Sentences with phrase «other end of a decade»

Perhaps we're coming out the other end of a decade - long reign of abstraction?

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Nikon was the Pepsi to Canon's Coke, or maybe the other way around, but the two companies had a lock on the high - end market of single - lens reflex, or SLR, cameras for decades.

«People have been predicting the end of oil and other fossil fuels for decades.

Major drivers of the increase over that last decade according to the PEW Center were: recession related revenue declines (28 %), defence spending (13 %; cost of the wars on terror alone were over $ 2.4 trillion to the end of 2009 according to Homeland Security Research), Bush tax cuts (13 %), increases in net interest (11 %), and other non-defence spending (10 %).

Early this week I was with an Australian government representative in Beijing whom I have known for many years and he told me that iron ore prices were currently around $ 83 (I think they dropped another $ 2 last week), and that while some people in Canberra were reluctant to say it too loudly, he and others were increasingly in agreement with my lower forecast of less than $ 50 well before the end of the decade, in part because supply has come off much more slowly than predicted, but mainly because they now recognize that China's rebalancing was indeed going to be a far bigger deal for Chinese demand than sell - side research had predicted.

I've heard a number of horror stories with renting as well as stories on the other end of the spectrum where people have had good renters for upwards of a decade -LRB-!)

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

In 1984, Ronald Reagan could say that it «was morning in America again,» and more substantially, by decade's end, other center - right politicians and pundits could point to something of an American return, after the «Great Disruptions» of the 1960s and 1970s, to patriotism, to aversion to socialism, to more moderated personal mores, and to religion.

Toward the end of the decade a number of other studies, almost all directed to the ecumenically oriented sector of Protestant church life, also portrayed the church as transient institution.

The deregulation in the United States over the past decade has not worked well in other areas, either: in the stock market it brought on a rash of scandals; in the airlines it resulted in poorer service, higher prices and the end of service to many smaller cities.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

isagt: It's important because for decades whites have been at the end of an orchestrated campaign to browbeat them into thinking that they can not compete with blacks and others.

The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point to one thing WENGER OUT

The only other player that West Ham has had in the past decade that could even hold a candle to the performance that Payet had last season was Carlos Tevez and his magical goal scoring run at the end of the 2006 - 07 season to keep West Ham in the Premier League, but Payet's goal scoring, free kicks, and passing led the Hammers to amazing heights that haven't been reached since the 1980s or the FA Cup win in 1980.

Imagine the heartache of decades long supporters who are unable to be there because the tickets have been sent to a club at the other end of the country.

After more than a decade (ending in 2011) of working with the Alaska Division of Public Health tracking local SIDS and sleep - related death cases, we were unable to find evidence that co-sleeping increased the risk of death when controlling for other factors.

That type of potty training in the west must be what caused the pendulum to swing so far to the other end in later decades.

Greens call for an end to the Bush - Obama post-9 / 11 decade of wars without end, bloated military budgets, skyrocketing hate crimes against Muslims in the US, torture and other abuses of power

A federal judge approved a sweeping plan to reduce solitary confinement in New York state prisons, saying she hopes the deal to end decades - old practices becomes a model for other states confronting the harmful effects of extreme isolation.

«Accordingly, Pastoralists being major victims of internecine tribal killings across Northern Nigeria for decades on end, we seize this opportunity to call upon the president to as a matter of duty extend his sense of justice to likewise arrest and punish all those who committed the genocidal killings of the over 1000 our men, women and children last June in Mambila, last November in Numan and Kajuru among others.

Astronomers even caught the collision's chemical fingerprints, revealing the creation of 10 to 100 Earths» worth of gold and other heavy elements, ending decades of debate on their cosmic origins.

Noda has said, however, that no new plants should be built and that the others should be phased out when they reach the end of their life spans — a process that could take decades.

America and Russia have had the technical ability to knock satellites out of the sky for decades using interceptors like the Chinese device; at the other end of the technology scale, some security experts worry that a rogue nation could use a relatively low - tech ballistic missile to launch gravel into the path of a satellite.

In the last decade, chemists have worked to develop reusable catalysts that separate out from the end products without the help of other often - toxic and waste - generating chemicals.

At the other end of the world, the recent satellite data show that the rate of melting of Arctic sea ice has accelerated from 2.5 per cent per decade, as shown by the Nimbus data, to 4.3 per cent per decade.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

I, Laura Jane, will see my first vintage pattern in 2015, along with 2 others before the end of the year What decade to go for...

