Sentences with phrase «despite years in the making»

But this year's ultimate crop of nominees was eminently deserving and each told a story that, despite years in the making, is somehow entirely relevant to today.

Hattie's Visible Learning research, despite years in the making, is still young in terms of implementation in schools here in North America.

Not exact matches

«Arkema has made a very strong start to the year, with a 33 % year on year increase in adjusted net income despite a high basis of comparison in first quarter 2017 and the very strong appreciation of the euro.

According to one study, 82 percent of shoppers made at least one purchase from an international merchant in a calendar year — despite the fact that only 1 percent of small businesses in the U.S. export goods overseas.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

Despite inflation making our lives more expensive every year, people in these 10 occupations are actually earning less, on average, than they were half a decade ago.

When China Merchants Port Holdings signed a 99 - year lease on Sri Lanka's Hambantota Port in July, worries emerged that China's navy would make use of the facility despite Sri Lanka's assurances to the contrary.

Case in point: Despite a growing economy and recovering profits, as of mid-May, not a single energy stock mutual fund in the U.S. had made money this year, according to Morningstar.

Chisholm Pothier, who was Flaherty's first federal spokesman and worked with him for about seven years in all, said his boss — despite being an ardent tax cutter — was never the right - wing ideologue his partisan critics made him out to be.

Perth - based Swick Mining Services says it made a number of redundancies to minimise costs during the March quarter and plans to make an impairment adjustment at year's end, despite an increase in demand for underground drilling from its existing clients.

Addressing the golf landscape, Hainer said on «Squawk Box» it still makes sense to sell its brands that include TaylorMade, despite recently strong 7 percent revenue growth, as well as Nike's moves and golf's return to the Olympics for the first time in 104 years.

- Despite the rise of mixed martial arts — and subsequent talk about the decline of boxing in mainstream culture — six boxers led their countries in earnings, and four of them made in excess of $ 20 million last year.

The Pats have shown that they will let strong teams stay in games throughout the season, and despite whatever Blake Bortles joke you want to make, the Jaguars are a strong team this year.

The stock was down 40 % since he became CEO, and Tesla recently surpassed Ford in market cap — despite the fact that Ford made $ 4.6 billion last year, while Tesla lost more than half a billion.

Despite that, financial institutions made over $ 152 billion in profit in 2014 — the most profitable year on record, and three of the four largest financial institutions are 80 percent bigger today than they were before we bailed them out.

The union representing the 4,800 rail workers who walked off the job claimed CP was angling to cut their pensions by up to 40 %, despite making a profit in the previous year.

«Last year, we delivered higher revenue and stronger pre-tax margins despite a challenging environment for our market - making businesses,» Lloyd C. Blankfein, Goldman's chairman and CEO, said in a statement.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Republicans argue that 2018 is a better year to look at than 2027, as they argue that, despite writing the bill so that individual cuts expire, they hope to make them permanent in the future.

Despite their low leverage, the extraordinarily high value of most of the firm's work makes them consistently one of the highest ranked in PPP, coming in well north of $ 4 million in recent years.

The social media company was able to make this change to the largest companies by market cap list thanks to a 30 % increase in stock over the last year, despite not being as large a company as WMT, reports Quartz.

Oil production has also disappointed — despite virtually every company's plan to «make it up in volume,» at least for this year.

BMI Research predicted in January that better metals prices, new projects coming online and expansions at existing operations «will make the DRC the fastest growing major mining market in the world this year, despite mounting political and regulatory risks.»

The insurers» previously rosy outlook on China came despite foreign insurers exiting the country in recent years, citing a hostile regulator, falling market share and the difficulty of making profits.

VICTORIA — Despite Premier Christy Clark's assurances that «good progress» is being made helping British Columbians with substance abuse issues, New Democrats have revealed that treatment spaces for youth fell by 25 per cent in the last two years, said...

VICTORIA — Despite Premier Christy Clark's assurances that «good progress» is being made helping British Columbians with substance abuse issues, New Democrats have revealed that treatment spaces for youth fell by 25 per cent in the last two years, said New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

«While yesterday's inflation numbers make a Fed rate rise in March more or less a done deal the prospect of additional rate rises later on in the year don't appear to be causing the same consternation in equity markets that they were a week ago, as US markets closed higher for the fourth day in succession, despite initially opening lower in the wake of the release of the data,» said Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets.

The example of postwar Kenya, where the total fertility rate apparently rose from about six to nearly eight during a generation of substantial improvements in health, and despite nearly twenty years of family planning efforts, should make it clear that increasing parents» freedom to choose will serve the purposes of parents, whether or not these are in accordance with the preference or ideology of the government and its advisers.

