Cumulative Quotations

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

There's a cumulative effect to getting good parts as a freelance actor, because you're only as good as your last job, and you have to keep going out and getting them. Unless you're part of the finance structure, by which I mean a bankable star, which I never was and never will be.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

The Church's teaching isn't an official statement, but the cumulative understanding of all the people who have loved and experienced Jesus through time.

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

When we got back to Philadelphia and we talked about it, we just said, we got a second chance here - we got a second chance in life, forget about basketball. It just made every guy grow up - I think every guy became a little more mature, a little more focused on what's important in life, and I think it had a cumulative effect on our team.

Usually, it's hard to get organized before the fact, but we're hoping that this is the beginning of a cumulative process that will enable us to learn as much as we can about disasters.

This ... suggests that the bank is well aware that the six consecutive hikes ... have a cumulative impact that has not yet been fully felt.

We have pushed out the timing of the monetary policy easing to June and reduced the cumulative amount through 2006 to 75 basis points.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.

Now there's a shock. It's not just a penny this week and two pennies higher the week before. And the shock comes on top of the cumulative effect of all those pennies over all those weeks.

NOAA has said it wants a $5-billion-a-year U.S. aquaculture industry. What's the cumulative impact of that industry?

I would be guessing, but that probably had something to do with it. I notice these things tend to be sort of cumulative for the course of a career.

Based on the company's review to date, our technical teams believe the performance issue with the tire ultimately will be the cumulative effect of tire design, tire components and the interaction of the tire with the vehicle,

He was under the impression by his trial counsel that he would receive a probationary sentence. The cumulative error in this case is something this court should look at.

history cautions that investors' anticipations of the cumulative magnitude of policy actions and their timing under such circumstances are far from perfect.

We look at that as a running start toward a cumulative event that will allow us to shrink the $13 million shortfall,

He was a great inspiration to the players and coaches. On those days when he had to take chemo and radiation, he was at practice that day and sometimes the cumulative effects would cause him to miss the next day, but the time when he wasn't active in the program was minimal.

He was a great inspiration to the players and coaches, ... On those days when he had to take chemo and radiation, he was at practice that day and sometimes the cumulative effects would cause him to miss the next day, but the time when he wasn't active in the program was minimal.

I think what you see in the bankruptcy rate is just a result of everything piling up on people, ... I suspect it is just a cumulative effect of an unbudgeted jump in expenses for daily living.

Over the last 14 months, we are starting to see a cumulative effect, what I would call a crisis in confidence. People are becoming more uncertain.

Over the last 10 years, Exxon Mobil's cumulative capital and exploration expenditures have exceeded our cumulative annual earnings. So, we keep investing in the future when earnings are high as well as when they are low.

Our study powerfully illustrates the interplay and cumulative effect of different sources of bias. We acknowledge that to prove a negative is impossible, but we have shown that the effects seen in placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy are compatible with the placebo-hypothesis.

We no longer advise consumers to close unused accounts, as these accounts raise the cumulative credit limit.

We're working day and night on development of a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer that addresses the vulnerability.

We need to do a better job of explaining the potential effects of the cumulative impacts and the harm they cause.

When we viewed consecutive 12-month performance or non-overlapping cumulative periods, consistent top performers all had experienced management teams with tenure higher than their peers. Experienced management teams can successfully maneuver their funds through a variety of market environments.

The government is likely to prevail on the cumulative effect of how Microsoft's market power has prevented competition. A company that didn't have Microsoft's power could say they were just trying to be competitive.

Tragically, the federal government is violating federal law, which requires an assessment of cumulative impacts. This injures the citizens of Oakland, and every person in this country.

Yes, the market may be under pressure, due to the huge investments in the Dana Gas IPO and other factors like advent of Ramadan, Dh2 billion right share of ADCB and third quarter corporate results which will be better than expected. All these factors altogether would have their cumulative effect on the share market

There appears to be a tremendous void in the business in thinking beyond the constraints of directed search. The industry is focused on things like behavioral advertising and the impact of next generation ad models. It appears in that process we're leaving behind the cumulative information and the cumulative understandings that can be achieved by pulling the entire knowledge base together.

We have 302 cumulative cases in Indonesia since February 2005.

Cumulative points scored against us is how many downups we do in two sets,

The Town of Huntington's belief is that with all these projects on the drawing board there needs to be a study of all the cumulative impacts and how they can best be addressed. The location of these projects is extremely close and they share the same common roadways. There has to be a cumulative impact. We are not trying to hold up the project. We are trying to foster good planning. Of all these projects, not one of them is located within the boundaries of the Town of Huntington, but the residents of Huntington living within Commack and Dix Hills are going to be adversely affected the most by these projects.

