Sentences with phrase «capacity as a decades»

Researchers pointed to decreasing congressional institutional capacity as a decades - long trend that has generated bipartisan concern.

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Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

«Speaking as an Albertan, we'd better get some major West Coast capacity opened by late this decade.

Three decades later, when Redstone stepped down as chairman of Viacom, at the age of 92, embroiled in a public family melodrama and sordid lawsuit over his mental capacity, Dauman, then the C.E.O. of the media conglomerate, was tapped to replace him as executive chairman.

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

One was in the decade leading up to the late - 1960's, which was driven by a legitimate expansion in the productivity of U.S. workers, as measured the capacity of labor to produce output.

«My great - grandfather William founded this company,» says Urschel, who has served as CEO for four years but has worked in other capacities for nearly two decades.

As a result of a decade of drought, the dam is now operating at only 30 percent of its capacity, said Matthews, and new mechanisms have been added to cope with the lower water levels.

China aims to quadruple nuclear capacity to 40,000 megawatts by 2020, and the U.S. may build as many as 30 new reactors in the next several decades.

As this facility and other research bases have increased their scientific capacity in recent decades, the scientists who come to remote areas have evolved to include not just hardened outdoorsy veterans «with big, bushy beards,» Cox says, but also mathematicians, software engineers, and statisticians.

China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.

Magnesium has been studied as a potential hydrogen storage material for several decades because of its relatively high hydrogen storage capacity, fast sorption kinetics (when doped with transition metal based additives).

Within a decade, Wallace leapt into the then - nascent medium of television with full abandon, working in any and every capacity allowed him, including dramatic roles, game shows, and the occasional assignment hosting a talk show, such as the now - forgotten Mike and Buff.

Director Derek Cianfrance took twelve years to stew on what he wanted to say about love and marriage in his film Blue Valentine, the principle actors, Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, had over half a decade to think about how they would bring Cindy and Dean to life — this rare gift to the creative process paid off astoundingly as the final product is second only to Ingmar Bergmans» Scenes from a Marriage in its capacity to lay bare the wounds of love after the veil of the honeymoon phase has been lifted.

A keen interest in humans» distinctive capacity to decipher the thoughts and feelings of others — a capacity known as social perspective taking (SPT)-- has driven the research of Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Hunter Gehlbach for the better part of a decade.

Because «STE (A) M job creation will grow 17 % over the next decade as opposed to just 9.8 % for non-STE (A) M positions,» a STEAM - based curriculum will help develop creative capacity among learners to advance the 21st century economy.

They act as if there were no underlying cause for the often - unsound educational practices, or frequently uneven teaching capacity that exist within our schools They confuse these symptoms of the problem with the problem itself, which is that our public schools have been persistently under - resourced, under - supported, and undermined for decades, including by many of the same people that now purport to «fix» them.»

Improvements in power, fuel economy, and noise, vibration, and harshness in both small - and large - capacity turbodiesels over the last decade have spurred their widespread adoption in certain markets, notably in Europe where they (as of 2014) make up over 50 % of new car registrations.

Sydney Besthoff, the first - ever recipient of The Sydney Besthoff Legacy Award, epitomizes devotion to supporting art and culture in New Orleans, as evident through his service in a variety of leadership capacities at NOMA over nearly three decades.

From Carolyn Somers: «After two decades of working with the Foundation in many capacities, as a Founding Member, officer and most importantly, as its Executive Director for the past ten years, it is time for me to move on.

-- Alfonso Ossorio, 1968 Oral history interview, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

(New York — August 30, 2016) Celebrating Alfonso Ossorio's centennial birthday, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Alfonso Ossorio — Congregations: The First Decade, 1959 - 1969, an exhibition of twenty - four of the mixed - media assemblages coined by the artist as «congregations» that have become emblematic of Ossorio's vision and capacity for innovation.

For three decades, Ann Hamilton has been recognized as a poignant observer of social history with a unique capacity to materialized abstract concepts such as language, memory, and time.

Oblivious to the media experimentation taking place in most artistic production during these decades, Golub's work is based on a pictorial renovation in which genres believed to be exhausted, such as historical painting or portraits, once again show unexpected expressive and critical capacity.

A century long struggle to gain full control of its natural resources and refining capacities has been punctuated by many events: from the exploits of the Anglo - Persian Oil company (later to be known as British Petroleum or BP), in the early part of last century; to the CIA backed overthrow of the first democratically elected government in the 1950s, after it nationalized the country's oil fields; to the destruction toll of several oil installations during the decade long Iran - Iraq war; to current pressures by large international firms to negotiate contracts for the exploitation rights of oil and gas.

