Sentences with phrase «years leading up»

In the years leading up to their deadly duel that took Hamilton's life in 1804, Hamilton and Burr faced off in a number of legal showdowns as two of New York's top lawyers.

What about the impact on the wholly - owned or controlled law firm during the years leading up to the collapse?

Even for those of us with an unlikely and perhaps unhealthy measure of optimism about China's environmental situation, it wasn't hard to be suspicious of Beijing's pollution progress in the years leading up to the Games.

This kind of «consensus» is a snapshot of what was known in the years leading up to to 2001.

On the surface, BP appeared to be getting safer in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

At current emissions trends, average pH of the oceans would drop from about 8.1 (current levels) to at least 7.9 in about 100 years (NRC, 2011a).22 A similar change occurred over the 200,000 years leading up to the end - Permian mass extinction, which resulted in loss of an estimated ~ 90 percent or more of known species (Chen and Benton, 2012; Knoll et al., 2007).

The first is based on annual growth rate of 8 %, in line with the last four years, but much less than growth in the years leading up to 2010, which I don't believe will return.

In the wartime years leading up to 1945, most sea temperatures measurements were taken by US ships, who measured the temperature of the intake water used for cooling the ship's engines.

The four years leading up to 1995 included a solar max, but the four years leading up to 2010 were in a deep minimum.

In the two years leading up to the 2015 Paris climate summit, C2ES convened the Toward 2015 dialogue, which brought together lead negotiators from more than 20 countries to discuss options for a new climate agreement.

He was President Obama's chief climate negotiator, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris.

Ten out of ten of the lowest summer sea ice extents since 1979 occurred in the ten years leading up to and including 2016.

While insiders expect Congress to be dormant on climate legislation for the two years leading up to the presidential election, nobody knows exactly what will transpire.

We are not aware of two special issues of Nature journals that were devoted to the spectre of «out - of - control catastrophic warming» based on the 15 (or 16) years leading up to 2007.

Although uncertainties still linger, the technical sub-committee that focused on REDD for the two years leading up to Bali concluded not only that the magnitude of deforestation emissions was significant — approximately 20 % of global emissions — but that sufficiently cost - effective methodologies exist for measuring forest carbon and monitoring deforestation.

Similarly, on the Senate bill, in the two years leading up to its August 2010 failure, donations to elected Senators from interest groups supporting the bill outnumbered those from groups opposed by 5 to 1 ($ 6.4 million to $ 1.2 million.)

For several years leading up to Copenhagen, hard emissions targets and timetables were essential.

In the two years leading up to the exhibition, the New Museum has hosted research and production residences for both international and local artists: niv Acosta, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Juliana Huxtable, Geumhyung Jeong, Eduardo Navarro, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and Luke Willis Thompson.

In the years leading up to World War II, New York had become a vital gathering center for European surrealist and modernist artists fleeing the rising tide of fascism.

In the years leading up to Painter's cervical spinal fusion surgery — the result of deteriorated discs — in 2011, after a lifelong run with drug and alcohol addictions, his relationships with many of the artists at the foundation of Patrick Painter, Inc., grew strained.

In the years leading up to Mali's independence in 1960, Keïta's clientele was mostly young and intent on emancipated, optimistic and outward - looking images of themselves.

During the tumultuous years leading up to and during World War II, Kuniyoshi became active in artists» and political organizations and visited the Southwest and Mexico in 1935 on a Guggenheim fellowship.

The exhibition features a rich cross-section of works across several mediums — opening with displays of pioneering non-objective paintings, prints, and drawings from the years leading up to and immediately following the Revolution, followed by a suite of galleries featuring photography, film, graphic design, and utilitarian objects, a transition that reflects the shift of avant - garde production in the 1920s.

Location: Floor Three, Susan and John Hess Family Theater This program, held in connection with Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, begins with a screening of The 100 Years Show (30 mins, 2015), a documentary directed by Alison Klayman that combines verité footage from the years leading up to Carmen Herrera's 100th birthday with interviews and archival images of Herrera's life and work.

Tichy grew up in Prague in the years leading up to the non-violent, anti-communist Velvet Revolution of 1989.

