Sentences with phrase «years by a substantial amount»

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Going back to 1950, in 12 out of 26 years when January finished in the red, the stock market actually ended higher, and often by a very substantial amount.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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.

The past five years has seen significant investment in public parks and play areas and a substantial amount of this impetus was generated by the national play strategy launched by the government in 2008.

Some proponents of teacher evaluation reforms have conjectured that if districts would eliminate the bottom 5 to 10 percent of teachers each year, as measured by value - added student test scores, U.S. student achievement would increase by a substantial amount — enough to catch up to high - achieving countries like Finland.3 However, there is no real - world evidence to support this idea and quite a bit to dispute it.

The only ways you can dramatically boost your credit score within a month or two is by cleaning up the public records section of your credit report (as discussed above), paying down a substantial amount of debt if you are close to your credit limits (also discussed above), or getting a creditor or the credit bureau to stop reporting negative information that is more than 7 years old.

In this example, if you were able to improve your credit score and the available interest rate decreased, you might be able to save a substantial amount of money by refinancing your 30 - year mortgage.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

Increased efficiency is achieved by means of a longer trading period (8 years instead of 5 years), a robust and annually declining emissions cap (21 % reduction in 2020 compared to 2005) and a substantial increase in the amount of auctioning (from less than 4 % in phase 2 to more than half in phase 3).

The change in total solar irradiance over recent 11 - year sunspot cycles amounts to < 0.1 %, but greater changes at ultraviolet wavelengths may have substantial impacts on stratospheric ozone concentrations, thereby altering both stratospheric and tropospheric circulation patterns... This model prediction is supported by paleoclimatic proxy reconstructions over the past millennium.

The drift correction serves to «reduce» the 100 - year trend in the raw analyses by a substantial amount.

Anthony Isaacs, president of the SDT, says a considerable burden had been placed on the tribunal over the past year, due to the length and complexity of a substantial number of cases that involved a large amount of documentary evidence, with the majority of the weight being felt by clerks.

Take a defensive drivers course, get a multicar discount, get an experienced driver discount, get a discount for having airbags, and so on and so forth, and you may find that you can slash your rates by a substantial amount — saving you in some cases hundreds of dollars a year on your premium.

Even a small change in premium for a given coverage will translate into a substantial amount by the end of the year.

Cryptocurrency investors have grown in numbers by a substantial amount over the past year or so, with many just getting in given the high publicity of the market.

Contract jobs rose in popularity in the last 15 years when employers realized they could save a substantial amount of money on payroll, employment taxes, and benefits by hiring contractors.