Sentences with phrase «on close to a decade»

His methods are based on close to a decade of research, testing and real - world refinement of Best Practices, working directly with Mac - based law firms and firms switching from PC to Mac, across the country and around the world.

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«I think we're not closer to war than a week ago, but we are closer to war than we were a decade ago,» National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday on ABC News.

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.

According to town officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity and documents obtained by Business Insider, AMC has kept the Celebration theater empty for close to a decade because it's cheaper to take the loss on the theater than to pay staff and operate it.

In his book «My Decade in the Premier League,» he wrote: «The club like us not to go overboard on the eating and drinking in the close - season break, so if I go abroad I like to get into the hotel gym three times a week to work on the treadmill and do some weight work.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 1,000 - its highest levels in nearly a decade - and it was on the precipice of saying sayonara to a 16 - year bear market.

«It's not about getting any public recognition for her giving, it's to help touch and transform individual lives,» said Laura Arrillaga - Andreessen, a philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades.

Apple Inc. shares on Monday broke the $ 500 mark for the first time, the latest milestone in an almost unbroken rise over the last decade, solidifying its place as the world's most valuable company by market value at close to $ 466 billion.

Craig runs one of the most highly respected and well known blogs in the industry and has been covering the precious metals for close to a decade now and puts out some of the best analysis on banking schemes, the flaws of Keynesian economics and evidence of manipulation in the gold and silver markets.

GD.AT in Athens opened for trading on 8/4/2015 and the index crashed to a new decade low of 615 and was down 22.93 % at the opening of trade after a five week break till the close of the trading hours.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

More than a decade later, when I was a pastor's wife on the other coast, the people who heard «southern» and «Baptist» seemed to assume that meant «snake handler» and closed the door as quickly as possible.

Some mission organizations or individual missionaries consider a few «creative tactics» to gain admission to a closed country a small price to pay for the greater good of sharing the Gospel — missionaries like D. Due to the sensitive nature of his work, he asked that his name and the mission organization he worked with be withheld, but he has a couple decades of experience on the mission field in closed - off countries.

Contrary to the notion put about by media that the party has emerged in response to the recent waves of migration into Italy, Lega Nord has been in existence for close on three decades.

For close to a decade the industry has not marketed to children under 12, has reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties and has voluntarily displayed kilojoule information on the front of labels.

Forbes pegged his endorsement income at around $ 7 million a year at the peak of his near - two - decade - long career, during which he's earned close to $ 170 million on the field.

Deciding whether to close the aged Indian Boundary Park Zoo or spend money on repairs is a decades - old conundrum.

Kids simply don't need to be indoctrinated into any virtual online community during their first decade on earth — even those that claim to bring children, parents and educators closer together.

As a consequence of this research the past two decades (1989 - 2009) have witnessed a) a renewed recognition of the importance of contact and touch for babies in the context of improving breastfeeding initiation and duration [17]; b) an increased awareness of the role that close parental proximity and monitoring of babies plays in reducing SIDS and neglect [18][19]; and c) the impact of early mother - infant separation on long - term mental health [20]-- all leading to a resurgence of interest in parent - infant contact, particularly sleep contact.

At the Chicago summit, on the other hand, NATO members agreed to provide close to $ 4 billion security aid annually to Afghanistan for a decade after 2014, with the US contributing two - third of the amount.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration on Wednesday released a report on troubled locally administered jails in New York and bashed a decade - long plan to close Rikers Island in New York City, calling the timeline «wholly unacceptable.»

But images of him being moulded by socialist thoughts or him marching alongside comrades fuelled by a spirit of resistance were much closer to the truth a few decades ago, as the renowned broadcaster's path to this centre - right camp we find him in now started on the exact opposite end of the spectrum.

In New Castle, the town has been trying to get a rail crossing on Roaring Brook Road, near the Chappaqua Crossing development, closed for decades.

Schneiderman's campaign also pressed Rice hard on a number of her negatives — most notably her failure to vote for close to two decades — and her camp was flat - footed in responding.

