Sentences with phrase «recent years toward»

There's been a big shift in recent years toward making awards available on the cheaper end, such as low - value gift cards and music downloads, says Paul Walczyk, senior vice president of client services with Carlson Marketing, which works with 500 banks on their rewards programs.

There has been a move in recent years toward a more organic approach to recording live performances for these types of scenes.

These guidelines have helped fuel a trend in recent years toward «evidence - based» psychotherapy.

-LSB-...] has been a movement in recent years toward more natural childbirth techniques, and many organizations and individuals offer childbirth classes that specialize in this, exactly.

Herbert H. Farmer speaks of the central concept of I and Thou as the most important contribution given to us of recent years toward the reflective grasp of our faith.

Not exact matches

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

Another challenge for Jolly Time: Consumers have also gravitated more toward pre-popped, bagged popcorns in recent years rather than microwave popcorn.

In recent years, however, observers have cited a decided trend toward fundamental reassessments of human resources structures and positions.

Our list skews toward recent performance: while longevity and history counts, we favored athletes who have had successful years or stretches since our last edition in 2016.

However, in recent years the wardrobes of many successful men and women have leaned toward casual.

That said, Apple does have a history of building lower - cost devices geared toward the average consumer, especially in recent years.

The movement toward improving living standards for chickens builds on the cage - free eggs trend, which led to a slew of restaurant chains and grocery stores in recent years promising to ditch cages to improve the lives of hens.

Due to recent outperformance, industrials and technology are edging toward the high end of their 10 - year ranges.

Attitudes toward business ethics and sustainability have shifted dramatically in recent years.

Advancements in vehicle manufacturing and rising consumer demand have helped accelerate the automotive industry's transition toward alternative fuel vehicles in recent years.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

We're nowhere near that point here, and this Fed has displayed an enormous tendency toward populism in recent years.

With Weatherford having a lot of debt on its balance sheet, the moves are critical steps toward helping the company make a full recovery from tough times in recent years.

As in a number of other countries, bond issuance in Australia in recent years has shifted away from the public sector toward the private sector.

Deferred business spending and recent investment - oriented tax cuts will continue to reinforce a typcal late - cycle rotation toward investment - led growth during the balance of the year.

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

The major tax cuts of the past 25 years, the Reagan cuts in the 1980's and the recent Bush cuts, were both heavily tilted toward the very well off.

In recent years the Cold War has ended, a «new world order» with a distinct swing toward democracy has begun to emerge, and human rights has assumed ever greater importance on the international scene.

Every country that in recent years has moved toward democracy and peace first suffered large - scale assaults on human dignity from dictatorship or civil war: genocide, massacres, torture, rape, maiming, abduction of children, illegal detention, the destruction of homes and livelihoods.

So too the perceived excesses of fundamentalists in recent years (especially in the political arena) have provoked a backlash and a move toward moderation.

Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide in recent years.

In recent years, however, numerous persons in both traditions have moved toward a new and creative sexual ethics.

Daniel Callahan Two important social forces lie behind the potentially disastrous turn of public opinion toward euthanasia and physician - assisted suicide in recent years.

States across the country have moved toward similar abortion restrictions in recent years, with Texas upholding its own «fetal pain» law despite state senator Wendy Davis's filibuster making national news in 2013.

While there has been some restoration toward the peak of 1977 in recent years, and some movement of audience with the emergence of new programs, the overall picture indicates a marked levelling off of the rapid growth of the early 1970s.

In recent years, the argument that the state not only may but must be neutral toward religious expression, institutions, and religiously motivated conduct has enjoyed significant success in legislatures and courtrooms.

But the shift in recent years tends to be toward coconut «bacon» - it crisps up better than tempeh slabs, is high in fat (so it really takes in any smoke flavors whether topically applied or actually smoked), and coconut is easy to source.

There is no doubt the move toward healthy meals and locally sourced ingredients is now a driving force in the industry, with an increasing number of customers requesting clean and healthy meal options without compromising on taste becoming somewhat trendy in recent years.

«Despite consumer trends toward low - carb and no - additive preferences, CCA has failed to launch new products to address these trends in recent years,» said CIMB analyst Daniel Broeren.

And to adjust for more recent picks who haven't had the chance to start three seasons or play four, if a pick from the last few years is still in the league or has a string of recent starting gigs, I counted them toward his school's total in those two categories.

Fresh from a closing 66 and T4 at the Wells Fargo Championship, but with no wins in nine tour appearances this year, McIlroy hoped his game was trending toward his three most recent TPC starts — consecutive top 10s — and not his first three missed cuts.

The vitriol on both sides is a real issue, but with so many former MLB writers being pushed out of voting in recent years and those still around softening their stances toward Steroid Era players, things will calm down a bit.

These materials also might be terrible for the environment, and many playgrounds are moving toward more eco-friendly materials in recent years as well.

As a number of recent high - profile developments and decisions show a trend toward a more urban lifestyle in Arlington Heights, officials there will take on a year - long process to update the village's community planning strategy.

In recent years, though, it's moved toward the mainstream, spurred by the rise of attachment parenting, a reaction against a dysfunctional medical system, and pro-midwife documentaries like The Business of Being Born, which featured producer Ricki Lake giving birth in her bathtub.

Parents who love the royalty and beauty of this name, but feel it has been overused in recent years are tending to move toward names like Amelia and Ella.

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The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.

We've seen the trend toward strong mayoral control in many large cities in recent years, with Richmond, San Diego, Oakland and many others taking big...

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

Indeed, Cuomo started laying down markers for a potential 2020 bid earlier this year, and has only increased his orientation toward national issues in recent months.

Public opinion polls, however, show opinions tilting toward the liberal side on the issue, in recent years.

Miner has been a vocal critic of Cuomo in recent years, criticizing his administration's policies toward local governments in particular.

When the Erie County Industrial Development Agency reinstated its venture capital activities in recent years and allocated $ 1 million toward that end, it sparked hopes that the ECIDA would be another source of capital for scalable technology startups.

Because there are so many people in both fields, handicapping the race is tough but Minnesota has trended strongly toward Democrats in recent elections and voters are likely to be looking for a Democrat after eight years of Republican control of the governor's mansion.