Sentences with phrase «several strong years»

All told, it seems likely that, after several strong years, global growth will be noticeably slower in 2008.

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«Lulu enjoyed several years of extremely strong growth as a faddish demand for its product produced record setting levels of sales productivity and the highest ever operating margins we've seen for a specialty apparel retailer.

«China's strong and sustained growth over the past several years has served as a linchpin for global trade, benefiting exporters of commodities and capital goods,» the fund said in a report.

Yum China: Up over 50 percent this year, this recent Yum Brands spin - off has been putting up strong results for the last several quarters and Cramer expects no different on Thursday.

Several markets in the South and West — the two most popular destinations for vacation homebuyers — saw strong sales gains for years as job growth came back online after the financial crisis.

While geopolitical uncertainty was a major focal point earlier this year — with several North Korean missile launches initially sending investor scurrying into safe - have assets — risk appetite has since improved, with markets looking instead to stronger economic growth globally.

However, he says there's good reason to think Canada can manage the risks from debt, which he says is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

Several retailers came out on top this year, with strong selections that resonated with consumers — and the sales to show it.

While Scorsese's career in the two decades since has remained strong, De Niro hasn't really had a critically acclaimed lead dramatic role in several years.

But it has shown several years of strong wage growth, and demand for qualified candidates is growing, which should put upward pressure on salaries in the coming years.

«Markets with large oil industries have had strong growth in the past several years,» he said.

National hotel performance has been strong over the past several years, driven by solid leisure and individual «transient» business demand, which has risen nearly 40 % since 2007.

Several of this ETF's components made strong contributions to its performance over the past year.

However, President Trump has recently and repeatedly beat up on pharma & biotech, energy has already made nearly a year's worth of gains with a strong possibility that OPEC might not honor their promise to cut supply, and he's questioned the value of several defense contracts (Presidential replacement aircraft, F - 35, etc.).

Despite a perception among some investors that impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30, 2014.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.

What some of your home - biased clients may not realize is that several industry - leading international companies have generated equally if not stronger results than the FANG stocks this year.

With strong sales growth and consistent earnings progression, I expect the company to keep up with a double - digit dividend growth commitment for several years.

For turnover in FX derivatives, several things stand out (Graph 4): (i) activity has generally risen over the past decade even when scaled by a measure of cross-border transactions; (ii) developed Asian markets stand out as having a high degree of turnover; (iii) there was a particularly strong increase in turnover in these markets between 2013 and 2016; and (iv) FX derivatives turnover in emerging Asian economies has also increased significantly in the past few years, but remains a small part of the global market.

Neither TWX nor DIS have achieved as strong or consistent an ROIC as VIAB over the last several years.

You should consider a personal loan from Marcus if you have strong credit and at least several years of credit history.

Antares Pharma (ATRS)- The company possesses a strong pipeline of drug / device combination product candidates which provide better treatment options in a variety of disease settings - Xyosted could potentially be approved by September and should see significant adoption due to several advantages over current treatments (keep in mind global male hypogonadism market to exceed $ 3 billion within 10 years).

I mean what we've learned over the last several years is that there's tremendous variability across the year, and so you had really strong sales results at Red Lobster first quarter last year, weak earnings results because of the variability in food costs.

While there was one year with a truly outstanding gain (1999), the positive returns are generally broadly distributed, and include several years with a very strong performance.

The most noticeable of these is the housing sector, where strong demand conditions over several years, and the emergence of capacity constraints in some areas, appear to be putting some pressure on prices.

When selling short in a bear market, I scan for former leadership stocks that had a strong rally over the course of several years, but have begun to fall apart and take a beating.

This was a result of several factors: solid business investment in the second half of the year, some further growth in housing construction, and particularly strong growth in household spending during this period.

Of course, the market's performance over the past several years has already been fairly restrained, even counting the strong returns of 2003.

Poloz said debt is a natural consequence of several factors, including the combination of a strong demand for housing and the prolonged period of low interest rates maintained in recent years to stimulate the economy.

