Sentences with phrase «after a decade during»

After decades during which the educational attainment of Americans steadily increased, educational gains have stagnated.

After a decade during which resources and investment reached levels never seen before, the schools capital programme now appears to face an uncertain future.

Not exact matches

After all, oil and gas production during the Obama Administration soared to heights not seen in decades — and he allowed it to happen.

After a post-doc stint with Hinton, LeCun moved to AT&T's Bell Labs in 1988, where during the next decade he did foundational work that is still being used today for most image - recognition tasks.

Obama last talked to Letterman in a televised interview on The Late Show in 2015 during Letterman's final run hosting the CBS show after two decades.

Rick George, who helped pioneer Canada's oil - sands industry during two decades at the helm of Suncor Energy Inc., died on Tuesday after a year - and - a-half battle against acute myeloid leukemia.

After volatile swings in growth patterns during last decade's housing bubble and bust, long - term trends are reasserting themselves.

Investors in that best performing mutual fund of the decade that I mentioned above likely withdrew money after the fund declined regardless of whether it was outperforming a declining market during that same period.

While there is a case for the proposition that China manipulated its currency in an unreasonable way during the decade after 2005, by no stretch of any imagination is China today manipulating the renminbi downward for competitive advantage.

On the contrary, during the decade after the World War heroic efforts were made to maintain intercourse by organizational devices of one kind and another.

The statement of Bangkok that we seek a church which is not merely the refuge of the saved but a church which is the catalyst of God's savings work in the world, summarizes, in a sense, the ecumenical thinking on church and mission during the two decades after the New Delhi assembly of the World Council of Churches.

The civil theology of the youthful Hegel in Germany during the decades after the French Revolution shows the yearning for the union of Christian and citizen was still vigorous at the end of the eighteenth century.6 These youthful speculations stand behind Hegel's mature political theory as well as, curiously, behind the thought of Marx about man and citizen.

The prophetic career of Jeremiah begins during the reign of Josiah (640 - 609), in the thirteenth year of that reign (1:2), and so in the turbulent decade of the 620's (or possibly, changing «thirteen» to «twenty - three» in 1:2, in the decade of the 610's).16 The bulk of material in the book of Jeremiah relates to the years after the accession of Jehoiakim in 609; and we know that Jeremiah was still an active prophet long after Jerusalem's fall to Babylon in 587.

Had I come of age during the great crisis of 1914 — 1945, or even during the tense, early decades of the Cold War, it's likely I, too, would have sought to defuse the consolidated energies of sovereign peoples, which is what the founders of what became the European Union did in the years after the war.

After almost a decade during which most of the touted young blueliners never reached their potential, there is a crop of defensemen 24 years or younger who are capable of elbowing — and checking and scoring — their way into the elite group.

Pepe, 34, left Madrid last summer after a decade with the club, during which he won La Liga three times, the Champions League three times and the Copa del Rey twice.

Arsenal attacker Alex Iwobi has not been left too impressed with the protests though and has urged the club faithful to show more respect towards Wenger after all he has achieved with the club during his two decade long reign.

In fact, during his two decades at Arsenal, Wenger has only signed 13 players from Premier League rivals and with the Vardy move still at the forefront of the news agenda, Squawka looked at how those players fared after moving to North London.

The two sides have much in common, with both making great strides after encountering various problems off the pitch during the past decade.

After all, Danny Welbeck showed himself to be hard - worker rather than clinical finisher in the Arsenal attack last season while the fact that one can still count on two hands the number of times Theo Walcott has started as a central - striker during his decade long Arsenal career speaks to the fact that the boss still sees him as a wide - forward.

Rat was a player of some repute having won honours galore during a decade - long stint at Shakhtar Donetsk, however, he made just 15 top - flight appearances before his contract was mutually terminated after six months.

Mooy, 27, was a relatively unknown when he first stepped on the stage, but he made a name for himself during his loan stint at the John Smith's Stadium, where he helped the club clinch top - flight promotion after more than four decades.

Arlington Heights had its largest decade of population growth during the 1950's, an increase of 218 % from 8,768 in 1950 to 27,878 in 1960, due to suburban America's growth boom after World War II.

«After spending the last two years tagging Nassau grouper in The Bahamas during their full moon aggregations, we documented the likely extirpation of an important spawning aggregation at High Cay, a small island off the east coast of Andros in The Bahamas, which had most likely existed for decades,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.

