Sentences with phrase «for past couple decades»

The bad news is that the Obama administration, the establishment media, and the political powers that be that have been pushing the global - warming frenzy for the past couple decades are not backing off from their destructive agenda.

Unfortunately, they've joined the ranks of bloodhounds, Newfoundlands, huskies, German shepherds, Rottweilers and Dobermans, sharing the negative limelight for the past couple decades.

It should be no surprise that Nerdland comes from Chris Prynoski (Metalocalypse, Motorcity), veteran of the late night Cartoon Network universe, where absurdist and divisive humor has thrived for the past couple decades.

Further, word names have been making a mark on the top baby names of the United States for the past couple decades.

But the basic thesis of my book is that, in this country for the past couple decades, we've been overemphasizing IQ as the one measure of whether a child will succeed or fail.

Not exact matches

The three CEOs, over the span of a dozen years, followed a strategy that has become the norm for many big companies during the past two decades: large stock buybacks to make use of cash, coupled with acquisitions to lift revenue.

«In the past two years, the most outstanding mutual fund and holding - company managers of the past couple of decades, each with different styles, with limited overlap in their portfolios, collectively and simultaneously underperformed the S&P 500... There is no precedent for this.

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.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).

While it's impossible to predict exactly what the stock market will do, investing pros over the past several months have been reducing their expectations for what they think the stock market will return, not only in the next year, but potentially over the next couple of decades.

The Pope and his handlers have set a tone that so many Catholics have thirsted for over the past couple of decades.

For the past couple of decades, writers who must use these terms quite often, such as ourselves, have reached an informal agreement on style.

2nd round appearances in one of the worst sets of years for a conference in the past couple decades of the NBA is exactly why Ernie Grunfeld will keep his job yet again.

, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what has gone wrong for England over the past couple of decades or so.

GENT and WOLFSBURG are the only a couple of knockout stages of the Champions League that has not already met at least once in European competitions for the past decade.

Men have, of course, become much more involved parents over the past couple of decades, and that, too, suggests broad support for big changes in the way we balance work and family.

For the past four decades, he has studied thousands of couples in a quest to figure out what makes relationships work.

The Surrogacy Process Explained: What Intended Parents Need to Know Over the past few decades, surrogacy has become a viable solution for couples throughout the U.S. who are unable to have a child of their own.

In private practice for the past couple of decades, he's currently defending former Rep. Aaron Schock (R - Ill.).

But for the time being, anyway, let's keep in mind that Cuomo's big - picture thinking represents a big departure from the failed group think of the past couple of decades.

The recommendations, which will be formally announced by GUIRR in due course, will sound familiar to anyone who has been keeping track of S&E workforce issues for the past couple of decades.

«There has been a lot of debate for a very long time, but especially in the past couple of decades, about whether information representation in the brain is distributed or local,» Barbour said.

During Thursday's press conference, officials also touted the updated models and tools they have to produce better forecasts for individual storms, part of a concerted effort that has greatly improved hurricane forecasts over the past couple of decades.

«Some fungal outbreaks over the past couple of decades, such as Dothistroma needle blight, could likely have been anticipated by tracking how temperature and precipitation were changing together,» said Mahony, who has worked as a forester in British Columbia for 10 years and has witnessed the impacts of climate change on the ground.

In the past couple of decades, for example, Mediterranean butterfly and dragonfly species have been found flying around places previously off limits to them — new new northern climes such as Germany.

You know, Lucy is believed to be ancestral to all of the later Australopithecines species and also our own genus Homo which includes everything from us to Neandertals, to the little Hobbits of Flores and, you know, we cover all of this in the book, and it's just incredible to see how much new information about all of Lucy's descendants has been uncovered in the past couple of decades, truly an astonishing period for paleoanthropology.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple of decades, you've probably heard of Starbucks.

Not for nothing, «Joe» also featured Nicolas Cage's most recent convincing performance, so maybe between that and «Manglehorn» Green has entered a stage in his career where he's interested in dialing back and getting great performances out of great actors underserved by the past couple decades.

For the past couple of decades, there was always a high demand for another «Ghostbusters» sequFor the past couple of decades, there was always a high demand for another «Ghostbusters» sequfor another «Ghostbusters» sequel.

His films exist on the fringes of an industry in South Korea which enjoys massive commercial and international success but, for the past couple of decades Hong, as it is with some of the finest filmmakers, has created his own medium of formally inventive and wholly original films that seem to exist in a genre — perhaps even an industry — of their own.

Over the past couple of decades, many schools in the United States have cut down recess time for their students.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

«Tinkering with exams is a cheap and relatively easy lever for governments, which has been used and over-used in the past couple of decades.

There's a wide - view display mounted high on the dash, the iDrive control knob alongside BMW's unique gear selector, and the same ergonomics of the BMW ownership experience for the past couple of decades.

Five Notable Pakistani Authors While Indian authors have been the darlings of the literary world for the past couple of decades, Pakistani novelists writing in English have remained in the shadows — but no longer.

Throughout the past couple of decades he has worked for various publications such as medical magazines and Readers» Digest until he realised sometime around 2000 that the traditional publishing and media industry was in long term decline and the future of publishing was digital and would be driven by independent authors and publishers.

It seems they were gone for awhile and now because of the busy body church butting into people's lives the past couple of decades we are back to this CRAP again!

Criminology is becoming a major discipline for research and studies from the past couple of decades, due to rise in crimes.

The low inflation rates of the past couple of decades deserve some of the blame for the poor performance of the sector.

Index funds are responsible for saving investors like you and me untold billions of dollars in fees over the past couple decades.

We appear to have compensated for our stagnant paycheques over the past couple of decades by borrowing to make up for the raises we missed.

You know that China growth slowdown we've all been talking about... seems to me the Chinese market's actually been discounting it for the past couple of decades!

Interestingly, this exception to the rule has been the norm for most of the past couple of decades — as this article will illustrate.

Historically, the majority of homeowners have opted for variable - rate mortgages which go up and down with prime, and studies have shown that over the past couple of decades, those who went variable have done better.

The low inflation rates of the past couple of decades deserve much of the blame for the poor performance of the industry.

For the past couple of years, mortgage rates have been lower than they've been in decades.

Fur farming's an increasingly specialized (& unsubsidized) activity, the number of fur farms has been in decline for the past 3 decades (only stabilizing in the last couple of years), and farmers continue to face an uncertain & potentially expensive future of regulation (& animal rights activism).

However, once the election is done I think somewhere in the next couple of years the global economy will be forced to confront the growing problem of debt that we have collectively been kicking down the road for the past decade.

It's not quite clear how long the Cavapoo has been around, although it's probably only been around for the past 20 - 30 years, since hybrids have become popular over the last couple of decades.