Sentences with phrase «than in the past as»

There are good reasons to be hopeful that the church can function better than in the past as a community for the moral education of persons.

Spring, as measured by the appearance of the first leaves on trees, is arriving sooner than in the past as the planet continues to warm from greenhouse gases

We just have vastly more scientists today than in the past as part of the population, meaning that they are not anywhere near as intelligent as their more select predecessors, and furthermore, few if any of them are polymathic enough to understand the limits of scientific inquiry, nor even what science consists of.

Not exact matches

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

Bitcoin as a commodity has been more stable this year than in the past, though it certainly fluctuates more than the average corporate stock.

To take advantage, you must have an export credit sales volume of less than $ 5 million in the past three years before application, your company must qualify as a small business under the Small Business Administration's definition of the term and you must have been in business at least one year with a positive net worth.

Puzder named ethanol regulation, which has resulted in higher beef costs, a rising minimum wage and higher labor costs due to Obamacare as three obstacles that make doing business in the U.S. more difficult than in the past.

General Electric has also fallen more than 13 percent in the past month as the company undergoes a massive strategic review, evaluating which divisions to sell or keep.

The shares have fallen by more than 50 % in the past two years, and assets like Nickelodeon and MTV are widely seen as being long in the tooth and not forward - thinking enough.

Kuroda has been beating that drum for years and his comments in confirmation hearings in the past two weeks suggest he plans to pump cash into the economy much more aggressively than outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who was reluctant to be too bold for fear of sowing the seeds of future problems, such as an economic bubble.

But unlike in past years, consumers will have to shop around to get the best deal, as some of the major wireless carriers have decided to sell the new Samsung models for 10 % or more higher than the list price.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

After phasing out her work last year as creative director for a packaging company to give Tweedle Press her full attention, she found that running the company with only one employee — her husband — made for an easier work - life balance than when she used part - timers in the past.

Disney has closed more than 120 stores in the past two years as it struggled to keep its own merchandise competitive with lower - end retailers.

While observers have speculated that the Cara privatization was merely a preamble to its going public again — perhaps as a trust, but certainly at a premium to the price the Phelans paid — privacy is something that Tsampalieros says gives him more room to manoeuvre than in the past.

ETFs, which typically have lower fees than mutual funds, have enjoyed several-fold growth in assets over the past decade as investors have sought to reduce the overall cost of their investments.

The company has completed more than 10 acquisitions over the past year, including assets in Mexico, Russia and Brazil, as well as the Edmonton - based maker of Cold - FX, Afexa Life Sciences.

While the Dish Network's reach and power have weakened over the past few years just as Viacom's have, the satellite company is still in a somewhat stronger position than it used to be relative to the entertainment giant, because it knows that Viacom is already suffering from low viewership numbers, and that impacts its ad revenues.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

After acquiring more than 65 tech firms in the past five years, the mercurial CEO announced in September that he would be «buying chip companies,» suggesting that Oracle is positioning itself for what Bill Tatham, head of Toronto - based enterprise software firm NexJ Systems, describes as «another level of world domination.»

Perhaps more surprising is Buffett's second - best pick over the past year, as it has recently been known more for controversy than outperformance: United Airlines stock, up almost 44 % since the investor bought it in the third quarter of 2016.

He expects that next year, as large companies negotiate their benefits contracts, they will be asking much more than in the past «will a carve - out option look better, or does the carve - in option look better?»

As seen in the chart below from Westpac Bank, China's trade surplus with the US has ballooned over the past decade as exports to the US grew substantially faster than imports heading in the other directioAs seen in the chart below from Westpac Bank, China's trade surplus with the US has ballooned over the past decade as exports to the US grew substantially faster than imports heading in the other directioas exports to the US grew substantially faster than imports heading in the other direction.

Women have largely flocked to medical and law schools in greater numbers over the past few years, but they are now turning to business school as well in part because business schools are mindful of the shortage of women students and are recruiting them more aggressively than they have before.

As of this writing, however, more than 128,000 comments saying the exact same thing have been left on the docket for the proposal in just the past three days.

