Sentences with phrase «during the recent years of»

White South Africans, even during the recent years of increasing township violence and repressive emergency measure, present themselves to the world as the embattled custodians of civil order in a continent notorious for whimsical massacres.

During the recent years of a strengthening dollar, its overseas sales have faced currency headwinds.

The specific assumptions underlying ACEEE's earlier estimates of job gains will inevitably differ somewhat from how things unfold — and in particular gasoline price projections have come down since then — but the impressive growth of the auto industry during the recent years of brisk advances in fuel efficiency technology is certainly consistent with the fundamentals of our analysis.

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To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

During the recent boom years, many of us were so busy serving current accounts that we didn't have the time — or the need — to sustain connections with former customers or potential referral sources.

During recent years, Werklund has been focusing on philanthropy — in March he donated $ 16 million to Olds College, the biggest single donation in Alberta colleges» history — after stepping down from executive control of his company Canadian Crude Separators in 2010.

During a recent review of a luxury spa client's risk and insurance programs, we found that the insurance broker had not reviewed the current experience modifier, which reflects claims experience during the past three During a recent review of a luxury spa client's risk and insurance programs, we found that the insurance broker had not reviewed the current experience modifier, which reflects claims experience during the past three during the past three years.

UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Not only did the vast majority Americans» net - worth tumble during the recession, for 93 % of households, it continued to slide during the first two years of the recovery as well, a recent study by the Pew Research Center found.

In recent years, warmer temperatures have reduced the amount of time energy companies can explore onshore oil, due in part to drilling equipment that can only be used during the coldest months.

There were $ 221 billion worth of pharmaceutical deals completed in the first half of this year, triple the amount during the first half of 2014, according to a recent report from consulting firm KPMG.

According to a recent Compas poll of corporate executives, the situation is going to get worse during the next few years.

Some of the provinces and companies have built up debt in recent years during the recovery, since there has been so very much artificial liquidity all over the world.

In his most recent interview to date, Vidal Sassoon has a highly personal and moving discussion with CNBC Meets presenter Tania Bryer in which he talks about his impoverished childhood, his years in a Jewish orphanage in the East End of London and candidly about how his mother had to hand him and his brother over, as she could not afford to look after them during the Depression.

The brand has been generating a lot of buzz among the fashonista crowd for its on - trend but budget - friendly pieces, but during its most recent quarter saw flat sales compared to a year ago.

The Institute of International Education, a not - for - profit organization that researches the movement of international students, found that 304,467 American students studied abroad during the 2013 - 2014 school year — the most recent data available.

«Turning to more recent history, since 1950, the average intra-year drawdown for the S&P 500 during the first calendar year of a new Fed chair has been 15 %.»

During a recent half - year sabbatical in China, I had the opportunity to search for answers to these questions, with the management of its health care industry as a prism.

Joly stated during Best Buy's most recent conference call that 89 % of the U.S. population now lives in states where Amazon collects sales tax, up from less than 50 % three years ago.

A recent Statistics Canada study notes that after 20 years of stagnation during the 1980s and 1990s, real wages finally showed some marked progress in the 2000s:

Yet, the Russell Midcap Index and the Russell 2000 Index even have outperformed the S&P 500 Index since the start of this year — and especially during the recent correction.

Add - ons have only become more and more popular in recent years, with our most recent US PE Breakdown revealing that they comprised no less than 70 % of all US buyout activity during 1Q 2018.

The most recent response provided by the Board of Directors in 2013 updated for certain changes in Berkshire's energy - generating holdings during the past year follows.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

EZTrader has received some (pretty well - deserved) criticism in the past for having an old - fashioned platform, but during recent years the platform has been updated with a lot of modern and highly useful features that can be used to enhance the trading experience.

We are so happy for our recent group of graduates and their individual accomplishments during our final class of the year.

Factories reported the smallest gains in both total goods orders and export orders for a year - and - a-half during April, the latter in part dampened by the recent strength of the euro, notably against the US dollar.

In contrast, export volumes decreased over this period, despite strong global demand, as capacity and infrastructure constraints and supply disruptions restricted growth; such supply - side factors have hampered exports for a number of years, with resource export volumes now lower than during 2000 (see the chapter entitled «Australia's Resource Exports — Recent Trends and Prospects» in this Statement).

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

The efficient frontier calculation, based on the recent five years, takes into the account the poor performance of European assets during the economic downturn.

The main source of risk to the export outlook apparent in the recent period has been associated with the appreciation of the exchange rate, and particularly the rapid appreciation that took place during 2003 and into the early weeks of this year.

Wymer: The market's strong rally following the November 2016 general election has continued, as global earnings expectations improved during 2017 — a sharp contrast to the weakness in recent years — and have accelerated recently, spurred by reactions to the long - term impacts of the corporate tax cuts.

Deferred business spending and recent investment - oriented tax cuts will continue to reinforce a typcal late - cycle rotation toward investment - led growth during the balance of the year.

for the year as a whole Other transfers to business, students, aboriginals, farmers, etc. declined by $ 463 million -LRB--2.0 %), primarily due to the inclusion of disaster assistance liabilities during the first half of 2016 - 17 and the timing of recent budget initiatives.

The overall increase in AWOTE masks divergent behaviour between the estimated public and private - sector components during the past year, which complicates the interpretation of recent trends.

In contrast to other movements in the current account deficit during recent years, which were mainly the result of fluctuations in Australia's trade balance, the most recent increase largely reflected rising payments on Australia's stock of net foreign liabilities — the net income deficit (Graph C1).

During the last half year the Missionary Church of Kopimism tripledits members from 1,000 to 3,000 and it's expected that the recent newswill cause another surge in followers.

I found this surprising considering that during 2005, the most recent year for which the Center for Disease Control offered statistics, 10 percent of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 44 were pregnant» about the same percentage of woman in the United States diagnosed with diabetes.

According to a recent study, more than half of you will experience religious decline during your college years.

We have in fact moved during recent years into a new period of biblical study, which may be described as «post-liberal»: not however «post-critical».

In view of the current concept of the historicity of the self, it is not surprising that the most characteristic distinction between Jesus and Paul during recent years has been in terms of the differing situations in which they found themselves.

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich's Catholic Conversion Is Part of a Larger Spiritual Shift in His Life and Politics As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's star continues to rise ahead of GOP Republican primaries, he has had less time for what in recent years has become a calming, soothing Sunday tradition: sitting in the pews at the cavernous National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, praying to Jesus and the Virgin Mary during noon Mass while listening to his wife sing in the choir.

During recent years Lowe has learned of several previously unidentified works of Whitehead besides this one:

During a recent year spent in Italy, as I walked the dusty Roman - charted roads, sat by splashing medieval fountains, and gazed at the altars of Renaissance and Baroque churches, I found myself, much to my surprise, falling in love with a saint named Mary Magdalene.

We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit... We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theater, and in the press — in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past... (few) years.»

During a recent journey to Japan I discovered that 250 years after his death Bach is now playing a key role in evangelizing that country, one of the most secularized nations in the developed world.

As the Muslim population of downtown New York has shot up in recent years - especially during daytime working hours - worshippers at Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's small mosque in the city's Tribeca neighborhood found themselves stuck in lines outside the door during Friday afternoon prayers.

Over five million manufacturing jobs were lost just during the eleven - year period following the turn of the millennium, which indicates that the decline has accelerated in recent years.