Sentences with phrase «moving decade by decade»

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Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

After more than a decade of strong interstate migration to Western Australia, the number of people moving to the west coast is being outstripped by the number of Sandgropers heading for the east coast, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

The move would be a win for newspaper companies and broadcasters that have pushed for the change for decades, but was criticized by Democrats who said it could usher in a new era of media outlet consolidation.

Rio Tinto's decade - long move towards autonomous haulage has hit a big milestone, with 1 billion tonnes of iron ore and waste material now transported by driverless trucks.

The group emerged in Colombia over the last decade, moving into areas of the drug trade vacated by Colombian cartels and paramilitary groups and becoming a kind of decentralized network of nodes running criminal activities throughout the country.

«While the strategic rationale for launching the (low - cost carrier) unit as a defensive move against further penetration by other low - cost leisure carriers such as Sunwing Vacations, Transat and WestJet make sense, we remain skeptical of the magnitude of earnings impact until additional scale is obtained later this decade with additions to the mainline fleet.»

News International, the British unit of Murdoch's News Corp., has not said whether it will move quickly to put another paper into the Sunday market that had been dominated for decades by News of the World.

LONDON — The staggering ascent in the Swiss franc, one of the most acute moves in decades by a major currency, has hurt financial firms around the world, with at least two brokerages going out of business.

Toronto - Dominion Bank sees as many as 90,000 jobs lost by the end of the decade from the move and Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management, says higher minimum wages across Canada could boost consumer prices by 0.5 percent over two years.

Although the retirement industry has been moving toward fee neutrality over the last decade, it is this business model in which a non-fiduciary advisor is compensated by a plan provider that is most vulnerable to changes in the current DOL fiduciary rules.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

A flurry of last - minute moves by the House, Senate and White House late Monday in Washington failed to break a bitter budget standoff over President Obama's health care law, setting in motion the first government shutdown in nearly two decades.

When we moved to Toronto from Washington, D.C. about a decade ago, my wife and I were shocked by the cost of housing.

Mirror trades were a favored conduit in the first half of this decade, regulators say, but they've been replaced by other mechanisms for moving money, including illicit reinsurance contracts and fraudulent court orders.

The Sabans met in seventh grade, were married by 21, and spent the next few decades moving — at least fifteen times — as Saban worked his way through the ranks as an assistant.

The political moves made in the past two decades have been prompted by the interests of transnational corporations and those who profit from their gains.

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

It may be that the culture war is better thought of as an effort to move forward, to a yet - to - really - arrive fourth stage, one in which real effort to practice postmodern conservatism will be made by society, doing its best to partially revive lost things, informed by many decades of experiencing the awful consequences of full modernity.

Once bumped out of the groove in which we have been stuck for decades, it will be easier for parish priests to take up some of the reforms which have been encouraged gently by Pope Benedict, to be frightened no longer by traditional vestments and vessels for Mass, by the possibility of at least some celebrations of Mass being ad orientem, or by gently moving away fromanti - liturgical informality.

However, in recent decades, religions are increasingly committed to respecting, and even promoting, local and regional identities by moving away from an expansionist spirit, and to facilitating self - determination and self - expression so that global thrust doesn't usurp local gifts and resources.

It is a measure of how far things have moved since the 1980s that in DV, published in that decade, it was not necessary to spell out, after the word «marriage», the fact that by this word is meant the union of a man and a woman, and not two people of the same sex.

As the debate on foreign investment in Australia's agriculture rages, QIC's potential investment could well be seen as the first major move by an Australian institution in the cattle sector for more than a decade since AMP sold out of pastoral company Stanbroke.

As waterboy said, that is getting really old, especially considering that by and large the moves the Rockies have made over the last half decade have been positive, as evidenced by their wins and losses.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

His is a classic foreign basketball legend's tale: born to Greek immigrants in New Jersey, starred at Seton Hall in the late «70s, got drafted by the Celtics but never made the team, then moved to his parents» native country to dominate for over a decade and ignite a basketball explosion.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

According to the trade value chart devised by Jimmy Johnson a couple decades ago, that's enough draft capital to move into the top five.

