Sentences with phrase «in past decades»

The breeding populations of a number of bird species in Western European farmland have declined in the past decades.

Any resurgence of inflation to the levels seen in past decades could have a devastating impact on the lifetime income value of your assets.

Bacon: One size does not fit all September 21, 2015: In the unassuming city of Frontenac, a rural town in southeastern Kansas that's situated in a region flanked by railroad tracks and perhaps better - known in past decades for the prevalence of strip mining for coal, SugarCreek has quietly operated one of the Cincinnati, Ohio - based company's most productive bacon processing plants since 1982.

But, strong and consistent peoples» protests in the past decades impeded its planned commercialization particularly in Bangladesh, Philippines and India.

Campaigns in India have gained momentum against genetically engineered rice, including the Save our Rice network, the Folk Rice Movement and the Seed Mothers movement; all working to conserve and salvage thousands of traditional and indigenous seed varieties which would have otherwise been eroded by the onslaught of hybrid technology and conventional chemical inputs in the past decades.

In the past decades the farm has planted more than 50,000 shade trees, creating natural buffers around streams and water springs.

«Pest resistance has increased in the past decades coupled with the increase in cost of Bt cotton production.

Every grand new global initiative that has been launched in the past decades has been described as a radical break from business as usual as it demands more billions for the funding of business as usual.

Though in the past decades there has been an appreciable cooling off of the fervor displayed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the advocates of the psychology of religion, still today the various schools of depth - psychology and psychoanalysis offer clues to the understanding of the unconscious and its workings.

Atheism is becoming much more mainstream and popular because we are in the era of progressive scientific knowledge in the past decades that is unmatched, and with education comes questions of why and how.

Nothing like this has ever happened in past decades.

They have argued, with some reason, that Jewish organizations actually foster anti-Semitism in the general American public by «crying wolf» at any tiny incident in what in past decades has been a remarkably tolerant culture.

To be sure, the introduction of content marketing and sales enablement are moving sales and marketing closer in alignment than in past decades.

The trust and interest built up in past decades will erode.

Many of the U.S. and Canadian companies that came to Mexico in the past decades did so because of the solid institutional framework and certainties that NAFTA provided.

«The number of established small businesses that are not micro-enterprises used to increase about the same rate or more than micro-enterprises in the past decades,» Morelix says.

The U.S. is more heterogeneous now than it was in past decades, but the key to business success lies in the details.

«Hezbollah was able in past decades to impose a reality in Lebanon by force of arms directed at the chests of Syrians and Lebanese,» he said.

But it won't happen for a while for one reason: On average the folks who pocketed those nearly double - digit gains in past decades were buying at far lower prices than the big valuations prevailing today.

This is particularly true in business, where unpredictably has been at an all - time high in the past decade.

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

In the past decade, Goldstein's three businesses, which include the subprime lender Enova, which he started a year after graduating college in 2004; real estate site and Inc. 5000 company Pangea Properties, and 2015 30 Under 30 listee lender Avant, have added 2,200 new jobs to the economy.

There was some positive news last year: Women - led companies made up 4.94 % of all VC deals in 2016 — the highest percentage in the past decade.

In the past decade, this commitment increasingly means being in the city.

D&O begins to matter when companies have outside investors — according to one survey, nearly a third of private companies reported D&O claims from shareholders in the past decade.

Connecticut has raised income taxes three times in the past decade, but now, struggling to meet its pension and healthcare obligations, it's going after hedge funds in Greenwich, the Financial Times reports.

The world of manufacturing has undergone a lot of changes in the past decade, though a lot of people don't seem to have noticed.

In tandem with our annual Giving Well Guide, we anaylse trends and issues in philanthropy, an area where there has been substantial development as Western Australia's wealth has grown in the past decade or so.

With the growth on online businesses in the past decade, shipping and online services have become popular.

Big brand names such as Coca - Cola, Apple, Salesforce, and Oracle are just a few examples of companies that have achieved big growth in the past decade by relying on a partner ecosystem.

Yes, Canada Post in the past decade and a half has sold a lot of its dusty old post offices and continues to develop its franchise network.

Gold scams remain popular because gold prices have soared in the past decade.

Traditionally, transference is described as refinding problems with your father or mother in your partner, but Dr. Carveth says in the past decade, analysts have increasingly focused on the effects of sibling rivalry.

Without adding the right people, it's unlikely Westech can keep pace with recent growth, up 536 % in the past decade.

Hyundai and Kia both increased their shares of the U.S. new - vehicle market in the past decade, particularly during the economic downturn of 2008 to 2010 when consumers sought out fuel - efficient and relatively low - priced vehicles.

An article in The Guardian, Stress and Social Media Fuel Mental Health Crisis Among Girls, went much further to, correlate NHS data showing a «68 % rise in hospital admissions because of self - harm among girls under 17 in past decade» to the concurrent rise of social media.

While a lot of the entrepreneurs I've met and mentored in the past decade have been successful, I've probably met as many, if not more, unsuccessful entrepreneurs.

In the past decade, nearly 54,000 factories have been shuttered or moved offshore, including 40 percent of facilities with payrolls of more than 1,000, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Paper consumption has fallen as much as a third in the past decade.

Only in the past decade has RNA been discovered to carry out a wide variety of specific tasks in genetics, such as turning particular genes on or off.

The best way to anticipate what could happen next in the Trump era is to look at one of the biggest political controversies in retail in the past decade, the Chick - fil - A boycotts.

Grande Prairie, also in northern Alberta, is another community experiencing significant growth, with population up almost 50 % in the past decade, thanks to oil and gas, agriculture and forestry.

As a result, Stronach's annual compensation from Magna alone has ranged from US$ 1.9 million to US$ 40.5 million in the past decade.

The number of investments by Canadian VCs, and their size, has sagged dramatically in the past decade and a half.

In the past decade, online shopping and mobile devices have changed consumer behavior as well.

If you've taken an Econ 101 course in the past decade or so, there's a good chance that somewhere on your bookshelf is a dog - earred copy of Gregory Mankiw's Principles of Economics.

According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, solar energy has grown by an average of 68 percent per year in the past decade.

The commercial world has sped up in the past decade.

The service's revenue has declined by $ 5.1 billion in the past decade.

Berkshire, though, has morphed in the past decade or so from Buffett's insurance - investing vehicle to a full fledged conglomerate.