Sentences with phrase «particularly after last year»

For a state whose 100 million acres are 80 percent covered by forest and rangelands, it's an existential concern, particularly after last year's devastating wildfire season.

«It's very important for us to work with a lot of these groups that have grown organically, particularly after last year's presidential election, and recruit candidates to run for the state Senate,» he said.

Not exact matches

The increase in air strikes has led to concerns over civilian casualties, particularly after the United Nations reported a spike in deaths caused by air strikes last year.

But the news is particularly ironic for Bitstamp, which gained popularity after the collapse of another exchange called Mt. Gox, which filed for bankruptcy last year after losing approximately $ 650 million in a cyber attack.

Amulet, which has been in testing for four years, released its first product line last year and has seen a surge of interest after every mass shooting in America — particularly over the past week.

The journey to the Peace House has been fraught with uncertainty, particularly after heightened provocations from North Korea last year.

The snack maker is a company worth watching, particularly after Trian Fund Management's Nelson Peltz suggested that Pepsi should acquire Mondelez, which was spun off from Kraft last year.

«After 6 1/2 years of more than 20 percent top - line growth that ended in the fourth quarter of last year, we are clearly operating in a different environment, particularly in our largest market [of] North America,» Plank told analysts and investors on Tuesday.

«I always ask that question because I think it's particularly important for men to keep the links and to have a place where those questions are asked, and who's looking after the children and who's feeding the children and are the children being educated,» he told me last year.

North Coast Growers Start the Season on an Up - Market After slumbering through the first half of 2015, the market for California coastal wine grapes has been re-energized by last seasons lightest crop in three years and continuing lively demand for wines priced at $ 10 a bottle or higher, particularly Cabernet Sauvignon...

The competition regulator's decision to approve the deal last week without making market inquiries has intrigued bottlers, suppliers and advisers alike, particularly after its intervention last year in Asahi's acquisition of Australia's third - largest soft drink and water bottler, P&N Beverages.

AFTER accidentally being injected by Gudair vaccine on his Benalla farm last year, Jim Renkin is being particularly careful about safety this season.

Coulthard's last year in F1 wasn't particularly good, especially considering the performances his teammate Mark Webber was having - after six races Webber had 15 points, Coulthard none.

While it may seem ruthless to some, the Ligue 1 outfit have consistently failed in Europe over the last few years despite their heavy spending, and it would undoubtedly have been a huge disappointment for their owners who will expect to be a contender given the quality in the squad, particularly after the summer signings of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.

After a storming season for Everton last year, it's no surprise to see Marouane Fellaini being linked with a move away from Goodison Park, particularly with his former manager David Moyes making the move to replace Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United.

I haven't changed my stance once in the last 4 to 5 years and I am glad to Welcome t Lacazette and if he can even produce 75 % of the goals scored in the French league, he will be a huge bonus and it appears a true CF.We hopefully are still in the market for Mahrez as in all probability we wont let Sanchez run down his contract and walk away on a free, as that is not the Arsenal way.We need to sell several players and it's the saving of wages that is most important not what we get and a decision has to be made on particularly Wilshere and it looks like the player we arguably missed the most last season Santi Cazorla maybe coming to the end of his playing days.We have already tried to sell Gibbs and Jenkinson and in all probability add the two keepers, Ospina and Szczesny to the list which leaves Joel Campbell who seems to have missed his chance and should have been sold at a premium after the last WC, but more importantly The Ox and Giroud.Our attack force needs a real hard think as I can't see Perez as a long term Arsenal player, but Walcott, like him or not in all probability will stay.

Arteta and Flamini's influence is gradually waining and they are reaching the back end of their careers, so a replacement is definitely needed, particularly after the drubbings we took in the key away games last year, where more protection of the defence could've come in handy.

Amelia: In January last year I had a bit of a «moment» where I realized I could no longer carry on trying to earn money in one job, look after my kids and home and do my art too, particularly because I learnt 3 years ago my youngest child had a form of Aspergers Syndrome.

It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons.

Rep. Charlie Rangel may be 81, but he apparently has no plan to retire — something that has been widely speculated, particularly after his ethics scandal and censure last year.

One gun show last year turned particularly controversial after a Democratic legislative aide snapped pictures of Confederate and Nazi memorabilia and books being sold and displayed inside the show, giving rise to Democratic calls for its removal.

Earlier this year, Democratic Party leaders in Albany seemed confident that a clear majority in the 63 - seat Senate was within reach, particularly after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made a commitment, after a challenge from the left last spring, to help fight for that goal.

Which makes it particularly amazing that over the last half - century, cosmologists (and I'm happy to count myself among them) have reconstructed the history of the entire universe all the way back to seconds after the Big Bang that sparked it into existence 13.7 billion years ago.

The first one (around 50,000 — 200,000 years ago) colonised the Eastern Mediterranean, and in the second, much more recent (after the last glacial period), the species colonised Southern Italy, particularly Calabria.

