Sentences with phrase «began over a decade»

But it is widely held that all such technical hurdles have now been erased and that later this year a challenge that began over a decade ago will finally spell the end for the protection of the Washington Redskin's federal trademark.

This economic debacle began over a decade ago and was made worse by the lack of regulation of the banks and lenders and by our involvement in wars we had no business fighting.

Marley Coffee began over a decade ago when Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley, purchased land in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica in an effort to help the locals with food supply.

What was to become the Cup of Excellence program began over a decade ago in Brazil.

The trial of research on ANGPTL3 as a potential target for atherosclerosis prevention began over a decade ago when scientists reported on two cases of familial hypolipidemia, a rare inherited condition involving abnormally low blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.

Planning for the biopark began over a decade ago, and the first research building opened in 2008.

It began over a decade ago when Elizabeth Cobey - Piper, known as the first dating coach in Ohio, met Susie, known as the first matchmaker in Ohio, through a mutual friend.

My history with dog training began over a decade ago, with my pet «Sluggo».

Since it began over a decade ago, it has saved of over 3,000 desperately needy animals.

«Very pleased with the fact that you have been with me since the beginning over a decade ago.

Thomas McCarthy: Beginning over a decade ago, there was an upswing in enforcement trends by the U.S. government in areas that affected our clients — particularly export controls, sanctions and anticorruption.

The Ontario Divisional Court has dismissed three applications for judicial review from a University of Windsor law graduate and ordered her to pay costs of $ 17,500 for matters that began over a decade ago.

In fact, it initially began over a decade ago and the latest study is merely a continuation of the original work.

A process that had begun over a decade ago has reached a crisis point.

That was our business model when we began over a decade ago, and it continues to be our exclusive business.

Not exact matches

That's why corporations started outsourcing labor to foreign countries a decade ago, and while they'll begin in - sourcing work to robots over the next 10 years.

«Yet, once these devices begin to get into consumers hands and developers launch content that moves beyond the «wow» moment and into uniquely, useful experiences, it will be clear that entertainment, communication, and many enterprise functions will change dramatically over the coming decade as VR / AR evolve.»

While at the beginning of 2011 trading in euro - dollar futures was still foreseeing a return to typical interest rates over the next few years, that view has given way to expectations that rates will remain low for a decade to come.

The percentage stake fell over time, until Buffett began ramping it up more than a decade ago.

The community's vaccination rate dropped significantly over the past decade after anti-vaccination activists, including Wakefield himself, began visiting families in the area.

Federal Reserve Chairmen Arthur F. Burns and G. William Miller tightened interest rates repeatedly over the decade's course, so that the prime rate, the interest rate charged by banks to creditworthy customers, climbed from 8.5 percent in February 1970, when Burns began in the job, to an astounding 11.75 percent in early August 1979, when Miller left office.

That extra $ 6,800 shrinks next to the S&P's gain over the prior decade when U.S. companies began leveraging the power of the still nascent Internet.

Naturally, as a central banker, I'll begin by observing that over the past two decades, most of the world has experienced a substantial fall in inflation.

Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin - adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).

But [the increase in commodity prices] is just the beginning of the story, accounting for about one - half of the appreciation of our currency over the past decade.

Every popular social media has already passed one decade of its life so the honeymoon period is over and the regular life sets to begin.

While we have been conditioned over decades to focus on a single target buyer, or as I have written about often, a target buyer persona, we are beginning to see that this will no longer be adequate for B2B Marketers.

And given the longstanding and pervasive influence GE has had over the business world, its move could represent the beginning of the end for a practice that has been at the heart of how corporations have managed people for many decades.

Again, getting back to Olive Garden, I mean obviously it's been discussed just the absolute average check of the brand, that the increases that have been taken in pricing over the past decade even to your own admission did begin to make you expensive relative to maybe what customers wanted to pay relative to the peers.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

A little over a decade ago, some farmers began using community - supported agricultural loans, or CSAs, to finance their operations.

Amazon first began renting access to computers and software in its data centers over a decade ago.

In fact, Mr. Ritholtz is one of several commentators who believe this rally has merely been a temporary cyclical swing in the midst of a longer - term bear market — one that began roughly a decade ago and is far from over.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

To the extent that a smaller percentage of young adults are able to begin building home equity now, then wealth inequality is likely to worsen over the next decade or two, adding to the list of headwinds to economic growth.

And we have begun to make progress in reducing emissions over the past decade, as our economy has grown.

The Memphis (Tennessee) native, whose career began over five decades ago as an 18 - year - old carman - oiler, may be driven by the determination to prove that the theory he has developed is replicable, no matter where.

Just as IT has been consumerized over the past decade, digital - savvy employees are beginning to demand that their spaces adapt to how they work, rather than vice versa.

Clay and Sally Clarkson have been giving parents help and hope for over three decades, mostly through Whole Heart Ministries, the Christian home and parenting ministry they began in 1994.

When St. Josemaría Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, was canonized in 2002, Opus Dei estimated that it had spent roughly $ 1 million on the process from beginning to end, stretching over three decades.

The decade of the brain is nearly over, but the process of discovery for scientists and theologians is only just beginning.

Over a decade ago, we helped organize conversations with our neighbors in which we began to imagine what it would look like for our neighborhood to flourish.

«The atheist spring that began just over a decade ago is over, thank God.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

Over the past three decades, Israeli scholarship has slowly begun to fill in the gaps in Begin's life and to provide equal time to the movement he led.

Over the decades, any church which did not participate in the social aspects of the missio dei began to be viewed as illegitimate.

It was in Rome that he first began to puzzle over how Christian unity could be achieved «without doctrinal capitulation,» as he would put it two decades later in his 1984 block - buster The Nature of Doctrine: Theology and Religion in a Postliberal Age.

The earlier disillusionment gathered weight as it stretched over several decades, beginning with the purges of the 1930s and extending, at different rates among different individuals, all the way up to the crushing of the Hungarian uprising and to Khruschev's «secret speech» in the 1950s.

Banana workers have been exploited since the banana trade began well over a hundred years ago, though in the last few decades we have been making progress with fair trade and organic certifications that seek to change this.

These decadent Maple Syrup drenched Blondies are just one of so many recipes that I've tried in the past few months from her newest book «Vegan with a Vengeance» from Da Capo Lifelong Books Born and raised in Brooklyn, Isa Chandra Moskowitz began her vegan cooking journey over two decades ago.