Sentences with phrase «than the target of»

The Fed sees annual price increases of 1.8 % next year, slower than its target of 2 %.

A media commentator told the Tribune that this odd placement probably showed the NRA's desire for broad reach, rather than the targeting of any specific audience.

These figures implying lower growth are consistent with the announcement by Premier Li in the 2016 Government Work Report setting the growth target for 2016 at 6.5 - 7.0 % — a lower growth rate than the target of «around 7 %» set for 2015.

These people would also be opposed to infanticide, euthanasia and mercy killing, especially when someone other than the target of the «mercy» is making the decision.

That target is consistent with leading congressional goals but is less than a target of 20 percent renewable generation by 2030, which the Energy Department has said is achievable.

The measured uncertainty in location capability was 16 meters, much higher than the target of 3 meters, but this metric can be improved through future noise suppression techniques, increased sensor bandwidth, and improved digital algorithms that can accurately extract distance measurements, Howe explained.

Lower School students shattered our Book Fair goal by selling a total of 267 books — which is 17 more than our target of 250 — last week!

That's less than the target of 60 % to 70 % (or more) that the financial industry traditionally uses, which MoneySense has often criticized as too high for most couples.

Sui treats this subject as a medium rather than a target of criticism, releasing the excitement and inhibition it represents in order to satirically express the conflict between escape and repression.

The new administration's move away from coal is more likely to succeed than its targeting of nuclear power.

While the standards represent a quicker pace of improvement than the target of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 set in EISA 2007, auto manufacturers supported the move, saying that it provides the level of certainty and uniformity the industry needs.

' [M] ade no attempt to establish that the conduct was so offensive to him as a third party as to render the workplace hostile not only for him but for any reasonable employee who likewise was a bystander rather than a target of the harassment.»»

Gamma came in at 2.1, only a touch lighter than the target of 2.2.

Lastly, Apple revealed that it made $ 215.6 billion in sales for the year, 3.7 percent lower than its target of $ 223.6 billion.

That's much lighter than the target of 2.2, and it creates a washed out look in dark content.

Not exact matches

Lockheed delivered 66 of the high - tech, stealthy fighters last year to the U.S. and allies, 40 percent more than in 2016, hitting its target.

He says the development of new early - stage diagnostic tools — more so than the development of new, targeted medicines — is what's really needed to accelerate progress.

Also unlike a billboard, viewers of online ads may be a narrow target audience, rather than anyone driving by; Facebook's sophisticated tools for advertisers offer a slew of ways to segment audiences.

«There's a deeper and more luminous group of properties targeted at Millennial females than there is for Millennial males,» says Forman.

Hackers pummeled the code - sharing site's servers with 1.35 terabytes per second of bogus Internet traffic — 15 % stronger than the next biggest DDoS attack, which targeted Dyn, an Internet infrastructure company (now owned by Oracle), in late 2016.

is also in the process of a gradual and targeted launch of its own reduced - calorie, stevia - sweetened Coca - Cola Life, a cola that has 35 percent fewer calories than its flagship Coke.

Rival Coca - Cola is also in the process of a gradual and targeted launch of its own reduced - calorie, stevia - sweetened Coca - Cola Life, a cola that has 35 percent fewer calories than its flagship Coke.

Target's marketing began echoing Wal - Mart's dogma of frugal prices rather than fun and flair.

Secondly, the site is focusing on traditional, web 1.0 display ads, with less than 15 percent of its ads utilizing social data to reach a more targeted audience.

A serial entrepreneur — she owns four restaurants and has founded two companies in addition to Thinx — Agrawal says that the danger of male investors asking the women in their lives for advice is that, more often than not, those women are not their target customers.

From January 20 to February 1, in fact, the Sanders campaign reached more than 750,000 people on the two platforms in Iowa, with a six - figure investment, 85 percent of which targeted the millenniial bracket, according to Facebook.

