Sentences with phrase «years hit the region»

Researchers in the US have found evidence from lake sediments that the driest conditions for 7000 years hit the region around AD 900.

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In late 2008, after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, Tysh Mefferd's 10 - year - old wedding paper business drastically slowed as the region's economy sputtered.

The eurozone's stealth recovery has steadily accelerated since mid-2016, with the region's composite PMI hitting a six - year high in March.

Forward - looking indicators like PMIs — which hit a six - year high for the region as a whole in March — held out the promise of relatively strong growth over the first quarter.

DUBAI, May 1 - Saudi stocks slid 0.6 percent on Tuesday as concerns grew about rich valuations for blue - chip stocks after the region's biggest stock market hit a more than a two - year high last week.

Meanwhile, the heat waves associated with global climate change are suppressing grain production in one region after another — this year Europe was especially hard hit.

This customer - centered approach helps the company remain successful in a region that was among the hardest hit by the recession in recent years because of the loss of jobs in the automotive industry.

«A handful of high - end restaurants in the Philadelphia region have been making hand - rolled Philly cheesesteak egg rolls for several years and they've become a big hit,» Consulting Brand Manager Drew Mattis states.

Under Luke, an Asia Pacific travel retail veteran with 15 years» experience in the field, the region has become Distell's top travel retail performer, delivering robust growth despite the downturn that has hit the entire global duty - free sector.

2018 aims to be a banner year for Temecula Valley Southern California Wine Country with growth, expansion, openings, and new beginnings hitting the scene throughout the region.

Hull will take a hit on the # 7m they paid Everton to sign the 30 - year - old in January 2014 but West Ham are yet to meet the club's valuation according to Bruce, believed to be in the region of # 4m.

The Texas Tribune and ProPublica last year published a multi-part investigation looking at what would happen if Houston was hit by a major hurricane, determining the city and region were woefully unprepared for such an event.

In a recent study, the Partnership for New York City found that congestion costs the city $ 20 billion annually in lost time and revenue; if nothing is done to «discourage cars and trucks from crowding the streets and highways of the region during the busiest times of the day,» that'll be a staggering hit of $ 100 billion to the city economy over the next five years.

Shortly after last year's election, he spent nearly a week based out of a state emergency operations center in Cheektowaga after the region was hit by a November blizzard.

With a line - up of some of the hottest acts on the nominee list for this year's VGMAs, Charterhouse Productions, in collaboration with headline partner, Vodafone are happy to announce that all is set for the biggest outdoor jam to hit the Central Region in 2018!

The unemployment rate in the Buffalo Niagara region hit a nine - year low of 5.7 percent in January as a steady wave of hiring pushed the number of people with jobs to its highest level since the recession.

She said losing the direct flight to Albany a few years ago was a sign we hit rock bottom and that Monday's announcement was symbolic that the region made it to the top.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took his State of the State address on the road this year, but he didn't hit every region in New York state.

Residents of New Edubiase in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region have hit the streets to demonstrate against the queenmother's failure to get them a chief for the past three years.

Just over one year ago, a magnitude - 9 earthquake hit the Tohoku region of northeastern Japan, triggering one of the most destructive tsunamis in a thousand years.

According to the latest measurements, it reached 2.8 °C on 4 November this year, and went on to hit 3.1 °C on 18 November — the highest temperatures ever seen in this region.

And while the drought that hit the region in 1986 stands as one of the worst of the past 350 years, the 20th century — when the agreements that govern the basin's water use were first established — was the wettest period in the region since the late 1600s.

Other factors, such as El Niño, also affect the region's ice and could be responsible for it not hitting a record maximum this year as it has in recent years.

In some regions hit hardest by the epidemic, the numbers are even more encouraging: Over the six - year span, new infections dropped by 29 % in eastern and southern Africa.

For a song by an act who'd only ever had one big hit and one reasonable hit in the 19 years they'd been making music, to achieve the success that they did with this track (which included # 1's in regions that they'd never succeeded in before) was something of a miracle.

While en route to the country in April, the worst magnitude earthquake to hit the region in more than 80 years struck.

A teaser trailer and poster have arrived online for Red Dog: True Blue, the prequel to the 2011 hit Australian family drama Red Dog, which stars Levi Miller, Jason Isaacs, Bryan Brown and John Jarratt; take a look below... When 11 - year old Mick (Levi Miller) is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in the remote Pilbara region of Western -LSB-...]

Nearly a year after airing on the BBC in the UK and six months after becoming available to stream on Netflix in the US, The Great Train Robbery recently hit Region 1 DVD from Acorn Media in a two - disc set.

The South hit a demographic turning point over the past couple of years, becoming the first U.S. region in which both low - income and minority students constitute a majority of public school enrollment, an Atlanta - based advocacy group says.

