Sentences with phrase «forces decades in the making»

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Much of the gains over the past decades can be attributed to gains made by women in the labour force: more women are working, and they are earning more.

Even less did it take account of the till longer predisposing factors for which the U.S. is more to blame than Saddam Hussein: the decade spent competing with the U.S.S.R. in building up Hussein's forces, and the explicit statements made in July to the effect that what Hussein might choose to do with border problems was not our concern.

Of course there were others at the same time making similar claims, just as President Carter made them a decade later in the context of another debate over the justness of the United States» use of force against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

For once in our pathetic Lives we have made up our minds to unite against the forces pulling us down for decades into perdition

Trojan Force Led by zealous coach Pete Carroll, USC is summoning up memories of Pac - 10 glory and making an impassioned run at its first outright national title in three decades

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

The system worked to limit the spread of fires in the city for decades until the professionalized firefighting force and fire alarm boxes in each building in 1878 made the system obsolete.

Conceived nearly three decades ago in the aftermath of Hubble's debut, Webb (like its predecessor) has long been intended as a technological tour de force that would make the next giant leap in our understanding of the universe.

In an attempt to force another strike of lightning and / or remind us that in the last decade, he did make a genuinely great film, Allen has made Winslet's character feel like a lesser version of the faded socialite played by Cate Blanchett in Blue JasminIn an attempt to force another strike of lightning and / or remind us that in the last decade, he did make a genuinely great film, Allen has made Winslet's character feel like a lesser version of the faded socialite played by Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasminin the last decade, he did make a genuinely great film, Allen has made Winslet's character feel like a lesser version of the faded socialite played by Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasminin Blue Jasmine.

For the first time in decades, real per pupil spending will decline this year, forcing school districts to make painful budget choices — providing fewer services with their diminished resources.

From San Diego to Baltimore, districts are being forced to make painful budget cuts as political and economic forces converge into one of the deepest school fiscal crises in decades.

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Because of more than a decade of growth and research - proven ability to improve student outcomes, Imagine Learning recently joined forces with Silver Lake making it part of the nation's largest and fastest growing K — 12 education company in the United States.

If these ballot initiatives fail, budget cuts will force public schools» hands in making more tough decisions, and it may take decades to recover if they do at all.

And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.

[Consistent increases in Record's passive hedging fee rate over the last decade seems ample proof it isn't simply being forced to make some kind of fee concessions here].

In case you don't already know, Crisis Core is a prequel to Final Fantasy VII, a decade old RPG that made the Playstation a gaming force to be reckoned with and got an entire generation of gamers interested in the role - playing genrIn case you don't already know, Crisis Core is a prequel to Final Fantasy VII, a decade old RPG that made the Playstation a gaming force to be reckoned with and got an entire generation of gamers interested in the role - playing genrin the role - playing genre.

The group presents a compelling range of backgrounds, with artists hailing from Iran to Hawaii, and thought - provoking reasons for making artwork, including veterans processing decades spent in active duty in the United States Armed Forces and integrating found vintage imagery into keen commentary on contemporary psychology and identity.»

A forcing will result in warming that will appear perhaps 40 % in a decade, the bulk of the rest over the next century with a portion of warming still at work in the following centuries (this the portion which makes Climate Sensitivity very difficult to nail down).

[T] here have now been several recent papers showing much the same — numerous factors including: the increase in positive forcing (CO2 and the recent work on black carbon), decrease in estimated negative forcing (aerosols), combined with the stubborn refusal of the planet to warm as had been predicted over the last decade, all makes a high climate sensitivity increasingly untenable.

This shows that for some forcing agents Marvel et al.'s methodology does not correctly quantify forcing in GISS - E2 - R for recent decades of the Historical simulation, making its related efficacy and sensitivity estimates very doubtful.»

For the majority of these metrics and during the current decade, the combined effect of anthropogenic and natural forcing is estimated to have made extreme fire risk events in the region 1.5 to 6 times as likely compared to a climate that would have been with natural forcings alone.

The point they make may be summarized by the following quote: «While in the observations such breaks in temperature trend are clearly superimposed upon a century time - scale warming presumably due to anthropogenic forcing, those breaks result in significant departures from that warming over time periods spanning multiple decades.»

Absent an exponential temperature rise signaling forcing synergies in progress, seeing a linear trend for five decades leads to deep discounting of models that need to get to a degree per decade in order to make 2100 as hot as some have claimed over the last half century.

It has been noted that the poor vertical resolution of the satellite temperature retrievals makes it difficult to estimate the forcing; in fact, a similar calculation using radiosonde - based temperatures yields a value of -0.1 Wm - 2 / decade (Shine et al., 1998).

«We are in effect forced to make current decisions about highly uncertain events in the distant future even though these estimates are highly speculative and are almost sure to be refined over the coming decades.»

Looking at the last decade, it is clear that the observed rate of change of upper ocean heat content is a little slower than previously (and below linear extrapolations of the pre-2003 model output), and it remains unclear to what extent that is related to a reduction in net radiative forcing growth (due to the solar cycle, or perhaps larger than expected aerosol forcing growth), or internal variability, model errors, or data processing — arguments have been made for all four, singly and together.

He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and both he and his family made significant cultural gifts to the city of Toronto during the past three decades.»

For many adults, the Great Recession in the last decade was a financial back - breaker: people who lost jobs or were underwater on mortgages were forced to rip through savings and retirement funds to make ends meet.

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