Sentences with phrase «years spent conducting»

The years spent conducting numerous crown court trials, together with Court of Appeal experience have assisted greatly in Anne's family practice, particularly with advocacy.

In fact, it did, but not during the 2 years spent conducting the experiments described here.

Not exact matches

Interviews were conducted before the announcement on April 28 that weak consumer spending had slowed economic growth to a three - year low.

Gordon spent years doing research and conducting experiments on himself to understand the difference between workaholism and high performance.

Golfman and his team spent 14 years conducting R&D before arriving at a product, manufactured in India and made primarily of wheat - straw fibre, that achieved the trifecta of high quality, high environmental integrity and affordability.

A National Retail Federation comsumer survey conducted by BIGinsight found that shoppers spent an average of spent $ 423 over the weekend, up 6.3 percent from $ 398 last year.

According to NRF's Thanksgiving Weekend Spending Survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, 55.1 percent of holiday shoppers were or will be in stores and online over Thanksgiving weekend, down from 58.7 percent last year.

Jeffrey Thompson has spent the last 20 years in various research and sales - related positions at San Francisco Bay Area - based financial services firms, including completing Franklin Templeton's 2 - year management trainee program; conducting private equity analysis while working for Willamette Management Associates; and public equity analysis in the research department at JPMorgan (previously Chase H&Q).

De Marchi spent seven years in Fátima, from 1943 to 1950, conducting original research and interviewing the principals at undisturbed length»

A stigma on racism, for instance, would hopefully exist even in a libertarian paradise, but it draws a great deal of its potency from the fact the American government has spent the last 40 years actively campaigning against racist conduct and racist thought, using every means at its disposal short of banning speech outright.

At 55, he has spent more than 20 years conducting ceremonies in sweat lodges, where water is poured over hot lava rocks as part of a purifying ritual.

And no one's doing much to improve the situation — a nation that spends $ 600 million developing new cosmetics and fragrances each year has exactly one pharmaceutical company still conducting research on improved methods of birth control.

Having spent the past 28 years of his professional life conducting research, and developing new products and species of agave, Cedeño Cruz prides himself on helping improve the process of making tequila.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

While living and working in Asia for over 16 years, with the past 12 years largely spent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the Southeast Asian region of the world, I conducted in - depth research on various after - birth traditions and recovery methods.

The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are to conduct a one - year spending review continuing their deficit reduction drive throughout the 2015/16 tax year.

The HUD inspector general is conducting a wide - ranging audit into how Buffalo's public housing authority spent tens of millions of dollars over the past two years.

«Tom DiNapoli has spent the last three years providing solutions to our state's tough fiscal problems, conducting a top - to - bottom overhaul of the Office of the State Comptroller, and managing one of the nation's best performing pension funds.

«The voters in my district are outraged by the conduct of the Senate in June, and in particular of Pedro Espada, and I share their feelings,» he said, daintily kissing any discretionary spending for the next year good - bye.

«As a member of the Stuyvesant High School Black Alumni Diversity Initiative, I have spent the last six years conducting informal surveys of specialized high school Black and Latino alumni.

Mr Powell, who was chief - of - staff to Tony Blair, throughout his 10 years in Downing Street, explains that in the final year of the Blair government they tried to conduct a Fundamental Savings Review (FSR), to cut out some of the extra waste which he says had «inevitably built up in the years of increased public spending».

The report is the second in a series of investigations that Senator Klein's office is conducting into wasteful government spending this year.

He bought the flat with taxpayer - subsidised loans and then claimed on work conducted on the property up a year after it had been conducted, allowing him to tot up more spending than would have been available in one single year.

Jesse has spent 28 years in the New York City Department of Finance conducting small claims hearing for property tax reductions.

In total, he spent three years conducting the experiments and comparing more than 57,000 pollen grains produced by trees in the chambers.

She had spent the past 30 - plus years in Germany — her entire postgraduate and academic career — successfully conducting nuclear - related research.

Cori Bargmann, a neuroscientist and geneticist at Rockefeller University, said the Institute founded by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan is an unusual «hybrid» in the world of philanthropy because it will spend its $ 3 billion, ten - year endowment to provide financial support to others while simultaneously conducting its own research.

