Sentences with phrase «seen decades of decline»

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The rise of the numbers for women - owned businesses over the past five years is cause for cheer among those who would like to see more equality of business ownership, particularly given the stagnant numbers or declines over the previous half decade.

From 2000 to 2007, local economies that had seen the most growth in their exposure to competition from Chinese imports over the preceding decade (1990 to 2000)-- that is, those in the top 25 percent of all US communities in terms of exposure — saw larger declines in employment.

I don't see this development as a sign that evangelicalism as a whole is on the decline (we seem to be holding strong with a decades - long 20 - to - 25 percent of the population), but I do believe it provides us with the opportunity to revise the way we think about political engagement and ready ourselves for a future of similar electoral choices.

Silicon Valley Bank Predicts 2016 Decline in Wine Consumption After Decades of Growth: Total and per - capita U.S. consumption to see first drop in more than 20 years; Domestic fine wine shows modest sales growth...

If some people can not or will not see that spineless Walcott represented everything spineless, idle and too comfy on huge, largely unearned wages, in Wengers last decade, then they are avoiding the reality of the cause of our decline.

am waiting to see how fans behave this weekend... hopefully a forceful display of discontent and disrespect for wenger... if its good enough for mike dean for his hapless displays its good enough for wengers decade of decline

cut the sentimentality which has nothing to do with this argument... as to statistics i do nt see one in your half baked drivel which amounts to an ill - informed rant about neville (actually one of the more sensible football commentators) and fans who have suffered a decade of decline and underperformance under a dilusional manager who has completely lost the plot about modern football and ended up creating a zombified football team which you can read about here assuming you can canhttps: / / www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/26/zombified-arsenal-lack-obligation-to-be-in-love-with-idea-of - winning

* «Historic low» for households with married parents and children * More Americans now living alone, data show * Nearly 800,000 more households include out - of - work parent By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters)- The iconic picture of the traditional American household has faded over the last four decades as the number of married couples with children has seen a steep decline and more people are living alone, according to U.S. Census...

Rates of cohabitation are deeply connected to race, class, and education, they say (and indeed, poor communities have seen the biggest declines in marriage rates and the biggest upswings in out - of - wedlock births in recent decades).

... «In such a complex moment, however, to limit ourselves to seeing always and everywhere only the actions of the [international] powers would be «70s style old fashioned anti-imperialism which refuses to recognise the changes in course now for decades, amongst them the slow but inevitable decline of the USA.»

By year's end Wal - Mart suffers its first quarterly profit drop in a decade, sees same - store sales decline in November's run - up to the crucial holiday shopping season, and suffers a series of public relations gaffes so stunning that it lands six spots in this year's edition of the 101 Dumbest Moments.

Conspicuous by its absence was talk of a northern powerhouse, beloved project of George Osborne, on a day where new figures show that Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield have seen some of the biggest declines in home ownership in the last decade.

Some large agencies like NIH and the National Science Foundation have actually seen average annual budget growth above four percent in recent decades, even with periods of decline.

Opioid related deaths contributed to the first increase in the death rate in the United States in more than two decades — an uptick last seen at the height of the HIV / AIDs epidemic in 1993 — and factored into a year - over-year decline in the nation's life expectancy rate in 2015, according to an expert addressing a congressional briefing and a related presentation on the opioid epidemic at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's headquarters on May 10.

The State of Public University Funding 6 February 2004 Fiscal year 2004 saw total state higher education funding fall by 2.1 percent, the first overall decline in more than a decade.

Fiscal year 2004 saw total state higher education funding fall by 2.1 %, the first overall decline in more than a decade, according to an annual survey by Illinois State University's Center for the Study of Education Policy.

The Gulf of California, formerly known as the great Cortez fish trap, has seen a massive decline in fish and shellfish in recent decades.

And AMA and NIH data show that the demographics of physician - scientists have shifted dramatically over the past decade, with the proportion of NIH - funded principal investigators in their 60s and 70s soaring and the share under 60 declining (see graph above and slide 14 here).

In the UK, although the rate of child deaths per 1000 births declined overall between 1990 and 2013, but the rate of decline has slowed, and in 2000 - 2013 was half that seen in the previous decade (1990 - 2000).

After first reading a page of information and warnings, customers can see for themselves if they carry the variant — which may lead to decades of anticipating the possible decline of their senses.

In the first decade of the 21st century, all Australian states except Queensland and Western Australia saw declines in their populations of primary students.

Mr Stanyer also highlighted the «major impact» of industrial decline over several decades, which had seen job losses in pottery and coal mining and a switch to service industries.

In Community District 3 in Manhattan, schools north of 110th Street have seen a decline from 2206 K - 5 students in 2006 to 1469 K - 5 students in 2015, an enrollment loss of 33 % in less than a decade.

