Sentences with phrase «back over several decades»

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Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

CIA has been in the book business for several decades: before 1967 it «sponsored, subsidized or produced over 1,000 books,» many of which were put out by CIA - backed cultural organizations whose subsidy was «more often than not» unknown to the writer.

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.

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

Both have their perils in Albany, where congestion pricing has died several deaths over the decades and Senate Republicans are unlikely to back a tax increase.

One is an August court date after Wills was unable to reach a plea deal with the Manhattan district attorney's office over several misdemeanor charges, an outstanding warrant and a small fine dating back more than a decade.

NASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble Space Telescope has been in low Earth orbit for nearly 28 years, but with several repairs and upgrades over the decades it's still sending back beautiful images.

Agribusiness control and government over-regulation of agriculture has developed over the course of several decades, and it will not be turned back overnight.

I have conquered it several times over the decades but it has always snuck back into my life.

Though this push for reform of public schools dates back several decades, it has steadily moved from the margins of the political debate to occupy center stage in the tussles over domestic policy.

Whatever they lost in paying off my old vehicle they will have made back easily over the next several decades of selling me new Mercedes Benz vehicles instead of having me walk away from Mercedes for good.

Over the past decade, several former Bulls and Hawks players with ties to years gone by have been called back into...

After over a decade - long drought of games, and the release of several «clones», Capcom and Double Helix have brought the futuristic ninja back to consoles and PC with his own pseudo-remake of the first title, Strider.

So he would go back and would add and retouch and tinker around over several years - sometimes over the course of a decade or two.

Over the last several decades, from Europe to North America and now Asia, there's been a growing movement aimed at peeling back pavement and «daylighting» buried waters.

Disputes over river management in the basin go back several decades.

She then points out that all the greenhouse gases saved in Burlington over several decades could be dumped back into the atmosphere in two hours by China.

This interactive shows just how warm average global temperatures have been over the past three decades, particularly on a backdrop of warming that extends back several decades, based on data reported in a recent WMO report.