Sentences with phrase «years measured up to»

Have the past years measured up to your true expectations?

Not exact matches

Facebook has faced criticism that it did not do enough to prevent false information being republished on its platform during last year's U.S presidential campaign, and in response has set up measures to try to tackle the problem.

In the Dedicated Transportation Solutions (DTS) business segment, total revenue was up 12 % to $ 299 million and DTS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure excluding fuel and subcontracted transportation) was up 4 % to $ 201 million compared with the year - earlier period.

China is starting to roll back measures meant to prop up its currency after a recent surge in the yuan erased all of last year's losses.

Using a dating technique that measures how much radiation had built up in the flint since it was heated, Hublin and his team say the ancient bones belong to people who lived roughly 300,000 - 350,000 years ago.

His four years at the white - shoe law firm Latham & Watkins had crushed the notion that his career would ever measure up to his childhood dreams of strutting across a courtroom like the lead attorney in a John Grisham novel.

A broad measure of joblessness that includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part - time because they can not find full - time employment fell to a fresh six - year low of 11.4 percent from 11.5 percent in October.

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

With the stock up a massive 30 % since January, a measure of bearish bets sat close to its highest level of the year.

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.

According to The Wall Street Journal, desktop Internet use had its highest active month over the past three years back in March of 2015 with 567 billion total minutes of measured Web activity in the U.S. Not only have we not seen that figure go up over the past year or so, but the amount of time people are spending browsing the Web on their mobile devices is trouncing desktops: more than one trillion minutes in March of this year.

But the bank has taken more extreme measures, such as ramping up purchases to more than 40 percent of the market overall and saying it would control the yield curve by keeping the 10 - year government bond yield around 0 percent.

Short interest, a measure of how many investors are betting that the stock will go down, is up 36 %, to $ 4.1 billion, from its average last year, according to Ihor Dusaniwsky, head of research at financial analytics firm S3 Partners.

Over at Digiconomist, a Bitcoin blog and analysis site, owner Alex de Vries reported that the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, an measure of the energy used to mine the digital currency every year, was up to 32.36 terawatt - hours on December 6.

Accountability should be judged on tangible industrial measures like start - up tech company survival rates after three and five years, number of new products and services brought to market annually by companies that IRAP supported, and overall ROI after three or five years.

This mistake represents a) precisely the amnesia about reckless finance that repeatedly shows up years after the last crisis, b) an underestimate by the Senate Democrats signing on to the measure of the risk brought back into the system, and c) an almost completely unnecessary bit of work.

This information comes from data collected up through to the year 2013, and represents the most reliable measure of credit card indebtedness in the United States.

A more narrow measure in the report, used to indicate shadow banking activity that may give rise to financial stability risks, grew to $ 34 trillion in 2015, up 3.2 % from the prior year and excluding data from China.

As I shared with you in January, emerging Europe countries, as measured by the MSCI EM Europe 10/40 Index, finished last year up more than 20 percent, and so far in 2018, they've returned 1.17 percent, compared to the S&P 500 Index, which is down more than 3 percent.

But Japan has chosen to seize the opportunity and regulate exchanges, setting up a licensing system last year, although experts say such measures are no guarantee against hacking and cybercrime.

The US stock market (as measured by the S&P 500) is up 7.6 % year - to - date.

Starting the year with a 3.0 growth forecast is a tough act to measure up to.

The Fed's favored measure, the personal consumption expenditures price index, moved up 0.2 % to 2.1 % year - on - year in February at the headline level, though the core measure was unchanged at 1.8 %, after the previous month's reading was revised up by a tenth.

EM equities are up about 10 % year to date, as measured by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, and have outperformed stocks in the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI ACWI Index and the MSCI EAFE Index (source: MSCI, Bloomberg as of 4/24/2015).

The easing in price pressure largely reflects an unwinding of the earlier run - up in food prices; the ex-food measure has drifted higher to be up by around 1 1/2 per cent over the year.

As a result, petrol prices at the pumps have contributed significantly to CPI inflation over the year and, to a lesser extent, have probably also contributed to some of the pick - up in underlying inflation measures.

Far from the streamlined measures used for the Vietnamese years ago, desperate applicants must wait up to four years for a review by Canadian visa officials.

Measured in real terms, variable loan rates are as much as 1 percentage point below their average level over the past five years, and up to 2 1/4 percentage points below their average since the early 1990s (Graph 65).

The eurozone's manufacturing PMI for February rose to its best level since 2011, and a leading measure of German business confidence for the same month climbed back up to the four - year high seen at the end of 2016.

