Sentences with phrase «substantial points on»

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While observers may disagree as to whether Air Canada's sad condition is terminal or just chronic, on one point there is unanimity: the airline needs to undergo a substantial transformation of its business model to return to full health.

The point is that at near zero interest rates, the U.S. has a lot of buffer on this front, so if there is a reduction in the economy, it will be because of a substantial disconnect between supply and demand.

Daniel Loeb's Third Point hedge fund on Sunday unveiled a substantial Nestle stake and advised the company to shed its L'Oreal stake.

Elford points out that Secure Energy has a track record of «substantial» growth on an absolute and per - share basis; it has a relatively clean balance sheet and it's in an industry with high barriers to entry.

The bank pointed out «new prohibitions on using credit cards to buy cryptocurrencies, implying that perhaps a substantial amount of Bitcoin buying in 2H17 had been funded with credit cards.»

Legge also pointed out that spending substantial amounts of money on one weapon might not be justified, because if the Soviet tanks got as far as Calais «without a strategic nuclear exchange having occurred, then I think the Channel Tunnel will be an irrelevance.»

«While the overall effect of the 1MDB saga is hard to pin down, suffice to say that it is not something that Malaysia needs at this point, given that it already faces a number of substantial economic challenges ahead,» echoed OCBC economist Wellian Wiranto said in a note on Wednesday.

«To have the lack of more substantial wage gains at this point probably helps to alleviate some of the immediacy on the four - interest - rate - hikes - in - 2018 question,» said Hamrick, the Bankrate.com analyst.

Last week I noted that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I expected the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

This led to a substantial reduction in interest margins on housing lending, from about 400 basis points 15 years ago to a little over 100 basis points today.

And without dimensionalizing that too much, it's a substantial change in terms of the balance of items on the menu are $ 15 or below, which we've determined to be sort of a threshold point for affordability for high - quality seafood in casual dining.

«The plans seems to place substantial emphasis on the set top box as the primary device and focal point of the next generation US network.

The yield on the 10 year Treasury roughly doubled between May of last year and January of 2014 and has now slid back 50 basis points this year — which may not sound like a lot — but on a percentage basis is rather substantial.

It is also worth pointing out that downward pressure on the price of «paper» gold that was not supported by the «physical» market would inevitably result in the price of «paper» gold making a sustained and substantial move below the price of the physical commodity, which hasn't happened.

While one could easily point to a raft of geopolitical factors driving the stock and ETF trading price action, which may indeed have a substantial bearing on the overall market environment, we once again find technical analysis provides us with a suitable explanation.

Pan American Silver Corp (TSX: PAAS), a metals and mining company based in Canada, received a lot of attention from a substantial price movement on the TSX over the last few months, increasing to CA$ 22.16 at one point, and dropping to the lows of CA$ 19.1.

In practice, that means that the Fund would quickly and almost invariably lose at least 1 - 2 % in the event of a substantial market decline, at which point I would expect the put options beneath the portfolio to reduce the impact of market fluctuations on the portfolio.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

For as regards infra - human living things, even on the suppositions already mentioned, the question is probably still open, or has not yet been sufficiently subjected to examination, whether the living substantial formal principle of what in the metaphysical sense would be a real species (biological category, etc.), is multiplied with the individuals of the species (biological group, etc.), or is one and the same principle which, unfolding its formative power at various material points in space and time, manifests itself more than once in space and time.

[28] See Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith as it is Confessed in the Nicene - Constantinopolitan Creed (381) New Revised Version, Faith and Order Paper No. 153 (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1991), where in commenting on the creedal article «One baptism for the forgiveness of sins,» it is pointed out that «A substantial challenge is made to this confession by the fact that in contrast to the one baptism enunciated in the Creed many Churches, while officially recognizing each other's baptism, still can not join together in the celebration of baptism.

Case in point: In Mohler's words, I believe I possess a «substantial commitment to the truthfulness of the Bible ``, but Mohler and I differ on what that means.

My thought on this now is, that when things are as vague as Christine makes them, and as Sabio points out, then the «communicative universalist» really can't be that «substantial» because that would be doctrine and putting God in a box, etc..

The Warriors» uptempo style of basketball could suit Livingston's game well, plus his length and aptitude on the defensive end ought to be a substantial boost for a team that ranked 10th in opponents points per game a season ago.

I am not gonna come down on him too hard because he at least can point to a period of substantial contribution to the club, more so than some of the others.

On paper you would have to conclude that our home games in the first half of the season should yield a substantial points total.

We'd like to point that the running cost of this system if you decide to use it on a daily basis is substantial.

