Sentences with phrase «decades past because»

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If you were thinking it's millennials, that's probably because they've dominated the media's focus for the past decade.

Barrick ended up mired in debt and dysfunction in part because it tried to boost production numbers over the past decade, just for the sake of boosting numbers.

Gold scams remain popular because gold prices have soared in the past decade.

An article in The Guardian, Stress and Social Media Fuel Mental Health Crisis Among Girls, went much further to, correlate NHS data showing a «68 % rise in hospital admissions because of self - harm among girls under 17 in past decade» to the concurrent rise of social media.

I've spent the past decade building a company that is now the largest patient - physician platform in the U.S., and I believe one of the reasons why it was so successful was because of the company culture we put in place from the day the company was founded.

I kind of hope that's true because the world, thanks to all this technology, has seen dramatic upheaval over the past decade.

This was partly because low coffee prices prevailing during the past decade encouraged under - investment in infrastructure.

One of the chief problems, Sykes said, was that it had become impossible to prove to listeners that Trump was telling falsehoods because over the past several decades, the conservative news media had «basically eliminated any of the referees, the gatekeepers.»

Because each individual source of readily available data on income distribution has different advantages and limitations, no single source illustrates all of the major trends in inequality over the past six decades or so.

Many of the U.S. and Canadian companies that came to Mexico in the past decades did so because of the solid institutional framework and certainties that NAFTA provided.

This is because international trade has increased rapidly over the past few decades as the world economy has become more developed and globalized — notwithstanding the flattening of the global trade - to - GDP ratio over the past few years.

Saunders, the president of the Vancouver and District Labour Council, says that Canadian workers and their pensions are more exposed to risk during market trouble because of the successful campaign over the past decades to move from defined benefit pensions, which guarantee a certain monthly amount when you retire, to defined contribution plans, promoted by market enthusiasts.

The steel industry has shed hundreds of thousands of jobs in the country in the past two decades, partly because of automation and partly because of a flood of production from China, which has driven down global prices to a level where some American mills can not compete.

Unlike computer chips, which have improved wildly over the past decade, batteries have proved stubbornly resistant to huge jumps in performance and cost efficiency, in part because we ask so much of them.

They believed that because bonds were profitable in the past decade, they'd be profitable in the next.

Has Modern Portfolio Theory failed to deliver over the past decade because users employ long - term averages for expected returns, volatilities and correlations that do not respond to changing market environments?

But voters will astonish us sometimes, and so they did on May 5 — so there is a strong possibility that that today's Throne Speech will also make history in part because it charts a policy course genuinely different from that all those old Tory governments wanted to take over the past four decades, and possibly because it says forthrightly what the government actually intends to do.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

First and foremost, the top banks are big because the Federal Reserve and other regulators have over the past several decades allowed and even encouraged a series of mergers between strong banks and weak.

Foreclosure is of course bad for homeowners, but it is even worse for banks, because of the financial pyramid of credit erected on the past decade's worth of junk mortgages.

The fact is that over the past decade, the EURO countries have not been willing to take policy actions to ensure the stability of the EURO, because they involved issues related to sovereignty and fiscal integration: two areas where there were opposing entrenched views.

Yet China's solar panel production has more than quintupled in the past decade because, he said, Beijing has allowed market forces to winnow the industry to the most efficient competitors.

Ten years later, Barron's told him that it was writing an article about that memo because the average hedge fund return over the past decade was 5.2 %.

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.

Atheism is becoming much more mainstream and popular because we are in the era of progressive scientific knowledge in the past decades that is unmatched, and with education comes questions of why and how.

Frankly, I really, really like this approach, because (as you may know if you have been reading my blog for the past six years or so), this is all I have been able to do with Scripture for the past decade or so.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

But things have changed dramatically in the past decade... perhaps because so many of my fellow ministers went through the same situation... so there is hope yet for other issues... It seems the way of the majority usually wins over time...

It was remarkable because, although he died in 1947, Whitehead was only a few cards in the library catalogue until, during the past decade and continuing into the present, literally shelves of books have been written explaining his thought, interpreting it, and applying it to a variety of areas.