Not only is consumer confidence up, but homebuilder confidence, as measured by the NAHB, hit a 12 - year high in March, supported by an improving economy and President Trump's pledge to roll back strict regulations.

His desire to break up the most successful company of all time as measured by percentage gain in value per year is a passion born of the passing of a social mood peak of even higher degree than that of 1929.

Despite measuring up to the same spot for a second year, the area saw changes in all three growth categories.

Consumer price inflation edged up to 2.3 per cent over the year to September, largely reflecting higher energy costs; the core measure has eased further to a year - ended rate of 1.2 per cent.

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

Nevertheless, in August the core personal consumer expenditures price index — the Fed's favored inflation measure — inched closer to the US central bank's 2 % inflation target, ticking up to 1.7 % year - on - year (y / y).

The perceived threat reflected in the South Korean stock market, measured by the latest rise in the volatility index of the KOSPI 200, has been relatively small compared to the flare ups in recent years.

By official statistics, thirteen percent of Americans are poor today» many of them immigrants of the last few years who will not long remain poor, and measured by a standard that counts as poor families with cash income (not income in kind, from welfare benefits, for example) up to about twenty thousand dollars for a family of four.

The story is told of a church in Philadelphia which at one time had a succession of great preachers and found itself with an incumbent who, after one year, had not measured up to the quality of preaching that the congregation expected.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

For years I tried to achieve restaurant perfection at home, but my steaks never measured up... until now.

Each year this private game preserve used to be invaded by armies of hunters who, along with shooting the geese, pheasants, deer, et al., shot up her NO HUNTING signs for good measure.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini showed up to home court Etihad Stadium fighting for a win to close out his final chapter with Man City, instead he thanked his fans, those who hadn't left already, for three great years while expressing a measure of disappointment that he couldn't go out with another win.

Up front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** oUp front we have a few world - class players surrounded by some serious pretenders... Sanchez is by far the most accomplished player in our attack but the controversy surrounding his contractual mishandling could see him go before the window closes or most definitely by season's end... obviously a mistake by both parties involved, as Sanchez's exploits have never been more on display than in North London, but the club's irresponsible wage structure and lack of real intent have been the real undoing in this mess... Lacazette, who I think has some world - class skills as a front man, will only be as good as the players and system around him, which is troubling due to our current roster and Wenger's love of sideways passing... Walcott should have been sold years ago, enough said, and Welbeck should never have been brought in from the get - go... both of these players have suffered numerous injuries over their respective careers and neither are good enough to overcome such difficulties: not to mention, they both are below average first - touch players, which should be the baseline test for any player coming to a Wenger - led Arsenal team... Perez should have been played wide left or never purchased at all; what a huge waste of time and money, which is ridiculous considering our penny pinching ways and the fact that fans had been clamoring for a real striker for years... finally Giroud, the fact that he stills wears the jersey is a direct indictment of this club's failure to get things right... this isn't necessarily an attack on Giroud because I think he has some highly valued skills, but not for a team that has struggled to take their sideways soccer to the next level, as his presence slows their game even more, combined with our average, at best, finishing skills... far too often those in charge have either settled or chosen half - measures and ultimately it is us that suffer because no matter what happens Wenger, Gazidis and Kroenke will always make more money whereas we will always be the ones paying for their mistakes... so every time someone suggests we should just shut - up and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** oup and support the team just think of all the sacrifices you've made along the way and simply reply... f *** off

A favorite target for the fans and the media since replacing Dennis Green three years ago, Tice has a 23 - 25 record that doesn't measure up to the enormous amount of offensive talent the Vikings put on the field.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

San Antonio was really good in some of those years, but didn't measure up to the Lakers or Celtics at the front end and Heat or Thunder at the back end.

For much of his 29 - year tenure at Kenyon, Steen has had to make do with facilities that don't even measure up to some of the pools his swimmers competed in at the high school and club level.

So, as an interim measure — 14 years later - the A-League clubs are instead advocating for representation within the FFA governance structure — consistent with FIFA statutes that FFA signed - up to in February last year.

Few cohabiting heteros live together for the long haul — most break up or marry in about five years, with many seeing it as a cost - saving measure (one apartment is cheaper than two) more than a statement of their commitment to each other.

measures to encourage early interventions in various settings through exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, introduction of nutritionally - adequate complementary foods at the age of six months while breastfeeding continues for up to two years of age or beyond or taking into account available national recommendations;