Sentences with phrase «water mark in»

«It's probably a high - water mark in terms of the aggressiveness of those numbers in the past 20 to 30 years.»

In fact, foreign student enrollments hit a high - water mark in 2015.

One of the biggest stories buzzing through the non-traded REIT industry is the fact that the industry hit a $ 20 billion high water mark in 2013 — almost double the $ 10.3 billion raised in 2012.

The claim covers approximately 42,000 square kilometres of sea, above the high water mark in the Torres Strait and Coral Sea between Cape York Peninsula and the mainland of Papua New Guinea.

It was also a high - water mark in terms of number of projects funded (see Table 1).

The post-Christmas season is an e-waste high water mark in the United States.

Even at the high water mark in 2008 only a little over half of British voters thought humans were responsible for most global warming and less than half thought it a pressing problem.

Wind power's low cost and stable energy prices motivated utility and non-utility customers to sign contracts for 3,500 MW of U.S. wind capacity in the first quarter of 2018, a high water mark in recent years, according to a new report released Wednesday by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).

The year that Martin Luther King, Jr., died may yet stand as a high - water mark in a decade of activism and aspirations.

Fans of JRPGs will mark this one as the new water mark in Japanese role playing games.

I would rather put a viper down my shirt than buy shares in a business just because it is way below its high water mark in a stock market.

This case may mark the high - water mark in that worldview, with regulators rushing to the rescue of a near monopolist against the alleged depredations of a new entrant.

In a few short years since its publication in 2009, The City and the City has become a high - water mark in genre - blending.

The 2018 Audi Q7 is the high - water mark in a popular segment, and it's worth your attention.

At least three reviewers noted the Optima's steering was at, or near, the high - water mark in this group, and its locally - tuned suspension package provided the best balance of ride and handling.

When you look at the center stack of controls, you also see the same buttons and controls made familiar by the G35 sedan, and probably no one but us will understand that they represent a high - water mark in ergonomic friendliness and intuitive utility.

Support for tax credits may have reached its high - water mark in 2012 when the in - favor percentage climbed to 77 %, well above the 63 % level attained in 2009 when the tax credit question was first posed.

Though last year's Mulan put their animation grosses back on the upswing, box office for Disney animated features had been in steadily decline since The Lion King's high - water mark in 1994.

The film is is a high - water mark in the careers of its director, actors, and cowriter.

In what is sure undoubtedly a high - water mark in animated cinema, Anomalisa is an utterly adult portrait of middle - age loneliness.

This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high - water mark in the career of one of the industry's most revered funnymen.

For shock value, cut to Gina Gershon, crawling across a filthy kitchen floor covered in blood to perform fellatio at gunpoint on a Colonel Sanders drumstick, and you have a high - water mark in tastelessness that gives depravity a bad name.

His Texas Chainsaw Massacre stands as a high water mark in horror while his work on Poltergeist lead it to become one of the best pop horror

Many of the councils being defended by Cameron's party this year were won by the Conservatives at their high - water mark in opposition, in 2009.

I shoulder some of the responsibility for the position the RDIA is in today because, unfortunately, when drafting the by - laws, I missed the high water mark in a single sentence excluding manufacturers of disposable products, a mistake I fear will become the demise of the RDIA.

Four pollsters had the Golden Eagles at # 15 in the country for MU's high water mark in this ranking, while one person had MU at # 25.

That season would prove to be Dilfer's high - water mark in terms of his on - field performance, however.

It represented a high - water mark in the effort for the peaceful and orderly regulation of relations between nations.

To date, as we have seen, each ebb has been less pronounced than the preceding one and has been followed by an advance which has carried the faith forward to a new high - water mark in its effect upon mankind as a whole.

It was a high - water mark in the history of foreign missions when the council declared that the churches of the West need to receive Christian missionaries as well as send them.

The Christian conception of God — God as God of the sick, God as spider, God as spirit — is one of the most corrupt conceptions of God arrived at on earth; perhaps it even represents the low - water mark in the descending development of the God type.

In all, buyers inked deals valued at $ 9.1 billion in 2017 — up from last year's $ 8.9 billion but still far below the high - water mark in 2014, when buyers scooped up $ 11.5 billion worth of luxury real estate.

At the end of March, institutional and retail investors had $ 19.4 billion invested on margin, according to the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), a high - water mark in the 15 years that IIROC has been keeping track.

The company reached a high - water mark in 2011, leading the U.S. handbag market with a 29.2 % share, according to Euromonitor International.

«Oakland has set high - water marks in this division.»

Not exact matches

«Six months was the previous high - water mark for a notice requirement for a senior manager,» says Connie Reeve, a partner with Blakes specializing in employment law.

The reception centre marked the beginning of a number of other similar initiatives in the region this year, such as helping improve search - and - rescue efforts in the waters around the island.

Mark Cuban, who founded Broadcast.com, said via email that the company was venturing into uncharted legal waters, and «while other attorneys were afraid of what they did not understand, Belinda dove right in.

Mark Rubinstein, the lead author of the study, said «the vapor produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains some of the same toxic chemicals found in smoke from traditional cigarettes.»

«The days of segregation and discrimination marked by «Whites Only» signs on shop doors, water fountains and restrooms must remain deep in our past,» Cook wrote recently in the Washington Post.

In August of 2013, Doctors Without Borders took the nearly unprecedented step of shuttering its operations in the country, several years after the group's territorial high - water marIn August of 2013, Doctors Without Borders took the nearly unprecedented step of shuttering its operations in the country, several years after the group's territorial high - water marin the country, several years after the group's territorial high - water mark.

«We've seen a few cycles of this,» he says, pointing to the EU's $ 794 million fine against Microsoft (msft), in 2004, for bundling its media player with Windows, and the 2001 decision to block a merger between GE (ge) and Honeywell (hon), as other high - water marks of regulatory zeal.

The office also has a leaderboard that tracks individual results (two employees used it recently to see who could drink the most water in a week), and each month, staff receive a scorecard — part of a regular assessment of work performance — that assigns them a mark out of five for health accountability.

Also helping Georgia in the category are marked improvements in its drinking water, including a $ 90 million upgrade just completed in Cobb County, northwest of Atlanta.

«His comments on adjusted profit per share in [the first quarter] being the high - water mark for the year were immediately applied to the entire market.»

Another criticism is that Smith assumes the hedge fund always gets its 20 %, whereas in reality there is a high water mark which means in years where it underperforms it would «only» get its 2 % management fee, until the portfolio breached the previous high.

While a wide range of candidates are being considered, sources said Uber's board would prefer a woman exec for the job, echoing Mark Zuckerberg's move to bring in Google's Sheryl Sandberg to Facebook in 2008 when the social network giant was facing rougher waters.

«The difference this time,» predicted Byron R. Wein, a former chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley, who started working on Wall Street in 1965, «is that the high - water mark that people reached in 2007 is not going to be exceeded for a very long time.»

That year was a high - water mark for the federal party, which last elected an MP in Edmonton in 2004 and has not come close to electing a candidate since.

«Bezos has seen his wealth remain in excess of $ 100 billion, and with the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg also tipped to reach that eye - watering milestone, it seems we're entering the era of the centi - billionaire,» Vishal Chhatralia, vice president digital operations for RS Components said in a statement.