Sentences with phrase «seen in a quarter century»

Consumer - price gains in Sri Lanka exceeded 20 percent in January, while inflation in Singapore has reached levels not seen in a quarter century.

Not exact matches

Brazil was the only main market to see profits decline, for a sixth consecutive quarter, as Latin America's largest economy emerges unevenly and slowly from its worst recession in more than a century.

«It is breathtaking to see the way the Clintons throughout the last, you know, quarter century, have pursued a career in public life, but done quite well in private life,» he said.

Here is an incomparably intimate, partisan interpretation of the life of a little Near Eastern state in the second quarter of the eighth century, the words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel... (1:1)

As every graduate student in theology would learn in the last quarter of the twentieth century, Lindbeck saw two dominant approaches to religion and theology.

Since Whitehead was nearly forty when the Queen died in 1901, we should see him as a man of the Victorian age whose intellect bore its best fruit a quarter of a century later.

«This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century,» de Blasio said.

«A coalition got built over these last months unlike anything I've seen in the last quarter century,» de Blasio said.

The voters could easily switch to the LibDems (Calamity Clegg he may be but he appeals to women whilst Vince Cable comes across as well informed and sensible), the Greens (the fruits of a quarter of a century of green propaganda in our state schools and the Greens are the only party not seen as sleazy), the BNP (as the depression bites and unemployment rises, immigration will become a huge issue) or UKIP (Nigel Farage, the ace communicator, dispenses common sense in a straightforward manner and UKIP will become prominent in the EU Parliament elections next spring).

County Executive Molinaro said, «During almost a quarter - century of service to Dutchess County, Valerie Sommerville has seen significant change in our national and local economic climate — including the Great Recession and its continued lingering impacts.

It's up to their teacher Raúl Arévalo to explain to them all the changes in technology and culture, which is dumb, because what exactly have these ghosts been seeing happen all around them at school for the past quarter - century?

The Observer has just assembled one of the more interesting lists I've seen in some time — a collective of the 25 best British films of the last quarter - century, compiled from the votes of over 60 critics, film professionals and assorted outside voices, ranging from Ben Kingsley to Peter Morgan to our friend Anne Thompson.

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

Cut to the present, and we see a very different Thorncroft: a debauched has - been who, having petulantly walked away from his signature role, has spent the last quarter - century in cash - strapped obscurity, now making a living promoting orthopaedic socks (a gig he's about to lose to John Nettles).

Developing motor skills The last quarter of the twentieth century saw a decline in outdoor opportunities in the UK as playing fields were sold.

Even if you were to manage the difficult importation of a non-street legal car, the 22B would not see public roads for the next seven years until it turns 25 in 2023, per U.S. laws that only allow import of foreign cars that are over a quarter - century old.

Throughout, Flanders notes how difficult it can be to research or understand what everyday houses and homes were like over the centuries; the versions of «home» we see depicted in classic works of art, for example, were often idealized, and there has been little impetus, historically, to preserve humble homes for posterity (she offers the particularly stark example of the incredible scarcity of authentic examples of slave quarters in the American South).

A quarter - century after appearing on the Prairies publishing scene in Winnipeg, Great Plains Publications is seeing changes in its leadership.

Fortunately, a quarter of a century after uniting Mario, Luigi, Toad (well, a Toad, at least... more on that another time), and Princess Peach Toadstool, Nintendo saw fit to finally reunite the team in Super Mario 3D World.

I stopped being a developer around a quarter of a century ago and have seen so many changes since then, with most of the exciting ones happening in the last few years,» said Ahmad.

Numerous loans from private collections and institutions make this survey the most important Hopper retrospective seen outside of his native New York City in over a quarter century.

Almost a quarter century since the artist's last in - depth retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1979, this exhibition includes rarely seen works from the Guston estate.

Having lived for the last quarter century in the town where I first saw Reinhardt's late - Modernist (as opposed to post-Modernist) masterpieces, I've noted that among Los Angeles» great contributions to contemporary artistic discourse is an emphasis on perception — physical perception, an emphasis that valorizes the tendencies of the eye and the brain to misapprehend and presume.

After following the global warming saga — science and policy — for nearly a quarter century, I've seen the biases at the journals and N.S.F. (including their press releases sometimes), in the I.P.C.C. summary process (the deep reports are mainly sloppy in some cases; the summary writing — read the climate - extinction section of this post — is where the spin lies), and sometimes in the statements and work of individual researchers (both skeptics and «believers»).

Nor can it be credibly asserted that the Center was until recently unaware of the manner in which Dr Soon had declared his affiliation in his scientific papers over the past quarter of a century: for a member of senior management (a botanist) has seen fit to pass judgment on the quality of Dr Soon's research (in astrophysics), from which it may legitimately be inferred that he had read — or at any rate ought to have read — at least one of Dr Soon's 60 published papers in order to come to a view on the quality of his research.

Unfortunately, after more than a quarter of a century working in climate science, I have seen at first hand that these simple rules of science are too often honoured more in the breach than in the observance.

The head Priest has been slaughtering the first born female virgin for a quarter century, promising that this will make wheat bloom in the desert, and finally admits he can not see green shoots.

How about, rather than trying to bolster confidence in the models, we take a look to see why a quarter century of climate models have hardly changed our understanding of climate at all?

So, what's behind the changes in emissions these three countries have seen over the past quarter century?

However, the last quarter century has seen a dramatic contrary shift in the way the federal courts, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, have interpreted and applied the Federal Rules and other procedural matters.

«I have seen so many changes in my quarter of a century as a Realtor, most of them incredibly positive,» says Thyssen.