Interesting as this research is, its importance pales compared to the work needed to help reef dependent countries, regions and communities build their capacity to adapt to any shock or pressure that might affect them in the coming decades.

Heat accumulation as in (4) can take decades, because the heat capacity of the oceans is far larger than that of the atmosphere.

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

For example, to increase the U.S.'s renewable energy capacity to 17 % would require installing 162,000 megawatts of power — a six-fold increase in our existing capacity.14 This would also require the installation of thousands of miles of new transmission lines from the upper Midwest to the South, costing as much as $ 93 billion and taking decades to complete.15 Given the scope of this task, narrowing policy options to renewable energy alone creates an unnecessary obstacle to a transition to clean energy.

It has enjoyed healthy growth in capacity worldwide over the last decade as stakeholders continue to value the potential of hydropower development to help meet growing energy demand.

After serving Exxon in these capacities for a decade, he has continued to work with Exxon as a Distinguished Scientific Advisor for the last 12 years.

Expansion of grid supply by construction of big new coal fired power plants such as in the Hunter Valley and near Lithgow are going ahead and look to me to be intended to prevent the issue of decarbonising our energy supply getting mixed up with the issue of maintaining growth and reliability of supply; we'll have enough fossil fuel generating capacity that building low emissions capacity will remain «optional» and can be deferred another decade or two.

Arab News Global wind energy capacity could increase by more than half over the next five years, as costs continue to fall and the market returns to growth at the end of this decade, a report by the Global Wind Energy Council shows.

The Business Times GLOBAL wind energy capacity could increase by more than half over the next five years, as costs continue to fall and the market returns to growth at the end of this decade, a report by the Global Wind Energy Council shows.

Reuters LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)-- Global wind energy capacity could increase by more than half over the next five years, as costs continue to fall and the market returns to growth at the end of this decade, a report by the Global Wind Energy Council shows.

The broadening of the conversation on forests beyond carbon has been absolutely necessary since «there are no carbon gains from REDD + until X is solved» — where X represents all the thorny issues that prevent a particular country from administering a credible REDD program, such as disputes over tenure, uncertain governance and technical capacity, and competition between food and forest.In essence, REDD + has been asked to sort out all issues of sustainable development and equity that have plagued the forestry sector for decades, before it can begin its job of reducing emissions.

As in past years, utilities all across the nation indicate they expect to continue retiring coal - fired generation, and virtually no one expects to add more coal capacity to their systems in the next decade.

Those scenarios had in common two assumptions that Loftus and colleagues regarded as out of the realm of reality: efficiency improving at as much as 3 to 4 times the historic rate, and buildup of renewable generation capacity at many times the rate at which today's total electric generation capacity was built up in past decades.

The scientists calculated that — if a drought lasted for a decade — capacity in vulnerable power generating stations could be reduced by as much as 8.8 %.

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to both wind and solar projects, but over the last decade, many utilities were more keen to add wind capacity, as it typically remained cheaper on a per - kWh basis.

Despite a half century of climate change that has significantly affected temperature and precipitation patterns and has already had widespread ecological and hydrological impacts, and despite a near certainty that the United States will experience at least as much climate change in the coming decades, just as a result of the current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, those organizations in the public and private sectors that are most at risk, that are making long - term investments and commitments, and that have the planning, forecasting and institutional capacity to adapt, have not yet done so.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

I'm sure that you're aware that the oceans have over 1,000 times more heat capacity as the atmosphere and they store heat for decades.

But whereas I think that SA has probably overstated the capacity of renewables to replace fossil fuels as things stand or as they're like to exist in the next decade or so (30 years out is another story entirely), I am absolutely certain that your «plan» is utter fantasy land.

The UAE has recorded one of the highest population growth rates in the world over the past two decades, sustained by an economic boom as the UAE grew its petroleum production capacity and diversified its revenue base into tourism, trade and services.

Kenya's choice as a capacity building and knowledge exchange destination for the Republic of South Sudan is based not on only on its geographical proximity but on its many decades of experience in the administration of justice in a English / Common Law legal system.

We believe that the Bitcoin Blockchain and its extensible elements such as Lightning Network have the capacity to enable a trillions - of - transactions - per - year economy within a decade.

The Gameflip management team has decades of combined experience in the gaming industry, as game developers and publishers in prior capacities, and now as digital goods marketplace operators.

Cullinan, who has joined Re / Max in a sales capacity, brings to the table close to 40 years of real estate experience, including two decades of franchise ownership and tenures as a former director and president of the Saint John Real Estate Board.