Sentences with phrase «which followed a decade»

The highly - anticipated summit, which follows decades of missile tests and threats from the North, precedes a meeting between Kim and President Donald Trump expected to take place in May or June, during which more of these details may be fleshed out.

This robust system was established by an overwhelming parliamentary vote in 2015, which followed a decade of reviewing scientific, ethical and public opinion.

Not exact matches

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

Loblaw has followed suit of companies like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and P&G, which in 2013 announced the ban of phthalates and triclosan in its beauty and personal care products, in response to decade long pressure from activist groups prompting consumer goods company to stop using chemicals that have been linked to birth defects, cancer, diabetes and infertility.

Product safety is unusually sensitive in China following scandals over the past decade in which infants, hospital patients and others have been killed or sickened by phoney or adulterated milk powder, drugs and other goods.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

Travel photography, which had been slowly emerging for decades, really burst onto the scene following technological improvements in the early 2000s.

Look at the table below, which shows 1, 3 and 5 - year returns following the bottom of the worst drawdowns of the last eight decades.

Wells Fargo has run into problems of late following a scandal, revealed last September, in which thousands of its employees opened millions of fake accounts for unwitting customers over a decade and a half, if not longer.

In the United States alone, just those companies in the S&P 500 have been hoarding more than $ 1.9 trillion in cash which began in response to jurisdictional tax disparities and global economic uncertainty following the Great Recession, then accelerated over the past decade as big U.S. corporations accumulated profits offshore in lieu of repatriating the funds and taking a tax hit.

Four U.S. industry sources who follow China policy closely said they were unsettled by any suggestion of abandoning the «one China» policy, which they said had served the business community well for several decades.

The Turkish rate hike, which pushed the overnight rate to 12 %, followed a surprising increase in India on Tuesday, as Delhi moved to dampen rising prices even as the South Asian giant faces its slowest growth in a decade.

But as Joseph Bottum has suggested, «the single most significant fact over the past few decades in America — the great explanatory event from which follows nearly everything in our social and political history — is the crumbling of the Mainline [Protestant] churches as central institutions in our national experience.»

The Donatist schism originated in the years following the Great Persecution of Diocletian, which predated Augustine by several decades.

But it does follow that the development of a civilization which decimates other species casually and threatens to deforest much of the rest of the planet in the next two decades is beyond justification.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

The response of the teachers of the early church to the person and work of Jesus, both in the period which saw the emergence of the New Testament and in the decades following, was by no means uniform or standardized.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

So when I saw the faces once again of so many with whom thirty years before and in the decades that followed I had - so often bitterly embattled against the Establishment - faced that challenge, men from whom inevitably I had become separated on my own conversion to Rome; and when I saw their profound happiness at the Pope's great and apostolic act, and their excitement at the prospect before them, I could not fail to remember once more a famous passage from the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which the agnostic George Eliot said she could not read without tears; and certainly, I can not:

In the third phase, which came to full flower in the decades following the New Deal revolution, an altogether new conception of the Constitution emerged, which broadened the reform agenda to include, inter alia, eviscerating more or less completely the Tenth Amendment, eliminating religion from the public square, energetically pursuing racial and sexual equality, and, more recently, legitimizing moral autonomy as the default standard for individual behavior.

Following up on Kelly's plea that the standards and definitions of excellence in theological education «be agreed upon by the seminaries themselves, working not as now largely in isolation but in cooperation with other educational agencies» (Kelly, 220), Brown urged a decade after Kelly that a «Council of Seminaries» be formed, among the responsibilities of which would be the formulating and policing of standards (cf Brown, 222 - 26).

The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, follows the successful relationship the companies have had for nearly a decade since Bacardi's initial acquisition of a significant minority stake in Patrón in 2008.

She got her first heifer (Dixie) in third grade, which proved instrumental in developing the family's herd over the following decade.

Nearly two decades since the hotel shuttered, the first phase of The Condado Vanderbilt, a historical Grande Dame hotel, reopens on Ashford Avenue following an extensive restoration which captures the style, sophistication and service for which the hotel was known.

If 1999 follows the pattern of the past decade, more babies will have been born in August than in any other month, which means that in September and October, there are more nervous parents in our midst than at any other time of year.

