Sentences with phrase «thousands less on»

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Even with the invasion looking less likely, Nazi Germany continued to launch attacks on England — some of which would claim thousands of lives in and around London in a night — carrying out the Blitz from late 1940 to mid-1941, when Hitler redeployed his air forces to participate in the invasion of Russia.

«Due to the fear of collecting thousands of signatures needed to sign off on the types of strategic decisions common among pre-IPO companies, higher - quality issuers — particularly those with other financing options — are less likely to crowdfund without a single - purpose vehicle,» Tommarello says.

And I was completely happy with my Windows laptop (believe it or not, I'm a big Windows 10 fan) until the hardware broke, less than two years after I spent a thousand bucks on it.

Torrone thinks you could spend thousands of dollars on parts and build a device less powerful than Kinect, and suggests that Microsoft almost certainly subsidizes the $ 149 cost of the unit, hoping to profit via game sales.

«It's almost a mathematical impossibility to imagine that, out of the thousands of things for sale on a given day, the most attractively priced is the one being sold by a knowledgeable seller (company insiders) to a less - knowledgeable buyer (investors).»

As a matter of fact, you can start a cleaning services business with as low as five thousand dollars or even less depending on how small you want the business to be.

The YC documents are probably fine in situations where the investor (i) wishes to purchase equity rather than convertible debt, (ii) is otherwise somewhat indifferent on terms other than percentage ownership of the company, liquidation preference and right of first offer in future financings, (iii) is investing at a fairly low valuation (i.e. a couple of million dollars), and (iv) is only investing a small amount (i.e. a couple hundred thousand dollars or less).

Some brands also opt - in for smaller followings of a few thousand or less with a little bit higher engagement on their page.

I'm not sure how reflecting on the tragedy of thousands dying to capture a height of land would be inconsistent with acknowledging their military prowess in doing so, much less insulting to veterans.

In less than two weeks, thousands are expected to amass in Washington, DC, for a March for Our Lives protest on March 24.

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

It seems to me they have much bigger fish to fry like: The Taliban treating women as less than human, stoning people to death, 60 year old men marrying teenage girls, cutting off an 18 year old girl's nose because she left her abusive husband (see TIME magazine a month ago), destroying over 125 schools because girls attend, suicidal Islamic fanatical cowards on every continent killing thousands of INNOCENT people, and these clowns are worried about their precious Koran being burned by a nutjob.

On June 9, an international group of scholars produced a petition, which was subsequently translated by volunteers into twelve languages and in less than two days received the support of more than one thousand Orthodox scholars from all over the world.

Already there are many thousands of present - day parents who were brought up with no religious faith and few standards, and they have had almost nothing, and sometimes less than nothing of spiritual value, to pass on to their children.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Also let's not forget the blood of thousands of guillotined bodies (all beheaded in one year, no less) on which the so - called «Enlightenment» piggy - backed in on.

Moody Bible Institute, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and scores of lesser - known schools trained thousands of leaders for work in local churches and on the mission field, organized conferences and revivals, sponsored radio broadcasts, published literature and served as surrogate denominations.

I've witnessed literally to thousands of college students in one - on - one discussions and when it comes down to it, most of them could care less about the excellent historical, scientific, and textual evidence we have for our faith.

Or ask the lost boy cornered on one of those thousand name - less city streets, the El rumbling and the faces gleaming round him as they taunt him with matches and he's screaming.

As Poles involved in the rising died by the thousands every day, the massive Soviet army sat passively by on the far side of the Vistula, Churchill and the British anguished over their broken promises, and Roosevelt could hardly have cared less.

Less matchday sales of food, drinks, merchandise etc. will for sure show on the bottom line, if people stay away in thousands.

Bet on thousands of markets on every major sport and loads of lesser known sports too.

TBH if we take over 5k fans and get anything less than 1500 tickets id far rather by in the town centre all day drinking and singing and having fun with the thousands of other Clarets and locals and just watch it on a screen Understand to some people its all about watching the game and the result b...

A woman who spends thousands on lactation consultants, pumps, antibiotics, galactogogues, etc. and still has to spend 45 minutes to an hour with the baby at the breast and then pumping afterwards (with added time for storing or feeding the pumped breastmilk, and cleaning the pump) would likely not consider breastfeeding to be easier, quicker or less expensive than exclusively formula feeding.

It is not easy to choose one among thousands of them on the market, but remember that your motherhood will be less challenging with a great supporter.

