Sentences with phrase «several years of stability»

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Lutz - Christian Funke, executive director of KfW, The World's Safest Bank for several consecutive years, discusses with GFMag editor Andrea Fiano Germany's political balancing act and economic stability, Europe's refugee problem, and KfW's collaborations with other European banks and political agencies.

During the past 40 years, plantain - farming families have become the pillars of the region's socio - economic stability by improving their quality of life, educating their children and providing employment for several generations.

It's a national security issue — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:42 We are confident these priorities will not only provide jobs but will improve the security of Ghanaians — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:41 Our job creation agenda will be driven by investment in human capital — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:40 The broad agenda for next year is to translate the stability into shared growth - Ken Ofori - Atta 10:33 We have restored macro stability and renewed confidence in the economy — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:32 We have achieved in one year, what seemed impossible to achieve in eight years — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 We have provided stable electricity supply — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:31 I am glad to report that we are on course to end the year with the fiscal deficit of 6.5 % — Ken Ofori - Atta 10:30 We are happy to note that our policies are yielding results that have brought back smiles to several Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 We resolve to be fiscally discipline — Ken Ofori Atta 10:29 I'm happy to note that we have turned the economy around — Ken Ofori Atta 10:28 When I presented the budget in March, I indicated our commitment to take strategic steps to fix the challenges facing the economy and restore hope to Ghanaians — Ken Ofori Atta 10:25 I thank the august House for all the support that has brought us so far — Ken Ofori Atta 10:24 Speaker of Parliament invites the Finance Minister to present the 2018 budget

Now, several research groups aim to assess the stability of the remaining ice shelf, map the region's seafloor and study a newly exposed ecosystem that's been hidden from the sun for up to 120,000 years.

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

ESSA provides much needed systemic stability after several years of uncertainty.

My paper in the American Journal of Education, The Stability of Observational and Student Survey Measures of Teaching Effectiveness, uses data from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching study to investigate this issue, looking at the year - to - year stability of several well known and widely - used observational and student survey measures (the Framework for Teaching, the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, the Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations, the Mathematical Quality of Instruction instrument, and the Tripod student survey).

I urge you to stand with me in calling on Congress to ensure the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund while committing itself to a sound, bipartisan, and long - term solution that will ensure the stability of our surface transportation funding for our Nation for the next several years.

The company is hoping to pull in $ 178 million in its IPO in the next few weeks, but even if it's successful in that endeavor, it still faces a number of challenges over the next several years as it struggles to reach financial stability on the backs of its products rather than temporary deals like carbon credit swaps.

In September of this year, the group severely compromised PSN's stability for several hours, much to the dismay of gamers worldwide.

Burning all fossil fuels, if the CO2 is released into the air, would destroy creation, the planet with its animal and plant life as it has existed for the past several thousand years, the time of civilization, the Holocene, the period of relative climate stability, warm enough to keep ice sheets off North America and Eurasia, but cool enough to maintain Antarctic and Greenland ice, and thus a stable sea level.

Coinciding with cycles of reduced sea ice, glaciers on the island Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea, also underwent their greatest retreat around 1920 to 1940.61 After several decades of stability, its tidewater glaciers began retreating again around the year 2000, but at a rate five times slower than the 1930s.47 The recent cycle of intruding warm Atlantic water45 is now waning and if solar flux remains low, we should expect Arctic sea ice in the Barents and Kara seas to begin a recovery and Arctic glaciers to stabilize within the next 15 years.

The entire history of Earth — especially the last several million years — indicates a system of remarkable stability, oscillating between 2 more or less fixed states regardless of wide variations in all known climate - influencing factors.

Ironically, even as Germany has embarked on its Energiewende, in recent years several new coal - fired power plants have come online that are designed to quickly ramp up and down, thus ensuring grid stability and reliability in the face of renewable intermittency.

When people are young and have large mortgages and a family of small fries to bring to adulthood, they often take life insurance policies that are intended to provide the family with several years of income or financial stability in the event of the death of the primary wage earner.

The latest update, which contains build number LMY47D, brings users a total of 104.4 MB of performance tweaks, stability improvements, and several all - important bug fixes that have long riddled users who have updated to Android Lollipop starting last year.

Apple has been accused of rushing iOS versions in recent years, with grand feature pronouncements that, upon arrival, either don't work properly or require several version updates before finding stability.

To date, several studies have followed up preschoolers with internalizing symptoms or disorders and established stability as well as risk of poor later childhood outcomes.31, 32 Furthermore, associations between temperament during the preschool period and later risk of depression in early adulthood have been demonstrated.33 However, to our knowledge this is the first available longitudinal follow - up data from a sample of 3 - to 6 - year - old children who met DSM - IV MDD symptom criteria to inform the continuity and course of preschool MDD.

This stability is evidenced by the long - term tenancy and strong renewal rate for the vast majority of the tenants despite the economic slowdown over the past several years.»