Sentences with phrase «times in the past decade by»

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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.

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.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

In mid-winter, crude slumped below $ 30 a barrel for the first time in more than a decade, but was back above $ 40 by mid-April, and has been trading between $ 45 and $ 50 for most of the past two monthIn mid-winter, crude slumped below $ 30 a barrel for the first time in more than a decade, but was back above $ 40 by mid-April, and has been trading between $ 45 and $ 50 for most of the past two monthin more than a decade, but was back above $ 40 by mid-April, and has been trading between $ 45 and $ 50 for most of the past two months.

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 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!

The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the top 4 and will now drop out of the top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two races that define a top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point to one thing WENGER OUT

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.

If his comments had been made by a Labour leader at any other time in the past four decades they would have caused controversy, Mr Clarke insisted.

Over the past several decades, he has been called to service on numerous occasions by governors and mayors during times of crisis and today, I too am turning to him to assist me in my continued efforts to stabilize New York's economy.»»

-- «You have to be a multimillionaire to buy a Manhattan apartment,» by Reuters via New York Post: «The average sales price of an apartment in Manhattan is expected to top $ 2 million this year for the first time, but prices are seen leveling off in 2017 after nearly doubling over the past decade.

Sir Roger says Mr Lansley had never bothered to visit him until a fortnight ago, despite his success in halving heart - disease death rates and slashing waiting times in the past decade, with minimal involvement by the private sector.

The research looks at the causes for these changes by studying how families have split up work time in the United States over the past three decades.

In the U.S., fatal heroin overdoses have increased in the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdoseIn the U.S., fatal heroin overdoses have increased in the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdosein the past decade by 300 percent, with fentanyl — a substance that is 20 to 50 times more potent than heroin — and its analogs increasingly contributing to overdoses.

In the meantime, the number of bariatric surgeries done each year in the United States has multiplied by 20 times over the past two decadeIn the meantime, the number of bariatric surgeries done each year in the United States has multiplied by 20 times over the past two decadein the United States has multiplied by 20 times over the past two decades.

The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800 years; that we could see almost 9 °C of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human timescales».

In the past 3 - 4 decades, there has been an increasing trend in high - humidity heat waves, which are characterized by the persistence of extremely high night - time temperature.1 The combination of high humidity and high night - time temperature can make for a deadly pairing, offering no relief and posing a particular threat for the elderlIn the past 3 - 4 decades, there has been an increasing trend in high - humidity heat waves, which are characterized by the persistence of extremely high night - time temperature.1 The combination of high humidity and high night - time temperature can make for a deadly pairing, offering no relief and posing a particular threat for the elderlin high - humidity heat waves, which are characterized by the persistence of extremely high night - time temperature.1 The combination of high humidity and high night - time temperature can make for a deadly pairing, offering no relief and posing a particular threat for the elderly.

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.

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 average salary for high - school principals in the United States this school year topped $ 60,000 for the first time, but their annual pay increase is the lowest in the past decade, according to a survey by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

It is long past time to move to the next level of reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system for education and the means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

In fact, more than half of all buyers in all that time have come from other automotive brands, and the luxury compact crossover segment has grown by 29 percent in the past decadIn fact, more than half of all buyers in all that time have come from other automotive brands, and the luxury compact crossover segment has grown by 29 percent in the past decadin all that time have come from other automotive brands, and the luxury compact crossover segment has grown by 29 percent in the past decadin the past decade.

Times have changed radically in the last decade... even more so, the past few years — today's author has to be prepared to work their butt off to get his book noticed by the media, the public, you name it; they often are disconnected from the editor who «acquired» the book and the one that does the editing; and advances have shrunk, even disappeared (many authors work for far less than minimum wage).

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.

The work has gone on public display for the first time at the Saatchi Gallery in London, part of an exhibition bringing together 16 chess sets made over the past decade by contemporary artists, including Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and Rachel Whiteread.

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.

Guided by notions that art matters, that artists» voices are important in shaping society, and that public spaces are places or creative and free expression, Creative Time has been collaborating with thousands of artists to present the most innovative art in the public realm over the past four decades.

Even with that growth of emissions from 2012 - 2013 by top emitters, if we expand the timescale, their combined emissions have remained the same for the past decade.3 In that time, the United States peaked its emissions in 2007, and the European Union, the third - largest emitter, saw steady reductionIn that time, the United States peaked its emissions in 2007, and the European Union, the third - largest emitter, saw steady reductionin 2007, and the European Union, the third - largest emitter, saw steady reductions.

[Poitou & Bréon] Over the first 700 m there is surely no decrease of the oceanic heat content, even if the recent warming is less than the warming of past decades: on the figure below in green, the time span since 2003 carefully selected by sceptics to support their talks

The emergence of exoplanet research, spurred by the breath - taking discovery of so many new planets in the past decade, is at once tremendously exciting and at the same time unbelievably challenging, given the difficulty in detecting and characterizing these planets from so great a distance.»

The fact that poor Asian countries with most of the world's population have enjoyed faster economic growth rates than the rich countries over the past 30 years is probably the most important socio - economic fact of our time, but it wasn't foreseen by the modellers and, incredibly, many in the IPCC milieu still deny that it's happened: three IPCC chapters (Chapters 1 and 9 of the WG II report and Chapter 1 of WG III report) go out of their way to assert that global inequality has been increasing in recent decades.

New York Times highlights some new research showing how peak attendance in US national parks has shifted by four days, over the past three decades.

In the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changeIn the almost sure knowledge that the earth never experienced a runaway greenhouse even with ancient CO2 levels 10 to 20 times greater than today, these anti-science scoundrels insist with a «high level of confidence» that this amplification is real and it's based on nothing more than faster than expected surface temperature rise in the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changein the past few decades which can be TOTALLY explained by multi-decadal cyclic behavior in ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changein ocean currents, trade winds, and / or solar magnetic activity causing small global average albedo changes.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

The simple notion is that viewers log in to leave their memories of a time gone by, whether a day or decades in the past.

In the past two decades, the field of legal writing has made great strides within the academy.51 The course is now a required part of the law school curriculum, pursuant to the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools.52 It is taught, most often, by full - time faculty who specialize in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.In the past two decades, the field of legal writing has made great strides within the academy.51 The course is now a required part of the law school curriculum, pursuant to the ABA's Standards for Approval of Law Schools.52 It is taught, most often, by full - time faculty who specialize in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.in teaching legal writing, and who, increasingly, have similar titles, benefits, and rights to participate in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.in school governance as faculty who teach doctrinal courses.53

Adjustable - rate mortgages, used by first - time buyers in past decades to purchase more expensive properties, may not be an option because of stricter lending standards adopted after the housing crash, he said.

Since we've all spent a fair amount of time either cooking or eating in the past few days, I am inspired to share a kitchen renovation completed by Poovey Construction nearly a decade ago.