Sentences with phrase «seen slow declines»

On a percentage basis, SSA has seen slow declines in both poverty and hunger, but on an absolute level, the number of people experiencing poverty and hunger remains steady.

Homelessness is seeing a slow decline across the U.S., but some areas of the country are seeing spikes or high levels that won't go away.

With increasing agricultural cultivation, we've seen a slow decline in bitter compounds, meaning that unless you're primarily consuming wild - foraged foods, you're unlikely to come close to Grok's intake.

Good, because you feel normal, and bad, because you see the slow decline of human rationality.

The US is expected to see slower decline in its carbon emissions, from an annual 1.2 % drop over the past 10 years to a decrease of 0.4 % this year, with a return to growth in coal use, as president Donald Trump promised to rescue the coal industry.

Not exact matches

Despite offering more money to fliers who decide to stay, the Air Force has seen the number of pilots taking their retention bonuses decline, though at a slower rate.

Because of the slow start to 2017, Kellogg now sees a full - year sales decline of about 3 %, worse than its prior estimate of a 2 % drop.

Job growth has slowed over the past few months and GDP is growing at only 1.2 %, but there aren't the declines we usually see in recessions.

In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.

Earnings season is about to get underway, too, which is more than likely going to show a fourth straight quarterly decline in profits — and if firms aren't seeing bottom line leverage, they may be slow to dole out new positions, or much in the way of payroll hikes.

«Many of the markets that have consistently made our «hot list»... didn't make the cut for 2016, because they are predicted to see slower price appreciation and even declining sales.

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

Interestingly, we saw a significant slowing in growth in offset balances around the same time as growth in interest - only housing loans started to decline.

Real rates have been declining for some time, due to slower productivity growth, demographics, and other factors (see Powell's January 7, 2017 speech).

A better reading of the stats is found when you move beyond the headlines and see a long, slow (but accelerating) decline of (mostly) nominal Christianity.

Like many food wholesalers, W&SS has seen a decline in sales during the recession because of slower business in the restaurant and hospitality sectors.

«While consumer sentiment in our key geographies remains relatively subdued, we have seen good progress in our Australian Beer, Spirits and Wine business, as the beer market decline has started to slow and international brand owners have chosen to partner with Lion,» said Mr Irvine.

The key to the group's fortunes is the Australian beverages division, which saw revenue fall 3.3 per cent, but the rate of decline slowed markedly in the second half, from 5.3 per cent in the six months to June to 1.4 per cent in six months to December.

The slowing population growth in the U.S. mirrors to a lesser extent the situation in other developed nations, including Russia, Japan and France which are seeing reduced growth or population losses due to declining birth rates and limited immigration.

... «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.»

«Recently we have seen tentative signs that the sharp decline in economic activity may be slowing,» Bernanke told students and faculty of Morehouse College in Atlanta.

At the same time, two major drivers of local government spending that officials on that level can't control, pension rates and Medicaid costs, are expected to decline and seen slower growth respectively.

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).

And a group of 91 patients treated for 54 weeks saw slower cognitive declines than did those who received placebo infusions.

As seen below, the results in terms of slowing the decline on the MMSE were dramatic.

But the researchers saw different patterns when they broke the group down by age: For patients younger than 65, symptoms worsened when the deep brain stimulation system was turned on; for older patients, the treatment seemed to slow down their decline over one year.

This slow decline in brain glucose usage can be seen as a kind of «canary in the coal mine» — preclinical evidence that something has gone awry long before damage has progressed to the point of overt signs and symptoms.

Despite this slow down, both Chromebooks and Windows devices saw unit growth during the first quarter while Apple continued to see both Macbook and iPad volumes decline YoY.

When funding follows students, the impact of competition is greater in areas where school - age population growth is slow or declining, as any loss of students to charter schools or nearby districts is immediately seen on the bottom line.

As with last quarter, Nook e-reader sales are declining, and though Nook content sales grew by 46 percent, that's a little slower than the 65 percent we saw earlier.

We see a slow but steady share decline from 2005 to 2016.

Sonya Gulati, a senior economist with Toronto - Dominion Bank, says we could see a slow 10 % decline in house prices in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal by the end of 2014.

But rather than a sharp decline, you're more likely to see slower rates of price appreciation and home sales, says McKellar.

Turns out, all reports and analysis lean towards a flattening out of property prices in most Canadian markets, with some areas of the country experiencing a decline in both sales activity and prices, as other areas continue to experience price gains, albeit at a much slower pace than we've seen in recent years.

While it's also the sixth consecutive year that bankruptcy filings have fallen, 2016 saw the decline at its slowest — 5.9 percent for the year.

Once we start to see the kidneys decline, we will recommend diet changes and medications to help slow down the progression.

Since that happened in early March, H1Z1 has seen a very slow decline in player numbers on Steam.

The recent economic past may be a harbinger of what's to come (slow decline of economic hubris and transition to more moderate lifestyles) and in ways it may be seen in some of the GNY work.

But the declines are too slow to meet the pledges that governments made in Paris (see «Climate shortfall»).»

So more than likely we'll just see a very slow decline in temperatures with CFC abatement, until the predominant cycle of centuries - long warming pushes through again at some antediluvian rate.

I think it is possible that this sudden huge mechanical event after a period of slow warming leads to the rapid decline of ice build - up instead of repeating the same slope you see at the beginning of ice ages.

The University of Earth: Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr. Georg Kaser — Mountain Glaciers This video sees Pam Pearson and Dr. Georg Kaser about glaciers and their slow decline over many years.

If the sun stays quiet we should soon see the level of atmospheric CO2 stabilise and then begin a slow decline but since there is a long term lag of some 800 years shown in the historical record between temperature and CO2 amounts we may still be seeing CO2 consequences from the Mediaeval Warm Period which could skew the figures away from those expected from current solar variations.

I have seen some AGW proponents declare that because there was a slow decline in TSI from the peak of cycle 21 to the end of cycle 23 then the globe should have been cooling and the level of TSI could not be the cause of the apparent continued warming.

McCarthy expects that we will see «a slow decline of the AMOC,» and that North America will be «one of the main areas where the overturning circulation impacts the weather, but over multidecadal timescales.»

Even sites that haven't been impacted directly by a spam update began seeing slow but persistent declines in traffic as more and more competitors employed genuinely high - quality results from white - hat tactics.

However there are signs that we're seeing a recovery - or at least a slowing of the decline.

After a week that saw legacy Bitcoin (BTC) hit the $ 9,000 mark, the cryptocurrency market experienced a slow decline over the weekend with every currency again in the red and some also dropping to lows not seen since early February.

Many I see say they had experienced a long slow decline over time when the «Straw that Broke the Camel's Back» landed.

«We're seeing declines in rents for the most expensive Bay Area neighborhoods, as well as slowing rent growth in San Jose submarkets.