Sentences with phrase «seems longer this year»

Not exact matches

Retailers seem to be pulling out of their years - long malaise, helped by a strong economy and their own efforts to finally adapt to the Amazon.com (amzn) world.

Balsillie and Lazaridis have so badly lost the confidence of the market that investors and analysts no longer seem to care about the billions in revenue or the 35 % increase in subscribers over the past year.

Five years seems like a long time to me.

Luckey, who is still only 24 years old, seems to have retained his sardonic edge through his long silence.

And yet, just eight years later, it seems Facebook may be turning into the very thing its founder once rejected: a still important technology company that's growing a bit long in the tooth and fighting to stay relevant by throwing stacks of money at whatever just might be the next big thing.

Most of these ruminations are just a few pages long — the longest are six pages — and nearly all seem to be brimming with eye - opening factoids: «Between 2003 and 2012, natural disasters killed an average of 106,654 people per year.»

It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now it's gotten frighteningly bigger, and it's no longer wise to ignore it.»

Regifting With 36 % of Americans planning to re-gift Christmas presents this year, it seems there's no longer any shame in passing unwanted items along.

It says that Bushmen societies seem not to have changed over tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of years — longer than most societies have existed.

In the end, Buffett does seem to express strong optimism about American's long - term future, but he's also suggesting how we get there over the next four years might be a challenge.

«A study published last year in Experimental Brain Research appeared to provide some partial scientific support for this idea,» notes BPS, explaining that brain scans of experienced long - distance runners revealed running really does seem to reduce activity in certain key brain areas.

Blessed with warm sunny weather all year round (roughly 300 days of sunshine a year), ringed by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and protected on the other by the calm, deep - blue waters of the Tagus River (the longest river in the Iberian Peninsula), this traditionally sophisticated city seems to have it all.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

My second biggest issue with it has more to do with the time in which it was written — it's now about 40 years old — and the fact that it seemed to be reflective of attitudes and assumptions that I no longer carry in today's world.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

Progress in a few areas has been solid: slashing of bureaucratic red tape has led to a surge in new private businesses; full liberalization of interest rates seems likely following the introduction of bank deposit insurance in May; Rmb 2 trillion (US$ 325 billion) of local government debt is being sensibly restructured into long - term bonds; tighter environmental regulation and more stringent resource taxes have contributed to a surprising two - year decline in China's consumption of coal.

Long - term investing seems to be a thing of the past and shorter term attention spans are affecting the investment markets more and more each year.

She didn't seemed phased and after looking over and discussing my finances she told me it was possible — as long as the market isn't in the toilet in 4 or 5 years.

When you read news sites like Search Engine Land and Search Engine Roundtable and see penalties handed out left & right for things that seemed generally white hat just a few years ago, you can't help but think «maybe what I've thought for so long that's completely white hat is targeted next?»

«If somebody told me that I live a year longer by eating nothing but broccoli and asparagus from now on... every day will seem like as long.

Sure, you can devalue those claims through inflation, but only if the debt is in the form of long - maturity bonds (which is why the recent discussion of issuing 50 - 100 year Treasury bonds seems understandable but also a bit nefarious).

Whether Infinity War can catch Black Panther (whose long, leggy run meant it was still in the top five at the box office last week, more than two months after its opening) in the US and Canada seems unlikely, but it should become the year's top hit internationally without too much trouble.

As an aside, it seems generally to be the case that the longer an adjustment is constrained, the more likely that the adjustment takes place in the form of what traders call «gapping» — which is a big, discontinuous change instead of a smooth adjustment — so when the change finally took place, the fall in demand (and iron ore prices) would almost certainly occur very quickly, in a matter of two or three years, perhaps.

But, as we've seen from Chipotle's troubles over the past 20 years, it seems, now — I guess it hasn't been that long — it's just really difficult to actually marry the fast food side of things with high quality, locally sourced ingredients.

Also, it seems that Cynthia Sanchez and Ching Ya are so longer active (as in, a couple years).

Mind you this was more than a 15 years ago when 2024 seemed a long way off.

Now that the loans are beginning to deteriorate and subprime buyers are no longer in the market or tapped out, we're beginning to see the real picture — which is much less rosy than it seemed just a year ago.

Economists and pundits have been predicting a rise in interest rates for a number of years now, but the professional investors I talk to these days almost all seem convinced that rates will stay «lower for longer.»

While spending down his formidable fortune — currently estimated to be $ 78.4 billion by Bloomberg — to fund reusable rocket research and space tourism might seem an odd choice, Bezos said last year that it's all part of a long - held dream.

