Sentences with phrase «end of first decade»

These key events have ensured that at the end of the first decade of the formal process of reconciliation, we find ourselves unable to take the easy road and ignore or forget the past.

Moreover, as we enter the end of the first decade of the era of smart mobile devices, we've come to care more about the actual usability of it.

(Remembering, of course, that AGW - related heat waves had already killed in excess of 100,000 people by the end of the first decade of the present century — so we are not now at a «zero harm» level.)

The Central England Temperature record covers 34 decades, from the end of the first decade in 1679.

Despite the fact that we're now nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century, there is still much to be said about doing things the old - fashioned way.

By the end of the first decade of the 20th Century, many fanciers believed that the East - European Shepherd was in serious trouble as a pure - bred dog.

It at least has not undermined the trends that started towards the end of the first decade in the 21st century.

So we knew in 2000 that consumers were going to lose about $ 12 trillion in buying power by the end of the first decade of the 21st Century.

The end of the first decade of the new millennium was characterized by strong development around the world, with many nations clamoring for resources and non-cyclical consumer goods, which why the contribution to ROE by sector was led by Consumer Non-Cyclicals, Basic Materials, and Energy.

The end of the first decade of the 21st Century has seen upheavals in home ownership, retirement savings and job security, with bubbles (housing, debt, sharemarket) bursting around the globe.

For the first decade and a half, Honda offered only petrol engines and suffered a great loss in market share when the price difference between petrol and diesel escalated at the end of the first decade of the millennium.

Because although its basic design might be nearing the end of its first decade, the V12 S stands as glorious proof that Aston's evolutionary approach really does let the company punch well above the weight its modest development budgets should earn it.

Why did it resurface at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, and why was there another Rio summit, known as «Rio +20» or the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, in June of this year?

2020, which should have marked the end of child poverty in our country, will be the first time, the end of the first decade since records began when absolute levels of child poverty rose rather than fell.

Calendar starts with year one; year ten was end of first decade, not start of second.

Not exact matches

The first phase of the renovation at St. Elizabeth, which includes a town square, is slated to be completed by the end of 2017, but the entire expansion plan will take roughly a decade to finish.

As the first decade of the 21st century ended, VW was enjoying accolades and healthy sales for its green diesels.

That would mean the first LNG by the end of the decade.»

This would come decades after American preclearance facilities were first placed at major Canadian airports, where travellers have long cleared customs before flying to the U.S., with the goal of reducing wait times at the back end.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

At the end of 2015, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade after they'd previously been near zero.

In October, the European Central Bank announced a reduction in its asset purchases, a signal that its quantitative easing policy was coming to an end, and in November, the Bank of England made its first interest rate hike in more than a decade.

As a result, the yield curve flattened and by the end of December was near inversion for the first time in a decade.

Before the end of this year, Social Development Minister Jean - Yves Duclos is slated to table a national housing strategy, the first bid by Ottawa to take a lead in the area — mostly dominated by provinces and cities — in decades.

By the end of the year, investors will likely be contending with the first Federal Reserve (Fed) rate hike in nearly a decade.

In the joint declaration signed following the first inter-Korean summit in over a decade, Kim and Moon agreed to pursue «complete» denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and strive to formally end the 1950 - 1953 Korean War.

Boeing hands over the first 787 Dreamliner to end more than three years of delays for a plane that the company says will become a benchmark for decades for technology and passenger amenities.

Many of the first - time NDP voters who wanted desperately to end four decades of Tory rule last time have skedaddled; in one recent poll, 40 per cent of admitted NDP voters agreed Notley's government «is out of touch with what Albertans want.»

A decade after having proclaimed the «end of history» and the arrival of a new world order of prosperity based on «democracy and the market», globalised financial capital has subjected the majority of the planet's working populations to the burden of international recession, which has spread out in leaps and bounds, from Asia: recession and deflation in the world's second economy, Japan; recession and even depression m various east Asian countries, since the first quarter of 1997; the collapse of the Russian economy six years ago and financial bankruptcy in July 1998; brutal recession in the leading economy of Latin America, Brazil; the beginning of the downturn in the economies of the OECD countries.

