Sentences with phrase «previous years without»

It's a far cry from the plastic - backed phones of previous years without a giant price hike.

Not exact matches

However, the various expenditure reduction exercises over recent years, without major cuts to programs and services, have forced departments to operate «closer to the edge», implying that the lapse at the end of the year will be lower than in previous years.

Back in the nineties and early noughties hardly a year went by without some fringe - right party rising from the ashes of a previous fringe - right party.

Without a doubt, the meetings with my baby - boomer assistant, daily conversations with my Gen - X boss and other interactions with clients and colleagues taught me and challenged me more than I could have ever imagined after spending most of the previous four years around people my age.

A suitable disposal site for mined geologic waste must include the following characteristics: the rock mass's previous geologic history should indicate probable stability for the next 10,000 years or more; it should be relatively isolated from circulating ground water; it must be capable of containing waste without losing its desirable properties; and it must be amenable to technical analysis.

but thats not what i'm talking about... i am discussing the god you claim to worship... even if you believe jesus was god on earth it doesn't matter for if you take what he had to say as law then you should take with equal fervor words and commands given from god itself... it stands as logical to do this and i am confused since most only do what jesus said... the dude was only here for 30 years and god has been here for the whole time — he has added, taken away, and revised everything he has set previous to jesus and after his death... thru the prophets — i base my argument on the book itself, so if you have a counter argument i believe you haven't a full understanding of the book — and that would be my overall point... belief without full understanding of or consideration to real life or consequences for the hereafter is equal to a childs belief in santa which is why we atheists feel it is an equal comparision... and santa is clearly a bs story... based on real events from a real historical person but not a magical being by any means!

Truth be told, it is mysterious that DC has managed to churn out three Batman movies, two Superman movies, a Green Lantern movie, a Green Arrow TV show and a planned Flash TV show (and that's all ignoring the previous film adaptations of these characters) without turning its attention to one of its heaviest hitters (aside from a famously disastrous attempt at a television show a few years back).

The man that won the previous 6 years said no one wins without using beans I said chili doesn't have beans.

Joe Cooper, author of With or Without Beans, noted that «during the late years of the previous century, almost every Texas town had its quota of restaurants which placed stress on chili.

I mentioned in my previous post that I recently added back the occasional egg yolk to my diet, after a year without any eggs at all.

I do like this idea as the striker has not had a proper summer break since 2013 and was used to having a winter break at his previous clubs in Spain and Italy, but when can Arsenal afford to do without the 27 - year old?

Kaepernick hasn't played worth a damn most of the season, without a doubt, but with what he had done in previous years and the fact this was a totally new (shitty) system, with a new (meh) offensive coordinator and a revamped (terrible) offensive line, you would think Kaep had earned more than half a season's worth of the benefit of a doubt.

Mertesacker had a one year extension option in his previous contract, meaning that Arsenal held the right to extend his commitment to the club by a single year, without the need for negotiations.

This crunch match in previous years would be all about keeping our bragging rights over our rivals, but we currently have a power struggle in North London, with the our rivals closing the gap on us domestically, albeit without any return of trophies.

They've escaped without defeat in their previous six visits, with their last loss coming five years ago.

What is also of grave concern to AIMS Ireland is the number of failures at national level identified in the report including timely access to maternity services, inadequate staffing levels for safe care, a maternity care model that hasn't been revised in 59 years despite numerous national and international reports and recommendations, a lack of accountability and governance, an absence of reviews of clinical practices in units and the lack of a national maternity services strategy, all of which we have seen recommended on previous inquests without reform.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan drew a line in the sand for upcoming state budget negotiations: There will be no deal without paying school districts back for years of previous cuts.

Without a serious, well - funded, conservative candidate, Bishop is just going to win in a landslide like he did in the debacles of previous years.

Update: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that the proposed state budget would allow counties to set local sales tax rates without state approval every two years.

PEF's previous contract, for example, carried three years without raises.

The Commission has been without a substantive Commission for almost a year, following the removal of the previous commissioner, Laurette Lamptey over allegations of corruption.

Previous incarnations of both LIGO and Virgo ran for years without detecting a whiff of spacetime wiggles.

PSW allows graduates from any U.K. course to stay in the United Kingdom for 2 years without a work permit or a job offer, whereas the previous scheme allowed graduates only 1 year.

