Sentences with phrase «of decades as»

Over the last couple of decades as the rate of change in information technology has accelerated, it's become fashionable for some to claim with pride and others to award with scorn the title of Luddite.

Emerging countries are building a large number of hydroelectric facilities and global production of electricity from hydropower will double over the next couple of decades as they come online.

My contention is that warming up enough of the entire body of the oceans would take millennia if it were possible at all and not just a couple of decades as feared by some.

We often think of decades as succinct moments in fashion history.

Significant attention has come the way of human growth hormone (HGH) in the immediate past couple of decades as a result of the great benefits that have been associated with it.

Present research, however, aims to replicate the formation of these soils on new sites without depleting surrounding resources and within a time frame of decades as opposed to centuries.

In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

«This is the trophy deal of the decade as far as I can tell,» an economic - development expert told the New York Times.

Thor has spent the better part of the decade as the Avengers» awkward third wheel.

That is the story of the decade as far as Arsenal transfer history is concerned but here we are here talking about Jack Wilshere.

Arsene Wenger was named coach of the decade as part of annual polling by the IFFHS (La Fédération Internationale de l'Histoire du Football et des Statistiques).

They are arguably the greatest national football team of the decade as they have been lording it over their rivals since 2010, but as...

After a quarter of a decade as the moustachioed Belgian super sleuth Hercule Poirot, David Suchet will finally bid a fond farewell to the character...

I've been asked many times to offer up a list of the top 10 shots of the decade as a bonus to my annual top 10 shots of the year columns, but I don't think I can do it.

National Lampoon was one such force, spun off from the Harvard Lampoon in 1970 and emerging over the course of the decade as a raunchy (naked women appeared frequently in its pages), surrealist (fake ads were one of National Lampoon's specialties), boundary - pushing (the magazine's most famous cover reads, «If You Don't Buy This Magazine, We'll Kill This Dog») leader in American satire.

As promised, we're trickling out each of our individual lists to coincide with, or better qualify, our overall list of the best of the decade as chosen by all of the RowThree contributors.

Redesigning the courses to reflect «best practices» is expected to take the rest of this decade as the board attempts to strike a balance between those who favor the mile - wide approach and those who prefer the mile - deep.

«It's been a problem that's been exacerbated over the course of a decade as that mistrust and division have grown.

Volkswagen has taken inspiration from its past in creating a compact new supermini that will go into production by the end of the decade as a replacement for its slow - selling Brazilian - built Fox...

That involves an entirely new generation of longer - range electric vehicles and plug - in hybrids; and now, early next month at the Paris auto show — and, according to several sources, teased at a recent meeting with the media at Wolfsburg — the brand will preview the first of those vehicles, likely to go on sale before the end of the decade as a 2020 model.

It is defined by Audi officials as «an interurban shuttle with lounge character — initially in a pilot fleet and around the middle of the decade as a series - production car for automated driving.»

But it isn't all peace and love and youthful rebellion — Shaw taps into the rampant sexism and xenophobia that colored much of this decade as well.

Here's your chance to join them at the Qdoba Events Center in Fort Collins, CO for the bout of the decade as The Psycho Sirens face off against Cinderhellas, prom style.

Through new avenues of institutional support and the formation of «publisher - broadcaster» stations like Channel 4, filmmaking collectives and workshops such as Black Audio Film Collective, Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and Ceddo Film and Video Workshop were founded in the early part of the decade as alternatives to the dominant modes of representation in the UK.

Moving to Washington, D.C., in 1962, the artist loosened his painterly approach over the course of the decade as he began creating works with thinned acrylic paint.

In the 1960s Stella's explorations of saturated color and reductive compositions became icons of the decade as he tested the limits of painting through shaped canvases and an ever - increasing use of scale.

Quentin Poole outlines ambitious plan to merge with two more firms by the end of the decade as Wragges and Gowlings combine

Not exact matches

After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

For a couple of decades, a big part of Canada's sales pitch to international investors has been that the North American Free Trade Agreement works as a backdoor to the world's most voracious consumers.

Dr. Bernard Luskin, a psychotherapist with nearly five decades of experience profiling complex minds, boiled down the traits of a typical whistleblower, which he published as an editorial in Work Style Magazine.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

As a result, most of today's sought - after professions didn't exist just a decade ago!

Over the next three years, the Canadian Tire analysts will study decades worth of competition results dating back to the 1930s, and dissect any insights out of the data as possible, writes Marketing's Jered Stuffco.

As a fundamental component of the economy, entrepreneurs should have not only a day, but a month, a year and even a decade dedicated to them.

A downgrade is also often interpreted as a condemnation of the current political leadership, even if the underlying problems occasioning the downgrade have been decades in the making.

Most recently, she spent a decade as the Editor in Chief of Hudson Valley Magazine, but she's also held staff positions at Vanity Fair, People, and TV Guide.

Developed over the past decade, the system is implemented by a group of analysts whom employees refer to as the «smart guys» (though many are women).

After the Times wrote a story suggesting that Trump may have avoided paying taxes for close to two decades as a result of a large tax loss on his real estate investments, the candidate threatened to sue the newspaper.

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

Saudi's Attorney General said in November that the government estimated that «at least $ 100 billion has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades» and said 208 individuals had been arrested as part of the crackdown, with seven released without charge.

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

Design trends change quickly, and in the span of a decade or two, the fonts, colors and shapes that seemed cool at the time could be laughed at in the modern era as nostalgic leftovers.

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.

«We're also so grateful for the love and support of our friends and family, as well as our wonderful medical teams for everything they've done to help us in our decades - long journey to complete our family,» Duckworth said.

Rescinding the program could mean the loss of as much as $ 460 billion in economic output over the next decade, according to a recently released report from the House Committee on Small Business, which was released by ranking member Nydia Velázquez (D. - N.Y.)

I'm not sure that in the past year or, honestly, in the past decade or two, there has been a single deal that will be regarded as a more impactful transaction across multiple industries and the entire omni - channel economy than Amazon's recently announced acquisition of Whole Foods.

Decades of scientific investigation across multiple lines of evidence corroborate a powerful yet inconvenient truth: Human - caused global warming and climate change is real, and it's briskly accelerating as we dump more carbon into the atmosphere.

Through the program, China is committing $ 1 trillion over the next decade — and as much as $ 3 trillion over the long term — to huge infrastructure investments, in locations that stretch from China's coast through the deserts of Xinjiang province and the steppes of Central Asia as far west as Spain and Scandinavia.

This is because «even though the Arctic Circle contains large amounts of untapped resources, as well as being a potential trade route, the full potential of the Arctic to become commercially viable seems to be at least a decade away,» the Stratfor analyst said.

And just as the elevator's effects were amplified by the near - simultaneous introduction of other key tools and practices — from reinforced concrete to new methods of producing steel and framing buildings to modern ventilation systems — so, too, the most transformative of effects over the next decade or two are sure to be found in the confluence of new technologies and ideas.