Sentences with phrase «times in the past decade as»

Western Canadian production is discounted somewhat both by quality and transportation costs, but has spiked several times in the past decade as pipeline space runs tight.

Not exact matches

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

Over the past decade, there have been times (such as in 1988) when higher interest rates have pushed up the exchange rate (i.e. a positive relationship between the two), but there have also been episodes (such as in 1985 and 1986) when a weakening exchange rate caused the Bank to raise interest rates (a negative relationship).

For someone who has been labeled both a «perma - bear» over the past decade, as well as a «one lonely raging bull» in the early 1990's (Los Angeles Times), I can't say that either description is fitting at the moment.

In addition to reinventing himself multiple times, from the long - forgotten battles with the FCC in the 90s to giving Charlie Rose a run for his money over the past decade as «greatest interviewer alive,» Howard's savviest role is behind the scenes as a platform rainmakeIn addition to reinventing himself multiple times, from the long - forgotten battles with the FCC in the 90s to giving Charlie Rose a run for his money over the past decade as «greatest interviewer alive,» Howard's savviest role is behind the scenes as a platform rainmakein the 90s to giving Charlie Rose a run for his money over the past decade as «greatest interviewer alive,» Howard's savviest role is behind the scenes as a platform rainmaker.

As I have written about several times of late, research in the past four decades has shown that the predominant largest factor influencing decisions on the part of buyers are their goals and their associated goal - directed behaviors.

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

Tireless lobbying by that California - based society for the past decade is largely responsible for the introduction in a number of states of legislation that would require giving equal time in science classes to the teaching of the alleged single account of creation as recorded in Genesis.

The consumption of spices in the United States has exploded almost three times as fast as the population over the past several decades, data from the USDA reveals.

As a group, the over-under on times they have been below 42nd Street in the past decade might be about five.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

FC Basel are no pushovers, as they have proved time and time again against English sides, but many people were left wondering how the most dominant Real Madrid side assembled in decades could only manage to put one goal past them.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

American families have undergone dramatic changes in the past five decades, as the share of adults who are married has declined from 72 % in 1960 to about 50 % today.18 Compared with single fathers and fathers who live with a partner, married fathers work longer hours in their job and have the least amount of leisure time.

Richard Basciano, who fended off decades of legal challenges to preserve Show World as the last outpost of his vast New York pornographic empire, allowing him to reign for a time as the only surviving Times Square sultan of smut, died this past week in Manhattan at the age of 91.

Time is ripe for a shift in focus on a new subject, which has remained largely undiscussed over the past decade: drug use (as opposed to addiction) among the general population.

Richard Leonard, who is only a few months into his tenure as Scottish Labour's seventh leader in the past decade, might deny being a Marxist, but his speech certainly served up some old - time socialist religion.

«He has spent the past two decades building the nano facility as the most advanced research complex of its kind at any university in the world,» according to the Albany Times Union

Smith, 56, despite past hints of scandal, emerged as chairman of the Senate's Democrats after they took control in Albany for the first time in four decades in 2008.

For people operating on a shorter time frame, there is good news as well, for in the past decade or so, there has been substantial progress in this field.

The disease, treatable with a one - time dose of penicillin or, as part of the renewed eradication effort, the antibiotic azithromycin, has experienced a significant resurgence in the past two decades.

Building on past observations of the white dwarf called SDSSJ1043 +0855 (the dead core of a star that originally was a few times the mass of the Sun), which has been known to be gobbling up rocky material in its orbit for almost a decade, the team used Keck Observatory's HIRES instrument fitted to the 10 - meter Keck I telescope as well as data from the Hubble Space Telescope to measure and characterize the material being accreted by the star.

Imagine trying to do these three exercises with free weights as many of the old time bodybuilders did in decades gone past.

I really enjoyed this post because I have gone through this multiple times in the past 2 decades, and definitely in more rapid succession as I have been pregnant 4 times in the last 8 years.

As we humans move along in the concept of time, eras and lives — we tend to romanticize past decades by literature, movies and modern interpretations of past clothes and trends.

The idea of an U.N.C.L.E. adaptation now feels as old as the source material itself: A big - screen version has been in the works since the»90s, attached at various times to Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh and reportedly starring every white guy to grace the pages of People in the past two decades (including Don Draper himself, Jon Hamm.)

He traverses time to right a violent, decades - past crime against his mother, but the ripples of his good intentions prove disastrous, as a fractured, alternate reality now exists in place of the familiar one.

Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time documentary was decades in the making, a realization of a vision and a goal for the filmmaker — an exploration of the universe and all creation, billed as a look into our planetary past and a search for humanity's place in the future.

In the past decade, monitoring the provision of quality education primarily meant tracking inputs into schools such as per pupil educational expenditures, number fo trained teachers, class sizes and teacher - pupil ratio, instructional time andaccess to ICT.

While higher education has made necessary strides in the past few decades, as Jack recently wrote in The New York Times, «they have thought less about what the inclusion means for academic life, or how colleges themselves might need to change to help the least advantaged on their road to success.»

Indeed, anyone who has spent much time in the company of school reformers in the past decade has seen this practice turn almost comical, as when charter - school operators try to one - up one another over who can claim the most disadvantaged student population.

Tune into Part II of this webinar series highlighting insights from the newly released book, The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future, which delves into the ways in which the OST field has matured over the past two decades as a partner in helping children and youth reach their full potentPast, Present, and Future, which delves into the ways in which the OST field has matured over the past two decades as a partner in helping children and youth reach their full potentpast two decades as a partner in helping children and youth reach their full potential.

Now, as in past decades, most teachers devote little time to explicit vocabulary instruction.

This is the first car I have owned that has navigation and after using my phone as for this duty the past five years, it feels like I went back in time a solid decade.

The overall tone is elegiac as the author seamlessly weaves past and present, going back in time decades before Lydia's birth to uncover the factors in her parents» lives which ultimately contribute to Lydia's demise.

Yet over time as the decades past, Jack Bogle was joined by powerful names in the financial industry, even by renowned stock picker, Warren Buffett, in advocating for the benefits of a diversified portfolio.

And as promised, a good time to kick - off The Great Irish Share Valuation Project, with the ISEQ on a breather for the past year (down 0.6 %)(but still over 40 % off its all - time high, as set nearly a decade ago now), and the Celtic Phoenix offering more opportunity than ever... Long - time readers will be familiar with TGISVP (here's my kick - off posts from 2012, 2013 & 2014), where I attempt to analyse & value every listed Irish stock out there (and usually piss off some tired & emotional shareholders in the process).

I noticed this year that in 2011, I wrote to you that the major risks for the economy would be felt in the next three years and after that, common stocks would do very well over the next decade — and it was unlikely that bonds would outperform stocks in the next decade as they had in the past two decades, given that long term treasuries were yielding only 2.9 % at the time!

As a former foster mom who has fostered a hundred, maybe more dogs / puppies in the past decade, I have realized some pretty neat tricks and tips to help save some time and money with foster dogs.

This park has outranked Cedar Park as the «top theme park with the most roller coasters» several times in the past two decades.

To remind Inafune that we've all messed up at some point, and as a public service announcement for gamers to be a bit more cautious next time around, I've assembled a list of the top 11 games that have built us up only to break us down in the past decade.

Encompassing some 100 works in painting, sculpture, video, and installation, «The Everywhere Studio» presents over 50 artists from the past five decades to reveal the artist's studio as a charged site that has both predicted and responded to broader social and economic changes of our time.

From Carolyn Somers: «After two decades of working with the Foundation in many capacities, as a Founding Member, officer and most importantly, as its Executive Director for the past ten years, it is time for me to move on.

Roberta Smith of The Times, who often singles out new work touched by native traditions, has called for fully integrating folk art and Americana into museum displays of past decades, much as another show has claimed outsider art in Switzerland as an inspiration for Abstract Expressionism.

Encompassing some 100 works in painting, sculpture, video, and installation, The Everywhere Studio brings together over 50 artists from the past five decades to reveal the artist's studio as a charged site that has both predicted and responded to broader social and economic changes of our time.

The present display of contemporary art from the Museum's collection explores some of the tensions embedded in recent experiences of time, as expressed in art made in the past few decades.

Yet Pollock's radical reorientation of time in painting - his concentration on the instant at which the paint hit the canvas, purging references to past time or previous painting - was the central inspiration for the immediacy in the gestural painting of the fifties as well as in the «happenings» that began at the end of the decade.

A decade later, when the Museum of Modern Art staged a major retrospective, a writer in the New York Times described him as «the most remarkable sculptor to have appeared anywhere in the world during the past 25 years».

In fact, the ocean has absorbed so much heat — about 20 times as much as the atmosphere over the past half - century — that some models suggest that it is likely to warm the air another degree Fahrenheit (0.55 ° Celsius) worldwide over the coming decades.