Sentences with phrase «of years of declining»

Environmentalists applauded the announcement, which comes on the heels of years of declining coal use in Europe.

The auto sector has come back strongly, including auto parts in the United States, and the housing sector has come back modestly, but it's come back after a number of years of decline,» Flaherty said in Brampton, Ont.

Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr Corbyn argued that the performance in Copeland was the result of years of decline in support for his party.

Not exact matches

Overall, in both chambers, the number of top Democratic committee members from coastal states will decline in next year's Congress.

The announcement comes on the heels of research indicating that after 13 years of declines, U.S. visitation to Canada is set to rebound this year.

Pacific Crest analyst Andy Hargreaves estimated that the top 8 cable companies lost 463,000 subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 compared to a decline of 141,000 for the second quarter last year.

For now, market participants expect the rupiah to continue to face pressure though they don't anticipate the kinds of precipitous declines seen in past years.

Elliott declined to comment on Express's revenue numbers, users, or its budget (the latter of which Recode reported as $ 500 million per year in 2014).

Barrick Gold shares have declined 11 percent since the beginning of the year.

HudBay Minerals shares have declined 22 percent since the beginning of the year.

Only 36.12 % of employees using the program were male, with a decline in access for men 40 - 49 years of age.

Union Pacific's freight revenues actually fell 1 % in the first quarter compared with the first three months of 2014, the first such decline in six years.

Frazier's resignation comes in the wake of a violent rally by neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, where a 32 - year - old woman was killed by a home - grown terrorist who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors — an act of hate - filled savagery that President Trump declined to squarely condemn.

Over the past few months, Paulson has bought 3.7 million nonvoting shares of Viacom, which he said on Tuesday has begun to show positive results under a plan overseen by Chief Executive Bob Bakish after years of declining advertising and viewership.

Crypt been a hit with viewers — a handful of episodes have been viewed more than 5 million times, while most generate numbers in the hundreds of thousands — and produced revenue in the seven figures last year, says Davis, who declined to get specific.

The First of Long Island shares have declined 7 percent since the beginning of the year.

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner admitted the decline in demand for dinosaur sales was a bit of a headwind in 2016, after the movie gave that company a boost last year.

Campbell has been looking to offset such soup declines that have going on for years (and fell 7 % in the last quarter) with new product innovations, including plant - protein milk and a bigger push of its Garden Fresh Gourmet products.

The complaints from media outlets have been coming for the past several months, with some reports of sudden traffic declines as high as 40 % compared with last year.

If you're planning to go the coupon route yourself, a primer on trends from Inmar's report: The clip - and - save renaissance forced companies to keep face values down — they declined by a penny to $ 1.44, a reversal of years of increase.

Compare the job losses in Alberta in the last 12 months to Ontario manufacturing's sustained years of decline

These traders are «looking for the VIX index to continue declining from its recent year - to - date high and settle back nearer its 10.79 July / August average,» Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director of predictive analytics at S3, wrote in a client note.

In May, Musk said Tesla would more clearly define its plans for China production by the end of this year; a spokesman declined to give further details.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

Its shares declined 9 % in 2017 and 5.9 % year over year, though revenues were still up 9 % as of August.

Its coal volumes have been falling for several years, and the combination of tougher environmental regulations and, in all probability, continued low natural - gas prices make it likely that the decline will persist.

The decline is noteworthy because you'd think the stars were aligned for a boom in the construction of dream homes: the economy has been churning out jobs steadily for a year, real - estate prices are high, and interest rates are low.

Gildan shares have declined 11 percent since the beginning of the year.

According to data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy for a baby born in 2016 fell to 78.6 years, which is a small but statistically significant decline of 0.1 percent.

The introduction in October of around - the - clock Egg McMuffins and hash browns helped the Golden Arches enjoy its best quarter in nearly four years as it comes off two years of declines.

He declines to share specific figures but says sales are increasing at a faster rate than did sales of Soylent 2.0, the neutral - flavored meal - replacement drink the company introduced a year ago.

As of the end of July, there were nearly 123,000 consumer proposals and personal bankruptcies filed by Canadians this year, a decline of 1.2 per cent from the same period last year.

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia were down 15.8 per cent in May, adding to a sharp decline in year - to - date activity, though one bright spot was a pick - up in sales of luxury marques.

Nor is core as hot as it looks on paper, he said; the decline in the value of the dollar from a year ago is making imports more expensive.

Corporate profits may be booming, but real wages actually declined in the last couple of years.

Their newest paper uses historical data from multiple countries to show that an increase in the ratio of household debt to gross domestic product over a three - to - four - year period predicts a decline in economic growth.

Lowry declined to give specific figures, but said the company's revenue was in the tens of millions of dollars last year.

Bitcoin's price soared in 2017 — reaching a record high of more than $ 19,000 in December — but saw sharp declines at the start of this new year due to fears of regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrencies.

Many residents of Norway politely declined, according to Reuters, likely because «the Nordic country, one of the richest in the world by GDP per capita, was last year named the happiest nation on the planet.»

In less than a year, Weiss went from hashing out the formulas for each product with a team of 15 to banking revenue in the multiple millions (she declined to be more specific) and managing a staff of 30.

The Fed permitted the quantity of money to decline by one - third from 1929 to 1933, just as the Bank of Japan permitted monetary growth to be low or negative in recent years.

Boire, who previously worked at Best Buy and Brookstone (which filed for bankruptcy last year), parlayed his successful tenure of sales declines at Sears into a job as CEO of struggling bookseller Barnes & Noble, where, somehow, we think he'll feel right at home.

The U.S. wind and solar industries employ over 300,000 people, making clean energy an important political constituency that is about five times bigger than the coal sector for jobs, thanks to years of rapid growth fueled by government incentives and declines in the cost of their technologies.

I spoke to Henry Siu, a professor at the University of British Columbia who specializes in automation and the decline of middle - class jobs; he predicted that the trucking industry could automate within the span of one to two years.

But years of consolidation through post-bankruptcy mega-mergers and a decline in fuel prices has helped airlines rake in record profits.

The company saw 2014 revenue of more than $ 100 million — 10 times its figure for the previous year — and Mullen says the service is profitable in some markets, though he declined to elaborate.

Investment bank Jefferies called current prices unsustainable and said production declines across most of the important non-OPEC producers is likely to set the stage for an oil price recovery in the second half of this year.

Last year, tourists to Antarctica insured an average of $ 9,279 in nonrefundable costs, a 3 percent decline from the year before, according to Squaremouth.

With revenue continuing its long, steady decline, Kmart teamed with ad agency FCB to reenergize its much - maligned brand, promoting its product - delivery program by appealing to the giggly 12 - year - old in all of us.