A source close to Obama heatedly denied that Obama characterized Rangel as a hack, but confided that the president felt the five - decade congressman held on to office for too long.

Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for close to four decades but stepped down on Tuesday after the army seized power and the ruling party turned against him.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has publicly stated his desire to permanently close Indian Point, located on the banks of the Hudson River in Westchester County, for more than a decade.

The findings show the need for renewed focus on closing racial gaps in education and school quality, which have been stuck in place for several decades, according to the authors.

At the beginning of my career in mathematical biology, I focused on forging relationships with Europe — Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, just to name a few — but over the last decade, I shifted gears and began to seek closer ties with mathematical biology groups in Latin American countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia as well as other regions of the world.

Alan Stern, lead scientist on NASA's mission to Pluto, has been waiting nearly three decades to see the dwarf planet up close

Now, as teams of particle physicists close in on one of their biggest targets in decades, they too are struggling to keep confidential data under wraps.

Based on the new findings and historical accounts, the team says that close to 80 % of the community died in the decades following initial European contact.

About two decades ago, Close was working nearly exclusively on dehydrins — a family of proteins that all plants make in response to drought stress or low temperature.

Control basically means it doesn't explode, it just moves along slowly and produces heat and you can then use that heat, and they've been working on this for decades and decades now and getting closer and closer to the point where they're producing actually more energy than they put into the experiment.

Sharp and St. Pierre say it's too soon to tell, though given the rapid changes in the past decade, the scientific team is keeping a close eye on the entire ecosystem.

President Clinton's grand plan for national information «superhighways» has moved a step closer, with an alliance of top electronics companies and research institutes agreeing standards that will allow high - definition TV pictures to be displayed on computer screens by the end of the decade.

Although much progress will be made on these questions over the next two decades by telescopes being built now, we found that no telescope will be able to give us the complete picture: some will detect only close - in planets, others only dust disks, yet others only planets far out.

Vaijayanti has been a part of the Strand team for close to a decade as a genomics scientist, working on key projects ranging from genomics products such as GeneSpring, pharma consulting, and collaborative research with academic groups in India and abroad.

After struggling with building muscle for close to a decade, I've made significant progress in the past few years, packing on 20 + pounds of muscle, learning handstands, and adding 200 + pounds to my deadlift.

I love everything about being in this decade — like you, I totally feel like I have a better grasp on things, have less insecurities and even though I'm not close to where I want to be, I'm taking small steps to get there and it's pretty fulfilling!

Based on my memories from a decade earlier, I didn't think I was interested, so I closed the match before he had a chance to contact me.

Over a decade on there is nothing that comes close to SimCIty 4.

When thinking about the 50's you have to remember that the 50's (as any decade) varied depending on where you lived and how you were raised - and this movie comes pretty close to what real life was like for these people - they were literally trapped inside a nightmare which they (and their contemporaries) had created - it's no wonder that a few years later their children would be burning their bras and protesting wars.

Meanwhile, «Mystery of Love» came closest to being an indie update on the romantic balladry that has been the category's stock in trade in decades past, but obviously, a love song is not just a love song when it's representing for «Call Me By Your Name.»

He's been a familiar face on screen for over a decade, and seemingly every time he comes close to serious stardom, he ends up pulling back.

As the best US drama in a decade draws to a close, it is also survival of the fittest on a small island

«Wadjda» Given that it was made by a female director in an environment as hostile to both women and film as Saudi Arabia (where women can't drive, and cinemas have been closed for decades), it's genuinely staggering that «Wadjda» — which made its U.S. debut at Tribeca on its way to a full release from Sony Pictures Classics — turned out as brilliantly as it did.

After decades of the Xenomorphs causing terror on the silver screen, Alien: Covenant director Ridley Scott has indicated that these creatures» time may be drawing to a close.

Despite the hysteria, it may not be appropriate yet to call a time of death on the decades and decades» worth of precedent that will be shattered when Argo wins Best Picture despite very conspicuously not being nominated for its director, not having even remotely close to the year's highest nomination tally (it trails behind four other films), and not having even a halfway plausible shot at winning more than two other categories aside from this one.