Despite a strong bull market over the last several years, the past year or so has not been without surprises and risks.

This strong performance is also likely to have encouraged net equity inflows into Australia, after several years of net equity outflows.

Recent drug approvals provide a strong path for long - term growth, and we expect that its largest drug, Eylea, will be sustainable for at least several more years.

The favorable fiscal - year results were due to strong stock selection and in particular the acquisition of several of our holdings.

But as someone who had ministered to women on Warren's Saddleback Church campus several years ago, she felt a strong connection to the couple.

Mate with the strongest, cutest boob sucker chick, who got strong, and bingo, we've got a dominant offspring, who by the way, will kick the weak (non boob suckers) butz again, and guess, what, bingo... add a few billion years, ok, million, and... you guessed it... bingo, we've got species, plants and animals, changing, reacting to several billion, ok, million years of actions.

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

While strong on - the - hoof prices to Australian farmers for the past couple of years have led to increasing livestock numbers, processors still face several challenges, including:

Aunt Adelaide and Aunt Ella have been two of his strongest mentors ever since: from a distance, as he earned a degree in economics and an MBA, working for several years afterward for Price Waterhouse; then much more closely when he returned to open Mr. B's with his sister Cindy.

«Old Chicago is a strong concept and based on the success we've been seeing in our Joplin restaurant, the company is poised for tremendous growth over the next several years.

The WCAL just happens to include several schools not just that have been strong for the past 30 or 40 years, but a few that have great baseball traditions that stretch more than 100 years into the past, especially with Sacred Heart Cathedral (formerly just Sacred Heart) of San Francisco.

Every year he assembles about a dozen male students — some former high school players, most fast and strong, several quite tall — and has them scrimmage against the women.

Mertz should never have been our captain in the first place... who has ever heard of a team that makes 11th hour transfer buys (Arteta & Mertz) then seemingly places those same individuals into prominent leadership positions from the get - go... indicative of the problems that have permeated our clubhouse for the better part of 7 years under the Kroenke & Wenger... what is wrong with the players chosen and / or the management style of Wenger that doesn't develop and / or encourage strong leadership from within... Mertz was the fine collecting lackey from year one... this is what happens when you don't get world - class players because many times they want to have a voice on and off the pitch and this can't happen when you play for a fragile manager who has developed a coddling wage structure where everyone is rewarded for simply wearing the shirt and participating in the process... not enough balance between performance and pay, combined with the obvious favoritism shown to some players regardless of their glaring lack of production... remember that Ramsey has played in positions that make no sense considering his skill - set (out wide) and has forced other players off the field or into equally unfamiliar positions with little or no justification (let's remember when you read articles about how Ramsey's goals this upcoming season being the potential X-factor for our success that this is the same individual who didn't score a goal until the final week last season)... this of course is just one example of many... before I hear another word from Mertz I want this club to address the fact that no former player of any real consequence has any important role in the management structure of this club, yet several former Gunners have expressed serious interest in just such an endeavor (Henry, Viera, Adams, Bergkamp... just to name a few legends)... there is only one answer: an extremely insecure manager!!!

And they have been good for a while; even when they're not at their best, they're one of the strongest teams in the world, and there have been several points over the last 10 years or so when they've been unarguably the best.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

The 24 - year - old has reportedly attracted the attention of several leading clubs across Europe after his strong performances for the Foxes in the first half of the season, including a goal an an assist in Monday's 2 - 1 victory over champions Chelsea.

Having notched up several eye - catching performances this season, Hernandez surely holds a strong hand in the PFA Young Player of the Year award.

Earlier in the campaign, Theo Walcott and several of the others were doing interviews, saying «this is the strongest Arsenal team for years» when they were winning, but you look at them now and think we've heard this all before.

This characterization, if true, would provide the food - industry - backed SNA with a strong justification for rolling back several key nutritional standards in Congress in the coming year.

Several of the winners of the Young Birder award this year are in elementary school, continuing the strong tradition of young birder participation in the Mass Audubon Bird - a-thon — they are to be congratulated on their efforts and interest in the natural world.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.