Sentences with phrase «watershed year in»

Roku has had a watershed year in 2017, bolstering its lead over companies like Google and Amazon in the race for hardware sales superiority, and adding Roku TV to myriad new models, including some from RCA and some from TCL.

Lastly, 2016 was something of a watershed year in terms of movement by partners among the elite firms.

In the Analects, Confucius says that fifty is a watershed year in one's life, a time when one becomes conscious of the «mandate of heaven,» or one's position in the universe.

This year will be considered a watershed year in the evolution of e-books and e-readers according to a recent report from Gartner.

As we head into the closing month of this watershed year in the tablet industry, with still more compelling Android tablets promised to hit retail before we turn the corner into 2012, I have been reflecting on the past year and pondering what is yet to come.

In 2008 — 09, Colegio Inglés had a watershed year in terms of teachers learning to enhance one another's skills.

«This was a watershed year in the use of the Internet for political activism,» says John Palfrey, codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

«Atiku Abubakar urges all Nigerians to support the government at all levels noting that as a watershed year in the fight against terrorism, the attention of the nation would now focus on reconstruction and rehabilitation of the areas devastated by the insurgents as well as provision of critical socio - economic infrastructure in other parts of the country for development purposes.»

But it should also go down as the watershed year in which the shift took place from believing that drug prohibition is protective, to understanding that it is one of the most malign and corrupting global policies in existence.

This was supposed to be a watershed year in politics.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — Some of the largest brewers in the U.S. are trying to reduce their water - to - beer ratio as drought and wildfire threaten the watersheds where they draw billions of gallons every year.

And, as it did last year, Salesforce will «offset» the water consumed during its upcoming Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco — there are 170,000 people registered — by investing in a local watershed conservation project.

Survival times for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast and colon cancers have improved dramatically over the past forty years, to the point where scientists are saying they are at «an amazing watershed» in understanding the disease.

On Friday, after years of rumored sexual - harassment claims and Thursday's watershed New York Times story in which five women — four of them named — came forward with allegations, the comedian Louis C.K. is responding.

In what is widely seen as a watershed moment, the Bank of Japan on Tuedsay doubled its inflation target to 2 percent and made an open - ended commitment to buy assets from next year, surprising markets that had expected another incremental increase in its $ 1.1 trillion asset - buying and lending prograIn what is widely seen as a watershed moment, the Bank of Japan on Tuedsay doubled its inflation target to 2 percent and made an open - ended commitment to buy assets from next year, surprising markets that had expected another incremental increase in its $ 1.1 trillion asset - buying and lending prograin its $ 1.1 trillion asset - buying and lending program.

After 25 years of negotiations, the federal government, four provinces and two territories finally agreed to protect the world's third largest watershed in 1997.

In January of this year, Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. announced its intention to mine gravel and placer gold from 13 claims covering nearly 1000 hectares in the Chehalis River watershed near MissioIn January of this year, Mosquito Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. announced its intention to mine gravel and placer gold from 13 claims covering nearly 1000 hectares in the Chehalis River watershed near Missioin the Chehalis River watershed near Mission.

2015 was a watershed year for equity financing in general and real estate financing in particular.

Years from now, we'll talk about this past twelve months as a watershed in labour history.

[1] Described as a «watershed election,» this will be the country's first election without its influential former leader, Lee Kuan Yew, who passed away in March this year.

2006 was a watershed year for financial and economic reform in Japan.

Vital has held Watershed since listing in late 2005, spending $ 15 million at the project in its first two years as a listed company.

Silicon Valley's obsession with cryptocurrencies requires no more evidence than the incredible rise of bitcoin, the alternative currency that crossed $ 10,000 in value on Tuesday in what is a watershed moment for the nine - year - old cash substitute.

And McDonald's, in a watershed moment, announced that all of the eggs it uses will come from cage - free farms — freeing an estimated 8 million hens a year from tight confinement when the policy is fully implemented.

One of Stiefel's major concerted contributions in the last three years was the Reason Rally, an event held on the National Mall in Washington, which was billed as a watershed moment in the atheism movement.

Silverman is billing the weekend as a watershed movement in the atheist «coming out,» of recent years.

Plant With Purpose began work in the Dominican Republic 27 years ago after recognizing the connection between deforestation and rural poverty, and has responded by developing a holistic program of watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, microfinance, and Christian discipleship.

