Almost every cancellation was «
preceded by a period of non-use» (source).
More than half of all first marriages in the United States are now
preceded by a period of cohabitation.
Many of our country's greatest revivals — from the Second Great Awakening to the hippie - era «Jesus movement» — were immediately
preceded by periods of increased apostasy and reduced church attendance.
As chair Peter Goldmark later wrote, «every successful convention has been
preceded by a period of intense statewide debate.»
In my book, Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome, I wrote in detail about how to minimize the impact of stress on health because the onset of adrenal fatigue is usually
preceded by periods of stress.
This shared mechanism could explain why additional gains in strength do not arise either when balance training is
preceded by a period of strength training (Bruhn et al. 2006), nor when a program of balance training is performed together with a program of strength training (Manolopoulos et al. 2016).
That war, as we might expect, revealed America in its hard aspect, and it came immediately on the heels of a prolonged hard period of American life: the Great Depression,
preceded by a period of rapid industrialization, absent any public programs for the poor and the unemployed and the maimed and the widowed.
The bottom is
preceded by a period in which the market declines on low volumes and rises on high volumes.
Seizures are
preceded by a period of atypical behavior that may include vacant staring or mild twitching.)
These events are usually short term things, one or several nights, and frequently are
preceded by a period of above level warmth.
Not exact matches
After all, a personal financial crash is almost always
preceded by a long
period of financial instability.
A creditor shall allocate the entire amount paid
by the consumer in excess of the minimum payment amount to a balance on which interest is deferred during the last 2 billing cycles immediately
preceding the expiration of the
period during which interest is deferred.
Persons who have beneficially owned restricted shares of our common stock for at least six months but who are our affiliates at the time of, or any time during the 90 days
preceding, a sale, would be subject to additional restrictions,
by which such person would be entitled to sell within any three - month
period only a number of securities that does not exceed the greater of either of the following:
Each person's compliance with the minimum stock ownership level will be determined on the date when this compliance grace
period expires, and then annually on each December 31,
by multiplying the number of shares held
by such person and the average closing price of those shares during the
preceding month.
Pursuant to the policy, as revised in February 2009, at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director has served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided
by the lesser of (i) the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day
period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant or (ii) such number of RSUs as the Board may determine based on additional criteria such as business conditions and / or company performance, outside director compensation practices at peer companies and advice from outside compensation consultants.
Prior to February 2009, the policy provided that at each annual meeting of our stockholders, provided that the director had served on the Board for at least six months prior to the annual meeting, a non-employee director would be granted RSUs having a value equal to $ 225,000 divided
by the trailing average closing trading prices of our common stock for the 180 - day
period preceding and ending with the date of the RSU grant.
The shaded area shows the amount of market gain that would be required to recover the peak - to - trough drawdown experienced
by the corresponding stock index (S&P for Fed interventions, EuroStoxx for ECB interventions, FTSE for BOE interventions) in the 6 - month
period preceding the quantitative easing operation.
The minimum amounts are set
by a calculation: The account balance at the end of the
preceding calendar year divided
by the distribution
period from the IRS's «Uniform Lifetime Table.»
The RMD amount is calculated
by dividing the amount in the account as of the end of the immediately
preceding calendar year
by a life - expectancy - based distribution
period specified in the IRS's «Uniform Lifetime Table.»
Awanderingscot, If I understand correctly, the siluran was
preceded by the ordovician
period / strata which actully does contain fossils:
In the Persian
period, Zechariah reviews how Israel lost shalom
by not heeding the words of the prophets who
preceded him:
If death were always
preceded, however, as unfortunately on rare occasions it sometimes is,
by a
period of slow decay, as long in years as the original
period of growth to physical maturity, until any kind of personal communion had been rendered virtually impossible, then we would not only welcome death, as a merciful release, but be less inclined to assume the survival of the deceased in an «after - life».
The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor
by which our age is distinguished from all
preceding periods of history.
They were not so much employed as instruments of the secular arm as they had been
by the princes of the
period of recession which
preceded the Middle Ages.
In its spread, Christianity was given much smaller financial assistance
by governments, and was less under state control than in the
preceding period.
Thus the rise of the Gospels, let us say, belongs in the last thirty years of the first century; the tradition that underlies them must,
by the same token, be assigned to the
period preceding.
The action was characterised
by a small rise in river height followed
by a recession to baseflow,
preceding a larger rise and ramp down over a
period of 30 - 40 days downstream of Hillston.