East Timor gained independence in 2002 after three years of UN administration, which followed more than two decades of guerrilla warfare during Indonesian rule.

After almost a decade of decline, during which the party has fallen from a position of complete political dominance into third place behind the all - conquering SNP and the rejuvenated Scottish Tories, Labour can't seem to get back on its feet never mind mount a serious electoral challenge.

After a 16 - month stretch during which a longtime state Senate leader was indicted, the public learned of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proclivity for prostitutes, and the Senate spent a summer in chaos, the idea of holding an early convention to fix state government garnered more attention that it had in decades.

Mr Osborne's «Northern Powerhouse» and his devolution to the English regions with directly - elected mayors is a policy that Michael Heseltine was trumpeting three decades ago during his time in the Tory wilderness after he stormed out of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet in 1986.

The governor has been doing his best to suppress his darker impulses for the last decade; the last time it shined through during the 2014 gubernatorial debate, when he was given leash to go after his opponent Rob Astorino.

During the summer break the chancellor lost Karen Ward, who he had personally recruited to serve as his special economic adviser after a decade at HSBC.

After an exciting process, Saugerties Republicans nominated a strong slate of Town Board candidates determined to fix town finances destroyed during a decade of Democratic Party rule.

«After four decades of back room deals and the culture of corruption that led to the well deserved conviction of Shelly Silver, the voters of the 65th Assembly district don't want another professional politician who is a product of the same Democratic clubhouses that gave us Shelly Silver, «he said during his acceptance speech.

CIVIC CENTER — The city's biggest private and public sector labor unions have rallied behind Bill de Blasio's mayoral campaign after being splintered during the primary race, in the hopes of electing the first Democratic mayor in two decades.

David Marchant, a Boston University (BU) geologist who faces termination after an investigation concluded that he sexually harassed a graduate student during fieldwork in Antarctica nearly 2 decades ago, appealed that finding this week.

«We really don't know what these trends will be after a period of several decades,» he said during a U.N. press conference on the population survey, explaining that the estimates reflect a best guess based on the future resembling the past.

After all, plenty of young walruses die each year on the sea ice, and Pacific walruses have come ashore on Russian beaches in past decades during their fall migrations.

Late last year, the university moved to fire Marchant after an investigation concluded that he sexually harassed a graduate student during fieldwork in Antarctica nearly 2 decades ago.

These were the 1970s, after all, when millions of marriages — including both Guttentag's and Secord's first marriages — had collapsed in the chaos of the free love movement spawned during the previous decade.

The incidence of breast cancer began decreasing in 2000, after increasing during the previous two decades.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

Because Landsat satellites have been gathering visual information for four decades, we can now view landscapes before, during, and after fires and other natural disasters, and see bodies of water shift their shapes as water levels rise and fall, and watch cities grow.

At a hearing last week, supporters of lifting the ban said the move is needed to help Libya rebuild global ties after decades of international sanctions during the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

SIX decades after their pregnant mothers were starved during the second world war, the genes of Dutch men and women retain chemical changes that may put them at risk of diabetes and cancer.

Why was CDV fatal to lions and hyenas during the 1993/1994 epidemic and not in later years, even though CDV continued to be fatal to canids in the two decades after the 1993/1994 epidemic?

During this BSA Distinguished Lecture, Hitoshi Murayama discusses how scientists have major puzzles to solve by, for example, uncovering more about the Higgs boson discovered nearly five decades after it was predicted and investigating the mysterious, invisible dark matter that holds the universe together.

However, for the globe as a whole, surface air temperatures over land have risen at about double the ocean rate after 1979 (more than 0.27 °C per decade vs. 0.13 °C per decade), with the greatest warming during winter (December to February) and spring (March to May) in the Northern Hemisphere.

During the 1990's decade significant poaching of snow leopards occurred motivated by economic insecurity after the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

Taking supplemental folic acid prior to as well as during early pregnancy has been advised for decades, soon after research confirmed its potential to prevent up to 70 % of neural tube defects, as well as improper formation of the embryonic spinal cord and brain.

For decades, sports nutritionists have been devising ever more sophisticated ways to ensure your body is perfectly fuelled before, during and after every workout.