Sentences with phrase «recent years at least»

Lacking a consensus on gun control, lawmakers have in recent years at least tried to put fewer guns in the hands of criminals and more in the hands of law - abiding citizens.

Not exact matches

Jim Koch said attitudes are changing, at least among beer industry insiders, and he believes American craft brewers can bring something new to a market that hasn't seen much innovation in recent years, limited in part by the Reinheitsgebot.

There's at least one relatively recent example the entrepreneurial set can cite: In the late 1980s the federal government said that mapping the first human genome was going to take 15 years and cost $ 3 billion.

In recent years, Amazon has faced criticism of the working conditions at its warehouses, at least some of which are managed by third - party contractors.

Many Americans want to continue working at least part time in their retirement years, according to a recent poll.

However, in recent years, Apple patents have surfaced that point to the company at least considering a stylus for its iPhone.

A recent snowstorm accounted for at least 13 deaths in the metro area this year.

With Bud and Miller sales cooling, Big Beverage inked at least 15 deals to buy craft beer makers in recent years.

It comes at a time when P&G is struggling to grow sluggish sales after shedding at least 100 brands in recent years to focus on core categories.

Officials from the Coast Guard and local law enforcement told CNBC they have not tracked large number of the stolen engines overseas, at least in recent years.

But at the very least Ceci and Notley hope the credit agencies might skip the annual whacking they've given the province in recent years; they may fall short in that regard, too.

According to a recent study by the Telework Research Network, nearly 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week, with the numbers expecting to increase by more than 60 percent in the coming five years.

TORONTO (Reuters)- The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members, according to internal documents and emails also released by hackers as part of their assault on the company in recent weeks.

The market has become increasingly confident that the Fed will raise rates at least two more times this year, and could even go for a third, causing the Dollar to rally strongly in recent weeks.

In Australia, for example, several foreign banks have ceased their market - making in corporate bond and derivatives markets in recent years and have drawn down their inventories.7 In core markets, such as domestic sovereign bonds, domestic dealers are likely to pick up at least part of the slack.

In fact, weekly application surveys conducted by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) have shown the exact opposite — at least in recent years.

While Facebook remains more than 10 % below a record set earlier this year, it has sharply rebounded from recent weakness, when a scandal over how it handled its user data pushed it into bear - market territory, or a decline of at least 20 % from a peak.

At least 29 states have made efforts in recent years to expand retirement savings program coverage for private sector workers, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report.

Expectations that rates will go up in September have wobbled back and forth since Brexit, but in recent days, it's been reported that Federal Reserve officials feel confident enough to raise them at least once before the end of the year.

From a global policy perspective, we think the Fed's recent hikes are the first stage in a cycle that will later this year see the European Central Bank (ECB) discuss a more normalized rate policy, and then lastly Japan's BoJ may at least expand its 10 - year Japanese government bond (JGB) yield target range.

This is at least the second time Mr. Butler has switched parties in recent years.

Recent drug approvals provide a strong path for long - term growth, and we expect that its largest drug, Eylea, will be sustainable for at least several more years.

And countries from which a significant share of refugees in recent years have been persecuted religious minorities — such as Iran, where Christians and religious minorities have made up 95 percent of refugees in recent years — are blocked for at least 90 days and possibly longer.

«Recent UN figures show that there were at least 14,500 grave violations against children in armed conflict last year, including recruitment, sexual violence and abductions.»

The wholesale labeling of inner - city children was, at least, resisted strongly in the past by influential and respected intellectuals; much of that resistance has collapsed in recent years, and many of these suppositions about «differentness go almost uncontested.

Moving forward the least religious people including Oprah don't follow ethics just look at The Atlantic Monthly recent study on charity of proof in this year's study in Spring 2013.

Zero physical evidence that we've been here beyond the most recent thousands of years, and you'd have to multiply that time by «at least» 5,000 times of us being here to get to the millions of years needed to substantially evolve... Who among you thinks that mankind has been here mucking it up for thousands of years... times 5,000?

The nature of public policy debates in the United States in recent years has tended to exclude - or, at least, to suggest that we ought to exclude - religious considerations.

Although Jewish unity seems at least as remote as Christian unity, there have been some evidences in recent years of an ecumenical movement in Judaism.

