Sentences with phrase «strong mark of»

So that, down to the last - mentioned period, the strongest mark of inferiority and degradation was fastened upon the African race in that State.

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Performance in the residential, logistics and business park segments have been strong, says Mark Steinert of Stockland.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has warned that a strong loonie threatens GDP growth.

After the GDP report, Mark Chandler, an economist at RBC Dominion Securities, said the stronger data gave the Bank of Canada «breathing room.»

TJX marked its 40th anniversary with annual sales of $ 33.2 billion, a 7 % increase, and profits of $ 2.3 billion a strong start for new CEO Ernie Herrman.

Investors will look to send U.S. stocks to their fifth straight week of gains with a strong finish to a week that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average finally get back above the 17,000 - point mark and creeped into positive territory for the year.

«Fifty percent of millennials actually prefer shopping in - store,» says a new report from SmarterHQ, «meaning some retailers may be missing the mark in engaging this 80 - million - strong demographic.»

Last week's travel ban, a decision that impacts talent at some of the country's most high - profile tech companies, brought out strong responses from bold - faced names including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin.

That beat expectations for a 5.6 percent rise, and marked the strongest pace of quarterly growth in eight years.

At a time when Aetna — CVS and Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway, and dozens of other companies and company partnerships are feverishly rewriting the rules, this promises to be a fascinating conversation — and Mark has some strong, provocative ideas for change.

On the HBR blogs, career coach Mark Bonche recently wrote about how fast learning requires a willingness to admit error, and various business gurus and VCs have long argued that the best kind of thinker is one with «strong opinions weakly held.»

But with little hesitation, she passes on the offer and jumps ship after being courted by the head (played by Mark Strong) of a much smaller firm with an anti-gun agenda.

On its first quarter earnings call, Oracle's executive triad of Larry Ellison, Safra Catz, and Mark Hurd once again touted strong cloud growth, noting that total cloud revenue for the quarter hit $ 969 million, up 59 % year over year.

His marks on the economy are particularly strong — half of those who voted for the rival Conservative Party, whose core political message is economic competency, give Trudeau a passing grade on the subject.

Still, all of this means the U.S. burger chain might not even really have to win in court against Down N» Out to succeed at its larger goal: demonstrating from a legal perspective that they're aggressive in protecting their name and other trademarks, which makes the marks themselves stronger.

Walmart reported strong holiday sales but said online sales growth slowed during the quarter, marking a turn from three quarters of booming web growth.

The world's biggest retailer reported strong holiday sales Tuesday but said online sales growth slowed during the quarter, marking a turn from three quarters of booming online growth, and that its profit margin came under fresh pressure.

Earnings will be strong through the rest of the year, but Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) today said that first quarter earnings would, indeed, be the high water mark for the year.

After a period of market advance and retreat between 1979 and 1982, August 13 of the latter year «marked the first day of what would turn out to be one of the longest and strongest bull markets in U.S. history.»

Q4 marked another strong quarter of a stellar year for stocks.

According to the Forbes editorial on Zillow Group, we are ``... among the youngest companies to break into the top 100 thanks to strong marks in customer and worker treatment, as well as the effect the company has on the number of jobs in the United States.»

Templeton gave the company a strong portfolio of international equity funds as well as the expertise of emerging markets guru Dr. Mark Mobius, who, during his distinguished career, spent more than 40 years working in emerging markets all over the world.

«From the technical standpoint, VNDA has been in a strong uptrend since April of this year and is currently trading around the $ 16 mark,» said Vic Patel, professional trader and founder of Forex Training Group.

Following last week's strong gains Bitcoin has been hovering under the $ 9,000 mark but has recently been under pressure due to tax - related selling ahead of the U.S. tax deadline last week.

Although Powell talked about a strong business environment around crypto in his evaluation of future market trends, the $ 1 trillion mark will likely require more than just a budding startup community.

«Mark and Sheryl know how serious this situation is and are working with the rest of Facebook leadership to build stronger user protections,» Sue Desmond - Hellman, lead director, said in the statement.

