Sentences with phrase «than an end point»

Was the actual process more interesting than the end point?

Ocean acidification describes the direction of pH change rather than the end point; that is, ocean pH is decreasing (the oceans are becoming less alkaline) but the oceans are not expected to become acidic (pH < 7).

Not exact matches

The report also points out that Dreamers start businesses at more than twice the rate of the general population, in large part because they are used to making ends meet without help from the government.

So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

Will Super Bowl LII end up being a shootout with a higher score than that figure, or are we set for a defensive struggle that will result in fewer points?

Rather than seeing it as an end point, think of it as a beginning.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

By the end of the year, Best Buy shares soared more than 28 points, from $ 11.67 per share on Dec. 21, 2012, to $ 40.17 per share on Dec. 27, 2013.

What some experts are doing is putting up a straw man, pointing to those extreme cases in which some people let the development of the business plan become an end in itself — something that gets in the way of business rather than helping to optimize it.

«But those ends are much more important than the means: there is no point deploying blockchain or a product marketed as blockchain just for the sake of it.»

The feature states the total fare a rider will pay based on start and end point of their trip, rather than telling drivers the fare after the trip is completed.

The problem at that point is that once the required minimum distribution starts, they end up being forced to take more money than what they necessarily need at that point, and they get thrust into a higher tax rate,» explain Plessl and Houser.

Apple originally had planned to pay music owners 71.5 % of Apple Music's subscription revenue after the trial period ended, Re / code previously reported, which was «a few percentage points higher than the industry standard,» to account for the longer trial period.

«Point - cutting the ends rather than blunt - cutting means the hair doesn't look too boxy, but the square layer will give it the shape and form.»

Ten - year U.S. yields will advance more than 0.1 percentage point by the end of 2015, based on Bloomberg surveys of economists.

«By the end of the first quarter (of 2015) inflation will stand by around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expected.

As I pointed out in October, Snap's total headcount had more than quadrupled from the end of 2015 to the summer of 2017 (approximately 2,600 employees at the end of the second quarter), as the company was in growth mode.

JETS, by comparison, ended the year with more than $ 42 billion in profits and an impressive 7.6 percent profit margin, 300 basis points above the broader market, according to FactSet data.

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

He used its higher - end Cantina menu as an example of a product line that offers «Fresh Mex» food at the $ 5 price point, lower than competitors.

And in the so - called «Flash Crash» last August 24, the Dow fell more than 1,000 points in the first five minutes before ending the day down 588, but had recovered completely by the next week.

The S&P 500 futures opened more than 15 points up on Sunday and the market ended Monday trading 21 points up.

On the 10 - year Treasury bond they fell by more than 10 basis points from September to end - October 2014 (Graph 5, left - hand panel).

On the one hand I believe many VC's have realized that this early - stage investing is riskier than they had perceived and they'll just end up doing the $ 3 million rounds down the line when the business has more proof points.

At the end of the day, the major averages finished down more than 7 %, and the DJIA had its largest point decline in history with a loss of 777 points.

According to the minutes of the meeting, a 25 - basis point increase in the bank rate was fully factored in by the markets in the run - up to November's MPC meeting, and the interest - rate curve underlying the November Inflation Report projected interest rates at 1 percent by the end of the three - year forecast period, higher than the recent median estimates of economists polled by Reuters.

The 30 - year average was 43 basis points (0.43 %) lower at the end of 2014 than at the beginning of that year, when the stimulus was going strong.

The point is, if your combined or back - end DTI ratio is much higher than 43 %, you might have a harder time qualifying for a home loan in California.

In year ended June 30, 2014, gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6 %, half a percentage point higher than projected last April by the Asian Development Bank's Outlook (ADO) 2014.

That's because you could end up paying more in points than the amount saved during such a short stay.

If current trends hold, the portfolio will end up spending less than 5 basis points on trading commissions this year.

The price point is expected to be a little higher than a mass - produced domestic beer, and slightly cheaper than a high - end craft beer.

If you withdraw before you reach those points, you can actually end up with less money than you began, so it's important to leave your CD deposit alone until it matures.

Budgetary revenues to the end of February are running about one percentage point below that forecast in the Match 2011 Budget, due primarily to lower - than - expected personal income tax and other revenues.

The cost of protecting the company's subordinated debt from default for five years using credit - default swaps has more than doubled since the end of 2015, rising to 438 basis points, a four - year high, from 187.

For instance, you made a point of deciding that you would speak at the end of the FOMC meeting rather than at the beginning as your predecessor Alan Greenspan did.

Speaking to GTR in Hong Kong at the end of a whirlwind tour of Asia, Behlendorf points to the fact that there are more Hyperledger developers in Beijing than any other city.

On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) rose by more than 100 points early in the day, reversed course and dropped 260 points, ending the day down 126 points, capping its first three - day losing streak in 2013.

Futures were near session highs as the debate ended, with Dow futures briefly adding more than 100 points.

Mr Miles highlighted the point that investors usually fall prey to panic selling when the market dips and succumb to «greed» when sentiments turn bullish, and more often than not if such behaviour persists, the investor would eventually end up in a state of pauperism.

At the end of 2003, the unemployment rate stood at 5.6 per cent, 1/2 a percentage point lower than its level a year earlier (Graph 42).

Indicator rates on variable - rate housing and business loans are 50 basis points higher than at end October, having increased in line with the 25 basis point increases in the cash rate in November and December last year (Table 12).

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

Gold traded down for 10 straight sessions to end the week at $ 1,099 per ounce, its lowest point in more than five years.

Individual investors are relatively less skillful during and since the financial crisis than before (break point at end of 2007).

Similarly, within investment - grade credit (IG), employing the metric of the ratio of yield per unit of duration makes the front - end look profoundly more attractive than at any point post crisis.

DTCM points out that Dubai continues to attract more than half of the foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and that at the end of 2009 there were 363 FDI projects, more than the total number of projects in 2007.

East Point, which is less than a 10 minute drive from Hartsfield - Jackson Atlanta International Airport, is named for the eastern ending of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad.

Recall the earlier point that parents of rescuers laid far less emphasis on obedience as an end in itself than those of non-rescuers.

Even if Smith and I end up disagreeing on that point, we could still agree on his anthropology (as I think we do) and on his vision for Christian formation and the university (and I do think we're closer than I let on).