Sentences with phrase «countries over recent years»

Indeed, in a number of European countries over recent years, increasing numbers of children who were previously considered unsuitable for family placement have been placed in foster families, and all sorts of new forms of foster care (see Colton and Williams, 1997) have been developed.

I've used it in speech and writing in about seventeen countries over recent years.

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Foreign exchange has been an area of some concern for Saudi in recent months as the crash in the price of oil forced the country to expend its FX reserves to levels not seen in over three years, and draining the country's economy.

The largest private placement we have been involved with in recent years involved over twenty eight States, two Provinces and six countries outside of North America.

A recent analysis by researchers at the Federal Housing Finance Agency found that home values had risen faster in the heart of big cities than anywhere else in the country over the last 25 years, a sign of their turnaround and a trend Mr. Trump, as a real estate developer, is likely to be aware of.

Both imports and exports of information technology and communications (ITC) equipment have grown strongly over recent years, with China now accounting for a larger proportion of world ITC equipment exports than any other country in the region except Japan.

Over recent years countries in Asia have been intervening heavily (buying US dollars and selling their own currencies) in order to prevent an appreciation of their currencies.

While the poll illustrates the differences in the country over how to respond to gun violence, it also highlights the intense frustration with the lack of any policy response coming out of Washington despite a series of horrific shootings in recent years.

The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.

They have also established schools and made a significant contribution to the development of the educational system, although in several countries in recent years church schools have been taken over by the state.

This guide concentrates on the IRRI fields because they have been intensively surveyed over recent years like no other location in the country.

The England international is rebuilding his strength after a number of injury setbacks over the years, but is being heavily talked about at present with his country in dire need of some creative talent, and with his club side also having struggled in recent months.

Having shown he has the technical quality, eye for goal and capability to be a leading figure for club and country in recent years, there are likely to be few reservations over whether or not Griezmann will fit in at the Nou Camp, and based on the report above, that process could be happening this summer as the reported search for a property is a big indication of his intentions moving forward.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

A recent study of bank credit in 17 countries over the last 120 years by Oscar Jorda, Mauritz Schularick and Alan Taylor found that the share of mortgage loans in banks» total lending portfolios has roughly doubled over the course of the past century — from about 30 per cent in 1900 to about 60 per cent today.

Instead of developing policies aimed at making immigration work for the country as a whole, however, the response of the Westminster political class over recent years has been to debate caps on immigration and give credence to the philosophical position that immigrants are a drain on society instead of net contributors.

In the debt ridden countries of Southern Europe unemployment and poverty have rocketed over recent years, making a mockery of the liberal ideal of economic freedom.

We all broadly welcome the Bill's objectives, and I think we can also all agree that fuel poverty has generally been getting worse over recent years and that home energy efficiency in this country is nothing like good enough.

That's the philosophy behind «net - zero» buildings, and they have been springing up all over the country in recent years.

Recent studies in North America, the U.K. and Europe suggest that dementia risk among seniors in some high - income countries has dropped steadily over the past 25 years.

Dr Nichols and her colleagues in the Oxford research group looked at trends in deaths from CVD over a period of ten years to the most recent year available, (2010 to 2012 for most countries), for 52 out of 53 European countries (there were no data for Andorra).

The prolonged heat wave that has bathed the UK in sunshine over the past month has given the country an unexpected taste of summer that has seemed to be missing in recent years.

In recent years, over 3 % of births per year in developed countries have corresponded to children conceived through assisted reproduction techniques, which poses a considerable economic burden apart from physical and psychological problems.

As evidence, consider that the U.S. came in dead last in another recent study that compared how quickly 40 countries and regions have been progressing toward a knowledge - based economy over the past 10 years.

By Farman's recent successful flights in a circle, the record of the Wright brothers made in this country over two years ago has in this respect been duplicated; but there are many other points to be considered when one reviews the practicability of aeroplane flight.

Outbreaks of measles in the UK and many other European countries have been increasing over recent years, with around 3,207 laboratory - confirmed cases reported by Public Health England from January 2012 to the end of June 2013.

In a recent study published in the journal Lancet, 135,000 people from 18 countries were followed over the course of 7.5 years to determine how their food choices affected their risk of death from cardiovascular disease, stroke, and non-cardiovascular disease (1).

Adherence to a Mediterranean style diet appears to reduce age - related brain shrinkage, according to recent analysis The mediterranean diet has great press over the last few years, and countries in the region generally have excellent life expectancy.

OBSERVER - Jan 22 - The site, which boasts over 5M active members in 139 countries, has seen increasing use by college students in recent years, with 1.9 M college students registered.

Also, with the recent success of Javier Bardem as he gains American favor and recognition (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Christina Barcelona) and a best actor win from Cannes this year, I see no reason why the film can't do very well over here.

The success of the schools that have pioneered this approach in recent years has led to rapidly increasing demand for modular school buildings all over the country.

The shale gas in recent exploration in the United States, that could meet the domestic demand of the country for natural gas at current levels of consumption for over 100 years, is extremely negative for the environment because it generates half the carbon emissions from coal, and pollutes the sheets underground aquifers.

The report also found wide variation in spending per pupil across the country, with the gap widening over recent years.

Indeed, a recent report from the U.S. Department of Labor suggests that over the next 10 years, the country's need for people with technical expertise is going to grow by 50 percent.

In addition, the cost of living for every adult in our country has skyrocketed over the recent decades; to have a job, you have to have a vehicle to get to and from work; you have to buy gas for that vehicle and keep it in good working order; you have taxes on that vehicle every year, and you have to keep the registration up to date on that vehicle; you have to have insurance on that vehicle, or you risk a fine.

From the early days of Mayan civilization and the logging of 1600s to the recent explosion of offshore banking and tourism, the economy of the country has undergone a number of changes over the years.

There's good reason to have an upbeat outlook on Mexico tourism: recent figures from the Mexican Tourism Board show that a record - setting 35 million international tourists visited the country in 2016, marking a 9 percent jump over the previous year.

The winner of his country's prestigious Köler Award in both the juried Grand Prix and People's Choice Award categories, he had a much buzzed - about showing at Liste in Basel earlier this year when he trotted out his terrifically catchy recent body of work: a line of handmade sweaters, knitted by over a dozen artisans, that are emblazoned with pornographic graffiti from Estonia's underground gay clubs.

Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco, California, is overjoyed to be presenting the latest drawings from the incredibly talented Joel Daniel Phillips, who has emerged over recent years as one of the most skilled draftsman in the country.

About the artists and their work: The late Anthony Ballard, known for his precise pen - and - ink drawings of erotic subjects and geometrics, has garnered significant critical attention in recent years; Mercedes Kelly's fanciful depictions of canine and feline subjects have been a crowd - pleasing fixture at the Fair over many seasons; Lawrence Pujol's refreshing country landscapes are becoming increasingly popular with collectors; Angela Rogers's «poppets» --- magical assemblages wrapped in brightly - hued yarn — incorporate intriguing mystical symbolism; Robin Taylor's «Jenny» paintings affectingly portray a young girl so bashful that her face is represented as a mop of bright orange hair; Alyson Vega's intricate fiber works, shown to great acclaim in a 2016 solo exhibition at the prestigious venue White Columns, surprise and enchant.

All but a few countries have had a series of censuses (though in some cases they haven't been recent) and have generated a wealth of data related to birth and death rates, age structure, fertility, and life expectancy published in respected survey research over the years.

Second, the GDP that the country is basing its carbon reductions on has grown at an average of 6.6 percent over recent years.

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

«A number of pipeline projects have attracted attention in recent years, and societal frustration is building over the country's direction with regard to energy policy and climate change, Alan Krupnick, senior fellow, Resources for the Future, and Mark Brownstein, Environmental Defense Fund senior vice-president, climate and energy, told attendees.»

Over recent years, Indonesia's fuel and electricity subsidy reforms have made the country a leader in progress towards this commitment.

July 25, 2013 — With the rise of natural gas in the United States in recent years, there has been a significant amount of debate over the long - term implications of a natural gas build - out in this country and around the world.

The fact that poor Asian countries with most of the world's population have enjoyed faster economic growth rates than the rich countries over the past 30 years is probably the most important socio - economic fact of our time, but it wasn't foreseen by the modellers and, incredibly, many in the IPCC milieu still deny that it's happened: three IPCC chapters (Chapters 1 and 9 of the WG II report and Chapter 1 of WG III report) go out of their way to assert that global inequality has been increasing in recent decades.

The Index also uncovered recent global trends, including a significant decline in criminal justice worldwide: 20 countries showed a significant decline in their score over last year, while none of the 99 countries in the Index demonstrated significant improvement.

Over the recent years, one of the most densely populated countries has developed drastically and rises to become...

Using data from a number of sources including the World Health Organization they estimated that in 2002 (the most recent year for which there are reliable statistics on cancer incidence in Europe) there had been over 70,000 new cases of cancer attributable to excess BMI out of a total of nearly 2.2 million new diagnoses across the 30 European countries.