Sentences with phrase «done over a few decades»

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The idea did not take hold in Europe, but it made its way to the U.S. over the next few decades.

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.

There are a few companies which, by applying analytics to countless small projects over decades, have emerged as companies that bring a legitimately data - driven approach to everything they do.

This is easier said than done because many pressures have tended to flatten real U.S. wages for average employees over the last few decades.

But what they didn't do was also noticeable: They didn't threaten to take back the president's authority to set tariffs that Congress had ceded to the White House over the past few decades (regardless of the Constitution's stipulation that the Congress set tariffs).

Higher productivity growth, sustained over a few decades, would have a profound impact on future living standards, but to expect an economic boom of anything but the short - lived variety is to rely on arithmetic that doesn't add up.

Trudeau said his sense from voters across Canada is the Canadian economy has performed generally well over the last few decades, but they don't feel their families and communities are performing as well.

There is now a lot of soul - searching about the direction of the Republican Party and much doubting of its future viability if does not adapt itself in some way to an electorate that has (it is said) fundamentally shifted over the last few decades.

Least of all do frank appraisals and suggestions for improvement seek to denigrate the sincere efforts of parish musicians over the past few decades.

By and large, over the last few decades the Church in the West has adopted a don't ask / don't tell policy.

Many breeds of dog alive today evolved over the past few decades and did not even exist as late as 1900.

We honestly believe in the principles and practices we're employing and the results are already going into the bottle and will only continue to improve as fine wine does over the next few decades and beyond!

For those that don't know who Maida Heatter is, she's responsible for writing some of the most amazing, luscious, scrumptiously adjective - worthy baking books over the last few decades.

Some, though few, Gooners still believe that the man who provided the feast, over a decade now, can do so again, given time.

It was one of only a very few issues our opinions differed Jon so I'm pleased your on board with Ivan.I believe he has had to go over Wengers head and straight to Kronke to get his way and this will explain the reported stand off in their working relationship.Wenger did not like being called into question.Shame it didn't happen a decade ago

More gifted players like HENRY, BERGKAMP and a very few others over the decades, ALSO had work ethic, fight and personal pride to do their best.

Gennaro Gattuso believes that Italian Football is forgetting what it has done over the last few decades and that there are...

«I'm thrilled with the way plans are working out in the city, and it could never have happened without all the different boards and governmental bodies pitching in together the way they've done over the last few decades,» Marcucci said.

However it does seem that the Ministry of Defence has been plagued over the last few decades with commissioning large projects that end up running horrendously late and over budget.

In any case, even if the libertarian - minded succeed in taking control of the debate on the Right, it still won't guarantee the long - term success of their ideology: the real world is dangerously messy, and we've seen a lot of evidence over the past few decades that perfect ideas don't always work as planned when they're applied to actual people (see: markets, free).

McKee says the only thing that has done more to keep Senate Republicans in the majority over the last few decades is their ability to draw district lines.

Or fires set to clear land for agriculture can get out of hand, like they've done in Indonesia: Over the last few decades, the country has drained many of its peatlands to grow oil palms and other crops.

But Jones is not sure if Manley did as well at capturing slower changes, of a few tenths of a degree over decades, which is important for detecting the onset of warming due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Still, Action on Sugar does have the potential to significantly improve health in the UK, which, like much of the rest of the world, has seen steadily climbing obesity levels over the past few decades.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Researchers have known for decades that if you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point of — 452 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 269 degrees Celsius) it will suddenly be able to do things that other fluids can't, like dribble through molecule - thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun.

Myers» work is among the few studies done over the past few decades to compare theories of hydrogeology to what actually happens.

Over the past few decades it has become increasingly clear that epigenetic changes - heritable changes in the cell that do not result from DNA sequence alteration - may be just as important as gene mutations in cancer development.

Extensive research has been done over the last few decades on the effect of plants on blood sugar, revealing promising results.

This theory was widely accepted as truth for decades until some research was done over the years that showed so long as you had a meal within a few hours of training, you would be just fine, and that total protein intake over the course of the day mattered more than when you had protein intake.

If you consider the many things that have changed in the last few decades, there is a completely new outlook at the way that people should perceive online dating over 50 and what they should do in order to make this process easy for them.

Hot Russian brides really do make good wife's, they are committed to their children and family, and still have those traditional family values that so many Western women have lost over the last few decades.

If you done any research into Russian women you will see that they really do make great wives they have traits that many Western women have lost over the last few decades.

Though scientific and technological breakthroughs over the past few decades have rendered this material somewhat dated, that doesn't detract from the value of these shows.

WHY: It's incredible how much can change over the course of just a few years, and no one knows that better than Paul Haggis, who went from being one of the most sought - after writer / directors in Hollywood to a filmmaker who hasn't done anything noteworthy in almost a decade.

Over the past two decades, the demand for reform has caused the teachers» unions to do little more than budge on a few issues.

The work done over the past decade by our two organizations — Foundations, Inc. and the Annie E. Casey Foundation — has taught us a few lessons about how thoughtful afterschool and summer experiences can make a difference in school success, especially in under - resourced communities and low - performing schools.

Readmission Policy serves as a lens through which to examine why, though young mothers in Malawi have been allowed to re-enroll in school for over two decades, very few do, and how key stakeholders understand the relationship between sexuality and schooling.

Over the past few decades, far too many reformers have assumed that school improvement is mainly a technical design challenge having to do with organizational structures and systems.

In conversations about Finland's stunning success over the past decade, many education leaders look at what makes the system work so well — the high bar for entry into the teaching profession, the absence of standardized tests, the embedded professional development and support systems, to name just a few — and ask «Why can't we do this in my country?»

The renowned Bavarian company has a 120 - year history of «traditional innovation «and over the past few decades has also done a lot for more mobility.

Now understand, I published over a hundred novels with traditional novel publishers and made my living doing that for a few decades.

We believe that, «Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is looking» and we have continued to do the right thing for our customers over the last few decades.

A point I brought up over at the Diehards is I didn't find a significant period of time (like a few years to a decade) where the Permanent Portfolio ever had a negative after - inflation return.

If I look back at the best things I've done financially over the past few decades, it would be automating my finances.

Although I've referenced Markel's book value growth over the past few decades, I don't really value Markel relative to book value.

Looking back over the past few decades, I'd say that some of my most useful and profitable investment principles came from things I've read or experienced that had nothing to do with the stock market.

But our — buy and watch closely ‖ approach has done well for our portfolio management clients over the past few decades.

But our «buy and watch closely» approach has done well for our portfolio management clients over the past few decades.

Considering the massive changes that have occurred in our world over the last few decades, it's easy to yearn for simpler times, when phones only made phone calls and banks didn't charge account fees.