Sentences with phrase «years and as»

I have now been a «born again» Christian for nearly 30 years and as such have learned much and am still learning.

These last factors, whatever their merits, have been around for thousands of years and as antagonists of religious faith are neither stronger nor weaker than they ever were.

At least Christianity has existed for over 2000 years and as a person who believes in science, I would think a record like that would stand on it's own.

Prior to joining the firm she worked as an equity analyst for Harvard Management Co. for four years and as research analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank for two years.

In fact, the spring market marked the lowest inventory in seven years and as a result, sales slipped and prices pushed to 10 - year highs.

For instance, down payments on commercial properties can range from 10 % to 50 % or more, with repayment terms as short as five years and as long as 25.

(Most are set up to mature in five to eight years and as yet are well short of their maturity date.)

The new contracts will cost Ryanair an estimated $ 45 million (# 39.6 million) in the second half of its financial year and as much as $ 100 million (# 88 million) in a full year.

It's is an election year and as we've already seen it's been a volatile year for the stock market.

A year ago, wages were growing around 2 % per year; they're now up 2.6 % over the past year and as the figure below shows, there's a recognizable trend there.

Those efforts are bearing fruit, as corporate market share grew every quarter this year and as the carrier added 16,000 small and midsize corporate accounts during the first three quarters.

Jobs added from a month earlier totaled 156,000, with the below - expectations result partly due to the largest drop in government employment in a year and as education jobs were scaled back.

Not exact matches

This is why so many entrepreneurs treat their start - ups as moonlighting gigs for months and, in some cases, years after they launch.

LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

This year, WeWork started offering logistics and office - management tools as a bundled service.

As with every year, there were a lot of snubs and a lot surprises when the Oscar nominees were announced.

After five years of negotiations, handwringing, and pushback, the biggest trade deal in more than two decades, known as the Trans - Pacific Partnership (TPP), has now been finalized.

The company, which started out primarily as a flash - sales site for high - end women's fashion, has diversified its product offerings over the past few years to include houseware items and travel packages.

If you count early cave paintings as infographics, then humans have been making and consuming this type of content for the past 32,000 years.

After decades as an operations executive in the corporate world, including 15 years at Clorox, Tasner moved to Method in his late 50s and became immersed in the sustainability ethos.

A year ago, the London - based multinational undertook a study entitled «The World in 2050,» which projected Canada would be the only major developed economy to hold its position in the world — at the No. 10 spot — at mid-century, largely because of the demand for its resources and its ties through immigration to emerging markets (which by that time will no longer be labelled as such).

That likely reassured investors who watched Walmart sacrifice profits for a couple of years as it gave workers raises and invested heavily in e-commerce to better compete online and in stores.

«DEAFENING SILENCE:» TIME recently named the men and women who spoke out against sexual assault and harassment as TIME's Person of the Year.

Among the wave of financial technology companies attempting to challenge the hegemony of Canada's Big Five banks are «robo - advisers,» such as Wealthsimple and WealthBar, whose platforms help clients create and maintain portfolios of mostly passive investments, such as exchange - traded funds, for fees in the neighbourhood of 1 % of assets per year.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

In the two years since Watson Health launched, it has struck partnerships with an impressive array of academic institutions, such as the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and prominent biopharma companies like Pfizer (pfe), Medtronic (mdt), and Johnson & Johnson (jnj).

When the meal was through, they had learned a lot about him — his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street.

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

Jackie Stone, CMO of MiMedia, a personal cloud storage company, told Business News Daily: «I've worked in digital media for more than 20 years, and as we become more connected, more people have decided that staying «on» 24/7 is socially acceptable — and it's not.»

For years I've heard complaints from merchants, both large and small, who blame Amazon for the destruction of brick - and - mortar retail as we once knew it.

Two years as our CEO and president.

Ryan Drexler thought so, too, but he also saw a great opportunity — first as an investor, then as a board member, and starting last year, as the company's CEO.

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)- Oil eased on Wednesday, but held in sight of three - year highs reached the previous day, as rising U.S. fuel inventories and production weighed on an otherwise bullish market.

For years now, emerging markets such as Brazil, China and India have been the go - to place for many investors seeking growth.

The 30 - year - old is seen as key to making the summit with South Korea happen: She was the first member of the North's ruling family to visit the South since 1953 when she asked for a detente at the winter Olympics and is believed to have been in charge of the country while her brother was ill in late 2014.

During Sessions» confirmation hearings in 1986, Thomas Figures, who was an Assistant United States Attorney for seven years and an African - American working for Sessions in Alabama at the time, alleged that Sessions referred to the NAACP as «un-American» and repeatedly referred to Figures as «boy.»

Over the next three years, the Canadian Tire analysts will study decades worth of competition results dating back to the 1930s, and dissect any insights out of the data as possible, writes Marketing's Jered Stuffco.

Jillian wrote for Business Insider's technology vertical for three years, focusing on Alphabet (otherwise known as «Googphabet» or «Alphoogle»), Facebook, and ecommerce.

This is an enormous need for solar capacity: Only in 2015, after years of effort and investment, did the U.S. as a whole reach 20 GW of solar - generating capacity.

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

The Cannabis Cultivation Summit met at the Marriot in March of this year, and the most recent National Cannabis Industry Association conference has emerged as a foundational event in cannabis space.

The news of the program, announced Wednesday night, comes as a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows U.S. entrepreneurship education lagging and follows a decrease in VC fundraising last year.

For much of its 40 - year history, the medium has been ruled by huge console makers and mega-publishers, such as Microsoft, Sony, Electronic Arts and Activision.

As I have discovered over the years, however, there is a happy — and effective — medium.

For one thing, the bank is sitting on a lot of cash (possibly as much as $ 4 billion by the end of the year, according to one estimate) and continues to churn out excess capital.

NEW YORK, April 23 - The U.S. dollar rallied to a four - month high on Monday as the 10 - year Treasury yield's climb toward the psychologically important 3 percent level spurred buying of the greenback, leaving the euro and yen lower.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Just a few years ago, privacy was a big issue as regular people started to understand that big companies like Facebook, Target, Walmart and others were using sophisticated technologies to understand users on an individual level.

As a fundamental component of the economy, entrepreneurs should have not only a day, but a month, a year and even a decade dedicated to them.