Sentences with phrase «failed earlier this decade»

Department store stalwart Macy's tried and failed earlier this decade to establish its own e-commerce presence in China; now it has a «storefront» on Tmall Global.

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Normally, solar panels are designed to last several decades on rooftops, but according to these sources, in early 2016, the Whitney panels failed internal tests that determined whether they met industry - standard longevity.

Blomberg surveys the gnostic gospels, that have gotten so much press over the last decade, and shows how they fail to live up to the criteria of «apostolicity, catholicity, and orthodoxy» (58) that were laid down by the early Church.

2nd palace is no better than 3rd or 4th (except for cl qualifier), it is the title that I want, it has been a decade now... Actually this season I gave up the title race early on when we failed to strengthen our team in the last summer (CB+DM+ST all were must) and I'm not convinced we will add the needed quality this window (top DM + top top ST and maybe GK+CB)...

The remarks came in response to questions from reporters about a New York Times story earlier this week which reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office is digging into a decade's - worth of payments the legislative leader has received from the real estate tax firm Goldberg & Iryami, P.C. — payments Mr. Silver failed to report on his financial disclosure forms as required.

He has taken on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to intervene effectively in Flint and, a decade earlier, in Washington, D.C., when it was experiencing its own water crisis.

Failing to correct for the Flynn effect can have even bigger consequences, as courts frequently consider IQ scores using tests introduced more than a decade earlier — meaning scores can be inflated by 3 or more points (see «Life or death ``, below).

While the last decade has seen many potential new agents for hepatocellular carcinoma fail in clinical trials, phase I and II data from early regorafenib trials were promising, and led to the initiation of this international, multi-center phase III trial.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

In recent decades, a clutch of Western movies have emerged, often to great acclaim, but failing to capture the earlier hold on a more innocent, perhaps even naïve audience.

Looking back on the past three decades of test - based accountability, I have to qualify my early prediction that many teachers would fail.

But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic - operated public school seem increasingly possible: 1) the traditional, parish - based Catholic school system, especially in the inner cities, was crumbling; 2) equally troubled urban public - school systems were failing to educate most of their students; and 3) a burgeoning charter school movement, born in the early 1990s, was beginning to turn heads among educators in both the private and public sectors.

It cited periods of such failures to receive or deliver securities, known as «fails» in the repo market, earlier in the decade when rates dropped.

A slew of initiatives and policies over the last decade have failed to capitalise on its early mover advantage... Read more