Direct Debit trial offers Direct Debit offers are often
preceded by with a short term trial
period e.g. 3 issues for # 1.
It marks the seventh straight year that no more than two English teams advanced past the Round of the 16 — a
period of waning influence that was
preceded by seven glorious years that produced six quarterfinalists, six semifinalists, five finalists, and two European champions.
Unfortunately for Arsenal those
periods have either followed or been
preceded by a series of disappointing results that have taken them out of title contention.
These commonly require a legislative supermajority: in consequence any significant alteration in the existing constitutional arrangements is normally
preceded by an often protracted
period of scrutiny and consensus building.
As it turns out, the STC lost $ 5.13 million during the two - year
period preceding its sale, according to financial statements from the deal filed
by Akoustis with the SEC on Sept. 12.
Rats injected intraventricularly or directly into the periaqueductal gray with beta - endorphin (0.5 to 50 micrograms) exhibited rigid immobility accompanied
by the loss of righting reflex; the
period of rigidity was
preceded or followed (depending upon dose)
by a state of hyperactivity.
«The simulations showed that what was very unique about this storm is that first, it was
preceded by a very hot
period, and so the land that was not covered with vegetation would be drier and it would be easier to entrain sand grains from it,» Bou - Zeid said.
«In addition, this early phase of evolutionary divergence appears to have
preceded the extreme climate changes that led to Snowball Earth, a
period marked
by severe long - term global glaciation that lasted from about 720 to 635 million years ago,» Dohrmann says.
«This trend is not seen during the industrial
period, where Northern Hemisphere temperature changes, driven
by humanmade forcings,
precede variability in the marine environment.»
However, Goddard said the results don't fully show the slowdown has disappeared when comparing the past 15 years to the decades
preceding that
period and that understanding the natural fluctuations in climate on a year - to - year (or even decade - to - decade) basis provides important context to the warming trends driven
by carbon dioxide.
Assuming you believe that the Arctic's temperature rise since the mid-1990s has been caused
by CO2, how do you explain the ~ 40 years of cooling that
preceded the warming — since CO2 was rapidly rising during both the cooling and warming
periods?
The metric - which ranks journals
by the average number of citations their articles attract in a set
period, usually the
preceding two years - has become «an obsession in world science», says a coalition of academics, editors, publishers and research funders, in a declaration published on 16 May.
Large - scale surface temperature reconstructions yield a generally consistent picture of temperature trends during the
preceding millennium, including relatively warm conditions centered around A.D. 1000 (identified
by some as the «Medieval Warm
Period») and a relatively cold period (or «Little Ice Age») centered around
Period») and a relatively cold
period (or «Little Ice Age») centered around
period (or «Little Ice Age») centered around 1700.
The current study resolved this issue
by analyzing the pre-stimulus
period immediately
preceding retrieval cue onset to test for a preparatory form of retrieval orientation.
However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers
by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable
period over the
preceding millennium.
Inhalation was
preceded by an exhalation phase, during which subjects were presented with a ball on the monitor whose size decreased continuously across a
period of three seconds.
Conversely, within non-diabetic populations,
periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated
by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases insulin secretion, can
precede the onset of T2DM
by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic) insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70
This means that your heaviest sets should be
preceded by rest
periods of no longer than 2 - 3 minutes for a proper hormonal response.
During the postlunch
period preceded by the LGI breakfast, glucose values significantly (P < 0.05) lower than those after the HGI breakfast were seen at the 9th hour.
People tell us that usually a first kiss is
preceded by long
periods of waiting and awkward «small talk» while the 2 people figure out in their heads who is going to make the move.
The new landing page has shown a 20 % bump in conversion rates during its testing
period, which was
preceded by January.
Courtship is the
period in a couple's relationship which
precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more Three Blind Dates (Dating
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The advanced techniques of the Hong Kong action cinema translated from the
period kung fu and wuxia film to the modern world of cops and robbers, from swordplay to gunplay, not for the first time (it was
preceded into the present
by Jackie Chan's Police Story from the previous year, as well as Cinema City's highly profitable Aces Go Places series of comic adventures and a whole host of films from the Hong Kong New Wave like Tsui Hark's own Dangerous Encounters - First Kind, not to mention earlier films like Chang Cheh's Ti Lung - starring Dead End, from 1969), but better than anything before it.