Sentence examples for ratings group from inspiring English sources
The smelly smell that smells... smelly?" A good number of children in the 2-to-11 range, as the Nielsen ratings group them, will know the smell.
"We are not downgrading because they are using tobacco," said Alex Fraser, a director of the state and local government ratings group at Standard & Poor's.
"California highlighted what can go wrong, so states are going to be much more careful," said Richard Cortright, a director in the utility ratings group of Standard & Poor's, among the companies that commissioned the RKS study.
What this means is that NBC can claim its streak of winning in that important ratings group continued for an 899th week, while ABC can claim it finished first in that category for the first time in 17 years.
John B. Chambers, deputy head of the sovereign ratings group at Standard & Poor's, said his company's analysts would be following the budget process and the fall legislative session in Mexico City for clues to whether the major parties will cooperate or stumble into gridlock.
Kraemer, S&P's managing director and head of the sovereign ratings group for Europe, Middle East and Africa, told MPs he did believe that US's capacity to pay back its debt is lower than Finland (despite having full control of its own currency): One of the key elements in the methodology is the political environment.
Bathroom phones have been a condition for achieving four or five stars by ratings groups, said Dean Compoginis, the chief executive of Bittel Americas, which specializes in the product.
Tracour wants to know which ratings groups are the most influential for each stock and what impact those ratings have over a set period of time.
It's the same argument that has been used now for a generation -- and justifiably so -- against college ratings groups like U.S. News & World Report.
When separated by groups, the approval ratings for Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 were 0.58, 0.73, and 0.65 respectively.
Today the Times describes a typical workday in S. & P.'s sovereign-ratings group as "filled with number-crunching, conversations with investors and foreign budget officials and debate about the conclusions of their reports".
