Sentences with phrase «year was the tipping point»

«This year was the tipping point when the television ratings really fell apart.»

But apparently La Stampa's report earlier this week about Real Madrid offering Pogba a contract with a salary worth $ 10 million a year was the tipping point and made the club take a stand for a change.

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The state - owned oil firm is expected to list on the Saudi stock exchange in the second half of this year, but an international listing — which was at one point tipped to happen at the same time — is said to have been temporarily shelved.

The tipping point we fretted about for years is here.

The challenge of preserving and conveying this unique institutional knowledge has been intensifying for several years and is now reaching a critical tipping point as more companies are transitioning to the freelance economy.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

Integrating these tips as you consider your outlook for the new year can be a defining point in your professional and personal success.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

We've had roughly 20 years of hand - wringing about this tipping point, but now it's here.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

The business was 17 years old at that point, and was somewhat limited by what Poon Tip could afford, from the tours they offered to how they ran the business.

Last year might have been the tipping point, however, in line with Goldcorp CEO Chuck Jeannes» prediction that peak gold was within spitting distance.

«This is five or six years in the making, and we are now seeing the tipping point.»

«But it appears we've reached a tipping point where the housing market is likely to slide toward improved affordability over the next couple of years.

Years ago, when I was researching an article on research into stress, one social scientist passed on a simple tip: «At some point every day, you have to say, «No more work.

While there is an annual fee of $ 95 (waived in year 1), we think the bonus points on all purchases, the simplicity of earnings, and the generous sign - up promotion tip the scales in favor of this card.

The tipping point seems to have been the release of the January jobs report, the highlight of which wasn't the change in nonfarm payrolls and the unemployment rate, which they usually are, but the 0.3 % (2.9 % annualized) growth in wages, which was the strongest year - over-year gain since June 2009.

For those of use who have watched the changes in the last 20 - 40 years one thing is clear — the non-religious have turned the corner and we're at the tipping point.

As Andre Leu, President of IFOAM pointed out «this year was outstanding in that it is a tipping point for agriculture.

This year pundits were tipping us to win the league if we come 6th i will be surprise, we are already 4 points behind chelsea and in a couple of weeks the title will be over for us.

link it back to the point i made earlier» this is rubbish, my point is that the premier league wasn't very competitive this year, Chelseas easy win giving proof to this point.What you've done is talk a whole load of rubbish about wins of 2 goals or more.A quick tip mate people judge the competitiveness of a competition by how close the top teams are, not the mid table ones

The table also predicts that there will be no St Totteringham's Day to come this year, with our noisy neighbours tipped to finish ahead of us by five points.

The 26 year - old has been a huge talking point this season, with the midfielder tipped to be England's creative spark for next summer's World Cup in Russia, and with potential suitors also keenly monitoring his future due to his contractual situation.

The recent injury to 16 year - old Jack Jablonski proved to be the tipping point in reigning in a culture of intimidation and the hit first, play second attitude that has come to permeate high school hockey in Minnesota.

In time, perhaps three or four years, the foreskin will loosen naturally to the point where it can be pulled back over the tip of the penis.

«It is becoming increasingly urgent to address the roads crisis we face as a nation,» said the group's transport spokesman Martin Tett, adding that 2017 could be «a tipping point year» regarding potholes.

Though online video technology has been in use for years, he cited three recent moments — Macaca, Saddam Hussein's hanging and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign announcement — as examples of web video reaching the tipping point in the popular mind.

The winner will represent one of the larger geographic districts in Queens that was redefined during last year's district process and spans from the tip of the College Point neighborhood to Little Neck bordering Long Island.

«That population has grown steadily over the last 15 to 20 years, and it's reached a tipping point, however, I think, to use that term.

They found they were able to detect those signals in data from California before the 2014 - 15 Disneyland, California measles outbreak, which showed early warning signs of a tipping point two years before the outbreak occurred.

After several record - breaking drought years, the Amazon is approaching a tipping point when its «rain machine» may malfunction, putting South American agriculture in peril.

After all, it is those areas that are closest to the melting point that can tip precipitously — as did Arctic Ocean sea ice in recent years.

Tim Lenton of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, cautions that there may be a more distant tipping point for year - round ice.

Yet by 320,000 years ago, Acheulean handaxes were gone, replaced by more carefully designed tools, including refined stone points that would have served as the tips of projectile weapons.

After correcting for this error, the Science - Metrix group concluded that open access reached a 50 % «tipping point» in 2011, meaning that one - half of the papers published that year are now freely available.

He noted that the average global temperature compared with the early 1900s is now expected to increase by 1.5 degrees Celsius within the next 15 to 35 years, which he called «a tipping point» toward aggressive climate change.

With further sea level rise, nuisance flooding could reach a tipping point, defined by NOAA scientists as the point when there are 30 days of such floods a year.

If 2012 is looked back on as the year activity reached a tipping point for the Piedmont Triad Research Park, then 2013 may be the one when the 150 - acre...

«The theme of this year's Crystal + Lucy Awards Gala is «Ignited,» referencing the tipping point we're living in and Women in Film's responsibility as a thought leader to keep the flame burning for a sustainable future — freed from the constraints of gender bias.»

Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that our public schools would benefit from a spirit of innovation rather than one of regimentation.Those of us who have been hanging around public education for more than, say, 15 years may remember a time when words like creativity and imagination were an important part of our conversations about curriculum design, teaching, learning, and lesson planning.

For those in the charter movement who have viewed chartering as a systemic reform strategy (not just an escape hatch for some kids), the prevalent theory of action for the last ten to fifteen years has been a «tipping point» strategy.

Whether you're in your first or 15th year of teaching, here are 10 tips for staying energized, at any point in the school year:

Ten percent of the school year — or about 18 days — seems to be a tipping point.

Even now, in my third year in the classroom, Mr. Miles continues to be my first point of contact when I need a tip or want feedback on a lesson or a technique that I plan to use.

(Denver, CO, July 25, 2011) Alexander Ooms, CSDC Board member and Managing Partner at ClearCreek Partners, comments on the evolution of education reform in Colorado in the following commentary in the Denver Post: A tipping point for Democrats on education In multiple elections over the past year, at the state, district and city level, Colorado Democrats are winning elected office...

Unions and advocacy groups who oppose charter schools believe the next two years could be a «tipping point» for their cause, according to Buzzfeed.

Author Elissa Nadworny notes, «The latest national numbers suggest that more than 6 million students are «chronically absent,»» and emphasizes comments made by Phyllis Jordan, who authored a recent FutureEd report on the subject, that, «Research tells us that kids shouldn't miss 10 percent or more of the school year, that's the tipping point for kids, but there isn't really research that tells us how many chronically absent kids are too many for a school.»

The localization movement has reached a tipping point and bookstores have been in the forefront of this for years.

The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping that of more traditional desktop and laptop personal computers for a while, and now it looks like we are finally approaching the tablet / PC tipping point, where the cheaper, more portable tablet is becoming the de facto PC: 2014 will be the year that tablets account for 50 % of all «PCs» shipped globally, according to researchers at Canalys.

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