Jerusalem was taken by Christian forces at the end of the First Crusade in 1099, but Western control of the city was short - lived — lasting only about 90 years — and Muslims consistently routed the crusaders in the decades and centuries to follow.

We must remedy these ills now because by the end of the decade the retirement of the first of the baby boomers will make such gigantic demands on the national purse that any new outlays will seem utterly inconceivable.

At war's end, something would begin to happen to the rest of America, too: something that would take more than a decade to manifest itself but that had probably been brewing — as Norman Mailer might say, in the American psychic underground — since the first heady days of victory.

The end game of the Americanist struggle abutted the far more stringent Roman reaction to «Modernism» in the first and second decades of the twentieth century, and the «Maryland Tradition» of Carroll and Gibbons was superseded by the vigorous Romanita exemplified by Cardinal William O'Connell of Boston.

Ibn Abd al - Wahhab converted to his views certain Arab leaders, the Saudi barons of Dar «uya, who dedicated themselves to the realization of his doctrines, Toward the end of the twelfth and for the first two decades of the thirteenth century (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries AD.)

HSBC predicts the New Zealand dollar will rise to US87 cents by the end of the year, and «may surpass parity against the Australian dollar for the first time in four decades.»

But I also recognise that his last ten years haven't been as fruitful as the first decade and as a result, I think the end of the season will more than likely be a good time for both parties to go separate ways.

The two nations are both looking to end a two - decade long World Cup drought, with Germany the favourites to win their first title since 1990 after the sublime 7 - 1 demolition of hosts Brazil in their semi-final in Belo Horizonte.

And by the end of the season, IF we can keep our main players fit, we will once again see Arsene Wenger, wearing his magic hat, Lifting the Premier League Title for the first time in a decade.

It is befitting of college football's psychotic personality that the first year for a Playoff might end up being the craziest season in two or three decades.

In the Gunners» quest for the Premier League title, perhaps the first step is to end the decade - long nightmare at the Theatre of Dreams.

Arsenal ensured they continued their run of more than a decade since they last ended a season without a trophy thanks to Nobbs» first - half goals and Chioma Ugobaba's late finish.

They may have won the FA Cup on three separate occasions across those decades but they didn't win a single First Division title and at the end of the 1973/74 season the unthinkable happened as they were relegated into the second tier.

And speaking ahead of the match against United at Wembley Stadium, Spurs» temporary home, he said again that ending Spurs» decade - long trophy drought by winning a first FA Cup since 1991 would not change the club.

The death rate in the overall population started dropping at the end of the 1800s, and it dropped most dramatically during the first few decades of the 20th century.

By the end of the decade, there she was, the First Lady of the Treasury.

The Suffolk County Legislature is set to host its first round of committee meetings on the East End in decades, according to Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski.

By year's end Wal - Mart suffers its first quarterly profit drop in a decade, sees same - store sales decline in November's run - up to the crucial holiday shopping season, and suffers a series of public relations gaffes so stunning that it lands six spots in this year's edition of the 101 Dumbest Moments.

The U.S. Census Bureau released an estimate at the end of 2016 that found the state's population declined for the first time in a decade.

It was also advertised as a way to end the horse - trading that's been a part of pay raises for decades — in 1987, Mario Cuomo linked a salary increase to ethics reforms, and the 1998 pay hike was accompanied by the creation of the state's first charter schools, a bill pushed by dairy farmers, and an agreement to give the comptroller authority to withhold legislators» paychecks in years when budgets are late.

A day after announcing his plans to retire at the end of the month after spending three decades at the Department of Justice, Hochul, the husband of LG Kathy Hochul, is holding two of his last press conferences — first in Rochester, then in Buffalo — to explain his decision.