Sentences with phrase «than at the bottom of»

With the Hammers now competing in the top tier of Premier League 2 young players should encounter more accomplished opponents than at the bottom of League 1.

Can withstand pressures six times greater than those at the bottom of the ocean and endure temperatures ranging from more than 100 °C down to absolute zero.

The pressure at a column of water is higher than at the bottom of a column of ice, and at the melting point the ice has essentially zero strength.

The slight flare in the cut in the skirts featured below brings your attention up towards the waistband rather than at the bottom of the skirt.

School leaders want MPs to fight the government's «grossly unfair and discriminatory» Progress 8 measure that will award three times more points to pupils moving between top grades than those at the bottom of the scale.

the sound effect appears isolated on a black screen, rather than at the bottom of a rather busy page, so the impact is increased.

In San Francisco, condo prices are 11 percent higher than during the housing boom peak in 2006 — and 73 percent higher than at the bottom of the market in late 2011.

Not exact matches

Bottom line: while an ongoing recession at the time of the election does not always mean that the incumbent party will lose control of the White House, it spells DOOM by better than a 2:1 ratio.

Why should trying to sell a home at the top and buying it back at the bottom work out any better than the dismal record of those who have tried timing the stock market?

The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.

That 12 % tends to be much happier at work than those who scored their bosses» goal - setting at the bottom end of the scale.

Stagnant wage growth isn't just a problem for those at the bottom of the salary scales: middle - class family incomes are slightly lower now than they were in the 1970s.

The bottom line — net profit — turned positive in about a month and a half, and at the end of 2002, it stood at more than $ 500,000.

At first, Winkelman was incredulous that J. Aron could earn even $ 10 million per year, but that modest target was quickly surpassed; in a few years, the business was producing more than $ 1 billion in profit per year, a meaningful chunk of Goldman's overall bottom line.

«But at the bottom of the recruiter's note, there was a sentence saying prescription eyewear in North America is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and less than 2 % is being purchased online.»

Dixons Carphone remained at the bottom of the European benchmark, down more than 23 percent, after lowering its full - year profit on tougher market conditions.

The bricks toward the top of Sleeping Beauty's castle are smaller than the bricks at the bottom of the building.

Tantech Holdings Ltd (NASDAQ: TANH) priced at the bottom of its $ 4 to $ 6 expected range and more than doubled to post an opening day high of $ 9.50 before closing the week at $ 6.79.

So a student in the bottom half of his class at Harvard University might be less confident in his abilities than a student in the top half of his class at a less prestigious institution.

From 2001 to 2011, that study found that fewer than five per cent of Canadian taxpayers in the bottom half of the income scale owned at least 10 per cent of the shares in at least one Canadian - controlled private corporation (CCPC).

Certainly, there are signs of renewed uncertainty — or at least of an approaching bear market — but it's a far better, more hopeful economy than what the nation faced in 2008 - 2009 when unemployment was growing like an epidemic and no one knew exactly where the bottom might be found.

The fact that this ratio is now at the bottom band for most broadly defined stock indices suggests that the risk of continued underperformance by the broad market - versus large - cap indices - is substantially less than it was on April 5th, or even June 30th, when the most recent downdraft started.

The bottom line: with the unicorn bubble likely to go bust over the next 12 — 24 months, less than 1/4 of today's unicorns are likely to achieve a successful exit for their investors at a $ 1 billion + valuation.

I suspect that Japanese consumption is more equal than in the US, and that the upper 50 % of Americans consume at far higher levels than in Japan, while the bottom 50 % are closer to Japanese levels.

According to the most recent results of the poll at the bottom of this hub, «fear» is the emotion that traders and investors struggle with more than the other three discussed in this article.

«Business checking accounts are at the bottom of the banking totem pole, charging 127 % more than personal online checking accounts, offering 45 % fewer features and returning 73 % less when in interest,» WalletHub reports.

Kevin Milligan says the case for raising the annual TFSA limit is shaky as the benefit will be mostly to high wealth households rather than those at the middle or bottom of the wealth distribution.

This year, in contrast, grades of the top - ranked Kellogg / UST program enjoyed the highest pay — on average, slightly more than $ 392,000, or roughly four times the average at the bottom of the scale.

On the other hand, there were 1.3 million fewer manufacturing jobs in October than there were at the start of the recession (although the sector has added 1 million jobs since bottoming out in early 2010).

Maximization rates were much higher at the top than the bottom end of the income spectrum — the rate for holders with incomes above $ 250,000 was about four times the rate for holders with incomes below $ 20,000, and the rate for eligibles with incomes above $ 250,000 was 10 times the rate for eligibles with incomes below $ 20,000.

We have made investments in all of those and I learned over time that I am better off being more on the top than at the bottom end» Mohnish Pabrai

That's not all that different from the cities at the very bottom of our list — San Jose, Fort Worth, and Boston — where more than 30 percent of borrowers» average monthly income is dedicated to loan and housing payments.

In fact, if you are retiring at the bottom of the recession, you can probably go higher than 4 % right?

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

After bottoming out at decade - plus lows in February, oil prices finished the year up more than 40 %, lifting the prospects for a lot of companies across the oil and gas industry.

Bottoming at about an 8 % loss, Smith & Wesson stock has since climbed to more than $ 26 and change, and currently sits within about $ 1 of its pre-press-release price.

It is more than 4 kilometers or approx. 2.5 miles below the surface, at the very bottom of the Mponeng deep level gold mine in South Africa.

In Google's web results, you can find image icons next to results featuring video content that may attract more attention at the bottom of a page than a text - only listing at the top of the results page.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

The telephone number flashed at the bottom of the TV screen and the camera's occasional glance at three tiers of telephone operators might make you think you were watching a telethon, with the callers transmitting promises of gifts rather than the confessions of faith they are in fact making.

This dynamic explains why U.S. tax returns year after year show that top earners report a lower percentage of charitable giving than those at the bottom.

«Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self - absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, — intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.»

My own peculiar task in my Church and in my world has been that of the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silences, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.

Melanie Phillips pointed out that she had been writing for more than two decades «on the various elements that have contributed to this collapse of order: family breakdown and mass fatherlessness; educational collapse which damages most those at the bottom of the social heap» and so on.

According to a Thai NGO working on children's rights, some 40,000 to 50,000 Burmese girls have been sent to Thailand and even more brutally abused than Thai girls at the bottom of the prostitution industry.

Yom Kippur is better than working the bottom of the slide at the water park.

I agree with Aldens comment: I have spent some time in that emerging edge of Christianity, and think that at the bottom of a lot of it is simply a bunch of folks who canâ $ ™ t â $ œplay nice with others.â $ The driving force often seems to be an anti-establishment attitude, more than a pro-church attitude.

This stingerless insect no bigger than a gnat enters through a little opening at the bottom of the fig and so pollinates it from the inside.

The third possibility will be favored by those who make their own the anterior existential decision, which — as even Bultmann admits — was imported from Greek thought at the beginning of Western science, and on which that science is largely based even today — viz., the existential decision that the individual is no more than a specific instance of a general cosmic law and order which is capable of being expressed in a terminology which is at bottom quite simple and which is detachable from existence.

Yet at bottom the growth into the pattern of oak - hood that is intended for the acorn is given proper theistic meaning only when we can say that deeper than any scientific description, and in no sense contradicting that description, the divine drive to fulfillment of potentiality has been at work.