Sentences with phrase «past decades of service»

Over the past decades of service to northern Nevada, the firm has engaged in many diverse practice areas, to include litigation and trial practice, personal injury, business and corporate law, wills and estate planning, employment and municipal law.

Not exact matches

«While much attention has been paid to the surge in popularity of Canada's natural resources over the past decade, Canadian companies have been quietly and steadily increasing their international sales of services,» wrote the Conference Board's Jacqueline Palladini.

Glassman, founder and president of Glassman Wealth Services, said that «the two have been trained very differently over the past decades.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on

«We're hugely unexcited about that,» Ray says, recalling the long litany of failed startups over the past two decades that have tried to make a go at offering similar high - speed Internet or cable TV - like services wirelessly.

British Columbia's film industry, which for most of the past two decades commanded the lion's share of foreign - funded service production in Canada, has fallen on lean times.

The city of Detroit has faced serious economic challenges in the past decade, with a shrinking population and tax base while trying to maintain essential services.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

The author of a book called The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence has studied the shop for decades and built a mini-industry of lectures and workshops that aim to help other businesses emulate its success (past clients have included TD Bank, BMO and the Cactus Club Cafe chain).

«Our research into the proportion of senior business roles held by women has revealed precious little movement over the past decade,» said Francesca Lagerberg, global leader, tax services and Europe, Grant Thornton, in a statement.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

Municipal operating spending has also increased because of further downloading of responsibilities by federal and provincial governments onto municipalities. The biggest increases in spending by municipalities over the past two decades have been for housing, health, social services and environmentâ $» all areas where federal and provincial governments also have responsibility, as the FCM's recent State of Canadaâ $ ™ s Cities and Communities report demonstrated.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

The higher level of liabilities that must be serviced would normally have significantly increased the NID over this period, but this effect was substantially offset by trend declines in global interest rates over the past two decades.

Debt servicing ratios of both the corporate and unincorporated sectors have been lower for the past couple of years than at any time in the preceding decade (Graph 6).

It provides state - by - state profiles on exports of goods and services to China over the past decade, and estimates the employment impact of those exports.

Over the past decade, Canada's strong economy, its fiscal policies, its governments and its regulators have fostered the growth of a world class financial services industry.

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 large super-churches which have appeared in most Australian capital and provincial cities in the past decade also reflect a similar culture: apparently successful; spectacular worship services; charismatic leaders; the use of stereotypes; centralised decision - making; and messages which stress the benefits of believing.

New Zealand's dairy sector debt nearly tripled over the past decade to $ 30.5 billion in 2012 and some farmers will have difficulty servicing their loans in the year ahead, despite the prospect of a higher milk price, the Ministry for Primary Industries said.

Chelsea have been dependent on the services of Terry over the past decade or so, but this appears to changed this season with Antonio Conte barely using him in the first - team.

For the past decade, no conversation about breastfeeding promotion can escape the legend of the 2003 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services / Office on Women's Health Advertising Council breastfeeding campaign.

Objections to a HIQA review echo past failures in transparency and a lack of accountability which have plagued the Irish maternity services for decades.

Spirit Shop has successfully serviced over 500,000 customers in the past decade and has generated thousands of dollars for our school partners all over the country.

The amethyst crystals are quite inspirational and remind us how far we have come in midwifery and how many women we have also seen discover their own inner beauty because of the services we have been blessed to offer over the past decade.

Over the past several decades, he has been called to service on numerous occasions by governors and mayors during times of crisis and today, I too am turning to him to assist me in my continued efforts to stabilize New York's economy.»»

Among a range of experiences during the past decade, She has co-founded a trust providing free medical services in Bangladesh, worked in the Research Department of the Central Bank of Turkey in Ankara, and spent two years in financial research at Morgan Stanley in New York City.

Stony Point has struggled with the loss of big commercial taxpayers over the past decade, forcing the town residents to pay more in taxes even as the town board cut services.

Smith's decade of executive service is more than 80 years in the past, while Cuomo has just three months in office.

He was emotional reflecting on several decades of past public service in the city.

Centuries of an independent civil service, acting as a bulwark to politicians and their advisers, have been subverted over the past decade, so with their hands directing the levers of power, Government becomes a dirty, grubby, ugly business.

In addition, 80 per cent of those questioned said they were satisfied with their GP while the public perception of A&E and outpatient services in hospitals has risen over the past decade as spending tripled under Labour.

Off the List Thanks to repopulation efforts during the past few decades, the gray wolf (Canis lupus) now thrives in the U.S., and since 2003 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been trying to move the top predator off the endangered species list — a plan opposed by groups that believe the wolves are susceptible to being overhunted [see «Out of the Woods»; SciAm, April 2003].

In the Bering Sea off Alaska, the population of Chrysaora melanaster has jumped at least 10-fold over the past decade, reaching record numbers last year, reported biologist Richard Brodeur of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Newport, Oregon.

With the proliferation of satellite - based communications that enable global positioning systems (GPS) as well as certain Internet, television and phone services in the past few decades, «we're more reliant on space technology now than we ever were before,» says APL scientist and principal AMPERE investigator Brian Anderson.

While no official statistics are available on SBS prosecutions, Toni Blake of the American legal consulting firm 2nd Chair Services says that at least 2,000 to 3,000 lawyers and defendants have contacted her over the past decade to request assistance on SBS trials and appeals around the country.

Several legislators noted similar incidents at CDC over the past decade and a long list of reports finding broad problems with biosafety at CDC from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general.

During the past decade, Singh and his colleagues at DeBakey VA Medical Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt) and Baylor's section of health services research have quantified the issue in a series of studies, many of which were cited in the Institute of Medicine report.

Whereas in the past, women may not have had a huge amount of choice with regards to who they were paired with, this has all changed, with the service becoming much more like regular dating as opposed to Russian mail order brides as it would have been in decades gone by.

Over the past decade, they have built a quality mature dating service based on their core values of honesty, confidentiality, value for money and heaps of fun along the way.

Over the past decade, we have built a quality mature dating service based on core values of honesty, confidentiality, value for money and heaps of fun along the way!

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There is little doubt that online dating has gone from curiosity to phenomenon in the past decade as today millions of people are finding each other through online dating services.

A few decades removed from the trauma embodied by Operation Phoenix sniper / victim Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), Creasy's own past evil has been conducted in service of secret U.S. missions in Thailand and Angola, activities so appalling that he can't even speak about them.

A few decades removed from the trauma embodied by Operation Phoenix sniper / victim Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson), Creasy's past evil has been conducted in service of secret U.S. missions in Thailand and Angola, activities so appalling that he can't even speak about them.

Releasing a study that analyzed state actions and student outcomes from the «education - reform decade» of the 1980's, Gregory R. Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, said the reforms of the past decade «probably did all they could do» to raise student achievement.

Look at this in the context of some companies like Slack, App Dynamics, and Service Now who are competing and dethroning businesses that had been leading those industries for the past decade.

Over the past decade or so, state virtual schools have significantly expanded the types of services and range of products offered, while maintaining the traditional role of supplemental online course supplier.

Nonetheless, even the service sector has witnessed productivity gains of about 1 percent a year during the past three decades.

While it may not be widely known, many of the positive changes seen in education reform over the past few decades — from replication of high - quality charter schools to expansion of teacher residency programs — have been made possible, at least in part, through partnerships with AmeriCorps and other national service programs.