also with a relatively stable amount of capitaTo receive the full benefit of a bond ladder, one needs not only to stay the course for a number of years (so that lower yield and higher yield purchases benefit from cost averaging), but also with a relatively stable amount of capitato stay the course for a number of years (so that lower yield and higher yield purchases benefit from cost averaging), but also with a relatively stable amount of capital.

LONDON (Reuters)-- Banks» metals - related revenues exceeded their earnings from the oil sector last year for the first time since 2014 as low and relatively stable crude prices discouraged hedging activity, but this is unlikely to be the start of a new trend.

Athenex, which raised $ 68 million from a secondary stock offering during the quarter, finished the year with $ 51 million in cash and short - term investments, down from $ 69 million in September as the company spent heavily on clinical trials for the drugs it is developing and absorbed higher licensing fees at its specialty drug business, which has added 12 new drugs to its stable of products.

GOOD MAGIC - Good vibrations continue to emanate from the barn of Good Magic, last year's Eclipse Award - winning Champion 2 - Year - Old Male owned by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds & Stonestreet Stables year's Eclipse Award - winning Champion 2 - Year - Old Male owned by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds & Stonestreet Stables Year - Old Male owned by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds & Stonestreet Stables LLC.

Over the last three years, we have developed a proprietary business model that has enabled us to lock - up substantial low - cost clean power capacity and a stable supply of computing chips from the leading manufacturers.

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, the pair has been showing a rather stable trading range over the last year from about 108 to about 114.50.

The fossil record which shows millions of years of stable species, then an explosion of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance of most species in the geologic record and the lack of evidence of substantial gradual change in most species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted, including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia

For example, in the essay's section on «defining success,» Father Neuhaus writes, «Finally, success will be if, three or thirty years from now, Afghanistan and Iraq have reasonably decent and stable governments, operating under something believably like the rule of law...» This lacks the specificity to qualify as a serious application of just war theory.

Pernod chief executive Pierre Pringuet said although sales of Jacob's Creek in Britain had suffered from a price increase to # 6 ($ A8.80) from # 4.50 a bottle, with volumes dropping by 1 million cases over three years, sales in Australia had so far proved stable in the face of a price lift here.

Dubbed «Big Blue,» the system gives the company year - round shelf stable hemp flower to extract CBD from, alleviating a major problem in their production process.

The recovered paper utilization rate in containerboard has been fairly stable during recent years, but it increased from 27 percent in 1990 to 47.3 percent in 2000 and reached 48.4 percent in 2015.

Our expertise and our complete control of the manufacturing process guarantees that EXBERRY ® is easy to use, highly stable and offers you an amazingly wide range of vibrant colour shades to choose from, available 365 days a year.

Would a sauce made of just those ingredients stay shelf stable and free from harmful bacteria for long periods of time (6 months to a year)?

Chelsea is by default seen as being stable from the goalkeeper up, but they're going to lose their title this year.

Nice article... I used to be one of those staunch Wenger fans through the years... I used to believe he is superior than Sir Alex, because with almost nothing to spend and playing with kids, he managed to keep us up there every year... I was really caught up with that half season wonder we used to show... In the summer 2013, him or the board (I don't recall) came out and said we are much stable financially and now we can fight with the biggest bullies, I got my hopes high, I thought we are definitely signing a top striker and DM, that what we need... What happened, only hours before the window closed we managed to sign a top AMF (remember we have our best player for the season 2012 - 2013 was AMF, Cazorla if you remember), I was really depressed seen Giroud leading the line every match... then comes winter window, and we were right there top of the table... My friend send me a poster of an elephant on a tree, and on the bottom of it «no one knows how it got there but everybody knows how it will get down»... I told my friend that we are only one decent striker far from the gold... and what happened, we signed an old injured DM on loan... That for me was a completely arrogance and stubbornness cost us the league title... There I completely lost the plot with Wenger... I wish yesterday I was with those who raised that banner... I would write in my banner «Enough talks and philosophy, we need results»

If from the beginning of the year the classroom is stable and reliable, with clear rules, consistent discipline, and greater emphasis on recognizing good behavior than on punishing bad, students will be less likely to feel threatened and better able to regulate their less constructive impulses.

