Sentences with phrase «several years this included»

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

But plans for the next several years include «common courtyards, common plazas, more parking, more coffee shops, more sandwich shops — more places where people can share ideas and run into each other,» he says.

I have worked in the Middle East several years including Saudi Arabia.

The focus on providing better care to the dogs in our possession has led to many changes over the last several years including creating playgroups, having volunteer dog walkers, dog bathers, and dog trainers, and even providing some adoptable dogs with kennel buddies to prevent boredom while they await their new families.

Over a period of several years this included incredible improvements in reproductive health, and also in orthopedic problems in young dogs of the giant breeds.

Indie studios have branched out into interesting territory over the last several years including a foray back into the retro - styled world of tabletop gaming.

I return to summer group shows in several years including their baggy themes in 2013 and more concise ones in 2017 summer group shows.

I return to summer group shows in several years including their baggy themes in 2013 and 2014 — and a step outdoors in 2016.

However, I have also lived in Asia for several years including Hong Kong and Seoul.

Not exact matches

It's a much shorter run than Elton's John's farewell tour which is expected to include 300 shows across several years, which may also make tickets a little harder to come by.

Over the next several years, Burton's perception problems grew (including bad PR from a line of Playboy - branded snowboards).

The Wall Street Journal report said that while the agreement includes the potential for multiple Mario - themed movies, only one film is planned, and it won't debut for several years.

Well, there are several factors, including a fan base that's grown over the years from the original Redditors who found Imgur a handy place to save a meme or personal photo.

The result was all the more disappointing given the disappearance in the last year of several competitors, including The Sports Authority, which went bankrupt.

Our outsized energy index, which has helped push the S&P / TSX Composite Index up 15 % year - to - date, also includes several rate - sensitive stocks — though they're more susceptible to movements in oil prices — and is up 33 %.

At the end of the year, several urgent fiscal issues will converge, including the expiration of lowered individual income tax rates enacted a decade ago under President George W. Bush.

Economic inequality has been a top campaign theme for Democrats for the past several years, including for President Barack Obama.

The ride - hailing startup raised several billion dollars in recent years, including $ 3.5 billion from a Saudi Arabian investment fund and $ 2 billion in the form of a leveraged loan.

So, the studio's biggest question mark of the year will be November's Justice League, which will bring together several superheroes from that universe of films, including Wonder Woman as well as Batman and Superman.

It has already secured up to several billion dollars of financing from Chinese state - controlled banks, including the China Development Bank, for the project, which Mexico estimates will cost $ 10 billion over 10 years, one of the people said.

Apparently, Spaces never caught on, and it joins several other messaging and social networking apps that Google has revamped or shuttered over the years because of a lack of popularity, including Google + and Wave.

He compared Twitter to several other social media networks, including Instagram — which has grown more than 50 percent — compared to Twitter, which has grown about 3 percent in the last fiscal year.

Founder of The Factory Agency, he represents several Paralympians, including Taylor Lipsett, who despite suffering from a serious bone disease is a member of the U.S. sled hockey team that won the gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Paralympics four years ago.

In the past few years, Apple has purchased several AR startups, including FlyBy Media and Metaio.

Also, several major tech companies — including Dell, PayPal, DISH Network and even Microsoft — began accepting the virtual currency as a form of payment this year.

Virgin Australia has announced several new services that will be available next year, including a flight from Perth to Abu Dhabi.

My father and I counted at least five Ford Taurus (including several Taurus station wagons) as having cycled through our family while I was growing up — overlapping some of the car's peak years — including my first car.

It generally takes several years for them to produce their reports, in part because committee members — including doctors, public health experts, medical examiners, and the like — have other demands on their time and aren't compensated.

Aurora Innovation has agreed to several terms, including that it will not recruit Tesla employees for one year, beginning February 1, 2017, and will name any former Tesla employees who have been hired by the startup.

• You know several of their goals for the year, including personal and / or business goals.

This past year Delta has introduced several new services in a bid to win over more customers including RFID baggage handling that lets customers track where their luggage is via an app.

Bossio did several prison stints, the longest of which was 12 years at multiple prisons including New York's Rikers Island for a bank robbery.

In Market Force Information's annual consumer survey, Wawa beat out several major sandwich chains — including last year's winner, Firehouse Subs — to be crowned America's best sandwich shop.

After six construction companies completed the prototypes late last year, the barriers were tested on several fronts, including whether they could prevent illegal climbing and digging, and whether they are safe for Border Patrol agents.

(Last year, Kallman launched Boston Harbor Distillery, a maker of craft whiskey, including several products distilled from limited - edition Samuel Adams beers.)

The 70 - person startup's first partners include several luxury consumer - product companies, which plan to debut Modern Meadow's first commercially available products later this year.

The US has done several military exercises with partners in the region this year and increased deployments, including of Patriot missile air - defense systems, to NATO member - states in Eastern Europe.

Last year, the PGA of America announced its partnership with Trump, which included this year's Grand Slam as well as several future tournaments slated to take place at Trump golf clubs around the U.S..

Several employees at Uber, including CEO Travis Kalanick, visited a karaoke bar known for offering escort services on a trip to Seoul, South Korea, three years ago, according a report in The Information.

Several high - profile men at Fox News were ousted in the past two years after sexual misconduct allegations, including former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and hosts Bill O'Reilly and Eric Bolling.

Missing from the list completely are several franchises that have made appearances in previous years, including EA's «Madden» and «FIFA» games.

I've bought several over the years, and all are still in great shape, including a fleece that has been dragged up and down mountains all over the country.

The oldest university in the state, Columbia called several locations across New York City home after its founding in 1754 — including a schoolhouse adjacent to Trinity Church in the financial district and a 40 - year occupation in Midtown — before settling into its iconic campus on 116th Street.

I quickly learned that Turkey is the envy of many with several programs to help new businesses including tax credits to angel investors and grants to technology - based entrepreneurs to support their first year of operation.

Several Canadian banks have operated in the region, including Royal Bank (TSX: RY), which announced earlier this year it would sell its Jamaican banking operations.

«It was really only in the last year to 18 months that it was clear that all the pieces came together and we could actually finish what we couldn't before,» says Walker, who will lead Upside along with several other Priceline (pcln) alumni, including former CTO Scott Case and Tim Brier, the former president of Priceline Europe.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

Several high - profile funds have disappointed in recent years, including David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital and Nelson Peltz's Trian Fund Management, which posted gains of just 1.6 percent and 3.7 percent respectively last year.

CHICAGO, May 2 - Global grain marketers have seized upon trade tensions between the United States and several of its top export markets, including China, to turn around struggling trading units following one of the toughest years ever for the industry.

Several other startups have emerged in recent years that have helped popularize containers and data center software including Docker, which has raised over $ 150 million, and Mesosphere, which raised $ 73.5 million in March led by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (hpe).