He or she represents your target audience, but is much more real than a vague description of some demographics.

The early target for 5G is latency of less than one millisecond — or 10 times better than current LTE.

Shell does a better job of describing what will be needed to achieve holding temperature rise to no more than two degrees Celsius, including setting itself ambitious carbon reduction targets.

The parliamentary press corps» coverage of monetary policy is the weakest it's been since the inflation target debuted more than 20 years ago.

«Its theory seems to be: Let's get lots of people to push for all sorts of things and the world will get better, it's kind of a shot gun approach rather than a targeted one.

But with an airdrop, he added «almost 100 % of the source term -LSB-...] ends up on the land» — so a salted weapon blown up over a target would «be many, many orders of magnitude worse than the fallout produced by an underwater detonation» several miles from shore.

The number of distributed denial - of - service (DDoS) attacks — which are designed to paralyze a target network with a deluge of messages, often sent from a bevy of hijacked computers — leaped more than 170 % last year, and Cisco projects it will jump again by a factor of two or more by 2021.

John Morioka, Target's head of merchandising, became emotional during meetings on more than one occasion.

The retailer devotes so much of its space to toys — rather than the few aisles at Walmart and Target Corp. — it can take chances on new items and smaller suppliers.

Rather than go stale, A&W has in recent years targeted millennial consumers instead of its traditional Baby Boomer crowd, undertaken an ambitious urban expansion and noisily advertised its efforts to improve food quality.

That's nearly 20 times the speed of sound, and it allows Minuteman IIIs to strike a target within about 30 minutes from more than 6,000 miles away, accurate to within hundreds of feet.

Target was going to do it in less than two years — and it planned to construct three of them.

Less than a day after U.S., British and French forces targeted suspected chemical weapons sites in retaliation to an attack that left dozens of civilians dead last week, Trump thanked the U.S. coalition partners.

Battlefront II fell dramatically short of its sales targets, selling less than half of the 1.72 million units it was expected to in its first month.

With its new features, Medium's main target appears to be blog - hosting or content - management providers like WordPress, whose open - source software powers more than 20 % of the web, including sites like Fortune and TechCrunch (Fortune is partnering with Medium for a trial project, as is Money magazine, both of which are owned by Time Inc.).

Gordon is curious about an untested policy called «price - level targeting,» which would refocus monetary policy on achieving an absolute increase in prices over time, rather than the current emphasis on the rate of change.

Big pharma is a popular target for righteous anger from many quarters, but Governor Brown's defense of the law rests on reducing income inequality rather than sticking it to the man for its own sake.

Keith Parker, a strategist at UBS who has a 3,300 target on the S&P 500 for 2018, said only 35 - to - 45 percent of the tax plan is priced into the market, noting the index's recent gains have been mostly a product of better - than - expected economic data and strong earnings.

The Globe and Mail recently speculated that the mandate will remain largely the same, but that it may be amended «to include a forceful assertion of what he [Carney] calls «flexible inflation targeting,»» or his right to respond to economic shocks or dangerous buildups of credit by taking longer than usual to bring inflation to the central bank's 2 % target.»

Analysts have long speculated that Express Scripts could be involved in some sort of merger deal, but more likely as an acquisition target rather than as an acquirer.

If successful with its application, Apple will be able to market the Watch as an FDA - approved device and target the more than 25 % of Americans over 40 with irregular heartbeats.

Around 90 % of all viruses that target mobile phones focus on Android, and that is an opportunity — especially given that the stakes for malfunctioning software are higher in cars than on smartphones.

In many ways, this sort of growth trajectory can unfold more predictably, and possibly more quickly, than a more conventional foray into international markets that involve the familiar cycle of trade shows, cold - calling, and targeted marketing efforts in untested areas.

The Bank of England (BOE) said Thursday that U.K. inflation should now overshoot its 2 percent target as early as late 2017 and would also be lower than previously expected.