Sentences with phrase «decade by decade beginning»

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Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

By the beginning of this decade (as Fortune wrote at the time), tech executives were calling the area «Silicon Slopes.»

Best Buy began opening these stores more than a decade ago, before Apple Inc's iPhone was launched and when margins in the business were high, Best Buy Chief Executive Hubert Joly told employees in a letter, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.

The blow is cushioned somewhat by the state's strong reserves, a decades - long push to diversify and a tentative return to Texas - style GDP growth at the beginning of 2017.

From the time Enbridge began talking publicly about Northern Gateway almost a decade ago, the oil pipeline project — which is expected to get federal cabinet approval any day now — got off on the wrong foot by the company's lack of a presence in British Columbia.

Federal Reserve Chairmen Arthur F. Burns and G. William Miller tightened interest rates repeatedly over the decade's course, so that the prime rate, the interest rate charged by banks to creditworthy customers, climbed from 8.5 percent in February 1970, when Burns began in the job, to an astounding 11.75 percent in early August 1979, when Miller left office.

This book is inspired by the group of women that I've been meeting with since I began my career a decade ago, and I would not be where I am without their support.

Naturally, as a central banker, I'll begin by observing that over the past two decades, most of the world has experienced a substantial fall in inflation.

We began planning for this reduction (and also SS taking a hit) decades ago by pouring a lot of money into our small farm.

Chinese growth will begin to slow sharply by 2013 - 14 and will hit an average of 3 % well before the end of the decade.

The pro-migration Senators» complaints about border agents, deportations, and detention beds come as blue - collar wages are beginning to rise after decades of minimal growth, and as Trump's deputies step up their efforts to deter migration by illegal immigrants and asylum - seekers.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

The global market is expected to grow to $ 400 billion by the beginning of the next decade.

Today in Japan, according to the Japan Productivity Center for Socio - Economic Development, workers who began their careers during the «lost decade» of the 1990s and are now in their 30s make up six out of every 10 cases of depression, stress, and work - related mental disabilities reported by employers.

However, beginning in late - 2006, the housing market began to soften and by the start of 2007, last decade's housing market downturn had commenced.

The Bloomberg article posted HERE reports that after a decade - long 5 - times increase, the worldwide stash of foreign currency reserves held by central banks has begun to shrink.

The Memphis (Tennessee) native, whose career began over five decades ago as an 18 - year - old carman - oiler, may be driven by the determination to prove that the theory he has developed is replicable, no matter where.

But this was so dominated by modes of theology so foreign to the Wesleyan tradition that in little more than a decade the Wesleyan Theological Society was founded to begin to articulate its own style of theology.

The New Iranian Cinema didn't begin with the Ayatollah Khomeini; in fact, it predated the revolution by several decades.

This economic debacle began over a decade ago and was made worse by the lack of regulation of the banks and lenders and by our involvement in wars we had no business fighting.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

In any case it seems necessary to start by trying to say what there was of me when the decade began.

Though in the past decades there has been an appreciable cooling off of the fervor displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the advocates of the psychology of religion, still today the various schools of depth - psychology and psychoanalysis offer clues to the understanding of the unconscious and its workings.

Menachem Begin: A Life by Avi Shilon translated by Danielle Zilberberg and Yoram Sharett Yale, 584 pages, $ 40 The early decades of Israeli politics were dominated by Labor Zionists, mainly secular Ashkenazis (Jews from central and eastern Europe) whose goal was to create a New Jew based upon a....

By the 1970s, it was increasingly obvious that we needed economic liberalization, which began during that decade and continued apace in the 1980s and 1990s.

A decade would pass before it was embraced by another artist, and its true introduction began.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.

KENEMA, Sierra Leone — A short - term missions team from South Coast Community Church in New Orleans, La., arrived in this country racked by three decades of civil war, and began serving the ravaged people through the ministries of clowning and puppetry.

