Sentences with phrase «environment of the last few years»

The difficult economic environment of the last few years is being reflected in the salaries of Canadian lawyers, both in - house and in private practice.

Not exact matches

Erik Solheim, the head of UN Environment, said that while the last few years had seen an enormous uptake in renewable energy, a redoubling of efforts was needed «to ensure these new low - carbon technologies are able to thrive.

This explains why consumer metrics like retail sales are dropping in an environment that supposedly has all time low rate of unemployment, and also why major retailers in the US have shuttered so many operations over the last few years.

From Jennifer: I grew up in a conservative, evangelical environment, but have spent the last few years with a growing sense of discomfort with the cookie cutter set of doctrines that I was raised with.

Over the last few years, May's «hostile environment» has seeped into every area of life.

Scientists have shown over the last few years that in many of these cases the winning males are fitter because they carry genes that make them better adapted to the environment — the so called «good genes» effect.

«In the last few years, it has become possible to order cultures of human cells for testing, but they're grown on a plate, a two - dimensional environment,» says Radisic.

Heather Spence, a behavioral neuroscientist specializing in the auditory environments of marine animals, was swimming with dolphins in Cancún for her research just a few days before beginning last week's orientation for this year's STPF fellows.

With many decades of experience in the education sector to draw on, Gratnells has developed an approach over the last few years called «Learning Rooms», which takes this challenge on and aims to transform the environment in which teachers teach and learners learn.

It's one of the only smartphones in the last few years I have ever seen that lacks this feature, and while it's not a show stopper, it's inconvenient to have to go into the device's setting to manually change the brightness level of the display in different lighting environments.

I think if you look over the last few years, it's really been a market environment favoring the large caps, as people kind of look at the large caps as a way to mitigate risk.

«The major changes in the lending environment over the last few years demanded that we take a different approach to building a score that will continue to perform consistently well in various situations,» said James Wehmann, executive vice president of scores at FICO, in a statement announcing the upgrade in March.

In a challenging Real Estate environment like we have been facing over the last few years, the agent you select can have a profound effect on the outcome of your home selling efforts.

The last few years have seen a lot of interesting tabletop games transition into the virtual environment, adapting their mechanics and allowing players to take on AI - controlled opponents or other real - life adversaries through multiplayer.

Most of the new expansions over the last few years have moved away from the all - dirt - all - the - time look the game launched with; it was genuinely relieving to see familiar old environments lit up and green.

Aside from gleeful expressions of unbridled end - of - the - world greed, however, the last day was mostly about taking time to enjoy the environments and missions that players have loved through the past few years.

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

However over the last few years in part of my work (construction) some of the people holding Uni Degree's have been the biggest waste of O2 in the work (real world) environment, and after seeing the attitude of these institutions towards their true asset's I am not surprised at some of their end results.

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.

Having past the mist of the elections and the immediate shock of the attempted coup, we expect a stabilised and normalised political and economic environment in Turkey which will hopefully bring the number of deals, as well as the deal values, to higher figures as compared to last few years.

What I've realized is that the last few years of living in such a singular environment have taken a huge toll on my life and started affecting my health.

Continuing price escalation is the result of moderate construction and high investor interest in this sector, despite moderating demand for office space over the last few years due to changes in the workplace environment.

While new mortgage lenders and products have been introduced in Canada over the last few years, to provide borrowers more options in a rising cost environment, the Canadian mortgage market is different from that of the U.S., says CAAMP.