Sentences with phrase «recent years the battle»

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While the renewable industry has gained momentum in recent years, «the battle certainly got tougher» with the election of Trump, said Dan Kammen, an energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley and science envoy for the U.S. State Department.

Even Atlantic Canada, which has battled declining enrolment in recent years, saw its undergraduate numbers rise by 1.5 %.

Apple has been casting itself as a protector of user privacy in recent years, particularly earlier this year when it battled the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a high - profile case involving accessing encrypted data stored on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.

However, Kaepernick has also battled injuries in recent years (including some that caused him to lose a surprising amount of weight), can be overly reliant on the run, and inaccurate in tight windows.

The sudden proliferation of wireless computing technology in recent years has opened a new front in the struggle for work - life balance, a battle many managers and employees feel they are losing.

They also have recent real - world examples to make their case: Tax cuts in Kansas made by Gov. Sam Brownback failed to deliver the expected boost, forcing the state into years of grueling budget battles and harsh spending cuts to make up the gap.

Depardieu, a former heartthrob who has puffed up like a profiterole in recent years, plays an aging mayor in the election battle of his life in the eight - episode series.

The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

But groups lobbying to eliminate it have an uphill battle — polls in recent years show a majority of Americans still support the policy, even if it costs them sleep once a year.

Silicon Valley was once politically aloof before realizing in recent years that its future profits depended in part on battles here in Washington.

In recent years, Tesla has fought and won court battles for the right to sell directly to consumers in New York and Massachusetts.

Move, a News Corp. subsidiary, operates realtor.com, which is battling to win back consumer traffic that it's lost to Zillow and Trulia in recent years.

Thinking about the United States» big efforts in recent years to engage in Internet war, perhaps this could be an exploratory pre-dawn battle.»

On a recent winter day, 11 - year - old Lucila Aranda stepped up to the chest - high console to battle the vultures along with a handful of other kids.

In recent years, Uber has hired top political operators and ramped up its lobbying spending as it faces regulatory battles around the country.

One year after stepping into that studio — nearly eight years after putting Jars of Clay in the can — we found ourselves sitting in another coffee shop in another town a little tired and profoundly impacted by this most recent battle victory: self - producing our fourth record.

Recently a friend described to me her 20 - year battle with cancer, a battle which she had thought she had won ten years ago, but which she has had to begin fighting anew in recent years.

In recent televised legal battles, juries returned an adopted child to a biological parent years after the adoption had been finalized.

It is only in recent years that historians have begun to write social and economic histories; before that histories were primarily records of defeats and victories in battle.

In an interview with CEO, he reflects on one of the biggest lobbying battles in Brussels in recent years.

2017 gave us something that had been missing in recent years, a genuine battle for the championship that involved more than one team.

Roberto Mancini has been tracking the battling Italian for the best part of a year and De Rossi's recent sending off in the Rome derby will give the Man City manager cause for optimism.

The West German national team, which has battled England in two of the game's pivotal contests of recent years, turns a rematch before 100,000 at London's Wembley Stadium into something of a Teutonic romp

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.

Well it might not have been pretty or anything like the most fluent and creative Arsenal performance of recent years, but did we really expect anyhting other than a battle against the Chelsea side managed by Jose Mourinho?

But in recent years she has battled injuries and illness; she has undergone 10 knee operations and three years ago took a six - month break because of a thyroid condition.

A battle between a Bob Stoops team (one that is, thanks to the addition of offensive coordinator Lincoln Riley, more tied to the air raid offense than those in recent years) and a Holgorsen team was guaranteed to be entertaining.

Even as Tottenham have narrowed the gap in recent years they have struggled at this venue, taking one point from their last four visits, and that 2 - 2 draw was soured by losing their heads as well as any lingering title hopes in the infamous 2016 battle of the Bridge.

With numerous players departing the Signal Iduna Park over recent years, the 44 - year - old faced an uphill battle securing success in a division dominated by Bayern.

In recent years, people have seen this tie as a battle between two Premier League has - beens.

