Sentences with phrase «rather than a decade»

Almost without exception, exemplars are scrappy young businesses whose brands were born on the same clean sheets of paper as their products were, whose history is measured in months or years rather than decades, and whose founders still show up for work in the morning.

It needs to recognise that Ed Miliband's vision of a better future requires a change of mindset throughout the party if we're to spend one term in opposition rather than a decade.»

Because these drugs have already passed FDA - safety tests, it could be available to patients on the order of a few years, rather than decades.

Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shown that a new technique using RNA interference is able to find genes that cause epidermal tumor growth in months rather than the decades it may take using traditional methods employing specially bred, genetically altered mice.

«This may all be playing out within the next few years, rather than decades from now as had been thought,» says Scambos from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Dr Staffell said: «Fuel switching is no silver bullet, but any opportunity to reduce emissions in years rather than decades deserves attention.»

rather than decades because there is relatively little mass that needs to warm?

Systematically modulating individual components of a system in a few years rather than decades?

Instead she considers herself fortunate to have the disease now rather than a decade ago.

Within the timescales in which the aerosols will be reduced, we can / could also see reduced CH4 emissions and N2O emissions which will lead to lower GHG forcing in years rather than decades.

The Arctic sea ice is rapidly disappearing with a time scale of years rather than decades, and it is becoming increasingly likely that the with the Greenland ice sheet will also collapse rapidly.

First, unlike CO2, aerosols are very short lived in the atmosphere — a matter of days rather than decades.

A «carbon neutral» bioenergy source would be one that sequestered as much carbon in its growth cycle as it released later when burned as fuel, with the sequestering occurring concurrently with the burning, or nearly so, rather than decades hence, when the negative emissions count for less in stabilizing atmospheric CO2 levels.

My perspective is that we should measure this TCR lag in months and years rather than decades and centuries.

We are optimistic that this can be done in years rather than decades.»

Thermochemical solar fuel manufacturing would be an energy industry with a life of centuries, rather than decades.

Again, though, these risks arise in the long term (mostly in the very long term — centuries rather than decades).

What is the direct correlation, today, on a year by year basis, rather than a decade, century or mellenia basis, and at much much steeper increases in CO2 than ever before?

rather than decades because there is relatively little mass that needs to warm?

Of course, decadal variability in clouds can only be a response to decadal variability in the surface conditions or atmospheric circulation that drive cloud formation, because the lifetime of cloud systems is days rather than decades.

Not exact matches

Think of Edsel Ford, who rather than being remembered for his decades spent steering the hugely successful corporation, is instead known for the auto industry's biggest flop.

Rather than try to time the market or buy into the newest blockchain trend, MetaStable looks closely at the real - world use cases of various digital currencies, and aims to make at least decade - long bets on the most «credible candidates,» Seims tells Fortune.

Rather than look 20 years in the future to see what China holds in store, the world would be wise to cast its gaze back a couple of decades instead.

If you're going to live with it for decades, as Keflezighi has, it's mentally healthier to accept it as something you brought into your life to enrich it rather than as something taken from you or inflicted upon you.

A decade ago, Nintendo took a big risk with its Wii game console, which emphasized easy - to - play, fun games rather than fancy graphics, and it paid off.

In the decades since the Holocaust, many Germans have made a concerted effort to memorialize the country's crimes — rather than ignore them — and Deutsche Bahn seems to have meant well in this case.

The Chinese have talked «a good game for decades» but the Trump administration is likely to want to see concrete action from Beijing rather than just talk, says Leland Miller of China Beige Book International.

In fact, decades down the road from that first stock, he's surprised more people don't recognize the wisdom in investing early and often, rather than trying to time the market and take advantage of fluctuations.

Unfortunately, customers have been wise to this ploy for decades, so rather than asking leading questions, couch your question in neutral and abstract terms, like: «In a perfect world, what would your vendor be doing for you?

If you believe we are heading into the decade of gamification then listen up, because you'll need to be watchful of leveraging this tactic in a useful way rather than one that diminishes long - term benefits.

In this respect, it is worth noting that the sharp decline in trading costs over the last four decades has not been associated with higher returns to investors, but rather to a more than proportionate increase in trading volume.

Shouldn't the title of the article be «say good bye to» rather than «welcome to» the lost decade?

On average, renters earn about half as much as homeowners, and the percentage of families with children that rent rather than buy has increased sharply in the past decade, the study said.

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn't the decade to do it.

Yet I can buy into the idea of having some money that's accessible rather than tying it all up for decades.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

The decades - long conflict that is currently raging over short - termism and activist hedge funds strikes me as analogous to the Thirty Years» War of the 17th Century, albeit fought with statistics («empirical evidence»), op - eds and journal articles rather than cannon, pike and sword.

Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

There are a variety of reasons for this gap in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation of that discovery into a therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't work rather than things that do.

So rather than a quick plunge and rapid restructuring, Japan entered what would first be described as a «lost decade» of slow growth, deflation, and de-leveraging.

Although decades of history have conclusively proved it is more profitable to be an owner of corporate America (viz., stocks), rather than a lender to it (viz., bonds), there are times when equities are unattractive compared to other asset classes (think late - 1999 when stock prices had risen so high the earnings yields were almost non-existent) or they do not fit with the particular goals or needs of the portfolio owner.

I always say it's a marathon rather than a sprint and what we're really doing is setting ourselves up for a brighter financial future decades down the road rather than days.

By CBO's estimate, making Social Security solvent would substantially slow debt growth, leading it to rise to 111 percent of GDP after three decades rather than 150 percent.

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.

Rather than repeat a process that can last a decade, most international drugmakers just didn't bother.

Just as IT has been consumerized over the past decade, digital - savvy employees are beginning to demand that their spaces adapt to how they work, rather than vice versa.

I have gotten rambling a little here but my question to you your thoughts on this statement: «If money or rather the established institution that is the world market, is the reason that throughout at leastthe past few decades, than it would be right to take from those who have much much more than they need and give to those who are at least the poorest of the world, those in need.»

Believe it or not, a true Muslim (the one who surrenders to the Will of his Creator) would rather die but not to keep silent about the disrespect of God's Words which take place at a country that had enough of disrespect to human life for more than a decade of aggression and atrocities.

God is not a baby - killing deity, who seeks to exact revenge on His enemies for a crime many decades old, but is a self - sacrificial, enemy - loving God, who would rather die for His enemies than see His enemies die.

Old cultural traditions have been obliterated by communism; Christianity provides a compelling and compassionate alternative to the hollowness of the regime's materialism; and unlike Europe, which has largely rejected its Christian heritage in a decades - long spasm of anti-clericalism, «Christianity» in China rings up «modern» and «humane,» rather than «pre-modern» and «inhumane.»