Sentences with phrase «occurred in the past»

For example, if you read about a shark attack, you'll naturally decide shark attacks are on the rise — even if no others have occurred in the past six months.

In an issue that many Americans care about, given the many mass shootings that have occurred in the past few years, Clinton was able to appeal to voters who want to see more serious gun control legislation.

But the latest lockout is the second to occur in the past decade and the third under commissioner Gary Bettman's watch.

While many Americans may think of the European debt crisis as something that occurred in the past, it's actually still ongoing.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

Things of this kind have occurred in the past.

Shares of Facebook have declined 23 % during the past month, with most of that occurring in the past two weeks.

So the kind of employment that occurred in the past has not been occurring since 2008.

So if you learned of something or seen it occur in the past then you can believe it can happen in the future.

The implication is that in a mere memorial what is present is only a picture of what is supposed to have happened in the past, and that such a picture may not be in fact derived from what occurred in the past.

My own sensitivities accented the enormous intellectual and cultural changes that had occurred in the past two hundred years.

But without the development of large and powerful conservative religious broadcasting, with its strong political component, much of what has occurred in the past six years in the United Sates simply would not have happened.

The reason of law is to scrutinize even those claims of evidence not visible and which occurred in the past.

Clearly drastic changes have occurred in the past, and new changes are possible.

Hybrid prehensions preserve for the future the flashes of novelty that have occurred in the past.

If one thing is true about history, there will be things that have occurred in the past, that will always occur in the future due to simple ignorance of history.

Again, this is not to suggest that an event such as X «will occur» in the future in the same sense that it has occurred in the past but only that the present occurrence of X will remain an unalterable feature of at least some subsequent feelings.

The recent, though scantily reported, rise within Jewry of a «Messianic» movement which, while affirming the continued theological validity of the Jewish people, also accepts Jesus as Israel's Messiah, could not have occurred in past centuries when the traditional churches held sway and routinely burned premillenial types at the stake as heretics.

Grobbel's most significant growth has occurred in the past 20 years, when Jason Grobbel took over as president and CEO.

The problem lies with the chemical hybridization that has occurred in the past 50 + years.

Regardless whether the alleged negotiations have been held or not, I can't recall of similar events occurred in the past.

He told Maxwell that two of such incidents have occurred in the past, but the recent one calls for action to be taken to ascertain the cause of the problem.

Of her solo business trips, three occurred in the past four months alone.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Three infant deaths have occurred in the past week due to unsafe sleeping arrangements.

«We'll be able to see why earthquakes and volcanoes have occurred in the past and look for places where this might potentially happen in the future.»

Because of the strong recent warming, the updated trend over 1906 to 2005 is now 0.74 ± 0.18 degree C. Note that the 1956 to 2005 trend alone is 0.65 ± 0.15 degree C, emphasizing that the majority of 20th - century warming occurred in the past 50 years.

Yet the number 3 does not occur in the past of the number 5 any more than the Big Bang exists in the past of the year 2008.

Precisely what is sapping young people of their natural impulse to feel for others remains mysterious, however, because scientists can not design a study to evaluate changes that occurred in the past.

In previous research, Overpeck and other colleagues showed current climate models simulated 20th - century conditions well, but the models can not simulate the 20 - to 60 - year megadroughts known to have occurred in the past.

The 2012 - 2015 drought, which inspired Taeb and his colleagues to pursue this research, was among the most intense to occur in the past 1,200 years.

EOS scientists have earlier pointed out a large earthquake may occur any time in this area southwest of Padang — the only place along a large fault where a big earthquake has not occurred in the past two centuries.

Understanding exactly how such a social transformation occurred in the past may prove key to understanding how individuals might alter their behavior to help combat climate change in the future.

«The fact that they occurred in the past means they could occur again,» said Seager, but the events would be «much greater and more extreme.»

And it remains far from clear that bats are the hosts of the deadly zoonotic disease since two similar surveys of thousands of animals, including bats, at sites where human outbreaks occurred in the past failed to turn up any sign of Ebola virus.

The majority of that warming has occurred in the past three decades.

Hydrogen and steam explosions pose ongoing risks at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, where three such events have already occurred in the past five days

Meanwhile, even though wheeling occurred in the past, since the 1990s much larger amounts of power have been moved over great distances.

«I think it's a straw man to say we're overturning this,» he says; «the idea has evolved but most scientists would still say that the processes that are occurring now are not those that were occurring in the past.»

«Similar cases of mistaken identity have occurred in the past,» Harrison says, including claims for Miocene primates in East Africa that turned out to be artiodactyls and other nonprimates.

Across nearly seven million years, the human brain has tripled in size, with most of this growth occurring in the past two million years.

An increasing rate of warming has taken place over the last 25 years, and 11 of the 12 warmest years on record have occurred in the past 12 years.

Already, warming temperatures have expanded the range of beetles (Carroll et al. 2006), and the largest recorded bark beetle epidemic in western forests has occurred in the past 15 yr.

He adds, «there have been occasional hints, such as characteristic bill shapes, that nectarivorous birds occurred in the past, but, so far, there existed no conclusive evidence.»

They further claim that approximately half of their uplift (and CO2 «scrubbing» capacity) occurred in the past 10 million years.

By this time, atmospheric CO2 concentration will probably have become sufficiently high (and we will be committed to further increases) that a climatic change significantly larger than any which has occurred in the past century could be unavoidable.»

Then we have paleoceanographers who look at the impact of ocean acidification events that occurred in the past.

Nearly all of the planet's warmest years on record have occurred in the past 15 years.

Dengue — which, like Zika, is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes — is common in Brazil and other countries where Zika outbreaks have been occurring in the past couple of years.

The biggest changes that have occurred in the past year have not been with my body; they have been in increased self esteem, confidence and comfort in my own skin, and I wouldn't trade that for anything!

So the story I'm about to tell occurred in the past.