Sentences with phrase «year marked by»

That's what I've been thinking about as I reflect on my year as president of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®, a year marked by high unemployment, tight lending, protracted short sales, and, most recently, foreclosure freezes by several lenders.

According to statistics compiled by the Illinois REALTORS ®, both home sales and median prices in the state of Illinois finished 2016 on an upward trend during a year marked by tight housing inventories and continued strong consumer demand.

First - time and single women homebuyers have resurfaced in the real estate market, contributing to a significant share of transactions in a year marked by full - steam - ahead sales, according to the National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) 2016 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers survey.

In a legal technology year marked by near - obsessive discussion of artificial intelligence, robot lawyers and other cutting - edge technologies, readers of this blog favored more practical tools.

2013 has been yet another year marked by important developments in EU fundamental rights law.

In a year marked by devastating losses from climate impacts, and with 2017 seeing a rise in global emissions, this Pacific COP brought home one message: that we need faster action and stronger ambition.

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, head of WWF's global climate and energy programme, and COP20 President, said: «In a year marked by extreme weather disasters and potentially the first increase in carbon emissions in four years, the paradox between what we are doing and need to be delivering is clear: countries must act with greater climate ambition, and soon, to put us on a path to a 1.5 °C future.

If economic class continues to be one of the most bitter flash points in American politics, race is, ever, the other, and never more so than in an election year marked by surges of xenophobia and instances of police violence directed against black citizens.

For a year marked by divisions and aggression, 2014 was also a year in which we remembered the joy of playing together — physically, rather than virtually, sharing screens, passing controllers and rediscovering parties of play.

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In a year marked by record breaking gains, it is particularly important to measure the relative performance of active funds versus the indices as bull markets often present challenging conditions for active managers to overcome.

Features Downward Estimate Revisions Screen Tops Unconventional Year Bucking its historical trend during a year marked by unusual events, Estimates Revisions Lowest 30 Down was the top - performing AAII screen of 2016.

It had been a year marked by low achievement, low attendance, low morale among teachers, and high numbers of discipline issues.

by Hope Madden and George Wolf 2017 was year marked by independents: original screenplays, original ideas, low - budgets, big returns.

In a film year marked by gothic imagery, twisted interpretations of classic myth, and send - ups of modern art, who'd expect all three from the sequel to John Wick, the surrealist action movie par excellence that cast Keanu Reeves as a hit man out to avenge his dog?

But after a year marked by artistic highs and controversial lows for the filmmaker, it seems impossible.

December 22, 2016 • In a year marked by turmoil and tragedy, the Goats and Soda team has picked some of the stories that inspired us, gave us hope, made us grin.

In a year marked by personal tragedy, games proved to be not just a great escape, but a source of solace and sympathy as well.

-LSB-...] «What a breather in a new year marked by murkier depths than ever before.»

What a breather in a new year marked by murkier depths than ever before.

In a year marked by tension between the genders, is was heartening to see Willem Dafoe as the motel handyman who ends up being everybody's de facto spouse, brother, father, and rebellious uncle.

The 90th Academy Awards turned Sunday night's ceremony in Los Angeles into a celebration and exhortation of representation and inclusion, after a year marked by seismic cultural change in Hollywood that rippled across the world.

Venter's stunt is nevertheless a fitting symbol for 2007, a year marked by milestones in the quest for personalized medicine.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

In a year marked by less than glamorous elections and predictions of more anemic turnout, Erie County's political contests are still generating intense interest from the most basic standpoint of all: Democrat vs. Republican.

It's welcome news for an upstate city that has had a year marked by burst pipes and leaking sewage.

2016 has been a year marked by fear, insecurity and a rapidly warming planet.

It was complete inaction on the topic, after a year marked by the arrest of two sitting senators and one assemblyman, that led Cuomo to appoint the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption in July.

In an election year marked by lackluster campaigning and low turnout, one group of New York City voters came to the polls in droves: those seeking to lodge the futile and time - honored protest of writing in a candidate for mayor.

Bob McCarthy: «In a year marked by less than glamorous elections and predictions of more anemic turnout, Erie County's political contests are still generating intense interest from the most basic standpoint of all: Democrat vs. Republican.»

The bellwether S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average were essentially flat, and major foreign indexes were all down (some sharply) during the same period, after a volatile year marked by weak global economic growth, slumping U.S. corporate profits and uncertainty about the outlook for the China and the European union.

And, in a year marked by stark political divisions, devastating natural disasters, and painful debates over gun control, it makes sense that we are drawn to the idea of nurturing our bodies and souls.

What I thought would be a year of taking classes, meeting new people and traveling around Europe turned out to be a year marked by faith and doubt and struggle.

Simon Thomas says he is praying 2018 will not be «any worse» than 2017, a year marked by the sudden death of his wife.

Despite the outflows, Price's net income rose nearly 19 percent in 2013, a year marked by strong U.S. stock performance and difficulties for bond investors.

The week - long walkout was one of the biggest teacher protests in a year marked by job actions.

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, the annual global study often considered the gold standard in trust data measurement recently stated that, «In a year marked by turbulence at home and abroad, trust in institutions in the United States crashed, posting the steepest, most dramatic general population decline the Trust Barometer has ever measured.»

Apple.com was the exception in comScore's report on retail sales for Cyber Monday 2008, the biggest online shopping day in a year marked by global financial meltdown.

In a year marked by a significant milestone for rising interest rates (the 10 - year Treasury note yield topping 3 percent), an unusual winner has begun to emerge in the stock market: utility stocks.

It's true: Despite a year marked by a major disappointment — merger talks with rival Sprint broke down in November, with no deal — the numbers T - Mobile has just announced are formidable.

The sector has been in recovery mode after a tough few years marked by a corruption crackdown in China which suppressed demand for expensive watches and Chinese consumers» shunning many...

After several years marked by operational difficulties and debt reduction, Barrick Gold Corp. on Tuesday opened its first quarter earnings in 2018 by telling shareholders it received two credit upgrades and is returning its focus to growth.

After ten years marked by government bailouts, a string of annual losses, and customer defections, the big four UK banks — Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)-- are just now starting to re-gain their footing.

She recalled those years marked by drugs, broken relationships, an eating disorder, sex, pregnancy and eventually abortion.

«The compact SUV market is expected to grow by 33 percent, approaching the one million sales - per - year mark by 2005.

However the current environment is the first period over the last 20 years marked by the simultaneous occurrence of high correlation and low return dispersion across managers, asset classes, and sectors.

Tête d'homme (estimate: # 800,000 - 1,200,000) was one of a small group of 12 intimately sized, experimental oil paintings which emerged in 1932 at a pivotal moment in the artist's career, following several years marked by what the artist termed a «crisis of personal consciousness».

Importantly, the installation lends visibility and nuance to the black queer experience, especially during those fraught years marked by identity politics, broken - windows policing and AIDS activism.

Curated by Alexandra Munroe together with co-curators Philip Tinari and Hou Hanru, the exhibition «bracketed by years marked by transformational events within China and globally, surveys the culture of artistic experimentation during a time characterized by the onset of globalization and the eventual skepticism of its promised prosperity».

The first global bleaching event was in 1998 and the second in 2010, both in years marked by El Niños, the periodic climate phenomenon in the Pacific.