Sentences with phrase «over the last year because»

«In a city with millions, it is a tragedy to have had nearly half of our pantries turn away people in need over the last year because they did not have enough food for distribution,» Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras (D - East Elmhurst) said.

This waste contains fertilizers, and its production has increased over the last years because of intensive farming and has been traditionally used in soils as an organic amendment.

Several other coal companies, including Arch Coal and Walter Energy, have also filed for bankruptcy over the last year because of pressures on the industry.

Hi, Dr Shanahan, I have been eating a lot of plantain chips, either from whole foods or trader joe's over the last year because they are AIP compliant.

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I find this fascinating, because one of the biggest challenges I've confronted as a founder over the last few years has been changing my mind, when I have a realization and I become inconsistent on a thought I previously had.

While industry analysts aren't calling for sharply higher prices, they say the market is vulnerable to more erratic pricing because global supply has drained dramatically over the last year as demand has grown.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

«Because capital has been so hard to raise over the last four years, the simplest and most straightforward way has been to shrink assets, which means loans,» says James Chessen, chief economist for the American Bankers Association.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

Dominion plans to increase solar generation by nearly 50 percent over last year's forecast, a change made possible in part because of the technology's increasing affordability, company executives said in an Associated Press interview.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

Over the last 30 years when the S&P 500 returned 10.35 % the average investor returned 3.66 %, because the average investor is tinkering and tweaking and adjusting things.

This has become even more apparent over the last year, as Facebook has decreased organic reach for pages to encourage businesses to spend more on advertising, because such a small percentage of your fans see organic updates — the ones you don't pay for.

Spokespeople for the Clintons denied the various parts of the Times report, but the impasse is nevertheless notable because parts of the film were already shot over the last two years, including on Bill Clinton's philanthropic trips to Africa.

Pao, for example, a former venture capitalist at well - known Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins, lost a lawsuit last year that she filed against her former employer over allegations that it had discriminated against her because of her gender.

Because consumers are such a crucial driver of GDP, governments the world over have spent the last several years trying to coax consumers to open their wallets to fuel economic growth.

He said the company was renewing the committment it has forged to news over the last 15 years because it has seen that we are in an era where «the last thing you want to see is a search engine that is not delivering quality content and with the open internet is simply becoming a race to the bottom.»

On my visit I was keen to learn more about what enabled Ziba to be successful over such a long period because any firm that lasts more than 30 years is doing something right.

It's as if the last five years didn't happen, because you still hear exactly the same things over and over.

Because he has 10 proven business strategies that have brought him massive success over the last seven years.

link building has been devalued greatly over the last few years because of search engines shift towards user engagement and social.

«A number of agents I spoke to said last year that they weren't selling as hard, they weren't working as hard, and they weren't meeting with people as much as they used to because of their confusion and uncertainty over what might happen with the DOL,» he explained.

The only reason Ontario hasn't seen serious electricity shortages (or had to rely on expensive non-base generating capacity) over the last few years is because Ontario's economy was conveniently crippled by a recession.

Because living costs are low and the average savings APY is relatively high at 0.71 %, $ 1 million in savings will last over 19.5 years in Kansas.

Hanging over everything has been the uncertainty about the company's plan to spin off its $ 26 billion stake in Alibaba, which was announced a year ago but was abandoned last month by the company's board of directors because of tax concerns.

Starting with my first job at a investment bank out of college in NYC, I saved over 50 % of my after tax income every year because I knew I wouldn't be able to last a lifetime working 70 + hours a week.

I mean what we've learned over the last several years is that there's tremendous variability across the year, and so you had really strong sales results at Red Lobster first quarter last year, weak earnings results because of the variability in food costs.

It's basically flat over the last year, because it's given up between 20 - 25 % of gains just over the last few months.

Chief executive John O'Connell said: «Not only have savers had very little to celebrate over the last eight years because of rock bottom interest rates, but many will rightly be angry that staff are then spending huge sums of money on lavish parties for themselves... It would be right to consider these sensitivities when planning any future function.»

And not only did the Mulroneys do renovations over the last 20 years, a lot of attention and care was put into this house because this house is....

It is no secret that China has been dominating us in numerous ways and because of all of the outsourcing companies have done over the last 20 years or so it is no surprise that they are using some of their new found wealth to buy American companies.

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Over the last few years large mining companies and investment banks cut staff almost to the bone in that regard because no one was interested in doing deals or looking at acquisitions.»

And there were no sellers, sellers disappeared because as I talked about ad nauseam and Rick said over the last 10 years when he would interview me and that basically, you couldn't make any money.

The poor consumer spending in Q1 could be a harbinger of more economic weakness, not only because the consumer is almost 70 % of the U.S. economy, but because average real personal consumption expenditures grew at a faster rate than real GDP over the last three years, 2.9 % to 2.2 %.

A false sense of security has prevailed over the last few years because the consumer debt service ratio (denoted by the red line) collapsed from 6 % to 5 % after the onset of the last recession, as bad debts were written off and interest rates collapsed.

I think a lot about community because I've facilitated them for over 30 years and now I run an online one called The Lasting Supper.

In large part because, over the last forty years, Catholics have become «just like everybody else.»

But because of the path influential people have taken over the last thrity years or so, what young people think of the Religious Right is what they think about evangelicals and even Christians in general.»

That last one probably frustrates me the most, not only because it's been used to justify some real unpleasantness toward Jews over the last two thousand years, but also because it's so antithetical to my experience of Judaism.

Never mind all that data collected and analysis done by scientists over the last 300 years, I choose to believe in a magic invisible sky man who created the Earth in 6 days, one who keeps me under surveillance 24 hours a day 7 days a week from the time I'm born until the time I die because I'm just that important to him, a god who will convict me of thoughtcrime, even while I'm asleep, if I should ever doubt his existence.

Over the last ten years, I've pretty much stopped reading literary criticism, because most of it isn't literary.

Because of the practice of contraception over the last 40 - 50 years, the world's population at this time is estimated to be short by at least 2 billion individuals.

Dr Peter Saunders, the campaign director explained the decision: «The judges» ruling was really pretty emphatic... there's been over ten attempts to change the law in British parliament in the last 15 years but all have failed because of concerns about public safety and the ramifications for vulnerable people».

I'd love to know in what areas you see that, because while I certainly agree that in many ways the human race differs from the Bible's standards of right and wrong, I really don't see that there's been much change over the last couple thousand years — certainly not since the time of the Greeks, when we start having our first comprehensive records outside the Bible.

Based on PERCENTAGES, you Christians are also ATHEISTS, because you don't believe in 99.99 % of all the OTHER GODS that humans have created over the last 5000 years.

I know I say this every year (in 2015 I was hooked on these healthy no bake cookies and last year the whole EBF team was going gaga over these almond butter espresso cookies, but honestly this cookie recipe is near and dear to my heart because it's a remake of my nanny's crescent cookies.

If it is one thing I learned over the last few years, just because a recipe is «diet friendly» doesn't make it healthy.

Coconut oil has gotten a bad rap over the last twenty years because many studies published about coconut oil were done on hydrogenated coconut oil.