Sentences with phrase «countries over the past century»

While average life expectancy has been rising steadily in most countries over the past century, new research led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) shows that life expectancy declined significantly and rapidly in three countries where policy changes increased access to prescription opioids, alcohol or illicit drugs.

Clean drinking water alone helped eradicate guinea worm from many countries over the past century.

This round - up, of 8 destinations for history lovers, provides a guide to help you get started exploring historic buildings of Spain and the cultures that have thrived in the country over the past centuries.

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Over the past century these instruments have destroyed the purchasing power of investors in many countries, even as these holders continued to receive timely payments of interest and principal.

However, a stagnation or decline in height over the past century is an indication that certain countries in the developed, English - speaking world could do a better job of emphasizing good nutritional standards for their youth.

The chief reason the OMP has no foreign diversification is that long - run returns on Canadian stocks are better than the global average, and nearly as good as returns on U.S. stocks (best performing country over the past two centuries).

[As trade barriers have come down over the past half - century,] small countries can now gain the advantages of large markets through trading with other nations.

The steady lowering of international trade barriers over the past half century has been a driving force behind job creation and poverty reduction in countries around the world.

Over the past few centuries childbirth has become increasingly influenced by medical technology, and now medical intervention is the norm in most Western countries.

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.

The country's vast population covers the whole socioeconomic spectrum, from elite computer hackers to agricultural laborers whose lifestyles have changed little over the past century.

She is one of many over the past century and a half who have been so well served by these and other Catholic schools throughout the country.

The notion that student learning has remained somewhat stagnant over the past century, though the country has spent steadily more real resources on education, is a matter of profound concern.

For me, Cultural Literacy and Don's Core Knowledge curricula were the necessary predecessors, the blueprint, for standards based reform over the past almost half century in this country.

Over the past quarter century, many breeders have continued to breed their Presa Canario's to other breeds that are imported into their countries.

 He added that both countries had a lot in common, with people of both nations cementing the ties between Mexico and Belize over the past centuries.

«We thank all our clients, vendors and buyers, past, present or future, for entrusting us now and over the centuries with the safe passage of precious and historic objects — from one country to another, and from one generation to its successor.»

China has changed more over the past 20 years than most countries did in the entire 20th century.

While particulate emissions over the Western world decreased since the mid-1970's, the emissions in developing countries increased rapidely in the past halve century.

So, what's behind the changes in emissions these three countries have seen over the past quarter century?

The chart below compares the path of each country's carbon emissions over the past quarter century.

Heavy storms have become increasingly common across the country over the past half - century due to similar changes in conditions, said David Easterling, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

The country has come a long way over the past half - century when racial steering and disparate lending practices were common.