It can be tricky to put a price tag on biotechnology companies that offer little more
than the promise of success in the future.
The momentum drivers today — caution and risk aversion — may be less exciting
than the promise of a new technology paradigm, but the consequent valuation disparity is roughly the same.
I would tell every single person out there that there is nothing more precious
than the promise of God, and nothing more important to strive for, nothing too hard to give up whether it is sin, or pleasure, or gold, or a job... nothing matters but loving God and loving that person in the way that God says.
The presence of the Lord, the Spirit, in the church was more
than the promise of a future kingdom; it was the kingdom already beginning to come.
No development in Hebrew Faith proved more key, more determinative of Jewish character and religious outlook
than the promise of the Messiah.
But it's the call for consolidation, rather
than the promise of tax relief, that has some local leaders concerned.
A brain in balance, rather
than the promise of pain or pleasure, may form basis of decision - making for psychiatric patients
But «Frank and Lola» ultimately feels like less of a compelling, free - standing work
than a promise of better movies to come.
We're talking about real innovation, which is more than new iPads, more than tinkering with old ideas, and certainly more
than promises of future district plans proposed by current tax hike advocates.
It, along with a start - stop system, will most likely not be seen in the U.S. because there is no change in the EPA test cycle performance with the eco mode dialed in and the S5's buyers are more enchanted by its sporty personality
than promise of fuel savings.
The momentum drivers today — caution and risk aversion — may be less exciting
than the promise of a new technology paradigm, but the consequent valuation disparity is roughly the same.
Dividends today are far more valuable
than promises of rosier days ahead for Telcos.
Graham finds these measures more dependable
than promises of future profits or returns.
We haven't really seen it flex its muscles and other
than the promises of 4K Native resolution, it seems like an awful lot of noise but without the results.
You settled that discussion with the Stendhalian sentence «La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur» (beauty is nothing other
than the promise of happiness).
What I think he pinpoints is that a sense of fairness and human dignity is a more powerful political motivator
than the promise of an infinitely expanding supply of material goods (a promise that anyway looks increasingly hollow in the light of what scientists tell us of the likely impacts of unchecked climate change).
But what appears to drive Lynas's appeal, like most appeals to make climate the central organising principle of politics, is the inability to formulate a social consensus that consists of more
than a promise of survival.
There is really no better gift you can give your child,
than the promise of a secure future with YoungStar Child Plans that encompass child insurance plans & child education plans from HDFC Life.
This all sounds great, but we should appreciate the Mercedes - Maybach concept for its elegant design more
than its promise of production car technology.
When an exchange controls the keys, it owns the coins; the customer has nothing more
than a promise of access to them upon demand.
Not exact matches
Zymeworks» recent winning streak is a sign — perhaps the most emblematic yet —
of a revival in the Canadian biotech sector, this time
promising more sustainable growth
than in the past.
The PGS platform
promised genetic risk reports for more
than 250 disease at the time — but, after the FDA smackdown, 23andMe was forced to stop marketing the service and pursue a piecemeal strategy
of winning regulatory approval
of individual tests.
Sony
promises owners
of this watch, compatible with Android handsets, can take phone calls and check texts, e-mails and Facebook updates while looking «cooler
than anyone else.»
The tragedy
of the recent Subway kerfuffle, in which a photo
of an Australian diner's shorter -
than -
promised sandwich sparked a class - action lawsuit in New Jersey, is that it could besmirch the good name
of sandwich merchants everywhere.
Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better
than anything we've seen in the past, and the
promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.
To connect these two groups, a new wave
of nimble web - based employment services firms is arising,
promising a higher standard
of recruitment
than traditional temp agencies provide.
«America, get ready for the return
of a bigger, bolder and better -
than - ever «Idol,»» Disney / ABC TV Group president Ben Sherwood
promised.
But they are also probably experienced enough to know that it's far easier to present a PowerPoint slide that shows how much the value
of the startup will grow
than it is to generate fast enough sales growth to make that
promise a reality.
Labour has said it will raise income taxes on people earning more
than # 80,000 ($ 103,152) a year,
promising no increases for the other 95 %
of taxpayers.
It is the
promise of «Abenomics» that has seen the yen shed about 15 percent
of its value against the dollar since November and Japanese shares surge to their highest level in more
than four years.
Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less
than a percentage point
of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with
promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.
Hospitals and health insurers are gaining confidence that their nightmare scenario — millions
of Americans instantly losing health insurance once President - elect Donald Trump delivers on a
promise to «repeal and replace» Obamacare — is looking more like a bad dream
than becoming reality.
Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more
than tripling
of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2 percent) over the next two years, while raising the inflation rate from -0.3 percent to 2 percent — as the Bank
of Japan is
promising?
Using a variety
of techniques, these new apps
promise to deal in relationships, not hookups; unfortunately, few have managed to generate the sustained interest — and corresponding user base — to be anything other
than a theoretical alternative.
The
promised capacity
of 350 kilowatts per charging point more
than doubles Tesla's current standard for its «second generation» chargers that have a capacity
of up to 145 kW.
Look no further
than TD for an example
of how to build rock solid customer loyalty ---- an increasingly important trait in a market
promised to be overhauled by tech startups.
Given that the average tenure
of a CEO is far less
than that, it risks looking like a leadership team making a
promise that someone else is going to have to keep.
The truth
of the matter is that Google has never in its history
promised websites anything more
than a fair chance at a good rank using proper SEO.
The company behind Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona, which makes more
than a quarter
of the world's beer, said the second half
of the year also looked «
promising.»
Yahoo announced Monday that following the sale
of its core business to Verizon Communications, the leftover assets would placed under a holding company termed «Altaba» — a name that sounded more like infantile babble
than the remnants
of a once -
promising internet giant.
In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility
than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the
promise of higher returns.
Of course, any such gold rush attracts fools and swindlers, and even legitimate players often
promise more
than their new technology can deliver.
The service is
promising 14,000 episodes
of more
than 340 TV shows, plus 1,200 movies, when it launches in November.
So in October 2008, he founded Pencils
of Promise, an education nonprofit that's now built more
than 200 schools across the globe.
Then pages
of numbers
promise huge returns but offer little more
than wide - eyed guesses.
With Trump appearing to crack open the door to diplomacy with North Korea — something that China has long urged — he may have a better chance
of securing further
promises to intensify economic pressure on North Korea, which relies on Beijing for more
than 90 %
of its trade.
Along with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Buffett is a founder
of The Giving Pledge, which is a
promise made by more
than 100 billionaires to give their fortunes away.
The drop in filings sounds
promising, though the study also found that the total number
of bankruptcies in the first quarter
of 2011 is still 30 percent higher
than in the pre-recession first quarter
of 2008.
Amgen unveiled some
promising news during the American Heart Association's annual meeting involving its next - gen cholesterol - busting medication Repatha, which has been shown to significantly reduce the level
of «bad» cholesterol in patients, announcing that more
than 60 %
of patients who were receiving the therapy in a trial had a reduction in arterial plaque.
The results go a long way to fulfilling the
promise that the likes
of Spotify have been making for years — that, given enough time and scale, streaming can be even more lucrative to the music industry
than their previous distribution systems.