Sentences with phrase «events in decades»

Carrs Capitts and Bunberoo Creek System, set to benefits for the first environmental watering event in a decade during autumn 2015.

The Town of Olive is holding what many are saying its hottest electoral event in decades next Thursday, July 11,

The Town of Olive is holding what many are saying its hottest electoral event in decades next Thursday, July 11, when the town's Democrats caucus to choose candidates for the November elections.

When the shelf broke, she and colleagues predicted, it would be the largest calving event in decades.

The first is that the first comic of the publisher's biggest event in decades was available illegally more than 14 hours before the legitimate digital release, which raises the question of why the company is holding the digital release till so late in the day.

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If you've been in business for decades, you understand that circumstances change and unforeseeable events occur.

Steve has attended high levels international events for CNBC for over a decade including key G7, G8 and G20 meetings, as well as the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia and the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he also routinely moderates key panels on a host of subjects.

O'Reilly, whose company produces technology books and events, has been at the forefront of nearly every major development in computers over the past three decades.

Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

The cap: For decades, Canada's Nuclear Liability Act provided that, in the event of a catastrophe at a nuclear facility, its operators faced a maximum liability of just $ 75 million.

U.S. airlines remaining after a wave of megamergers over the past decade have left travelers with fewer options, even though these airlines have, as a result, larger fleets and access to more hubs to reposition aircraft in the event of a storm.

«There may (also) be some skepticism lingering from major financial events that have happened in the last decade or so.»

As a leading property insurer and reinsurer, Lloyd's has responded to countless business disruption events over decades and is in possession of rich historical data to support their assumptions.

«The deal represents a sudden and stunning turn of events for The Post, Washington's leading newspaper for decades and a powerful force in shaping the nation's politics and policy,» Washington Post reporter Paul Farhi wrote on WashingtonPost.com today.

The price drop is an unexpected turn of events for an industry that for decades has operated under the assumption of Peak Oil — geophysicist M. King Hubbert's theory, first proposed in 1956, that the United States» then soaring oil production would peak and begin to decline around 1970.

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While it is difficult to prove that a FTT will reduce the likelihood of such sharp movements, it is worth noting that such events did not occur in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, when trading costs were much higher than in the last three decades.

Singles Day was started in the 1990s by Chinese college students as a version of Valentine's Day for people without dates, but it has since been closely linked with Alibaba, which adopted it as a shopping event about a decade ago.

How we as citizens and consumers can make a difference, plus a timeline with a few key events in the last few decades where consumer power made an impact and changed the world.

It says something about the magnitude of the event that it played out during the tenure of two central bank Governors, each of whom were in the role for a decade, and will likely still be an important issue, in the early stages at least, for the next Governor.

Although Australia avoided the recession that engulfed many developed countries at the start of this decade, it was not totally unaffected by world events, and the Bank found it necessary in 2001 to cut the cash rate to 4.25 per cent in a series of steps.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

At the event in San Francisco last week, Hosain Rahman, chief executive of Jawbone, the maker of the Up, a wrist device that tracks people's energy and sleep, said that «a decade from now we won't be able to imagine life without the wearables that we use to access information, unlock our doors, pay for goods and most importantly track our health.»

Founded in 2006, Canada 2020 has spent more than a decade hosting events, producing original research and starting conversations about Canada's future.

In the last decade, our team members have gone through life - changing events, all of which demand work flexibility.

The Federal Reserve (Fed) is set to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, and the events in Paris aren't likely to alter this.

The complete breakdown of funding between intermediaries, the closure of important segments of the capital markets and the loss of public confidence in major financial institutions were more severe than any previous event over a number of decades.

The famous band led by Sir Mick Jagger rocked out with tens of thousands of people in the capital Havana - a historic event given that foreign rock music had previously been banned under the Communist government for several decades.

Recent events in Libya show that the US has learned nothing in the past decade.

Every once in a while, events like those in South Hadley or the school shootings a decade ago cause us to examine some aspect of this «parallel culture,» but the «parallel culture» remains.

More than any event I've witnessed in two decades of living in and writing about this city, this snowstorm underscores the horrible history of suburban sprawl in the United States and the bad political decisions that drive it.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

Israel's existence as a political, though not autonomous, entity is re-established in the closing decades of the sixth century B.C., and for a brief moment the event of reconstitution is hailed with eloquent rapture as the fulfilling event (Isa.

Early in this decade (one could argue about the exact date since a cluster of events is involved) came the technology to make use of this information to bring about by design significant changes in actual life processes.

Or maybe there's resting going on for one big cataclysmic event... Do you really think the world is going to get off scot - free from all the filth it's been engaging in and spewing this past century, and especially this past decade?

One might think that an actual resurrection would have been captured immediately in a contemporaneous written record corroborated by many, many independent Jewish and Roman sources rather than a few vested 2nd hand accounts decades after the alleged event.

In about a decade of seemingly unrelated social and political events, thousands stopped attending church and the government took control of the education and health system from the Roman Catholic Church and its «spent Catholicism,» as Martel puts it.

There is undoubtedly a close relation between Buber's growing tendency to ascribe reality to evil and the events of the past decades — in particular, the Nazi's persecution of the Jews, the Second World War, and the war in Palestine («for me the most grievous of the three [wars]» [Two Types of Faith, p. 15.]-RRB-

His four remarkable days in the United Kingdom were an historic event that would have been impossible to imagine even a few short decades ago, to say nothing of a few centuries ago.

It shouldn't be surprising that Asians, Africans, and Latin Americans overlook events in Europe that occurred seven decades ago and did not affect their lives or the lives of their forebears.

As it explained, «For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized their intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail....

This might seem to be the case to us until we remember that days, months, years, and, in some instances, decades passed between one recorded event and the next (see Exodus 2:23; Acts 7:23,30).

The Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods with other denominations, a city guildhall event with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.

I think being written only a few decades after these events is about as good a deal as you can get w / ancient history; same goes for finding early 2nd century samples of m in Egypt.

In any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norIn any event, I find that I have begun the decade of the «80s still firmly committed to the same essential project with which I entered the «60s: to work toward a genuinely postliberal theology that, being sensitive at once to the human concern for freedom and to the claims of Christian faith, will be as concerned for the credibility of the church's witness when judged in terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norin terms of changing human experience as for the appropriateness of its witness when judged by reference to its abiding apostolic norm.

«Having achieved its primary objectives in the first decade, due to events in Gaza in 2008 - 09 and the continuing work of the mobile dental unit, the Bishops decided to extend the funding.»

Over two decades, more than 500 Acquire the Fire events were held in 33 cities nationwide, drawing more than...

The events of these two decades — including Galileo's brilliant effort to harmonize science and scripture in his «Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina,» the Church's disastrous decree of 1616 branding Copernicanism as heretical, the tolerant pontificate of Urban VIII that encouraged Galileo to write the Dialogue and allowed its publication, Urban's reversal of mind that led to the cruel and irrational trial and conviction — constitute one of the most important chapters in the long history of the interplay of science and religion.

Interestingly, we can look to radiation events in fishes in African lakes, observable in real time (that is, decades), for examples of this process.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.