Sentences with phrase «than the level before»

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Startups working in nanotechnology manipulate materials at the molecular level to create products that are lighter, durable, cheaper or more functional than ever before.

I think the category where the legacy companies have created a lot of fear, confusion, and distrust among their customer base is where technology can create a level of access greater than ever before.

Jean - Claude Trichet said: «We are now at a level which is higher than immediately before the financial crisis.»

In today's cloud - based, mobile - focused, inherently social world, customers demand a higher level of responsiveness than ever before: they expect businesses to provide what they want, when and how they want it.

The benchmark index for equity volatility rose to more than twice its level the day before, crushing bettors who'd gotten used to years of very low volatility.

The United States now has more breweries than ever before, reaching a record level of 4,144 in 2015 and finally exceeding a historic high that was set back in 1873.

In the week after receiving a refund, the overall level of health care spending was 60 percent higher than in a typical week over the 100 days before.

Now, more than ever before, access to top - level education is available to anyone with a wifi connection and a desire.

Policy makers now say it will take until the middle of 2018 before Canada's economy is generating output at a level that would put upward pressure on inflation, «materially later» than was previously expected.

Customer loyalty is more important today than ever before, given the sheer volume of options and level of noise surrounding consumers.

We have some managers earning more than they did before, and we've saved about $ 20,000 a year on salaries because people choose the level at which they want to work.

Canaccord Genuity strategist Tony Dwyer, who called for a rough patch before the downturn began, says, «The two - month intermediate - term correction has been driven by correcting a historical level of optimism rather than a significant change in our positive fundamental thesis.»

Use more computer cores than ever before to teach an artificial intelligence program to reach the level of «deep learning»?

Its holdings are nearing $ 4 trillion, more than four times their level before the financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008.

She believes the current high unemployment levels are an effect of the recession, rather than of structural shifts in the economy, and that the Fed must fight joblessness before dislocated workers become permanently detached from the labour force.

It would be more than a year before Facebook's stock price would see that level again: Just two weeks after its IPO, Facebook shares had fallen even below the low end of its first proposed range.

Long before the Hogan trial took center stage, Gawker Media invested millions (Denton won't say how much exactly) in building a commenting and reader - blogging system it called Kinja, which Denton described as nothing less than an attempt to turn the publishing world on its head — to put readers on the same level with journalists and publishers.

«There are now more women on FTSE boards than ever before but we need to go further, particularly when it comes to paving the way to the executive level.

I don't regret the years I spent in corporate America environment, but business ownership is so much more rewarding.I work even harder than I did before but the level of satisfaction is so much higher.

Over all, China has been increasingly active in the American start - up world, participating in investment rounds worth $ 9.9 billion in 2015, according to data from the research firm CB Insights, more than four times the level the year before.

However, the slower - than - expected economic growth in 2013 and the accompanying lower level of nominal income in 2013 - 14 results in a «status quo» (before budget actions) deficit of $ 18.7 billion Subsequently, the status quo budgetary balance is actually lower that forecast in the November 2012 November Update.

Notice, this was only a 1R profit with the reason being, there was a key resistance level coming into play before 2R would have been hit, so logic would dictate we exit ahead of the key level rather than hoping and praying price breaks through it.

The BIST 100, Turkey's equity benchmark, fell more than 4.7 % in the opening minutes of dealing to trade at the lowest levels since early July before paring the decline to around 3.5 % by mid-day.

In addition, economic activity will be constrained by lower levels of government spending than before and a weak banking system.

But because corporate revenues grew by a robust 13 percent last year — even faster than the year before — R&D intensity, or the percentage of sales that companies spend on innovation, actually declined to traditional pre-recession levels.

Meanwhile, bid - ask spreads in major corporate bond markets have narrowed sharply in recent years, but remain somewhat wider than the levels observed immediately before the global financial crisis (Graph 2, right - hand panel).

They'll need less education than someone at an introductory level, who may need to loop in other decision makers before making purchasing decisions.

Credit card marketing expanded and credit standards were relaxed, although the level of marketing has still not returned to pre-recession levels and credit standards are tighter than they were before the recession began.

The coin remains below the short - term declining trendline and the $ 50 level, and while the long - term picture is less constructive than the other majors after the recent break - out, another leg higher towards the range projection target at near the $ 58 - $ 60 range is still likely before a significant consolidation period.

However, they remain close to the low level prevailing before the Asian crisis, reflecting the generally benign environment for most emerging markets as well as investor appetite for higher yields than currently prevail in industrial countries.

Rather than funding an entire project upfront and risk losing the entire investment if the company's strategic plan and actual results do not parallel each other, the VC has the «safety net» of incremental funding, which offers a level of assurance that precise objectives will be met before the VC takes more financial risk.

Credit markets required more than three years to regain spread levels observed before Paulson's October 2007 announcement.

This was still higher than the average level before the recent turbulence, reflecting the desire of some financial institutions to operate with a higher level of cash balances than previously.

After all, the debt - to - income ratio of Canadians is at a record high, close to the levels experienced in the United States before its market crashed, and home ownership is at nearly 70 $, also a record and five points more than its neighbours to the south.

Accordingly, to keep growth at a non-inflationary level, you can have lower interest rates, all things being equal, than you could before the crisis.

As we have argued before, structural factors may mean prices take longer to respond to the current higher levels of activity than would normally be expected at this point in the economic cycle.

For instance, this last April, the U.S. saw higher levels of income tax revenue than ever before, and auto sales and hotel revenues have been accelerating recently.

One can look at the Investors Intelligence bullish sentiment figure, which has eased back to 43 % from over 50 % in early April, but ignore that bearish sentiment is down to 20.4 %, less than half of the bullish sentiment figure, and the lowest level since just before the 2011 market rout.

As everyone debates whether the US stock market is in another secular bull — near an all time high valuation level — there is one developing in Japan right before our eyes at more than reasonable valuations that almost no one believes is possible.

But interestingly, the Valuentum Dividend Cushion ™ ratio indicated that Marriott should have never cut its dividend, and sure enough, two years after the firm did so, it raised it to levels that were higher than before the cut.

Americans are embracing philanthropy at a higher level than ever before.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

It also allows more continuity and carry - over at the level of observations and laws before and after a revolution, and hence a more cumulative history, than Kuhn and Feyerabend recognize.

I just want to anticipate the result by telling this woman that such a condition — which is anything but pleasant — is always only a state of testing / preparation / changing before God is going to reveal Himself on a higher level than before.

We are experiencing love in our diversity at a deeper level than we've ever loved before.

An infidelity in marriage can lead to a deeper level of maturity in the relationship than perhaps was possible before.

Yet at certain other points he did definitely lift the position of women to a considerably higher level than that current in Arabia before his own time.

This is one of the fundamental reasons why the coming epoch is fraught with unprecedented possibilities for lifting man to higher levels of enjoyment than the race has ever known before.

Laity are now better represented at every level of corporate decision - making than ever before.

By the end of the first trimester, estradiol levels are elevated twenty-fold over the level present at conception; seven-fold higher than the peak level present just before ovulation, which is as high as it ever gets in the nonpregnant state.