In her research on professional women and the relationship with the caregivers they hire, sociologist Cameron Macdonald, author of Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering, says that in their desire to be their child's No. 1, some moms only keep caregivers around for a year so their child won't get too attached — thus depriving their child of long - term, stable and loving relationships, and the moms themselves from the help they actually need.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

In fact we've typically seen the kids be unstable at 6 months and then stable at a year in a number of behaviors from sleep to play to relationships.

We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 - year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard & Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.

The actual figure was $ 150 million, according to Moody's Investors Service, which early this year downgraded its outlook on the floundering pleasure palace from «stable» to «negative.»

Tales from Number 10 have circulated that the pair held too much sway over the PM insisting she stick to the «strong and stable» script during the election campaign and even making her wear a pair of much criticised # 1000 leather trousers for an interview last year.

While the city's bond rating was downgraded to A +, the third - highest grade issued by S&P Global Ratings, last year, the agency improved the city's outlook to «stable» due to the city increasing non-property tax revenues, decreasing discretionary spending and securing $ 12.5 million from the state that wasn't an advance on payments the state owes the city for the Empire State Plaza.

«Not only will HR 3962 help working men and women better secure affordable, quality health care, but it will also help small businesses access health care with lower rates and stable pricing from year to year», said Hughes.

Its biggest - selling paper, then edited by Andy Coulson, recruited Jonathan Rees, a convicted blackmailer straight from a seven - year prison sentence, to add to the newspaper's formidable stable of other hackers, blaggers, bribers and snoopers.

«The Cedi is one of the best performing currency's in Africa this year in terms of stability and Moody's have come out to upgrade Ghana's economy and moved us from B - negative to B - stable and yet somebody who calls himself and economist can lie that Moody's has not upgraded Ghana,» the President added as he questioned Dr. Bawumia's economic credentials.

Buhari said it was difficult to grapple with forced migration because most of them in recent years were of people coming from developing countries in a flight to safety to more stable countries.

«The Cedi is one of the best performing currency's in Africa this year in terms of stability and Moody's have come out to upgrade Ghana's economy and moved us from B - negative to B - stable and yet somebody who calls himself and economist can lie that Moody's has not upgraded Ghana.»

Another great benefit is that this system would give the MTA a stable and continuing source of cash for the foreseeable future — enabling it to make long - term plans and investments instead of lurching from crisis to crisis every five years.

That percentage is stable from 2015 to 2016, though the actual number of Medicaid recipients dropped by about 3,000 last year.

Notably, the rise and expansion of both the Indus Valley civilization (from about 5350 years to about 4600 years ago) and the Vedic civilization (from about 3450 years to about 3100 years ago) occurred during periods when climate was relatively warm, wet, and stable.

In blood samples from these patients, the researchers found an increase in the percentage of gamma delta T cells, similar to what they observed in mice, which remained stable over years.

«In 20 years we went from a folklore that MOFs are not stable and are just pretty structures to MOFs with unprecedented hydrolytic stability and exceptional properties relevant to energy security and environmental sustainability,» Eddaoudi says.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

Russia, China, the US and Japan further decreased their CO2 emissions from 2015 to 2016, while the EU's emissions remained stable with respect to the previous year, and India's emissions continued to increase.

It has long been known that the presence of some night butterfly species varies greatly from year to year, but why some species fluctuate and others are stable has been shrouded in mystery.

The estimated new infections remain stable at 2.7 million people, but dropped from 3.5 million in 1996, the year the global epidemic appears to have peaked.

To carry out an exhaustive two - year survey of extrasolar planets in both celestial hemispheres, TESS needed to occupy a very particular position in space, a highly stable place that maximized sky coverage and gave the observatory a mostly unobstructed view of the cosmos, all from a low - radiation, thermally benign environmenTo carry out an exhaustive two - year survey of extrasolar planets in both celestial hemispheres, TESS needed to occupy a very particular position in space, a highly stable place that maximized sky coverage and gave the observatory a mostly unobstructed view of the cosmos, all from a low - radiation, thermally benign environmento occupy a very particular position in space, a highly stable place that maximized sky coverage and gave the observatory a mostly unobstructed view of the cosmos, all from a low - radiation, thermally benign environment.