Sentences with phrase «over the past several decades much»

Over the past several decades much has been studied about how meditation, particularly in the form of breathing techniques, can affect our health and overall well - being in positive ways.

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I've had my eye on Israel for several years now, since working on my book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers, and learning that much of the country's economic success over the past few decades has been the result of a meshing between technology and the military.

Much has been made recently about slowing productivity growth, but the longer - term view in Figure 2 shows that the U.S. has become radically more productive over the past several decades.

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to....

Over the past several decades both philosophers and theologians within the academy have participated in a revival of interest in what is generally called «virtue ethics» - an ethic that focuses not so much upon what we ought to do, but upon character, upon the sort of persons we ought to be.

While it has much to recommend it, I ultimately came away from reading the book disappointed at several pieces of advice it gives that seem to ignore critical changes in the thinking of concussion experts over the past decade, including some from Dr. Cantu himself, that detracted from what is otherwise an excellent book.

His indispensable new book, Language at the Speed of Sight, lays out in clear, readable English much of what we have learned over the past several decades about reading; he labors to «cheerfully destroy a few myths» about how we process and make sense of the printed word, but Seidenberg is no happy warrior.

However, in general, the annual cost of caring for a pet hasn't increased much over the past several decades.

A new study co-authored by Francis Zwiers, the director of UVic's Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, suggests that human - induced global warming may be responsible for the increases in heavy precipitation that have been observed over much of the Northern Hemisphere including North America and Eurasia over the past several decades.

I hope to be completely wrong, but my observation of world politics, the UN in particular, over the past several decades, is that just when you are certain that the Intergovernmental Panel on Chicken Chit has finaly died, it will be reborn as the World Wide Focus on Poultry Excrement (WWF - PE) and it will take ten years before anyone realizes that its all the same people just with different titles and brand new evidence much stronger than the previous evidence because they have learned from their mistakes.

How much hotter is a complicated question and has been the subject of intense scientific inquiry over the past several decades.

However, since they have been already wildly successful, over the past several decades, in building the superstructure of an UN-based world government (see our recent article and global maps in «The United Nations: On the Brink of Becoming a World Government»), they are dropping much of the pretense and more boldly asserting true objectives.

There are two prominent and undeniable examples of the models» insufficiencies: 1) climate models overwhelmingly expected much more warming to have taken place over the past several decades than actually occurred; and 2) the sensitivity of the earth's average temperature to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (such as carbon dioxide) averages some 60 percent greater in the IPCC's climate models than it does in reality (according to a large and growing collection of evidence published in the scientific literature).

The spokesman was responding by saying that the coal industry has become much cleaner over the past several decades.

Interestingly, most of the decades - old titles I tried didn't feel dated; I attribute this to the revival of retro art styles in indie games over the past several years, as well as the smooth gameplay across titles that challenge you and require as much precision and skill as most modern releases.

Much has been written about the shifting focus in early childhood education over the past several decades.

Discussion Over the past several decades, there has been much documentation of the detrimental consequences of ACEs in later adulthood with regard to mental health and physical health outcomes (Felitti et al., 1998).