Sentences with phrase «than a decade allows»

This long timeframe allows of more than a decade allows general critical analysis and reflection.

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The low - interest - rate environment has allowed it to borrow to fund operations at levels that are about half the 10 percent interest rate the company paid for its financing more than a decade ago, says Clark Balderson, the company's chairman and chief financial officer.

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

A California company called Dexcom connected a continuous glucose monitor (a device that had been around for more than a decade) wirelessly to a smartphone (or smart watch), allowing the user to read, plot, and share blood sugar levels with anyone, at five - minute intervals, all day long — and sending an alert when patients were at risk.

For more than a decade, the so - called qualified foreign institutional investor scheme has allowed overseas investors to buy A-shares.

Yet China's solar panel production has more than quintupled in the past decade because, he said, Beijing has allowed market forces to winnow the industry to the most efficient competitors.

Technological advancements also allow employees to look beyond their current geographic area to find work in almost any career field, as well as allowing employees to find and apply to different job opportunities much more easily — both of which are vastly different than a couple of decades ago.

For more than a decade, Bloomberg has allowed readers to devour journalism on its consumer - facing website at no charge, in the hopes of burnishing its brand, generating advertising dollars and complementing its core terminal business.

Judge Neely asks this Court to heed Ms. Anderson's words, reject the Commission's recommendation to expel her from her profession, and allow her to continue serving her community with excellence as she has done for more than two decades.

Civil liberties are still quite high (though W tried to do them in), medical science has allowed people to live longer and better, crime has generally been trending downwards for decades, and the average American lives far, far better than his predecessors 70 years ago.

Advances over the past three decades have allowed fetuses that are a few weeks less than 24 weeks old to survive outside the woman's womb.

For your information frustrated gunner Diaby was unlucky with his injuries if he wasn't so injury prone he would have been a better player than either granit or Ramsey, if you ever saw him play or the few times he did he was vieraesque, hope I'm allowed to make up my own word, but injuries destroyed his career so to me you are just someone who is clueless about football... to all you guys asking for dm and Maherz basically you are saying we need to spend another 85 mil min to get those two, we also need to swich to four at the back, ok yeah let's regress we found that 3 at the back Suits our team we have been more solid defensively but no let's revert to the old system that hasn't won us anything major in a decade even tough we won a trophy beating the pl champions with the new system, a system that Many top teams are using for your information!!

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

They all live nearby, which allows us to continue our more than decade long traditions of Halloween costume parties, Thanksgiving breakfasts, Christmas dinners, and 4th of July weekends at the Oregon coast.

This allows New York to redeem itself from the ignominious status of place dead last in turnout nationwide this year and in the nation with fewer voters going to the polls than in any midterm election for at least three decades.

There's some truth in that — it allows us to slide into a system which has worked out all the mistakes of an arm's - length relationship with the EU over decades rather than making them all over again ourselves.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory County Executive Marc Poloncarz unveiled.

Although Ghana's laws are clear on illegal mining the activity, it has been allowed to continue for more than two decades.

MIH is one of the mechanisms the city utilizes to advance its plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next decade; it allows developers to build taller buildings than existing regulations allow if they include affordable housing.

A former teacher at a Catholic school in Queens who said she had reported the sexual abuse of seven female students by a priest in 1991 now claims that the Diocese of Brooklyn covered it up for more than a decade, allowing more girls to be abused.

Although Ghana's laws are clear on illegal mining, the activity has been allowed to continue for more than two decades.

Staff reductions in Erie County government, fewer coal - fired power generation, energy conservation projects in county office buildings and other measures allowed the county to meet the Paris accord's 26 percent reduction goal in greenhouse gases more than a decade ahead of schedule, according to an inventory Poloncarz unveiled Thursday.

Manufacturing production is growing at its fastest rate in more than a decade, and a driving force is the Internet - based technologies that allow for customization — the ability to rapidly build what you want, when you want it.

«The fine particles of this drug allow for it to be released slowly and stay in the abdomen,» said Katherine Roby, Ph.D., research associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at KU Medical Cancer, who started her pre-clinical work on Nanotax more than a decade ago.

A little more than a decade ago, postdocs were rare in France, in part because the traditional mode of recruitment at universities and public research organizations allowed researchers to get permanent positions at a much younger age than in most other countries.

More than 160,000 women answered annual questionnaires detailing the fractures they experienced during more than a decade of follow - ups, allowing the researchers to detect fracture trends among them.