These actions are further evidence of Aetna's long-standing commitment to being a corporate governance leader, ... Many shareholders in corporate America want more say when it comes to electing directors at companies. Our board studied other alternatives, including cumulative voting, and decided that implementing a majority vote standard for director elections most effectively responds to shareholder needs and strengthens our board's accountability to our shareholders. We also believe that the package of enhancements adopted today is consistent with corporate governance best practices.

These awards are not single season achievement awards, but rather reward coaches for a cumulative career of accomplishments, not necessarily all of which take place on the court or field.

A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.

This is a capacity significantly larger than the cumulative number of orders we have.

A lot more people were aware of A.J. Hawk once he came to Ohio State and they saw him do things like that. But as we went through high school, it was solidified even more that there is something special about him. I think it was a cumulative kind of thing - the way he worked in the weight room, relentlessly pushing himself, and the way he seemed to figure in on every big defensive play.

Although these would be small compared with the cumulative deficit of 2003-2005, the consequent likely rise in reported stocks could be supplemented by more unreported material resurfacing.

As we have completed the acquisition of Oblio and confirmed our ability to use our cumulative NOL's against its future net income, Titan is poised to rapidly de-leverage its balance sheet. In addition, from time to time, Titan may make open market common share purchases,

It's just flatness basically. He's got no symptoms of head injuries, he just hasn't totally come up from the cumulative effect of the work.

It's been a tough season for everyone. We haven't made the playoffs in the last five years, and we haven't had a winning record since 2002. It's a cumulative effect. Certainly, the situation we had this year made it tough for Jim, the coaches and players, and everyone in the entire organization.

It's really the result of cumulative public health efforts to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco and also due to the imposition of excise taxes and state tobacco-control programs.

Consumers are still willing to spend, even with the high energy prices, and capital investment is booming. By the second half of the year, we'll see the cumulative effect of interest- rate increases begin to bite and the economy slow.

The new specifications coming from different regulatory bodies have a cumulative effect, and some of them are seasonal.

It's moving in the right direction. I will say that. But this is the sixth year in a row of price increases that are at least twice the rate of inflation, so it has a cumulative effect that I think is pretty serious.

Each ruling may be correct. But it seems to me that the cumulative effect of these decisions makes it increasingly difficult for the president to operate in a separation of powers context.

It was more something that happened (Wednesday) night than a cumulative thing. It was something that happened during the game and afterward. We're going to handle it internally.

They can get away with less, but they don't recognize that truth. The cumulative effect on the public is to increase cynicism about government and politicians.

It was just kind of a cumulative effect. We went back to (the run) more in the second half and we found stuff that was working. And LT did a good job finding the holes.

It was just kind of a cumulative effect, ... We went back to (the run) more in the second half and we found stuff that was working. And LT did a good job finding the holes.

I know schools are doing a lot of things to double-check. It's actually much more time-intensive than even we thought it would be. It takes a lot of time to go through every course and match it up to cumulative records. If you do it right, you want to check every aspect.

In the past 25 years, the cumulative cost of importing crude oil has cost the U.S. $1.4 trillion.

His departure is not going to make or break the company, but the cumulative loss of the top people from Chrysler is a significant drag, although it's hard to quantify,

By the end of October, the cumulative year-to-date total of 22 732 units has already overtaken, by 32%, the highly celebrated result of 20 814 unit deliveries achieved during the corresponding period in 2004 which was, in itself, a post-1982 record for the market.

If IGCC is not built with carbon capture and storage, it may as well be the old dirty stuff. It will be a cumulative increase in our carbon emissions.

If I make a dollar that means we're working and then we'll start working on taking the cumulative deficit down.

The evidence is overwhelming that even simple changes can be a big help and have a huge cumulative impact. If every American switched just three light bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs, it would be the equivalent of taking 3.5 million cars off the road. If everyone switched to a car with five miles-per-gallon better mileage, that would be equal to the taking another 150 million automobiles off the roads. Individual actions add up to big changes.

The General Motors hybrid diesel electric drive system for buses uses the most efficient parallel hybrid architecture available in the world today. If the U.S. had only 1,000 GM hybrid powered buses operating in major cities, the cumulative savings would be more than 1.5 million gallons of fuel annually.

The cumulative impact of this is pretty impressive, ... Somebody should have stood up and said, 'Enough.' But they didn't, so it ended up being much more controversial than it should have been considering that the main objectives of the program were in a sense achieved.

The cumulative impact of a worsening economy, declining capital investments and reduced consumer spending is strongly affecting the Japanese market. Although the Japanese market resisted for a while, it now looks like the PC market in Japan will be flat-to-negative into 2002.

You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

The force of character is cumulative.