Sentences with phrase «middle decades of»

This evidence went to whether there was a substantial interruption in the observance of traditional laws and customs in the middle decades of the 20th Century.

The combined impact of all effects was cooling for those middle decades of the 20th century.

First, it gives a sense of what the Dallas art scene was like during the middle decades of the 1900s.

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, American artists forged styles that reflected the new global prominence of the United States.

The middle decades of the twentieth century saw an extraordinary flourishing of the illustrated, pictorial dust jacket.

Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

The authors explain that compulsory sterilization programs existed in the U.S. until the middle decades of the 20th century.

Film - makers and advertisers specialise in admiring portrayals of teens and twenty - somethings, but those in the middle decades of their lives are usually depicted as doing little more than serving time between the turbulence of youth and the decline of old age — and occasionally being tipped into crisis by the sheer ennui of their mundane existence.

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, New Critical pedagogy dominated high - school and college English classrooms, prescribing close attention to individual words, images, and other nit - picking details of the literary text.

When neo-orthodox writers pointed this out in the middle decades of the century, many listened for a time.

We are still feeling the effects of three great populist movements that ripped through Southern Baptist life in the early and middle decades of the nineteenth century: Campbellism, Landmarkism, and hyper «Calvinism.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

Not exact matches

There remains a lot of market cap located in the middle of the country, and those corporations that are going to survive the next couple of decades are those that are proactive and creative in embracing technology to disrupt themselves.

«Canada's middle class is actually doing much better relative to past decades based on a host of indicators,» Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre, two from Fraser's stable of experts, wrote in an op - ed published in the Ottawa Citizen on March 17.

He's held a variety of positions in the last two decades, including a stint in Brussels as director of refining for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

While entrepreneurship rose, manufacturing — a strong source of middle class jobs for decades — has slowed, the draft plan found.

As a result of government investment and solid economic growth, 40 million of those people entered the middle class over the past decade.

This borrowing will materially worsen the government's debt position: Moody's now expects Spain's public debt ratio to rise to around 90 % of GDP this year and to continue rising until the middle of the decade.

In the middle of the last decade, we had decided that this link was no longer important because of:

The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East.

Al Rifai, whose career with Siemens spans close to two decades, has been a strong proponent of workplace diversity, employee empowerment and culture, while overseeing the company's financial operations in the Middle East.

With demand from energy companies driving rampant office - tower construction, it's now projected that Calgary will overtake Montreal as Canada's No. 2 business hub by the middle of the decade.

China's rising wages may be making production more expensive, but decades of supplying the West with manufactured goods has also nurtured a Chinese middle class that wants to buy those baubles for itself.

Chart: It's now projected that Calgary will overtake Montreal as Canada's No. 2 business hub by the middle of the decade.

Democrats call the Republican proposal a giveaway to corporations at the expense of the middle class, issuing dire warnings about the $ 1 trillion or more it is projected to add to federal budget deficits over a decade.

Three Statistics Canada analysts have recently used newly available data to measure Canadian replacement rates over the period from the early 1980s to the middle of the current decade.

We are in the middle of one of the largest wealth - creation cycles of this decade, if not this century.»

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

On this measure the number of middle - income earners in Africa barely changed in the decade to 2011.

Furthermore, many smaller fund managers are in the middle of their professional careers and therefore have not yet accumulated the personal wealth equal to that of successful venture capitalists who founded firms two or three decades ago.

As we hit the middle of this decade, B2B buying behavior is about to undergo more significant changes.

Which has been almost universally strong, including a GDP report last week that confirms the country is in the middle of its strongest growth spurt in more than a decade and eating into slack much more quickly than the Bank of Canada had anticipated only two months ago.

The Seaport district fell largely into decay and disuse in the middle part of the 20th century before being transforming in recent decades into a center for cutting - edge technology firms.

But analysts said it could also send the wrong message about U.S. support for Iran's people in the middle of the boldest challenge to the leadership in a decade.

The Northern Gateway Project, introduced in the middle of the last decade, promises to keep British Columbia mired in debate for years more to come.

So it seems possible that in the coming decade, as the tech titans of today hit middle age, the most generative stage of life, they will unleash an unprecedented wave of philanthropy.

In the three decades after World War II, when the incomes of the rich grew more slowly than those of the middle class, the top marginal rate ranged from 70 to 91 percent.

De-stabilised Middle East, rise of new power in Saudi Arabia, aggressive China, Russia - US tensions, Turkey - Russia escalation, rise of autocratic but nationalists leaders such as Modi in India, Trump in United States, bin - Salman in Middle East, the Geo - Political unease hasn't been this tense in decades, so as a market participant you can never care less than ever.

Well over a decade ago Boardwalk started planning a pipeline system that would flow gas from the shale fields in the middle and southern part of the country to Southern Texas and Louisiana.

The net worth of households headed by people 44 and younger has dropped more over the past decade than the net worth of middle - aged and elderly households, according to the Federal Reserve.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

Published in 1844 and recounting a journey in the Middle East made a decade before, it is a masterpiece of the wry and elliptically self - mocking English travel memoir; only Eric Newby improved on the model in any respect.

Despite previous plans to admit the highest number of refugees in decades, the United States will shut its doors to thousands displaced by conflict in the Middle East — at least temporarily — under an executive order President Donald Trump signed Friday.

After 30 years of experience in the field, I am seeing for the first time in the past decade forms of neglect in educated, middle - class parents....

Three cohorts of men and women (268 socially advantaged Harvard men born about 1920, 456 socially disadvantaged inner - city men born about 1930, and 90 middle - class, intellectually gifted women born about 1910) have been followed continuously for six to eight decades.

Between the beginning of this decade and the middle of the next, about two - thirds of those who were teaching in 1990 will have retired.

One useful perspective is to go back to the middle of the previous century to analyze the two decades from the end of World War II in 1945 to the death of Flannery O'Connor in 1964.

All this comes without irony from a man who serves on the Board of Directors of the Saudi - funded Americans for Middle East Understanding, an organization that has promoted anti-Israel propaganda in the U.S. for decades.

The LA Times says that total eBook sales were $ 966 million, and will top $ 3 billion by the middle of the decade.