«We found a change in 14C that was more abrupt than any found previously, except for cosmic ray events in AD 775 and AD 994, and our use of annual data rather than data for each decade allowed us to pinpoint exactly when this occurred.»

Johnson hypothesizes that warmer ocean temperatures in 2012 and 2013, which were 1.3 °C higher than the previous decade's average, allowed the crabs to move north.

Scientists discovered the antibody more than a decade ago, but it's only in the past five or six years that they've been able to isolate it and reproduce it in a lab, allowing them to manufacture it for injection.

The writers who were brought on board — writers who have been responsible for Michael Clayton, Breach, The Bourne Ultimatum and Lions for Lambs, some of the greatest political thrillers of the past few decades — put together a simple, fluid and admirably neat screenplay which underplays every plot twist and allows the audience to be led by the story and enjoy the ride, rather than the expected Hollywood sucker punches.

Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

More than a decade ago, Pete founded the widely acclaimed, Technology Leadership Institute, whose purpose is to allow educators at all levels to work together to frame the key issues of the day, share best practices, and participate in discussions with national educational leaders in a local setting.

If this annual pattern is allowed to continue, 13 million students will drop out of school during the next decade at a cost to the nation of more than $ 3 TRILLION.

Darling said she agrees that districts spending less than others because of state - imposed revenue limits set decades ago should be allowed to raise more revenue, but said that goal would likely require new money to accomplish.

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, October 23, 2016 For more than a decade, a political debate took place in the media, across the state and under the Capitol dome about whether Mississippi would allow public charter schools to operate.

A recent San Francisco Chronicle article points to the nearly 90 charter schools that may open this fall, in part because «flexibility is allowing charter schools to grow as other public schools are undoing a series of education reforms that began more than a decade ago when California's state budget was flush with cash.»

Beginning in 1997, when North Carolina's first charter school opened, state law set a maximum number of charter schools allowed to operate at 100, which was the status quo for more than a decade.

Set to be the firm's first small hot hatchback in more than a decade, the potent new Yaris will produce more than 155kW, allowing the Japanese car - maker to outgun all of its rivals.

, and that the lower costs of e-books, the worldwide digital distribution they afford me, and the ability to reach readers without going through layers of middlemen (publishers and agents) has allowed me to price my e-books competitively and sell more books in a month than I used to in a decade.

Long a leader in the southeastern Pennsylvania writing scene, Kathryn served for more than a decade in a variety of positions on the boards of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and the Philadelphia Writers» Conference, and volunteers as time allows with the Women's Fiction Writers Association.

In addition, if this is not about the fixed million but about reaching a level of wealth that allows you to retire: people who have practised moderate spending habits as adults for decades are typically also much better able to get along with less in retirement than others who did went with a high consumption lifestyle instead (e.g. the homeowners again).

That's what Hunter started doing decades ago, and he's banked more than $ 18,000 in premium savings, which has allowed him to keep raising his deductibles higher and higher, saving even more money.

When you combine all these factors with a software that doesn't allow any imports, you've got a tax software system that is more than a decade behind the times.

And indeed, thanks to a highly disciplined and cost cutting - focused management team, Franklin Resources enjoys higher - than - average profitability, including an impressive free cash flow margin that has allowed it to shower investors with buybacks and dividends to the tune of $ 13 billion over the last decade.

All of which is to say that when you're making decisions such as how much you need to save to build your nest egg or, if you're already retired, how much you can draw from your retirement accounts, prudence suggests that after nearly a decade of spectacular gains, you should allow for the possibility that future return could be lower, possibly much lower, than in the recent past.

Leonard is 39 and still a couple of decades out from retirement, but his successful career at such a young age as a hot - shot graphics designer for a prestigious advertising firm has allowed him to already amass a more than quarter million dollar portfolio — allowing him to already start saving up for college for his three daughters.

Probably the biggest change to IRS tax law in decades, the final and most important contribution of the IRS Fresh Start Program was the expansion of the Offer in Compromise Program, which allows you to negotiate your debt with the IRS, and offer to pay back less than you actually owe.

In less than a decade, the company grew to become the leading natural pet food at independent retailers, and this success allowed it to grow and eventually merge with other companies to create the WellPet LLC, which governs its operations today.

«Our team has been producing great tasting and healthy pet treats for more than 27 years and knows this move will allow us to continue making pets happy for decades to come.»