Sentences with phrase «over decades on end»

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A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

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 %).

However, should there be an improvement in the IPO market for venture - backed companies over the next decade that would be «gravy on top» for the smaller end of the venture capital market further improving an already compelling return opportunity.

When St. Josemaría Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei, was canonized in 2002, Opus Dei estimated that it had spent roughly $ 1 million on the process from beginning to end, stretching over three decades.

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.

Jack Van Impe, a popular End Times broadcaster, has ended his decades - long run on Trinity Broadcasting Network after a dispute over naming ministers that he accuses of mixing Christian and Muslim beliefs.

Of course the last decade we have been on the receiving end for not winning major titles while Manchester clubs and Chelsea did it over and over — but we've hanged in there.

Should this claim be true, then the German champions have wasted no time in finding a suitable replacement for former vice-captain Bastian Schweinsteiger, who completed his move to Manchester United on Monday afternoon [via BBC Sport], thus ending his over a decade - long association with the Bavarian outfit.

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

Though Wheaton's population over the past decade grew by nearly 8 percent, to 55,416 in 2000, mostly because of the mixed - use Danada development on the south end of the city that included about 700 single - family homes, its population has since leveled off, according to census statistics.

«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.

Having served at the head of the Democrat - controlled Assembly for over a decade, Silver's rule was iron - fisted and opaque - he could end a political career on a whim, kill a major policy initiative with a quiet grumble, and maneuver millions of dollars in state cash to recipients of his choice.

An instrument on Cassini, which has been exploring the Saturn system over a decade, has given scientists crucial new clues about the shape of the heliosphere's trailing end, often called the heliotail.

This is due to the fact that it has the strongest potential to warm the globe in the long - run based on its long lifetime in the atmosphere (ranging from decades to centuries, and a tail end that extends to millennia, and with many climate impacts occurring over these slow timescales).

Now that Cassini has met its end by plunging into Saturn, it's time to reflect on what we've learned over the decades.

Simone De La Rue began training in classical ballet at the age of three and has enjoyed a successful dance career spanning over two decades, including numerous performances on Broadway, London's West End and her native Australia.

For a total noob, strength training engages them in a certain amount of metabolic taxation necessary to produce initial mass gains, but they quickly adapt to that limited level of metabolic taxation, and end up on a mass gain plateau that can last decades if they don't switch up to higher reps. (Look at Hugh Jackman for example; he's been a 3 × 5 guy for over a decade.

The top end of the denim market has a lot to offer, I've searched high & low over the decades to now settle on just a few labels.

Although Scott Thomas never wearies of working onstage (she has appeared in several West End plays over the past decade), «sitting on a film set, waiting for hours to say one sentence, can be unbelievably boring,» she said.

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.

We expect it will get a mid-cycle refresh before the end of the decade, though the visual updates will most likely be more evolutionary than revolutionary — think additional trim pieces and new alloy wheel designs, not a full - on make - over.

And yet, they still got so many complaints that their books «aren't on Kindle» that in the end they had to make a huge change their store's selling policies, changing the way they'd sold e-books for over a decade and disgruntling many of their oldest customers, in order to put their e-books on Amazon so more people would actually buy them.

If you make only the minimum payment, you could end up making payments on the same credit card for well over a decade!

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.

While Kingdom Hearts games have featured many characters from Final Fantasy over the last decade, KH3D introduces a new set of characters from a different Square - Enix title — the main cast of The World Ends With You, a bit of a hidden gem on the Nintendo DS.

Presented on two floors of Lévy Gorvy's flagship Madison Avenue location, Terry Adkins: The Smooth, The Cut, and The Assembled will be comprised of works spanning over three decades of Adkins» career (1986 — 2013), which ended prematurely when he passed away unexpectedly in February 2014 at the age of 59.

Organized chronologically and by series, Andy Warhol: Prints establishes the range of Warhol's innovative graphic production as it evolved over the course of four decades, with a particular focus on Warhol's use of different printmaking techniques, beginning with illustrated books and ending with screen printing.

In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most studies project likely climate - related yield increases of 5 - 20 % over the first decades of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources.»

I got to know Ted Kheel over the final decade of his remarkable life, which ended at age 96 on Sunday.

With their unequivocal endorsement of carbon taxes, Legarde and Lee add to the pressure on UN climate negotiators to end two decades of fruitless haggling over national level emissions limits and to focus explicitly on pricing carbon pollution instead.

We estimate that Exxon will be spending $ 70 billion over the next decade on projects at the wrong end of the cost curve that are unneeded in a 2 ˚C scenario.

It also ends the united front on climate over the last decade or so in Germany.

And at the end of the article from which this excerpt was taken, Arctic News and the Arctic Methane Emergency Group calls for global geoengineering to be deployed immediately, as if it has not already been going on for over 6 decades in clear view and causing catastrophic effects.

IPCC has made temperature projections for the end of this century based on continued human GHG emissions (principally CO2) over the next several decades.

The other major issue for me, is that there are over a billion vehicle on the planet's roads that will need to be replaced over a number of decades, and the way second hand vehicle from the developed world end upon the roads of developing countries where emissions standards are either not in place or, if in place, enforced.

By using a very warm starting point and a more ordinary ending point, they make it look like nothing much has been going on for over a decade.

I do value the views of those who have done decades of work on strategies, approaches and plans for rapidly ending GHG emissions and drawing down excess CO2, over the views of anonymous blog commenters who obviously have given little real thought or study to the issues involved.

The Late Great John Daly was writing about this kinda stuff (and of «Fraunhofer bands») over a decade ago in his excellent book «The Greenhouse Trap — why the Greenhouse Effect will not end Life on Earth»... of which I've had a copy of for nearly as long.

With over three decades of legal practice, 20 of those years spent solely focused on helping those injured in accidents, I am prepared to assist you from the beginning to the end.

On Nov. 3, 2014, the justices denied Argentina's petition challenging the award, ending a decade - long battle over the South American country's emergency measures during its financial crisis in the early 2000s.

Mesquite is on the eastern end of the Dallas - Fort Worth Metropolitan area, and has rapidly grown into a logistics and manufacturing hub over the last decade.

Those statistics have been on the decline over the last decade, but there is still a large portion of the population that sees an end to their relationship before it's ever really begun.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is allocating $ 48.9 billion in funding and $ 11.3 billion in new mandatory spending over the next decade to focus on ending homelessness and helping more Americans move into affordable housing.

Over the next decade, he focused on the upper - end segment.