As text at the end of In the Fade indicates, filmmaker Fatih Akin wishes to expose the rise in nationalistic hate crimes in Germany, which parallels the troubling swell of racist atrocities in other European countries, as well as the U.S., over the last decade.

Finally released, he breaks his parole to start a new life, and for the next few decades he is pursued from one end of France to the other by a maniacally by - the - book policeman, Javert (Russell Crowe).

Italian horror did not begin and end with giallo, but it certainly put the genre on the map and influenced the direction of Italian horror (as well as, among others, Spanish and French horror) for decades.

Beat him on the right side, is the implication, and decades of conditioning from other films (particularly Disney's anthropomorphic films) have made driving animals to the brink of exhaustion and death at the end of whip a little hard to take with a blithe indifference.

We were emerging at the tail end of the»80s, which was the worst period for cinema in American history because the movie - brat generation [meaning Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese, among others — the bearded, libertine directors who were reared on Hollywood's golden age] for the most part self - destructed in the late»70s, and for a decade, the studios took the movie business back.

The surprise is that Primal Fear holds up extremely well in the rearview, suggesting that it adheres to the feverish existentialism attached to the end of our last millennium more closely than it does to the manic courtroom antics of the decade's other, secondary obsession.

Hurt's best performances in the last decade have been in over-the-top roles («A History of Violence,» «Mr. Brooks»); here he's acting at the other end of the spectrum.

Over the past decade, the MCU has made audiences stay in theaters long after the movies have ended — and some of the payoffs have been more worth the wait than others

By the end of the decade, Republicans had erased whatever advantage Democrats once enjoyed on education and other classic «women's issues.»

We recently celebrated the end of the Evo's long - running rivalry with the Subaru WRX STI, as these high - performance sedans have been nipping at each other's heels for decades now.

A technological masterpiece conceived for Group B racing, the 959 was ahead of its time in practically every area, offering spectacular all - wheel drive performance and computer systems that wouldn't arrive in other high - end cars until a decade later.

The production car, set to launch until the end of the decade, will be only the first of four electric Mercedes models with other three zero emissions models planned beyond 2020: another sedan slotted between the C and the E-Class, plus two SUVs, one bigger than the GLC and one placed above the GLE.

Beginning with Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev's run and all the way to the end of the decade with Brubaker, no other character left the 2000s so much better than he'd come in — and this was a decade marked by radical reinvention and reinterpretation.

To that end the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and others have been calling on governments to orchestrate, essentially, a repeat of 2009 fiscal stimulus programs — this time with a focus on big infrastructure projects that pave the way for growth in decades to come — alongside structural reforms to promote global trade, research and education and an overhaul of inefficient tax policies.

At the other end of the spectrum, a refinance loan is a great way for a consumer to roll all of their unsecured debts into one new loan, but it will typically take 30 years to pay off that new mortgage loan and the total cost could be high, given decades of compounding.

Having taken on roles from one end of the acting spectrum (Saved by the Bell: The College Years) to the other (The Last Exorcism), Patrick Fabian racked up 100 - plus IMDB credits over his first two decades as an actor.

At the end, it's not going to be better or worse that both Indie and AAA Games are since decades: Some will be amazing, some will be lemons, most will be okay and enjoyable, some sell well while others tank, there will be a million clones of every successful idea, and Word of Mouth will be very important.

«I can think of no other painters whose commitment to art and their artistic community was as strong as that of James Brooks and Charlotte Park in the decades that they lived on the East End,» stated Alicia G. Longwell, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator at the Parrish.

Others, such as Barbara Gladstone and Matthew Marks, followed within months, and by the end of the decade, Chelsea was the new centre of New York's artworld.

At the end of the decade, Oldenburg took up fabrication on a large scale with Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (1969), which became a controversial focus for student protest when it was installed on the campus of Yale University, followed by other works such as Geometric Mouse (1969), Giant Ice Bag (1970), Giant Three - Way Plug (1970), Standing Mitt with Ball (1973), and Alphabet / Good Humor (1975).

But with Trump's inauguration it will be the beginning of the end for the Green Blob — that sinister cabal of corrupt politicians, UN - and EU - technocrats, bent scientists, shrill activists, rent - seeking corporatists, blood - sucking lawyers and gullible journalists which has held the world to ransom these last four decades by promoting the man - made climate change scare story and other, related environmental scams.

As our economy continues to spiral in, and it will, there are going to be a lot of otherwise un-housed people who will only get a leg up if they can live cheaply for the first decade or so of their lives, and others at the end of their lives who need the same situation.