Sentences with phrase «previous decades meant»

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.

Not exact matches

And while there's nothing wrong with this — it creates healthy competition — it means there are a lot of small business owners who launch businesses without skills that they would otherwise have been forced to have in previous decades.

Conceptions of what it means to be a faithful Catholic in the French public square are light - years ahead of the awkward diffidence that characterized many politically active Catholics in previous decades.

Not only does that feel like decades away but it was also eleven away games ago meaning Bolton haven't managed an away victory in any of their previous ten away outings.

This feedback means the shallower eastern half of the South Aral could be gone in just 15 years, says Zavialov, decades earlier than previous estimates.

But the difference between individual years has been slight, meaning the earth's surface has risen a fair bit slower than in previous decades.

That's a decade after the events of First Class, and it also means that previous director Matthew Vaughn's idea of opening the movie with the JFK assassination seems unlikely.

With the announcement yesterday of two new projects both starring Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett — «Lawless,» also with Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara, and «Knight of Cups» with Isabel Lucas — it means that the reclusive auteur looks likely to make more films in the space of this decade than he did in the previous 35 put together.

The U.S. entered the emerging global marketplace without the confidence that had marked our previous decades, meaning that we were more preoccupied with surviving competition than building community.

Anyway, this is my 17th go - round on FCBD, which means I've been doing it since it was unleashed nearly a couple of decades back, and every year, both at my previous place of employment and now, it's been a resounding success.

Advances in military and weapons technology in the four decades since the previous significant war meant that, for the first time, soldiers in the Great War were pitted against machine guns, fragmentation shells and long - range artillery, flame throwers and toxic gas attacks.

But the theoretical means used to characterize and essentialize painting over the previous several decades is all too well known; today it's uncontroversially understood that painting constitutes almost anything, if it does not already constitute everything.

You would also find that any trend you calculate starting from circa 1998 will have a confidence interval which includes at least 0.12 K per decade, meaning that there is no significant deviation from the previous underlying trend.

Three of the four global average temperatures indeed are decreasing in their trends (although the actual global mean temperatures are still warmer than the previous decades).

The current sea ice extent in the Greenland Sea (Figure 4) differs only a little from the previous years and as Gerland et al. point out, different mean positions of the ice edge over one to three decades do not show substantial differences.

I mean if, as Nurse is now suggesting, the scientific mainstream understanding of global warming is that it's happening but that it's open to debate how significant it is then doesn't this completely contradict pretty much everything he, the Royal Society, and its two previous presidents Lords Rees and May have been doing this last decade or more to stoke up the Anthropogenic Global Warming scare for all they're worth?

Helen Cleugh, science director at CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, says measurements do show that the rate at which global mean surface temperature has warmed in the past decade is less than the previous decade.

Does it mean the growth rate remains as it was in previous decades?

Since then, the summer winds were found to blow more consistently from the south, through the Bering Strait, across the North Pole, and out toward the Atlantic Ocean relative to the mean pattern in previous decades.

GM Crops Benefit Companies Producing Them More Than People Though proponents of GMO technology unfailing claim that such agricultural «advances» are needed to feed the 7 billion (and still growing) people on this planet — and well - meaning organizations such as the Gates Foundation push it on poor nations, much in the same way international lending organization such as the World Bank mistakenly did with export - led development in previous decades — the fact is that genetically modified crops in the balance fare no better than conventionally - bred crops in terms of crop yield or climate resistance.

Changes in technology, methods of working and business practice mean the modern workplace and job market are very different compared with previous decades.