Given my outlook for stabilization in oil prices by year's end, global integrated oil companies seem like a good long - term value.

Longer - run inflation expectations are lower than they were a year ago, but seem to have stabilised more recently, and they remain higher than the mid-point of the Bank's target.

Frankly, it seems rather convenient that during man's long, hardscrabble struggle over the last 100,000 plus years, God only saw fit to intervene (and what an intervention it was!)

Anyway, trying to communicate this, and the other issues, to my then pastor was also fraught with problems as he seemed too preoccupied with how my leaving was making him feel than with the years of rejection I described which led to me leaving, I say leaving but I only moved to a church up the road (I had been in the first church for over 20 years but couldn't bear it any longer, which was a sad outcome).

I am someone who was fairly involved with the EC movement for several years, but I exited around 2010 — partly because I no longer resonated with the (what seemed to me) increasingly inbred nature of the dialogue, and because (probably more importantly for me) my trajectory was taking me beyond specifically post-Evangelical, emergent conversations, and into an exploration of higher consciousness in general.

The fact that AA has grown from one person to over 375,000 in thirty years would seem to be ipso facto evidence that it is very effective in producing initial as well as long - term sobriety.

Pastor Richard, later Father Richard» and of those two titles, I knew him longer under the first than the second» seems to have had from very early years a sharp sense of «living toward death.»

I thought 2015 was the year that EVERYONE was offended about absolutely EVERYTHING but it seems to have been a long time coming.

I think that atheists would argue that religion is no longer necessary today, despite whatever beneficial developmental purpose it may have had in the past, because we are intellectually and technologically in the position to discover the true causes for things that seemed like magic thousands of years ago.

He seemed to view faith as a romantic adventure and the universe as a wild fairy tale — I had a similar perspective on the world, as a twenty - one - year old in D.C. Chesterton died long before YouTube, but if he were alive today, I think he would advocate new, creative methods to revolutionize the practice of journalism.

Not to mention Heaven Is For Real and a slew of other Christian movies that seemed prime to keep churchgoers flocking to theaters every Saturday night all year long, with the pastor in the front row.

Things seemed to go all right for years, but eventually we started to hear rumours from the various spiritualist churches that mediums would run into difficulties and would no longer be able to control their spirits.

The public exposure of a long - past affair, and the publication of the painfully personal letter, would seem to violate journalistic boundaries, were they not unavoidably related to what is undeniably a story of legitimate public interest, namely, the Archbishop of Milwaukee was for eighteen years under the threat of blackmail, and paid off with $ 450,000 of archdiocesan funds.

Much as most English Catholics love Her Majesty the Queen, many of us felt just a little uneasywhen it became known that she referred to the late Cardinal Hume as «my Cardinal», and not entirely enthused by television images of Her Majesty attending Vespers at Westminster Cathedral, for all the world as if it was Choral Evensong at Westminster Abbey: not because such ecumenical gestures are in themselves a bad thing, but because this one seemed all too likely to be have been a reward to the English Church for no longer making so much of a nuisance of itself, as it could have done, for instance, by criticising the supposedly Catholic - minded Tony Blair for his wholehearted support for abortion (including abortion up to term)- a stance which, north of the border, had led the late Cardinal Winning to utter a series of blistering denunciations of the Prime Minister even during NewLabour's honeymoon years.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

This sea change in household composition during the past twenty - five years explains why the old maxim «A rising tide lifts all boats» - used so effectively by John F. Kennedy in 1962 - no longer seems to work.

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

The year 1965 seems like so long ago, and yet I can remember many events from that time as though they were still before my eyes.

How long the interval should be, I am content to leave to your discretion; but if it seems agreeable to you, let us in a spirit of jest and earnest assume that precisely 1843 years have elapsed.

It seems to me less arbitrary and more logical to go along with Jennings (quoted by Agar 1943, p. 153), who wrote after years of study on the behavior of amoebae: «I am thoroughly convinced, after long study of the behavior of this organism, that if Amoeba were a large animal, so as to come within the every day experience of human beings, its behavior would at once call forth the attribution to it of states of pleasure and pain, of hunger, desire, and the like, on precisely the same basis as we attribute these things to the dog.»

By «get it» I mean that he still seems to believe that he personally behaved appropriately in the circumstances by which the late Father Brendan Smyth, a rapacious paedophile of almost unimaginable moral corruption, was tacitly permitted by the Church to continue brutally abusingchildren for 40 years, long after the ecclesiastical authorities knew what he was up to.»