Shuttle launches after 9/11 Security at NASA has always been tight, particularly at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., from where the agency's space shuttles launched into space for 30 years until the fleet's retirement last month.

Only during their last days in the field, after dreadful walks through knee - deep mud, they made a truly exciting discovery in 66 million year - old rocks: The fossil remains of a particularly large skull of a Mosasaur, a giant sea lizard.

This year I'm particularly aware of just how much can change in a year as I think back to last summer when I was totally unsure of my path after my college graduation that spring.

I have to admit that after interviewing Timothee Chalamet I was a bit spent, but I was incredibly eager to speak with Enyedi, particularly when I discovered it had been 18 years since she directed her last feature.

The group, as we learn in the opening scenes, is particularly driven to win the Big Contest (i.e. the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella), after messing up spectacularly last year.

The writing team of Danny Strong and Peter Craig, after last year's limp The Butler, are back with the socio - political awareness which earned them Emmys for Game Change; although there is some dialogue, particularly given to Katniss and Gale, which should have had a rewrite.

Lots of kids in their last year of high school have questions about the future, but Greg Gains (Thomas Mann) is particularly perplexed after spending time with a classmate (Olivia Cooke) who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Given both of Winslet's performances this year are housed in what we expect to be revealed next Thursday as failed Oscar bait that no one particularly likes, we were originally going to bank on the Academy's resistance to allowing a questionable double bid just because Winslet's presence is considered obligatory (especially after the same hustle netted Cate Blanchett a best actress nomination for fucking Elizabeth: The Golden Age last year).

However, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said he plans to seek a one - year waiver of the law, particularly in light of the disruption of the city's education system after Hurricane Harvey last fall.

«The reason I want to buy milk from a cow,» you explain, «is because I am trying to recapture the simple times of my childhood, particularly after the intricate dance that I have undertaken for the last twenty years as an immigrant in America.»

In fact, the report says that the average shopper plans to spend less than last year I guess this should come as no surprise; prevailing wisdom tells us that consumer spending is often depressed after particularly contentious national elections.

New Zealand's south island has captivated me for several years now, but I got particularly interested after last year's backpacking trip to Patagonia.

Whilst we are happy with the direction Microsoft are taking, it is disappointing to see the Kinect relegated to the sidelines particularly after how hard Microsoft tried to so hard last year to convince us about the merits of the device.

I found it to be quite a fascinating read, particularly after the release of last year's similar and also critically acclaimed, Divinity Original Sin 2.

I'm particularly excited to see Dynasty Handbag's «Soggy Glasses, A Homo's Odyssey» after missing it at BAM last year.

The stakes are particularly high due to last year's fair being plagued with complaints from dealers and collectors that they were unable to access the site in the hours after its opening.

In the last few years, particularly in the collection of painting after 1950, has been expanded upon, accompanied by comprehensive solo exhibitions of artists such as Ackermann, Bitran, Brodwolf, Clavé, Dahmen, Kalinowski, Klasen, Saura, Soulages, Tàpies, Voss, etc..

But this modest resolution is a welcome reminder that moderate and environment - minded Republicans exist behind the haze of unscientific sound bites dominating political news this year, particularly after the second set of Republican presidential debates last night.

Add in the fact that the thickness of the ice, which is much harder to measure, is estimated to have fallen by half since 1979, when satellite records began, and there is probably less ice floating on the Arctic Ocean now than at any time since a particularly warm period 8,000 years ago, soon after the last ice age.

After a massive storm devastated St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) late last year, 1994 Goldman Prize winner Andrew Simmons returned to his island home to assist with the disaster relief effort and educate locals about climate change's particularly harsh impact on small island communities.

Particularly amusing for me last year was how I landed at another global warming believer's blog (I forget how, most likely from daily Google email alert I get on stories about global warming that I created in 2008), and after a series of comment placements which started with one of the strangest sidesteps * I'd ever seen, the blogger declared in a new blog post that I must be «the Gestapo of the Heartland Institute with the job of hunting down dissenting opinions and persecuting those responsible» (full text here).

The lawsuit was filed last week, alleging that 10 - year - old Mykael Vasquez suffered from a second - degree and third - degree burn after a McDonald's franchise served hot chocolate that was «too hot for consumption,» particularly for children.

As the BBC story points out, this is somewhat disappointing for those favouring a more independent or international authority over domain name administration or, at least, a more transparent or accountable operation by ICANN particularly after the Tunis Agenda of late last year.

This is also an industry trend that has been happening for years, but it was only with the Xiaomi Mi MIX, released toward the end of last year, that it became more «mainstream» (the Sharp Aquos Crystal wasn't particularly popular, after all).

Your graduation will be here sooner than you think and it is important to start applying as soon as you can, unless you are particularly keen on moving back in with your parents after the last few years of freedom.

The two - day Congress Lowitja 2014: Many mobs, one vision: creating a healthy future was always likely to be topical, particularly after the election of the Federal Government late last year.