Sentences with phrase «today than that of the past»

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Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair who is a board member of the Commission on Presidential Debates, recently said that presidential debate moderators today have been facing more criticism than they did in years past.

Polished or not, the VR we are seeing today is better than anything we've seen in the past, and the promise of what VR could become in a few more years is tantalizing.

The Small Business American Dream Gap Report examined today's economic landscape compared to a year ago and found that despite the positive outlook for small businesses, nearly three out of 10 small businesses reported finding it harder than in the past to reduce operating costs.

Nearly half of HR professionals claim their organization previously had a policy against rehiring former employees — even if the employee left in good standing — yet 76 % are more accepting of hiring boomerang employees today than in the past.

According to the survey, 56 percent of millennials believe CEOs have a greater responsibility today than in years past to speak up about social issues, compared to just 28 percent of generation X and baby boomers.

So instead of being a prescriptive book that says, «Follow these steps and this will happen,» it's more like, «Open your mind to the possibilities and the fact that there might be more opportunity today for a different kind of leadership than there was in the past.»

Today there are more Airstreams on the road than ever before, and, remarkably, most of those were made in the past decade or so.

«Today, rather than create results we won't be able to carry out like in the past, we should make good results by talking frankly about current issues, issues of interest,» Kim said.

And while people were much more likely to «mate for life» in the past, today a sizable share have children with more than one partner — sometimes within marriage, and sometimes outside of it.

While the number of startups has increased exponentially, the number of active venture capitalists has shrunk by more than 2 / 3rds in the past decade to less than 750 today and still shrinking.

The price of insulin — a lifesaving drug — has reached record highs as Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi raised prices more than 240 percent over the past decade to often over $ 300 a vial today, with price rises frequently in lockstep, according to information technology firm Connecture.

The average absolute value of current account balances as a share of GDP is higher today than it was three decades ago, with much of the run - up occurring in the past decade, and there is less dispersion around the average.

The current rate of 4.1 % is lower today than it has been 86 % of the time over the past 70 years [2].

Today, the pool of savings necessary to generate a given level of income needs to be higher than in the past, a situation compounded by the decline in defined benefit pension plans.

Even if the growth rates of nominal GDP and U.S. corporate revenues (including foreign revenues) over the coming 20 years match their 4 % growth rate of the past 20 years, and even if the most reliable valuation measures merely touch their historical norms 20 years from today, the S&P 500 Index two decades from now will trade more than 20 % lower than where it trades today.

Another factor that is different today than in the past is that many of the large western Canadian lumber companies have been buying mills in the U.S..

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

This shift is likely to be one of the primary reasons that equities are more expensive today than they used to be the past.

Either earnings have to grow much faster than sales, or sales growth has to come from things that aren't advertising, or the ad industry has to grow much faster than it did in the past, or you have to pick an end point for the year you are measuring to that is very near today - or, you'd end up with Google having a huge share of global advertising spending.

With the exception of the 2007 market peak, most of the bull markets of the past 25 years witnessed a peak valuation on the S&P 500 of roughly 20x to 22x 12 - month trailing earnings, higher than the S&P 500's 17.5 x valuation today.

@Noah, That book is ridiculous... He claims the universe is likely younger than 13.7 b.y. and backs it up by claiming that 100 + measurements taken over the past 300 years supports the claim that light does not travel at a constant rate... As if people 300 years ago could measure with the kind of accuracy we can today

Further, Christians are still persecuted in much of the world up until today, and this last century has produced more martyrs than all the past 2000 years combined.

One thing I am sure of... that we can learn from the Christians of the past, just as much (if not more) than we can learn from Christians of today.

While it might be true that those who lived in the time of the Prophet could understand religion better than the people of today who must study Islam by means of documents only, we can not ignore the considerable change in the social situation and world conditions during the past fourteen centuries.

Human Trafficking and child slavery is more common today than it was during the 300 years of slavery of our past.

With regard to the CS LEWIS part of the answers, people think due to advance technology that, «they» themselves are smarter than people in the past, irronically, they fail to realize how many engineers can actuallu build he world we live in today?

