Sentences with phrase «year gap as»

No one questions the words that Plato wrote, no one says «I doubt Plato really said that,» yet Plato was in existance around 400BC doing his teachings, but the earliest copies of Platos writings that we have in our possesion are from 900AD... that's a 1300 year gap as opposed to the New Testaments 25 - 30 year gap... That speaks for something, I believe.

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CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 - As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

After completing her gap year, she plans to attend Harvard University as a sociology and African - American studies double major.

When YouTube TV premiered a year ago, it had a few noticeable gaps in its offerings as a cable alternative.

The gap between the 10 - year French and German government bond yields has widened to a five - day high as political uncertainty returned to France.

A growing opportunity gap in access to resources, opportunities, and adult investment has emerged over the last 25 years as income inequality has accelerated, especially among families with children.

Earlier this year, Walmart acquired jet.com for $ 3 billion and has added millions of items to its online assortment as it looks to narrow the enormous gap with Amazon.com (amzn), whose U.S. sales are six times greater than Walmart.com's.

See, the gap - toothed goal scorer got off to a rocky start in the ad game — perhaps following Mario Lemieux's lead with a bizarre local car dealer commercial — but quickly turned things around last year with a series of quirky spots for Reebok CCM that featured his decapitated head's crazy - person / evil genius laugh, and a turn for ESPN's SportsCenter that pegged him as a Russian spy.

The lines track more or less in sync until a decade ago, when they diverge as home prices shoot toward the stratosphere, the gap growing wider with each year, like huge jaws swallowing homeowners» retirement savings and vacation budgets and pushing them further into debt.

«As you can see, a yawning 50 - point gap opened at year - end between the two measures of confidence, with dumb money optimism having soared, while smart money optimism became decidedly more subdued.

CHICAGO / SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 (Reuters)- As the gap between short - and long - term borrowing costs hovers near its lowest in more than 10 years, speculation has risen over whether the so - called yield curve is signaling that a recession could be around the corner.

Even as prices continued to rise throughout 2011, a gap opened up between Brent and WTI, and grew larger throughout this year.

Demand tends to be higher as parents look to fill the gap between summer camps and activities, and the start of the new school year, she said.

A year on, annual economic growth has picked up — closing the gap with Germany and pulling away from other major European powers such as Britain and Italy.

Earlier this year, Jones launched a public initiative asking commercial insurance companies to write policies to cover what he described as «coverage gaps» in the industry.

«The price gap is likely to remain substantial in the next two to three years,» the report said, «and assuming it does, Chinese spending on luxury goods will grow about as fast overseas as it will domestically.»

Investment groups such as Golden Seeds and BELLE Capital USA, which bankroll women - led companies, have worked toward shrinking this financing gap for years.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this yeaAs the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Governor John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this yeaas high $ 800 million — and that is after $ 485 million in emergency spending cuts this year.

This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

He has lots of hard evidence to back it up, too: if you measure prosperity in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, not only has Canada been lagging the States for years, but lately that «prosperity gap» has grown bigger — reaching about $ 8,900 as of 2010.

As the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 millioAs the 2016 fiscal year comes to a close, first - term Gov. John Bel Edwards and the state legislature have been in crisis mode, struggling to close a fiscal 2017 budget gap that could run as high $ 800 millioas high $ 800 million.

In closing, as we enter the fourth quarter, we'll continue to push forward the turnaround efforts at Gap and Banana and work to maintain the solid year - to - date performance at Old Navy.

The dollar index against the world's major currencies is at a four month high with the interest rate gap set to widen between the dollar and euro - zone as the US Federal Reserve plans several more rate hikes this year.

We expect this gap to narrow dramatically in the coming years as wealth follows demographics.

As part of its commitment to a build a more diverse workplace and address a gender gap within key sectors of the financial services industry, Fidelity has launched its Summit for Young Women, a day - long event designed to open students» minds to the wide range of career opportunities that exist within financial services, years before they are ready to begin their professional lives.

