Sentences with phrase «of a standstill last»

«I just think when you've been out injured and my career, to a certain extent, was at a bit of a standstill last season because I wasn't playing and you take the setback and you reset your goals and think: «What do I really want to achieve in this game?»

Not exact matches

Last time we Muricans exported our brand of free wheeling «capitalism» to a major Asian economy i.e. Japan, we managed to cause the whole economy to come to a standstill in less than 10 years.

«Projects under the District Assemblies Common Fund which [should] have completed last year are at a standstill because government only paid a little over GHC 100,000 out of the GHC 700,000 it owes contractors working on such projects.»

Police activity in New York City remained at a lower level last week than during the same period in past years, but continued its rise since enforcement came to a near standstill, the result of a citywide slowdown tied to the killings of two officers in December.

Last week, the Senate came to standstill as the star of popular beer commercials came to the Capitol as a guest of Senate Republicans.

Last week, JET had its budget cut by the same proportion: a cut which Martin Keilhacker, the director of JET, says will «bring the project to a standstill in May or June».

In at least eight instances last year, malfunctions at several major airports brought operations to a standstill, triggering a cascade of delays and flight cancellations across the country.

With budget talks with Congressional leaders at a standstill, administration officials highlighted direct student loans and education spending last week in the first of several planned news briefings to outline President Clinton's negotiating positions.

However, in the absence of a contract for the last three years between the district and the teachers union, United Teachers of Los Angeles, labor talks remain at a complete standstill, raising questions about just how much remains «TBD.»

Both of these were part of the standstill agreement with Bulldog last April.

This attitude reminds me of Francis Fukuyama's famous, and now dated, text The End of History and the Last Man, where social evolution had apparently come to a definite standstill under the best of all possible economic and social systems.

A total rise of 0.7 C over the last century and a standstill since 1985 despite steadily increasing CO2 emissions can not be described as «catastrophic».

Hansen» rationalization of why, (as he states) «the five - year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade», is interesting background information, but, of course, does not change the observed fact that there is this standstill, which he acknowledges.

The last decade hasn't been cooling btw, though a slower upward trend or even standstill in the trend (of one would deem it meaningful over such a short timeframe) is of course helped by the dampening effect of natural factors having a cooling effect, offsetting some of the warming effect of GHG.

Global Temperature Standstill May Last 30 Years, Climate Scientist Predicts: Prof. Anastasios Tsonis at the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee,: «I would assume something like another 15 years of leveling off or cooling»

As the article documented, temperatures in the U.S. have essentially been at a standstill over the last 10 + years, and catastrophic climate change (with its millions of IPCC predicted «climate refugees») is nowhere to be found.

You'll see that Hansen was correct to talk of a «10 - year standstill» (which has actually lasted a bit longer than «10 years».

Well yes, that's what would be required of the IPCC to support their anthropogenic attribution to 20th century 0 - 700m warming (that's now at standstill last 4 years of the 21st century) but nothing forthcoming.

Last year, the prospect of Hurricane Irene reaching landfall in Manhattan caused the city's mayor to mandate the first complete shutdown of the city's mass transit system, bringing the Big Apple to a near standstill.

The science journal Nature said only last week that the global temperature standstill «is one of the biggest mysteries in climate science.»

Though Wall Street and investment banks have been getting hit hard by public criticism over the last few months, most wind farm projects and solar panel companies will look for private investment to generate an upswing of output — and if investors aren't willing to invest, the equity side of renewable energy deals could find itself in a complete standstill.

Real estate activity in terms of construction has been at a standstill from the last several months in Karachi.