That work was conducted by Harvard entomologist Andrew Spielman, who had spent years studying the malaria - like parasite, Babesia, on Nantucket island off Cape Cod.

Get the Resources: Hopkins skipped teaching for 2 years while she spent 30 to 40 hours a week gathering data and conducting interviews.

Griffiths has spent more than 15 years conducting studies of psilocybin's capacity to produce profound, mystical - type experiences, treat psychological anxiety and depression and to aid in smoking cessation.

To research the tome, he and a team of 50 chefs, writers, and photographers spent five years conducting detailed tests, many of them involving liquid nitrogen, rotary evaporators, centrifuges, and other industrial paraphernalia.

After receiving her Ph.D. in 2000, Maye spent 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow in brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester in New York, where she began conducting experiments on how babies learn.

The government encouraged everyone conducting such gain - of - function (GOF) projects to voluntarily pause while experts spend a year hashing out the risks and benefits of the studies and developing a policy for when to allow them.

The U.S. spends more on lower back and neck pain than almost any other health condition, excepting diabetes and heart disease — topping $ 87 billion in 2013, according to an analysis of national health records conducted last year.

The researchers spent nearly a year optimizing techniques in mouse embryos and human stem cells before conducting human embryo experiments, Niakan says.

In the triage that his aides had to conduct for the president to commit to a 5 - year freeze on nonsecurity spending, science won out because it's a key Administration priority and has therefore gotten special attention from House Republicans looking to cut.

About one year after Medicare Part D was launched, early studies were conducted among Medicare beneficiaries who either had no prescription drug coverage or poor coverage prior to Part D. Those early studies found these specific subgroups saw statistically significant decreases in nondrug medical spending and hospitalizations.

Gregory Friedman, DOE's longtime inspector general, has been outspoken over the years in criticizing what he sees as lax security, wasteful spending, or inappropriate conduct by DOE lab officials.

Fun fact: He has spent more than eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

To conduct key experiments supporting the prion - like properties of amyloid - beta, Walker has been collaborating with Matthias Jucker in TÃ 1/4 bingen, Germany and spent four months there on a sabbatical last year.

Many majors spend one to three years after graduating conducting research at institutions such as the National Institutes of Health or a variety of major universities and medical institutions before going on to graduate or professional school.

Co-authors are lead author Xing Jiang, a UCLA graduate student in García - Garibay's laboratory, who this year completed his Ph.D.; Hai - Bao Duan, a visiting scholar from China's Nanjing Xiao Zhuang University who spent a year conducting research in García - Garibay's laboratory; and Saeed Khan, a UCLA crystallographer in the department of chemistry and biochemistry.

But for the past four years, a small group of Seattle - area educators have elected to spend their summers on the UW Seattle campus, conducting engineering research in a CSNE - affiliated lab and developing a curriculum unit to bring the principles of neural engineering to their students.

After a decade of frank internal discussions on global warming and conducting unbiased studies on it, Exxon changed direction in 1989 and spent more than 20 years discrediting the research its own scientists had once confirmed.

The team published its findings «Ensoulment, Entrapment, and Political Centralization: A Comparative Study of Religion and Politics in Later Formative Oaxaca,» after spending several years conducting field research in the lower Río Verde valley of Oaxaca, Mexico's Pacific coastal lowlands.

It has gone on to spend more than 14 years gathering a wealth of data from the Red Planet, taking high - resolution images of much of the surface, detecting minerals on the surface that form only in the presence of water, detecting hints of methane in the atmosphere and conducting close flybys of the enigmatic moon, Phobos.

I recently conducted an informal study with my employees and found that, on average, they spend 14 hours in front of a digital device per day — that's nearly 213 days of the entire year!

After moving to Australia in search of sunshine, she spent five years conducting neuroscience research before deciding to follow her bliss of talking about science rather than doing it.

Ray Cronise, a former NASA scientist who spent 15 years overseeing experiments aboard shuttles at Marshall Space Flight Center, has been conducting experiments since 2008 to see if cold temperatures have an effect on the metabolism.

Then when it was announced recently that the National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to spend more than $ 350,000 to conduct a three - year project studying the dating habits of seniors, Online Senior Dating Sites weighed in.