States across the country have moved toward similar abortion restrictions in recent years, with Texas upholding its own «fetal pain» law despite state senator Wendy Davis's filibuster making national news in 2013.

In my case, retrospection from the sidelines prompted me to remember many instances in my earlier years when my wife had protested my making an extra trip or going to yet another conference, despite my weariness; I always pleaded the importance of the cause that engaged me, and it never occurred to me that I might have been so assiduous in these engagements because the invitations flattered my vanitIn my case, retrospection from the sidelines prompted me to remember many instances in my earlier years when my wife had protested my making an extra trip or going to yet another conference, despite my weariness; I always pleaded the importance of the cause that engaged me, and it never occurred to me that I might have been so assiduous in these engagements because the invitations flattered my vanitin my earlier years when my wife had protested my making an extra trip or going to yet another conference, despite my weariness; I always pleaded the importance of the cause that engaged me, and it never occurred to me that I might have been so assiduous in these engagements because the invitations flattered my vanitin these engagements because the invitations flattered my vanity.

We both agreed that Tiger Nuts were one of the world's best kept health food secrets, despite being around as the primary source of food of Cavemen over 4000 years ago, so we decided to bring them to America and try to make a difference in inspiring people to live and eat healthier lives..

Despite the fact that we are completely spoiled by amazing produce year round in Northern California, I still get giddy when spring goes into full swing and english peas make...

This year a three year old Red Savina plant bit the dust despite making in through two previous winters as a younger, weaker plant.

We are used to being able to secure our top four spot without too much hassle, with Arsene Wenger managing to somehow maintain our place in the Champions League year - on - year despite the changes made to the squad, but this year will not be so easy.

Despite being in the Gunners» first - team picture for ten years after having made his debut way back in 2007, he still hasn't nailed down a place in the team and continues to be on the fringes.

His club have apparently told him that they would not stand in the way of his move despite the fact that they could make him see out the remaining year of his contract.

Three years after Ohio State jumped Baylor and TCU to make the Playoff and one year after Ohio State made it in despite not winning the Big Ten, some folks at Ohio State's 247Sports message board wonder whether ESPN, a company that wants lots of games between big - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular brand.

Having so far made just six starts in the League campaign despite his good form, the 27 - year - old is understood to be looking to leave the Nou Camp.

George Graham came to my mind yesterday.I don't think of the THIEVING B • • • ARD too often because I despise him for what he did.Stole money.Got found out.Gave it back.Got sacked.It seemed he was beginning to lose his way a bit and it was not to be too long before before he either walked or he was pushed.But the memory of him coming to us as a manager (from his first job at Millwall) when the majority of fans wanted Venebles (despite his obvious Spud past) was of a keen enthusiastic young manager who wanted the opportunity to manage this club.What happened over the following years would have earned him his own Bronze Statue if he had not got caught with his hands in the clubs till.But what an impact he made.

Ricciardo finished in a solid second place whilst Valtteri Bottas made it two Mercedes on the podium with third, despite doing most of the race without a drinks system in what is one of the toughest races of the year.

Despite not getting past the Penguins in this year's playoffs, the Capitals were +250 favorites at sportsbook to make it to the 2016 - 17 Stanley Cup Final.

The latest speculation concerning the 20 - year - old comes despite the fact that he has struggled to find good form in recent months having made a stellar start to life in England following his move from Fluminense last summer.

Despite all of them being in the first - team picture for at least five years now, consistency is still a problem and as a result, our «British Core» barely make it to the bench.

The fact is that, despite his obvious improvement, he still can not command a regular starting spot at the Emirates, with Wenger insisting that his best position is in the Santi Cazorla role, but not believing the 24 year - old is ready to make it his own.

The prolific forward scored 30 goals in all competitions last season despite his playing time restrictions from January onwards, and so the 29 - year - old evidently has more than enough to make City regret such a decision.

The Spanish giants seem ready to make changes to their attack next season, with Benzema in talks over a move to Old Trafford despite years of quality service at the Bernabeu.

As for Kane and Eriksen, who are stars at their positions despite being only 22 and 23 years old respectively, the Spurs hope to tie them down and ward off offers from the bigger clubs expected to make major offers in the summer.

In addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top teams in the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low leveIn addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top teams in the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low levein the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low levein general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low levein recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low level.

Despite having a team of crocks and donkeys for most of the year, he has still made them the most consistent team in the League.

Francis has been so single - minded in buildinghis career that during his sophomore year of high school in Scottsdale, Ariz., he made the decision — despite the misgivings of his parents, John and Bee — tobe homeschooled, giving him more flexibility in his travel and practiceschedules.