Sentences with phrase «over the past decades in»

Product safety is unusually sensitive in China following scandals over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or sickened by phoney or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods.

FDI in Canada has risen sharply over the past decade in oil and gas and related sectors, as well as finance and management companies.

Both the official estimate and the Diwewert - Yu estimate, it added, «point to a general slowdown in productivity growth over the past decade in Canada and relative to the United States.»

The warnings against Jehovah's Witnesses have stacked up over the past decade in particular, with dozens of regional charges of extremism and more than 80 of its books, pamphlets, and other texts (including its magazine, The Watchtower) banned in Russia, according to The Moscow Times.

Over the past decade in the EU - 15, per capita consumption of cheese has increased by 1 kg (2.2 lbs) to reach 19.8 kg (43.7 lbs).

The opening two chapters address changes over the past decade in U.S. and global policy.

A version of the Child Victims Act has passed several times over the past decade in the New York State Assembly including last year.

In her pitch for ethics reform, Phillips said in a Facebook post that «over the past decade in Albany, more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing — more than any other state.»

But the boom has resurrected concerns that the unions have made little progress over the past decade in diversifying their membership.

«Over the past decade in Albany, more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing — more than any other state,» Phillips said in the post.

He's part of a huge uptick over the past decade in downstate students who attend UB.

As municipalities across the country cut back on infrastructure investments over the past decade in response to the recession, Oyster Bay went the opposite direction.

My colleagues and I have detected a sharp jump over the past decade in the number of such school shootings worldwide — excluding gang - related incidents — that were intended to kill at least two people or a school official.

This transportable array has migrated across the continental United States over the past decade in an effort to gain new understanding of seismic activity.

His goal is to use the same suite of tools and approaches developed over the past decade in his lab to tackle the challenges of understanding the basis of preterm birth.

«Based on the clinical evidence we've gathered over the past decade in our cancer vaccine trials,» Old said, «and in light of data from a variety of trials by others within the field, we believe therapeutic cancer vaccines will increasingly emerge as one of the safest and most powerful ways to combat a variety of cancers.»

Dining, art, and night life has evolved over the past decade in the rock and roll capital of the world, and so has online dating in Cleveland.

Check out how far Kurt Hectic and friends have come over the past decade in these exclusive before - and - after screens.

There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science.

If there is one thing that has not changed much over the past decade in the internet world, this is email.

We have made major strides over the past decades in improving educational levels of students with disabilities.

Foundations have invested millions over the past decade in New Leaders for New Schools, an organization that recruits nontraditional principal candidates and prepares them for the challenges of school leadership.

And having produced remarkable gains over the past decade in the big inner cities (notably including London), attention is shifting to «rural and coastal» deprivation.

As a region, the South has become a national leader over the past decade in providing support for prekindergarten programs, says a new study by the Southern Education Foundation.

Whether for underperformance or underenrollment or both, school closings have prompted public outcry over the past decade in cities including Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit.

No Disabled Student Left Behind Boston Herald, January 8, 2012 «We have made major strides over the past decades in improving educational levels of students with disabilities.

The Gates Foundation has invested $ 5B over the past decade in various school reform initiatives, including small school advocacy and teacher quality reform.

And there has been a rise over the past decade in students studying a range of other languages spoken in the UK.

Bond investors have had a succession of shocks over the past decade in the course of discovering that there is no magic attached to any given coupon level — at 6 percent, or 8 percept, or 10 percent, bonds can still collapse in price.

The progress that has been made over the past decade in sheltering practices means that many shelters offer their «temporary residents» basic training, so they are at least familiar with the concept of being on leash, and the concept of «sit» and «walk» Some shelters are set up so that daycare, kenneling, and grooming are available.

Bette Schubert, senior vice president of sales, new product development and education for Bravo Pet Foods in Manchester, Conn., noted that the dog food category has seen quite a transformation over the past decade in terms of explosive growth and more mainstream acceptance.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally over the past decade in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Bronx Museum of the Arts, African - American Museum of Art, Art Basel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

Incorporating revelatory new research carried out over the past decade in Europe and India, the exhibition will constitute a timely and radical re-evaluation of the extraordinary life and career of this brilliant and enigmatic artist.

Game changing breakthroughs over the past decades in solar, battery, or energy generation technologies?

In a recent (of Sept. 16, 2005) publication in Science, Hatun et al. find that record - high salinities have been observed over the past decade in the region where water from the Atlantic flows into the northern oceans.

There has nonetheless been a sizable increase over the past decade in the percentage of Americans who agree that «most scientists believe that global warming is occurring,» from 48 % in 1997 to 65 % this year.

In 2013, the Duval River (tributary of the renowned Bonaventure River) experienced the most severe didymo bloom ever recorded in eastern Canada and comparable to extreme blooms observed over the past decade in New Zealand.

World installed PV capacity has grown 16-fold over the past decade in large part due to government incentives encouraging the use of solar power.

It seems minor — about 0.1 W / m2 relative warming over the past decade in recent work.

As outlined over the past decade in articles at Science and Nature, and in reports such as the Hartwell paper and Climate Pragmatism, various experts have argued that political success will only come by pursuing a diverse portfolio of policy solutions and technologies, implemented across levels of government and through the private and nonprofit sectors.

Tree mortality has been observed to increase over the past decades in many regions, but the causes of this increase are not well understood, and we know even less about long - term changes in growth and recruitment rates.

A large number of such data have been produced over the past decades in paleomagnetic laboratories around the world, so that the amount of available data is getting large enough to allow for global inversion models of the Holocene magnetic field.

The paper also adds important theoretical support to the research published in 2012 by Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, which found that the amplitude of Earth's planetary waves had increased by over 100 miles (161 km) in summer over the past decade in the Northern Hemisphere.

«We've made tremendous progress over the past decade in reducing our emissions but cities all around the world need to fundamentally transform how they operate in order to achieve net - zero emissions» said Debbie Raphael, Director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment.

The Medieval period is found to display warmth that matches or exceeds that of the past decade in some regions... Considerable progress has been made over the past decade in using climate «proxy» data...»

As much as I enjoy the visceral impact of a stroll through the stacks at a law library and the serendipity of opening a dusty old law report to find something of use (or at least interest), my practical experience over the past decade in the quasi-legal administrative world of telecommunications policy has allowed me to conduct primary research nearly exclusively through digital sources — and mostly free ones at that.

This basic change in client attitudes... has resulted over the past decade in fundamental changes to the legal market itself.

U.S. Department of Justice special counsel Christine Stoneman, who works in the federal coordination and compliance section of the civil rights division, said that states had made strides over the past decade in meeting federally mandated requirements for language access in the courts.

Young Indigenous men make up 71 per cent of suicide victims over the past decade in the region.

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While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, he says: «Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur.