Sentences with phrase «experiences of decades past»

From a virtual Harry Potter to digital wrist bands that hold your place in line, today's theme parks are no longer the analog experiences of decades past.

Not exact matches

Over the past decade, B.C. has experienced a devastating mountain pine beetle outbreak, which has destroyed 16.3 million hectares of forest.

The incredible experiences and memories of the past decade and a half and the people I have had the honour to work alongside will always be an inspiration to me.»

Over the past two decades, this has amounted to a trove of data on what employees experience when their company is a Great Place to Work for All — and how leaders can build one.

In his audiobook, A Higher Loyalty, former FBI director James Comey shares his never - before - told experiences from some of the highest stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government, exploring what good, ethical leadership looks like and how it drives sound decisions.

Naturally, as a central banker, I'll begin by observing that over the past two decades, most of the world has experienced a substantial fall in inflation.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

Also, it's worth noting that even under this more than doubling of rates from their current levels, these losses are a fraction of the 50 % declines that investors have experienced in stocks over the past two decades.

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.

This expectation seems too pessimistic considering the company has grown NOPAT 6 % compounded annually over the past decade and has experienced an acceleration of NOPAT growth since 2012.

Though quite a lot has changed in the consumers tech landscape over the past couple of decades, Dolby's (DLB) brand still remains synonymous for many consumers with high - quality audio experiences.

Our experience as one of the fastest growing companies in the country over the past decade gives us a unique perspective, and the TiLT training program is grounded in real - life, practical examples of what works and doesn't work in today's incredibly tough sales environment,» said Henry Schuck, CEO of DiscoverOrg.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

Experience, as a unique form of competitive advantage, has suffered through its own identity crisis during the past decade.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

After 30 years of experience in the field, I am seeing for the first time in the past decade forms of neglect in educated, middle - class parents....

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.»

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

During this past decade some of us experienced these issues as growing out of the challenge of liberation.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

During the past couple of decades, however, philosophy of religion and philosophical theology have experienced a rebirth in the British Isles and North America.

Craft beer has experienced exponential growth in the United States and throughout the world over the past decade as consumers have come to appreciate the variety of styles and phenomenal quality that result from the dedication of smaller, local beer producers.

The market for bison meat experienced growing pains in the past decade, but it has recovered from a period of oversupply and underdevelopment about 10 years ago.

Over the past decade, the dairy industry has experienced a boom in the production of Greek - style yogurt (GSY).

Earlier this year, Silicon Valley Bank's (SVB) 2018 State of the Wine Industry Report said that US, specifically, had experienced a boom in wine sales over the past two decades, that growth was now levelling off and reaching the end of a 20 - year growth period.

Offering an approachable lunch menu for all - ages and an elevated dinner experience to those looking for refined Italian cuisine, Drago Ristorante boasts the best selection of signature menu items as an homage to all of Drago Culinary Productions establishments that have delighted guests for the past four decades.

Most of the biggest clubs in European football who have experienced incredibly successful domestic and European campaigns did so despite undergoing several managerial changes during the past decade.

Inter Milan along with a few other top Italian clubs have been experiencing a downfall as they have had to fall behind the likes of Juventus which has dominated Italy for the past decade.

Much has changed over the past few decades, with some women choosing to forgo the hospital altogether in favor of a birthing center or home birth experience.

Moreover, Rohner says, emerging evidence from the past decade of research in psychology and neuroscience is revealing that the same parts of the brain are activated when people feel rejected as are activated when they experience physical pain.

For the past three decades, her mission has been to improve the care of families experiencing perinatal / neonatal loss and reaching out to help these families find strength, understanding, and resources to help with their healing.

For the past few decades, the leading paradigm in personality psychology has been the «Big Five» approach, which has shown that much of the variation in personality traits between people can be captured by five dimensions — agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability (sometimes labelled «neuroticism»), extraversion, and openness to experience.

My dad's views on race are generationally sour, but I never heard a bad word from him about the influx of Polish tradesmen over the past decade: he respected the quality of their work, because it was the kind of work that decades of experience helped him understand.

Among a range of experiences during the past decade, She has co-founded a trust providing free medical services in Bangladesh, worked in the Research Department of the Central Bank of Turkey in Ankara, and spent two years in financial research at Morgan Stanley in New York City.

Naomi Andrews, who has worked for Shea - Porter for more than a decade and managed two of her past campaigns, became the ninth Democrat to join the September 11 primary ballot, touting her middle - class background and experience working with Shea - Porter.

Exploration work carried out over past decades is a rich source of data and experience on which to build.

He added that the benefits of record levels of economic development experienced over the past decade have gone to the wealthy, and inequality is higher than it has ever been in Ghana.

In sharing my experiences over the past four decades and the lessons I have learned as a politician, economist, Chancellor and Prime Minister, I hope to shed light on the tumultuous change we are now facing and to offer insights that may be useful in furthering the cause of progressive politics.

But then again, no mayor in the past five decades, with the possible exception of Ray Garraghan (1966 - 69), had that kind of experience, and miraculously Kingston is still on the map.

According to census figures, this district, historically known as one of the centers of African - American culture, has experienced a gradual gain in Hispanics over the past two decades and is about 45 percent Latino and 28 percent black.

The governor also said he had no knowledge of the various legal and financial woes that Mr. Howe faced over the past decade or so, even as he parlayed his experiences alongside the Cuomo family and other political figures into a lucrative lobbying career in Albany, New York and Washington.

Our understanding of how people experience trauma — and how best to help them recover from it — has changed greatly in the past decade

In the past decade, a growing body of work has suggested that rodents and other animals have complex mental lives and can experience a range of emotions once only attributed to people.

Possibly as a result of these societal barriers, since 1980 the Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have both experienced increases in maternal mortality rates — in Zimbabwe deaths have jumped by 5.5 percent each year in the past two decades, in part because of low female social status and ongoing political conflict.

But dozens of studies over the past decade challenge that view, suggesting instead that our thoughts are inextricably linked to physical experience.

Increased jet waviness is associated with a weakening of the jet stream, and the accompanying «blocking» is linked to some of the most extreme UK seasonal weather events experienced over the past decade.

«The tradition of investigative journalism» by experienced and well - informed reporters «has been weakened in the [past] decade... by the economic struggles of magazines and newspapers in the wake of the Internet's rise,» she notes.

For the past four decades, Hurlburt has tried to make sense of our common inner experience by cataloging hundreds of individual experiences.

Australia experienced the worst and most consistent dry period in its recorded history over much of the past decade.

Over the past decade, Michael Meaney, a neurobiologist at McGill University, and his colleagues have been producing one of the most detailed studies of how experience can reprogram the brain's genes.