Sentence examples for longstanding rate from inspiring English sources

If efficiency gains in transportation, buildings, power transmission and other areas were doubled from the longstanding rate of 1percentt per year to 2percentt, Dr. Holdren wrote in the M.I.T. journal Innovations earlier this year, that could hold the amount of new nonpolluting energy required by 2100 to the amount derived from fossil fuels in 2000 —a huge challenge, but not impossible.

Sterling had joined the EU's longstanding Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) in 1990 but had struggled to remain inside its designated floating band.

Later that year, Mr. Grubman switched his longstanding negative rating on AT&T to a more positive one.

Longstanding illness rates were significantly higher than average in men in Trent and significantly lower in the areas in Sweden and Belgium; results were not attenuated by socio-economic adjustment.

In 2000, the critics behind the Mobil Travel Guide snatched away the Greenbrier's longstanding five-star rating.

Among poor countries with longstanding high death rates, progress varied considerably.

So Mr. Wilmot's minions manage the presentation, Sephora sponsors the makeup, and — thanks to longstanding relationships — the rates for space and models are reduced.

They got this way because we sent them off to war.' " Veterans' hospitals have largely overcome their longstanding reputation for second-rate care.

The deal has come under fire from both corporate customers and consumer groups who say its terms would violate longstanding principles of utility rate-making law by putting the burdens on ratepayers and giving virtually all the benefits to the gas utility's shareholders.

Among the participants who had had one or more medically certified absence in the three year exposure period mortality was 1.7 times higher than among those with no such absences, and further adjustment for self rated health, longstanding illness, and the composite physical illness indicator had little effect on this (hazard ratio 1.59, 1.16 to 2.17).

For all of his longstanding accuracy woes — his completion rate, up to 56.1 from 54.8 in 2010, ranked 28th among the 30 quarterbacks who began Sunday with at least 100 pass attempts — Sanchez grades high in the Jets' system, Schottenheimer said.