Sentences with phrase «for decades previous»

For decades previous, Manchester City had suffered their fair share of agony, alternating between divisions in a whirlwind of relegations and promotions that at its worst saw City playing in the third tier of English football.

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Imagine if «sandwich artist» became a synonym for deceitfulness, just as once honorable professions like snake oil salesman and ambulance chaser did in previous decades.

Both are drastically new politicians: Strikingly young, they have shattered not only the age floor, but the hidebound rules and assumptions to which previous generations have clung for decades.

Gurle, who has spent decades developing messaging platforms for Microsoft, Skype, and Thomson Reuters, merged a previous company called Perzo into the current concern.

The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

After - tax household incomes managed to rise despite a graying workforce in the previous decade, giving hope for the decade to come.

Now even though the Sultan boasts an estimated personal wealth of more than $ 17 billion, and had been receiving haircuts from Mr. Modestou for nearly two decades, the total cost served to shatter the previous world record for the world's most expensive trim.

While most of this company's revenues came from search advertising during the previous decade, the next 25 years for Google will not be so easily defined.

We have argued in previous articles that spending by governments on public infrastructure that would provide services to Canadians for many decades in the future is not the same as spending by governments on programs and services that only benefit current generations.

In a post last week, I reviewed the biggest drawdowns for the Dow in each of the previous eleven decades.

And Volkswagen indicated it would prepare its truck and bus divisions for possible sale on the stock market, a major departure after decades of empire building by previous chief executives.

«Because of our long bias, this has led us to hold far more cash than we would like, and more than we have done so for the previous decade.

When these entities are net exporters of less than $ 22 billion, as they had been for much of 2013 and 2014, or net importers of capital, as they had been during the previous two decades, the central banks will have exported capital (accumulated reserves) to bring that number up.

In other English - speaking countries, interest rates that intermediaries currently charge businesses are generally higher than at their previous cyclical low point for the decade.

The current funding crisis for CIHR, after all, reflects a decade of neglect under the previous Conservative government.

TORONTO — For the first time in more than two decades, voter turnout increased in Ontario compared to the previous provincial election.

The new HBC rewards program that Canadians apply for is a completely revamped version not offered in previous decades.

The Roman Catholic Church, for instance, has seen more changes in the decade since Vatican II than it saw in the previous century.

Though evangelicalism had always been an element in American religious life and had been growing in strength for several previous decades, it was the candidacy and election of a self - proclaimed «born - again» Southern evangelical as American president which brought the phenomenon to widespread public attention.

But it's easy to overlook just how poorly things went for three of the most successful teams of the previous four decades.

Or put another way — our heaviest ever spend, double anything previous, in the season we bought Alexis, Debuchy, Welbeck, Chambers, Gabriel, Ospina and Bielik is the rough equivalent of JM's average spend every year for the last decade.

Apparently, the government had been training chefs at its culinary training facilities to send abroad for the previous decade, but this project formalized and enhanced these efforts significantly.

Because of constant CL participation in the previous decade, the next manager will have tens of millions more per year available for buying players.

For the last decade - plus, the national champion has signed more four - and five - star players than two - and three - stars in its previous four classes.

In 2014 we made a point of lineing more under center than we had be doing for most likely the previous decade.

This group was not nearly as strong as the previous group of four teams that monopolized English football for more than half a decade, and it was obvious that a six - team jumble would eventually emerge.

Arsenal were beaten 1 - 0 by Köln in Germany on Thursday in their Europa League game and that's significant given that they'd qualified for the Champions League for the previous two decades.

In the near - decade that I spent covering high school sports at a previous Bay Area publication, I'd been interviewed for television while on the sidelines or in the office.

Liverpool are in the semi-finals for the first time in a decade while Roma's sole previous last - four appearance came in 1984, so both will be eager to take advantage of this chance.

Over the last decade, the average number of managerial changes per season has been nine, up from an average of six for the previous ten years before that.

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The figure cited in the study rose sharply from the level, one in seven, that had been the case in 1988 and for the previous decade.

This was not new territory for Waters, since she'd spent the previous two decades working in the school food industry, serving as food service director in Rockdale County and Decatur City Schools in Georgia; assistant director in Gwinnett County, Georgia; and as a school nutritionist in Louisville, Kentucky.

«For decades, previous administrations wouldn't dare to expend their political capital to try and negotiate an immigration solution.

A firm believer in diplomacy, the Ambassador's doctrine appears validated by the previous decade, where ten years of war and occupation have merely resulted in miring the US in two unwinnable wars in the Middle East, persuading non-nuclear countries that security lies in acquirement of nuclear arms, and the disillusioning of much of the world of the the trust that the US is a force for good on the world stage.

This project aims to investigate this, and in particular the role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which over the previous two decades has become increasingly influential in setting standards of state behaviour, and in setting the tone for domestic courts.

Labour has not won a major election for a decade, while the party has suffered a sharp erosion of support due to the unpopularity of its previous leaders and its inability to manage the issue of immigration (Clarke, Sanders, Stewart, & Whiteley, 2014).

[100] MPs called for an inquiry in January 2016, when it was revealed that a retrospective tax deal the Treasury agreed with Google over previous diverted profits allowed it to pay an effective tax rate of just 3 % over the previous decade.

Tony has been with WICZ - TV Fox 40 for almost a decade and his previous experience includes retail sales and management and Cable TV advertising and management.

The issue has been talked about for decades, but previous governments had backed away because of the high costs.

Cutting Medicaid spending, which had ballooned over the previous decade to more than $ 50 billion a year, was an albatross for both former Governor Eliot Spitzer and George Pataki.

«That is why it's so puzzling that your plans for «transportation equity» have left out the borough with the fastest population growth in the previous decade and the fewest public transportation options.»

As dislikeable as he can be, Andrew Cuomo is the choice, if for no other reason than that he had the guts to push through the SAFE act gun control measure, a mild reaction to heinous events, but more than anyone else could muster and that he's passed four balanced on time budgets in a row in a state that couldn't for two previous decades.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

Found and Lost Galvanized by the discovery of Malin 1, astronomers pored over the previous decades» photographic plates for hints of unnoticed, low - surface - brightness galaxies.

But Ecuador's experience with Chevron may have convinced it that oil actually stinks — an epic lawsuit has been fought for nearly two decades over oil spills and toxic waste left behind by previous development.

«Methane's growth rate has dropped, so it'll have become a weaker source of stratospheric water, but we don't fully understand why its concentrations have not increased as rapidly in recent years as they did for the previous several decades.»

Previous flares were short - lived, typically becoming very faint in a year, but this super-long X-ray flare has been persistently bright for close to a decade.

Lead agent Patrick Stone, now retired from the FDA, had visited the Houston lab many times over the previous decade for routine inspections.