Sentences with phrase «points in the past decade»

It's one poll, but for a gun - control movement anxious to turn the tragedy in Parkland, Fla., into action to prevent further bloodshed, it suggests the political backdrop is more favorable than at any point in the past decade.

At various points in the past decade, it seemed plausible that voters might approve a convention.

That's an improvement of nearly 2 percentage points from the previous year and about 8 points in the past decade.

The graduation rate, which has risen nearly 2 full percentage points from the previous year and 8 points in the past decade,...

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

With roughly 93.6 million square feet of class A industrial space, greater Mexico City area industrial vacancy is at one of its lowest points in the past decade.

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Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

Case in point is synthetic biology (the field itself) and the major breakthroughs that have occurred in just the past two decades (including DNA sequencing).

In the past decade there has been no lack of best - customer clubs, point programs, new twists on airline frequent - flier plans, and contests with spectacular prizes.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

If the speculative bubbles and crashes across market history have taught us anything (particularly the repeated episodes of recklessness we've observed over the past two decades), it's this: regardless of the level of valuation at any point in time, we have to allow for the potential for investors to adopt a psychological preference toward risk - seeking speculation, and no amount of reason will dissuade them even when that speculation has already made a collapse inevitable over a longer horizon.

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.»

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Both parties have achieved limited success in pockets of the province at certain points over past twenty years, but support for both parties has dwindled over the past decade.

It's quite possible that worldwide stock exchanges will experience a similar development to that witnessed in Japan over the past two decades [the Nikkei index has fallen from 39,000 points to under 8,000].

It was overvalued in 2000 and at many points over the past decade.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decadIn the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decadin the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

Overall, Australia's trading partners are expected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2004, around 1/2 a percentage point faster than the average of the past decade (Graph 1).

Points I raised in the address include the following: - Canada's economy has been growing quite steadily over the past three decades, even when one adjusts -LSB-...]

But recent trends do point toward a changing wind in culture — a sense that sex and nudity and female actors in particular might be deserving of a little more respect than they've been getting over the past decade.

To return to the theme of this series, let me conclude with three points, the clarification of which will help define how my mind has changed in the past decade.

While some stretch this season past their third decade, most of us tend to settle down at some point in our late twenties or early thirties.

From the present perspective, however, the audience patterns for the past decade are indicative of growth to the point of market saturation (i.e., it appears that in 1977 the paid - time religious broadcasters reached the peak of their growth with the audience segment they can reach with their present program formats and contents).

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

The analysts pointed out that «past transactions in the Australian dairy segment have been executed at 8 to 12 times EBITDA [earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation], though in the last decade the range is more like 10.5 to 13.0 times on comparable consumer - facing businesses.»

The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point to one thing WENGER OUT

Stillwell pointed out that in the past decade new regulations on gasoline have increased making such entities safer while in addition, the Buchanan proposal met all county requirements.

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.

Mr Straw pointed to the British crime survey, which suggests crime has fallen by 30 per cent over the past decade but said this had not been reflected in the media.

Over the course of decades 58 shipments of nuclear waste would be loaded on barges at Indian Point for the 42 miles trip down the River, passing under the new Mario Cuomo Bridge and past New York City on the way to the seaport in New Jersey.

We have made progress lowering cases of lead poisoning in the past decade, but there is still much work to be done,» said Council speaker Corey Johnson, adding the package would «hopefully bring us to the point of eradicating childhood lead poisoning in New York City.»

Despite their calamitous campaign, the Conservatives increased their share of the vote to 42 % — up five points since 2015 — which in any other election in the past three decades would have been enough to build a commanding majority.

McFadden points out that the past decade has seen much progress in smallpox research, in particular the development of two new drugs (which have not yet been licensed).

McGlade points out that over the past two decades, world poverty rates have fallen from 42 per cent in the mid 1990s to a projected value of 15 per cent for 2015, representing half a billion people lifted out of poverty.

At this point in history — with moon landings in the distant past, the space shuttle recently retired, and manned missions to Mars decades off — these may seem like mere theoretical concerns.

In the past few decades, Wu says, China has built the capacity to place satellites and astronauts in orbit and send spacecraft to the Moon, but it has not done much significant research from its increasingly lofty vantage poinIn the past few decades, Wu says, China has built the capacity to place satellites and astronauts in orbit and send spacecraft to the Moon, but it has not done much significant research from its increasingly lofty vantage poinin orbit and send spacecraft to the Moon, but it has not done much significant research from its increasingly lofty vantage point.

Geoscientists have known for decades that the injection of fluid can increase pressures within the pores of deep rock formations, pushing faults that are already critically stressed by forces in Earth's crust past the snapping point.

As the Arab Spring played out over the past year and a half — as Egypt's first free presidential ballots were totaled up in late May, and Morsi faced off against a former general, Ahmed Shafik, in June — social media gave a platform to the competing voices and points of view silenced for decades under the jackboots of various Arab regimes.

This hasn't gone unnoticed by climate deniers; they frequently point to a hiatus in temperature rises since the late 1990s and a lower than expected upward trend in the past decade.

Tom Rosenstiel of the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism pointed at the media, focusing on its overall contraction in the past two decades.

«Although many theories focus on reasoning as an important part of moral life, within psychology in the past two decades, a lot of new theories have been developed that point to the central importance of intuitive reactions in our moral lives.»

The rate at which this knowledge has accumulated in the past decade has been nothing short of breathtaking, and as a geneticist I feel lucky to have been able to practice my trade at this point in history.

Spencer does this by both mis - characterizing the recent National Academies Report on the subject which indeed pointed out that there are numerous lines of evidence for precisely this conclusion, and by completely ignoring the recently - released IPCC Fourth Assessment report, which draws the stronger conclusion that the warmth of recent decades is likely anomalous in at least the past 1300 years.

... In past decades I have felt called to be more free — my family tended towards inhibition, and it took me a long time to get to the point that I could show even a modest amount of cleavage — I guess that was part of the YSL dream.

The percentage of self - identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades.

Fans of Cooper's previous work will want to give this one a look at some point, as will those cinephiles interested in seeing what this film has to add to the larger trend of revisionist westerns released over the past decade.

From the prologue, we learn that the flower came from the magical realm at some point decades in the past.

In his 70s in the past decade alone he was responsible for «Match Point», «Melinda and Melinda» and «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» and those are very very good films indeeIn his 70s in the past decade alone he was responsible for «Match Point», «Melinda and Melinda» and «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» and those are very very good films indeein the past decade alone he was responsible for «Match Point», «Melinda and Melinda» and «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» and those are very very good films indeed.

In the past decade, he has made «Anything Else,» «Match Point,» and «Vicky Cristina Barcelona,» which are quite wonderful.