She ended the session with a much less irritating attack on changes to the electoral register which will almost certainly see thousands of disadvantaged and ethnic minority voters fall off the list.

The protesting organizations dispute those accomplishments, arguing that the Governor dragged his heels on spending for supportive housing to help the previously homeless with additional social service, and moreover the money will only create six thousand units, less than a third of the total need.

«They've cut hundreds of thousands of job and training places for the unemployed so what they're doing is pushing people onto the dole and that means there's going to be more people on benefits, not less, as a result of their proposals.»

«While Sen. Gillibrand finds the actions of certain ACORN employees to be reprehensible and will ask ACORN leaders for a full investigation and plan to prevent any further abuse, the truth remains that thousands of New York families who are facing foreclosure depend on charitable organizations like ACORN for assistance,» said Bethany Lesser, a spokesman for Gillibrand.

Tedisco tried to make the race a referendum on Obama, but with Election Day only two months into the president's term, the Democrat, Scott Murphy, drafted on Democrats» big 2008 win, and eventually won by less than a thousand votes.

Grisanti continued to run on the Independence Party line but ultimately lost that race to Democrat Marc Panepinto by less than 4 thousand votes.

A Fellow of both the Academy and IET, Professor Roger Kemp of Lancaster University, said: «The side of electric vehicle development most often in the public eye is the launch of new hi - tech vehicles at motor shows, but ensuring a hassle - free adoption of thousands and eventually millions of plug - in cars will require concerted effort on much less spectacular developments.

«We can talk about building hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units, but if we're losing the same housing units on the other side, then we have a zero - sum game,» said Mr. Stringer, recalling a report by his office that discovered the loss of 400,000 units renting for $ 1,000 or less over the past 12 years.

The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.

WHEREAS, it is our understanding that many State Legislators had less than an hour to read the legislation, which contained approximately twenty - five thousand words, before being forced to vote on it; and

«I suppose it's somehow less hurtful to accuse hundreds of thousands of people of sexism than it is to pick on a specific person,» he writes, pointing out that Miller lacks a «coherent argument,» her case resting on a questionable analogy to the 2008 Obama / Clinton race, which Miller asserts Obama won purely because of sexist attacks on Hillary.

The override vote came less than two weeks after U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin's order for a monitor to focus on stop - and - frisk, a practice she said the department had used in a way that violated the rights of hundreds of thousands of black and Hispanic men.

In this case, it's probably even less useful since if Clarke does have an positive electoral effect, it will be a vague contribution towards making the Conservative party image more experienced and less posh, rather than thousands of Clarke groupies immediately scampering off to vote Tory on the grounds of his frontbench presence.

Less appealing: Ministers have outlined a tough new crackdown on migrants claiming benefits in a bid to get annual net migration down to the tens of thousands

On islands that are less than a thousand feet long and where fresh water turns brackish less than a dozen feet deep, overwash can have a crippling effect.

But for the thousands of postdocs employed on NIH PI grants, prospects under the CR looked much less certain as NIH announced plans to fund grant renewals below their original amounts, «generally up to 80 % of the previously committed level,» according the NIH Web site — a move that would put intense pressure on principal investigators to economize.

Results of a national FCEV demonstration found that, although less than the range on a tank of gasoline, the range on a tank of hydrogen has consistently increased, and now thousands of cars are being prepared to hit the market.

Research centers can also lose their way; sometimes, local issues seem pressing compared with a less - clear challenge of staying on track with the vision set by someone who is thousands of miles away.

Internal relocation is also the plan in the Maldives, where the new government has proposed moving thousands of people away from its less - developed islands and consolidating the population on more densely populated islands.

Those studies, which used less precise genetic tests, showed differences between females at beaches thousands of miles apart but provided no data on males.

That meant IVs, chest tubes, centrallines — all difficult procedures on the ground, much less at a thousand feet and140 mph.

«The climate transitions that we studied took place on millenial time scales, less than a thousand years, with some occurring over just decades to centuries,» Gibson says.

Researchers taking measurements in an urban environment using standard electric power might be expected to get hundreds or even thousands of data measurements; at high altitude on a volcano, says Mather, tens or less may be considered reasonable.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

In the study, published on October 14 in PLOS ONE, Rutgers researchers found that the density of Bornean orangutans is almost two times greater in an Indonesian peat - swamp forest — just 39 miles from similar surroundings where orangutans must survive on thousands of calories less each day for most of the year.