Sentences with phrase «year period of activity»

«I've done a lot of things in my life over a 20 - year period of activity in government and politics,» Lasher told POLITICO New York.

Not exact matches

Instead of waiting until their golden years to retire, some Americans are now embracing the concept of mini-retirements: periods of work alternated with shorter periods of reflection, travel or activities otherwise curtailed by full - time work.

Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of U.S. economic activity, grew at a 1.1 percent annualized rate in the January - March period, the slowest in nearly five years, after surging at a 4.0 percent pace in the fourth quarter.

Attaching a time limit to competing activity - for example the buyer may request that the seller not engage in direct competition for a period of five years

Activity in the leveraged loan markets even surpassed the levels recorded before the crisis: average quarterly announcements during the year to end - September 2014 were $ 250 billion, well above the average of $ 190 billion during the pre-crisis period from 2005 to mid-2007.

Engineering construction activity has nearly doubled over the past two years and this upswing is likely to be sustained in the period ahead, with a number of significant road and mining - related projects scheduled for commencement in 2004 (Graph 41).

Based on other measures of economic activity there have almost certainly been 12 - month periods over the past 10 years when China's economy shrank in real terms, but during these periods China's government still reported growth of around 7 %.

Adjusted development margin was $ 44 million, a $ 1 million decrease from the fourth quarter of 2013 primarily because the prior year period benefited from $ 4 million of higher favorable product cost true - up activity.

This has now been negative since May, portraying a pace of economic activity that is well below potential and therefore continues to be consistent with both (a) a continuing ultimately deflationary economic Supercycle Bear Market Period, or Winter, and (b) our working model for after - shock, double double - dip business cycle contractions over the next four years.

Through November, more than $ 4.5 trillion worth of mergers have been announced year - to - date, and the activity in the third quarter was the strongest on record for that period, according to Citi.

If we look across history for periods of extended range - bound activity in overvalued markets where: a) the DJIA had gone more than a month without setting a 20 - day high or low; b) the DJIA was confined to a range of less than 6 %; c) the DJIA was within 10 % of a 2 - year high; and d) the Shiller P / E was 18 or higher, there are only 7 clusters that fit the bill (1929, 1937, 1965, 1973, 1999 - 2000, 2007 - 2008, and today).

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

This reviewer should point out that Berger acknowledges that the book was written over a period of two years «in moments snatched from other busy activities as a social scientist.»

The study found that the children were 33 per cent more likely to abstain from sexual activity over a two - year period than children who attended interventions stressing the importance of safesex or of maintaining good health generally.

As others have noted, Leviticus 18 - 20 also condemns shaving, wearing mixed fabrics, getting tattoos, sowing different crops in the same field, and sexual activity during a woman's period (back to A Year of Biblical Womanhood!)

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

No one questions that the period between 1936 and 1939 was crucial for an understanding of Borges» s development as a writer; however, little attention has been paid to Borges's other literary activities during these years — especially the various essays, reviews, biographical sketches and literary gossip that appeared in El Hogar.

One was the work of Sunan Bonang whose period of activity may be assigned to the years between 880 and 932 (A.D. 1475 - 1525).

Last year, LITA celebrated 50 years of activity and this important anniversary is evidence of the company's efficiency and ability in satisfying the changing requirements of its customers during this period.

In 1929 he received the Remington Honor Medal, the American Pharmaceutical Association's top award «to recognize distinguished service on behalf of American pharmacy during the preceding years, culminating in the past year, or during a long period of outstanding activity or fruitful achievement.»

Six years later, what remains from that period is an unyielding and sometimes humiliating awareness of the gap between intentions and actions — and a palpable gratitude for the activities, like sex and cooking, that minimize that gap.

The new sponsorship deal is for an initial period of five years and is a major achievement for Christian Purslow, the former Liverpool managing director who is now in charge of global commercial activities at Stamford Bridge.