Because unlike the rest of the managers Wenger has been taking stick for mistakes made by the players, referee and club board for the past decade, if anything Wenger has been under more pressure than any manager in the PL since our stadium move hence why he appears to be more respected by the FA compared to Mourinho.

but I still stand by my initial feelings - if this is what it takes to bring attention to the cause, so be it - because Lord knows the rest of us have been shouting about it for decade (s) and progress had been moving at a snails pace, which was so frustrating.

Such a move would be particularly poorly received by the Lib Dems, who have campaigned for the abolition of tuition fees for decades.

Having replaced Tony Blair — himself the victim of a plot by Brown - backing ministers to force him out after a decade in power — in 2007, he only had to wait until the following year for the first move against him.

After decades of moving to the Right, and in the context of ever more brutal austerity, it looked like Labour would respond by shifting to the Right yet again.

The move could also bolster Cohen's effort to delay a suit brought in Los Angeles by porn star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump about a decade ago.

The Mets» move to purchase the Chiefs will end more than six decades of community ownership of the team, currently majority - owned by the Community Baseball Club of Central New York.

The White House press corps was stunned by reports of a proposal by the Trump administration to eject reporters from their home in the West Wing — a move that, if carried out, would uproot decades of established protocol whereby journalists are allowed to work in the White House close to senior officials.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

Over the last decade, marine researchers have been delighted by discoveries of deep - water coral gardens — and appalled by damage from trawlers, which are moving into deeper waters (ScienceNOW, 26 February 2002).

Flooded farmland has already forced thousands of Bangladeshis to higher ground, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of the numbers of people who will need to move because of climate change in the coming decade, according to a report released by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the United Nations University and CARE International today.

The bill, approved by parliament on Tuesday, has won praise from politicians and environmentalists as a bold move to tackle a decades - long problem of smoke from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia choking the city state.

Moving up the academic ladder, NSF figures analyzed by the RAND Corp. show that the number of doctoral degrees in science, engineering, and health awarded to U.S. citizens has risen by 22 % over the same 2 decades, including an 11 % rise over the past 10 years.

By comparing over a decade of measurements from Department of Defense satellites and NASA's Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics, or TIMED, mission, the researchers were able to spot patterns in energy moving throughout the upper atmosphere.

Furthermore, the President will make it a national imperative to dramatically improve student achievement in math and science, and move US students from the middle of the pack to the top on international benchmarks over the next decade by challenging all Americans to dramatically increase support for math and science education.

Under the best - case scenario, where the Earth warms by one degree Celsius, fish would move 15 kilometres every decade.

In decades gone by, students generally earned a doctorate in about 4 years then moved on to careers on college or university faculties.

Data from «core» terrestrial and aquatic sites within each domain would be supplemented by information from two «relocatable» sites, using equipment that could be moved every decade or so.

To complicate matters, the theory of special relativity, which preceded general relativity by a decade, predicts a similar effect for clocks in motion — a stationary clock will tick faster than a moving clock.

But the Hany letter and Zamalek protests appear to be part of a wider move by Egyptians to air their opinions about the way their government has been run for the past 3 decades.

Even before the recent push to bring on a full - time marine mammal guard to look out for almost a dozen of the Navy's submarines and 9,500 personnel, the Navy considered bringing dolphin guards to Kitsap - Bangor two decades ago, but the move was stalled by a lawsuit from environmental groups charging that the Navy failed to analyze the effects of the proposed actions on the dolphins themselves and then a loss for security funding in the 1990s.

As expressed decades later by the physicist John Archibald Wheeler, mass grips spacetime, telling it how to curve, and spacetime grips mass, telling it how to move.