Sentences with phrase «over the last few decades many»

There's this pressure to determine the infamous ROI of social, and yet when you look at other major marketing channels over the last few decades that we've used — billboards in the sky, ads in newspapers, even commercials on television — those extensions of campaigns are traditionally measured in eyeballs or ears.

«Over last few decades society has gotten confused about who the real heroes are,» Yancopoulos said.

This is what's happening in Japan, where developers built too many golf courses over the last few decades after demand shot up in the 1980s.

This is easier said than done because many pressures have tended to flatten real U.S. wages for average employees over the last few decades.

If there were no trading costs — possible in a thought experiment but not in the real world — an excellent strategy over the last few decades would have been buying shares at the last possible moment during regular trading hours and selling them methodically at the opening bell every day, Professor Gulen of Purdue said.

The simple fact is that, while our family lives have changed substantially over the last few decades, workplace policies haven't kept pace with those changes.

China has prospered over the last few decades by focusing its economy on low - cost manufacturing for foreign markets.

Polite Canadians are easy prey for U.S. oil barons I've learned a lot about compromise over the last few decades.

Trudeau said his sense from voters across Canada is the Canadian economy has performed generally well over the last few decades, but they don't feel their families and communities are performing as well.

To put this in perspective, «average» home price growth over the last few decades is somewhere between 3 % and 5 %.

The artisan soap industry has grown steadily over the last few decades, and for some people it's become a very profitable home - based business.

When a 1993 Angus Reid poll asked Canadians whether their country should «preserve its formal constitutional connection with the monarchy» or «move to abolish» it, roughly half (51 %) chose the latter option, suggesting that views on whether Canada should remain a monarchy over the long term have remained relatively stable over the last few decades.

Seems to me seniors, together with many more Albertans, have finally realized that the PCs squandered the tremendous opportunities handed to them over the last few decades.

First, we know the accumulation of Treasury securities by the foreign sector has been largely attributable to China and Japan over the last few decades.

As we look back over the last few decades, it is clear that the foreign sector and the mutual fund complex have played the bulk of the face cards in their hands.

There is now a lot of soul - searching about the direction of the Republican Party and much doubting of its future viability if does not adapt itself in some way to an electorate that has (it is said) fundamentally shifted over the last few decades.

And, historically, the evangelical community has taken several steps back from public schools over the last few decades — particularly since prayer was removed from schools.

But over the last few decades it's remarkable how little of that growth has trickled down to ordinary families.

Even Roberts acknowledges that «few people are really listening, that the debate is politically rigged, that few people have the nerve or willingness to hold unpopular positions» and «the development of the culture over the last few decades has inured people to the creational realities.»

Observers of Christian growth have been suggesting over the last few decades that the faith is experiencing a significant migratory moment, not unlike the first explosive venture outside the tribe of the Jews into the unfamiliar world of the gentiles.

Observers of Christian growth have been suggesting over the last few decades that the faith is experiencing a significant migratory moment, not unlike the first explosive venture outside the tribe of the Jews into the...

Discovery is the flagship offering of CBS All Access, a new streaming service that's $ 6 per month to stream virtually every show the network has created over the last few decades.

In the U.S., the yearly mean number of judicial executions over the last few decades tracks closely with the yearly mean number of deaths from lightning strikes.

My sense is that younger Evangelicals may be open to reconsidering the uncritical embrace of artificial contraception that has been the norm for Protestants over the last few decades.

By and large, over the last few decades the Church in the West has adopted a don't ask / don't tell policy.

Over the last few decades, for example, political scientists, sociologists, and scholars of the American Founding have all pointed out that a smidgen of religious belief seems necessary to prevent modern liberalism from devouring its own political and economic gains.

(That's what has in fact happened in slow motion over the last few decades.)

Christianity needs better answers to the questions the world is asking, and this failure to explain how the blood of Jesus saves us from our sin is one of the main reasons so many people have abandoned Christianity over the last few decades.

All the poster was saying was that the face of Christianity has changed over the last few decades, for the worse.

Read more about the history of the coffee industry over the last few decades at TechnoServe and an article about bird diversity in Tanzania at the African Bird Club web site.

For those that don't know who Maida Heatter is, she's responsible for writing some of the most amazing, luscious, scrumptiously adjective - worthy baking books over the last few decades.

As you'll see in this timeline, over the last few decades athletes were all too often punished by teams, leagues and the law for the use of cannabis.

Gennaro Gattuso believes that Italian Football is forgetting what it has done over the last few decades and that there are...

«I'm thrilled with the way plans are working out in the city, and it could never have happened without all the different boards and governmental bodies pitching in together the way they've done over the last few decades,» Marcucci said.

And yet it's the most common surgical procedure in the US — one that has skyrocketed over the last few decades.

These aren't our grandmother's diapers; the industry has vastly expanded and developed over the last few decades.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

Thanks to a number of significant global initiatives, breastfeeding rates around the world have slowly risen over the last few decades.

Time use data indicate that men have nearly tripled their time spent providing primary childcare (the amount of time when childcare is their primary activity) over the last few decades (Wang and Bianchi, 2009).

I should look closer at the cancer data, but given the rates of breastfeeding over the last few decades, especially of breastfeeding past 1 year, I would guess that most of the cancer data comes from women with several shorter lactations.

Because of changes in adoption over the last few decades — changes that include open adoption, gay adoption, international adoptions and trans - racial (racial transformation) adoptions, and a focus on moving children out of the foster care system into adoptive families — the impact of adoption on the basic unit of society and the family, has been enormous.

Media observers are starting to look back over the last few decades and wonder if the Sun's influence was ever that emphatic.

There has been a major erosion of support for public housing from the State over the last few decades.

The result is that average house prices have changed little in Germany over the last few decades.

However it does seem that the Ministry of Defence has been plagued over the last few decades with commissioning large projects that end up running horrendously late and over budget.

McKee says the only thing that has done more to keep Senate Republicans in the majority over the last few decades is their ability to draw district lines.

«That's been cleaned up over the last few decades.»

Over the last few decades which portions of the average rural voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Republican policies, relative to Democratic policies?

Over the last few decades which portions of the average metropolitan voter's disposable income in dollars, (or if there is no change, their quality of life), have consistently improved as a result of Democratic policies, relative to Republican policies?

New York state has ranked near the bottom of states for voter turnout in most elections over the last few decades.