However, it is absurd to speculate that a reported teacher shortage is truly tied to these issues when we have had a similar career structure for teachers for decades without seeing such dramatic declines in number of college students willing to become teachers.

Once a steadfast bastion of the practical, wagons have seen a sharp decline in popularity over the last few decades, the result of an all - out assault from the tall - bodied insanity of the current SUV craze.

It is especially interesting to see the decline of Sega in the ensuing decade from hardware developer to being relegated to developing software.

But that included periods of double - digit inflation and steadily declining interest rates, two things we're not likely to see in the decade ahead.

Independent of these recent initiatives, the number of animals euthanized in shelters has seen a precipitous decline in the past four decades, from around 15 million annually in the 1970's to around 3 million currently, a drop which may be attributed to a host of factors including broader access to and acceptance of spay / neuter, progressive shelter policies, and active adoption efforts.

The final decade saw a number of revolts against the Academies and their «Salons», in the form of the Secession movement, while the late - 1890s witnessed the decline of «nature - based art», like Impressionism, which would soon lead to a rise in more serious «message - based» art.

Over at The Guardian, Alok Jha writes that 4 common species of bumblebee in the US have seen declines in population of as much as 96 % in the last few decades:

Meadows, when he peers forwards, sees instead «many decades of uncontrolled climatic disruption and extremely difficult decline.»

The research that shows that decade - long periods of static / declining temperatures are to be expected against the background of a warming trend (see the Spiked article above) makes no claims that such natural variation could account for the much longer post-war slump.

The «models» say that ice on the Great Lakes will be rare / declining in the future, yet, as I type this (about 100 feet south of the southern shore of Lake Ontario) there is more ice on the water than I have seen in the last 3 decades.

Cycles of natural variability such as the Arctic Oscillation are known to play a role in Arctic sea ice extent, but the sharp decline seen in this decade can not be explained by natural variability alone.

Emissions from the land use, land - use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector accounted for the majority of the country's GHG emissions for decades until 2005, but the country saw a huge decline of around 70 % in the decade after this.

The expert, Dr. James E. Hansen, and his colleagues conclude in a new analysis that the warming seen in recent decades has been caused mainly by other heat - trapping emissions — methane, chlorofluorocarbons, black particles of diesel and coal soot and compounds that create the ozone in smog — which are easier to control than carbon dioxide, with many of them already on the decline.

Vaughan Pratt June 23, 2015 at 3:52 am ... So why is it that those insisting the hiatus is going to continue for decades refuse to acknowledge that the last five years of HadCRUT4 have seen a terrifying rise of 3.3 °C / century during that period, yet are perfectly happy to point to a single year's change in CO2 emissions as proof that those emissions are now on the decline?

Over the past several months, the Arctic Ocean on the opposite side of the world has also seen record - low sea ice — a new nadir in a decades - long decline that, climate scientists say, is one of the many fingerprints of humans» hand in warming Earth's atmosphere and oceans through the burning of fossil fuels.

The September rate of sea ice decline since 1979 is now approximately 10 percent per decade, or 72,000 square kilometers (28,000 square miles) per year (see Figure 3).

They would have seen a decade of rapidly declining temperatures that brings us back to the temperatures of the 1730's.

Neil also downplayed the human role in the rapid Arctic sea ice decline, which has seen a loss of three quarters of its ice mass over the past three decades.

On that basis I think we will see cooling for a couple of decades due to the negative phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation which has just begun then at least one more 20 to 30 year phase of natural warming before we start the true decline as the cooler thermohaline waters from the Little Ice Age come back to the surface.

But it's seen a serious decline in that forest cover over the past two decades which doesn't show signs of letting up.

7) Nepal & North Korea: -25 % Nepal has about 22 % of its original forest cover remaining, non of which is considered frontier forest — the past two decades saw a 25 % decline in forest cover.

Is the Scottish skiing industry just seeing a couple of freak years of good snowfall before it continues a long - term decline, or will a change to colder weather make it a reliable source of income over coming decades?

Over the last decade, we saw subscriptions decline steadily and dramatically, to the point where we simply couldn't justify the cost of producing the publications, especially in terms of staff resources and time.

«In today's burgeoning and chaotic news ecosystem, it is difficult to parse truth from falsehood, wisdom from spin... We have seen a decline in trust in the media over a period of decades and the polarization across what types of media are trusted,» Lehrman said.

Those statistics have been on the decline over the last decade, but there is still a large portion of the population that sees an end to their relationship before it's ever really begun.

Made famous in the 1979 film «Breaking Away,» the city of 70,000 residents and 38,000 Indiana University students had seen its privately held greenspace decline from 6,132 acres in 1993 to 4,564 acres a decade later.

Two days of hand clapping, self - starting Realtors thirsty for skill training in a marketplace that hasn't seen a decline in more than a decade.