Sentences with phrase «close to a decade by»

The titular captive is a girl named Cass (Alexia Fast) who is abducted and held prisoner for close to a decade by an uber - creepy rich guy (Kevin Durand).

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According to town officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity and documents obtained by Business Insider, AMC has kept the Celebration theater empty for close to a decade because it's cheaper to take the loss on the theater than to pay staff and operate it.

Ahead of a Bank of Japan leadership change, central bankers are considering the possibility of shifting policy closer to the quantitative easing campaign of the last decade, hoping it will give policy the kick demanded by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Cohn got the money, one of his investors says, by doing something usually associated with Silicon Valley but doing it far from America's technology capital: growing a company for close to a decade using his own capital and a small team.

Hit by Amazon's explosive growth a decade ago, as well as the rise of e-books (which now seem to have peaked at around 20 % of total book sales), Barnes & Noble closed stores year - in, year - out, benefiting from a savvy move in the 1990s that saw it opt for short leases.

By secular reflation, we mean at least a decade in which short - and long - term interest rates stay habitually below nominal GDP growth and high grade bonds are not really bonds any more: delivering trend returns that are close to zero or even negative.

The batteries are being built by an arm of power giant AES, called AES Energy Storage, and the company has been building such projects for close to a decade.

According to Census data, the median household income by the end of the decade was close to $ 42,000.

The company's net debt increased to about 12.5 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion) by the end of March, nearing the level reached a decade ago when former CEO Jean - Marie Messier's acquisition binge left the company close to bankruptcy.

Apple Inc. shares on Monday broke the $ 500 mark for the first time, the latest milestone in an almost unbroken rise over the last decade, solidifying its place as the world's most valuable company by market value at close to $ 466 billion.

Consumer confidence is close to its highest level in a decade and consumer spending is likely to continue to be supported by rising employment and real wages.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade.

Earlier in Asia, the Nikkei was in focus as it jumped to its highest close in more than five years after global finance leaders effectively backed the Bank of Japan's stimulus program as a legitimate attempt by the country to get out of its two - decade era of stagnation.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

For more than two decades up to twenty dioceses have operated microwave video channels in closed circuit or non-broadcast areas of the communication spectrum allocated by the federal government.

Of course, process theology can not fulfil this responsibility without interpreting Scripture, and the separation of process theology in recent decades from the close involvement in Biblical scholarship of the earlier Chicago school has led to critical weaknesses which are only now being addressed.1 Nevertheless, for process theology the appropriate relationship to the Bible can not be exhausted by hermeneutic.

As reported by Steven Cohen in his study «A Tale of Two Jewries,» over only a decade, from 1990 to 2000, young Jews who claim other Jews as their close friends declined from 43 percent to 33 percent.

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.

Contrary to the notion put about by media that the party has emerged in response to the recent waves of migration into Italy, Lega Nord has been in existence for close on three decades.

Welby finished his visit by walking down Shuhada Street - an area under Israeli military control which has been closed to Palestinians for nearly two decades.

During the decades of conflict between Jordan and Israel this area was a military zone, strewn with mines and closed to unauthorized personnel, but since the 1994 Peace Treaty the mines have been cleared and the site is being developed by the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism.

China's domestic production has increased fourfold in the last decade to meet demand, but the imported market in China has long been dominated by France with close to half the bottles sold in the first half of this year (46.7 percent), followed by Australia (12.7 percent) and with Spain also making a strong showing (11.3 percent).

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

Judging by your constant «loooool's i'm highly skeptical as to whether you've «supported» Arsenal for anything close to the decade you claim you've «tolerated»..

But images of him being moulded by socialist thoughts or him marching alongside comrades fuelled by a spirit of resistance were much closer to the truth a few decades ago,...

But images of him being moulded by socialist thoughts or him marching alongside comrades fuelled by a spirit of resistance were much closer to the truth a few decades ago, as the renowned broadcaster's path to this centre - right camp we find him in now started on the exact opposite end of the spectrum.

The NYT supports the new bill introduced by Assemblymen Sean Ryan and Jeff Aubry to close the so - called carried interest loophole, calling it the «most innovative» of several efforts to address the issue over the past decade.