Biblical literalism is a powerful force today; it tends to imprison people in attitudes that were suitable enough when science and technology were little dreamt of but which fail to illuminate a society in which, for instance, it is desirable, because of the effects of modern hygiene on death rates, for women to bear, on the average, perhaps a third as many infants as were appropriate two or three thousand or even two hundred years ago, a society in which war might mean something like the end of the species, or at least vastly closer to that than any war of the past could be.

The moral directorship of the past was perhaps more effective than any consensus of today in the realm of personal morality; but even that is far from clear, given the bitter divisions in the 19th century over temperance, chastity, sabbatarianism and a dozen other moral issues.

Hence today even in the Church much more is called in question than in the recent past, changes are made much more quickly, and instead of venerable customs we meet much that is new and even questionable.

’25 For resurrection is not something less than the traditional view has made it out to be, but something greater, something that can be expressed in quite a variety of ways, something that has had a meaning for men in very different ages in the past, and can continue to have a meaning for men today and in the future.

Our discipleship, which often has tended to be moralistic in a legal sense, also needs to be reconceived so that love has the preeminence, rather than the coldly moralistic interpretations of the divine purpose so often taught the past and even today hanging on in many supposedly Christian circles.

In my view, we probably know less today about God and «true» theology than did people of the past, such as Adam, Abraham, and Moses.

The most recognized face of any Jewish leader of the past fifty years belongs to the late Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, even more so today than at his death in 1994.

Thus, aspects of the most barbarous past become elements of an infinitely respectable «culture,» since the only truly evil thing today is to think and act according to the idea that one form of life is better than another.»

More than 4 out of 5 evangelicals (84 %), practicing Christians (85 %), and those who attended church in the past week (85 %) said there was a lot of anger and hostility among the different ethnic and racial groups in America today.

In 1978 he wrote about Christ Without Myth: «The newer theological developments of the past decade, especially the emergence of the various theologians of liberation, compelled the conclusion that the most urgent theological problem today, at any rate for the vast number of persons who still do not share in the benefits of modernity, is a problem more of action and justice than of belief and truth.

Indeed, we could say that the work of predicting, controlling and governing nature, which science today renders more practicable than in the past, is itself a part of the Creator's plan.»

Some argue, and I would not disagree, that they run more than 1,300 years into the past, and that what confronts us today is the contemporary expression of a civilizational contest that has ebbed and flowed for well over a millennium.

Partly because of Niebuhr's influence the churches are more likely today than in some American pasts to produce voices protesting the idolatries of nation, class, race and greed.

Today, though, theology has reached the point where it seems to be saying more clearly than in the past that God redeems us not because of suffering but rather from it and in spite of it.

But with all this emphasis on the demand - and - supply of mild paprika during the past one hundred years, one is tempted to speculate that Hungarian food before Horvath and the Palfys must have been much hotter than it is today.

«With today's announcement, this initiative has awarded more than $ 1.3 million in childhood obesity prevention funding over the past three years,» said Tom Cochran, CEO and Executive Director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

More than 1 in 20 are regular shoppers of organics and almost 2 in 3 have bought organic in the past year, a Report launched today reveals.

The appreciation and recognition of excellence in beverage operations is upon us and the current trends of classic drinks, higher quality ingredients and attention to detail all points to a time in the past that seems immeasurably better than today.

Why are we trying to postpone the situation that will surely happened, Wenger go Wenger stay, that Man can't be there forever even if he's winning trophies yearly, if winning champions league and premier league in between 10 years now is primary joy of the fans then Wenger can go now, another history can happen bad today good tomorrow is the process to greatness and success, all the more successful club have got some difficult past, it's better than remaining in limbo and zombie, no fail no passed

As painful as the past months have been, and with our side having won only one of our last eight away days, I still can't bring myself to expect any less than a win against today's opponents.

Older fans like myself and also others of more than 25 years watching, will surely agree that players in general are just not as tough today as in the past.

No secret the players of today are bigger, stronger and faster (hey wasn't there a steroid documentary called that???) than the stars of the past, humans didn't evolve that fast, science did.

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

There is no question that kids of today «play less» than kids in the past.