Also, in the past, women saw their businesses more as providing careers and opportunities to make money rather than as opportunities to cash out.

Aid groups report that more than six million people have died in the past decade as casualties of the war, and yet the conflict goes largely unnoticed to the Western world.

«We believe expectations around the M&A cycle have become overly pessimistic and we reiterate our call for a flatter and longer M&A cycle than those seen in the past with the next leg driven by a pick - up in European and sponsor M&A as US growth slows,» Serrao writes.

That degradation effectively forced the streaming company into signing an interconnection deal directly with Comcast rather than going through third - party providers such as Cogent, which it has typically done in the past.

«We have seen our online sales grow by more than 50 per cent in the past year and new services, such as in - store reserve and pickup, more than doubling,» said Best Buy Canada president Ron Wilson in a release.

And several Democrats said recent conversations with Springer, as well as his schedule, suggested he seemed to be more seriously interested in running this time than in years past.

However, rates have also been slowly creeping higher on their own, as regulators look set to persist with the current «de-risking» campaign taking much longer than policy crackdowns in the past.

For the past seven years, growth has serially disappointed - sometimes spectacularly, as in the depths of the global financial and euro crises; more often than not grindingly as past debts weigh on activity

NPR recently reported that Time Warner - owned CNN made roughly $ 100 million more in ad revenues this year than in past election years, as CNN could reportedly approach $ 1 billion in profit this year for the first time in the network's history.

The SHRM survey from June reports HR professionals have seen less political conversation in the workplace as compared with past elections, surmising that it's in part because the presidential race is even more polarizing than usual.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Disney CEO Bob Iger has talked about this as a long - term possibility in the past, but his recent comments suggest that such a service could come sooner rather than later.

Of course, as the past few years have shown, having so many eggs in the oil and gas basket can be a liability, but probably nobody in Canada has more experience riding the sector's ups and downs than does Riddell.

Shares of Under Armour, which has long sought to supplant Nike as king of the hill, have fallen more than 18 percent in the past month.

Even if it winds up being little more than a marketing stunt, the move may prove to be a boon for PepsiCo, as soda sales in the U.S. have been flagging recently — carbonated soft drinks have seen their sales plummet 14 % in the past nine years.

Bitcoin has appreciated rapidly over the past year; as of Monday, the value has increased more than 50-fold from $ 11.00 in mid-November 2012.

Earlier this month, Hearst Magazines, which publishes Cosmopolitan and Elle, said it has more powerful advertising data than Facebook in some cases as it has amassed unique profiles on 120 million digital consumers over the past year via various things like online quizzes and Snapchat polls.

Other Wall Street firms have resized their bond trading in the past year, as business has been slower than expected.

Because of how the Bank of Canada has incorporated federal fiscal projections in its forecasts, there's a risk markets might over-read any tension over rates and interpret the government «as having more influence on the governor than it would past Bank of Canada governors,» he said.

Today, the average paper has four times as many authors as it did then and the work being done is far more interdisciplinary and done at greater distances than in the past.

He argued that the Fed's inflation record over the past 15 to 20 years has been as good as or better than central banks in Europe that have only a single price - stability mandate.

Along with other rail companies, it's shipping more crude, frac sand and grain and it's doing more intermodal business — taking goods to another mode of transportation, such as ship or plane — than it has in the past.

Viacom's share price has fallen by more than 45 % in the past two years, as many of its core properties such as MTV and the Comedy Network have lost much of their audience.

In the past few years, GoPro has emerged as a powerhouse in video cameras and a huge business that is on track for more than a $ 1 billion in revenue for 201In the past few years, GoPro has emerged as a powerhouse in video cameras and a huge business that is on track for more than a $ 1 billion in revenue for 201in video cameras and a huge business that is on track for more than a $ 1 billion in revenue for 201in revenue for 2014.

Morgan Stanley shares jumped more than 23 percent in each of the past three years as investors rewarded Gorman's plan to rely more on wealth management for stable earnings.