Sentences with phrase «around a decade after»

This was around a decade after the end of Sierra Leone's civil war, and a year before the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus; needless to say, the resulting deaths seemed barely newsworthy.

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If social media today, a decade after Facebook's founding, presents a warped, cracked reflection of the world around us, RelSci is trying to map that world, especially the professional part of it, with increasing detail, precision, and context.
Store brands» market share has risen to 17.5 percent over the past two years after hovering around 16 percent for over a decade.
After some early, desultory efforts, Martin found his footing and reeled out a handful of budgets built around themes such as deficit fighting, education, innovation and tax reduction that set the country on sound fiscal footing and gave it political direction and policy focus for the better part of a decade.
Two decades after that ruling, considerable uncertainty remains around what «the community» regards as unacceptable.
After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.
The extraordinary growth of the business of golf these last 15 years, he argued, was almost entirely down to the hype around Woods (and to the incredible way he validated it, beginning with his first green jacket in 1997 just months after he turned pro, and continuing across more than a decade of dominance).
To the surprise of most investors around the globe, yesterday the U.K. voted 52 % to 48 % in favor of leaving the European Union (EU), after more than four decades, in a stunning rejection of the continent's post-war political and economic order.
The answer can be found in a weak U.S. dollar (the dollar index has wallowed around the 90 mark for much of 2018, after a stunning free fall in 2017), an immense fiscal expansion in the last decade pushing the economy toward overheating, a tight labor market, and recent (albeit modest) price pressure in the wake of trade war possibilities and tariff talk, Slok said.
Investors around the world were taken by surprise on Tuesday after the People's Bank of China (PBoC) devalued the yuan by almost 2 percent against the U.S. dollar, causing the currency to suffer its biggest fall in over two decades.
After more than a decade of growth, renewable energy is still just scratching the surface of its potential to provide energy around the world.
Ten years after his holy death on April 2, 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope St. John Paul II, looms even larger than he did when the world figuratively gathered at his bedside a decade ago: tens of millions of men and women around the world who felt impelled, and privileged, to pray with him through what he called his «Passover» — his liberation through death into a new life of freedom in the blazing glory of the Thrice - Holy God.
Yet some little decades after Christ there were Christians not only in Palestine but also in Rome and Nero (around 60 a. D.!!!)
You said: «Yet some little decades after Christ there were Christians not only in Palestine but also in Rome and Nero (around 60 a. D.!!!)
Nutella has been around for decades now — since after World War II — and fans may have to buckle up for another recipe change soon, as the supply of hazelnuts — the primary ingredient — gets called into question.
So, shortly after I arrived I headed out of the city and down around the bay to the then decade - old winery, one of the Peninsula's pioneers, where I had one of my first in - situ introductions to the cool - climate southern Victorian wine styles I'd been selling in Britain.
That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».
because after 10 years of wenger peddling his shit to explain a decade of failure there are too many 4th place junkies around this club including on the board who fear going through cold turkey... but the reality is that with wenger its cold turkey....
For decades the rate of circumcision in the U.S. hovered around 90 %, with non-Jewish infant boys being circumcised within the first hours after birth.
Exxon is now the world's biggest fracker, a practice New York State banned after a decade of organizing around health and climate impacts.
The trailers were meant to be a short - term solution to address overcrowding at public schools, but more than a decade after they were placed around the city, thousands of students still use them.
Let's first note that 421 - a has been around for decades, renewed year after year by Albany,» he told Williams.
Staten Island congressman Michael Grimm talks about the decade - old allegations from a former NYPD officer which appeared in the latest issue of The New Yorker in which Grimm allegedly waved around his firearm at a Queens nightclub after a scuffle with five men, made racist remarks and abused his authority as an FBI agent.
After all, fighter jets have been zipping around faster than sound for decades, making a noise like two quick - fire rifle shots.
More than two decades after the world's largest nuclear disaster, life around Chernobyl continues to adapt.
