Sentences with phrase «faces at least a decade»

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However, if it gets final approval it won't be built for at least a decade and faces opposition from local residents who could see their homes compulsorily acquired for the development against their wishes.

Until we have a manager with real title ambition, that will feed through to his squad as the last decade has amply proved, at least to me and those, like me, who can actually see what is staring them in the face, year after long year.

A fourth faces closure in less than two years, though a new Cuomo administration climate initiative could extend its life for at least another decade.

But he's facing at least three challengers, including state Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of the man Rangel defeated as a reform candidate decades ago in a race for New York's 15th congressional district seat.

About 15 % of the world's land areas — and more than half of the world's cities with at least 3 million people — face what Shedlock calls «high to very high risk» of severe shaking in the next few decades.

Jason refuses to set up any of his friends and faces a prison sentence of at least a decade.

In her recent New York Times piece with Jenna Wortham (in which Wortham aptly calls the record «a homage to women and the spectrum of sexual identities»), Monáe clarifies that «she has been circling the themes explored... [here] for at least a decade» but only recently felt self - assured enough to face them without masks.

Despite a decades - long effort to restructure schools — in part, at least, to give parents a greater voice in school decisions — we see little evidence that teachers perceive much influence from parents, or from students.48 This outcome probably reflects the wellknown and persistent challenges teachers and administrators face in creating authentic relationships with parents for school - improvement purposes.

But I do think it makes a compelling case that, during the next several decades, civil aviation faces at least two profound challenges: First, how do we safely handle a dramatic increase in traffic?

Despite what many critics would call its strongest lineup of vehicles in at least a decade, Cadillac is facing difficulty reaching customers.

Instead, as we have been told many times by many individuals over the course of many decades (a few fingers might have been wagged in our face in the process) the most important thing about a Beetle convertible is its ability to transport you to a place where the handbags and shoes are all snappy, every car has a steering wheel with a white rim, and a young woman feels as if she's the star of her very own fashion photo shoot in the south of France — or California, at least.

While the 2003 heat wave was unusual in today's climate, 23 Europe is highly likely to face even hotter summers more often in coming decades.24 Scientists estimate that human activities have already at least doubled the risk of an extreme heat wave.25

Offhand, I don't see a ready extrapolation from these successful efforts to the central problem we face, that of getting people to do with less for at least a few decades.