Sentences with phrase «than in the past when»

Elections in the age of low - intensity conflict are generally managed more efficiently than in the past when ballot boxes were stuffed and opposition candidates killed, bribed, or exiled.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State speech was far less combative than in the past when it comes to education.

The melting and retreating of Arctic sea ice in the summer months also has allowed PWW to move further north than in the past when currents pushed it westward toward the Canadian archipelago.

I do think with advances getting smaller and ebooks being forever that it is much less of a factor than in the past when it was often stated that 7 out of 10 books did not ever earn out.

Not exact matches

The idea popped up when CEO George Zoitas and COO Ian Joskowitz saw an ESPN report about how men are shopping for their family much more than they have in the past.

Another analyst, who doesn't think the board simply decided that now was the right time to change leaders because Schroeder was 64, noted House, who is older than Schroeder, never enjoyed the top job when he was CEO in the past.

After the 2008 financial crisis when Goldman became a bank holding company, it could take in more customer deposits, which led to an increase in its holdings of more than $ 40 billion over the past six years.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

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.

When former UPS workers Keith Byrd and Travis Burt founded Transportation Impact in 2008, they were using skills learned in their past jobs in more than one way.

In the past, Facebook has been less than clear - cut when it comes to keeping their customers informed about data management.

Sure, some will be angry when he eventually folds this time, but the reaction will be much less than in the past.

He said that the Internet had allowed the company to «reinvent television,» by giving viewers the freedom to watch what they wanted, when they wanted it, and by allowing content producers to reach a global audience more easily than in the past.

CBC Canada is reporting that millions of the sea creatures have been spotted off the coast of British Columbia this year, far more than was seen in the past two years when they first appeared.

But despite Trump's penchant for comparing himself favorably to past presidents — he claimed he accomplished more in his first year than any president except Franklin D. Roosevelt and told supporters he could be «more presidential than any president» except Abraham Lincoln — Trump isn't at the top of the pile when it comes to the biggest first - year market gains.

When I look at the industry today, I think there's more competition for discretionary dollars than there has been in the past.

«We have already seen he speaks in a more direct style than past heads and is willing to give his opinion when they tended to equivocate,» writes Donald Ellenberger, senior portfolio manager at Federated Investors, in a blog post.

The shares are down more than 30 % in the past year (although the stock is still higher than the $ 13 it was trading for when Mayer was hired in 2012).

According to Morningstar, over the past 30 years, the Vanguard Total Bond fund has experienced six years when the principal loss in the portfolio was more than 2 percent.

When we do purchase luxury goods, we go about it very differently than consumers in past generations did.

Benjamin Graham was fond of averaging profit per share for the past seven years to balance out highs and lows in the economy because, if you attempted to measure the p / e ratio without it, you'd get a situation where profits collapse a lot faster than stock prices making the price - to - earnings ratio look obscenely high when, in fact, it was low.

The stock value lost by GE in the past 12 months is twice the amount that vanished when Enron Corp. collapsed in 2001 — and more than the combined market capitalization erased by the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and General Motors during the financial crisis.

He's said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Facebook said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.

We need look no further than the relatively recent phenomena of Cyber Monday as analysts expected sales this past Monday to top $ 6 billion — a far cry from the ~ $ 500 million in online sales when the term originated in 2005.

Overall, cash returned to shareholders is much lower today — even with the recent surge instigated by activist campaigns — than in decades past when the economy enjoyed much more robust growth.

That view gained momentum in late February when the benchmark yield climbed past 2.9 % — more than twice its historic lows in July 2016 — following a Congressional question - and - answer session with the new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

last January, CEO Reed Hastings didn't do much to assuage those fears when he said, «Our high penetration in the U.S. seems to be making net additions harder than in the past.»

However, the volume growth was less than half of what the Brewers Association saw in years past when craft beer volume increased by 17.6 % and dollars sales surged by 20 % between 2012 and 2013, according to IRI data.

Unlike in the past, when you could exchange your dollars or any other currency for physical gold, fiat currency is not backed up by anything else than a number printed on a piece of paper.

Our actual expectation is that the completion of the current market cycle is likely to wipe out the entire total return of the S&P 500 — in excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to roughly October 1997; an outcome that would require a market retreat no larger than it experienced in the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In Historyin excess of Treasury bill returns — all the way back to roughly October 1997; an outcome that would require a market retreat no larger than it experienced in the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In Historyin the past two cycles, and that would not even carry historically reliable valuation measures to materially undervalued levels (see When You Look Back On This Moment In HistoryIn History).

When investors begin to focus on the potential for Fed rate hikes, short - term bonds will almost certainly begin to experience lower returns and — depending on the type of fund — greater volatility than they have in years past.

The recent decline in the dollar is coming off those lofty levels; the U.S. Dollar Index is still trading more than 10 % above where it was when the post-QE3 run began in 2014, and more than 25 % above the low of the past decade (set in 2008).

«More than 10 million borrowers have had their servicer change in the past five years... When servicers change, payments may be lost, consumers may incur surprise late fees, and processing problems and missing account records can knock borrowers off track on repaying their loans.»

Taking on more equity risk when the expected future returns are lower than in the past and downside risks higher makes little sense to me.

When you add in refined products and other petroleum liquids, Canadian exports soared past 4.1 million barrels a day, a total that is higher than the next seven U.S. suppliers combined, and nearly four times more than Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s second largest source of foreign oil.

When we talk about the Bank of Canada offsetting rather than accommodating changes in fiscal policy, it is important to understand that we are talking about changing the nominal interest rate relative to what it would have been otherwise without the fiscal policy change, and not relative to what the nominal rate was in the past.

As an aside, one might ask why I have such confidence in our long - term prospects when the Oakmark Fund has gained less than the S&P 500 in the past year.

We've talked about trading the news in the past, but when you recognize that volatility is a larger factor than normal, you need to pay even closer attention to your news feeds than you typically do.

 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).

Two of the most vaunted physics results of the past few years — the announced discovery of both cosmic inflation and gravitational waves at the BICEP2 experiment in Antarctica, and the supposed discovery of superluminal neutrinos at the Swiss - Italian border — have now been retracted, with far less fanfare than when they were first published.

But when David Halberstam (who, with Neil Sheehan, did more than anyone else to create the canonical narrative of Vietnam) died tragically this past year in an auto accident, not a single obituary notice I read suggested he had been terribly wrong about Tet or that his wrongheadedness had helped create a political situation that had had lethal consequences for millions.

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

The TNR indictment is also correct in noting that Eliade was very much less than candid in his autobiographies when he discussed, marginally, the political aspects of his past.

She loved it she said that you explained things further and that she could understand so much better than when she listens to her pastor or pastors in the past.

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

Hebrews 1:1 KJV God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, 2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; 4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Nostalgia for the rural past of Anglo - Americans, when «community» was more of a reality than in the modern suburbs, has even invaded the mass media of late.

But there is one recurrent story from which, if I am honest, I have repeatedly averted my gaze when considering what to write about in these columns: the seemingly never - ending story of the world - wide pandemic of paedophile scandals among the Catholic clergy, and the apparently universal practice of episcopal cover - up, involving as it did (I use the past tense hopefully) a - to put it mildly - less than adequate concern with the sufferings of the victims.

Though he and I have had some significant wars of words in the past, when I have had a real beef with him it has had much more to do with style than substance.