Sentences with phrase «questions about their decade»

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But it has raised questions about how much Manafort has been paid throughout his decades as a political consultant — and who paid him.

Smartphones are now more powerful computers than PCs were a decade ago, and these advances bring with them even more technological delight — and questions about privacy — than their desktop brethren, thanks to always - on GPS.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

Over the past few decades, the sale of such goods migrated largely to big - box multinational chains, where employees couldn't care less about answering customers» questions or concerns.

The letters also raise questions about the Fed's willingness to allow Wall Street to convert former trading assets into passive merchant investments that they can own for up to a decade.

Failing this sort of bold action, Hofmeister sees North America entering an «energy abyss» by the end of the next decade, the result of land (mis) management, an irrational aversion to nuclear power, and 50 years of ignoring serious questions about our resource base and the infrastructure that powers society.

The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly, prompting questions about why smaller cities continue to lose service, why seats keep getting smaller, why fares have remained stubbornly high even as fuel prices dropped and profits soared, and why paying passengers are being quasi-defenestrated from overbooked flights.

Stone and Trump have been friends for decades, which raises key questions about what the president knew about Stone's interactions with Wikileaks during the campaign.

There's no question that investors have become nearly frantic in their verbal arguments about the permanence of elevated profit margins (which is something that Benjamin Graham observed at other market peaks, and warned against decades ago).

Many investors haven't had to worry about this question for years, as the Federal Reserve has continued its zero - rate policy, and the bull market in bonds has gone on for decades.

Different people will have different questions — for millennials, about getting started and maximizing savings; for Generation X, about setting more specific retirement income goals; and for baby boomers, about preparing for the payout of decades» worth of savings — and the tools available will vary.

Finally, this conclusion about causality fails to answer the question of why antitrust suits are typically brought after the stock market has climbed for years or even decades to a state of overvaluation in a climate of rampant speculation rather than at any other time.

This issue is about the power the church has had in this country for decades without being questioned or challenged.

Questions might be raised about the restlessness within the church and the self - criticism it has directed against itself in the last decade.

The coercive atmosphere established by the Holy See in the past decade provokes such questions about the honesty, and ultimately the credibility, of the teaching office.

They not only challenge the consensus of several decades but also suggest the historical conditioning of Holiness theology, raise questions about the varieties of theologies in the New Testament, and focus issues about the historical and theological relationships between Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

Q.: One final question: coincident with the expanding frontiers in science, medicine and technology in the past decade, there also has been a great deal of discussion about a theology of hope.

If there's one thing I've learned over this past decade of parenting, it's that questions about religion demand my attention, and all the more so if they inadvertently reference a history of discrimination.

More young people are expressing doubts about God now than at any time since Pew started asking the question a decade ago.

Before the past two decades, the vast preponderance of Christian writers on sexuality assumed that the question before them was simply: What does Christianity (the Bible, the tradition, ecclesiastical authority, etc.) say about sexuality?

My correspondents raise important questions about exactly what conservatives should be defending, in response to the massive expansion in recent decades of the powers, the agenda, and the budget of central government.

Having worked in church and culture research for over a decade, I can tell you that one of the most - asked questions is about the category of Evangelicals.

Brian Williams has been a trusted voice in news for decades, but questions about his credibility have been abounding since last week, when he admitted that his story about coming...

So I am deeply concerned about the impact the Supreme Court's ruling might have on faith - based or other educational institutions — including schools from grades K - 12, colleges, universities, theological seminaries and graduate schools — that hold to natural or conjugal marriage, which has only come into question within the past decade.

It is safe to assume that the next decade will see questions being raised in the CRC about the essential character of many of these traditional demands for the life of the church.

has been a media - people question for about a decade now.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

I do not envisage the conversation as an anodyne exercise in collective self - congratulation, but as a UK - wide equivalent and successor to the astonishingly profound and vigorous national conversation that took place during the Scottish referendum campaign in September 2014 — and, for that matter, to the searching, decades - long nineteenth - century conversation about the «Condition of England Question'that I describe in chapter two.

