Sentences with phrase «previous decade»

"Previous decade" refers to the ten-year period that came before the current one. Full definition
It's no secret that he's had trouble getting financing for his bizarre vision, one that doesn't quite fit into the modern studio system like it did in previous decades.
But the recent trend of layering subtle neutrals may be a more lasting look than the trends of previous decades.
It remains to be seen whether the returns over previous decades attributed to a «value» premium are due a comeback.
This is a change from previous decades, when nothing was ever released without a rarely given or sought court order.
In the past three years, states passed 205 restrictions on abortion — more than what passed in the entire previous decade.
In previous decades debt was used to finance machinery, R&D and labour.
Results indicate that net anthropogenic forcing rises slower than previous decades because the cooling effects of sulfur emissions grow in tandem with the warming effects greenhouse gas concentrations.
The world's oceans have warmed at twice the rate of previous decades and the extra heat has reached deeper waters, finds data stretching back to 1960.
With advancements in nutrition, vaccinations, and preventive medicine, dogs can live a lot longer than they did in previous decades.
This change, in addition to socioeconomic and political factors, contributed to the decline of colony numbers over previous decades.
Also the fact that designers are borrowing styles from previous decades, makes it more accepted to dress more eclectic.
In previous decades debt was used to finance machinery, R&D and labour.
But they would not have been able to dismantle so much of the painfully won gains in the common good achieved during previous decades had they not had the support, or at least the acquiescence, of many people of good will.
They still wanted a fun and easy - to - follow storyline that continued the legacy of previous decades with characters that were likeable and relatable.
Here, Barcelona could be replaced with almost any other 1990s western or southern European metropolis, now less accommodating than in previous decades as a result of an alienating postmodernity.
Tamino provides a nice simple graphic showing that global temperature remains within the projected range based on previous decades of warming:
Unlike previous decades of not - quite sports sedans from Cadillac, the ATS is a clean - sheet design.
A few years later, she released a series of works reminiscent of the ones from previous decades where she used typewriter juxtaposed with the common and stereotyped media images of African Americans.
What if, back then, we had agreed with the government that many nationalised industries of the time were indeed appallingly run and uneconomic, and needed radical change rather than the attempts at reform (the likes of which had failed through previous decades).
Likewise, we find that natural variability, this last decade warming on the low end compared previous decades, the lack of coverage in the Arctic and so on may have played a role in Lewis» underestimating transient climate sensitivity:
That report, by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the most authoritative body of experts, scientists and engineers specialized in climate change — was a welcome signal for an industry that has faltered in previous decades after government subsidies dried up and lower - cost fossil fuels made their technologies uncompetitive.
Though evangelicalism had always been an element in American religious life and had been growing in strength for several previous decades, it was the candidacy and election of a self - proclaimed «born - again» Southern evangelical as American president which brought the phenomenon to widespread public attention.
The Governor's veto of the Republican redistricting plan in May and court intervention in previous decades suggests that court involvement is likely.
That viability will come down to cost, as projects in previous decades foundered in the face of cheap natural gas.
The combination of the 2006 - 2010 drought and widespread overuse of groundwater in previous decades meant crop yields plummeted across the country, the new study says.
Dabbing is not a new process, and in previous decades also has been called «hot knifing,» Stogner said.
Historically their returns, especially stocks, are much higher (previous decade excluded) than cash.
To support this hypothesis, you will note that the sun's activity for the past decade was below previous decades, and that the past few years have been at the low end of the 11 year cycle... and yet this year is shaping up to be the second warmest on record, despite the presence of a strong La Nina during most of it.
While in previous decades major sulfur emitters were located primarily in industrialized regions of the world, presently emissions for these sources are declining because of the introduction of cleaner fuels and the conversion to low - sulfur technologies to comply with environmental regulations.
Virtually all the action during previous decades had focused on southern Iraq, in the low - lying alluvial plain that merges with the Persian Gulf.
«It's very difficult to compare the types of repression that were recorded in previous decades with what the monitors are collecting today,» said Fariss.
While eliminating future emissions is an important first step on the pathway to stabilizing our climate, few companies are talking about how they can deal with the fact that a significant percentage of their emissions from previous decades of doing business still remain in the atmosphere, contribute to climate change, and affect the sustainability of their operations going forward.
And until we're willing to revisit our policy assumptions through the real - world lens of politics, we won't be able to see the necessary path forward to grow and protect the work of previous decades.
Unlike previous decades where women tried to reach the level of men, the 1970s feels like the first time where men met «typical» womenswear and went more feminine with popping colors, prints and flowy garments.
To put recent trends in even sharper relief, 205 abortion restrictions were enacted over the past three years (2011 — 2013), but just 189 were enacted during the entire previous decade (2001 — 2010).
The wrap dress fitted the liberal fashion perfectly as it shaped itself after the body and didn't defy body limits as in previous decades.
Imagine if «sandwich artist» became a synonym for deceitfulness, just as once honorable professions like snake oil salesman and ambulance chaser did in previous decades.
«Things are not quite the same as in the previous decade, when Iran was regarded as a menace and a threat.
Over the previous decade, for a variety of reasons, these painkillers had been prescribed in greater and greater numbers.
«Indicators of individualism,» she writes, «are all higher now in the U.S. than in previous decades.
Most of that share has gone to wine, which accounted for 30 % of alcoholic beverage sales in 2011, up from 23 % the previous decade.
The situation's not quite as good as it was at the end of the previous decade, but it's as good as it's been in a long time.
But more important was the previous decade's economic boom, including four consecutive years of 4.4 % or better real GDP growth.
After - tax household incomes managed to rise despite a graying workforce in the previous decade, giving hope for the decade to come.
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