Sentences with phrase «much of the past»

The shift heading into 2018, then, is that so much of the past's sexual misconduct has been brought out into the open.

While most international peers have seen their BERD rise for much of the past decade, Canada's BERD has been steadily dropping — both in absolute terms and as a share of GDP.

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

The good doctor has spent much of the past 35 years reframing our national epidemic of gun violence as though it were any other epidemic — that is to say, as a public health problem.

I've used Sensodyne toothpaste off and on for much of the past decade, and I've always been impressed with how reliably they treat tooth pain with regular use.

The flight attendants are decked out in Soviet red, their jackets and hats emblazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Communist Party, which ruled this country with an iron fist during much of the past century.

Bezos will be a stark contrast to his fellow Seattle - area resident Gates, who has topped the list for much of the past quarter - century and devotes his time and money to philanthropy.

Indeed, the industry has sparred with the DEA for much of the past decade about the role it should play in monitoring the delivery of drugs.

I've been using it for much of the past week and have become fond of some of its features, notably the swipe - heavy Flow interface.

Shares of Disney (DIS), the media conglomerate that owns ESPN, have been under pressure for much of the past year — primarily because of concerns about the sports network.

«Cord cutting» has been a kind of ghost story for cable providers for much of the past decade — a tale that, while foreboding, didn't seem entirely real.

Those teams have spent much of the past year creating designs for the levitating pods that may someday carry passengers at up to 700 miles per hour through a low - pressure tube between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

For much of the past decade the plasma vs. LCD debate clogged web forums and left consumers scratching their heads.

This is especially true when it comes to technological innovation, an area the United States has led for much of the past century.

Economists have been predicting an interest rate hike for much of the past year.

That's a Viacom - specific comment, but the same general fear is floating over almost every traditional media company that relies on broadcast television assets, and has been for much of the past year.

But Job's successor, Tim Cook, has instead spent much of the past three years tinkering with Apple's existing product line - up — bigger iPhones, smaller iPads, improved software — and massively growing sales by pushing into huge new markets like China.

While launching dozens of market - altering products, Jobs had over much of the past decade been battling pancreatic cancer.

Majority - owned by Softbank Group, Sprint (s) has spent much of the past year looking for ways to raise money at the lowest possible rates to cover looming debt maturities of its own.

Asked whether the Fed should raise rates, Trump, a billionaire real - estate developer who has spent much of the past few months as the favorite among Republican voters, said it should but would not for «political reasons.»

Global economic forces — the sharp movement of commodity prices; the Great Recession and the lacklustre global economy in its aftermath; and, for much of the past decade, a strong Canadian dollar — battered many of our export industries and splintered their supply chains.

The flood of capital surging into Asia over much of the past decade tended to lift all boats, encouraging GPs to pursue a single - minded growth strategy.

After leading the market higher for much of the past two years, tech stocks have hit some turbulence.

For much of the past two years, the discounts offered by automakers have remained at levels that industry analysts say are unsustainable and unhealthy in the long term... Sales are expected to drop further in 2018 as interest rates rise and more late - model used cars return to dealer lots to compete with new ones.

Part of the problem is that emerging markets, an engine of growth for much of the past decade, continue to decelerate.

For much of the past decade there has been a growing recognition that Chinese growth has been seriously unbalanced, as Premier Wen put it, and that at the heart of the imbalance has been the very low consumption share of GDP.

It's a return to normal for Canada — Western provinces have outpaced central Canada in growth for much of the past 15 years until the oil price slump.

By omitting the principle of immutability, which is fundamental to the cryptocurrency revolution, central bankers are perhaps risking their future credibility by endorsing too much of the past.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have spent much of the past week criticizing one another over the details of their health plans.

Having worked with exchanges and other market infrastructure companies for much of the past 20 years, I have been impressed by its strong track record of partnering with customers to deliver innovative solutions.»

The social media giant has grappled with the criticism over the issue for much of the past year, and struggled to keep public opinion on its side.

Do they not understand that for future prospective returns to normalize even moderately over the completion of the current market cycle (as they have done over the completion of every market cycle in history), much of those past realized returns must be wiped out?

During much of the past three years this has been difficult to execute when investors were pouring money into fixed income funds.

Dominion's PE ratio has resided in the low 20's much of the past several years and continues to rest there currently.

Inflation has remained at historically low levels over much of the past decade, well below the US Federal Reserve's target of 2 %.

Markets sailed through much of the past two years with relatively little rock in the boat.

For much of the past twelve months, financials have come to represent the «Trump Trade» — that is, a key investment opportunity for people who believed that the Trump Administration would be able to stimulate the economy, enact deregulation, and cut taxes.

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Having spent much of the past decade teaching lawyers around the world to manage their projects, I've come «round to a different — and I believe clearer — way to frame that definitional issue: What does success look like?

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Notwithstanding the slim layer of ES balances, the cash rate has been well behaved (Graph 4): since RTGS was introduced, the cash rate has tracked a steady path near its target, as it has for much of the past decade.

With the outlook for growth in the euro area remaining fairly subdued, German bond yields are now below those in the US after having been around 30 basis points higher for much of the past year.

They did so for the same reason they favored stocks with a healthy dividend: Both income and growth were scarce commodities for much of the past eight years.

The growth of gross household debt has seen the household sector's debt to income ratio on a gradually rising trend for much of the past decade.

The manufacturing - based surveys have been pointing to significant declines in export sales, and balance of payments data confirm the weakness in manufacturing exports over much of the past year, although they picked up in the June quarter.

Owner - occupier loan approvals have been rising consistently for much of the past year and are now above their late 2003 peak.

Sales growth slackened as a result of weakness in retailing and in the housing industry which, for much of the past two years, was still experiencing declining activity.

Total employment has been growing at an average annual rate of around 1 per cent for much of the past two years.

Rates jumped dramatically following the presidential election and remained higher for much of the past year, until now.

This measure has fluctuated around the 3 per cent mark for much of the past year, but is well below the levels of the previous two years.