Sentences with phrase «recent years mean»

The proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the dramatic increase in the invocation of multilateral investment treaties (MITs) and the growing inter-play between investment and international commercial arbitration in recent years all mean that it is imperative for practitioners of international arbitration to have a clear understanding of the fundamental elements of a BIT and the issues that arise with BIT claims.

The shifts in the electoral landscape of the UK in recent years mean that the likelihood of an outright majority for the main party of the left is receding into the distance.

Through manufacturer and government incentives, the purchasing cost has plummeted in recent years meaning it's not the upfront costly burden it once was, even for small businesses.

AB InBev's purchase of several craft beer makers in recent years means that it is in a position to offer a greater variety of products itself.

The flattening of the bond yield curve in recent years meant you might pay only 1 % or 1.5 % more to lock in a long - term rate, and that made the stability of fixed rates much more attractive than it was five years earlier.

Lack of modernisation over recent years meant that the Wolverhampton - based conglomerate had poor control of labour, materials and services across its broad portfolio of projects.

Not exact matches

The cloud company plans to go public in early 2018, meaning it could be one of the biggest U.S. enterprise technology companies to list domestically in recent years.

LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

Matt Zimmerman, assistant professor of sports media at Mississippi State University, who has been studying the growth of the gaming industry in recent years, sees the potential in a company meant to help e-sports devotees improve.

In particular, the idea of what it means to be fearless as a company and as leaders has evolved in recent years.

Cook's most recent keynote reflected over 40 years of the company through visuals that made sense of milestones and what they meant for consumers and the company.

China is starting to roll back measures meant to prop up its currency after a recent surge in the yuan erased all of last year's losses.

Look for this to continue in 2016, as the lowest unemployment rate in 15 years means employers will be fighting for recent, debt - strapped graduates.

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.

Although they have had to cut back significantly on their holiday budget in recent years, they still plan to spend $ 50 to $ 75 on each child — even though it means relying on credit cards.

Italy's economy is still struggling, but this has also meant that in recent years, startups have often met with failure.

Those recent breakthroughs meant a diamond could be grown in a matter of weeks instead of years.

The pressure to decentralize has increased in recent years as the shadow of military downsizing has forced the marines to further differentiate themselves from the army to stave off steep cuts — and that means gearing up for even faster, more - effective responses to an ever - wider range of scenarios.

According to one recent report, tech advances mean that as many as half of jobs could be lost to artificial intelligence in the next 25 years.

Asked whether the flurry of recent bets means Revolution might be preparing to raise another growth fund next year, Case says the firm is «still very much focused on investing» its current fund.

Comparing the most recent distribution of estimates with previous points in history (see chart below), there is greater clustering around the mean and noticeably shorter tails, suggesting a lower likelihood of major price swings over the next year.

Part of the reason for this is the lack of innovation within the smartphone industry, meaning that upgrades have only been incremental in recent years.

If Fed officials view it as a ceiling, as their statements sometimes suggest, they'll likely tighten monetary policy once they hit it even if they've been missing 2 percent for years and tightening means slowing job and wage growth that has eluded too many workers in recent recoveries.

While there is a strong correlation between growth in gross domestic investment and growth in real GDP, the slope of that relationship is only about 0.2, meaning that even if the growth rate of real gross domestic investment was driven from the recent growth trend of zero all the way back to the previous post-war growth rate of 3.5 %, the overall impact on real GDP growth would only be about 0.7 % annually, placing the level of U.S. real GDP about 2.8 % higher 4 years from today than it would otherwise be.

That doesn't mean public debt isn't important, although low interest rates have rendered it more manageable than expected in recent years.

A lot has been said in recent years about empowerment... and what that means, exactly, is very subjective.

This recent turn of events favoring international equities over U.S. equities could point to the early makings of a mean - reversion following years of outsized gains for U.S. equities.

The 35 - year - old financial advisor, whose Reformed Broker blog has brought him wide acclaim in recent years, has just written a book meant to uncover the perfidy of Wall Street.

The announcement by House Speaker Paul Ryan that he will not seek re-election later this year means entitlement reform will lose its most important recent champion, but it doesn't mean the idea of reform is now dead for good.

A stronger dollar means US companies are expanding once again, to some extent filling the void left by the retraction of emerging markets in recent years, says Knight Frank.

The Fed's recent announcement that it will roll back quantitative easing, combined with a new year and renewed focus on self - improvement, means saving money has become a top focus for many Americans in 2014.

In particular, in gold terms silver is now almost as cheap as it was in early - 2003 (2 years into the most recent previous bull market), which means that it is close to its lowest price of the past 20 years.

Efficiency improvements in recent years might mean the supply can be added at an oil price of US$ 60 per barrel and that the price doesn't need to go higher.

Passive investing has spread like wildfire in recent years, but that doesn't mean an active approach can no longer reap rewards.

As we know, the materialisation of some of the risks that had built up in the financial system, followed by a financial crisis, deep recessions and slow recoveries, has meant that much more has been demanded of central banks in recent years, especially those in the major jurisdictions.

This means that Stion would still have to compete globally with thin film makers like First Solar, which has long been one of the lowest - cost producers and in recent years has increased efficiencies dramatically.

Under recent federal regulations, Alberta's coal plants must retire after 50 years of operation, which means coal plants will operate until 2062.

In more recent years, I've repeatedly seen the encouragement and value women have found in discovering the same things: the relief that following Christ doesn't mean forcing themselves into a box labelled «womanhood», which narrowly defines the life they should lead and sometimes restricts their gifts and calling.

In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.

Essentially, the piece looks at how in recent years, Rodgers has been on a quest to find deeper meaning in his life.

I've been undergoing an awakening if you will to who father really is and what it really means to «be the Church» in recent years and this post has just helped confirm many things I've believed for some time.

Conservative anxieties about embracing and entering culture — by which we mostly mean Hollywood — seem to have subsided in recent years.

So while he welcomed the re-establishment of «neo-orthodoxy» and the reassertion of key teachings and disciplines in many parts of the Church in recent years, Holloway by no means saw this as the whole solution.

In recent years, however, there has been a wealth of literature, disseminated all the more effectively by means of the internet, which bears witness to the rediscovery of Church teaching concerning contraception by many young couples.

In these recent years when Christians have again had to go through «dungeon, fire, and sword» for their faith, the meaning of this apocalyptic (or vision) literature has come alive to many.

In his recent book, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy cause.

In recent years there are encouraging signs that the Court is moving away from extreme separationism to a doctrine of «equal regard,» meaning that institutions and practices can not be discriminated against simply because they are religious in nature.

One of the strongest arguments in recent years for abolishing the death penalty has arisen, not from the moral prohibition against the taking of life, but from the fact that with rare exceptions those who are executed are people who lack the means to secure good legal assistance, or lack the educational background to make full use of such assistance, or lack the social status which brings the case to public attention.11

It means that the author acknowledges that the region with the worst economic performance in recent years, the largest military buildup, the most radical....

In recent years frequently effective endeavors have been made through such means as group ministries in parishes in critical neighborhoods of large cities and various types of co-operative work in newly created housing areas.