Crystal Palace starting to find some positive form on their recent English Premier League matches as they starting to move away from relegation trouble and this midweek, they are keen on keeping that positive run going when facing Norwich City in the new year battle.

In contrast to recent battles in the now 110 - year war over football MomsTEAM Institute of Youth Sports Safety, the non-profit I have headed for the last fifteen years, is not merely an interested spectator this time around.

There have more custody battles in recent years because — guess what?

[21] According to the newspaper Lohud, «it has been a target of Republicans in expensive campaign battles in recent years and is expected to once again be viewed as a target seat by the state GOP.»

DeFrancisco, seen as a leader of upstate conservatives in the Senate, has battled Cuomo in recent years on issues like the minimum wage.

The group has been engaged in a running political battle with Mayor de Blasio in recent years, accusing him of purposefully stanching charter school growth.

While voters and pundits are still focused on this year's neck - and - neck battle between GOP Rep. Michael Grimm and Democrat Domenic M. Recchia Jr., some politicos have started triangulating a possible 2015 special election, with one intriguing name coming to the fore in recent days: GOP District Attorney Daniel Donovan.

Foster acknowledged that she and Finch have clashed sharply in recent years, dating to their primary battle in 2011.

Battle buses have been common parts of national election spending in recent years.

Perry's story and Springer's emotional testimony highlight the uphill battle scientists have faced in recent years as right - to - try laws have been passed around the country.

In recent years, an increasing number of scientists in politically and ideologically sensitive fields have become targets of hate e-mails, death threats, campaigns aimed at discrediting them and their entire field, and legal battles.

And the partisan politics that have helped gridlock Congress in recent years as well as the ongoing battle over who will become the new House speaker could bring this burgeoning bipartisan effort to a halt.

In war, anticipating the enemy's next move is half the battle, and some of the most meaningful advances in Alzheimer's research in recent years have to do with reconnaissance.

The most significant biotechnology breakthrough in recent years, a technology called CRISPR, has sparked a patent battle: novel research suggests a workaround

In Jerusalem in recent years, Jewish Orthodox zealots have battled police, trying to close down roads on Saturday, trying to impose their restrictive version of belief.

This of course, is after this year's recent alien movies which include Monsters and Skyline, the latter of which was involved in legal disputes with Battle: Los Angeles.

These days, every Arnold Schwarzenegger performance is a battle between the present and the past: To watch the Austrian muscleman play his advancing years for comedy (the Expendables series) or pathos (the recent Maggie) is to see a once - herculean action star acknowledge that he's not the perfect human specimen he...

(The lone absence, Annette Funicello, hasn't appeared on camera in recent years due to her battle with multiple sclerosis.)

A few good films of recent years that crossed my path in 2014: Mes séances de lutte (Love Battles, Jacques Doillon, 2013); Pelo Malo (Bad Hair, Mariana Rondón, 2013); Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013); Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (Sam Fleischner, 2013); Tirez la langue, mademoiselle (Miss and the Doctors, Axelle Ropert, 2013); Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza (An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanovic, 2013); Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini, 2013); Palo Alto (Gia Coppola, 2013); El loro y el cisne (The Parrot and the Swan, Alejo Moguillansky, 2013); Elle s» en va (On My Way, Emmanuelle Bercot, 2013); Sebunsu kôdo (Seventh Code, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2013); La isla (The Island, Dominga Sotomayor and Katarzyna Klimkiewicz, 2013); Low Tide (Roberto Minervini, 2012); Finsterworld (Frauke Finsterwalder, 2013); «Singapore Panda» episode (Sun Koh) from Nan fang lai xin (Letters from the South, 2013); O Homem das Multidoes (The Man of the Crowd, Marcelo Gomes and Cao Guimarães, 2013).

In recent years, the DVD market has crashed and the US market for theatrical is battling for survival due to issues including saturation, a shift to digital platforms, and piracy.36 In addition, the power of global filmmaking has shifted the balance of power away from the US domestic market.