For most of the past decade, deportation to Iraq was never a possibility because the Iraqi government refused to grant papers to repatriate deportees from the US.

This number has grown even more in the past decade, and it would not surprise demographers if the Orthodox percentage, because of the high Orthodox birth rate, now exceeds that of Conservative Judaism.

Benbrook and Mellon argued against genetically modified food because they say the technology hasn't done what it promised over the past two decades, it has not been determined if there are long - term health risks, weeds are becoming resistant to Bt and requiring the use of more herbicides and biotechnology can't prove it will solve the world's hunger crisis.

We heard from a financial analyst documenting the extraordinary sales growth and profit performance of Woolworths and Coles over the past decade, along with some cautionary words expecting both indicators to moderate somewhat in the current decade because of the entry of Aldi and CostCo into the Australian market.

Betts» offensive numbers aren't as exciting as they could be, but he's one of the most watchable players of the past decade, and I'll hide behind the nerd numbers because they support my stance this time.

That's because Texas is one of the biggest underdogs of the past decade in MLB playoff action, according to the baseball database at OddsShark.com.

I think I did misread the «half a decade thing» because I've seen that phrasing used elsewhere as a rhetorical move to make an event seem more in the past than it really is.

Despite the disappointing results of the past decade it appears fans of Arsenal FC, including myself, are powerless when it comes to being able to force through desperately needed changes because of Arsene Wenger's entrenched position within the Arsenal FC hierarchy.

Because unlike the rest of the managers Wenger has been taking stick for mistakes made by the players, referee and club board for the past decade, if anything Wenger has been under more pressure than any manager in the PL since our stadium move hence why he appears to be more respected by the FA compared to Mourinho.

Nobody cares about that, because he's rarely been given anything significant to do over the past decade and can't go 15 minutes without flipping from good guy to bad guy and back again.

the wenger out brigade just goes for the prof because he epitomises the failures arsenal has had in the past decade, yes managerial failures name the youth products that are world class since 2007, a proper trophy, a tactical innovation, a unique way of training??? I respect him and believe he's a legend at this club, I'm just gutted to see him go like this he should have went on a high and got replaced, I'm sure the same fans that say wenger out would love a statue of him at the emirates.

he should be blamed because we are a top 4 club and the only top 4 in the past decade who has not won anything major apart from the Fa Cup, even Liverpool who were a top 4 but now mid table has won the Champions League.

Also I must say Roy Keane is the only footballer past or present that has had the ability to make all others around them up their game, ive never known anybody else like him past or present, for a decade he was the first name on SAF team sheet before Cantana, scholes, giggs, beckham stam and the rest, the reason why he was the first name on the team was because he was the most important player, probably in the whole of the Sir Alex era, and to say Carrick was more important than Keane and Scholes does not surprise me with you Opik (You claimed we should sell RVP and Rooney to play Bebe and Welbeck) but it once again proves you talk complete bollocks

Because for the past ten decades year after the departure of Rafael, we have had number of players on our transfer list such as Toni Kroos, William, kovasic Alexis, Pedro Van dijke, and likely U-turn signing M.salah and more.

Or maybe because divorce is easier to get (thankfully) and a lot less stigmatizing than in decades past.

If fact this type of pad has had somewhat of a revival in the past decade because of the benefits they offer, including:

Because of the movement of sand along the coast, Sampsons Island has accreted greatly over the past several decades.

Outreach to caregivers and other community groups followed, and the past two decades have seen tremendous achievements throughout the wider community, particularly in supporting parents who, because of their social and economic circumstances, might not have access to the resources they need as they take on the challenging job of raising young children.

Indeed, village park officials said the new rink was long overdue because growing numbers of children and adults have been flocking to their rink for the past decade.

More and more women are breastfeeding for a longer period of time, but I think this is more because in the past decade there has been a change in attitude toward it.

Though Wheaton's population over the past decade grew by nearly 8 percent, to 55,416 in 2000, mostly because of the mixed - use Danada development on the south end of the city that included about 700 single - family homes, its population has since leveled off, according to census statistics.