As we have detailed before, there is a wide gap in the reconciliation instructions in the two budgets that could result in a $ 2 trillion difference in debt over ten years.

As an aside, it seems generally to be the case that the longer an adjustment is constrained, the more likely that the adjustment takes place in the form of what traders call «gapping» — which is a big, discontinuous change instead of a smooth adjustment — so when the change finally took place, the fall in demand (and iron ore prices) would almost certainly occur very quickly, in a matter of two or three years, perhaps.

In the last two years as the bull argument has been pummeled into reality by the surge in debt, the persistent failure of consumption growth to close the gap with GDP growth, and the sharp slowdown in overall growth, the mood abroad has turned increasingly bearish, to the point that many people are speaking about a China collapse and the horrible implications this will have for the rest of the world.

Now below $ 300, we've actually filled gaps in the assortment, so there we've seen a significant increase and we think that bodes really well actually for the holidays where we had gaps as we know last year.

The gap between Iceland and the second - placed country, Norway, actually widens as both Norway and third - placed Finland saw their gaps widen this year.

Even if international markets narrow only 50 % of the gap in coming years, I would still expect a sharp rally in broad international markets, such as in the iShares Core MSCI EAFE (IEFA A-95) and the iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets (IEMG A-99).

The consensus forecast calls for EPS at Urban Outfitters to be the same as in the year - ago period, while EPS at Deere, Dick's Sporting Goods, Gap, Staples and Wal - Mart will be smaller than a year ago, if analysts» expectations are on target.

Giant mines such as MMG's Century in Australia and Vedanta Resource's Lisheen site in Ireland have dried up in recent years, a gap that has only been partially filled by smaller mines and restarts.

Also known as swing loans or interim or gap financing, these loans are short - term loans with maturities generally up to one year and are usually secured by some sort of collateral.

Chancellor Philip Hammond due to set out future for three - year - old carbon price floor in November's Autumn Statement, as OECD exposes persistent «carbon pricing gap»

Direxion 20 Year Treasury Bull 3x ($ TMF) was our biggest gainer, as the ETF convincingly gapped above its 50 - day moving average and printed a 5.4 % gain.

Ticket sales for the infield at the Preakness Stakes — the state's biggest single - day event — are down 30 percent compared to this time last year, even as organizers are facing an Under Armour - sized gap in their lineup of corporate partners.

Moreover, U.S. growth tailwinds in coming quarters are powerful, as a result of massive deficit - financed fiscal stimulus now flowing into a closed output gap for the first time in near 50 years.

A good example of this is that our bond yields are now virtually the same as US bond yields, whereas five years or 10 years ago it was not uncommon for the gap to be as high as five percentage points; some of this was a risk premium and some of it reflected our higher inflation.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

All the time these things were going on, the gap between the average white income and the average black income in this nation continued to widen, while the white population says such things as, «We have made significant progress in race relations in the last ten years.»

as to original copies — we do have at least a 50 year time gap, but we do have More than 5686 known Greek (original language) manuscripts, over 10,000 Latin Vulgate, and at least 9300 other early versions (different languages).

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

These institutions have resisted attack before, and in recent years, some of them seem to be reasserting their role as conveyors of the stories which bridge the generation gap and tell us again who we are and what we might become.

My resume has as many gaps as jobs, and our meager belongings have shrunk rather than increased over the past four years.

I often find myself making a lot of GAPS Diet - style meals this time of year, as soup comes into its own when the temperature drops.

Using the Bloomberg BNA audit tool to measure our performance against federal, state and local regulations, as well as gap analyses conducted by our EHS team at each of our sites every two years, we've established a consistent approach to how we allocate resources, assign responsibilities and evaluate our practices, procedures and processes to reduce our environmental footprint.

The price gap between Coles» and Woolworths» private label brands and those at discounter Aldi has fallen as much as 70 per cent in two years, reflecting the major chains» $ 1.6 billion investment into reducing prices.

One part of the Arsenal Foundation work is to teach young adults (usually during their Gap Year) to be able to go abroad and train youngsters abroad as well as in London.