Transactions continued to pick up, marking the 10th consecutive month in which some degree of improvement has been reported and rising sales expectations during November suggest stronger growth may be on the horizon.

The solid early performance thus far marks a stark contrast from the low expectations, where analysts were expecting aggregate earnings to decline by 4.5 % on the back of the strong U.S. dollar.

The financing offer by Tribune, which surprised those gathered in the Santa Ana courtroom, marks the strongest indication yet that the owner of The Times might consider purchasing the Register and Press - Enterprise.

Wall Street benchmarks recovered over the course of yesterday's session, to mark a strong close despite an initially downbeat start.

It's been quite a tumultuous week in the markets, as we all know, but something seems amiss... on Thursday when the Bank of England's Mark Carney talked about raising rates faster than expected, the pound popped (as one would expect) but it did not take even a few hours for it to completely reverse trend as if nothing happened, and the USD was back to being strong again.

A stronger link to these cities will be vital to the future of our tech sector, and a stronger presence in Washington D.C. will be vital for the years ahead as there may be a marked shift in U.S. trade policy.

In an underlying sense, the slowing in export growth was probably even more marked, as exports of non-official gold were unusually strong in these two quarters, reflecting the re-export of gold imports from a number of the east Asian countries.

The test of the 100 % retracement is important because that resistance line marks a strong shift in market sentiment.

Musk's assertion during the conference call that Tesla will «quite likely» be profitable as of the third quarter this year based on strong sales of the Model 3 sounds implausible, since Model 3 production remains a question mark.

We don't proselityze and we are not open to conversion to any other faith... so just get it through your head... leave us alone... and I'll give you a little hint... Jews, in general, because of all their accomplishments and contributions to the progress of humanity have a well earned sense of superiority... we're only 14 million strong in the world and yet our contributions, our genius, and our work ethic has made indelible marks on the world... So, if anything, you guys should be trying to become Jews... maybe some of our genius will rub off on you... just go your way and LEAVE US ALONE!!!!

At its heart, Luther's early theology is marked by a strong emphasis on what the scholastics called uncreated grace, grace as the presence of the uncreated God, and on the transformation of the human heart by God in the utter transcendence of His Godhead.

The encyclical is the highest level of teaching a pontiff can give, and it marks Pope Francis» strongest call to action on climate change yet.

Why was it that those who made their mark as critics of the Vietnam war and who have been instructing us for years that America can not be the policeman of the world were so eager for strong military action in the Balkans?

A strong case has been made recently for a theory that sees it as an essential element in the occasion and purpose of Mark's Gospel.

When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

When this sense of missing the mark is stronger than the conviction of God's love and forgiveness, the ill predominates.

On these grounds Matt.11.12 has a very strong claim to authenticity: it stands in the earliest stratum of this particular tradition and it reflects the attitude of Jesus to John rather than that of the early Church, to which he was at best the Forerunner (Mark 9.

In A Necessary Evil Wills marshals his usual blend of careful scholarship and vigorous polemic to make a case against the strong streak of «antigovernmentalism» that marks the American political tradition.

A strong argument can be made that all children who die are accepted into Heaven by the grace and mercy of God (2 Samuel 12:22 - 23; Mark 10:14 - 15; Matthew 18:2 - 4).

One result of the process — which certainly Mark would not have encouraged, though his work started the development in that direction — is the sentimental, saccharine, sickly - sweet Jesuolatry that has mistaken strong emotion for an evidence of religion, has softened the ethical fiber and beclouded the whole theological sky of certain areas of Christianity.

Upon these Gentile Christian churches Paul impressed the mark of his own strong personality.

If one were to generalize on the nature of the topics addressed, one would note a marked focus on questions of individual morality, human rights, and strong, limited government.

He prophetically foresaw the emergence of a strong current of materialism and secularism from the core orientations of the preceding era, which had been marked by the spirit of the Enlightenment and in which the traditional values of the old worldview had already begun to be shaken.