David Ebony — In the mid 1930s, the years leading up to World War II, America's great socialist moment was underway.

Stefano Collicelli Cagol has been appointed co-curator for the exhibition and is also responsible for the research, workshop and symposium programme during the three years leading up to the Quadriennale.

The Great Upheaval: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910 - 1918 showcased the dynamism, creativity, and innovation of art produced in Europe in the years leading up to and during the First World War.

What makes Douglas Crimp's Before Pictures so remarkable is not just its subject — the art historian and AIDS activist's early years leading up to the epoch - defining 1977

Though she was the lone female Ab - Ex painter to pose for that famous «Irascibles» photograph, Sterne was virtually unknown for most of her life, but her work enjoyed a very slow, modest rise in recognition in the years leading up to her death in 2011.

In the years leading up to the centennial, the Museum has made a committed effort to build on areas of strength and to fill in gaps in its collection.

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928 — 1945 offers the first detailed examination of Braque's experiments with still lifes and interiors during the years leading up to and through World War II, an overlooked and transitional period in the career of this leading founder of Cubism.

begs the question of whether we're in for art that tells the story of homosexuality in Britain over the 150 years leading up to the legal landmark, or art by artists who just happen to be gay.

Her solo presentation at Galerie Barbara Thumm takes a close look at those beginnings with a showing of Burga's Pop art from 1965 to» 68, the years leading up to Peru's military coup.

In the years leading up to his untimely death in 1966, Thompson was a habitué of downtown New York's underground jazz clubs, where he watched the great innovators of free jazz, including Ornette Coleman and Milford Graves, as well as the towering figures of post-bop and hard - bop, including Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey.

In a world just as tumultuous as in 1982 (MacConnel's work was in response to President Reagan's challenge to the Soviets through military buildup), the years leading up to today have seen wars waged in Afghanistan and Iraq where the perceived threats seemed to be not much more than a hostility toward democracy and perceived threat of weapons of mass destruction.

The exhibition also includes seminal object / documents, like Breton's «Les pas perdus,» a collection of essays Breton wrote between 1918 and 1923, the years leading up to the formation of Surrealism and «Le message automatique» published in Minotaure in 1933, in which he claims that parapsychology was an antecedent to the Surrealists» exploration of the unconscious.

For years leading up to this body of work he had undertaken a ruthless process of renunciation, stripping away practically all the tools at the artist's disposal, including color, contrast, facture, and shape — never mind representation, marketability, or «self - expression.»

American Art in the Shadow of World War I surveys the museum's holdings from the years leading up to, during, and immediately following the so - called Great War.

And in the few years leading up to The Concerned Photographer project, Kertész had been feted in Europe with exhibitions in Venice and Paris and he was having books published.

This gorgeous survey «adds to the history of postwar abstraction by providing a first glimpse of what a small group of Cuban artists were up to in the 1950s and early»60s, the tumultuous years leading up to, and just after, the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.»

In the years leading up to its 100th anniversary, the Museum's Campaign for Art received more than 3,500 new gifts of art.

Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928 — 1945 is the first in - depth look at the years leading up to and through World War II, a period in Braque's career when he used the theme of still life to synthesize cubist discoveries and hone his individual style.

Stay tuned on Wccftech to get all the latest rumors and news on The Last of Us Part II in the months and years leading up to its release on PlayStation 4.

As many of you are aware, I got my start as a content creator over at Tamriel Foundry in the years leading up to the launch of The Elder Scrolls Online, and I'm excited to be «getting the gang...

Micronet had been there before; in the years leading up to Revenger, they'd released Heavy Nova and Blackhole Assault, two robot - themed fighters that had quickly acquired reputations for being terrible.

The game was originally released for cell phones, old cell phones, and focused on the Shinra Turks in the years leading up to the events of Final Fantasy VII.

I would not advise opening multiple cards in the years leading up to a home purchase.

I was travelling a lot that year and in the few years leading up to it I had been to some obscure places so I had more stories than Rudyard Kipling.

It happens every four years leading up to a U.S. presidential election — domestic and international travel tends to drop off as Americans stay home.