Sentences with phrase «decades followed by»

This cycle of several wet decades followed by a drought was repeated during the 18th century.

The legendary performance version of the first Octavia created quite a lot of buzz in the Indian market in the last decade followed by the... Read More

During Phil Schiller's keynote, he showed a graph of the «OS X» user base over time, with steady growth over the first part of this decade followed by a sharp jump from 25 to 75 million over the past two years.

Not exact matches

In the 1930s, about a decade after Polish biochemist Casimir Funk first recommended people get enough of certain micronutrients called «vitamines» (later found in abundance in citrus fruits and veggies), the first grapefruit diet emerged, followed by a banana - and - skim - milk diet promoted by United Fruit, the planet's leading banana importer.

Having followed the nearly inconsequential progress of the mysterious Project Titan, I'm ready to say that if you insist on thinking Apple will be selling an actual car by the next decade, you're going to be disappointed.

In fact, as we approach a decade since the launch of Apple's App Store — followed a few years later by the Android / Google equivalent — it's fair to say that there's an app for everything.

He chugged along for the following decade, reaching $ 4.4 billion in 2007, gradually rising to $ 18.4 billion by 2012, ranking him 26th on the list.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.

Product safety is unusually sensitive in China following scandals over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or sickened by phoney or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods.

At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood, as a Silicon Valley tech investor.

As a matter of fact, a report by Bankrate.com revealed that almost 40 percent of people under 30 years old preferred cash for their investment of choice in money they won't need for at least the following decade.

Shell shareholders are set to cast their votes on the deal on Jan. 27, followed by BG investors the next day, the final hurdles to be cleared for the deal to proceed, one of the biggest energy sector acquisitions in the past decade.

The following classes are all taught by accomplished, award - winning writers who have decades of experience in communicating ideas, telling stories, and captivating their audiences.

Decades of inquiry followed, by dozens of luminaries, among them Canada's Henry Woodward.

Following two investigative pieces by The New York Times and the New Yorker in October 2017 accusing Harvey Weinstein of decades of sexual assault, several other of Hollywood's biggest names have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault.

Over the following decade, Congress repeatedly passed legislation — often at the last possible moment — to temporarily «patch» the AMT by increasing the AMT exemption amount.

A 30 - year rewind also is informative: The dispersion of effective tax rates of Russell 1000 companies peaked in 1986, just before the Tax Reform Act came into effect, and was followed by a decade long convergence, our analysis shows.

They were prompted by strong reaction from TV executives and creative auspices involved in TWC series who practically demanded the name removal as they wanted to distance their projects from Weinstein following the New York Times «devastating Thursday expose detailing decades of sexual harassment behavior.

Much of the decline has been self - imposed as communist leaders try to steer China to more sustainable growth driven by domestic consumption following the past decade's explosive expansion based on trade and investment.

Trudeau initially defended the payments as having followed all the rules of a decades - old relocation policy that was last updated by the Harper government in 2011.

Simply put, decades with very high P / E ratios are inevitably followed by decades with low ones.

The mining industry's decade - long $ 616 billion investment spree was followed by asset writedowns and management clear - outs.

If these numbers are realistic, the portfolio balance model would suggest that the exchange rate has to appreciate initially by some 30 per cent (and will appear seriously and persistently uncompetitive for trade in goods and services), before depreciating by 3 per cent per year over the following decade.

Following an attempt by the Abu Dhabi government to purchase major US port facilities a decade ago, CFIUS was reformed to include, for example, review of sovereign foreign investment or a purchase that would involve foreign investment in critical infrastructure.

While it would be difficult to take a lack of fresh credit strains as evidence of restored health in the banking and lending system, we can't rule out the possibility that the Rube Goldberg machine created by the Fed and the Treasury will be enough to take us through a period of years (or if we follow Japan's example, decades) where we will gradually bury the losses of the banking system, trading a short - lived period of adjustment instead for a long - term period of stagnant credit.

Four U.S. industry sources who follow China policy closely said they were unsettled by any suggestion of abandoning the «one China» policy, which they said had served the business community well for several decades.

Given that adoption of the TPP by the partner countries will likely take at least two years, followed by the five annual stage reductions of the tariff on imports from Japan, we will continue to be placed at a competitive disadvantage for over half a decade.

It is one of the bets performing financial instruments of the past decade, for starters, and traditionally big losses have been followed by big gains.

The 1982 secular bull market was preceded and followed by secular bear markets that featured lots of sharp rallies and sell offs, but netted investors nothing after more than a decade.

The volume is also divided into two separate stories, set a century apart: a long first - person narrative by a Handmaid in Gilead is followed by «Historical Notes on «The Handmaid's Tale,»» a fictive academic commentary by the urbane male editor of the anonymous woman's tapes discovered in the late 21st century, decades after Gilead's fall.

We've sat in churches we'd walked by for a decade without ever stepping foot inside, churches that in our earlier, fear - filled days we would have condemned as «liberal», and have found within them sincere believers doing their best to follow Jesus.

The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

In recent decades, ministries that are involved in crusade evangelism have tried to increase the long - term effectiveness of their efforts by engaging local churches and ministries to perform follow - up discipleship with those who come forward at a crusade.

I do want to add here some basic facts, the article the following is taken from is using facts from the past decade not from 2000 years ago... these facts are what matter now, not that book written by sheep herding men who probably enjoyed the company of their herd (thus the term bestiality??)

The Donatist schism originated in the years following the Great Persecution of Diocletian, which predated Augustine by several decades.

Adams's great enthusiasm for virtue during the Revolutionary War turned to skepticism and a reliance on interest in the following decade.25 Hamilton was never more than mildly intoxicated with the idea of virtue and rapidly became the greatest theorist of the interest - conception of the Republic.26 Though most in the founding generation kept some balance between the two sides, there was a perceptible swing toward interest by the end of the 1780s.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

«6 Indeed, during the decade following publication of Whitehead's major philosophical works, a variety of theologians, both in the United States and in Great Britain, were responsive to the new views articulated by Whitehead and made considerable use of many general features of his philosophy in constructing their own theologies.

The response of the teachers of the early church to the person and work of Jesus, both in the period which saw the emergence of the New Testament and in the decades following, was by no means uniform or standardized.

Granted that present circumstances are different from those of World War I and the following decade, ministry today is also practiced in a time characterized by great unrest, by the specter of armed conflict, and by the tremendous problems of the poor, the aging, the emotionally disturbed.

This path was followed by most of the underdeveloped countries in the first three decades after World War II.

Over the following decades, «Christianity grew by 10 to 20 percent annually, especially among Dalits at the bottom of Hindu society, making Nepal one of Asia's most stunning church growth stories.»

Following up on Kelly's plea that the standards and definitions of excellence in theological education «be agreed upon by the seminaries themselves, working not as now largely in isolation but in cooperation with other educational agencies» (Kelly, 220), Brown urged a decade after Kelly that a «Council of Seminaries» be formed, among the responsibilities of which would be the formulating and policing of standards (cf Brown, 222 - 26).

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 following skill areas were highlighted by industry as the most important areas of focus for training and recruitment over the coming decades.

The name of this dish is inspired by the promotional slogan that appeared on crates of California fruits shipped across the country in the decades following the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.

Preiss Imports is established, followed by two decades expanding an award - winning spirits and wine portfolio to upwards of 500 products from 33 suppliers.

Now, decades later, when I give holiday gifts I follow this ethos by keeping it simple, yet special.