Sentences with phrase «previous decades as»

What started out in the previous decade as an affordable alternative has now morphed into a genuinely good car that has more than just value for money as a defining USP.

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«Things are not quite the same as in the previous decade, when Iran was regarded as a menace and a threat.

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.

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.

Where in previous decades, a three or four - tier cake may have sufficed, wedding cakes in the late 80s climbed as high as eight tiers.

As Figure 1 shows, this pattern contrasts notably with previous decades, when real wage growth slowed substantially in response to business cycle downturns.

We have argued in previous articles that spending by governments on public infrastructure that would provide services to Canadians for many decades in the future is not the same as spending by governments on programs and services that only benefit current generations.

When these entities are net exporters of less than $ 22 billion, as they had been for much of 2013 and 2014, or net importers of capital, as they had been during the previous two decades, the central banks will have exported capital (accumulated reserves) to bring that number up.

As in the previous survey, most respondents said bigger moves could be in store in a decade or more, however.

My research leads me to believe that the U.S. markets will continue their sideways journey over the next decade, much as they did in the previous decade.

Rodriguez says he hasn't bought a single stock since March, anticipating that equity markets may take as long as a decade to reach the previous highs.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Myanmar on Friday on the first visit to the country by a Japanese leader in 36 years, as Tokyo bids to reassert its position as a top economic partner after decades of frosty relations with the previous military...

As a result, more has been written on this topic in the last few decades than had been written in the previous two millennia.

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.

She was as charming and supportive as ever, although I am not sure she connected me at the time to the burgeoning food writer who had written her fan letters during the previous decade.

Still, as we saw in 2016 and most of the decade previous, Solich's teams are as much about high floors as ceilings.

This group was not nearly as strong as the previous group of four teams that monopolized English football for more than half a decade, and it was obvious that a six - team jumble would eventually emerge.

As a result, Canadian rules and style of play became familiar in Europe, no longer the curiosity of the previous decade.

One of the standout managers of this past decade has been Antonio Conte as he was also dominating with his previous club Juventus before arriving to England and guiding Chelsea to the top of their domestic league.

The amount of time that fathers are available to their children has not changed very much during the previous four decades but what has changed is men's use of such time to get actively involved in such things as playing with their young children, bathing, changing nappies and putting them to bed.

This was not new territory for Waters, since she'd spent the previous two decades working in the school food industry, serving as food service director in Rockdale County and Decatur City Schools in Georgia; assistant director in Gwinnett County, Georgia; and as a school nutritionist in Louisville, Kentucky.

[2] The CWLA and many adoption agencies are still in operation today, but with an expanded and somewhat different agenda compared to past decades, as the government has largely taken over some of their previous responsibilities.

The group's previous iterations in Iraq during the last decade faced similar adversity and it has often been able to make use of political instability to re-emerge as a major threat.

In just two years we have taken on some challenges — such as reforming student finance and public sector pensions — which previous Conservative governments failed to tackle in decades.

As dislikeable as he can be, Andrew Cuomo is the choice, if for no other reason than that he had the guts to push through the SAFE act gun control measure, a mild reaction to heinous events, but more than anyone else could muster and that he's passed four balanced on time budgets in a row in a state that couldn't for two previous decadeAs dislikeable as he can be, Andrew Cuomo is the choice, if for no other reason than that he had the guts to push through the SAFE act gun control measure, a mild reaction to heinous events, but more than anyone else could muster and that he's passed four balanced on time budgets in a row in a state that couldn't for two previous decadeas he can be, Andrew Cuomo is the choice, if for no other reason than that he had the guts to push through the SAFE act gun control measure, a mild reaction to heinous events, but more than anyone else could muster and that he's passed four balanced on time budgets in a row in a state that couldn't for two previous decades.

The New York City Council unanimously elected a fiercely liberal Democrat from East Harlem as its powerful speaker on Wednesday, eschewing the moderate leadership that had overseen its ranks for a decade and eliminating the last barrier to a government fully in line with the undiluted liberalism embraced by the new mayor... Previous speakers, such as Christine C. Quinn, had acted as a tempering force in the restive Council, bottling up measures like higher wage mandates viewed warily by the business world.