The White House press corps was stunned by reports of a proposal by the Trump administration to eject reporters from their home in the West Wing — a move that, if carried out, would uproot decades of established protocol whereby journalists are allowed to work in the White House close to senior officials.

In recognising the role of the state, targeting the support of working class people rather than Middle England, and setting out the social obligations owed by businesses, May was rhetorically drawing four decades of neoliberalism to a close.

The Trump administration proposed the most sweeping changes to the federal tax code in decades, outlining a framework that would cut individual and corporate taxes, eliminate widely used exemptions and deductions and tilt the U.S. closer to the type of tax system embraced by other industrialized nations.

Last month, de Blasio announced plans to close the notorious prison complex in a decade and reduce the city's jail population by about half — down to 5,000 — to make it happen.

They should at least pause to consider, amongst the myriad of issues and concerns closest to them, one of the darkest episodes of New Labour's decade in power, namely the role allegedly played by a number of Ministers in what has come to be known as «Extraordinary Rendition».

All tobacco products sold in the UK will now come in plain standardized packaging, as decades of harmful marketing tactics by the tobacco industry draw to a close.

During the 1960s, the average snow depth for winter (December to February) was six inches, according the statistics compiled by the National Weather Service at the Burlington International Airport, but has been closer to four inches during the last decade, the lower limit for snowmobiling.

A giant black hole ripped apart a nearby star and then continued to feed off its remains for close to a decade, according to research led by the University of New Hampshire.

«Throughout the region, they have retreated by close to a kilometer since the last ice age, and are predicted to disappear in the next one to three decades.

President Clinton's grand plan for national information «superhighways» has moved a step closer, with an alliance of top electronics companies and research institutes agreeing standards that will allow high - definition TV pictures to be displayed on computer screens by the end of the decade.

Although much progress will be made on these questions over the next two decades by telescopes being built now, we found that no telescope will be able to give us the complete picture: some will detect only close - in planets, others only dust disks, yet others only planets far out.

Touting a special position as a gay hookup site and community that is owned by gay men and built for them, Gaydar was first launched in the UK more than a decade ago and has gained an international following in the recent few years, with close to 6 million gay members now.

Once seen in close - up (or even in a medium shot), Skelton Knaggs, with his outsized head, large eyes, and prominent ears, is seldom forgotten by filmgoers; for two decades, from the mid -»30s until his death in 1955, directors loved to use Skelton Knaggs to dress a horror set or establish a menacing mood in a thriller with his mere presence in a shot.

Once the characters are presented in close - up and their names blazed across the screen in captions (a trick copied to great effect, and made into a signature by Nicolas Winding Refn in the similarly hard - hitting Danish actioner Pusher [1996]-RRB-, the scene is set for one of the greatest chase - movies of the decade.

It's hard to think of a major filmmaker who came so close to being ruined by technology, just as it's hard to believe that anyone except film historians will be watching Beowulf, The Polar Express or A Christmas Carol even a decade hence.

Meanwhile, «Mystery of Love» came closest to being an indie update on the romantic balladry that has been the category's stock in trade in decades past, but obviously, a love song is not just a love song when it's representing for «Call Me By Your Name.»

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

He closes by tracking the fifty year journey of developing global position satellites and GPS technology as one example of how great innovations ~ big new ideas can develop over decades; they do nt have to just happen and become commonplace.

Led by strong scores in 8th - grade reading, California moved closer to the national averages in reading and math, continuing a decade - plus trend of generally slow but steady improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

«While the intentions may have been good, a decade of top - down, test - based schooling created by No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top — focused on hyper - testing students, sanctioning teachers and closing schools — has failed to improve the quality of American public education,» said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

But in many places, including Los Angeles, Oakland, North Carolina, Oregon and Boston, the more than $ 2 billion spent by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation over the course of a decade didn't move those cities close enough to Gates's goal of 80 percent graduation.

By the time Ryan Middle School in the Houston Independent School District was at risk of being closed down the by the district, enrollment had dropped from more than 800 students to roughly 300 in a decade, according to numbers from the Texas Education AgencBy the time Ryan Middle School in the Houston Independent School District was at risk of being closed down the by the district, enrollment had dropped from more than 800 students to roughly 300 in a decade, according to numbers from the Texas Education Agencby the district, enrollment had dropped from more than 800 students to roughly 300 in a decade, according to numbers from the Texas Education Agency.