Sentences with phrase «recent years came»

Decker is in good company: 482,000 Audi and Volkswagen cars sold in recent years came with software that turns on full pollution controls only when the car is undergoing emissions testing.

Still other studies have shown that more than 80 our of 100 people who have joined the church in recent years came because of the word of a friend of relative.

Undergraduate business programs have grown and strengthened in the past 25 years and many of my firm's best hires in recent years came from the leading undergraduate programs.

We are already seeing arguably the most rapid and phenomenal food innovation of recent years coming out of Silicon Valley, with start - ups from the super juicer Juicero to Impossible Foods vegan plant burgers offering some of the optimum food fare of the future.

«All of our donations in recent years come from members and individual supporters.

Advocates for abortion rights, too, criticized Jung's stance on the issue, which in recent years come to the forefront of both Democratic electoral politics and policy in Albany after Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed for a codification of the Roe v. Wade decision in state law.

One of the great Cannes competition films of recent years comes from a little - known German director.

The most dramatic Kindle design overhaul of recent years comes with the Kindle Oasis.

All the while, Copley — working under the name CPLY — made his own highly idiosyncratic, expressive, often erotically charged art, which has in recent years come to be an important influence on contemporary artists like Bjarne Melgaard (who staged a show with his work in 2013).

It has the immediacy and humour of Shrigley's work, and none of the seriousness that has in recent years come to represent Jeremy Deller.

Not exact matches

Indeed, a recent research report from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released in the air over the last 10 years likely came from agricultural sources (cow burps) as opposed to fossil fuel production.

Much of the growth in recent years has come from household spending, which must slow eventually because so much of that spending was done on credit.

Accounting technology has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, and using this sophisticated software business owners and managers can automate and balance their books without delving into the complicated world of accounting.

Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in volatility have come amid relatively subdued trading volumes.»

At a dinner table over the holidays, I sat next to a New York - based investment manager who told me that the CEOs who have come to visit him over the last couple of years told him that their recent layoffs were just «cutting out the dead wood» that they'd been reluctant to cut earlier.

«This is probably one of the most interesting names I've come across in recent years.»

Sales have come roaring back with the recovery — to $ 803 million last year, and $ 884 million in the most recent four quarters — though not yet to their peak a decade ago.

Macy's and other department stores, such as JCPenney, are facing off against Amazon — and coming up short, with hundreds of closures in recent years.

That's the conclusion of a number of recent research studies that came out this year.

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore aims to enhance the use of technology and data to improve the provision of services such as health care and transportation in a city, where infrastructure has come under pressure in recent years as a rise in immigration boosts the country's population.

In recent years they have added international equities and small - cap stocks — asset classes that come with higher volatility than sturdier blue chips, but also offer the promise of higher returns.

It has come under attack in recent years, and inflation makes it even more questionable.

Perhaps the most politically volatile coming Supreme Court case is Whole Woman's Health v. Lakey, which will decide whether dozens of abortion clinics throughout Texas can remain open — a decision that probably will affect other conservative states that have in recent years imposed harsh restrictions on abortion clinics.

Airlines» customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark - ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.

The tax package is «ultimately worth almost two additional Fed hikes» in coming years, Goldman Sachs economists David Mericle and Alec Phillips wrote in a recent analysis.

A year prior respondents on average said 15 percent of their sales would come from discounts, however in the most recent survey that number jumped to 26 percent.

While the show has successfully taken on a number of issues important to the left in recent years, such as help for Puerto Rico following the devastating hurricane last year and warning against the prospect of a President Trump, the tactics used to respond to the Apu controversy largely came across as tone deaf.

The move comes as VF has been working to update its portfolio in recent years but frustrated investors by the absence of a major deal.

If it is, it should mean more good news to come for a company that hasn't exactly had a surplus of it in recent years.

Once dominant United States department store operators such as Macy's and J.C. Penney have announced plans to shut hundreds of stores in recent years, putting pressure on landlords to find new «anchor tenants» or come up with new ways to grow returns.

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

Booz Allen (bah), which earns billions of dollars a year contracting with U.S. intelligence agencies, has come under renewed scrutiny in recent weeks after authorities took Harold Thomas Martin into custody.

Samsung, the Korean company that has come to bedevil Apple in recent years, first released a larger - format phone in 2011.

The scene came back to me on a recent flight to Florida — Cadillac country — when, flipping through Esquire, I discovered the editors had nominated the new Cadillac CTS VSport as a serious contender for car of the year.

A recent survey by the National Small Business Association found that most don't have a new ad or marketing campaign in the works, and one in five has absolutely no growth strategy in place for the coming year.

The pace of the company's growth has been steady from the start, with gradual expansion coming from the purchase of flagging gyms in mid-sized Ontario communities, but has accelerated in recent years.

And not coincidentally, Mattel's revenue has slipped in recent years: In its last fiscal year, sales came in at $ 5.5 billion, 14 % less than in 2012.

Bushnell hadn't been attracting much attention in recent years until Walter Isaacson's bestselling biography on Jobs came out in 2011, just after Jobs» death.

Our culture's understanding of mental health has come a long way in recent years.

In recent years the UK tax collector, HMRC, has come under pressure to crack down on tax evasion — which is illegal, whereas avoidance is not — and increase tax receipts.

A few recent examples include Cornell, who came in from Sam's Club to run the American food business and left less than two years later for Target; John Compton, the former president, who left in 2012 for a short stint running Pilot Flying J but didn't return when it didn't work out; and Zein Abdalla, his replacement, who retired abruptly in December.

But recent trade and lending data, and Lunar New Year sales have come in better than expected.

The referendums come amid shifts in American opinions on marijuana in recent years that have energized efforts to legalize cannabis, a drug that remains illegal under federal law even as Colorado and Washington state have been given the go - ahead to experiment with legalization.

The data firm, which has garnered significant attention in the political world over the past few years for its work for candidates like Cruz and Donald Trump, has come under fire in recent days since a whistleblower named Christopher Wylie detailed how the company exploited Facebook to collect data from unknowing users.

Another wrinkle in this year's meeting comes from the recent revelations that board member Peter Thiel has been privately funding lawsuits against Gawker Media, including the recent Hulk Hogan suit that resulted in a $ 140 million judgment against the news website that sent Gawker into bankruptcy.

But in recent years, more than half its annual revenues of about $ 9 billion have come from the sale of subscriptions to Bloomberg services outside the U.S.. Its 19,000 employees work in more than 190 offices around the world.

HFT has come under fire in recent years because it is a relatively new and complex strategy that is growing fast despite having little to do with the performance of publicly listed companies.

This comes on the heels of a recent report that the company is expected by many to file an S - 1 form to go public by the end of the year and debut in early 2014.

«In recent years, the whole way agencies are renumerated has come under closer scrutiny from clients,» Mr Mitch...

When it comes to taking digital pictures, much of the recent focus has been on smartphones — how they now take better pictures than many point - and - shoots did just a few years ago (and why it's now vital to be able to Instagram a shot of your dinner and make a phone call with the same device).