Even if there is reserve about my suggestion that a founding trauma for recent British theology was the aggressive assault of positivist and analytical philosophies and their allies in the middle 50 years of the century — a full account would at least require interweaving with several other historical strands — it is still clear that the mood of the parents is rather different from that of the grandparents.

Very likely it has been happening all along, though some of the manifestations have been stronger or at least more visible in recent years.

One way to contrast archaic and modern society, or rather the modern West and all traditional societies, archaic or historic, is to point out, as Louis Dumont following Alexis de Tocqueville has been doing in recent years, that traditional societies are characterized by hierarchy whereas modern societies are characterized by equality — at least in ideal.6 This contrast is rooted not just in political ideology but in fundamental conceptions of the nature of reality.

Equally important, and again with the exception of the rackets, churches have been the only place in the area, in recent years, where marginal wage - earners and even unemployed persons could nevertheless watch capital accumulation occur and discover, in the end, that sums accumulated would be held at least partly for their collective disposal.

In recent years, however, some smaller players in the natural or organic food market have been snatched up by larger CPG companies, many of which don't share their values or at least are not thought of by consumers as trustworthy sources for natural products.

It's a cuisine that has been gaining a lot of popularity in recent years and with good reason: it's delicious and there are lots of dishes that work for different diets, as traditionally there is always at least one «fasting» dish on the table.

In the US, recent research found that 70 per cent of people are now swapping meat for a non-meat protein at least once a week, with 22 per cent saying they were more likely to do so than last year.

Carbonated soft drink volumes have been in decline for years and, in a recent report, broker JPMorgan said volumes could keep falling until at least 2025.

My parents» recent and surprising divorce had left me, at 21 years old, with the sense that everything I knew about the world up to that point had been wrong, or at the very least, lacking.

All commercially grown Hass and Lamb - Hass avocados are insurable if the crop is irrigated and the crop has reached the sixth growing season or has produced at least 2,000 pounds of avocados per acre in one of the three most recent crop years.

If this article was meant to cheer me up, well it didn't MANURE, SHITTY, CHELSHIT they have all won the EPL in recent years, if their teams are not top notch at certain time at least they try to build it again to win, our case is different we have this dinosaur leaving in past glories, the man became a stingy little tyrant and his personal satisfaction seems to be shove it to the fans that btw pay his outrageous salary year after year with nothing to show for, look at the pic yes we qualify to CL so what, we are the 5th biggest team in the world, we are not SOTON, SPUDS or HULL but we are as far as these teams to win a real trophy, it will not happen while Le Frog is still in charge, what a way to stain a legacy, he should have retired honorably while fans like me still had admiration for the man...... WENGER go to.......................

At least the French striker has the knowledge that Arsene Wenger is right behind him and appreciates what he does, as proved by the recent reports of a two year contract extension, but it must be clear to Giroud that his position in the Arsenal starting line up is under serious threat from the new boy.

Hard to be optimistic on our recent transfer window years, but I'll hold onto hope for another 8 - 9 days before freaking out or getting too upset about it (or at least try!).

Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players begin their latest Champions League campaign next week and everyone connected with the club is hoping that this season sees the Gunners go at least one better than recent years which have seen us finish second in the group and then exit the competition at the first knockout stage.

I know, we are too good to you guys but I reckon we have all suffered enough in recent years that at least one of us deserves a nice Christmas treat and this is definitely the best prize we have EVER given away on JustArsenal!

Everton have had a habit in recent years of finding ways to pull at least some degree of lost potential out of players, and they very much need a winger with the kind of skill that Walcott once displayed on a regular basis.

In recent years they've usually done Gameday at an FCS game or small school game at least once per season.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

It may not have had the excitement and nail biting climax that we have seen quite a few times (too many) in recent seasons, but the battle for football dominance in north London is over for another year at least and it is the red and white side that will be celebrating.

While there might not be an all - timer in the group, there are at least four who have arrived at the chasm that separates the greats in their mid-30s (and 28 - year - old pup Brian Leetch of the New York Rangers) from the mediocre players on the blue line in recent years.

For one thing, this season long loan deal on the south coast has been a success for Wilshere, at least in terms of him playing the regular football that injury problems and strong competition has denied him at Arsenal in recent years.