Sentences with phrase «times small levels»

Here you can revisit stages to acquire more cash and tackle roving NPCs, which sometimes take the form of boss fights and other times small levels.

Not exact matches

While spending time with family, I'd stare into a small screen on my lap instead of engaging at a level I would have a mere few years back.

Some top - level executives understand this, enforcing various strategies in an attempt to ensure meetings remain a constructive use of employees» time and resources: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, reportedly maintains focus by sticking to a strict, bullet - pointed schedule, while Amazon's Jeff Bezos employs a «two - pizza rule,» which keeps meetings small enough so that two pizzas can feed the entire group.

Physicists and Astronomers, numbering just 2,200 in Canada, are the smallest niche on this list, but their field is about all of time and space, from the stars to the atomic level.

As the economic climate continues to fluctuate and interest rates hover at record low levels, it may be a good time for small business owners to consider refinancing.

How to Make Your Small Business Seem Bigger: Start With the Basics So you run a small business, maybe even a business of one, and you feel like it's time to take it to the next lSmall Business Seem Bigger: Start With the Basics So you run a small business, maybe even a business of one, and you feel like it's time to take it to the next lsmall business, maybe even a business of one, and you feel like it's time to take it to the next level.

If the severity of the downturns is reduced and the economy operates with a smaller output gap, then the level of income over time is, on average, higher.

The value of setting time aside to think strategically about your business every week can help you take your small business to the next level.

These bobbles do not rise to the level of statistical significance, of course, but over time small upward shifts can build into something meaningful.

At a higher, almost philosophical level, the government wants to disrupt the long - standing mechanics that enable a small business to both get through challenging times without resorting to layoffs or bankruptcy, and then reap their rewards during those precious, and often short, «good years.»

Critics of the Labor Department's rule have argued that requiring advisors to serve as fiduciaries to the small and midsize plan market will negatively affect access to 401 (k) plans at a time when policymakers at the federal and state level are crafting and passing legislation intended to broaden access to retirement savings for employees of small employers.

Many times, as a broker, one may encounter loan requests that are too small for a national lender and would be best handled on a local level where the bank can capture a deposit relationship along with the loan request.

The level of intermediaries» interest rates for households and small businesses remains historically low — in particular, notwithstanding the fact that the cash rate exceeds by 1.5 percentage points its level at the previous cyclical trough in 1993/94, rates paid by borrowers, especially for housing, typically remain below their level at that time.

When I bought my home a decade ago, my high credit and low debt levels meant that I still qualified for the best available interest rate at the time, even though I got an FHA loan with a small down payment.

Data for the last 60 years demonstrates that adding small stocks, foreign stocks, real estate and emerging - market stocks to a portfolio generally reduces the level of volatility or risk, and at the same time increases the portfolio's return.

As Keith Schaefer tells The Energy Report, that means it's time to be nimble, and to keep small positions until oil finds a stable new price level.

Despite a small decline in May, consumer confidence for the first five months of 2015 has been at a higher average level than at any time since May 2004.2 A relatively low unemployment rate and moderate inflation have helped maintain consumers» upbeat mood.

Fortunately, in recent times this level has risen slightly, but the gains are small.

Trim the stalk down so it is level with the rest of the mushroom, stick a small knife through the cap of each mushroom 3 - 4 times, don't go mad just prick through to let the juices run out when they are baking and place gill side up in a baking tray (no need to oil or line).

Scoop out pumpkin cheesecake, packing cheesecake in ice cream scoop each time and leveling it off, then releasing it, flat side down, onto 2 small, wax paper - lined rimmed baking sheets.

Pour contents into a 8 x 12 ″, or similarly sized, pan / Carefully place in a secure, level spot in the freezer / Freeze for 1 — 2 hours / Remove from freezer and scrape, smash and stir mixture with a fork, breaking into small icey bits / Return to the freezer and repeat this process three more times, every 30 minutes / Granita should be done at this point, coarse bits of ice, about like a snow cone / Place granita in container, cover and freeze until ready to use.

Greater consumer demand and a heightened focus of customization at the patient level will force smaller batches and shorter lead times for packagers.

I'll say it again, no dispute Aguero's a much better player and he performed at that level over a larger amount of time and stats only tell a small portion of the story.

