Sentences with phrase «by year or decade»

By the initial offering or by the year or decade?

The science or environment ministers of one nation after another told us of how they are suffering already from droughts, typhoons, flooding and sea level rise which have set back their development by years or decades.

Reducing CH4 emissions today would lead to a climate cooling of approximately ~ 0.5 °C, but this value will not change greatly if we delay reducing CH4 emissions by years or decades.

Not exact matches

During the past two decades, Maitland, now 71, who generally takes four or five vacations a year, has flown in a hot - air balloon over the Swiss Alps, ridden a camel by the Great Pyramid in Egypt, seen India from atop an elephant, and taken in Bangladesh while floating down the Ganges aboard a barge.

By the time that decade ended, price - to - earnings ratios were in the single digits — but you had little or nothing to show for buying cheap equities during the prior 15 years; and that's before accounting for very high inflation.

In recent years, analysts have increasingly assumed, in their models, that deficits resulting from tax cuts are ultimately paid for by tax increases or spending cuts several decades in the future.

Despite what's going on in much of the rest of the world, Panama's economy — one of the fastest - growing in the Americas — is steadily chugging along, growing by nearly 6 % or more every year for nearly a decade now.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

But since the last Bitcoin block is projected to be mined around the year 2140, adopting Bitcoin as a major (or world) currency anytime in the next few decades would just exacerbate anthropogenic climate change by needlessly increasing electricity consumption until it's too late.

Raising the growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per cent (the difference between the underlying productivity growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect on living standards is substantial.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

Leaving aside taxes, costs, inflation, etc., I ran the numbers by decade going back to the 1930s to see how much money an investor would have ended up with by investing $ 10,000 each year on a monthly basis (or $ 833 / month) in the S&P 500.

There is a contingent that believes that this is a new secular bull market, one that is driven by factors that will last many years or decades.

Even if hindsight bias allows us to point out all the cases where it has turned out to be a mistake — a mistake that sometimes delayed paradigm shifts in science for years or decades — it's still usually best to start by attempting to explain anomalous observations within the theoretical framework we have.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

And perhaps better the cause, for while a buck pulled down by wolves can be replaced in two or three years, a range pulled down by too many deer may fail of replacement in as many decades.

You can only tell movement has happened by looking at the marker of its position a year or a decade or a century ago.

I also make decisions by saying to myself, «If you knew you had only a year or only a decade to live, would you do this?»

The fish catch had been growing at a record rate for two decades prior to 1970, but since 1970 the fish catch per person fell by 13 per cent or over 1 per cent per year Then fifteen years later in the mid-1980s there was an upturn of nearly 20 per cent due largely to the recovery of the depleted Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Done by a proper manager in two or three windows at most but made far worse by novice Wenger each year for the last decade?

Not against or for Wenger but I personally couldn't take getting beat so regularly by managers in their what you would call their rookie year, not after being in the league fir almost 2 decades...

And I really don't care about her one way or the other in wrestling, but keep in mind she was placed in a main event in the biggest PPV of the year surrounded by stars with decades of experience and fans.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

Unfortunately, my optimism about the start of school has waned year by year for the past decade or so.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

For decades, the final details and compromises in New York's annual budget have been decided by the so - called «three men in the room,» or the leaders of the two legislative houses and the governor, but with workplace sexual harassment at the forefront this year, it seems that at least one woman will be included in parts of the closed - door

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

This once - per - decade report is assembled over many years by groups of scientists who evaluate the state of these fields and make recommendations for the types of missions (or specific missions) that NASA should pursue.

As a result, CO2 emissions from those countries fell by 4 to 5 percent per year for a decade or more.

This study shows that aragonite saturation state in waters shallower than 328 feet or 100 meters depth decreased by an average of 0.4 percent per year from the decade spanning 1989 - 1998 to the decade spanning 1998 - 2010.

New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012 was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate changes in global atmospheric temperatures is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.

In decades gone by, students generally earned a doctorate in about 4 years then moved on to careers on college or university faculties.

Now the Greenland Ice - core Project team has found that the last interglacial period — between 115 000 and 125 000 years ago — was characterised by a series of cold periods, which began very suddenly and lasted for either decades or centuries (Nature, vol 364, p 203).

In addition to problems created by sudden climate changes over a few decades or even a few years, the committee points to abruptly developing problems created by a steadily changing climate.

However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades preceding that period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven by carbon dioxide.

The researchers hope that this scourge of old age, first described 110 years ago by the Frankfurt - based physician Alois Alzheimer, will finally be defeated over the next one or two decades.

So, must have warmed by an average of 0.2 degrees - C per decade during the 19 years, (some during the 12 years 1957 to 1969 and some during the 6 years 2000 to 2006 or all 0.4 degrees - C total during one of those periods).

Historical records show temperatures have typically fluctuated up or down by about 0.2 °F per decade over the past 1,000 years.

There were no significant trends in mean annual total precipitation or total precipitation affected area but we did observe a significant increase in mean annual rain - free days, where the mean number of dry days increased by 1.31 days per decade and the global area affected by anomalously dry years significantly increased by 1.6 % per decade.

Lack of international consensus could delay approval by years or even decades.

Researchers say that childhood obesity could reduce life expectancy by five years or more over the next decades.

Health is defined by where you will be 1 year or 1 decade from now, not where you will be in 1 week or 1 month.

You got overweight by eating a slight caloric surplus, just a few hundred calories, for many years or decades.

Algae has been used by tens of millions of people in Asia for over 50 years — and even Olympic athletes and NASA astronauts have relied on algae for decades as a way to pack a lot of nutrients into a very small volume of food — since algae contains 1,000 times more nutrition than anything else in the world (or if you'd like to think about it this way, one gram of algae — about the equivalent in a tiny tablet — has the nutrition of 1,000 grams of fruits and vegetables).

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Dating services have been around for many years now, but it's only been a decade or so that they've taken online by storm.

Looking only at those committed relationships that started within the last decade, 11 % say that their spouse or partner is someone they met online.14 By contrast, hardly any relationships that have existed for more than ten years had their genesis online: just 1 % of Americans who have been in a committed relationship for more than ten years met their spouse or partner online.

Furthermore, if you're that person that is simply sat waiting for him or her to cross your path - weeks, months, years and decades could go by - do something about it.