«Methane's growth rate has dropped, so it'll have become a weaker source of stratospheric water, but we don't fully understand why its concentrations have not increased as rapidly in recent years as they did for the previous several decades.»

The deceleration in rising temperatures during this 15 - year period is sometimes referred to as a «pause» or «hiatus» in global warming, and has raised questions about why the rate of surface warming on Earth has been markedly slower than in previous decades.

A theoretical physicist and the author of a dozen previous books on subjects such as quantum reality and chaos, for the past decade Peat has immersed himself in the indigenous cultures of America and has been organising dialogues between Western scientists and Native American elders.

«This critical mass depends on Newton's gravitational constant G and allows us to monitor it over billions of years of cosmic time — instead of only decades, as was the case in previous studies,» Professor Mould said.

That viability will come down to cost, as projects in previous decades foundered in the face of cheap natural gas.

While there are more than 90 advanced nuclear technology and small modular reactor designs under various stages of development, GEH and ARC Nuclear view sodium fast reactors as being the most mature advanced reactor technology with decades of real operating experience from more than 20 previous reactors.

For example, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was not recognized as a genuine condition by the Center for Disease Control until 2006, despite decades of previous research into the illness.

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.

Still embracing the high collar / neckline of the previous decade, as well as going for longer sleeves and floor - hitting lengths.

A couple of generations ago we may have met people through our local friends and families too, but as we grow older many of our friends get married and lives become distanced and separated and unfortunately our local communities are not as close as in previous decades, leaving us more reliant on using introduction services.

We spent the previous decade telling ourselves that we're happy as we are, and if it happens, it happens,» she says.

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.

In development as far back as 1988 by «House On Haunted Hill» director William Malone, the film circled development hell at MGM for a decade, with «Romper Stomper» director Geoffrey Wright briefly attached, before Hill eventually stepped in, rewriting the script (without apparently knowing that his studio bosses were happier with the previous version).

Some are quick to deride this film as a shadow of Malick's previous work, but, if anything, it's the natural conclusion of the themes, narrative sensibilities and aesthetic he's built over the last four decades.

In the previous film, Hedlund starred as Sam Flynn, the son of the 1982 film's original character Kevin Flynn (played by Jeff Bridges) who became stuck in the Grid's digital world for two decades.

As with previous widescreen processes (e.g., Fox's Grandeur process two decades earlier), Fox and other studios deemed the panoramic expanse of widescreen formats especially well - suited to Westerns.

1991 — One of the best peaks of the decade pushes this year to the fifth spot, despite it's not having quite as many decent films as the previous two years.

The previous films in the DC Comics Extended Universe series (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and Suicide Squad) have left both critics and comic - book fans increasingly disappointed in the franchise's output; as a result, Wonder Woman, which is receiving its release ahead of the first Justice League movie (set to premiere this November), has been saddled with the burden of recovering DC's tainted reputation in the eyes of viewers, while also representing the first major female - fronted superhero flick in more than a decade.

Pakula had better luck with his 1990 adaptation of a Scott Turow novel, Presumed Innocent, which seemed more an indictment of the previous decade's facility with morality than these later attempts at grasping the fascination we developed as a culture in 1994 for the O.J. Simpson trial.

Set during the previous decade, mostly in Liberia and Sierra Leone, The Last Face stars Charlize Theron as Wren Petersen, head of an organization that's Doctors Without Borders in everything but name.

It may fit in better with the Korean melodramas from the early parts of the decade — really wonderful films like Failan, Sad Movie or Il Mare (remade in Hollywood as The Lake House; yes, the one starring Keanu Reeves), and perhaps Lee's previous film Secret Sunshine, which I have regrettably yet to see.

The «90s turned its back on the previous decade's sprawling epics such as «Out of Africa» and «Gandhi» by turning to more intimate period pieces.

As eLearning increases in popularity, the demand for quality eLearning course materials has increased in comparison to previous decades.

In previous decades, such as the Baby Boomers, workers valued monetary rewards such as a retirement plan and peer recognition.