And now Marcus, armed with an MBA and no small measure of insight into the world of big - time college and professional sports, is prepared to help his brother make it to the next level and beyond.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

ISAIAH HODGINS Berean Christian - Walnut Creek — Football — Senior Small school or not, Hodgins proved he had next - level pedigree time and again for the Eagles.

If the entire team is not available at the same time, we can customize a small group of 4 - 6 athletes WHO: Athletes of all levels, ages 8 to 18 WHEN: Call for Details and Availability

Small framed runners r hard as hell to c behind our massive line and by the time they've found him, he's at the second level..

Am never one to excuse our continuous failings and Wenger's general ineptitude but all this talk of Afobe been another one we missed out on is a bit preposterous and very very premature... yes he's scored a few goals for Bournemouth but can we all take a step bck and recognise that playing for a team who will be happy just to avoid relegation is very different from playing for a club which demands trophies and high achievements every season (yea, I know we have been found wanting on these fronts for a long time)... some players are better in small clubs with limited expectations and very neat to no pressure... that is why history is littered with stories of good players who went to big clubs and flopped only to go down a few levels and find their form again....

A # 34 million loss for the last recorded accounting period (2012 - 3), including staff costs of # 26.1 million is far from small beer and if the television deal Leicester will enjoy from August makes those amounts look piddling at face value, the wages and transfer fees required to compete at the top level will almost certainly be sufficient to keep the club in the red for some time to come.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

By breaking tasks down into small steps, you can help your child to master each level of difficulty, one at a time.

A small study found that twice as many women (28 %) who were vitamin D deficient at the time of giving birth had a Caesarean delivery compared with those with normal levels (14 %).

Though there are ways to do so safely like drinking the beverage while you are nursing so the alcohol levels are sure to drop (so long as you only have a small dose,) by the time you are ready for the next feeding, and if you really want to be safe you can check out Milkscreen, a product designed to test the alcohol content of breastmilk.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

Previous analyses have, moreover, suggested that, especially given the increased competition on the Left from Sinn Fein, other smaller left of centre parties and left - leaning independents, that it will be a struggle for Labour to win seats in most, if not all, constituencies if the party's national support levels fall below the ten percent level, as has been shown in similar analyses of recent Sunday Independent - Millward Brown and Irish Times - Ipsos MRBI polls.

Julie Girling: I have the experience to do the job properly from senior management jobs in Argos, Dixons and Boots, time in the Far East, running a small company and winning elections at District and County level.

It's really time to GROW UP, but we're never apparently going to see this when it comes to politics at ANY level anymore over ANY issue no matter how big or small.

With Fair Elections reform, elected officials who spend time raising small - dollar contributions from their constituents will receive matching funds so that the playing field is leveled.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

At sea level on Earth, sunlight's «radiation pressure» is about 50 million times smaller than atmospheric pressure.

An analysis of 41,302 blood samples taken from the entire study at different time points found that a child who had an intermediate antibody level and became infected again had a 7.64 times higher risk of being in the small group that developed DHS / DSS, researchers report today in Science.

This generates a current, which is monitored by a small device attached to the tattoo to give real - time information on lactate levels.

They also tracked Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4), a well - known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and frequently cause the haze over urban areas.

Given a one - second snippet of the movement of a small, round target across a plane that stretched away from the viewer at roughly eye level, study participants correctly moved a virtual paddle to intercept the target's course less than a quarter of the time.

Results showed that tumor cells containing the protein carried anywhere from 10 to 17 times fewer breast stem cells, and tumors grown from the injected cells were about three times smaller than those in mice who had received tumor cells with depleted levels of HOXA5.

For the first time, physicists have measured changes in an atom to the level of zeptoseconds, or trillionths of a billionth of a second — the smallest division of time yet observed.

To probe further, researchers made small coin cell batteries, charged them with different levels of current for various periods of time, quickly took them apart and rinsed the components to stop the charge / discharge process.

Describing billions of atomic level interactions in such small time scales, while also needing to reference the atomic database, is currently too computationally expensive.

Researchers used a new, more exact tool to measure the levels of particulate matter in smaller slices of time, based on pollution at the family's address during pregnancy.