Analysis of the data found that patients with psychiatric comorbidities in the previous year were readmitted to the hospital 3 to 5 percent more often within 30 days than those without a psychiatric diagnosis.

Because a number of trials suggested that vaccination efficiency is higher in people who had some previous exposure to dengue, the researchers considered routine vaccination of children at different ages (2, 9, or 16 years), with and without a one - time catch - up campaign targeting individuals up to age 30 who had missed routine vaccinations.

In a 2001 study sociologist Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School and his associates found that more than half of people with panic attacks or severe depression used some form of alternative therapy, including herbs, during the previous year, usually without medical supervision.

The theory: this would cool Earth similarly to the «year without a summer» in 1816, which followed the eruptions of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, along with other volcanoes the previous year.

Previous evidence of preserved collagen date back to the Late Cretaceous Period — more than 100 million years younger than this discovery — but those studies extracted the organic remains by dissolving away all other parts of the fossil, without a clear understanding of the precise origins of the collagen.

Maintaining a paleo lifestyle for 5 years did wonders to heal my gut and when switching over to a more ketogenic lifestyle, I was able to reintroduce dairy without experiencing my previous issues with lactose, bringing the creamy soups back into my life.

Trenorol works in a way that mimics their actions without the adverse effects that users might report from using the older and previous versions that have been popular for years.

Through the years, I have learned to completely shun any previous thoughts of that particular level (since now it's not so hard), but passing through it with those pesky Hammer Bros. without any form of power up (like a fire flower) in the past was just a nightmare.

Very few movies have opened in January without a qualifying run the previous year and had any real artistic value.

There's no arguing that this is a film that the world wasn't asking for, with Spidey appearing only five years since he was last on screen without being a direct sequel, but at least the film has actually managed to find areas of improvement over the previous tries.

Gary Oldman seems like a solid bet for the Oscar, though it has been difficult in recent years to win without a previous nomination.

In its defense, the character of Harry Callahan had been spoofed so many times over the years, it was hard to get a handle on him without resorting to self - parody, which was very evident in the previous film, Sudden Impact, where Harry seemed to have lost all claims on his humanity.

You see, New York State law says that a local district may impose a «contingency» budget — allowing an increase no higher than the previous year's Consumer Price Index (CPI)-- without voter approval.

The survey found mental disorders affected one in seven students in the previous 12 months and students with mental disorders scored lower on average than students without mental disorders in every test domain and year level.

In order for the existence of another policy to affect our results significantly, we would have to believe that the program substantially improved the education of the 3rd graders in 2002 — 03 without having a similar effect on the previous year's cohort.

A new, more - intensive teacher - evaluation program, developed and piloted largely without rancor during the previous year, was implemented citywide.

New York State law says that a local district may impose a «contingency» budget — allowing an increase commensurate with the previous year's Consumer Price Index (CPI)-- without voter approval; rather, if the board of ed proposes a contingency budget (which we have) and the voters reject it, the board has the power to simply impose it.

Having a central system in place makes it simple for teachers to quickly and easily access student data and compare progress individually, across groups or whole classes at a glance, without having the headache of referring to previous paper notes and test results filed away throughout the year.

The number of exclusions for assault without the use of a weapon has also risen, with 4,635 in 2016/17, from 3,990 and 4,371 in previous years.

And while established charter schools tend to have their contracts renewed (this academic year, the approval rate was 100 percent, the previous year it was 97 percent), the process is not without pain.

Last year, the Washington Post found the previous school chancellor also helped connected parents get their kids into better public schools without having to use the lottery system, and that DC schools were lying about their suspension rates.

They may be using their previous years» test scores or setting goals without considering the student needs at all.

Others used previous years» papers so that they could monitor their own pupils» progress without the information being used for national league tables.

Even without glitches, the move to new exams means that in this, the first year of the new tests, there is no benchmark to measure gains and growth in learning against the previous year.

At its May 8 board meeting, school director Ben Kleban told board members that the budget has a deficit from grants in previous years that are now expiring, and that the board's task will be to close that gap in the coming years without eating too deeply into reserve funds.

Some teachers who received layoff notices agreed to stay on as long - term substitutes, working without the benefits we'd received the previous year.

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years.1 Not surprisingly, public trust in government is at only 18 percent2 and voter participation has reached its lowest point since 1996.3 Without an understanding of the structure of government; rights and responsibilities; and methods of public engagement, civic literacy and voter apathy will continue to plague American democracy.