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Over the two year study period, both circumcised and uncircumcised men engaged in similar amounts of sexual activity.

I created and trialled hundreds of hands - on character building activities with my own children over a period of nearly four years before writing Playing with Purpose.

If your child wants to do swimming, piano, hockey and gymnastics, try to schedule them out over the year so perhaps swimming can happen in spring / fall, hockey in winter, and the other two get split in the year so only two activities are happening during one period of time.

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragraph (a).

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

The House of Commons agreed the extended detention without trial period should continue for at least another year in light of terrorist activity.

Police activity in New York City remained at a lower level last week than during the same period in past years, but continued its rise since enforcement came to a near standstill, the result of a citywide slowdown tied to the killings of two officers in December.

But it was during that court hearing attorneys for the Buffalo Public School District announced that they are investigating Barton for allegedly using student activity funds of total $ 22,000 over a ten year period.

The legislation states that «any formal or informal association... of two or more individuals identified by a common name, sign, dress, symbols, tattoos, or other mark or markings» and «a pattern of criminal street gang activity,» subjects a person to increased penalties after two or more offenses are committed over a period of years.

He stressed that the welfare of fisher folks in the country are important to his government, «that is why, upon my assumption of office in January last year, I appointed a full Minister to oversee the activities of the sector, just as was done during the period of the 2nd President of the 4th Republic, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor.»

In the past three years, the Sun has gone through periods of higher and lower solar activity, and Mars also has experienced solar storms, solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

One provision in the visa proposal that has drawn wide criticism would require covered visa applicants to report five years of their social media activities, including the handles used over the period.

So would «an equal period of health - related research, research training, and / or health - related activities that averages at least 20 hours per week based on a full work year; [or]... an equal period of health - related teaching that averages at least 20 hours per week based on a full work year,» according to the agreement.

«We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth's dinosaurs,» said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

«The majority of auto dealer contacts indicated an increase in sales since the beginning of July compared with the same period last year, and many expect the trend to continue through the fourth quarter,» said the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, summarizing business activity in its region in a report published last week.

«The relationship between colour variation and stability was independent of activity period or host plant range, since the more stable species with large variation in colour drawing were not restricted in their activity to a shorter part of the year or to a narrower range of host plants.

The most prominent of these in the last 200 years — the 1940s and the 1830s — were also periods of unusual El Niño activity like the 1990s.

During the one - year study period, the students were assessed for a range of outcomes, including sexual health attitudes, knowledge, intention to initiate sex, and sexual activity.

The approximately 4 - ton, 30 - foot - long predator lived 67 million years ago during the end of the Cretaceous Period, an epoch marked by intense volcanic activity and the extinction of the dinosaurs.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

For most of the space age, the sun's activity ebbed and flowed like clockwork in 11 - year cycles, with six - to eight - year lulls in activity, called solar minimum, followed by two - to three - year periods when the sun is more active.

«We've been in this multi-decadal pattern of activity but it just didn't happen this year,» Masters said, referring to the prolonged period of increased hurricane activity that began in 1995.

This period covers three of the Sun's 11 - year activity cycles, which see fluctuations in the rate at which energetic particles are created by the interaction between the Sun's magnetic field and its hot, highly charged outer layers.

Every 11 years or so, the sun cycles from periods of high magnetic field activity to low activity and back again.

«(i) be consistent with any existing nationally appropriate mitigation commitments or actions for the country in which the activity is occurring, taking into consideration the average annual historical deforestation rates of the state or province during a period of at least 5 years, relevant drivers of deforestation, and other factors to ensure additionality;

With a fairly long rotational period of 48 days compared with Sol that is suggestive of greater age (Noyes et al, 1984), 54 Piscium has been estimated to be from 5.1 to 8.2 +4.3 / -5.2 billion years old based on chromospheric activity and isochronal analysis (Luhman et al, 2006; Saffe et al, 2005; Valenti and Fischer, 2005; and Wright et al, 2004).