JLR is among the automobile companies hit hard by the apex court order in December last year banning registration of diesel SUVs and cars above 2000 cc in the entire National Capital Region till March 31.

If you're in the unfortunate position of having your mortgage come up for renewal this year, you may also be hit with the perfect storm: a devalued housing market in the Fort McMurray region, combined with no or low employment, combined with little personal equity in the home.

Kerala was a region in India that had been on my travel hit list for several years.

The opening of Burma's stunning coastline is one of the most exciting things to hit tourism in the region in recent years.

With HBO smash hit «Game of Thrones» being filmed in locations near Belfast, fans of the series in particular have flocked to the region in recent years to visit some of the most famous locations for the show's striking scenery.

Overall performance of inbound trips to the Middle East region were down five per cent last year mainly due to the decline of arrivals to those countries hit by the Arab Spring, which took place in 2011 effecting countries such as Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Syria.

Microsoft has announced that the Xbox 360 has hit the 10 million consoles sale mark across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 4 years.Reaching that milestone means that Xbox 360 is the only console to achieve year - on - year growth across the region this... Read more

That such storms hit the region every 40 -50 years allowed people to forget about them.

Safa» Al Jayoussi, Executive Director / IndyACT, said: «Concrete steps were taken in this year's COP23, now we need to move this into action toward pre-2020 ambition on the local and subregional level, especially from the Arab Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.&Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.&region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.»

Just one year ago, Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast with a force not seen in the region in decades.

Indeed, assuming business as usual, each of the next 80 years in the American West is expected to see less rainfall than the average of the five years of the drought that hit the region from 2000 to 2004.

The area of Groningen has been hit by hundreds of earthquakes in recent years as a result of gas extraction resulting in damage to buildings across the region.

When another flood hit the region two years later, these people were high and dry.

The Globe & Mail reports that «In portions of the hardest - hit region, which stretches in a triangle pattern from Saskatoon to Edmonton and Calgary, 2009 marks the driest spring Agriculture Canada has seen in the 70 years records have been kept in the area.»

An extreme heat wave hit the region during the last two weeks of June that year and the month of July, and I think, the first two weeks of August.

All of that means insurance rates for homeowners are likely headed up, particularly in regions that were hard hit by natural disasters this past year.

THE ROLE Based out of our Leicester office, as our Trainee Recruitment Consultant you will: * Join the best performing team in the region * Go through an intensive 12 month training program * We will train you to source, screen and interview maintenance and service engineers, as well as managing the entire recruitment process * You will be supporting then team on identifying the best talent for some for a number of high profile accounts * Attending client visits with some of the biggest names in Food, Construction Material Manufacture, Automotive and Automated Distribution * As soon as you feel ready you will then be given the opportunity to identify and win your own clients THE CANDIDATE The ideal Trainee Recruitment Consultant will have: * A competitive nature, a drive to be successful, an outgoing personality and a passion for learning * Either a degree, sales experience and a clear understanding of why a career in recruitment is for you * No recruitment experience is required as full training is provided THE BENEFITS The successful Trainee Recruitment Consultant can expect * First class training * Goal management to a full 360 role, account or people management longer term * The opportunity to play a key part in helping the region hitting it's 3 - year goal to double the business.

The Role: The role of a Trainee Recruitment Consultant: * Heavily focused on sourcing relevant candidates through job boards, social media and networking * Ensuring correct data - entry onto our CRM System and the consistent maintenance of this tool * Delivering a first - class service — you will be the first point of contact for many ATA candidates and will therefore be expected to represent our brand accordingly * Researching live vacancies and working with your Recruitment Consultant colleagues to prioritise focus and ensure coverage of key accounts * Working alongside our marketing department to ensure our external content is geared towards attracting top candidates within our sector The Candidate: The successful Trainee Recruitment Consultant will be: * Ambitious, with a strong desire to succeed * Confident, with excellent communication skills * Able to work autonomously and effectively * Extremely conscientious, with a specific focus on attention to detail * Comfortable and able to thrive within a fast - paced and target - driven environment * Motivated to always provide a first - class service The Benefits: The successful Trainee Recruitment Consultant can expect: * Consistent first - class training programme, delivered by established, successful Recruitment professionals on an ongoing basis * A structured progression plan with clearly defined routes to promotion, with the option to become a full - fledged Recruitment Consultant within 12 months dependant on performance * The opportunity to play a key part in helping the region hit a 3 - year goal to double our profit ATA Recruitment, (part of the RTC Group PLC, # 68m turnover 2016) are the UK's leading provider of candidates into the lucrative technical and engineering sector on both a contract and permanent basis.

In February 2018, pending sales were down year - over-year in all regions of the country, with the Midwest taking the biggest hit at -9.5 %.

Bakersfield has been one of the hardest - hit regions in the state, as crude oil prices dipped two years ago, leading to layoffs at energy companies and throughout the region.