Sentences with phrase «years of culling»

A preliminary analysis of the first 2 years of culling, reported last month in Ecology and Evolution, cautioned that the data were limited and it would be «unwise» to generalize about how effective the policy has been so far.

I overbought EF and have pieces that look great on you but don't work as well on me... so this is my year of culling down... again....

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The extra hiring is a nice contrast for Macy's which this year has closed some 68 stores and laid off hundreds of workers as it looks to cull weak stores.

Conrad dedicated nearly six years to building Wikinvest, with projects including a portfolio tracker synchronized with users» brokerages; an interactive, freely embeddable stock chart; and Hurricane, a tool enabling real - time extraction of structured data, like earnings results culled from press releases.

Search giant Google has released its «Zeitgeist 2012,» the list of the top search terms and trends over the last year, culled from 1.2 trillion searches in nearly 150 languages.

Only in the past few years has new database technology allowed big companies to cull huge amounts of digital information for real - time decision - making.

For the past 40 years, the institution has compiled an annual list of words — culled from nominations made through the university's website and ultimately finalized by a committee — which should be «banished from the Queen's English for mis - use, over-use and general uselessness.»

Comparable sales fell 17 % at Sears and 13 % at Kmart, a striking result given that they exclude the dozens of weak stores the company has culled in the last year.

With the rise of Charles Schwab and E * Trade, the fat years at Merrill were ending, and Mr. Gorman responded by culling the thundering herd and doing away with the nearly unlimited expense accounts.

Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, famously argued that leaders should fire the bottom 10 percent of their workforce each year — cull the herd, cut the least effective members of the team and then bring in new ones.

After almost 6 years of blogging, I have accumulated quite a few recipes that work in this category, so I have to cull some out so as to not end up with a post with 50 different additions.

I've culled a lot of my cookbooks over the years and over a recent move, and now have shelves filled with just those that I love to either (a) use for recipes or (b) just read!

Your recipe looks much better than the one I culled from an American cooking magazine a couple of years ago, which called for mayonnaise instead of buttermilk.

Myer CEO Richard Umbers, who took the helm from Bernie Brookes in March, has started to put in place several elements of his strategy — culling national and private labels, cutting staff and installing digital hubs in stores — ahead of unveiling his bigger picture later this year.

«I don't think European farmers will be able to turn the milk production tap back on that quickly, such was the scale of culling that took place at the back end of last year.

Arla has recently made significant structural changes to its organisation, following a merger with Express Dairies earlier this year, which will eventually result in a cull of 1,500 jobs.

By culling the yearlings of towns such as these during the four years since he left Troy, Harkness has established the college above Cayuga's waters as the major hockey power of the East — a situation that fails to please most of the other eastern coaches.

The long day is finally over, but as Walton heads to the airport for the flight back to San Diego, Kolker starts talking about the big promotions he has in mind for the Clippers this year, including a Grateful Dead concert hosted by Walton, appearances by the famed San Diego Chicken and a cheerleading squad, the Clippers» Skippers, culled from among San Diego's finest examples of feminine pulchritude.

thanks to «generous» gift of 40 + little petshop toys from neighbour up the road, i decided to do a toy cull (had an assignment due as well)-- barely did I get toys in pile and photographed for ebay than they were the NEW favourite toys of their life — seriously some of these have not seen the sun for about 3 years or more, and when was the last time my kidlets wanted to do jigsaw puzzles??

The badger cull is one of the most controversial farming and wildlife policies in the last 40 years.

If, as Owen Paterson boasted to the Sunday Times in 2013, badger culling was rolled out to 40 new areas of England over the next 4 years, the overall cost could exceed # 800 million.

It is now a fair assessment that a four year badger cull in Gloucester and Somerset would cost in the region of # 20 million, but would only deliver around # 2.5 million benefit to the tax payer in terms of reducing the spread of bovine TB.

The case for culling the House of Lords has been boosted by the intervention from former Cabinet minister Lord Fowler, who was elected Lords Speaker earlier this year.

