Sentences with phrase «decades past which»

Designers are always inspired by the music of decades past which shows constantly on the runway.

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This goes far beyond a paper code of conduct, philanthropic hand - outs or the social audit fatigue which has gripped the industry over the past decade.

In the past decade, Goldstein's three businesses, which include the subprime lender Enova, which he started a year after graduating college in 2004; real estate site and Inc. 5000 company Pangea Properties, and 2015 30 Under 30 listee lender Avant, have added 2,200 new jobs to the economy.

But van Beurden has been slimming down his portfolio of oil projects with the intent of keeping only those lean enough to make good returns in a world in which oil prices average no more than $ 40 a barrel, well below the average price over the past decade.

And it's a shift in the Liberals» approach to economic policy, which had become encumbered over the past decade by vacuous buzzwords like «champion sectors» and «innovation gateways» (Both found on a single - page in the 2011 election platform).

The dodo, «a once powerful bird,» was hit with a change in its environment and «was unable to respond,» warns the plaque, which has been handed down from one Shell scenarios head to another for the past four decades.

The IOC, which ultimately holds the rights for past Games, knew there was likely a global market for decades» worth of Olympic - themed merchandise.

He points to the ratio of probable workers (ages 25 - 64) to probable retirees (ages 65 and over), which currently stands at four to one, as it has for the past three decades.

Over the past decade and a half, the industry has witnessed a ton of consolidation (most notably in mergers between Delta and Northwest, United and Continental, and American and U.S. Airways), which means that airlines are less likely to try to undercut one another on price.

Over the past decade, B.C. has experienced a devastating mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has destroyed 16.3 million hectares of forest.

In fact, of those eight films, five of them have made less at the box office than Crash, which is currently the fifth - lowest grossing film of the past four decades (in terms of sales adjusted for inflation).

Mills compared the need to invest in infrastructure such as highways, roads, and bridges to investment in high - speed broadband in the past two decades, which has enabled a lively app economy, which in turn has spawned nearly a million jobs, as well as an entirely new cloud computing industry worth $ 45 billion that touches some 6 million small businesses.

For the past decade, I've been involved in the battle to protect the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, which is under threat from the proposed Pebble Mine project.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

ETFs, which typically have lower fees than mutual funds, have enjoyed several-fold growth in assets over the past decade as investors have sought to reduce the overall cost of their investments.

Over the past decade Canadian Pacific paid just $ 138 million in cash taxes — which amounts to just 2 % of its pre-tax profits.

Belying Spicer's comment is data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, which has 450 million words spoken on television and written in books and print media over the past three decades.

The doohickeys on which these run, which the Asian manufacturers have mastered over the past few decades, are increasingly disposable and interchangeable, and therefore less valuable.

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.

There are perhaps many explanations for this trend, but it does correlate nicely with the technological explosion — especially of the Internet — over the past few decades, which invites a sobering conclusion.

The book, which the first daughter and White House adviser wrote while her father was running for president, reads like a mashup of countless essays and articles written in the past decade aimed at female entrepreneurs.

Hedge funds, which have been viewed as under - regulated for the past decade, were the initial focus of FBI raids.

The US3 has accused the ME3 of receiving more than $ 52 billion in state aid over the past decade, which they claim is in violation of the Open Skies agreement that governs air travel between the US and the ME3's home nations.

But three years — the legal cask - aging requirement for Canadian rye — is a long time to wait for a product in whisky - thirsty Ontario, which has seen a 264 % increase in sales over the past decade.

According to a Gallup poll, 74 % of employees feel that they are missing out on company news and information, which is shocking considering how hard human resource teams have worked to increase employee engagement over the past several decades.

On his five - minute drive to the office, which he's been making for the past five decades, Buffett stops by McDonald's and orders one of three items: two sausage patties, a sausage, egg and cheese or a bacon, egg and cheese.

The economic growth and population expansion in China and Asia in the past decade has generated enormous demand, which far exceeds supply on a global basis.

In the United States, which has muddled along in the middle for the past decade, government officials have attempted to introduce marketplace competition into public schools.

In the past decade, medical costs have increased 34 %, which is more than any other major spending category and significantly more than income.

Add in stolid First Nations resistance to a proposed pipeline from the tar sands to Kitimat, and all these powerful pressures converge on the aptly named Second Narrows, which already has seen its oil tanker traffic rise precipitously in the past decade.

Although this might still be regarded as quite high in absolute terms, it is towards the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated in the past two decades.

Since October, Chinese economic policymakers have expressed little interest in tackling the country's mountain of debt, which has accumulated rapidly over the past decade.

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.

This scenario also assumes that Southwest's spending on working capital and fixed assets will be 4 % of revenue, which is the average change in invested capital over the past decade.

In addition, Gordon and his father Jack Diamond also formed the Diamond Foundation, one of Canada's largest private family foundations, which has benefitted countless Vancouver residents and British Columbians over the past three decades.

But banks are not lending more, for the simple reason that a third of U.S. real estate already is in negative equity, while small and medium - sized businesses (which have created most of the new jobs in America for the past few decades) have seen their preferred collateral (real estate and sales orders) shrink.

In addition, Gordon and his father Jack also formed the Diamond Foundation, one of Canada's largest private family foundations, which has benefitted countless Vancouver residents and British Columbians over the past three decades.

A mistake compounded by the fact that first - class mail has been in sharp decline over the past decade, which has turned package delivery into a big money loser for the U.S. postal service.

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.

Over past decades, investor - owned banks have put their own gain before the well - being of the people and businesses they serve and the cities in which they operate.

This is the dark - side of the sweeping back - to - the - city movement of the past decade or two, which has brought affluent, highly educated people back to the urban cores of superstar cities, such as Toronto, New York, London, Paris and others.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

In the past decade, the US had been ramping up the use of targeted tariffs to help protect the US steel industry from unfair trading practices, which include selling steel in the United States at a cheaper price than the price the exporting country sells it elsewhere (this is called «dumping»).

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.

Money must be «raised and allocated» in a different way and the Third Plenum's language mirrors that which has been said for the past decade: not a simple feat and something the party has so far failed to do.

That's when Koch snapped into full salesman mode, enthusiastically talking about Brewing the American Dream, his brewery's micro-lending program which has helped over 300 food and beverage startups over the past half - decade.

A real - world illustration: In 2014, the insurance industry began approaching a period during which the bonds bought many years, even decades, in the past were coming up for maturity.

While the average age at which U.S. retirees say they retired has risen steadily from 57 to 61 in the past two decades, boomers — the youngest of whom will turn 50 this year — will likely extend it even further.

Beyond these tactical objectives lies the longer - term strategic play of re-establishing Canada's Asian credentials, which have languished over the past decade or more.