Expenditure ratios

But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world.

It makes no odds. In fact, in the Northern Hemisphere, we're further from the Sun in summer, as it happens, but it makes no odds, the difference.

The expected market return is that amount plus or minus expected changes in valuation ratios will stocks return more as price earnings ratios rise, or return less as price earnings ratios fall? Once again, the sensible guess is that these two factors more or less cancel each other out.

Those are attractive odds.

As a result, the debt ratios commonly applied to Greece could be overstated.

Regulators are already talking about imposing leverage ratios, as well as limits on risk weighted assets.

Table 8 Expenditure ratios

The odds are not good.

Higher capital ratios and liquidity ratios are only one of several approaches to making the financial system safer.

The odds are on the cheaper man.

Table 4 Ratios of key financial indicators

Table 4 Ratios of key financial indicators

This is completely at odds with the facts.

The Chilean miners survived against the odds, so perhaps the rest of us will somehow get by as well.

As I say, if you're in a swarm, your odds of being the unlucky one are reduced as compared to a small group.

Notes with concern the lack of information on the implementation of ratios of vehicles to staff and discrepancies in the implementation of standard ratios

Notes with concern the lack of information on the implementation of ratios of vehicles to staff and discrepancies in the implementation of standard ratios

They also are at odds with improving French competitiveness.

DUBLIN Europe s needs and Europeans desires are at odds.

Various cycles in those isotope ratios have been detected.

Ratios of vehicles and information technology equipment to staff

Ratios of vehicles and information technology equipment to staff

Each of the four faced what many deemed overwhelming odds.

All of this activity is taking place against the odds.

The odds heavily favored the second outcome global macroeconomic distress.

And reducing debt ratios by saving more leads to the paradox of thrift too fast an increase in savings deepens the recession and makes debt ratios even worse.

In South Korea, the ratios rose from 13 to 21 and then as high as 40 , while the other northern newly industrialized countries fared much better.

Odds are I probably know somebody who has made a widget.

In fact, China s approach is akin to gambling against the odds.

Enrollment ratios in the Arab world have improved over the past decade, but Arab countries still have one of the lowest average net enrollment ratios in the developing world.

Variations in oxygen isotope ratios are used to track both water movement, paleoclimate, and atmospheric gases such as ozone and carbon dioxide.

Those ratios for Greece are far worse 12.9 , 120 and 10 .

And all this against incredible logistical odds, like heat and traffic jams.

For a long time, these two issues seemed to be at odds.

The two were often at odds over economic, social, and religious policies.

After all, in the 1990 s, the US stock market surge (as in many countries) was fueled by record high price earnings ratios.

Banks capital adequacy ratios were set globally, and, once set, remained fixed.

Instead, the easiest way to improve capital ratios is to cut lending.

Anglo Saxon financial institutions are known for their high dividend payout ratios.

In fact, there is a gradual and smooth decline in growth rates as debt GDP ratios increase 80 looks only trivially better than 100 .

As a result, on the eve of the Great Recession that began in 2008, Germany had one of the lowest expenditure ratios in Europe.

But the odds on a soft landing are lengthening with each passing day.

Claudius Barnawolo, a Liberian physician's assistant, also beat the odds and survived Ebola.

Sixth, while regulatory reform that increases the liquidity and capital ratios for financial institutions is necessary, those higher ratios should be phased in gradually to prevent a further worsening of the credit crunch.