The decade 1962 - 1971 — the era covered by this final article in the Century's centennial series — began with Barth's arrival and ended with the last gasp of the McGovern movement's political attempt to impose idealism on an increasingly conservative public.

It has been noted by astute demographers that at the time the baby bust generation began to reach marriage age, the articles in women's magazines began to depart from the «Why He Won't Commit» genre to articles about «The New Morality» and reactions to the sexual excesses of the previous decade.

But beginning in the last decades of the fifteenth century a vast expansion began, partly through attempts of minorities to bring «Christendom» to a nearer approximation to the standards seen in Christ and partly by explorations, conquests, and migrations which within the brief course of four centuries brought all the earth's surface under the control of «Christian» peoples.

It so happens that, for me, the decade staked out by The Christian Century coincided with visits to Rome both at the beginning and the end.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

We begin our understanding by looking through a neuropsychological lens based on decades of research on learning and cognition.

The percentage of women breastfeeding would still remain relatively high through the 1930s, however, when compared to the numbers just two decades later.31 Jacqueline Wolf, in her study of infant feeding in Chicago, found that despite the known dangers of using breast milk substitutes, by the mid-nineteenth century many women began weaning their babies at three months, even before cleaner cow's milk and more reliable proprietary foods were available.

It has taken decades of campaigning by Baby Milk Action, editors and journalists, and other IBFAN groups, particularly Infact Canada (which questioned Prof. Chandra's research from the beginning), for action to be taken.

It began publishing provisional financial and operational reports last month as part of a drive by new chief Emmanuel Kachikwu to improve transparency in the oil sector, which has been beset by corruption and mismanagement for decades.

His thematically organized memoir is a folksy, well - paced, and at times cinematic rendering of a decade in office begun in exhilaration and finished in a hearty good riddance shared both by the leader and his country.

Trouble began brewing between the D'Amatos about four years ago, according to Alfonse D'Amato, who testified in Nassau County matrimonial court that their relationship had soured by 2014 after nearly a decade of marriage.

Under the Illinois Constitution of 1970, senators are divided into three groups, each group having a two - year term at a different part of the decade between censuses, with the rest of the decade being taken up by two four - year terms Illinois» state representatives are elected to a two - year term that begins on the second Wednesday in January.

Today is the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout, an effort begun by anti-cancer groups nearly four decades ago to help people quit smoking.

QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following regarding the passing of Assemblymember Michael Simanowitz: «I am deeply saddened by the loss of Assemblymember Michael Simanowitz, a great public servant who began his career as chief - of - staff to former Assemblymember Nettie Mayersohn more than two decades ago.

But in the decades since the Syracuse Housing Authority was created in 1935, that precise schedule was lost and board appointments began to overlap, said Tom Carnrike, a city lawyer asked by Miner to research the matter.

Bringing a final settlement to an issue that has for decades vexed Orthodox parents of New York City's special needs children, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that beginning in September the city will remove much of the bureaucratic red tape that was described by parents as a recurring nightmare.

«Legislators from both parties have acknowledged the importance of beginning the process of redistricting early on by their regular votes in support of giving LATFOR hundreds of thousands of dollars annually over the past decade.

This year's event, which began on February 25, and ends on March 7, is organized by the Ghana Trade Fair Company in collaboration with SADA on the theme: «Two Decades in International Trade Fairs in Ghana: Exploring Business Opportunities in the SADA Zone of Ghana».

The construction project, begun by the Thruway Authority in 2013 after decades of political squabbling, still rankles upstate critics who want to know exactly how the state is paying for it.

With the global climate negotiations in Paris beginning Nov. 30, now is the time for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make an enforceable commitment to end coal - burning in the Empire State by the end of the decade.

«I am deeply saddened by the loss of Assemblymember Michael Simanowitz, a great public servant who began his career as chief - of - staff to former Assemblymember Nettie Mayersohn more than two decades ago.

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.