Sentences with phrase «absence of several years»

To anyone entering East Jerusalem after an absence of several years, it is clear that Israel has been taking over traditional Arab neighborhoods.

Not exact matches

There is an absence of any cloying sentimentality in the writing style: it is simple and direct, has no clichés, and manages to bring the extraordinary events of several hundred years ago into our reach.

As others have pointed out, the last several years of the Paterno staff saw a limited number of assistants, and the absence of the head coach, out on the recruiting trail.

Like on several other issues, Cuomo has taken executive action on the issue in the absence of legislation, with a plan to move 16 - and 17 - year - olds into a separate prison facility from older inmates.

Bonomo's departure — a leave of absence — resolves a potentially embarrassing situation for the association as it prepares for its biggest day of the year — perhaps its biggest day in several years: Saturday's running of the Belmont Stakes includes Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner American Pharoah, who could become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978.

As has been the case in several similar aid infusions to New York's capital city in recent years, the aid will come in the form of a «spin - up» of the state's annual Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT), an annual sum intended to cover the Empire State Plaza's absence from the local tax rolls.

Mountain ranges are expected to erode away in the absence of tectonic activity but several ranges, such as the Appalachians in the US and the Urals in Russia, have been preserved over several hundred million years.

In the absence of this and other defense mechanisms, Weinberg says, «cancer development would be inevitable, and we would be covered by tumors by the time we're several years old.»

The biggest news to celebrate may be that after several years of absence, Owen Wilson also returns to the fold for the first time since 2007 (though he had a small voice role in «Fantastic Mr. Fox»).

Like several of her late career calling cards, including Francois Ozon's Under the Sand (2000) and Andrew Haigh's 45 Years (2015), Rampling is once again suffering from the absence (whether emotional or physical) of her husband, left to trudge onwards in isolation.

The policy — approved by the two districts for next fall — allows teachers to defer part of their salary for several years to finance a planned leave of absence, with the guarantee of a job when they return.

The Panasonic Eluga marks the company's return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it's come back to us with a moderately high - spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.

Sales of corporate investment portfolios will take place into a market grappling with increased US government borrowing and the absence of its largest buyer for the last several years

Having been members of Women Printmakers of Austin for several years, we were aware that there's just an absence of any kind of vibrant printmaking art scene here in Houston, and we decided it was time to establish an organization here.»

Several other dealers have returned after years of absence, including Galerie Eigen + Art (Berlin), Gagosian (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong), Perrotin (New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo), Regen Projects (Los Angeles) and Van Doren Waxter (New York).

Several prominent galleries including Metro Pictures, Galerie Lelong, Andrew Kreps and Kamel Mennour returned to the fair after years of absence.

The experiment is one of several schemes collectively known as geo - engineering which have been getting a closer hearing in recent years in the absence of political progress to roll back the greenhouse gas problem.

Well, Eli has seen it all, ranging from goodbye, to suggestions that the unfunded research faculty take a leave of absence to structured bridge funding programs, with the length of support depending on rank and years of service (read bringing in grants) Research faculty are driven to submitting multiple grant applications each year and for the most part need to get funding from several grants.

Recent model results, by contrast, suggest that significant impacts will persist for hundreds of thousands of years after emissions cease;» Matthews and Caldeira (2008): «We show first that a single pulse of carbon released into the atmosphere increases globally averaged surface temperature by an amount that remains approximately constant for several centuries, even in the absence of additional emissions.»

These scientists have found that, in the absence of any significant CO2 concentration changes or human influence during the Holocene (i.e., the last ~ 10,000 years), the deep oceans naturally warmed by more than 2 °C in a span of just 200 years, which is several times the rate in which they are alleged to have warmed in the last ~ 60 years of the supposedly dominant anthropogenic influence on climate.

But equally, the absence of such problems or accusations over a period of several years in two countries ought to be factor in the discussion as well.

If you took an extended leave of absence or stayed home with children for several years you can't deduct expenses for re-entry into the job market.

As we are facing a possible shortage of dental assistants in New Brunswick, some of you may consider returning to the profession after a few or several years of absence.

Another limitation of this study was the absence of several BMI data points between ages 4 years and 6 years, a phase of very rapid child development and weight and height change (40).