Gina Haspel's nomination to be CIA director received a crucial boost Saturday when Sen. Joe Donnelly became the second Democrat to support Trump's choice despite questions about her role in the previous decade's controversial interrogation program.

What to do about Buffalo's Central Terminal has been a local question for decades.

Evaluating Three Decades of Reform and Change in UK Central Government, Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon attempt to answer a basic question about these processes of constant change and reinvention: did the changes, reshuffles and new approaches do what they promised, and produce a cheaper yet more effective machine?

«We Must Move Forth on an Aggressive Timeline to Meet City's Immediate, Desperate Needs» QUEENS, NY — Borough President Melinda Katz stated the following in response to questions about the New York Court of Appeals» ruling today on the redevelopment of Willets Point: «Willets Point has been a topic of discussion for decades, and it's -LSB-...]

You can't be a perennial Conservative leadership contender for a decade without having had quite a few polling questions asked about you, so what do the polls say about Ken Clarke?

The verdict was a quick and unceremonious end for Mr. Silver, who, during his more than two decades as the State Assembly speaker, displayed a Teflon - like quality in deflecting questions about his outside income as well as calls for his ouster.

Taxpayers spent $ 1.4 billion over a decade to rebuild dozens of Buffalo's public schools, but how roughly $ 549 million of that was spent hasn't been specified, raising questions about how much profit the developer made and what kind of scrutiny a local oversight board exercised.

Now that the MoD seems to have lost the battle with the Treasury over who will pay the # 20bn bill for replacing Trident, many in the military are asking serious questions about whether we actually need it or not - given that every pound spent on Trident, will be a pound not spent on the basic equipment that will be needed to fight the sort of smaller - scale global operations senior officers foresee as the likely role of the military in the next few decades.

The remarks came in response to questions from reporters about a New York Times story earlier this week which reported that U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office is digging into a decade's - worth of payments the legislative leader has received from the real estate tax firm Goldberg & Iryami, P.C. — payments Mr. Silver failed to report on his financial disclosure forms as required.

The disclosure that one of the most senior figures in the Tory leadership at the time had reason to believe Ashcroft was a non-dom will raise questions about the way in which successive Conservative leaders have dealt with questions about the peer's tax status over the past decade.

«I have questions and concerns about a look - back forever proposal,» Gallivan said of the one - year opening for lawsuits by victims for incidents dating back decades.

THE STATIN UMBRELLA After decades of study, a big question remains about the safety of statins: What are the risks for people who have a chance of benefit but haven't yet had a heart attack or stroke?

About a decade ago that question drove Gilliane Monnier, an archaeologist at the University of Minnesota, to put an artifact under an electron beam.

In response to a question about the White House budget proposal's potential impact on NIH's ambitions, Collins pointed to passage late last year of the 21st Century Cures Act, a $ 6.3 billion measure that authorizes a decade of funding for the «moonshot» program to cure cancer, the Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN initiative and efforts to combat opioid addiction.

Late last decade, as he contemplated retirement, national governments had approached him with questions about energy.

Researchers have for decades used museum specimens to answer questions about how species diverge, where they move around the globe, and how they respond to changing conditions.

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.

«About the year 2000, after we'd worked on aquaporins for almost a decade, we'd answered the questions we felt were most important,» Agre said in an interview in July at the Euroscience Open Forum meeting in Turin, Italy.

For Dr. Houghton, «There is no question that land and oceans have, for at least the last five and half decades, been taking up about half of the carbon emitted each year.

But while we have decades of data in mice about these nervous system support cells, how relevant those experiments are to human biology (and the success of potential therapies) has been an open question.

«It came in response to a question from ScienceInsider about the results of his review of some 60 NSF grants, some dating back a decade.

Despite decades of investigation, many questions remain about how cells respond to heat shock.