Sentences with phrase «country over more than a decade»

In the past year, Smith also became co-director of eConventus Holdings (B.C.) Ltd., the latest venture of one Mohammed (Mo) Jiwani, who has left a trail of hapless investors across the country over more than a decade.

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Over the past decade, Toronto has become the undisputed capital of Canadian innovation, with more than 600 startups, the country's largest cluster of universities and colleges pumping out research, and the deepest venture capital pockets in the land.

The country has seen a steady rise in killing since around 2015, and last month and the first six months of the year both had more homicides than any of the same periods over the past two decades.

Jackson has grown the company in the past decade to include 6,000 mobile users from more than 80 active projects across 31 countries with over 60 world - wide employees.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

Over the course of four decades, Starbucks grew from one small shop in Seattle's historic Pike Place Market to more than 6,000 locations in more than 30 countries across the world.

The demographics are also changing: more than 400 million millennials have emerged as a driving force in consumer spending, while the country's aging population — expected to double over the next two decades — will generate new product and services demands.

This pan-European low cost airline, headquartered in London, has revolutionised European air travel over the last two decades and it is now flying over 75 million passengers per year across 31 countries with a fleet of more than 260 aircraft.

For more than a decade, Miles has given hundreds of live presentations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia in 15 countries, over 45 cities and 12 universities.

Over the past decade, more Christians have been admitted to the US as refugees than those of any other religious tradition, including many persecuted because of their faith from countries like Iraq and Burma.

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

The city school system — the largest of its kind in the country — is on the verge of dramatic change, and Gov. Cuomo has bet his second term on an aggressive campaign to transform a system he claims has failed more than 250,000 students over the past decade while state bureaucrats twiddled their thumbs.

Problem 1: Housing costs are rising, and this is pushing up government expenditure Over the past few decades rents and house prices have risen much more rapidly in the UK than other countries.

A team of researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the Finnish Meteorological Society found that over the past 166 years, the country's average monthly temperatures have increased by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a 0.14 C change per decade.

Historically, China consumed little milk (less than 2 kg per person per year in 1961) but increasing prosperity has lifted consumption more than 25 times over the past five decades, leading to the country becoming the world's fourth largest milk producer, with the growth projected to continue.

Constructing a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope has been an epic undertaking involving more than 1000 people in 17 countries over 2 decades.

Ecology and genetics studies over four decades have resulted in tens of publications involving researchers from more than a dozen countries.

To be specific, five Asian countries — China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam — accounted for more than half of the world's population exposed to coastal flooding in 2000 and will maintain the top five positions over the coming decades.

The OceanObs»09 conference (Venice, Italy) involved more than 600 participants from 36 countries who defined a vision for societally beneficial ocean observations to be sustained over the next decade.

In 2008, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that «the gap between rich and poor has widened more in Finland than in any other wealthy industrialized country over the past decade.»

Private school choice is already spreading across the country, with states tripling the number of programs over the last decade to more than 60 today.

As Governor Malloy sits on top of one of the largest unfunded state and teacher pension systems in the country, an unfunded liability that will cost Connecticut taxpayers more than $ 20 billion to resolve over the next two decades, leave it to back room politics of the Malloy administration to wheel and deal a way for Steven Adamowski to boost his pension at taxpayer expense.

In terms of optimism over whether schools are better than a decade ago, countries such as China, India, South Korea and Vietnam were much more likely to think schools had improved.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.

Every year for more than two decades, Toyota enthusiasts from all over the country gather in Long Beach, California for All Toyotafest, the nation's...

Over the past decade, GIS stock has increased more than 165 %, and in 2008 — when the rest of the United States was struggling to survive the country's worst financial crisis since the Great Depression — GIS was actually up more than 9 % and sales activity increased 7 %.

Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 120 countries over the last decade.

Queensland Art Gallery Director Tony Ellwood said «21st Century: Art in the First Decade» would showcase over 180 works by more than 110 senior and emerging artists from over 40 countries, with most of the work from the Gallery's own expanding collection.»

Over the past seven decades, Fountain House has inspired the creation of hundreds of similar programs in 32 states and 34 countries that serve more than 100,000 people annually.

«Through fundraising and donations, over the last decade the CRC built sophisticated tech tools to hunt online predators and has trained investigators in 50 states and 77 countries, resulting in the prosecution and conviction of more than 10,000 child predators and the rescue of over 2,000 children from sexual abuse.

Born in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has grown to become the world's largest grassroots movement for the environment, inspiring individuals, communities, businesses and organizations in more than 170 countries and territories to take tangible climate action for over a decade.

Natural gas production has soared over the past decade by 50 percent and in late 2017 the United States became a net - natural gas exporter — meaning that America now sells more to foreign countries than it buys from them.

More than 300 scientists from 160 research groups in 48 countries contributed to the report, which confirms that the past decade was the warmest on record and that the Earth has been growing warmer over the last 50 years.

Over the last decade, «Do The Green Thing» has inspired more than 45 million people in 202 countries to live a more sustainable life, and now it comes to Brazil in a partnership with 350.org in a move to be part of the global climate movement.

Although there are many countries other than the United States that have frequently failed to respond to what justice would require of them to reduce the threat of climate change, the United States, perhaps more than any other country, has gained a reputation in the international community for its consistent unwillingness to commit to serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions during the over two decades that world has been seeking a global agreement on how to respond to climate change.

For over a decade, other countries have been using household refrigeration appliances that contain hydrocarbon refrigerants, which have almost no climate impact and are significantly more energy efficient than HFC technology.

Thus was born this unique movement support organization that, over the course of the past three - and - a - half decades, has provided support services, strategic advice, and encouragement to more than 150 projects in more than 40 countries around the world.

These are all reasons why more wind energy capacity has been built in Canada over the past decade than any other form of electricity generation, and why it is now becoming the mainstream energy of choice for our country's new electricity generation.

TerraLex is a worldwide network of more than 155 leading independent law firms in 100 countries and 44 U.S. states, of which Nixon Peabody has been a member for over two decades.

It's exactly what you would expect from a company whose size has more than doubled each year since its launch in 2010, delivering services in over 72 countries and 425 cities worldwide, and disrupting an industry that has been stagnant for decades.

Nobody can argue that Mexico hasn't worked tirelessly for more than a decade to avoid a dispute with the United States over Mexican long - haul trucks traveling through this country... Unfortunately, Mexico's forbearance only seemed to make matters worse...

As we note in our previous report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports that Ethiopia jails more journalists than any other African country besides Eritrea, and says that the Ethiopian government has shut down more than seventy - five media outlets since 1993.20 CPJ statistics also show that seventy - nine journalists have been forced to flee Ethiopia due to threats and intimidation over the past decade, more than any other country in the world.21

When Frank J. Polzler co-founded Re / Max Ontario - Atlantic in Canada more than three decades ago with his business partner Walter J. Schneider, little did Polzler know at the time that he was helping to create a company that would one day become a real estate empire of over 2,300 franchised offices and 27,000 sales associates in 35 countries.