Sentences with phrase «forces earlier this decade»

But David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute was among those who questioned the extent of the «rank creep,» especially since the numbers continued to climb even as the Harper government cut the Forces earlier this decade.

Not exact matches

During the early decades of the 20th century the religious education movement was a major force in American Christianity.

In the last decade or so, dozens of lawmakers have been convicted of crimes, a governor and now an attorney general have had to resign over misdeeds, another governor was forced to pay a fine for lying under oath, a comptroller was convicted of corruption, and — as mentioned earlier — a top aide to the current governor was convicted as well.

The number of people forced from their homes at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million compared to 51.2 million a year earlier and 37.5 million a decade ago.

It was restored to its 229 - minute European cut decades ago but earlier in 2014 it was expanded with an additional 22 minutes of footage that Leone was forced to cut out before its Cannes premiere in 1984.

It was restored to its 229 - minute European cut decades ago but earlier this year it was expanded with an additional 22 minutes of footage that Leone was forced to cut out before its Cannes premiere in 1984.

Although initially not interested in a human interest piece, Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) finds himself drawn into Philomena Lee's (Judi Dench) story of her forced labor at a convent decades earlier whose nuns sold her child, and those of several other unwed mothers, into adoption for 1000 pounds.

Set in a world a decade after the fallout of society as we currently know it — a subtitle before the movie gets going contributes to a sense of disorientation very early on — we are forced to confront a reality that has been teetering on the edge, only now pushed beyond it and here is the aftermath.

One of the main forces behind the shift of Sacramento High School into a charter school earlier this decade announced plans to open ten charter schools in Sacramento County in order to offer better educational choices to students.

«One of 15 Series to Read if You Enjoyed The Hunger Games» — Buzzfeed In a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms.

Noting that only one - third of the Canadian work force is currently covered by a registered pension plan, and that savings rates have gone down in recent decades, a report by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce earlier this year warned that those born in the 1980s could face a 30 - per - cent drop in their standard of living upon retirement.

He said that global forces beyond the control of the Federal Reserve had kept long - term interest rates low, fueling the housing bubble earlier this decade.

Ironically, while some continue to attack this nearly decade - old work, the actual scientific community has moved well beyond the earlier studies, focusing now on the detailed patterns of modeled and reconstructed climate changes in past centuries, and insights into the roles of external forcing and internal modes of variability (such as the North Atlantic Oscillation or «NAO» and the «El Nino / Southern Oscillation» or «ENSO») in explaining this past variability.

«It seems unlikely that anthropogenic forcing on its own could have caused the warming, since the change in greenhouse gas forcing in the early decades of the twentieth century was only some 20 % of the present.

Clearly, despite massive technology - forcing, combined wind and solar output is increasing at about a 10x slower rate than coal grew a decade earlier.

They concluded: «It seems unlikely that anthropogenic forcing on its own could have caused the warming, since the change in greenhouse gas forcing in the early decades of the twentieth century was only some 20 % of the present.»