For decades after 1918, H1N1 wandered around the planet, a commonplace flu, no more virulent than any ordinary strain, a killer of the very old and the very young.
After decades of failed searches, astronomers from the Pale Red Dot project found a planet around our nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
What the team discovered was a gradual increase in elements associated with metalworking starting around 1540, less than a decade after the Battle of Cajamarca and the start of Spanish colonization.
After a decade of searching for planets orbiting stars like our sun, astronomers had found nothing but giant planets, most of them gas balls like Jupiter, around other stars.
But only six decades after Sputnik's launch into pristine skies, the orbit around Earth is now filled with nearly 18,000 objects tracked by the United States Strategic Command.
After decades of field work from dozens of sites around the world, and after two years of combing through and analyzing data, Matt Forister, associate professor and ecologist from the University of Nevada, Reno, and an international team have reported on global patterns in the diets of insect herbivAfter decades of field work from dozens of sites around the world, and after two years of combing through and analyzing data, Matt Forister, associate professor and ecologist from the University of Nevada, Reno, and an international team have reported on global patterns in the diets of insect herbivafter two years of combing through and analyzing data, Matt Forister, associate professor and ecologist from the University of Nevada, Reno, and an international team have reported on global patterns in the diets of insect herbivores.
The use of GMOs was outlawed in Tasmania more than a decade ago, after genetically altered canola escaped from crops at secret trials around the state.
And on the opposite side of the planet, on March 3 sea ice around Antarctica hit its lowest extent ever recorded by satellites at the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, a surprising turn of events after decades of moderate sea ice expansion.
Patterson's findings, published in March, suggest that Viking settlers in Iceland ran into trouble when a cool period hit around A.D. 970, just a few decades after they arrived.
After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.
E-cigarettes are not subject to the same regulations as traditional cigarettes, potentially renormalizing the act of smoking after decades of public health efforts to shift public norms around smoking.
After more than a decade of preparation, a pioneering attempt to fly around the world powered solely by sunshine got off the ground today
After decades of work by scientists around the globe, researchers have genetically manipulated yeast to synthesize thebaine, an opiate substance that can be used to create many opioid drugs, and hydrocodone, a common semi-synthetic opioid drug.
Probably a number of embryonic genes, after being turned off for decades, are reexpressed in cancer cells, enabling those cells to regain their embryonic capacity to move around and invade other tissues.»
In fact, the volume of the brain and its weight declines with age at a rate of around five per cent per decade after age 40.
Of course cookies and pizza weren't supposed to taste soft and scrumptious after lying around for half a decade.
Leverage insider tips to turn around your midlife health challenges... even after decades of less - than - perfect diet and lifestyle choices.
After amassing a comprehensive archive from a decade's worth of fashion - related events around the world, Amsterdam - based book obsessives MENDO persuaded Katz Sinding that now was the time to release his first publication.
The first feature from writer / director Trey Edward Shults centers around the return of the title character, a sixtysomething ex-hippie, to the familial fold at Thanksgiving after a decades - long period of...
Krisha, the first feature from writer / director Trey Edward Shults, centers around the Thanksgiving return of the title character, a sixtysomething ex-hippie, to the familial fold after a decades - long period of estrangement.
The infamous South Boston gangster gained an almost cult hero status after disappearing from the city as his empire crumbled around him, managing to evade the FBI for nearly two decades despite supposed sightings all over the globe until his surprise capture in California in 2011.
The «cop show» genre has been around television for decades, and it's one of those evergreen story basics that can be mined for show after show.
After close to a decade of watching these heroes come into their own, flying around Earth and transporting themselves to different universes, Civil War is the first truly human movie about a team of superhuman individuals.
Who We Are Now (Unrated) Tale of redemption revolving around an ex-con's (Julianne Nicholson) attempt to regain custody of her son with the help of a public defender (Emma Roberts) after spending a decade behind bars for manslaughter.
After going more than a decade without a win, the underfunded Manassas football program is starting to come around under Courtney, whose devotion requires some neglect of his own kids and wife.
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