On this basis alone we should expect both Labour and the Lib Dems to lose substantial numbers of council seats while the Conservatives should make gains from their 3 - point recovery.

David Cameron claimed to have secured a substantial achievement on Syria today, after he emerged from the G8 summit with a seven - point plan agreed by all the leaders present.

It's worth pointing out that a substantial minority of Lib Dems are very keen on ideas such as Land Value Tax which would directly address many of the problems arising from asset inequality, in particular the fact that land owners can often make substantial gains in wealth as a result of public works funded out of the income and consumption taxes paid by those of substantially less wealth than themselves.

Like Britain now, US unemployment was just under eight per cent, but Obama could point to substantial jobs growth to argue the economy was on the right track.

During Lhota's chairmanship, service reliability on the Express Buses in Northeast Queens has gotten worse, which in part is due to the MTA making substantial changes to Bus Operator work schedules at the College Point Bus Depot where the QM1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 20 which all operate in Northeast Queens are based out of.

Appearing on the Andrew Marr show, he said: «We're going to put down a substantial amendment to the Queen's Speech which will contain within it the main points of our manifesto, and so we'll invite the House to consider all the issues we put forward which I've mentioned - jobs - first Brexit, mention the issues of young people and austerity, there's many other things.»

He points out that the most current and substantial research on the use of vaping shows that use of e-cigarettes can effectively help smokers give up cigarettes.

Based on a substantial corpus of historical texts, from Old English to Present - day English, the dissertation provides new analyses with respect to a number of disputed points in the research on clausal arguments.

A number of scientific results suggest a biological basis for sexual orientation, but these results do not point to one simple biological or genetic explanation.2 Perhaps the best recent reviews of the scientific research relevant to this issue are found in a special issue of the journal Frontiers of Neuroendocrinology, the official journal of the International Neuroendocrine Federation and the American Neuroendocrine Society, that was published in April 2011.3 The papers in the special issue make clear that substantial evidence exists in animals for biological bases of sexual partner preference based on sex.

Furthermore, as pointed out by Frame et al. (2005), the effect of noise on the estimate of the climatic background level can lead to a substantial underestimate of uncertainties if not taken into account.

Everybody will probably experience a certain degree of general moodiness at some points of their life, but stress - induced mood swings can be severe and drastic and have a substantial negative effect on health and daily function.

Whats more, Friel points out that by simply resolving to cut back on 25 % of what you were planning to do in the next few weeks, you could eliminate a substantial amount of stress.

These studies point to how supporting healthy cells with FWGE can have substantial effects on cancer cells.

I've drawn the inflection point where toxicity starts rising rapidly at around 140 mg / dl, and the inflection point on the other side where hypoglycemia causes substantial health damage at around 60 mg / dl.

It's just a matter of time, however, before the propulsive atmosphere takes a palpable hit, as Koepp, on several occasions, literally rewinds the clock to explore the circumstances that brought each of the characters to this point (eg we see exactly why Bobby desperately needs that package), with this device, intriguing as it may be, wreaking havoc on the film's momentum and highlighting the less - than - substantial nature of the storyline.

The only other filmmaker in recent years to really delve into the subtle ways substantial money can impact relationships and friendships is Nicole Holofcener, whose films such as «Friends with Money» (2006) and «Please Give» (2010) are sharply observed on this point, especially the polite - but - conspicuous tensions that can arise between the haves and the have - nots.

The girls are unique to the point that they may border on stereotype, but they're handled with enough tact to become more substantial than that.

The effect one white American Olympic participant had on another may not be as substantial a story to take up the 24 - hour news cycle as the issue of systemic racism highlighted by the Rodney King beating and the O.J. Simpson trial, which happened before and after the main events of this film, but it works to sell one of the film's notable points.

On one side are supporters of the legislation who point to its substantial tightening -LSB-...]

But Tennessee earned almost full marks (98 percent) on the section of the competition (weighted a substantial 14 percent of all possible points) devoted to «adopting standards and assessments,» even though its standards have remained extremely low ever since the federal accountability law took hold.

Jackson: Turning Points 2000 builds on the original Turning Points and is not a substantial departure from the original recommendations.

It makes for a nice comparison, but, as Neerav Kingsland points out, because the study focused on such a small sample, it can not rule out the possibility that SIG had substantial positive effects.

Instead, Eden cobbled together a «distribution - of - differences» analysis in which any change of 15 percentage points on each of the questions represented «a substantial shift» in attitudes on school safety, especially for each school in the district.

He also pointed to a series of studies that showed some substantial gains at New York City's small schools, which operate on the premise that they can give more attention to struggling students than the large schools they replace.