Sentences with phrase «last several decades on»

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.

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I think that view is correct, and one implication is that geopolitics will start to have more of an impact on global markets than it has over the last several decades.

While these types of questions have existed throughout the last several decades, they take on new dimensions in the digital age.

Our Investment Philosophy is built on the belief that we have been in a secular bear market for the past decade and it may last several more years.

One can say with confidence that, in the last several decades, there is nobody who has done serious work on the fascinating connections between law and religion, and the ways in which worldviews inform the res publica, who is not deeply indebted to this man.

Obviously you have been very ignorant as to what has been going on in America for the last several decades.

So Hopewell read systematically through the American and European literature on congregations and ministry of the last several decades, a survey of several hundred works that is recapitulated in this book's second chapter and its extensive notes.

Over the last several decades, the SBC's public profile has increased significantly due to the actions of its leaders and as a result of the media scrutiny that has come from solidly positioning itself on the conservative wing of American evangelicalism.

Yet, until the last several decades, no one ever slapped the label of «heresy» on people who espoused this view.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life — even prenatal life — can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

From the Latin olive, meaning «olive tree», Oliver has been one of the most popular baby boy names of the last decade, appearing in the top 10 and on several occasions, and one year it has actually held the top spot.

In the last several weeks, the governor has made multiple moves on criminal justice reform, announcing that he would overhaul solitary confinement in state prisons as well as conditionally pardoning individuals who committed a non-violent felony or misdemeanor at the age of 16 or 17 and have lived a law abiding life for a decade.

The state Senate has been run by Republicans for much of the last several decades, but in recent years the GOP has hung on by a shrinking margin.

«The increased interdependency of countries, economies, and cultures resulting from tremendous growth in international travel and trade over the last several decades has brought improved access to goods and services, but also a variety of health threats,» said Jendayi Frazer, co-chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report and adjunct senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

Astronomers caught their first glimpse of the stellar explosion in the wee hours of February 24, 1987, and in the last three decades, Science News has reported several stories on the explosion and the discoveries that came from it.

The confused argument hinges on one data set — the HadCRUT 3V — which is only one of several estimates, and it is the global temperature record that exhibits the least change over the last decade.

Decades after we last set foot on the Moon, and several years after the Space Shuttle was retired, space activity is finally leaving the doldrums.

Also, many of the colonies where counts do exist were last counted several decades ago (Table 1), while other counts rely on estimates from late in the breeding season (i.e. after an unknown number of eggs and chicks had already been lost and adults may have already departed from the colony)[16].

When looking for a list of the best books on the date of the last decade, several major themes are Lately, dating advice mostly comes in the form of blogs, podcasts and video.

The mother - daughter battles of «A Bad Moms Christmas» are lively in a cartoon way, yet they're all - too - obvious variations on the overbearing - mom comedies of the last several decades, from «Terms of Endearment» to «Mermaids» to «Stepmom» to «Snatched.»

Over the last several decades, the research on effective instructional practices has demonstrated that «not all instructional strategies are equal» (See Marzano et.

Personal Note: It has been several years (decades) since I last worked on news copy, and my journalism background is very rusty.

Although the last several decades have shown a steady drop in homeless dogs, there are still far too many of these loyal and loving companions that are suffering on the streets and being euthanized in shelters.

In the last decade, studies have pointed to some of the adverse effects of neutering in dogs on several health parameters by looking at one disease syndrome in one breed or in pooling data from several breeds.

Opening at Blenheim Palace on 10th October, the exhibition will showcase works conceived by the artist over the last several decades, in addition to significant, site - specific works, created especially for the Palace.

That work, and several others, found its way into 2008's inaugural exhibition of «30 Americans,» a group show that the Rubell's Web site claims focuses on «the most important African American artists of the last three decades.»

The Hawaiian people, their culture, music and daily life had a profound effect on him, which inspired several bodies of work spanning the last decade of his life.

Brigitte's work draws on literary and political sources and often deals with personal interpretations of historical events that affected the German society in the last several decades.

Over the past two decades, several of his series, including Desert, Last Refuge, and, most recently, One Voice, have focused on endangered landscapes and cultures displaced by environmental, social, economic and political causes.

From Goodwin's struggle to Hesse's play on to Agnes Martin, the great abstract painter we Canadians are always so quick to claim — she was born in tiny Macklem, Sask., though she lived most of her life in America, and the last several decades outside Taos, N.M., until her death in 2004 — you can stretch, but only a little, to find a continuum.

Opening on 10 October, the exhibition Within a Realm of Distance features works by Lawrence Weiner created over the last several decades, alongside significant site - specific works made especially for Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill and UNESCO World Heritage site.

It is well known that ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula have collapsed on several occasions in the last couple of decades, that ice shelves in West Antarctica are thinning rapidly, and that the large outlet glaciers that drain the West Antarctic ice sheet (WAIS) are accelerating.

Keep in mind that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year concluded that a freeze on global emissions now wouldn't have a measurable impact on warming rates for several decades.

Over the last several years, when irritated by trolls on DotEarth, Joe Romm's site, or the like, I have repeatedly offered to bet more than my current middle - class salary, indexed to the S&P 500 at time of settling up, on the course of global temperatures over decades.

However, if the roughly 10 - year oscillation of global temperature we have seen over the last several decades (be it due to the solar cycle or internal) holds on, we will see a considerable temperature increase during the coming years, since we are at the minimum now.

[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.

Over the last several decades, sustainable human development has been conceived largely as the outcome of balanced work on three «pillars» — economic and social development and environmental protection.

In an e-mail last week, she described her decade of work there, in which she focused on several severely endangered primates, including the silky sifaka, which is restricted to the Marojejy National Park and surrounding regions.

Action, to comment on the opportunistic manuscripts that appeared in several high impact papers of the last decade.

The thickness of Arctic sea ice has also been on a steady decline over the last several decades.

Over the last several decades, as demand for fish and shellfish for food, feed, and other products rose dramatically, fishing operations have used increasingly sophisticated technologies — such as on - vessel refrigeration and processing facilities, spotter planes, and GPS satellites.

Depending where you look and in which decade they advance and retreat, but now with sea level rising twice as fast as in the last century, you may be able to figure out that glaciers are melting more quickly, and that with several more degrees of warming they would be on a downward trend.

He also emphasized that the climate chronology drawn from the corals was very fragmentary, representing only about a dozen «windows on climate,» each covering several decades to a century, spread over the last 130,000 years.

A proper parsing of the article would indicate that what they are actually discussing is the behavior of the seasons on Pluto which last several decades.

Also, many of the colonies where counts do exist were last counted several decades ago, while other counts rely on estimates from late in the breeding season... These concerns over the lack of a baseline population figure for the species have led to the suggestion that emperor penguins should be re-classified by the IUCN from «of least concern'to «data deficient»»

As for how long the slowdown in warming might last, estimates run the gamut — from «by the end of this decade» to another 20 years, based on the mix of mechanisms driving the slowdown, according to several studies presented at the American Meteorological Society's annual meeting in Phoenix earlier this month.

That is what has been going on in Europe for the last several decades.

It is therefore difficult to see how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) can maintain there is a 95 per cent probability that human emissions of carbon dioxide have caused most of the global warming that has occurred over the last several decades (4).