In July, Dr Pepper Snapple Group made a commitment of $ 1 million over the next three years to fund ongoing restoration and conservation activities in various watershedIn July, Dr Pepper Snapple Group made a commitment of $ 1 million over the next three years to fund ongoing restoration and conservation activities in various watershedin various watersheds.

(16) HALF MOON BAY (14 - 1) COMMENT: Watershed year for the Cougars comes two - points shy from a perfect 15 - 0 season; fall 44 - 42 in 3 - A State Bowl at Steele Canyon - Spring Valley.

2013 - 14 is shaping up to be a big, if not watershed year for the Public Waldorf Education movement... I expect that the vigor will really come in handy!

A carefully managed hunting program initiated at Quabbin Reservoir watershed lands in 1991 reduced the population to the target range in 5 years.

And these are just a few of the events that took place before the watershed San Francisco Conference in April of that year when 50 nations convened to declare their commitment to peace.

Even so, the Committee had said that the suspension was to hold until the completion of the 2016 election, which has since been almost one year old in history after President Akufo - Addo was elected in that watershed year.

The progress in inter-Korean relations of the past five years have been so substantial that some people point to June 15, 2000 as a turning point, a watershed between the old and new regimes.

When asked why the governor neglects economic development in the New York City watershed region, Bonacic answered, «In the 18 years I've served in office, dealing with the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Environmental Preservation is the hardest part.&raquin the New York City watershed region, Bonacic answered, «In the 18 years I've served in office, dealing with the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Environmental Preservation is the hardest part.&raquIn the 18 years I've served in office, dealing with the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Environmental Preservation is the hardest part.&raquin office, dealing with the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Environmental Preservation is the hardest part.»

Lundine happened to arrive in town at a watershed in local history, the day after IBM, after years of denial, officially announced it was closing its Lake Katrine plant.

Paula Wang, who has volunteered for more than 25 years with the Audubon Naturalist Society, noted that water - quality data collected by trained volunteers has been provided to county government agencies in Maryland, informing a decision to halt development in the watershed of Montgomery County's cleanest stream, Wang said.

The researchers identified a greening trend in 84 percent of the watersheds with 17 percent showing significant improvement during the rainy season, June through October, within the 30 - year time frame.

«We chose six to eight - year old trees from reforestation experiments at Sardinilla and in Soberania National Park in the Panama Canal Watershed, with permission from Panama's Ministry of the Environment.»

The scientists analyzed 76 years of data (1938 through 2013) collected from six unmanaged, reference watersheds at the SRS Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory located in the southern Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina, to determine whether annual water yield from those watersheds has changed over time, and if so, to determine causes for significant changes.

A University of Illinois study drawing from over 20 years of data shows that sulfur levels in Midwest watersheds and rivers have steadily declined, so much so that farmers may need to consider applying sulfur in the not too distant future.

Seyfried says the situation is similar on the plains of the northwestern United States, where juniper trees are invading and watersheds in the rangelands seem to be improving, relative to their conditions 60 to 80 years ago.

By exploiting natural variations in isotopes of strontiuma constituent of the underlying bedrockamong different watersheds, the scientists were able to deduce where adult salmon spent their juvenile years.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

The average size of the dead zone over the past five years has been 5,176 square miles, more than twice the 1,900 square mile goal set by the Gulf of Mexico / Mississippi River Watershed Nutrient Task Force in 2001 and reaffirmed in 2008.

After more than a year of data collection, analysis and mapping, the University of Georgia River Basin Center and the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute recently published a comprehensive survey of Southeastern watersheds and the diverse aquatic wildlife that live in these freshwater ecosystems.

This year's prediction for the Gulf reflect flood conditions in the Midwest that caused large amounts of nutrients to be transported from the Mississippi watershed to the Gulf.

BoF: Could 2018 be a watershed year for the fashion industry, in terms of a greater commitment to sustainability and circular - economy principles?

It's been an odd year for powerful women in the US - with the very first female major party Presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton, 2016 feels like it could be a watershed moment.

Though Boys scarcely represented Cooper's cinematic debut (he appeared in Neil Jordan's Breakfast on Pluto a couple of years prior, among other films), it did prove a watershed, spurring the young actor on to additional film work.