Sentences with phrase «years of history hold»

Acting Chief Executive Andrew Carter writes in LGC about our new Century of Cities report and the lessons 100 years of history hold for UK cities.

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New hires get introduced to the company's history, and to it's ecological commitment, on a bike ride that passes the three locations the brewery has held in its 20 year of existence.

He topped himself the next year with this imaginative sci - fi classic, which held the title of highest - grossing movie in history until Spielberg topped it with «Jurassic Park» in 1993.

His holding company, Icahn Enterprises, placed representatives on the boards of seven different corporations over the course of the year, more than any other year in its history.

At Energy Future Holdings (EFH), which has won the WBENC America's Top Corporations Award in each of its 13 - year history, that leadership begins with John F. Young, President and CEO.

Over the years, his study of monetary history and current economic events has convinced him that it would be prudent to hold some gold as crisis insurance.

Using survivorship bias - free performance, sales channel and holding data for active U.S. domestic equity funds with at least five years of history and substantial holdings / assets during 1980 through 2014, they find that: Keep Reading

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commYears with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business commyears with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

'' (Mr.) Fitzgerald currently holds a degree in history from California State University, Fresno and has been actively researching the historicity of Jesus for over ten years.

A couple years ago, however, I began to find other Christians (throughout church history) who have not held to the substitutionary atonement view of Christ's death.

A significant milestone in AA history was the First International Conference held in Cleveland in July, 1950, the fifteenth anniversary year of its founding.

I lean on 2,000 years of Church history and we continue to hold an orthodox view of marriage.

In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.

I am very aware of the fact that I could be wrong on this one (after all, hundreds of years of church history tell me so) so my self - identification with annihilation is held loosely in my hand.

Is it not at least archaic, if not hopelessly irrational, to hold that one person, Jesus of Nazareth, born in obscurity two thousand years ago is, as the Second Vatican Council teaches «the goal of human history, he is that point in which the desires of history and civilisation converge.

The Court moved a long way toward making homosexual conduct a constitutional right, adopted the radical feminist view that men and women are essentially identical, continued to view the First Amendment as a protection of self - gratification rather than of the free articulation of ideas, and overturned two hundred years of history to hold that political patronage is unconstitutional.

In Dewar's illustrious 170 - year history, Stephanie is only the seventh person to hold the proud title of Dewar's Master Blender — and, she is the first woman.

Orley Foods is part of the Libstar Holdings Group and has a 50 - year history of providing sweet ingredients for the confectionery, ice cream, beverage, cereal, dairy and bakery markets.

«We've selected some incredible South Australian barrels with amazing history like a 90 - year - old muscat cask that continually held muscat for the entire period of time — it was the same block of muscat every single season — and we've got our hands on some incredible port barrels as well,» he said.

The New Mexico State Legislature and Governor King quickly passed Senate Joint Memorial 5, which stated, in part and with considerable exaggeration: «Whereas, despite New Mexico's long and rich chile history and prehistory, with solid archaeological evidence indicating the continuous use of both red and green chile since the time of Folsom Man some twelve thousand years ago [this is not true], we now find «Texas Man» claiming the noble chile as his; and whereas despite the facts, we hear boasting from east of the Pecos that «The Lone Star State» is the chili capital of the Southwest... and Texas chefs malign the noble «red and green» by blending it into a slurry of kidney beans and onions called chili; now, therefore, be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of New Mexico that the Land of Enchantment bets the «whole enchilada» and its reputation as the Chile Capital of the World against the Lone Star State in the Mother of All Chile Wars Festival to be held May 29 - 31, 1993 at the Doña Ana County Fairgrounds.»

This verdict brings to a conclusion the longest jury hearing in British legal history, and also vindicates the years - long struggle of the families of the victims and associated campaign groups, who comprehensively and consistently rejected the findings of the first inquest held in 1989.

Once again, you'll want to hold off on strawberries until your child is one year old, and be extra careful if your family has a history of strawberry allergy.

Public Speaking & Debate was requested by my social studies students a year ago as an extension of discussions we hold at the end of each year's History classes in a current events unit.

As NPR's Allison Aubrey reports, «parents of infants used to be told to hold off on introducing peanut - containing foods, sometimes until the toddler years, especially if there was a family history of allergies.»

The name June held number 265 in baby name popularity for girls in the United States last year, having one of the more popular years in its recent history.

