Sentences with phrase «study some years ago»

On the topic of bad statistics, Barna released a study years ago that said that the divorce rate was as high in the church as it is in the general population.

The state DOH announced the study a year ago.

I am just a person who believed what I was taught in Social Studies years ago — that American democracy was different, valuable and worth saving.

We did a study a year ago of the U.S. Ground - Based Midcourse Defense system based in California, and found that even under controlled test circumstances it has a 50 percent failure rate.

In fact, here's an interesting note: one reason dairy was linked to weight loss in various studies years ago was because of its calcium content, not because the milk came from a cow or because other sources of calcium don't exist outside of dairy.

You have done an excellent job with the presentation and it was interesting to be reminded of tricks of the mind, which I remember studying years ago.

I remember how nervous I was when we completed our home study years ago.

Not exact matches

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

Zach Sims founded Codecademy two years ago, after dropping out of Columbia University, where he was studying political science.

The Bank of Canada dutifully let the public know that it was studying the terms of its mandate almost two years ago.

Strikingly for Agios and partner Celgene, the therapy was in human clinical testing not so long ago (there was just a three year gap between the first human studies and Agios» regulatory submission to the FDA).

So what I've observed is when I first did the study two years ago — and I did it together with US News and WPP — when I first did this study, the US was ranked as the fourth - best brand.

And an independent study by iStrategy Labs published in January said that 3.3 million fewer teens use Facebook today than did three years ago.

And as the number of telecommuters increases (studies suggest about 35 % of employees do some telecommuting, up from about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.

Three years ago millennials surpassed Gen Xers to become the single largest cohort working in the United States, according to a study conducted by PEW Research.

About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving as of a few years ago, according to an industry study, a number that has been falling.

His investment philosophies, introduced almost forty years ago, are not only studied and applied by today's financiers and investors, but are also regarded by many as gospel.

Just over a year ago, the company trumpeted a study that said a whopping 92 % of Twitter users took immediate action after seeing tweets related to a TV show, whether that meant tuning into it or looking it up.

Several years ago they published a study in the influential journal Science that showed reading literary fiction was linked with an improved ability to better read fine emotional cues on people's faces.

A study five years ago by Microsoft found the average Internet user had about 6.5, maintained 25 accounts that require them and typed in about eight per day.

However, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development studied structural separation (links to PDF) across various industries several years ago and didn't find that to be the case:

A few years ago, researchers from Indiana University studied the television viewing habits of nearly 400 preteens for a year.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Jacobs: Former police commissioner Charles Ramsey implemented a lot of reforms towards police - involved shootings in the department after the Department of Justice released that study a few years ago.

There's also a South Korean study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.

Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky first introduced this concept more than 30 years ago in a study that built the foundation for what would become the field of behavioral finance.

The authors of the study, in fact, understood this years ago — noting that at «knowledge of people's personalities can also be used to manipulate and influence them.»

For example, a few years ago, a compelling study in the MIT Sloan Management Review used ROA data (among other metrics) to compare the performances of external and internal candidates in CEO successions.

Some 250 years ago, Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments described this phenomenon well: The person «whom heaven in its anger has visited with ambition... studies to distinguish himself in some laborious profession.

«I'm learning the operations and the struggles of a business firsthand, and I don't need to read some Harvard Business School case study from 30 years ago to learn that.»

Years ago, Courtright started studying online traffic generation / direction.

So, the study researchers decided to analyze quartz crystals at the site of one of these massive eruptions that erupted in California about 760,000 years ago, creating the Long Valley Caldera.

The crackdown on corporate crime sparked six years ago by accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom has done little to foster ethical behavior in the workplace, where many employees are still afraid to speak out about misconduct, a new study finds.

In fact, one of Marathon's clinical trials that the FDA used as part of its decision - making process was conducted more than 20 years ago, saving the firm plenty of study costs.

Thirty years ago he engineered a bacterial strain to produce an HIV enzyme so he could study how it enables HIV to infect human cells.

Partly through studying ice, he looks at what happened during other carbon cycles thousands and even millions of years ago in order to make assumptions about what could happen today.

A few years ago the publishers of the Myer - Briggs Assessment published a study on workplace conflict that attempted to quantify just how expensive conflict can be.

(Another recent consumer study, this one conducted by advertising agency Bensimon Byrne, found that more than half of respondents thought they were doing better financially now than they were a year ago, or before the recession.)

New Orleans — a city that's been scrutinized, criticized, loved, and simultaneously eulogized in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which ravaged the Big Easy 10 years ago this month — now proves itself a case study in resilience.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click - through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

Another study by professors from Kent State University and the University of Denver found that Democrats did not benefit from marijuana being on the ballot four years ago.

Carrie Bohlig started selling Amway products just before college graduation nearly 10 years ago as a backup plan to go with her liberal studies degree.

Omenetto began to study silk just five years ago, intrigued by the material's remarkable optical properties.

Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.

Michael Hudson: In the case of the oil spike a few years ago, there have been a number of studies that have showed that almost all of the demand for oil that suddenly pushed prices up was speculative demand.

UBS tried to show that this was not applicable to China and did a study several years ago showing that among developing countries this relationship didn't hold.

According to a recent study by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, 70 % of companies are producing more content than they were a year ago.

He did focus groups with Indian students a few years ago and asked them to describe potential study - abroad destinations.

Because when the study was designed 16 years ago, the whole notion of» good fats» was not yet on the scientific scope.

A prefeasibility study is expected before the end of this year, a milestone in the rapid trajectory of Maricunga, which was not part of LPI's asset portfolio when it listed on the ASX just over 12 months ago.