Sentences with phrase «was a drop of»

That's a drop of 18 %.

If banks are extending credit limits that are too high so that a poor guy gets a 90 or 95 per cent mortgage, then all of a sudden there is a drop of 20 per cent in the market and he has to renew his mortgage, he is done like dinner.

The biggest change to the top 5 was the drop of Somalia from No. 2 to No. 7, and the rise of Eritrea from No. 9 to No. 3 (89 points).

According to Gallup: «Four in ten Americans are still straight - out creationists; those numbers have been pretty constant since 1982 though there's a drop of four points since the last survey.

An especially contentious point was the dropping of classroom prayer to accommodate the secular university setting.

Whitehead's alternative to substance is what he calls «an actual entity» which is a drop of experience (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.

The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience, complex and interdependent.»

The final facts are, all alike, actual entities; and these actual entities are drops of experience.

There doesn't seem to be a drop of vanilla flavoring in the recipe.

That was a drop of 13.4 % from»07 and their fifth straight year of decline.

Ozil can be dropped of course but it's difficult dropping him simply because he can produce that killer pass from no where.

Occasionally the top teams would get caught out if there were some drops of rain, though, and we'd get a properly jumbled order - always a good thing!

My not renewing might be a drop of water in the ocean, but I'll stand for what I believe in.

I have been dropping of all his newborn to 6 months stuff off at church.

VBAC also requires a MD consult, so we have records of these patients and have discussed their medical risks in advanced, not a stranger being dropped of at our door.

Underfunding of the program means that nutrition directors panic every time there is a drop of any kind in participation.

That's a drop of 20 percentage points since the Marist Poll last asked this question at the end of January.

He told Gotham Gazette that he is dropping all of his lobbying commitments to focus on recruiting and promoting Democratic Senate candidates for 2016, despite disappointments he has had with Democrats in both the Assembly and Senate.

«Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham)(Con): Government figures last year revealed that there was a drop of 13 per cent.

The rocket, called an electrospray thruster, is a drop of molten salt.

Not exact matches

In light of the stock market's recent decline, investors seem increasingly to be giving the tech sector the cold shoulder, with stunning drops in value of once high - flying stocks, among them the micro-blogging site Twitter, whose stock is down more than 50 percent compared to September of 2014.

So if a person plus their luggage is less than that, taking into account food consumption and life - support, then we think that the cost of moving to Mars could drop below $ 100,000.

When T.J. Maxx and Marshalls parent TJX (tax) reported the chains» first quarterly comparable sales drop in memory in November, many observers wondered whether the off - price juggernaut was running its course after years of aggressive store expansion.

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

When I see other people walk by trash or drop cigarettes in the middle of the street, I can't help but think that they're marginalizing their agency and the impact they can make in their community by just implementing one mundane action.

«Investors are hungry for this kind of stuff, and there's just a drop in the bucket of the supply for that demand,» he said.

A lot of them dropped what they were doing at great personal sacrifice.

Commencement speeches aren't typically renowned for their riveting content or brevity, but, once in a while, hopeful graduates get a speaker who is not only entertaining but also drops wisdom like a grenade and brings hungover graduates out of their seats.

Though wholesalers like McKesson have limited control over what happens to the drugs they drop off at the pharmacy door, they have a legal obligation to maintain an effective system that will help prevent diversion; they are required to detect and report «suspicious orders» — those of unusual size, frequency or deviating from a customer's normal patterns — to the DEA.

But there are signs that the number of armed Swiss is dropping: its now estimated there are roughly 2 million privately owned guns in the country — about one for every four Swiss people.

Import spending is a decent barometer of consumer confidence, so a sudden drop in imports could reflect a decline in consumer sentiment.

The beauty of Cape Town is undeniable — the plateau - topped mountain range that drops into a shimmering sea; the free - roaming wildlife, from whales breaching offshore to baboons that sunbathe on the roadside; the Georgian mansions and Victorian homes that line its residential streets.

The only drones anyone had heard of were the type that dropped bombs in the Middle East.

For all those people who wish that they could banish conference calls completely, this tip is for you: «Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value,» Musk advised.

Thiel Fellow and 19 - year - old Harvard drop - out Connor Zwick will explain the «democratization of hardware over the next decade» that led him to leave school and found Milkshake Labs, which is building a game controller for smartphones.

One interesting aspect to the Thursday sell - off is that Netflix — one of the main beneficiaries of the cord - cutting movement by millennial audiences — also lost altitude, dropping by almost 8 %.

Even if Canada doesn't start dropping payloads of cash itself — something Cooper says he does not foresee in the next three years, at least — the ripple effect of a central bank explicitly targeting higher inflation and adopting formerly verboten measures to get it would be felt on these shores in the form of increased global volatility.

Top of the list was Finance Minister Bill Morneau's decision to defer a plan to drop the rate smaller companies pay on their income to 9 % from 10.5 %.

ISIS militants in Afghanistan have apparently been undeterred by the «Mother of All Bombs» that the US dropped on them in April.

Since its Dec. 19 peak of $ 19,140.70, the cryptocurrency has dropped 63 % according to CoinMarketCap, so that $ 1,000 is now worth $ 370.

Every business person has that fear of being in the middle of an important call or message, when suddenly the phone experiences a bad connection and drops the call.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

There's biochemical research that shows the release of dopamine when we perceive novel stimuli starts to drop past the age of twenty, which makes time appear to go by more quickly.

«Banks are notorious for dropping rates quickly and raising them slowly,» said Ric Edelman, founder and executive chairman of Edelman Financial Services.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

And Thomas noted that the gifts from one of the donors continued after Edwards dropped out of the race, indicating they were not for campaign purposes.

You should be able to drop the Z2 Force without having to worry about cracking the screen, though the rest of the device is still likely to scuff up.

But the sudden drop - off in sales in January, which pointed to a deeper dysfunction, was arguably worse than both of those combined.

But part of the enthusiasm for the stock today can be explained by CEO John Chen — BlackBerry has conspicuously dropped the «interim» from his title — who spoke at length publicly for the first time since joining the company.

Patrick deals with this inconvenience by exporting them into a separate folder and not disrupting his «super organized» address book where he drags individual connections and drops them into the proper category, whether it's a list of architects, designers or contractors.