After last year's cull of the white middle - aged men like Alistair Burt, there were few brutal sackings this time.

They confirmed that following the collapse of the pilot cull last year, many farmers lost confidence in the government's ability to deliver a legal culling programme against strong public opposition and decided to take the law into their own hands and illegally gas badgers on their farms.

I challenged David Cameron to stop the badger cull not only due to rising costs, animal welfare concerns and public anger, but also because of widespread criminal activity, which threatens the future of a species which is protected by law and has lived on this land for 300,000 years.

The work of fiction dated Jan. 2, 2014 falsely stated that Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell announced that bow season would be starting earlier this year «in an effort to assist the deer cull on the East End.»

He said: «Now that the cull company is seeing fewer badgers on the ground I agree with the decision to stop the pilot cull for this year and I pay tribute to all those who in the face of provocation have worked so hard.

Two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill to halt for two years the state's plan to cull mute swans, the measure's sponsor, Sen. Tony Avella, suggested the birds are the victims of a hazy political conspiracy.

The sackings were ruthless in their execution, and were reminiscent of Harold Macmillan's cull of ministers fifty years ago.

In March 2012, the Bow Group released a report opposing the Government's plans to trial badger culling in England, stating that the findings of Labour's major badger culling trials several years earlier were that culling does not work.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

Still, U.S. cattle inventories last year sunk to the lowest since 1952, as ranch managers culled herds, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual inventory.

Two years ago, aerospace engineer Hugh Lewis of the University of Southampton, England, and his colleagues calculated that within a few decades, space agencies would have to begin culling perhaps five major pieces of debris annually to slow this collision - enhanced growth in the number of orbiting trash particles.

To try to settle the controversy, several members of Congress from New England last year asked NRC to review the adequacy of stock assessments, which use mathematical models to predict how fish populations rebound after being culled.

To properly age and classify the Mongolian fossil Maelestes gobiensis, estimated to be between 71 million and 75 million years old, Wible and his team compared it with 409 features culled from the skulls, teeth and skeletal remains of other animals ranging in age from present - day mammals to those estimated to have lived over 100 million years ago.

In the new year, NHS England is set to announce the details of another cull to prescription services — limiting access to treatments for more common ailments, such as eye drops and laxatives.

Armed with the new data, scientists advising the UK government concluded that culling over four years in a hypothetical area of 150 square kilometres — killing an estimated 1000 to 1500 badgers — could achieve a net reduction of herd infections of around 16 per cent within nine years.

Now, for the first time, an independent scientific group has presented evidence in support of a cull — five years after it suggested that culling would not work.

Similarly, WS was chastised by the U.S. District Court for Western Washington (State) last year for failing to perform a thorough type of environmental study before proposing an increase in wolf culling there.

From these lectures, published this year by Princeton University Press as The Nature of Space and Time, Scientific American has culled excerpts that serve to compare and contrast the perspectives of the two scientists.

The issue of seals in Irish waters has been controversial in recent years and there have been calls from some quarters for culls.

European countries gradually eliminated rinderpest in the early years of the 20th century through surveillance and culling of sick and exposed animals.

He estimates that by culling females, managers could skew the herds in favor of males and in 40 years boost ivory production to 17,500 kg annually, mostly from natural deaths.

Dianne took early retirement a couple of years ago meaning that she is gradually culling her now defunct working wardrobe, much to my benefit.

After spending the better part of the last four years living out of a suitcase, I've just culled my wardrobe to blacks, greys, and dark blues.

That's our convoluted way of saying that The A.V. Club looked both high and low for the best scenes of 2015, culling from a whole spectrum of films — some likely to appear on this week's best - movies - of - the - year list, others unlikely to appear on any such list, and at least one certain to get called out in our public shaming of the year's worst movies.

Destination Unknown, which opens in New York tomorrow, is a collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors culled over a thirteen - year period.

, which opens in New York tomorrow, is a collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors culled over a thirteen - year period.

Göran Olsson's archival footage film is culled from the memories of American photographer Peter Beard, years before the Maysles brothers film