This year alone, five meetings of the European Council are scheduled and history suggests that more will end up being held.

Even so, the Committee had said that the suspension was to hold until the completion of the 2016 election, which has since been almost one year old in history after President Akufo - Addo was elected in that watershed year.

Noting the large number of statewide, congressional and legislative races being held this year, Appelbaum said, «History has shown us over and over again that the top of this ticket will have an enormous impact on the rest of the ticket.»

Hart, a 21 - year - veteran of the FBI, would be the first woman to hold the commissioner post in the department's 58 - year history if approved by lawmakers, officials said.

During Women's History Month, the New York City YWCA holds weekly discussion and networking events, leading to a celebration honoring a «YW Woman of the Year.»

It is held every year during Black History Month and this year will take place on the evening of Friday 19 October.

James, who became the first woman of color to hold citywide office four years ago, has sued the city at least 11 times and spearheaded the passage of a bill that prohibits employers from asking job applicants about their salary history in an effort to close the pay gap between women and men.

On the grounds of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., where nearly 160 years ago, Abraham Lincoln held forth on «a house divided,» presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lamented the Party of Lincoln's transition to the Party of Trump, casting the present moment as an indelible stain on Republican history.

A real - time electronic poll of members attending the Conference found that: A third said their school or college was not a safe space for LGBTI teachers; More than four in ten (43 %) say they have experienced some form of discrimination, bullying or harassment because of their LGBTI identity during the last year; Only 4 % said their school has a programme of activities to mark LGBT History Month; 85 % do not think schools and colleges are being held to account sufficiently in relation to LGBTI equality.

If David Cameron holds his nerve and lets Gove loose, this will change the face of Britain and consign much of the debate of the last twenty years to the history books.

Since Voorwerp is 65,000 light years across on its longer axis, the cloud could hold a record of tens of thousands of years of history, potentially allowing astronomers to discern how the quasar died.

Margaret Thatcher earned her enduring place in history, of course, as the United Kingdom's first — and thus far only — woman Prime Minister, and the person to hold that post the longest — more than 11 years — in the twentieth century.

In a news briefing held online today, in conjunction with three papers published in Science, researchers presented a tantalizing preliminary portrait of what the moon must have endured during its early history, ending around 3.5 billion years ago.

Over the years, Fisher and his students have shown that mammoth tusks hold life - history information about growth rates, age of sexual maturation, spacing of pregnancies, and weaning.

The volume was inspired by a symposium held in Sherborn's honour at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, on the 150th year of his birth in 2011, organised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), in collaboration with the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).

Sometimes called the «Olympics of conservation,» for the first time in its 68 - year history, the congress, held every four years, was convened on U.S. soil.

The most ancient exoplanet detected so far (PSR B1620 - 26 b) has had a rather unusual history, first born 12.7 billion years ago outside of a «globular cluster» of stars (a comparatively older, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation), it then migrated closer to the cluster and into a rough astrophysical neighborhood.

Although he supposedly retired to Tasmania in the early 2000s, it is very difficult to see a substantial decrease in his level of engagement or activity, though it did give him more time to write for such outlets as Senses of Cinema and communicate his passion for film history, as well as contemporary cinema, in a series of lectures or talks (I'm sure he'd prefer the latter term) held over a ten - year - period at the State Cinema in Hobart.

A nation with more than 2,000 years of history, Japan was firmly rooted in a tradition of honor and obedience that held the emperor as a figure chosen by heaven, at whose command young warriors would gladly sacrifice their lives.

To many women who lived through the»70s era of the women's movement and can recall what Billie Jean King went through firsthand, last year's election was a reminder of how we're expected to hold our regard for history - making women in reserve.

Next year marks the 75th anniversary of the battle and events throughout the country will be held to mark this important part of our history.

Each year, Facing History and Ourselves holds an essay contest built around a great question — the kind of question that makes a bridge between knowledge and wisdom.

DNPE's former director, Ron Helder, who led the division for 25 years until 2010 authored the History of the Division of Non-Public Education, a document that one can find on their website.

Fifty - five years on, what was once ungainly is now distinctive, and notoriety has its own charm, yet it's rare to find an owner who holds on to these cars («Most of us own more than one») for the novelty of its history.

The Dream Cruise has been one of metro Detroit's biggest tourism draws for 20 years, held on a 27 - mile - long road with a history that predates the advent of the automobile.