Hydropower a decade ago was the leading source of power, contributing more than half of the country's electricity generation capacity — which perhaps explains why the cost of buying power is now high following the reversal in the country's power generation capacity.

East Timor gained independence in 2002 after three years of UN administration, which followed more than two decades of guerrilla warfare during Indonesian rule.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

The proposal follows the model in New York City, which has worked well for two decades.

This followed Monday's unprecedented falls on the FTSE 100, which slumped to its worst daily decline for more than two decades.

An infrastructure of union shop stewards, academics, the «peace movement», union - financed research and constituency activists which had sustained Labour's left in the early 1980s — and almost won the deputy leadership for Tony Benn — had all but disappeared over the following decades.

This year — which follows a two - decade stretch that has seen dozens of elected officials leave office due to ethical or legal scandal — there appears to be a marked shift and legislative leaders are finding themselves at odds with government reform organizations who view the convention more favorably, even those who sat out the vote in 1997.

Bronx, NY — Following the city's formal announcement to include $ 275 million in their preliminary budget for the reconstruction of the NYPD Rodman's Neck training facility, Bronx elected officials wrote a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio requesting the city prioritize and provide more information on the proposed new gun ranges, which in their current state have been the source of negative environmental impacts that have plagued the surrounding community for decades.

In the decades that followed, the use of the term «neoliberal» tended to refer to theories which diverged from the more laissez - faire doctrine of classical liberalism and which promoted instead a market economy under the guidance and rules of a strong state, a model which came to be known as the social market economy.

The 2010 Republican takeover of the House was followed first by a round of cuts and then by the Budget Control Act, which locked in sequestration in FY 2013 and discretionary spending caps for a decade.

Over the past four decades, except in the 1960s during the heyday of the Apollo Program (which in respect to R&D funding was an exceptional situation), trends in nondefense R&D spending have closely followed trends in overall nondefense discretionary spending, and trends in total federal R&D, including defense, have tracked total discretionary spending.

Cash did a great job conceptualizing his starshade mission a decade ago, Falker says, «but he didn't get any opportunity for follow - on development, which was frustrating.»

What was meant to be a temporary stay became permanent following the March 1964 coup d'état by the Brazilian military, which ushered in 2 decades of strict military rule and heavy censorship.

But it also calls for «savings» in funding for the Polar Follow - On satellite program, which would launch two satellites in the coming decade.

Scientists know this to be true following the observation of a remarkable phenomenon, the existence of which was predicted three decades ago but that had eluded experimental detection until now.

That was the conclusion of a key Communist Party meeting a decade ago, yet what followed was more of the same: rapid investment - led expansion, which turned China into the world's no. 2 economy, but left it laden with debt, environmental damage and excess capacity.

Instead of taking decades to recover, tropical forests are at risk of taking hundreds of years to re-grow because of lianas, which spread rapidly following extensive tree - felling.

There have certainly been some large El Nino events over the past couple decades, and this leverages any linear trend estimates of the long - term behavior (such as those shown in the recent Vecchi et al paper, which we'll be talking about more in a follow - up post to this).

Following a gold rush of exoplanet discovery over the past two decades, it is time to tackle the next step: determining which of the known exoplanets are proper candidates for life.

The Spiegel lab is following the same approach as the LysoSENS research program did over the past decade, which is to search for enzymes in bacteria capable of efficiently breaking down glucosepane.

One study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research which compared people of different ages who followed the same routine for 8 weeks found that guys aged between 35 and 50 were able to build just as much muscle as those decades younger than them.

In another study which followed thousands of men in the course of a decade, scientists found that the men who ate more than three meals a day were 15 % more likely to increase their weight by 10 lbs over the decade.

In the study, which appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers followed about 3,500 people between the ages of 18 and 30 for two decades.

The good news is both diseases typically develop over the course of several decades, giving ample time to reverse the progression that leads to both diseases by following a healthy diet and supplement routine — which includes adequate levels of these important vitamins.

Fat is one of your body's main building blocks, yet for decades we followed a low - fat diet according to U.S. dietary guidelines, which became a high - sugar, high - refined - carb diet — contributing to an epidemic of insulin resistance, obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and many other serious health problems.