Sentences with phrase «few years a marked»

The sector has been in recovery mode after a tough few years marked by a corruption crackdown in China which suppressed demand for expensive watches and Chinese consumers» shunning many...

The rapid rise of Learner Experience Design during the past few years marks a similar maturation of the eLearning industry, and a focus shift from replicating traditional training in a different format to leveraging the unique characteristics, best practices, unwritten rules and possibilities of online learning.

The last few years marked quite the transformation for the MINI brand.

Most so - called hardcore RPG fans who have been around for more than a few years mark the Fallout games (1 & 2, anyway) as near the pinnacle of the genre, with only occasional post-apocalyptic fare like Arcanum being released to satisfy that itch.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, Nike (nke) CEO Mark Parker said the retail landscape is «not in a steady state» as consumers spend more online and make fewer visits to brick - and - mortar stores.

«Given the steady growth of the Mexican import segment in the US over the past few years, the addition of Sol represents a key addition to our portfolio,» Molson Coors CEO and President Mark Hunter said in a statement.

Gonzaga is the only private school among the Final Four teams this year, and that status makes it harder to track the details of coach Mark Few's compensation package.

I know you were fairly intimately involved in the various acquisitions that Canadian Tire has made over the past few years, like the Forzani Group that operates Sport Chek and Mark's Work Wearhouse.

For Fashion's Night Out last year, New York - based beauty entrepreneurs Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna hosted a few friends to mark both the shop -» till - you - drop event and their just - launched company, Birchbox.

That marks a drastic change from the past few years, during which time the company lost more than half its workforce.

Mark McQueen, president and CEO of venture firm Wellington Financial in Toronto, recalls asking Balsillie at a conference a few years ago about what RIM was doing to help grow the tech scene in the region.

I don't think I'm the only one who feels this way — Mark Wilson over at gaming site Kotaku lamented on this a few years back, as did Games Are Fun ages ago.

«This stock is still making lower highs for the past few years, I am very skeptical of this move, and if it's truly marking a change in the long - term trend,» Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's «Trading Nation.»

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

We've already marked a few women's holidays this year — including International Women's Day (March 8) and Equal Pay Day (April 4)-- so you're well within your rights to wonder what exactly we're celebrating on Women's Equality Day this Saturday, Aug. 26.

Mark Zuckerberg is still a few years away from being eligible to run for president, but that hasn't stopped Politico cofounder and former CEO Jim VandeHei from suggesting the Facebook CEO run on the «Innovation Party» ticket.

Here's our take on a few companies that successfully leveraged the trend in last year and some that missed the mark.

A few years ago, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, walked into Yuriy's Barber Shop, a four - chair parlor with a blue awning over the doorway and a neon «open» sign buzzing in the window.

Yet volatility is still below its long - term average, and the low - volatility climate of the past few years is incompatible with a world marked by slow growth, unstable inflation expectations and a likely Federal Reserve rate hike before year's end.

And, you know, we «ve seen the ten - year kind of approach, the 3 percent mark for a few days now.

This could mark the beginning of a substantial decline that all of the «perma - bears» have been forecasting for the past few years.

Every tech company has increased political spending over the last few years, and the amount of tech money circulating in D.C. will skyrocket now that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hauled before Congress to answer questions about the myriad ways in which his company is harming America and the world.

Facebook, the largest social media player and the leading news source for many Americans, has struggled to curb the spread of fake news on its service despite repeated pledges to do so over the last few years and most recently at US congress hearings with Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg.

With just 40 % -50 % gains needed to break the four - digit mark, AutoZone could easily reach that milestone within a few years if it continues to enjoy the success it has seen in the past.

But I am keen to avoid tail risks of now being a low water mark for sterling and of the bond market unraveling a bit over next few years.

Extremes in observable conditions that we associate with some of the worst moments in history to invest include: Aug 1929 (with the October crash within 10 weeks of that instance), Aug - Oct 1972 (with an immediate retreat of less than 4 %, followed a few months later by the start of a 50 % bear market collapse), Aug 1987 (with the October crash within 10 weeks), July 1999 (associated with a quick 10 % market plunge within 10 weeks), another signal in March 2000 (with a 10 % loss within 10 weeks, a recovery into September of that year, and then a 50 % market collapse), July - Oct 2007 (followed by an immediate plunge of about 10 % in July, a recovery into October, and another signal that marked the market peak and the beginning of a 55 % market loss), two earlier signals in the recent half - cycle, one in July - early Oct of 2013 and another in Nov 2013 - Mar 2014, both associated with sideways market consolidations, and the present extreme.

Eduction Minister Jeff Johnson could introduce an Education Act, which would mark the third time the Tories have attempted to introduce a consolidated piece of education legislation in the past few years.

Also, interest - only borrowers can face a marked step - up in their required repayments once they come off the interest - only period (after the first few years of the loan term).

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg turns 30 years old today, and let's assume he's going to spend his birthday with the closest of his 500 million friends, spending some of his 31 billion dollars (to which he's probably added a few million since you started reading this sentence).

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the report, and, in my opinion, it's the best so far for a few reasons.

You've heard the song — an insidiously addictive little pop ear worm that remains a true mark of the sea change that's taken place in the industry in the last few years.

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

Former pastor Mark Driscoll made news a few years ago by accusing the Orange County City Council of religious discrimination for not allowing him to convert a building in the area into a church.

Its director, Mark Gray, notes that giving has actually «increased significantly» in the last few years and that «there is no evidence I know of that Catholic parish weekly collections have declined.»

Deception, followed by brief honesty, followed by residential facility, followed by further deception marked the rhythms of the next few years of our lives.

Now, I want to talk for a few minutes about why John includes the events of Christ's first year, but Matthew, Mark and Luke do not.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

Thus, there were expected to be few tears shed when the four bells, whose tolling has marked the march of time and a funereal adieu for the great and good at Notre Dame cathedral for 156 years, were taken from their belfry and consigned to the scrapheap.

There are a few things that have left a mark on my soul as I have visited the area over the years.

Next year marks the fifth centenary of one of the few precisely datable historical events that can be said to have changed the world forever.

Such a fabulous Minion cake Helen, they clearly make quite a marked impression your daughter for her to ask or one over the past few years.

According to data from market research firm Euromonitor International, the edible oil category, which had overtaken dairy to become the largest packaged food segment in our country a few years ago, grew at 25.6 per cent to cross the Rs. 1.3 trillion mark in 2017.

and washing of the next day.wear gloves to save your hands.you may need to do this a few times, depending on how marked your pans are.Mine are 40 years old and have been well used also..

The last few years we have seen bold colour stamping the mark of brands, I think we could see a return of photographic imagery.

A few years ago, my friend Alix turned me onto a Mark Bittman recipe for soft shell crab pasta.

GrainCorp managing director Mark Palmquist says the sale of its stake in the nation's biggest flour supplier, Allied Mills, allows the grains handler to eye possible deals it would have found difficult to do as its balance sheet felt the strain of huge capital investments in the past few years.

I moved to the Netherlands a few years ago, and everything I buy is of course marked using the metric system.

The name had been used by Edmund McIlhenny and his successors, since 1868, and the five or six other manufacturers who had used it during the preceding few years had been notified of the McIlhenny claim to its exclusive use as a trade - mark.

Votto Vines, one of the few wine importing companies ever to earn placement on the Inc. 500/5000 list, marks a new milestone by achieving this honor two years in a row.